Posting pics of everything you eat thread!

[Friedbanana]

Hi! So during the first lockdown, i set up an instagram where I posted photos of every single thing that entered my mouth except from tea, and it really did discourage pointless snacking as I’d pop into the kitchen for a random biscuit but then I couldn’t be bothered to take a photo of biscuit as phone was in the other room, then I realised I didn’t actually really need the biscuit and back it went! It was super effective for a while and along with MFP I lost about a stone, but then I started to follow other instagram account and got some followers back and felt pressure to make everything look pretty, which meant I stopped posting absolutely everything so started having random snacks again, and have now put back on a few pounds! I tried setting up a new private instagram but wasn’t really that motivated! So I’m starting again but instead hoping a mumsnet thread will help!? Anyone fancy joining?!

I’m for a calorie deficit of around 500 per day, so eating about 1750-2000 and burning 2250-2500 (i have a fitbit alta which estimates total calories burnt). I walk a lot (1.5-2 hours a day with dog plus i walk to work) but am going to try getting into running again too! Trying to not be too restrictive food-wise as I’m having problems overeating by quite a bit some days! (when I don’t track while eating and then add up after I can easily put away 4000 calories a day without realising )
I’m currently about 9stone (havent checked for a bit so possibly more!) and aiming for about 8st4.
So yes, please do join and we can look at eachother’s non-instagram-able food!

Ps. a tip I never knew about MFP which makes life sooo much easier, is you can click edit, and check all ingredients for a meal if you’re batch cooking for example, then do ‘save meal’! Saved sooo much time! But maybe everyone knew this already except from me

Todays food for me:
Breakfast: banana bread muffin, microwaved with frozen berries, biscoff spread, 2 crumbled biscoff biscuits (fully recommended, tastes like berry crumble!), 200g greek yoghurt mixed with cinnamon, plus a small mocha ~ 508 cals
Lunch: chicken paella leftover ~ 410 cals
Snack at work: Almond bounce ball - 158 cals
Snack after work: mini hersheys bar plus 2 mini cinnamon biscuits - 78 cals
Dinner: Vegan burger with cheese, sweet pot fries and salad - 800 cals
Lots of tea with oat milk! - 44 cals
Total cals: ~ 1954

@raspberrypickle Happy birthday!

@FriedbananaThank you for the reassurance, not patronising at all :) I'm sorry you've had a bad couple days but to quote Aristotle (I think), 'we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.' So your habit is to eat well most of the time!!

@FatCatThinCat I totally get what you mean about being tired, if we don't get an energy boost from sleep we look elsewhere! It's tough isn't it. I hope you get a bit more sleep soon!

Breakfast: I didn't eat until 11 when I had a whole naan bread from my takeaway last night and little lemon cake.
Lunch: a quarter of my boyfriend's naan and leftover mushroom masala and paneer
Snack: a quarter of a fudge biscuit Easter egg from Lidl, I would recommend it! Also a handful of chilli and lemon crisps
Dinner: Half a pesto and vegetable pizza from Asda and five Quorn chicken nuggets
Drinks: latte

I actually went for three walks today!! So ended up doing 7.5 miles which is good. I didn't count calories today because I just wasn't sure what the leftovers had in them but suffice to say I've consumed a fair few over the weekend.

Lots of healthy dinners lined up for this week though.

@raspberrypickle happy birthday!!!

@FatCatThinCat I’m exactly the same, as soon as I’m overtired my self control goes out the window and all I want is sugar

Breakfast-Slice of seeded toast and some berry banana smoothie (alas I had to share with a toddler today!)
Lunch- McDonald’s Fillet o fish, medium fries and a mini smartie McFlurry (not pictured)
Dinner- Salmon, brown rice, roasted pepper and onion and tzatziki

Hello! That’s nice to think about habit definitely, thank you @canipressthebackbuttonplease!!
This was yesterday’s food! My main goal was not to binge, not to snack (I did end up snacking but not on sugary stuff at least) and finish on maintain or a tiny deficit which i achieved so I’m happy!
Breakfast- cinnamon latte
Lunch- from vegan cafe, mocha and an apple crumble custard muffin (this was so lovely I actually had one today too 😅)
Second lunch- quorn nugs with mayflower curry sauce and sticky rice
Snacks - 1tablespoon gingernut butter (this is maybe my new spread obsession!!) , 20g lindt not pictured
Dinner- homemade pizza
Snacks- chai latte and yoghurt bowl with berries etc
Ate around 2676 cals
Burnt around 2820 :)

Didn’t take photos of the several hot drinks I had!

Food today so far :
Breakfast- large coconut milk white mocha
Lunch- large salad with mozzarella, sundried tomatoes and croutons
Apple crumble custard muffin
Snacks- 15g gingernut butter, 15g lindt and 10g goji berries
About to start cooking Sunday dinner! Hope everyone is having a good Sunday!

