Thread: rhuba's tell-all food and exercise diary - comments and suggestions welcome!

okey dokey, here's Monday's scrannage & exercise a la rhuba:

2x weetabix /100ml skimmed milk: 165
large granny smith apple: 100

salmon fillet: 200
150g new pots: 110
mixed salad: 50
(left over from saturday's bbq, so had to be eaten)

125g blueberries: 75
cherry brandy ice lolly from the ice cream man: 50

spicy butterbeans with prawns & sweet potato: 395

mini home-made gooseberry tart: 180 (mother-in-law made me take them home after sunday tea but they were so yummy i HAD to factor one in for yesterday! lol.)

TOTAL : 1325

Exercise: 11,059 steps and 80 lengths in 55mins in swimming pool at the gym

Tuesday went something like this:

2 weetabix/100ml skimmed milk: 165
lunchbox with mushrooms, tomato, carrot, celery, cauliflower, broccoli & 30g feta cheese: 240

nut & seed mix: 150
sugar free jelly: 30

1 square lindt dark chilli chocolate: 50

coucous with roasted red peppers, tomato and mint : 495
fun size bag haribo: 50
couple of dried apricots w/ 100g soya yoghurt: 85

TOTAL: 1365

Note to self: just because you have a good weigh in result, doesn't mean you can let your cals creep slowly up! NAUGHTY!

i reckon if i tell myself off for only going a few over, it will stop me doing it further. am now aiming for 1235 today to balance it out.

Exercise: 10,635 steps. no other exercise to speak of. was going to do some yoga, but needed to take some clothes back and buy a bikini for my holiday (eek)

hey rhuba, hows the lunchbox diet going? do you find it fills you up enough? or do you have extra snacks throughout the day to keep you going?

it's going well, and fills me up. i'm kind of doing my own variation on it, so not following it to the letter. if i were doing it properly, i'd need to put more meat protein in it, but i'm not a big meat eater anyway. plus i love my nuts and seed mix, and as i'm cc-ing would have to for-go those for a bit of meat. not doing it!

the food you see between brekkie and dinner is what i snack on throughout the day. i don't have a set lunch, but i tend to eat whatever protein/fat that's in my box as my main bit of lunch. yesterday it was the feta cheese, and i am currently enjoying a ryvita thin smothered in mashed avocado with a sprinkle of salt and pepper. yum.

i do find that i'm quite hungry when i get home, but not absolutely starving and can quite happily wait until my dinner is ready. i'm definitely a picker, and it helps to know that i have a box i can pick from throughout the day, the calories of which are already written down and accounted for. anything else i may consume (like the single chocolate i had from a collegues birthday cake last week) come out of my evening allowance. i try and use up 650 cals throughout the day, leaving me with 650 for the evening. it tends to work quite well

hope that helps darling. how you getting on today??

xx

cool glad its working out for you!

today is going well, im having extrememly long lie-ins at the mo so less time awake to eat lol! works very well!! xx

lucky thing, you!

i could'a stayed a-bed this morning for sure! tis always the way that during the week i crave a lie-in, then at the weekend i'm up at the crack of dawn, wide awake and getting the most out of the day! i never seem to get a lie-in any more! can't bring myself to waste the weekend somehow.

good luck with your eating today

yeah i see what you mean about not wanting to waste the weekend, although at the moment ive got absoutely nothing to do as ive finished uni and my work have cut my hours
so i only work 7 hours a week! so needless to say ive got a lot of time on my hands! its good for the diet though - lots of time to plan meals and concentrate on eating right, plus doing the odd bit of exercise when i feel the urge!!

yesterday i felt funny. a little bit tired and feint, as if i hadn't eaten enough. i decided to up my calories to 1500 per day until the end of the week, to try and re-gain my flagging energy levels. note to self: do not take it as an invitation to eat 200 extra cals a day of choccie! make sure it is good, wholesome food that will replenish energy

i couldn't face the gym last night - i felt absolutely shattered, like my limbs were really heavy. i think i need to make more of an effort to get earlier nights when i'm doing so much exercise. nothing is worth getting sick for. i think a few early nights will do me the power of good, and i'll be able to get back on track with my gym regime.

anywho, yesterday's food:

