LJ's Journey

[lisajade]

Sooooo... Here is my attempt to keep myself on track.

I was an overweight child. By the time I was 9 I was at a dietician. By 16 I had tried a range of slimming pills, slimming clubs, every concocted potion/quick fix imaginable! Then when I was 18 my mother offered to pay for me to have a gastric band. I managed to get down to 10st10lbs from 19st10lbs.

Then in 2010 things started going weird, and I ended up having to have my gastric band removed. My weight shot up at a terrifying rate, I clearly didn't learn anything from having a gastric band. It just felt great to be able to eat without feeling sick, I went totally overboard and gained a lot of weight, back up to over 18st! :sigh:

I started SW in January, and I am slowly changing my ways. I haven't had the speedy successes that lots of people in my group and this forum have had, but I'm proud to be losing at last, with no tricks or quick fixes. Just slow, enjoyable lifestyle changes.

I look forward to hearing everyone's stories, and sharing this experience with you all. However much we have to lose, we are all in the same boat, and we can all achieve our goals Can you tell I'm in a positive mood tonight? :clap:

I weigh in every thursday night at my local group, hoping for my 1 stone award this week (fingers crossed)! I am currently only exercising once a week actively. By actively, I mean high intensity to the extent where I ache for 2 days I don't drive, so I do a fair bit of walking too. I am hoping to keep building my activity up, as up to a few weeks ago I did no exercise at all. I hope to start exercising twice a week from this week :character00115:

Good luck to you all on your journeys. Smooth sailing everyone!

My Goals
√ Half stone award - Achieved 21/03/2012
√ 1 stone award - Achieved 26/04/2012

1.5 stone award - 16st 8.5
Club 10 - 16st 4lb
2 stone award - 16st 1.5lb
2.5 stone award - 15st8.5lb
BMI:35 - 15st 7lb
3 stone award - 15st 1.5lb
3.5 stone award - 14st 8.5lb
Club 20: 14 stone 6.5 lbs
4 stone award - 14st 1.5lb
4.5 stone award - 13st 8.5lb
BMI:30 - 13st 4lb
5 stone award - 13st 1.5lb
Club 30: 12st 9 lbs
5.5 stone award - 12st 8.5lb
6 stone award- 12st 1.5lb


Other Goals
Dress Size 18 16 14 12
30 Day Challenge
Measurement - Bust bigger than waist! - Achieved 29/4/2012

 

[lisajade]

April 2012 Food Log

Thursday 5th - Green Day
Breakfast: 1 Fibre Plus bar (HEB)
Lunch: Grilled peppers with Philadelphia light (HEA) on wholemeal toast (HEB) with bertolli light (2 syns)
Dinner: Pasta with sweetcorn, bertolli light (2syns)
Other: Milk (HEA); muller light, 30g fruit and fibre (5syns)
9 syns total

Friday 6th - Red Day
Lunch: chicken salad
Dinner: home made burgers with bacon, cheese (hexa) on a wholemeal roll (hexb) with a big salad
Other: milk (hexa), fibre plus bar (hexb), yoghurt, Fruit

Saturday 7th - Extra Easy
Lunch: Fruit n Fibre (hexb) and yoghurt, fruit salad
Dinner: Roast chicken tikka (5 syns), SW wedges and a Greek salad (hexa feta cheese)
Other: small glass of wine instead (6 syns), Milk (4 syns)
Total = 15 syns

Sunday 8th - Extra Easy
Lunch: Roast pork (no crackling or fat), carrots, broccoli, swede, turnips, 2 roast potatoes (syn 3 per 100g - had less) and 2 roast parsip (syn 3.5 per 100g - had less)
Dessert: kiwi fruit and grapes
Tea: pasta with Philly (hexa), mushrooms and onions
Snack: fibre plus bar (hexb)
Other: milk 4
Total Syns: 10

Monday 9th - Red Day
Lunch: Chicken Salad (free), 2 slices wholemeal bread from 400g loaf (HexB) with bertolli light (2 syns)
Snack: Yoghurt, Banana
Dinner: Bacon, eggs, mushrooms, sainsburys BGTY sausages (2 syns), 2 slices wholemeal bread from 400g loaf (HexB) with bertolli light (2 syns), 3 babybel light (HexA)
Milk allowance (Hex A)
Fibre Plus bar - 5.5 syns
Total syns = 11.5

Tuesday 10th - Extra Easy but went off plan
Breakfast: Skipped
Lunch: Yoghurt, Fruit n Fibre (HexB)
Snack: Granola bar (9.5syns) custard creams (12 syns)!!!!!
Dinner: Beef curry (4 syns) with rice and vegetables
Other: Milk (HexA)
Syns: 25.5 syns

Wednesday 11th - Extra Easy
Chicken Tikka Salad - 5 syns
Leftover curry - 2 syns
Yoghurt, cereal (HEB)
milk (HEA)
Total 7 syns

