LadyHelen
No Coffee, No Workee
If you use milk as one of your healthy extra choices and don't measure out the amount that you use, it might be something that you want to consider.
This last week I had a gain, which I sort of expected after Valentine's Day, but I thought it was more of a gain than I expected given that I'd been good in the days afterwards.
So I went back over my food diary and checked it all out - the only thing I hadn't been weighing and measuring was my milk (semi skimmed - I've tried using skimmed in the past and I can't stand the stuff, it tastes off to me).
I'm a coffee drinker , and I like to put quite a lot of milk into my coffee, a really good slosh of it - and I also have rather a large cup (which says on it "fridge pickers wear bigger knickers", but that's another story ).
So yesterday I bought a cup container with a sealed lid which holds 350ml, put 250ml of milk into it and marked the outside with a permanent marker (so I know where to fill to in the future) - 250ml really isn't very much!
I've been using 125ml each day on my porridge (I know this because I measure it), and then a good slosh in each of my 10 or so (yes, I know...!) cups of coffee. When I put my large cup next to the 350ml container and put the large slosh of milk in the cup, and measured the levels... I reckon I've been using probably 1/4 to 1/3 of my daily allowance in each cup.
So - I use half the allowance in my porridge, which is fine. The remaining allowance does 2 cups of coffee. I then go on to have 8 more cups of coffee, which in the worst case scenario, if I use 1/3 of the allowance in each cup is another 700ml of milk - another 17 syns worth of milk!!!
Now, when I was looking for a reason as to why I wasn't losing weight...? You'd think the fact that my husband and I were going through 12 pints of milk a week should have given me a clue that something was wrong, wouldn't you?
So this week I shall be using a dedicated container to measure out the exact amount of milk I need each day - I've also gone back to drinking tea and in a smaller cup, because when I drink tea I use a tiny amount of milk, only enough to turn it from black to white really. I shall be like a bear with a sore ar$e whilst I get over the coffee withdrawal, but I'll cope!
Anyway... the moral of the story is - if you're not measuring your milk and you're not losing weight as you think you should be, try it!
Here's hoping I can report a loss next week.
This last week I had a gain, which I sort of expected after Valentine's Day, but I thought it was more of a gain than I expected given that I'd been good in the days afterwards.
So I went back over my food diary and checked it all out - the only thing I hadn't been weighing and measuring was my milk (semi skimmed - I've tried using skimmed in the past and I can't stand the stuff, it tastes off to me).
I'm a coffee drinker , and I like to put quite a lot of milk into my coffee, a really good slosh of it - and I also have rather a large cup (which says on it "fridge pickers wear bigger knickers", but that's another story ).
So yesterday I bought a cup container with a sealed lid which holds 350ml, put 250ml of milk into it and marked the outside with a permanent marker (so I know where to fill to in the future) - 250ml really isn't very much!
I've been using 125ml each day on my porridge (I know this because I measure it), and then a good slosh in each of my 10 or so (yes, I know...!) cups of coffee. When I put my large cup next to the 350ml container and put the large slosh of milk in the cup, and measured the levels... I reckon I've been using probably 1/4 to 1/3 of my daily allowance in each cup.
So - I use half the allowance in my porridge, which is fine. The remaining allowance does 2 cups of coffee. I then go on to have 8 more cups of coffee, which in the worst case scenario, if I use 1/3 of the allowance in each cup is another 700ml of milk - another 17 syns worth of milk!!!
Now, when I was looking for a reason as to why I wasn't losing weight...? You'd think the fact that my husband and I were going through 12 pints of milk a week should have given me a clue that something was wrong, wouldn't you?
So this week I shall be using a dedicated container to measure out the exact amount of milk I need each day - I've also gone back to drinking tea and in a smaller cup, because when I drink tea I use a tiny amount of milk, only enough to turn it from black to white really. I shall be like a bear with a sore ar$e whilst I get over the coffee withdrawal, but I'll cope!
Anyway... the moral of the story is - if you're not measuring your milk and you're not losing weight as you think you should be, try it!
Here's hoping I can report a loss next week.