Jayne's maintenance diary (at last)

[Princess81]

Well I've finally had the time (and inclination) to start this. Suppose today's as good as any .

Soooo, my weight today is 10st 13lbs with my BMI at 23 .

Anyhoo, today I had:

Breakfast - maintenance bar (i'm on early shift and this makes life far easier cause I can lug it about with me if needed)

Lunch was chicken salad (chicken breast with lettuce, cucumber, tomato and various onions) dressed with balsamic with a small baked potato. Shape zero for afters.

Apple late afternoon

Dinner was Tuna salad (same salad stuff as before) dressed in balsamic and a small baked potato. Afters was a small pot of berries with some fat free strawberry yoghurt.

Drank 1.5litres water, probably 700 mls of sprite zero and about 4 coffees, with milk but no sugar.

So there you have it, my first ever maintenance diary entry. I will do my level best to be good and keep it up to date on a daily basis .

Tomorrow I'll be baking my yummy fruit loaf - but cutting it and freezing straight away cos it's far too tempting to eat too much of it lol

 

[JanD]

Sounds good Jayne !! I've been very remiss with my water intake recently, must get it back up!! x

 

[Princess81]

Thanks Jan. I've been buying flavoured water (now I can lol) and it makes it far easier to drink. I didn't mind it on TFR but I find plain water so dull on a normal basis, this flavoured stuff really helps me keep up a good intake. It's only 69p for 1.5l of tesco own brand.
Oh i forgot to mention, i'm ALSO trying to give up smoking (was off them for four years but stupidly allowed police training/life to put me back on them again) so my survival has also been dependant on nicotine lozengers. But I'm 6 days now with no cigs so that's going well too. xx

 

[JanD]

Excellent!! It can most definitely be done! I carried on losing weight when I packed in in 2000 - If I can do it anyone can!!

Needless to say it was when my mentality clicken into 'I've cracked it' that i gained a load which ultimately led to LT last year! Still not smoking though!! 10.5 years & counting!

You can so do it!!! xx

 

[Princess81]

Mymotivation for that really is that I'm wanting babies very soon so wouldn't want to hurt them. Will just have to deal with the associated weight gain with pregnancy tho ( but not get into eating for two mentality lol) xx

 

[JanD]

Great incentive!! Best of luck with every step of it! xx

 

[Princess81]

Sundays intake!

Breakfast - maintenance bar. So glad I took one in cos I was out holding a flaming crime scene for 5 hours in the arse-end of nowhere today!!! Coffee with milk (machine made due to purchasing en route to said scene).

Lunch was tuna salad (consisting of lettuce, tomato, cucumber and onions) dressed with balsamic vinegar. Also with a small baked spud but this was manky so most of it got binned shape zero.

Apple late afternoon.

Dinner was a main whip - wrecked after shift and really cba to make anything. Made this with soya milk and think its set off my ibs cos I bloated out straight away !! Mental note not to do that again . A few berries with 3 teaspoons fat free yoghurt .

I made my fruit loaf , and I think I had three slices/chunks of it. My rationale is that it's only teeeeny slices (malt loaf sized). Feel a bit guilty about it though .

1.5 litres of water
500ml sprite zero
prob about 4 coffees other than breakfast one.

Got a trial starting tomorrow so we'll see how I fare this week

EDIT: still no ciggies

 

[JanD]

Looks good Jayne - except maybe for 3 slices of the fruit loaf . The main well done is for the fags!! (or lack of)

Hope the trial goes well xx

 

[Princess81]

I KNEW I should have frozen it immediately to stop that happening, I had to let it cool tho so it presented lots of temptation! Yip still fag free today! Whoop! Well done to u giving up btw, it's not easy x

 

[JanD]

Thanks .... I have to say it's the hardest thing I've ever done and the main reason I would never dream of touching another is because there's no way I could ever contemplate doing it again!!! So don't give in!!!!! xx

 

[Princess81]

Monday......

Breakfast - Main bar (stuffed down before court)

Lunch 2 x slices bread (court dictated that I had no time for anything else) :sigh:

snack in afternoon - a few dried apple rings.

Dinner - this is where it starts to go wrong for me today, was so hungry when I got home had 2 slices of the loaf I made, then had a ham salad (with my usual salad stuff) dressed in balsamic. Then a few teaspoons of fat free yoghurt (not too bad so far)
THEN some ben and jerries ice cream then another bit of loaf that's it now, I've put it in the freezer is dangerous stuff. Not eating anything more today. I'm suffering for it believe me!

Shoved a nicotine lozenger in now (still no cigs today)

Had 1.5l water, about 500ml sprite zero and 3 coffees with milk.

Tomoro will be a better day, I'm not liking how stuffed I feel today

 

[JanD]

Sounds a bit wobbly today hon .... but nothing you couldn't deal with .. even if it felt like a struggle from time to time ... These are the day to day activities we have to learn to maintain around. And we CAN!! ;o) .... You're doing fine xxx

 

[Princess81]

Cheers Jan, few too many carbs today for my liking .
I'm back in court for the trial tomorrow so it'll be another main bar for breakfast and I'm hoping they'll let us nip to a cafe for lunch so I can get a salad .

 

[JanD]

Can you use a maintenance bar?? ........



...... xx xx

 

[JanD]

Pkt quavers ..... hungry!!!! xxxx

 

[Princess81]

I suppose I could take a maintenance bar for lunch, but when I'm scoffing one for breakfast I thought I should try to introduce something different .

 

[Princess81]

Tuesday
Pleased to report that today has been far better than yesterday
So...
Breakfast - maintenance bar with a coffee (again stuffed before court)
Lunch - got "let out" for lunch today, went to a cafe and had ceasar salad. I asked for it with dressing on the side, but of course it came with dressing ON the top and parmesan shavings too plus bread croutons didn't have time to send it back so had to pick out the croutons and scrape off the parmezan/ceasar dressing. This became too difficult/messy in the end so I gave up after eating half of it. But I wasn't hungry anymore so didn't really go without.

Apple mid afternoon

Dinner was half a large baked potato, salad (with my normal salad stuff) and ham.

Snack just recently of mixed berries and fat free yoghurt. Was only a few spoons of yoghurt left in the pot so finished it too.

1.5l of water and about 3 other coffees after breakkie.

STILL NO CIGGIES (she says, sucking the life out of a nicotine lozenger)

 

[JanD]

Looking good Jayne! And well proud of you on the ciggie front Keep it up!!!! x

 

[Princess81]

I think this is day 8 now! So all the "muck" should be well out of my system, just need to break down the psychological barriers! ppffft.

 

[JanD]

Yeah - that's the hard part hon ... breaking the associations too. I didn't drink ordinary tea or coffee for months - took up fruit & herb teas so I wouldn't crave the usual fag with the drink ... worked - up to a point xx