A boring thread of calorie counting/whatever accountability

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Hi, fucking hell, I'm trying to gradually make changes and loose weight sustainably but I keep falling off the wagon to the point that I'm flat lining/ beginning to trend upwards so I'm going to try calorie counting instead for a while while I get back down. Threads like this have helped me in the past, but I'll probably only post weight I what I've eaten - anyone want to join & encourage each other?
I'm 5 foot 10, 88kg and would like as a first goal to eat 1500 -1600 calories a day and get down to 85kg before Christmas, with a longer term goal of getting to 80kg and possibly staying there, possibly getting to 75 (which is actually a healthy weight for me.

Well if it makes anyone feel better, I got logged just over 3000 calories on Friday and on Saturday. I was letting my hair down a bit after a very stressful week at work but I was a bit shocked to see how easily it adds up….a bit of drinking, a bit of snacking, a Domino’s, a sharing bag of crisps. So I’m now on about minus 1600 on my weekly total in Nutracheck.

feels like it’s out of my system anyway and I do feel better that at least I’ve tracked it all. Now to try and finish the week a bit more sensibly!!

Well done for tracking it, @OneDayIWillLearn hope it was worth it! Sometimes it is.

I went 500 over yesterday, oops.

Weighed in today and stayed the same which I'm happy with after a wobbly week.

Determined to lose 2 this week to get me into the next stone bracket! I'm on it! MUST. STOP. SNACKING.

Thanks @RainbowWife and yes to be fair
about 80% of it was definitely worth it!

Sunday 20th Oct:

Breakfast: Smoothie - 150
Toast and butter - 150

Lunch: 2 x cheese sandwiches - 700
Spring onions - negligible
Cake bar - 100

Dinner: Couscous - 200
Pepper - 50
Sweetcorn - 50
Dressing - 50
Pear - 100
Halo top icecream - 100

Oh God, 1650! I just don't know how that happened?! I am bloody trying! Somehow I'm finding it so much harder than previous diets where I've stuck to 1200/1300 no problem. I'm not even getting much exercise - about 30 minutes today, so I can't claim it's that making me hungry.

I weighed myself and I've not lost a pound. Still 12.7. I'll never be down to 11 stone by Christmas now. :-(

Parent visit continued to play havoc yesterday, but I think I was under 2000.
Today I have no excuse:
B. Yogurt, granola, berries
S. 2 squares dark chocolate
L. Chicken burger & a few chips
D. Pardon peppers, 2 slices of toast with lemon curd. A plum
1800 calories

@SnugglyJumpersMakeItBetter it sounds like you are doing amazingly to me! You’re still with it, you’re still posting!

If it’s any comfort, I’m a similar weight to you and I’m aiming to see an 11 on the scales before Christmas but to actually be 11 stone next summer (I started at 13 stone 6 in May). I’ve always aimed for 2lbs a week on previous diets but it’s so hard to keep that rate of loss off so I’m finding it really refreshing to have a more achievable target. Could it be worth re-thinking your target too??

I’m the heaviest I have ever been. Weight watchers or calorie counting? I keep trying and failing . I’m so so tired of this and want things to change. I hurt all over, totally exhausted, worried about blood sugar and blood pressure all the time.

@Obsessedwithsourdough oh it’s a familiar feeling!! I’ve always done WeightWatchers (12 times over a 15 year period or something) but recently switched to calorie counting - I think there are pros and cons to either but it basically comes to the same thing which is a tool for tracking. And Nutracheck is a lot lot cheaper than Weight Watchers!!

The thing that has really turned things around for me though is a book called the Last Diet which I’ve worked through very slowly. I read it last year but didn’t do it properly but similar to you had a ‘this really has to change’ period in May (when for example none of my bras fitted anymore!) and decided to work through the exercises in the book properly. I’m coming up to 5 months on track, down over a stone and I really feel like things have changed.

Try to be kind to yourself - I’m sure you’re still fabulous at the weight you are now!

@Obsessedwithsourdough give calorie counting a go on this thread with us! I've lost 2 stone 2lbs so far and I still eat a LOT, just stay within my limits (I go a bit overboard at weekends).

If you want to try Nutracheck I can give you 30 days free trial if you PM me your email address. I am meant to get 30 days too but I buy it yearly anyway so don't care about that.

Good luck! It's horrible feeling miserable about yourself.

Yesterday I had;

B: Morning roll with Lorne sausage and ketchup - 407

L: Covent Garden tomato soup and a crackbread - 298

D: Garlic and ginger salmon with spice sensation couscous - 526

S: Handful of orange mini eggs (99), kids popcorn at the cinema (139), capri sun (7), little chocolate bar (96), prawn cocktail wotsits (70), some raspberries (32) and 1 date (26).

I snacked a LOT yesterday as we went to the cinema which I find hard to resist so took a bag of goodies.