2 weetabix w/100ml skimmed milk: 165
20 cherries: 80

lunch box including:
150g cucumber
150g mushroom
150g pepper
80g cos lettuce
80g cauliflower
ryvita thin w/ 50g mashed avocado
TOTAL: 245

minestrone slim-a-soup: 55
nut/seed mix: 150

3 quorn bangers: 180
100g smashed potatoes: 75
100g steamed green beans: 30
75g steamed sweetcorn: 80

small banana: 80
20g popcorn: 100
4 x breadsticks with hoummus: 180

TOTAL: 1420

Exercise: none (see above )

I get exceptionally shattered on diets too. Arn't they supposed to give you energy?

i felt great the first couple of weeks that i upped my steps - really energetic and healthy. however i have also upped other exercise and been having a few late nights recently.

i think that coupled with low calories is going to deplete anyone's energy levels. i don't want to run myself into the ground, so i'm upping my cals for a few days and skipping the mid-week gym session. won't help to get obsessed, now!

maybe your cals are a little low serafyn. if i'm feeling knackerd on 1,300 you must be shattered on 1000! i don't think i could go much lower than what i'm on atm

plus, i think it depends on what you're eating. if you're not getting all the vitamins and minerals and nutrients you need, that'll make you feel crappy as well.

hope you feel better soon, lovely!

Right, yesterday. i didn't so much fall off the wagon, as dive!! it was a concious decision. my calories have been pretty low for a while and my exercise levels pretty high. i felt like i needed a boost, as for the last few days i have been lethargic, headachey, woozy and a little dizzy. so: i skipped my mid-week gym session, upped my cals quite a bit (for one day only) and had an early night. (in fact i was so tired i had to go to sleep for an hour when i got in from work!! )

yesterday's food consisted of:

2 x weetabix / 100ml skimmed milk: 165
125g blueberries: 75

granny smith apple: 100

lunch box including:
170g tomato
200g mushroom
100g spinach
140g broccoli
120g sweetcorn
80g tin tuna with sundried tomatoes and basil
TOTAL = 380

soya yoghurt: 80
cup of tea & 3 biscuits : 200 (guess)

245g potato: 200
50g avocado: 95
sauce w/ tinned toms, green pepper, garlic & 50g prawns: 130

flump: 50
green & blacks cereal bar dipped in 70% choc: 240
2 x ice lollies: 150

TOTAL: 1865

Exercise: 12,636 steps. went for a walk at lunch time and after my tea. was too tired to do anything full-on at the gym.

I am now pleased to report that i am back on track. i have reduced my cals again to 1300, as i feel much better for the boost in cals, rest and a good nights sleep! will be going for a jog this evening, and jogging and playing tennis tomorrow, so the week's exercise will not be interrupted too severely. fingers crossed i haven't scuppered my chances of loss or even of STS!!

hey rhuba, ur diary looks fine from yesterday, glad ur feeling much better after upping your cals! i would imagine all the exercise you are going to do would definately mean that you wont sts this week! and if you do - its better than a gain!

ARRRRGH! just wrote a maaaaassive post and lost it! grrrrrrrrrr!

will repost shortly....

righty-ho here goes:

i'm not very proud of my weekend's indulgences, but as this is a tell-all food diary i must tell-all! saturday was not so bad, but sunday was horrendous. i'd appreciate any comments and/or telling off!! i have no idea how many cals i consumed yesterday, so i'm just going to use it as an opportunity to admit to them and move on....

friday:

3 x weetabix w 100ml skimmed milk: 230
apple: 100

3 x ryvita w/tuna: 205
lunchbox including:
100g spinach
60g green pepper
150g mushroom
170g carrots
130g red cabbage
150g celery
TOTAL: 150

cocopops chocolate snack bar: 85 (HIGHLY RECCOMMENDED FOR LOW-CAL CHOCCIE CRAVINGS!!)

