hodgeypodgy
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Right then this is it, a concerted effort to get down to 9st. Firstly a bit about me. I'm 31, 5"4 and have been overweight since I was about 18 when I got with my first serious boyfriend. I love to cook and eat and just gradually piled on the lbs through Uni and beyond. I met my husband in the last year of Uni and he was never really bothered about my weight and in turn neither was I. I have always been sporty but was never "too" overweight for it to cause me any real concern.
I dabbled with WW and SW for a while, re-gaining what I had lost after a brief spell. From getting engaged in 2005 to getting married in 2006 I put on a stone and a half, how did that happen? I thought brides were meant to lose weight?!! Needless to say although I felt good on the day some of the photos leave a lot to be desired and I do regret not gripping my weight beforehand.
In 2007 I was deployed to Afghanistan with the RAF and the heat combined with a lack of food choice meant I lost a stone without trying. I had a hint of being slimmer and I wanted more of it. I then managed to hover around the 11 stone mark for a good few years until I went on holiday to Egypt in 2010. I went scuba diving and felt horrendous trying to pull my wetsuit on and off.
Unfortunately my marriage broke up around this time and running and slimming helped me through this time. I re-joined SW at 11st 7lbs on 4 Apr 10. By 31st Jan I was at my original target of 10st. Unfortunately, I didn't manage to keep at target for long as I had moved into the Mess on base where all food is cooked for you (and is lovely) and drink is plentiful and cheap. By 31 Mar 11 I was 10st 11.
Since 1 Apr, I have been deployed in the Middle East on a USAF base. The food is mostly American and not that healthy. My saviour is grilled chicken and salad which I have most days and I also have the opportunity to go to the gym everyday. This has helped me get to my current weight of around 136lbs, although I seem to hover anywhere between 134-140lbs. So I have reset my target weight to 126lbs (9st) as I still have a lot of flab lurking around. I have been trying to do SW (mostly red days) and have also been using MyFitnessPal to keep track of calories and exercise, although the amount of fruit I eat tends to put me over most days so this is a bit frustrating.
Anyway sorry for the waffle, hopefully by writing things down I can get to my new target by Sep. My food plan won't change much from day-to-day but hopefully I will stay on track. Today looks like this:
Red day:
BF:
-Kashi Go Lean (45g) (The cereals come in pre-packaged containers) - Now technically this isn't a HEB but it is the best cereal on offer so I am counting it as one. The syn calculator counts it as 7 syns (so maybe I should use 1 syn?) and it has 9g of Fibre, 12 g of Protein, 1g of Fat and only 140 cals. The next best cereal would be raisin bran but I would have to use a HEB and 5 1/2 syns for that.
- Banana
- 200ml of skimmed milk (part of HEA)
L:
-Grilled chicken breast
-Salad
-Sweet chilli sauce (1.5 syns)
-Apricot fruit layer yoghurt (3 syns)
- Kiwi/Peach/Plum
D:
-Tuna
- Wholemeal wrap (I looked up the syns for this and one came back as only 2 1/2 syns which I thought was very good as I know they are usually 4)
- Tomato/Lettuce/Cucumber
- Hellmans light mayo (2 syns)
S:
-Fibre Plus (HEB)
-Quakers Chewy Bar (5 syns)
-Kiwi/Plum/Apple
- Rest of HEA in teas
So I make that 14 syns if I count the cereal as a HEB. The other thing is that I work nights so eat these meals in a weird order. So dinner at midnight, breakfast at 5 am and lunch at 7pm.
Sorry for the waffle. I am sooo missing being able to shop and cook for myself, but I am here until Oct and I need all the help I can get to stay away from the American pancakes, the free icecream, tex mex and cookies etc.
Off to the gym in a bit.
I dabbled with WW and SW for a while, re-gaining what I had lost after a brief spell. From getting engaged in 2005 to getting married in 2006 I put on a stone and a half, how did that happen? I thought brides were meant to lose weight?!! Needless to say although I felt good on the day some of the photos leave a lot to be desired and I do regret not gripping my weight beforehand.
In 2007 I was deployed to Afghanistan with the RAF and the heat combined with a lack of food choice meant I lost a stone without trying. I had a hint of being slimmer and I wanted more of it. I then managed to hover around the 11 stone mark for a good few years until I went on holiday to Egypt in 2010. I went scuba diving and felt horrendous trying to pull my wetsuit on and off.
Unfortunately my marriage broke up around this time and running and slimming helped me through this time. I re-joined SW at 11st 7lbs on 4 Apr 10. By 31st Jan I was at my original target of 10st. Unfortunately, I didn't manage to keep at target for long as I had moved into the Mess on base where all food is cooked for you (and is lovely) and drink is plentiful and cheap. By 31 Mar 11 I was 10st 11.
Since 1 Apr, I have been deployed in the Middle East on a USAF base. The food is mostly American and not that healthy. My saviour is grilled chicken and salad which I have most days and I also have the opportunity to go to the gym everyday. This has helped me get to my current weight of around 136lbs, although I seem to hover anywhere between 134-140lbs. So I have reset my target weight to 126lbs (9st) as I still have a lot of flab lurking around. I have been trying to do SW (mostly red days) and have also been using MyFitnessPal to keep track of calories and exercise, although the amount of fruit I eat tends to put me over most days so this is a bit frustrating.
Anyway sorry for the waffle, hopefully by writing things down I can get to my new target by Sep. My food plan won't change much from day-to-day but hopefully I will stay on track. Today looks like this:
Red day:
BF:
-Kashi Go Lean (45g) (The cereals come in pre-packaged containers) - Now technically this isn't a HEB but it is the best cereal on offer so I am counting it as one. The syn calculator counts it as 7 syns (so maybe I should use 1 syn?) and it has 9g of Fibre, 12 g of Protein, 1g of Fat and only 140 cals. The next best cereal would be raisin bran but I would have to use a HEB and 5 1/2 syns for that.
- Banana
- 200ml of skimmed milk (part of HEA)
L:
-Grilled chicken breast
-Salad
-Sweet chilli sauce (1.5 syns)
-Apricot fruit layer yoghurt (3 syns)
- Kiwi/Peach/Plum
D:
-Tuna
- Wholemeal wrap (I looked up the syns for this and one came back as only 2 1/2 syns which I thought was very good as I know they are usually 4)
- Tomato/Lettuce/Cucumber
- Hellmans light mayo (2 syns)
S:
-Fibre Plus (HEB)
-Quakers Chewy Bar (5 syns)
-Kiwi/Plum/Apple
- Rest of HEA in teas
So I make that 14 syns if I count the cereal as a HEB. The other thing is that I work nights so eat these meals in a weird order. So dinner at midnight, breakfast at 5 am and lunch at 7pm.
Sorry for the waffle. I am sooo missing being able to shop and cook for myself, but I am here until Oct and I need all the help I can get to stay away from the American pancakes, the free icecream, tex mex and cookies etc.
Off to the gym in a bit.
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