Daily food log, weekly weight loss log and support: please join me!

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None of the other threads quite fit the bill, so here goes: I want to lose 1 stone and get healthy.

Have tried lots of diets in the past so am going to be experimenting a bit I think, starting with some fairly generalised 'healthy eating', especially increasing my veg intake. And hopefully some exercise ...

Most of the Christmas treats are now scoffed, kids went back to school today, so I'm starting now and will get really serious once I have the chance to shop!

Please join in!

Morning all

B - Shredded wheat & milk
L - Ham sandwich

I have got lean mince beef but want to do something a bit different - any ideas ladies?

Hope you all have a good day

With the mince, stuffed marrow? Chilli? or you could do a burger with a salad or meatballs.
I am sure someone else will be along with some more inspiring ideas.

I am still in bed, have had a bad night with dd and been up since 330a.m. I am going to have porridge for breakfast.

Egg my DD wasn't too far behind yours - 4am - Most blooming mornings. she 3.6 and wish she would learn to go back to sleep. Hope you get back to sleep for an hour

She is about the same age as mine, mine is 4 in June.

Poor you having to cope every night that is really hard, you too hope you get some rest.

And stay strong, for me anyway tiredness is one of my triggers that tends to undermine food choices, so if same for you stay strong.

Thanks for that egg, Yes it can be a trigger for me too. I drink plenty of coffee to keep me going through the day

RE MINCE: Tacos with loads of spices and salady type ingredients? Quite fun assembling if you have a family meal.
or stuffed cabbage leaves served with rice
stuffed peppers (rice and mince together - need v little mince though)

don't have recipes, but would be loads on internet and you can buy taco kits

I think when you are really tired you have to eat in moderation and not starve yourself. It's awful, I know that feeling of eyelids propped up with matchsticks and coffee taken medicinally. Hope little ones sleep a bit better tonight or at least go back to sleep when they wake.

So far, big bowl of almost sugarless porridge with some milk, and black coffee.

Thanks swan for the idea. I think I might make fajitas instead with lots of salad.

I ended up having porridge rather that shredded wheat this morning.

Good morning everyone.

I've cleaned and aired my house this morning (getting rid of all the 'sick' air, iykwim) and feel much better now.

Tiredness is also a huge trigger for me. I just can't stop eating on days where I've not had much sleep. I seem to crave sugar then too.

today's food;

porridge, slice of toast with peanut butter
baked potato, cottage cheese, salad
apple
rice, chickpea curry
70 cal lemon drizzle cake slice

Og god I have just eaten a 4 finger kitkat and it didn't even touch the sides, I want more

Hi everyone,yesterday i had

B - banana
L - 4 ryvitas & 1 apple
D - veg soup & some macademia nuts.

Today i have had porridge for breakfast & lunch was crackers & a tangerine,not sure what to make for dinner,i will probably make a chicken curry.

I am fighting the urge to stay out of the kitchen as i just want to eat,eat,eat today.

if I taste just one biscuit I want more, so I'm staying off biscuits completely

don't worry, you need some choc for iron

lunch today was
one large carrot
some wenselydale cheese, and funnilyenough now I'm full...
porridge breakfast is a wonderful thing....fills you up for absolutely hours
will eat the rest of my lunch at teatime when I'm starving (some plain couscous)

Today
B - banana
Gym - 1 hr spin class + 20 min step machine - 962 cals per hr monitor.
L - 2 wholemeal toast, 2 boiled eggs, packet walkers baked crisps, 15g bra green and blacks (always starving after a long spin class)
Dinner - proably salmon with new pots and broc

Yesterday was slightlu wonky as I was on a school governor course. They had danish pastries when we arrived at 9.30, biscuits at 10.30, lunch at 1 was rolls, quiche, salad and then profiteroles (sp?). Then they laid out scones with jam and cream at 3 before we finished at 4.30. I was a bit as surely they are better uses for the money to be spent in the schools rather than on conference facilities like that.

I didn't eat all that they offered, stuck mostly to the fruit bowl but did fall down and have half a scone.