Today is much better than yesterday. I've had:

Breakfast: toast and ginger jam

Midmorning: Breakfast

Lunch: chorizo and rice stew from yesterday

Mid afternoon: tinned peaches and quark (I think that's what it's called in English. Kvarg in Swedish)

Dinner: rice noodle and prawn soup, which was bloody lovely.

I've also had an apple and a banana

Hello everyone.

12pm - about 30g of fries.
12:30pm - chicken and mushroom pasty with salad.
5:30pm - cottage pie with broccoli, mixed veg, yorkshire puddings and gravy.
8pm - peaches and ice cream.

Drinks - 1 coffees, beanies coffee, 900 ml squash.

Calories eaten - 1820
Calories burned - 2765
Calorie deficit - 945

Photos

Hope you're all ok!

Today I did a lot of exercise! I ride 10 miles on my bike and walked 4 miles so hope I burnt 2000 calories today. A really nice day spent by myself and the weather was lovely and mild.

Breakfast: little lemon pancake, five Quorn fish fingers and one slice of seeded bread (500)
Snacks: Some Doritos (150) and a slice of seeded bread (150). Also a chocolate slice (150) and a packet of crisps (100). Half a hob nob (40)
Lunch: White plait bread roll from Sainsbury's (200)
Dinner: two wholemeal pittas, vivera kebab, roasted courgette, carrots, mushrooms, peppers with hummus (700)
Drinks: Some chocolate hazelnut alpro milk (100), mocha (100) and coffee.

Sorry for half eaten and blurry photo of dinner! Didn't remember until half way through and then totally failed when I did take a photo lol

Well done on all the exercise @canipressthebackbuttonplease, deff sounds like more than 2000 cals burnt :) and well done everyone for good eating :)
Dinner was veggie sausages, air fried carrots (I forget how much carrots reduce during cooking, next time will do twice the amount!) 6 Yorkshire puddings (they completely failed and didn’t rise at all today but still tasted good!!), veggies and gravy!
Pudding- 6g lindt

I haven’t tracked calories today but have burnt about 2715 so hopefully in a deficit!

Hello everyone. So busy today I didn't take any photos completely forgot.
11:30am - lentil curls.
1pm - leftover cottage pie with gravy.
6pm - crispy chicken wraps and salad.
I'll be having some peaches later too.

Drinks - 2 coffees, 1 beanies coffee, toffee latte, 900 ml squash.

Calories eaten - 1811
Calories burned - 2630
Calorie deficit - 819

Hi everyone,
Thank you for all the birthday wishes, I had a lovely weekend, eating nice food and not weighing anything or counting calories- it felt like a real treat to just eat and put the scales away! Back to it today though, does anyone else feel like they have to really make an effort to put their mind back into healthy eating mode after a few days off?!
Weigh in today, only a small loss this week but as I said, I had quite an indulgent weekend.
Today’s food:
B: A pancake (made of oats, egg and banana) with Greek yoghurt, maple syrup and blueberries
L: Homemade soup; lentil curls;
Snack: One piece of chocolate rice Krispy traybake (this was my birthday cake); 2x squares of Lindt; 20g chocolate covered peanuts;
Drink: Mocha;
D: Vegetable quarter pounder with flatbread, rice,halloumi and salad; glass of rose lemonade;
I’ve felt exhausted today so I haven’t done any exercise - I managed to do 10,000+ steps, 4 days in a row last week and finally completed C25k Wk 8 run 1 at the weekend so I feel ok about having a day off.
Calories eaten: Approx 1600 - I had to estimate for the Rice Krispy cake
Calories burnt will be around 1400.

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Strange breakfast today: A little lemon and raisin pancake, some rice and feta (350 calories). I had to use the feta or it was going to get wasted!
Lunch: Carrot and coriander soup (250 calories), thick slice of seeded bread (150), a cracker (50)
Snack: Four Oreos (200 calories), a cracker (50) and two hob nobs (180 calories)
Dinner: pasta bake and salad (700)
Drinks: mocha (100 calories), coffee, Dr Pepper zero

I weighed myself today and was 125.6 lbs, this time last week it was 122.2 lbs. I hope it's hormone related and water weight because otherwise I'll be quite disappointed lol.

I've eaten about 2000 calories and walked 8 miles, my watch says I've burnt about 1900

I had:

Breakfast: buttermilk, blueberries, cheerios, with an egg on the side

Mid morning: nothing as not hungry

Lunch: prawn and noodle soup from last night

Mid afternoon: Swedish waffle with jam and squiry cream, an apple and a banana

Dinner: chicken and pasta salad

Supper: 2 bendicts mints (no photo)

Glad you had a good birthday @raspberrypickle!!
Oo will have to try biscoff roll ups they look amazing!! Yes I’m sure it’ll just be water weight @canipressthebackbuttonplease but it’s really annoying when that happens!
So I need semla and also Swedish waffles in my life I think!!
Here was yesterday’s food- I was so hungry at bed time even though I was in a surplus, think it was because I didn’t wait till 12 to eat, and I guess I did have lots of white carbs, may try having more wholegrains! Also need to cut down on cafe hot drinks- whenever I meet a friend for a morning walk I end up getting one, but I also make my own so end up having excessive amounts!

