Lixida
Full Member
With apologies to Admin if this is in the wrong place
I'm starting this food diary, more so I can see where I'm going wrong, (as if I needed telling), and how I can go right consistently. If it helps anyone else along the way, please subscribe and maybe we can help each other to reach our targets.
I'll post a little bit of background first... (if you want to skip my waffle on how I got to where I am today, scroll down a bit)
Back in 2006 I joined SW for the first time. Prior to that I'd never had to diet - or eat healthily - in my life. I could tuck into what I wanted and I stayed stick thin. I was the sort of person every slimmer hates. Then in 2004 I suffered a house fire and through living in Travelodges for 6 months, then being forced to return to a house for a further 3 years that had no cooking facilities, (thank you Aviva for treating me so badly), I put on quite a lot of weight. With only a tiny, very basic microwave in my bedroom, following any sort of SW eating plan was almost impossible, but somehow I lost all my excess weight within 3 months. The problem was that I set my target way too low and although I was able to maintain it and did so for some years, I was so thin and with a BMI of just 19.2, I looked ill. I wanted to put on a bit of weight, but in order to do so, had to go quite a bit above my 3lb limit. Finances meant I had to stop going to group.
On my own, even without group support, I was able to maintain at my new higher weight and stayed healthy looking until late 2012. Then sadly a long-standing heart condition took a major turn for the worse. I became less active and the weight piled on. December 2013 saw me undergo open heart surgery, after which I suffered severe complications. Even after discharge I wasn't able to walk to the kitchen let alone stand and prepare a meal. More weight piled on until my old SW target was a dim and distant memory some 4 or more stone in the past.
I was horrified.
In June 2014 I decided enough was enough. I was going to shift all those excess pounds. No, I don't want to go back down to the 9stone 8lb waif that I had been when attending group, but I certainly wanted to shed quite a bit of weight.
For 6 months I did really well. I lost 2 stone. then Christmas came along, followed by a 7 week bout of ill health, followed by Easter, followed by a whole load of socialising! Unfortunately, I put back on a bit of the two stone that I lost and since then have plateaued and plateaued and plateaued. However today is a new day and I'm now determined (oh Lord, how many times have I said that in the past 6 months?). I really am going to make a concerted effort to get down to my goal of 10st 10lbs, starting here and now.
I figured if I made myself complete a food diary, it would prick my conscience and stop me cheating.
So here goes. Today is a RED (ORGINAL) DAY
Breakfast
2 grilled rashers of Turkey bacon
Half tin chopped tomatoes
mushrooms, chopped and cooked in the tomatoes
2 eggs scrambled, pan sprayed with FryLight, (nothing added other than a small pinch of salt)
2 slices of wholemeal Hovis from 400g loaf, toasted - HEB
1 Dairylea Original triangle used as a spread on my toast - HEA
Comments: Wont buy the turkey bacon again. Not sure if all brands are the same, but the Bernard Matthews one tasted like a cross between plastic and cardboard. I prefer the thick cut Tesco back bacon. I normally go for the leanest on the shelf and trim off all the fat after grilling and before eating. I THINK I can have 2 Dairylea triangles for a HEA, (can anyone confirm that please?) Only using Dairylea Original instead of Light because they are in my fridge, left over from my grandson's visit. Looks like the mushrooms and tomatoes are SuperFree
Lunch
Honey Roast wafer thin ham
Cherry tomatoes
Mullerlight yogurt
Clementine
Dinner
Grilled leg of lamb steak
150g new potatoes boiled
Cabbage
Carrots
1 lamb Oxo cube
Drinks
Tea with SS milk from my 250mls HEA allowance (measured out in advance and kept separate in the fridge)
Sprite Zero
Snacks
Wafer thin honey roast ham
Clementine
Activity
Hang out washing, (don't laugh, that really does constitute an activity for me!)
1.5 hrs gardening
I'm starting this food diary, more so I can see where I'm going wrong, (as if I needed telling), and how I can go right consistently. If it helps anyone else along the way, please subscribe and maybe we can help each other to reach our targets.
I'll post a little bit of background first... (if you want to skip my waffle on how I got to where I am today, scroll down a bit)
Back in 2006 I joined SW for the first time. Prior to that I'd never had to diet - or eat healthily - in my life. I could tuck into what I wanted and I stayed stick thin. I was the sort of person every slimmer hates. Then in 2004 I suffered a house fire and through living in Travelodges for 6 months, then being forced to return to a house for a further 3 years that had no cooking facilities, (thank you Aviva for treating me so badly), I put on quite a lot of weight. With only a tiny, very basic microwave in my bedroom, following any sort of SW eating plan was almost impossible, but somehow I lost all my excess weight within 3 months. The problem was that I set my target way too low and although I was able to maintain it and did so for some years, I was so thin and with a BMI of just 19.2, I looked ill. I wanted to put on a bit of weight, but in order to do so, had to go quite a bit above my 3lb limit. Finances meant I had to stop going to group.
On my own, even without group support, I was able to maintain at my new higher weight and stayed healthy looking until late 2012. Then sadly a long-standing heart condition took a major turn for the worse. I became less active and the weight piled on. December 2013 saw me undergo open heart surgery, after which I suffered severe complications. Even after discharge I wasn't able to walk to the kitchen let alone stand and prepare a meal. More weight piled on until my old SW target was a dim and distant memory some 4 or more stone in the past.
I was horrified.
In June 2014 I decided enough was enough. I was going to shift all those excess pounds. No, I don't want to go back down to the 9stone 8lb waif that I had been when attending group, but I certainly wanted to shed quite a bit of weight.
For 6 months I did really well. I lost 2 stone. then Christmas came along, followed by a 7 week bout of ill health, followed by Easter, followed by a whole load of socialising! Unfortunately, I put back on a bit of the two stone that I lost and since then have plateaued and plateaued and plateaued. However today is a new day and I'm now determined (oh Lord, how many times have I said that in the past 6 months?). I really am going to make a concerted effort to get down to my goal of 10st 10lbs, starting here and now.
I figured if I made myself complete a food diary, it would prick my conscience and stop me cheating.
So here goes. Today is a RED (ORGINAL) DAY
Breakfast
2 grilled rashers of Turkey bacon
Half tin chopped tomatoes
mushrooms, chopped and cooked in the tomatoes
2 eggs scrambled, pan sprayed with FryLight, (nothing added other than a small pinch of salt)
2 slices of wholemeal Hovis from 400g loaf, toasted - HEB
1 Dairylea Original triangle used as a spread on my toast - HEA
Comments: Wont buy the turkey bacon again. Not sure if all brands are the same, but the Bernard Matthews one tasted like a cross between plastic and cardboard. I prefer the thick cut Tesco back bacon. I normally go for the leanest on the shelf and trim off all the fat after grilling and before eating. I THINK I can have 2 Dairylea triangles for a HEA, (can anyone confirm that please?) Only using Dairylea Original instead of Light because they are in my fridge, left over from my grandson's visit. Looks like the mushrooms and tomatoes are SuperFree
Lunch
Honey Roast wafer thin ham
Cherry tomatoes
Mullerlight yogurt
Clementine
Dinner
Grilled leg of lamb steak
150g new potatoes boiled
Cabbage
Carrots
1 lamb Oxo cube
Drinks
Tea with SS milk from my 250mls HEA allowance (measured out in advance and kept separate in the fridge)
Sprite Zero
Snacks
Wafer thin honey roast ham
Clementine
Activity
Hang out washing, (don't laugh, that really does constitute an activity for me!)
1.5 hrs gardening
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