Hi and thank you for the warm welcome,

Day 2 proper and I am doing ok. I know I have to be careful because I have a tendancy to over reduce my calories - yesterday I was about 350 below my food focus target and that isn't taking into account the exercise I did that gave me a daily net calorie total of 14 cals!

Work today and someone had left a box of choc eclair sweets on my desk and I managed to resist all day. Took a bottle of water in with me and drank a litre.

I have a very close friend who is also using food focus and we have swapped log in details so we can support each other - I will have to point her to this thread. She left a lovely comment on my food focus notes

I am going to smile at dh and try and get an hour at the gym tonight as I missed out on walking the dog this morning as I was in work so early.

Hi Tibni, you sound like you are doing really well.

I very nearly succumbed this afternoon but i just imagined everyone on here telling me not to & i managed to last till dinnertime.

I made a chicken in tomato sauce with cous cous for dinner & i feel comfortably full now.

Whats this food focus?

Food Focus is a free website. You log your weight / height and activity level and decide your goal loss each week. It then gives you a calorie goal per day.

Each day you log the food you eat (they have a search facility with most foods on and you can add foods) and log your exercise - again there is a menu with activities and calories burnt.

For me Food Focus works by giving me the facts about the food I eat - butter is my killer! Loads of calories for a tiny taste. It makes me think about the choices I am making without guessing.

Weighing and logging daily can become a pain - when I reached my goal last time I stopped using the site - and managed to put some of the weight back on.

The site works for me - when I use it.

Made it to the gym - 900 cal workout

Well done DoingTheBestICan for staying strong

Today I have eaten

I large bowl of porridge with a bit of honey and 3 tblspoons of milk
I carrot
100g of wensleydale cheese
v.small portion of Irish stew, mostly gravy and potato
I apple
I slice of goat's cheese and red pepper quiche minus most of the pastry
watercress salad with teaspoon of dressing
2 pieces of walnut
2 tblspoons of cold porridge just before supper
half a yellow pepper
water
tea with milk
black coffee

exercise
lots of walking back and forth with kids from errands, activities

Morning all:

B - Shredded wheat
L - Ham sandwich
D - HM fish pie
S - yogurt and satsumas

Exersice - cycling 6miles and 45m work out at the gym - did this yesterday too.

I weighed today (I know a day to early) and says I have put on a pound. God I am never going to get this last 2st shifted!!

Ebayaddict I am impressed at your resolve

Shortandsweet weight fluctuates all the time. Just keep going and you'll get there
Although I totally know how you feel.

porridge, toast
baked beans, quorn sausage
apple, satsuma
beef stir fry
70 cal cake

excercise - Davina dvd

Oh no! can't log on to foodfocus!!

I can't get on there either bobby, they must be doing some work on it!

Thanks for the moto

Food Focus is working again .

Hello all. Can I join? I want to lose 2 stone. I have a holiday in June (21 weeks on saturday!) and want to lose weight by then.

I will have a proper read through the thread once the kids are in bed.

Hi ladies,
well done to everyone who has been tempted but has held strong ... we CAN do this!!!

Doing ok here. I was v late in from work yesterday and could not face any tea so made scrambled eggs on toast later.

Today I had cheese toastie for lunch and steak pie with veg for tea - it sounds bad but I did leave most of the pastry, well half

feelingsensitive I reckon 2 stone is quite achievable by june welcome aboard!

Hi everyone, am joining you all. Am trying to lose weight after birth of ds (have no idea what I weigh yet - too scared to weigh myself - but going by how my clothes fit).

Today I had no time for breakfast so had two small ginger biscuits.

Lunch was vegetable chilli in a weightwatchers tortilla, followed by an apple.

Then I had a low fat hot chocolate and dinner was a small baked potato with beans and a tiny sprinkle of cheese.

Tonight I am having a small glass of weightwatchers wine.

Tried to do a fitness dvd, but ds woke up after 5 mins. Did lots of walking though.

Morning all and welcome feeling and lady

Today:
B - Shredded wheat and milk
L - Tuna salad
D - Homemade pizza
S - Yoghurt and probably a couple of vodkas tonight!

Exercise - Cycling and gym workout.

I end up losing 1/2 pound - still peed off as I am down to lose 1.5 a week on food focus