Green-eyed, you come across as such a lovely happy person. Your posts make me smile (and give me hope!)
Annie, I also have a tendency towards bingeing - once I have a trigger food, that is. As long as I stay off my triggers completely I'm fine - which is why LL was brilliant for me when I lost my main weight. The difficulty I've had this year has been in losing smaller amounts. My brain doesn't do well with the deprivation part anymore... I had a very positive mental attitude when I did LL originally, because it was easy ish to justify to myself why I didn't want to be 16 stone anymore. My BMI is only very slightly over 25 at the moment, so it feels much harder psychologically.
Really glad I decided to start low carbing again though. Food! Yay!
I've noticed I get a bit panicky just before meals though, which is interesting... Like I'm scared that by eating ANYTHING I will go out of control. It's going to take me a while to reinforce the fact that eating low carb* really doesn't trigger me,** which is fab!
*(apart from nuts...)
** (and cheese...)
Awwww! Thank you! I have a lot to be happy about I guess, though I do have my down times as well. C'est la vie. Kind of missed yesterday on the food diary front. Missed breakfast yesterday. Wasn't particularly hungry until lunchtime. So really didn't eat an awful lot yesterday...
Lunch - leftover lasagna from evening before
Dinner - basa fillet, prawns, courgette and broccoli steamed in lime, thai fish sauce, chilli and garlic
Snack - macadamia nuts, smoothie made from strawberries, raspberries and coconut milk
This morning I was starving!
Breakfast - scrambled eggs and honey roast ham, nectarines
Dinner (cooking at the moment) - roasted belly pork, roasted vegetables (mixture of all the leftover ones in fridge- onions, leeks, tomatoes, butternut squash, swede, peppers) with diced chorizo mixed in. It's the end of the week and a few days til pay day still!
Just been looking at an online site which delivers organic, grass reared meats. I've been a bit concerned about using the bog standard meats from Tesco as I'm aware it's far from ideal. The prices are higher but not outrageous and they offer lots of more unusual meats like goat, venison, etc. I think I might give them a whirl.
Yoga is still going swimmingly. I'm alternating the different DVDs to mix it up and get the benefits from the different styles (my abs hurt!) Hope I can manage to sustain this routine when I'm back at work next week. Think I'm probably going to struggle as it's the dreaded night shifts when I go back.
Hope you're all having a fab and groovy day xxx
