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Emma-Jayne
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Thanks Jan I really hope so! The real test will be when something stressful/sad happens! It's so much easier to control on 100% with the security of ketosis. You're not wrong when you say maintenance is the hard part! Hoping to go to the gym again tonight... 
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Emma-Jayne
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29/11/11 Food Diary
Breakfast: 30g Porridge, 200ml water, small teaspoon sweetner
Lunch: Salmon, lettuce, cucumber, chopped carrot, a tomato
Dinner: 2 Quorn sausages, boiled sweet potato, peas
Drinks: 4L water, 2 peppermint teas, 3 green teas, 2 black coffees
Snacks: Pear, small apple, harley's low cal jelly pot
Feeling good about todays food. Definitely satisfied and have enjoyed it, especially dinner - I love quorn sausages. I didn't eat all my porridge this morning because I was full up. Just about to have my jelly It is chucking it down outside so I'm not up for the gym but I'm going to drag myself. Xx
Breakfast: 30g Porridge, 200ml water, small teaspoon sweetner
Lunch: Salmon, lettuce, cucumber, chopped carrot, a tomato
Dinner: 2 Quorn sausages, boiled sweet potato, peas
Drinks: 4L water, 2 peppermint teas, 3 green teas, 2 black coffees
Snacks: Pear, small apple, harley's low cal jelly pot
Feeling good about todays food. Definitely satisfied and have enjoyed it, especially dinner - I love quorn sausages. I didn't eat all my porridge this morning because I was full up. Just about to have my jelly
It is chucking it down outside so I'm not up for the gym but I'm going to drag myself. Xx
summergurl
♥3 Years Maintaining♥
Looks fab again today Emma.
How'd you find the gym?
I hate it with a passion too!! Give me the pavement & fresh air any day! Lol x
How'd you find the gym?
I hate it with a passion too!! Give me the pavement & fresh air any day! Lol x
Emma-Jayne
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Haha thanks Jan, I did indeed make it to the gym! Somehow! It was good once I was there thanks Tanya! Feel good now for going.
I did 25minutes on the treadmill - a 5minute jog/run (not sure what to call it) at 10kph in between some power walking on an incline. Then a 10minute cross training and 15minute bike session. Some toning on the ol' legs and abs and hooooome!
How often do you run Tanya? I don't know how often to aim for the gym for? 3 to 4 times a week? Hmmm. Xx
Feel good now for going. I did 25minutes on the treadmill - a 5minute jog/run (not sure what to call it) at 10kph in between some power walking on an incline. Then a 10minute cross training and 15minute bike session. Some toning on the ol' legs and abs and hooooome!
How often do you run Tanya? I don't know how often to aim for the gym for? 3 to 4 times a week? Hmmm. Xx
summergurl
♥3 Years Maintaining♥
I run 3x a week but having a week off this week. Just do as many days as you feel u can/need to
Emma-Jayne
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30/11/11 Food Diary
Breakfast: 30g Porridge, water, small spoonful of sweetner, handful of blueberries
Lunch: 2 slices weight watchers wholemeal bread, 1 extra light cheese triangle, lettuce, cucmber, tomato (made into a sandwich) with carrot sticks and 4 cherry tomatoes
Dinner: Chicken breast with roasted vegetables: red onion, caugette, red and yellow peppers and 6 sprays of fly lite
Drinks: 3.5L water, 3 green teas, 1 peppermint tea, 2 black coffees
Snacks: Clementine, small apple, 4 seafood sticks, 2 nairns oatcakes
Really enjoyed todays dinner, it has left me really full up. I didn't finish it but I should have stopped eating it earlier than I did as now I feel bloated. I got really hungry when I got in around 4:45 so I had the seafood sticks and oatcakes. I don't know why as I don't normally need to eat at that time but I did have lunch earlier today at 12 so maybe that's the reason.
I'm worrying a bit because although I'm controlling it at the moment I keep getting this feeling where I just want to eat and eat and eat. When my lunch or dinner has gone I want to carry on eating something even though I'm not hungry. I'm not giving in to it but it's really annoying! I hope it goes away eventually. Xx
Breakfast: 30g Porridge, water, small spoonful of sweetner, handful of blueberries
Lunch: 2 slices weight watchers wholemeal bread, 1 extra light cheese triangle, lettuce, cucmber, tomato (made into a sandwich) with carrot sticks and 4 cherry tomatoes
Dinner: Chicken breast with roasted vegetables: red onion, caugette, red and yellow peppers and 6 sprays of fly lite
Drinks: 3.5L water, 3 green teas, 1 peppermint tea, 2 black coffees
Snacks: Clementine, small apple, 4 seafood sticks, 2 nairns oatcakes
Really enjoyed todays dinner, it has left me really full up. I didn't finish it but I should have stopped eating it earlier than I did as now I feel bloated. I got really hungry when I got in around 4:45 so I had the seafood sticks and oatcakes. I don't know why as I don't normally need to eat at that time but I did have lunch earlier today at 12 so maybe that's the reason.
