Why Is It So Difficult? :(

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Hi Ally - thanks for your reply.

I am pleased with my loss. I think losing 5lbs at the beginning was bad because now I expect the same each week. I know I'm not 100% most of the time, but I feel I deserve more than a STS.

I'm going to keep going. On a positive note, I haven't gained in 7 weeks which is a miracle on any 'diet' I have been on. I've usually given up by now.

Going to try and not weigh myself either and have some different superfree in my day.

 

[equi]

Just my observation but i think you are having too many carbs. Cereal everyday is full of carbs, try to vary your breakfast a little more.

 

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Just my observation but i think you are having too many carbs. Cereal everyday is full of carbs, try to vary your breakfast a little more.

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

I'm going to try and vary my food from next week

 

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Varied my food Wednesday and Thursday - lost 1.5lbs!

Super happy

 

[equi]

Thats great! Very happy for you

 

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Thank you That's what happens when you follow the plan!

 

[Rochelle1]

Hey,

Thanks for your reply.

I hate bananas (I do like healthy food, honest!) but I do have a cereal bar and a few grapes in the car - generally when I'm stuck in heavy traffic!

I'm going to try and find 5 different lunches I can have in the week. I think I'm stuck with my cereal (unless I can find another one that I like which constitutes as a Healthy Extra B)

I do red days (limited carbs) but maybe I should swap to green for a bit? I do miss pasta sometimes. Maybe I could have that for lunch?

I try not to cheat, but I do write it down so I'm not kidding myself when the scales don't budge.

Thanks for everyones input

if you dont like bananas what about an apple? a cereal bar and grapes is ok for a breakfast though i reckon, so dont worry about that. just when you arnt at work make something more exciting lol for green days, quorn is excellent!! i started doing green days last week, as i realised i was eating more and more quorn, less and less meat lol i only have chicken like twice a week or something, at most!! so started doing green days and the days im having meat i just do extra easy. i usually try and have the third superfree on green days anyway so its no bother.


you could make yourself pasta salads and things for lunches though if you did green

 

[rachel1984]

Hi, I've been reading through your food diary and it looks like on a good day you are up to 15 syns - and often going over. How about sticking with 10 a day and if you do have days when you go over it won't be quite as bad. Try not to have those bad days though, I know it's really hard. Find what your weaknesses are and deal with them. For instance I really struggle in the evening after dinner. It's very rare that I have syns during the day, so after dinner I have a small (125ml) glass of wine 4.5 syns and a small chocolate bar (between 3.5 and 4.5). They're my treat for being 100% all day, get me through the evening and mean I have only had between 8 and 9 syns a day. If I have days where I eat more then (this evening 7 syns of chocolate, 4.5 wine and 2.5 gin and slimline tonic = 14 syns) over the week I'm doing well.

I'll be honest and say that if I had eaten all of what you've eaten during the past few weeks I would have gained. I'm not meaning that to sound horrible in any way so please don't think I do. We all have days where we struggle and eat what we want, but try and limit those days a lot more and you'll see the weight shifting a lot quicker. Good luck xx

 

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Hi,

Thanks for your responses.

I do notice that I fall heavily off the wagon in the middle of my cycle. I need to keep that in mind and have lots of free comfort food.

I have been really good this week and it paid off, so I think that the has spurred me on - especially since it's star week.

I'm finding that I like have high syn food, but split it so it's not that bad. So last week I had a Twirl, but I split it with my boyfriend so it was only 4.5 syns a finger, but because it was sooooooo chocolatey, it was all I needed.

Would like to lose 3.5lbs next week, but that isn't going to happen - but I would be happy with 1.5lbs, so need to keep my focus. I still am working away (with a few nights when I won't leave the office or get home before midnight) so I have to stay on the ball otherwise it won't work

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