Furrykins' CC diary

Hi everyone!

I've made the decision to start calorie counting two days ago. I lost 11lbs through doing JUDDD for about a month. It was really effective but I found the fasting days were leaving me a bit too light headed. I may revisit when I need to lost the last 5lbs or so and/or when I'm ready to maintain.

Just before I came off that diet I weighed in at 130.8lbs, now I'm 132lbs, which is amazing and means I've gained very little from September til now (even through all those xmas meals and alcohol!! haha) My goal weight is around 107-110lbs which I aim to achieve by summer! My mini goal weight is 120 by March 2013 for my holiday to Amsterdam. I won't be weighing myself all that regularly as I over obsess! It will be quite irregular and infrequent. I try to work out at least 5 times a week.

I'll try my best to document everything on a daily basis! It really helps staying accountable and responsible! Good luck to me and you all!

Day 1 (Thursday 10/01)

Breakfast
Egg white omelette w/ cottage cheese - 140
Slice of turkey bacon - 23

Lunch
Pasta, tuna, sweetcorn - 368

Dinner
Protein shake made with almond milk - 275
Clementine - 40

Snacks

10 almonds - 69
Shape yoghurt - 79
Braeburn apple - 95
Clementine - 40
Banana - 100

Exercise: 5 mile run

TOTAL : 1209

Day 2

Breakfast
Protein shake made with almond milk (used less powder) - 240

Lunch
Leftover pasta - 265

Dinner
Salmon, rice, spinach - 310

Snacks

10 almonds - 69
Shape yoghurt - 79
Braeburn apple - 95
Clementine x 2 - 80

Exercise - 30 mins of cardio exercise vid


TOTAL : 1138

Day 3

Breakfast
2 slices wholemeal toast, scrambled egg whites, 2 slices turkey bacon, baked beans - 425

Lunch
Protein shake made with almond milk - 160

Dinner
Pasta, bit of cheese, 2 pieces garlic bread - 480

Snacks

Shape yoghurt - 79
Clementine - 40

Exercise - 40 mins of cardio exercise vid


TOTAL : 1184

Day 4

Today was a good day, glad I'm able to stick well to eating healthy, usually I would cave in by now! I've really increased my protein intake. My recommended intake is around 45g but I've been hitting around 100g and i must say it has changed my appetite. No cravings, overeating or anything! I think starting from next week or the following week however I'll implement a single day where I have a few cheat meals so I don't plateau. Hope everyone has had a good day!

Breakfast
Cheerios - 295

Lunch
Protein shake - 275

Dinner
Baked chicken, potatoes, veg - 400

Snacks
Around 20 almonds- 140
Clementine - 40
Apple - 80

Exercise - 30 day shred dvd


TOTAL : 1230

I've honestly been bad with coming on here lately. Not been sticking to my diet as I've been busy with uni, etc but I have bought some scales as weighing myself once in a while was not working for me! I'll be weighing myself every week and restarting and visiting here more often starting Monday! God knows how I'll cope Valentines day!

Just woke up, had a bowl of Weetabix for breakfast. Have an Asda delivery coming in the evening, stocking up on loads of healthy treats - nuts, fruit, yoghurt Hopefully this week will be a good one. Fridays will probably be my official weigh in day, I'll try my best to not weigh any more often than this because I can get too obsessed with the scales. I did, however weigh in this morning to get an idea of my restarting weight, 132.4lbs, so hope to drop maybe 1.5 -2 lbs by this Friday. Hope everyone has a lovely Monday

Been very busy lately with uni exams and what not. Still trying to not let it disrupt me from my healthy eating habits. Didn't do a proper entry for Monday but I did go over in cals (1500), but that's fine by me. I'm trying to have days where I have more calories and days where I stay slightly lower in cals. Anyway today was a good day although I did under eat in calories but I did have a big lunch!

breakfast - weetabix with skimmed milk 212
lunch - baked salmon with skinny rice and (a lot) of coleslaw - 520
snacks - 10 almonds -60ish cals
- melon - 112 calories

that leaves me at a total of around 854 calories. I'm really trying to work on hitting my target calories most days of the week without eating unhealthily. Sometimes it's so hard for me to get in all my calories, no worries though as there's no doubt I'll be stuffing my face on Thursday lol.
I also weighed myself today and seems I've gone down by 1lb, no surprise it's just water weight really but not making it an official loss til it's my weigh in day (now Saturday). Made a mini pizza using pitta which I'll have tomorrow - it looks amazing, red/green peppers, turkey tikka pieces, pineapple, jalapenos.. yum! I definitely have a weird taste in pizza toppings

That pizza sounds the business to me!! Enjoy

It was!!

I've failed myself again! lol not been on here in a week!! Around valentines day my diet wasn't the best (cream cakes, pizzas, chocolate!) but since this monday, I've defo been in check I'm changing things up a bit and going to up my calories, doing 1200 is a bit too overwhelming and not something I can see myself sticking to for more than 1 month. Plus I've got round to the idea that it's better if this weight drops gradually and at a steady pace rather than me trying to lose all I need to in 1-2 months. A problem I have is not being consistent and being so impatient - If I don't look much different in the mirror a month after sticking to a diet I will feel so disappointed in myself and quit. So I'm going to take things slower to ease myself into it, make even smaller, weekly goals for myself. I have a holiday planned with a friend at the end of next month to Amsterdam and by then I hope to be around 127 lbs, which I think is realistic. I'll have my official weigh in Friday and I will check in!

today

breakfast - cornflakes with skimmed milk - 245 calories
lunch - turkey burger in wholemeal bap with coleslaw - 480
dinner - protein shake - 260
snacks - snickers bar (trying my best to ween myself off chocolate!) - 300
- 2 tangerines - 80
- handful almonds - 75

TOTAL: 1440

exercise: turbofire workout (30 mins) roughly 300 calories burnt

Sounds like a good plan! Slow and steady and all that jazz.

breakfast today was kind of late but I did sleep in a bit. Was going to make a nice filling omelet but didn't have enough time. Had a look at the scales this morning too, I'm down to 131.2 lbs! That's a 2.4lbs loss as on Monday (After valentines weekend) I was around 133.6lbs due to binging on crap! My weigh in is tomorrow so I hope my weight doesn't go up, lol. I did set myself a weekly goal to weigh 130lbs by tomorrow (even though that's not a full week for me), but I'm definitely too hard on myself and I'll be definitely happy weighing 131

breakfast - 2 slices wholemeal toast with sprinkle cheese - 320 cals
- cup of hot options hot choc with a bit of s milk - 55

lunch - wholewheat pasta, turkey burger and coleslaw - 650cals (sounds a lot but had a huge gap between breakfast and lunch)

dinner - protein shake - 260 cals

snacks - tangerine and snickers bar - 380

total: 1665 - quite over what I wanted to aim for but did 1 hour cardio dvd plus 30 DS

Hi furrikins, well done on your losses so far. Your food looks delish. Love turkey burgers - I had them last night too.

Thank you! Not huge but I'm trying! I enjoy turkey burgers more than beef ones!

Weighed in today at the same weight but I believe my scales aren't very precise. Will update my FD tomorrow as I'm knackered!