3 x quorn snausages: 180
100g smashed potatoes: 80
100g broccoli: 30
100g cauliflower: 30

large cappucino: 100
weightwatchers cheese puffs: 75

TOTAL FRIDAY: 1295
Exercise: 40 min jog with OH, 13,227 steps

Saturday:

50g porridge/ 250ml soya milk, 15g raisins & 6 crushed hazelnuts: 345

apple: 100

falafel pita bread with salad, hoummus and feta: 450 (worth every calorie, absolutely scrummy!!)

soya yoghurt with blueberries and almonds: 125
fanta zero: 15

satsuma and teeny nectarine: 60
50g popcorn: 180
2 x weightwatchers cheese puffs: 150 - was having a savoury binge! shouls only have had 25g popcorn and one packet of cheese puffs, but i couldn't stop myself!!

TOTAL SATURDAY: 1425
Exercise: 12,744 steps

Sunday:

50g porridge/ 250ml soya milk, 30g raisins, 50g blueberries: 380

nectarine: 50
caramel snack-a-jacks: 100
flump: 50
satsuma: 30
small tin of dressed lobster: 45
pickled onions: 50

salmon fillet with salad: 300

now then, i bet you're all thinking that this looks fine! binge, what binge? ha. just wait for it........

after my delicious salmon fillet and salad the m-i-l brought out the most AMAZING trifle. layers of home-made sponge cake soaked in marsala wine, raspberries, strawberries and blueberries with a mix of organic vanilla yoghurt and double cream.

it was absolutely sensational and i felt completely justified in having a bowl as i had just jogged for 50mins from our house to theirs.

i then went to visit my pa to give him a fathers day card and a cuddle. my sister had made theses 'father's day cookies': white chocolate and orange. shouldn't have, but i had one. it was divine. i had another. everyone was gushing about my weightloss, my sisters asking for tips etc. i had another. i felt a bit sick, so you guessed it, i had another!



after visiting my grandad and stopping for a cup of tea and a cuddle (seeing all four of us girls absolutely made his day so i was really pleased that i went) i went back to the oh's parent's house.

why did i do it? i had another cuppa, and another massive bowl of trifle!!!! WTF???? i was already full and felt sick coz of the sugar overload. even after that i wanted more , despite my bulging belly and that horrible full-to-the brim feeling.

TOTAL SUNDAY: have absolutely no idea, but probably horrendously high!!
Exercise: 50 minute jog/power walk, 11,591 steps

anywho. with that admission over, i would like to leave you. please feel free to comment on my awful indescretions. i fully expect a gain tonight after that shameful lack of control. however, although i have a sugar hangover today, i have given myself a strict talking to, and i almost feel like i needed it, as i am full of renewed energy towards the diet, and my excerise plan is in full swing!

am going to do 100 lengths tonight to make me feel a little better, and the mini challenge for me is to stick 100% to my diet until my holiday starts on the 3rd july - when i will start my 2 week maintenance plan, before resuming with the diet upon my return.

i have a plan. and i fully intend to stick with it to the bitter end.

sorry for the ramble. thanks for reading if you got this far!!!

rhuba xx

Hi Rhuba

Right well I don't think I can tell you off in any way as I've had the most horrendous weekend (to which I can also add today)....All I can say is that even if you have eaten an extra couple of thousand calories (god it sounds awful but I'm standing there with you!) on a given occasion, it doesn't automatically equate to you putting on in weight what you have a consumed. For occasional binges, the body doesn't work like that....it's not as mathematical as we we would like to think - particucularly when we've painstakingly calculated a calorie deficit only to find our weight plateaued....

Anyway I'm kind of waffling now! I really wanted to ask you about this lunch box diet. It sounds really interesting, and I'm desperate to make my diet a lot healthier...

Firstly - you basically don't eat any starchy carbs in the middle of the day right? How do you keep your energy up? And you go to the gym a lot? I try to run a few times a week and/or gym/exercise DVDs, but I don't think I'd be capable - or I have it firmly planted in my head that I wouldn't be capable- of doing that without a good sized portion of bread in the middle of the day....Are you telling me there's another less calorific way?? Also do you exercise before dinner, and if so do you need to snack beforehand?

Secondly - you mention the likes of mushrooms, cauliflower, broccoli in your lunchbox...are these raw? And no dressing of any kind?

And lastly - do you still really find yourself in the mood for more veggies in the evening?? Wow...

I'd love to hear some more of your healthy recipes....And also if you could tell me the secret to hight energy on a low calorie diet...I don't ask for much I know!! x