Thursday 12th - Failed to plan
(This day I had a hospital scan and wasn't allowed to eat or drink anything until I got home after weigh in - I fell off the wagon as I was just starving!)
Oven chips 10 syns
Wholemeal roll (HExB)
Mikado - 24 syns (yes really)
Milk (Hexa)
Total: 34 syns

Friday 13th - Extra Easy
Chicken in tomato sauce with salad and grilled vegetables (2 syns olive oil)
Pasta with Philadelphia light (HexA and 2 syns)
Yoghurt
Weetabix Oaty bar (HexB)
Total Syns = 4

Saturday 14th - Red Day
Lunch: Tuna mayo (4 syns) salad (lettuce, tomatoes, onions, peppers) and 3 sweet onion ryvita (HexB)
Snack:Options White Choc (2 syns), Banana
Dinner: Home made burgers (1.5 syns) with bacon and mushrooms, salad (lettuce, tomatoes, onions, peppers) 1 wholemeal roll (HexB) Cottage cheese (Free), Ketchup (1 syn)
Dessert: Chocolate mousse (made with options, quark and total 0%) (3 syns)
Other: Milk (HexA)
Total syns = 11.5

Sunday 15th - Green
Late Breakfast: Muller light with 30g Fruit n Fibre (HexB)
Late Lunch: Jacket with beans and a salad (lettuce, peppers, onions, tomatoes) and free cottage cheese
Late Tea: Pasta with philly (HexA) and peppers, onions, mushrooms
Snacks: Weetabix bar (HexB), Grapes, milk allowance (HexA), 25g Fruit and fibre (4.5 syns), muller light, another weetabix bar (4 syns)
Total suns = 8.5 syns

Monday 16th - RED
Lunch: Yoghurt and 30g Fruit and Fibre (5 syns)
Dinner: 4 small warburtons (HEB x2), bertolli light (2 syns), eggs, bacon, mushroom, lettuce, tomato and free cottage cheese
Total syns = 7 syns

Tuesday 17th - Extra Easy
4 sl warburtons (HEB+6 syns), Philly (2 syns),
banana, yoghurt,
extra lean beef curry with rice, spinach, mushrooms and onions (pataks - 3 syns)
Total syns = 11 syns


Wednesday 18th - Green
Breakfast: fruit n fibre (hexb) and a yoghurt
Lunch: couscous and roasted vegetable salad from marks (8 syns) and beetroot salad (free)
Dinner: jacket with beans, salad and a big blob of quark
Snack: fibre plus bar (hexb), milk allowance (hexa)
Total = 8 syns


Thursday 19th - Extra Easy
Lunch: Babybel (4 syns) jacket potato, beans, side salad
Dinner: Leftover curry and rice (incl. mushroom, spinach and onions)
2 choc Philly tubs - 9 syns (Weigh In treat)
Fibre plus - HEB
Total = 13 syns

Friday 20th (planned off plan):
L: wm tuna and sweetcorn sandwich (14)
D White rolls with deli meat and cheese (56) - OMFG! I didn't have a CLUE!
S: raspberry turnover (15 syns)
Total = 85 syns! Holy moly...

Saturday 21st - Extra Easy
B: banana, yoghurt
L: 2 wm bread (HEB) with beans and 1 tbsp Philly (2 syns)
D: pasta with roasted veg and Philly with chives (HEA)
300ml 1%Milk (6syns)
Total = 8 syns

Sunday 22nd - EE
Magic Porridge (HEB)
Banana
Curried home made burgers (1Tbsp curry paste - 2 syns, 2 tbsp onion relish - 2 syns, Ketchup - 0.5 syns) with a HUGE salad (lettuce, tomato, onions, spring onions, red pepper) and SW chips (Total 4.5 syns - WELL worth it - divine!)
2 Apples, grapes
3 ryvita sweet onion (6 syns), philly (2 syns), muller light
Total = 12.5 syns

Monday 23rd - EE
banana
yoghurt,
tuna pasta salad 1 syn
cereal bar
tuna pasta salad again 1 syn
apple
Total = 2 syns

Tuesday 24th - EE (not feeling too well)
magic porridge
banana
apple
cereal bar
tuna pasta salad (made waaaay too much yesterday ) 3 syns
yoghurt
Total = 3 syns

Wednesday 25th - EE
Tuna Pasta salad (for the last time ) (1 syn)
Banana
Apple
Beans on 2 small wm toast (HeB)
Fibre Plus bar (5.5 syns)
Total: 6.5 syns

Thursday 26th - Unplanned and unprepared
Fibre Plus Bar (HeB)
Ham Sandwich on the go (14 syns)
Pasta with philadelphia (HeA)
Total: 14 syns - at least within limit