-83 over. Not bad!

I’m also someone who tends to go overboard at the weekends! But I plan to really, that’s one element of WW that I liked, having a ‘slush fund’ of points to be able to relax a bit more at the weekend which for some reason seems very important to me mentally and for my ability to stick with it long term. But I can basically do exactly the same with calorie counting I’ve realised.

I’m sure I’ve read that it’s better for your body not to have the same amount of food day in day out as it gets used to it and that can slow your metabolism down. So I might just be kidding myself, but I see the weekends as chance to keep my metabolism well trained 😂

Today
Lunch: leek and blue cheese quiche with tomato and beetroot salad. 588
Dinner: bean one pot with baguette. 636
Approx 17,500 steps and I have lost another 2 lbs this week.
I relaxed the diet this weekend and had a couple of glasses of wine and snacks in the evening so progress may slow down.

Today I've had;

B: Strawberry and granola yogurt, and an oat caramel latte- 367

L: Lorne sausage breakfast roll- 407

D: Teriyaki chicken with rice and sesami greens (Gousto meal; this was honestly DISGUSTING; my first shit one in over 6 months. But I ate it because my cupboards are bare) with 1 crackerbread to try and soak up the oily taste in my mouth- 581

S: Grapes (80), light Babybel (41), fruit pastille ice lolly (54) and 1 date (26).

87 left. Miserable and feel sick cos of dinner but a good food day otherwise.

Awww, Rainbow, there's nothing worse than eating a disgusting meal when you're on a diet!!

Today:
breakfast: vanilla redbush/ large mug of coffee (3 x oatly) - 72

lunch
can of Heinz chicken soup
two slices of toasted sourdough and butter
497

dinner
two pittas, four cauldron falafel, Greek salad with low fat feta, two spoonfuls of reduced fat humous
709

Snacks - two coffees with oatly
48

total: 1326

Going out for dinner in London tomorrow with friends so bound to go over but I’ll try to be sensible in the daytime anyway and rack up some steps!!

Mon 21st Oct:

Breakfast: Juice - 100

Lunch: 2 x mini spinach muffins - 150
Avocado - 150
Red pepper - 50
Cake bar - 100

Dinner: Pasta salad - 450
'Cheats trifle' - 250

Total: 1250

Respectable! I've had basically no exercise today though, just a 20 minute walk.

Today I had
B. Berries, greek yogurt & granola
L. Scrambled egg on toast
D. Supermarket lasagne & an apple
1650 calories

Thank you! I will read that book.

@OneDayIWillLearn Thank you for your support! The trouble is I KNOW I'll gain serious weight at Christmas (damn you German biscuit recipes!) and winter is so miserable and lasts so long I won't be able to get back into the swing of healthy eating for months afterwards. I need to lose as much as poss now to counteract it! I know yo-yo dieting is terrible and everything, but better than just getting steadily fatter!

I think achievable targets are a good idea though! Right now I'm aiming for being able to put on my jeans without the 'wiggle and breathe in' technique I currently employ!

I am absolutely refusing to gain back my hard lost weight at christmas so I'm buying NOTHING that I normally would. Christmas Day I'll eat what I want then try and leave it there.

Remind me of this vow when I want a tin of quality street please

@RainbowWife @SnugglyJumpersMakeItBetter I think I fall somewhere between! I would be delighted to maintain and would absolutely take a couple of pounds gain even but I would be so annoyed with myself if I gain more than that.

One thing I’ve really noticed the last couple of weeks is the difference between ‘worth it’ treats (Domino’s, a really nice truffle burger I had out, a home made bread and butter pudding, homemade pancakes, a bottle of Blond beer on a Friday evening) and ‘not worth it’ treats (orange juice, unexciting crisps, Mr Kipling cakes, a kitkat with my tea in a cafe). So I’m at least going to try and stick to Christmas food I genuinely think will be worth the calories.

@RainbowWife For me it would be a tub of Heroes. I am pretty much powerless in front of those things.

Oh that's so true about the worth of calories. I have finally emptied the house of biscuits (by eating them all!) which honestly felt like a total waste. I'd rather have a slice of cake in a cafe on the weekend than eat pointless biscuits when I'm cooking dinner.

Slightly stale rich tea biscuits, I’m looking at YOU

Tues 22nd Oct:

Breakfast: Oat bar - 250

Lunch: Houmous - 100
Cucumber - negligible
Flat bread and butter - 250
Banana - 100

Dinner: Minestrone - 300
Cheese - 300
Pinapple - 50
Yoghurt - 50

Total: 1400. That's ok. One walk today, around 40 mins.

Today's food:
B. Greek yogurt berries homemade granola
L. Six fried gyoza, salad leaves, mini flapjack (work buffet)
D. Homemade cheese potato and leek pie, cabbage, roast carrots
Approx 1500 calories