wenchie
Silver Member
I've been kicking around the forums for a while and I've been on SW since the 11th of January, and I figured it was time for something new (internet accountability) and somewhere to put all the thinky stuff that this journey's kicking up for me. I'm a deeply rotten planner so my food diaries might be a bit all over the place, so bear with me on those 
.
Anyway, I'm 35, female, single and scottish and I finally decided that, actually, what I'd like to be is healthy and with a SW class pretty much at the end of my road it just seemed to be the perfect place to go. I lost about 50lbs on WW about 9 years ago, but all the constant counting and measuring everything did my head in so after 6months I fell off the wagon and put it all back with change. SW feels far, far, better for me. My WI's on a tuesday night and so far I've lost a stone.
sunday's food and thoughts:
I was out in town with a couple of friends for most of the day, so my food was a bit all over the place. However, I saved my syns from Saturday (my consultant has said we can do that, I know it's not neccessarily the "done" thing, but it's been working for me and it's makes the plan work better for me) so I had 30 to juggle.
Brunch
Green Beans S Free
Chilli Chicken 98%FFSNoodles Free
Snack
Grande Skinny Latte HExA (It's roughly 300ml of skim milk with an expresso, which is free)
Dinner
Bombay Potatoes 11Syns (highest value online)
Lentil Dahl 8syns (highest value online)
Pilau Rice 2.5syns (didn't eat much of it so took average takeaway value)
Diet Coke Free
Snacks
2 Diet Cokes Free
Supper
1/5 Mugshots Minestrone Free
No Wii at all today, walked around town with the girls enough that my legs ACHED last night though. 21.5syns for the day which is well within the 30 I'd set, so gives me some to play with if I under-valued. Made up the mugshot when I got home, because I figured I'd not eaten very much, but really wasn't hungry enough to bother eating it. Defaulted to being a green day, and I lacked HEx Bs in particular but lentils are good soluble fibre and the potatoes still had skins on so I'm not panicking about that. I've got scanbran for my HExB today
NSVs yesterday:
Got into old jeans a size down, fit without cutting in
Got into new black checked shirt that used to not fit at all
Resisted the pudding and instead of getting chips when I got the gluten free option (I've pretty much stopped eating bread by default since I've been on SW and I feel a lot better for it, so I've decided just to go with it. It actually makes it easier for me to make better choices without explaining to people who don't know I'm on SW) I got rice without even thinking twice about it. Dinner was yummy and I was comfortable and awake and not all food coma'd afterwards. It wasn't at all a hardship to say no and I really enjoyed what I had. I feel like yesterday I had a really healthy relationship with food.
It was a bit odd, my friends don't know I'm on SW, but they do know I'm losing weight and obviously saw me making better choices and one of them reacted very, very strangely. I'm pretty sure that that's her issues with food and weight coming into play and is one of the reasons I don't make a big deal about it, but it's strange to have that in my face quite so obviously, quite so quickly. It really did reinforce that, actually, I wasn't being "saintly" or "depriving myself" I was happy and comfortable and doing what felt best because I didn't feel at all defensive about it, and I didn't feel like I needed to make any kind of point when we were all trying on clothes that I'm getting smaller, it's just how it is, it's not a great big deal because it's not hard
.Anyway, I'm 35, female, single and scottish and I finally decided that, actually, what I'd like to be is healthy and with a SW class pretty much at the end of my road it just seemed to be the perfect place to go. I lost about 50lbs on WW about 9 years ago, but all the constant counting and measuring everything did my head in so after 6months I fell off the wagon and put it all back with change. SW feels far, far, better for me. My WI's on a tuesday night and so far I've lost a stone
.sunday's food and thoughts:
I was out in town with a couple of friends for most of the day, so my food was a bit all over the place. However, I saved my syns from Saturday (my consultant has said we can do that, I know it's not neccessarily the "done" thing, but it's been working for me and it's makes the plan work better for me) so I had 30 to juggle.
Brunch
Green Beans S Free
Chilli Chicken 98%FFSNoodles Free
Snack
Grande Skinny Latte HExA (It's roughly 300ml of skim milk with an expresso, which is free)
Dinner
Bombay Potatoes 11Syns (highest value online)
Lentil Dahl 8syns (highest value online)
Pilau Rice 2.5syns (didn't eat much of it so took average takeaway value)
Diet Coke Free
Snacks
2 Diet Cokes Free
Supper
1/5 Mugshots Minestrone Free
No Wii at all today, walked around town with the girls enough that my legs ACHED last night though. 21.5syns for the day which is well within the 30 I'd set, so gives me some to play with if I under-valued. Made up the mugshot when I got home, because I figured I'd not eaten very much, but really wasn't hungry enough to bother eating it. Defaulted to being a green day, and I lacked HEx Bs in particular but lentils are good soluble fibre and the potatoes still had skins on so I'm not panicking about that. I've got scanbran for my HExB today
NSVs yesterday:
Got into old jeans a size down, fit without cutting in
Got into new black checked shirt that used to not fit at all
Resisted the pudding and instead of getting chips when I got the gluten free option (I've pretty much stopped eating bread by default since I've been on SW and I feel a lot better for it, so I've decided just to go with it. It actually makes it easier for me to make better choices without explaining to people who don't know I'm on SW) I got rice without even thinking twice about it. Dinner was yummy and I was comfortable and awake and not all food coma'd afterwards. It wasn't at all a hardship to say no and I really enjoyed what I had. I feel like yesterday I had a really healthy relationship with food.
It was a bit odd, my friends don't know I'm on SW, but they do know I'm losing weight and obviously saw me making better choices and one of them reacted very, very strangely. I'm pretty sure that that's her issues with food and weight coming into play and is one of the reasons I don't make a big deal about it, but it's strange to have that in my face quite so obviously, quite so quickly. It really did reinforce that, actually, I wasn't being "saintly" or "depriving myself" I was happy and comfortable and doing what felt best because I didn't feel at all defensive about it, and I didn't feel like I needed to make any kind of point when we were all trying on clothes that I'm getting smaller, it's just how it is, it's not a great big deal because it's not hard
My behind's a wee bit achy (mostly from the yoga, I think, but possibly from some unseemly shoogling of it when I was dancing...) but I'm really very chuffed indeed that I've done it