Friday 27th - Planned off-plan
Fibre Plus Bar (HeB)
Pizzafest! (Approx 80 syns)
Total: 80syns

Saturday 28th - EE
magic porridge (4.5syns)
large salad of lettuce, tomato, onion and red pepper with home made burger patties and SW chips (4 syns)
Sultana bran (HeB), muller light and melon
Ham salad with roast vegetable couscous (1 syn) and grated beetroot
Total: 9.5 syns

Sunday 29th - EE
Jacket potato with beans and salad with 1 tbsp philly (2 syns)
Weetabix oaty bar (HexB)
Pasta with roasted veg, philly and bacon (8 syns)
Sultana Bran, 25g and muller light (4.5 syns)
Total: 14.5 syns

Monday 30th - EE
Yoghurt and 25g sultana bran - 4.5 syns
Watermelon, gala melon, mango, pineapple and grapes
Home made burgers with SW chips and salad - 4 syns
Fibre Plus - HexB
Total: 8.5 syns

Summary:

4 days over syns
7.5lbs lost in 4 weigh-ins

 

[Chipmunk89]

Hi there! Sounds like you're in a great place (mind-wise) and I think that's definitely the only thing that works. If you're not in the right mind-set no plan, however brilliant, is going to help you. SW is excellent though of course, and I hope it brings you everything you're hoping for. Looking forward to keeping up with your journey!

 

[lisajade]

I am feeling stressed today I have managed to stay on plan though, 4 syns for the day!

WI is tomorrow night, I am going for a barium X-ray just before I weigh, and I am worried I will weigh more, as it's quite heavy. I just need 0.5 to get my 1 stone award, I was hoping this would be the week, but I'll have to wait and see I guess!

I think I may need a cheeky takeaway once I lose a stone to treat myself. Not my old-style order though, of course

Extra Easy

Chicken Tikka Salad - 5 syns
Leftover curry - 2 syns
Yoghurt, cereal (HEB)
milk (HEA)

Total 7 syns

 

[lisajade]

Maintained this week, not surprised really. I was at the hospital glugging down barium just before WI, so I will see the loss next week if I stay on plan.

It still feels frustrating in all honesty, that half pound to get my stone award would have been great!

 

[lisajade]

I really feel like I'm losing the plot... I thought I was in the zone and it's starting to fade already! I hoped it would last forever. Tucked into the mikado tonight, I'm annoyed at myself and feeling rubbish. My head is trying to mess this up, and I thought I would know how to stop it and I don't... I still have so much to learn.

WENT OFF PLAN

Oven chips 10
Wholemeal roll HEB
Mikado - too many!!!!!

 

[lisajade]

Well, so far so good today. I went out for lunch with work today. I made a point of specifically requesting no cheese, no oil etc, I ended up having a chicken breast in a tomato sauce with roasted veg and a salad. It was quite nice, but I was jealous of everyone else's cheese loaded feasts! To resolve the cravings it induced, we had a quick dinner of pasta with chilli philadelphia light. I have really neglected to eat fruit or drink enough today, but syns wise, I'm doing dandy! I think I aam going to count some olive oil in case the chef decided to add some despite my request. It didn't seem like it, but who can tell. Here's hoping for 100% tomorrow.

I definitely feel a bit better, and less like i'm drifting into the wilderness

Extra Easy

Chicken in tomato sauce with salad and grilled vegetables (2 syns olive oil)
Pasta with Philadelphia light (HexA and 2 syns)
Yoghurt
Weetabix Oaty bar (HexB)

Total Syns = 4

 

[lisajade]

Plan for today:

Red Day

Lunch: Tuna mayo (4 syns) salad (lettuce, tomatoes, onions, peppers) and 3 sweet onion ryvita (HexB)
Options White Choc (2 syns)
Dinner: Home made burgers (1.5 syns) with bacon and mushrooms, salad (lettuce, tomatoes, onions, peppers) 1 wholemeal roll (HexB) Cottage cheese (Free), Ketchup (1 syn)
Hex A = Milk

Total syns = 8.5

 

[lisajade]

Well, I am pretty happy with how I have eaten today, lots of fresh salad, and it was all delicious food too!

Red Day

Lunch: Tuna mayo (4 syns) salad (lettuce, tomatoes, onions, peppers) and 3 sweet onion ryvita (HexB)
Snack:Options White Choc (2 syns), Banana
Dinner: Home made burgers (1.5 syns) with bacon and mushrooms, salad (lettuce, tomatoes, onions, peppers) 1 wholemeal roll (HexB) Cottage cheese (Free), Ketchup (1 syn)
Dessert: Chocolate mousse (3 syns)
Other: Milk (HexA)

Total syns = 11.5

 

[lisajade]

Thinking about Exercise:

I must confess my exercise regime has started to slip a little bit. I have been feeling achey the past few days, but I actually believe some exercise would help! Its just the last thing I feel like doing! Anyway, to cut a long story short, I am starting (ahem re-starting) my 30 day shred challenge on Tuesday with some others on this forum. I'm determined to get past day 1 this time

Click here for thread.