Breakfast- gingerbread latte,
Vegan black pudding, eggs, cheese, tomatoes, bun and 1 veggie sausage
Lunch- cafe take out - white choc mocha and half a slice choc banana bread
Snack- mousse and 1/3rd biscoff cream cookie, 5g gingernut butter, 5g protein Nutella, 5g goji berries
Dinner- quorn nugs, curry sauce, sticky rice
Snack- tikka chicken, celery, carrots, beetroot, greek yoghurt
2x Chai latte, 2x biscoff cream cookie (so this photo x 2 as as soon as I finished I wanted more!)
Tiny bit chocolate, maybe 5g but I didn’t weigh it

Around 2650 eaten, and around 2470 burnt- surplus 180 cals!

Also a tiny bit mango chutney with evening snack

Hello everyone. Forgot to say I lost another 1lb at yesterday's weigh in, So 1st 2lb loss all together. I've been so hungry today too seems like I've just ate all day.

10am - 3 peach halves.
12:30pm - ham cheese salad wrap with some red pepper.
2:45pm - 2 slices of toast.
7pm - leftover cottage pie with broccoli, mixed veg and gravy.
8:15pm - 3 peach halves.

Drinks - 2 coffees, 1 beanies coffee, 2 cups of tea, 900 ml squash.

Calories eaten - 1813
Calories burned - 2590
Calorie deficit - 777

Tea

Well done @Sillybilly35 that’s amazing!
I haven’t had the best day but no binging :) been starving tonight even though I’m in a surplus again, like I’m as hungry as I was sometimes when I was in a 1000 cal deficit?! So weird! I think it’s like @raspberrypickle said, it’s really hard to get back to it after eating more for a few days!
I again didn’t wait till 12 to eat, so think that is part of the problem. I’m reeeeaaally going to try waiting tomorrow as I just hate being hungry going to bed! Sleep was crap last night too!
Anyway here is my food:
Breakfast - 3 x small lattes/mochas (lol ‘cutting down on hot drinks’)
2x biscoff cream, 20g gingernut butter
Lunch- quesadilla with vegan black pudding, cheese and sundried tomatoes

Pudding- apple cinnamon, biscoff, almond butter, yoghurt, goji berries, blueberries , raisins, honey
Second pudding- carrot cake muffin
Third pudding- 200g alpro custard (no photo)
Fourth pudding- stuffed date, 10g proteinella , more biscoff
Dinner- I skipped the bun due to all the above, but really enjoyed a nice burger bowl, salad bits with vegan burger topped with melted cheese, calorific dressing and crispy onions, was actually very yummy!

I’ve eaten around 2550 cals and only burnt 2075 however I’m going to go on a run, will trrrryy a 10k so that I finish in a bit of a surplus, but realistically I’m prob too tired and I’ll stop after 1 5km lap, we shall see! Might have to have some spread before I go as currently got no energy 🤪

Yummy

Hi everyone!! Absolutely starving today. The scale still is four pounds up from last Wednesday 😬 anyway today I did a thirty minute weight lifting routine and walked five miles.

@Friedbanana all your hot drinks sound divine!! I'd struggle to give those up lol. Hope your run was successful!

Breakfast: Frosties with almond milk (300)
Snack: 4 seeded crackers and half a vegan sausage roll (250)
Lunch: carrot and coriander soup (200)
Snack: pack of mini cheddars (120), four Quorn scotch eggs (200)
Dinner: vegetable lasagne and bread (700)
Snack: chocolate slice (250)
Drinks: skinny mocha, coffee, pepsi zero.

Sorry about the lack of pictures!!

Sillybilly and Rasberrypickle
This may seem like a silly question but how do you calculate the number of calories you have burnt each day? You must do an obscene amount of exercise to burn nearly 2000 calories.

I am confused (and probably a bit dim).

Your advice would be most helpful.

@Friedbanana, thanks. Your food looks so good from yesterday, that's burger bowl looks delicious.
@Faith50
Hi. It's not a silly question at all. Google BMR calculator to get your number then plus the calories burned from activity to get your total calories burned for the day.
Your BMR is basically what your body burns for just been alive, so keeping your vital organs working ect...

@Faith50

Sillybilly and Rasberrypickle This may seem like a silly question but how do you calculate the number of calories you have burnt each day? You must do an obscene amount of exercise to burn nearly 2000 calories.

I am confused (and probably a bit dim).

Your advice would be most helpful.

Hi, The total calories burnt includes the calories your body burns just from keeping you alive, if you do a google search for BMR calculator you can calculate yours. I use the Fitbit app which calculates my total calories for the day.. I hope that helps!