 

[lisajade]

I really had a long lie-in today! Missed breakfast as I have done for some time now. I did notice some decent losses when I was having breakfast at least most of the week. Still, planning on another 100% day today That will make 3 in a row, which is ace! I am feeling like I'm getting my mojo back, I think I just got a bit knocked by my maintain this week. I need to find a new way of coping that doesn't involve going off plan for a night!

 

[lisajade]

Right, here is the plan for today...

Green Day

Late Breakfast: Muller light with 30g Fruit n Fibre (HexB)
Late Lunch: Jacket with beans and a salad (lettuce, peppers, onions, tomatoes)
Late Tea: Pasta with philly (HexA) and peppers, onions, mushrooms

 

[Cai]

Hey,
Just came on here to have a quick look - u are doing well these last few days, if i were to suggest anything it would be to eat more!! Well more fruit and veg or similar! I am always snacking (especially when at work) and the more I eat (fruit) the more I loose, hence why I am looking forward to going back to work tomorrow! LOL.
Will b poppin in all the time now! xx

 

[lisajade]

Thanks Cai, thats good advice! I am feeling kinda peckish now so gonna bring through some nice cold grapes from the fridge I think I am over-compensating because I was really disappointed to maintain this week, and I really want to start speeding up my weightloss. It feels weird trying to eat more!

I have eaten today:

Late Breakfast: Muller light with 30g Fruit n Fibre (HexB)
Late Lunch: Jacket with beans and a salad (lettuce, peppers, onions, tomatoes) and free cottage cheese
Late Tea: Pasta with philly (HexA) and peppers, onions, mushrooms
Snacks: Weetabix bar (HexB), Grapes, milk allowance (HexA), 25g Fruit and fibre (4.5 syns), muller light, another weetabix bar (4 syns)

 

[lisajade]

I have been so busy today, and have a busy few weeks ahead of me. I have only eaten 30g fruit and fibre and a yoghurt today! Thats so rubbish. I'm having a bacon, mushroom and onion omlette and a salad for tea, meant to be having a red day. Had planned a hearty chicken salad for lunch, but I just couldn't be bothered. I'm feeling kinda low today, not about the diet or my weightloss... Hopefully its just a monday thing.

 

[lisajade]

Well tonight I have been thinking alot about goals and what I want to achieve. I am starting to wonder if I could ever achieve a healthy BMI and stay there... I achieved it when I had my gastric band, but to get to a healthy weight of my own steam seems like one hell of a challenge. I keep trying to focus on mini-goals (e.g. getting my club 10 award). I have a long road ahead of me, no point in focussing on the endgame right now. I have a clean 5 stone to lose before I even need to start wondering what my final goal will be.

Sometimes I just feel so sick of this, my weightloss has been really slow.. I know I would be gaining every week if I wasn't on plan, and to lose almost a stone is an achievement, however long it takes. I just feel like its going to take forever!

 

[lisajade]

Food Intake for today - RED

Lunch: Yoghurt and 30g Fruit and Fibre (5 syns)
Dinner: 4 small warburtons (HEB x2), bertolli light (2 syns), eggs, bacon, mushroom, lettuce, tomato and free cottage cheese

 

[Cai]

Don't be down/hard on yrself!! Yr doing amazingly! Yt loosing weight, you, not a band restricting what you eat, but you are doing it! So it is taking a bit longer than u wanted? It's still coming off and people say the longer it takes to come off, the longer it stays off! this is all about YOU making life long changes to help YOU for once in our lives it has to be all 'me me me' hehe.

Don't forget we're all here for u and we're all in the same boat! There is no doubt that someone on here will have felt the same as u at any one time of your journey!

Chin up, you're doing well and don't u forget it xx

 

[lisajade]

Thanks Cai! You're so right, I have NEVER stuck to a diet for this long. 100% off my own back, 100% for myself. I am so truly committed, I am sticking with this no matter what. Just have a bad case of the mondays I think! I'm gonna find myself a treat for the rest of my syns I think and watch a good film Hope you're having a good day!

 

[Cai]

Thanks Cai! You're so right, I have NEVER stuck to a diet for this long. 100% off my own back, 100% for myself. I am so truly committed, I am sticking with this no matter what. Just have a bad case of the mondays I think! I'm gonna find myself a treat for the rest of my syns I think and watch a good film Hope you're having a good day!

Glad it's just a Monday thing! ;-)

I'm having a good (ish) day - back at work after a 2 wk easter holiday and have finally had a 100% day with no cheating!! This is my first since the begining of my holidays!! Feels good to be back! X