I'm worrying a bit because although I'm controlling it at the moment I keep getting this feeling where I just want to eat and eat and eat. When my lunch or dinner has gone I want to carry on eating something even though I'm not hungry. I'm not giving in to it but it's really annoying! I hope it goes away eventually. Xx
Emma-Jayne
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Thank you! I think you're right about the waiting too long. Every meal fills me up, my porridge leaves me comfortably bloated in the mornings and I can't always eat it all. My lunch satisfies me, as do my dinners! So I think maybe it is too long. Unfortunately that's the timetable of my day. Breakfast about 8, fruit at 10:30, lunch at 12:30ish and then dinner about 6:30-7:30. The afternoons are sooooo long, no wonder I need a snack I guess. I sometimes have another peice of fruit about 3:30 if I have time. I'm going to play around with it a bit and maybe swap the fruit at 10:30 for a bigger snack at 3/4ish.
Sorry I'm really rambling! Off to the gym. Xx
Sorry I'm really rambling! Off to the gym. Xx
JanD
maintaining since June'09
Hope you enjoy/ed the gym
I was going to suggest a boiled egg too ... it's all trial and error as Mary says.
I know exactly what you mean about the feeling of wanting to eat and eat and eat and I'm sorry to tell you that if you're feeling that now it WILL eventually happen. When it does though, you must remember that it's not the beginning of the end - it's just the end of the beginning.
Maintaining is a life-long effort. Sometimes we do better than others. Sometimes we can be great, be perfect, and sometimes nothing will satisfy us and we end up eating for England (or wherever). At those eating times we have to remember that nothing is permanent, nothing lasts forever, it WILL come to an end and you WILL be able to sort out the consequences of it.
Don't expect yourself to be perfect because if you do - when you're not, you'll feel like a failure and there's no way you're that. Accept that there will be ups and downs, highs and lows and that's perfectly normal.
Lecture over xx
I was going to suggest a boiled egg too ... it's all trial and error as Mary says.
I know exactly what you mean about the feeling of wanting to eat and eat and eat and I'm sorry to tell you that if you're feeling that now it WILL eventually happen. When it does though, you must remember that it's not the beginning of the end - it's just the end of the beginning.
Maintaining is a life-long effort. Sometimes we do better than others. Sometimes we can be great, be perfect, and sometimes nothing will satisfy us and we end up eating for England (or wherever). At those eating times we have to remember that nothing is permanent, nothing lasts forever, it WILL come to an end and you WILL be able to sort out the consequences of it.
Don't expect yourself to be perfect because if you do - when you're not, you'll feel like a failure and there's no way you're that. Accept that there will be ups and downs, highs and lows and that's perfectly normal.
Lecture over
xx
summergurl
♥3 Years Maintaining♥
Can't add more than what Jan & Mary has said, defo introduce some sort of snack in the afternoon. What sort of job do you do? Do you get an afternoon break at some point? If not then a snack when you get in before the gym would be best
Dinner sounds delish today! Love roasted veggies, especially courgette!
Dinner sounds delish today! Love roasted veggies, especially courgette!
Lucy_Jucie
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Hey your doing great, I'm loving your diary, I'm trying to get ideas of what's best to eat when coming of LT. A while for me yet another 4 stone x
Emma-Jayne
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Thanks everyone. Your post has been really helpful Jan! Puts things into perspective. I'm not expecting to never slip up as that would be very unrealistic, especially with christmas coming up! I don't think extra snacks will hurt now I am gyming it! It has been really good to read and remind myself that when it does happen it WON'T be the end of all my hard work. I will need to jump back on the next day.
Tanya, I am 6 months off becoming a qualified primary school teacher. Ahhhhh! I am on my final assessed teaching practice so I'm working school hours. I am also a care assistant for elderly and disabled people so I work every thursday night and every saturday. Eating times can be tough! Arriving at school around 8am, I get a break at 10:30 and then lunch is 12:10 until 1:30. The children go home at 3:25 and I'm usually still at school until at least 4:30-5. I've just realised that 12:30 until 5ish is about 5hours! Snack is definitely in order! Usually I'd have dinner when I get in at 5:30-6ish but I'm staying with my parents at the moment until me and the bf get a place and they eat at 7 so we all eat together. I may start cooking my own meals. Ooooh I'm excited to do some experimenting.
Thanks Lucie, you'll get there! Don't wish your time on TFR away as it's the best part beleive it or not haha. Xxx
Tanya, I am 6 months off becoming a qualified primary school teacher. Ahhhhh! I am on my final assessed teaching practice so I'm working school hours. I am also a care assistant for elderly and disabled people so I work every thursday night and every saturday. Eating times can be tough! Arriving at school around 8am, I get a break at 10:30 and then lunch is 12:10 until 1:30. The children go home at 3:25 and I'm usually still at school until at least 4:30-5. I've just realised that 12:30 until 5ish is about 5hours! Snack is definitely in order! Usually I'd have dinner when I get in at 5:30-6ish but I'm staying with my parents at the moment until me and the bf get a place and they eat at 7 so we all eat together. I may start cooking my own meals. Ooooh I'm excited to do some experimenting.
Thanks Lucie, you'll get there! Don't wish your time on TFR away as it's the best part beleive it or not haha. Xxx
irish molly
Maintaing LT loss on GL
I can't add much to what the others have said. I definitely agree on adding a little more to your snacks. Nuts or seeds are a good way of bulking up a fruit snack. 5or 6 almonds or walnuts or a dessert spoon of pumpkin seeds will bulk up a punnet of blueberries or two plums or a pear. I always carry a couple of Nakd bars which are unprocessed fruit bars. The 30g ones are a great snack and the larger 68g bar is a great emergency lunch option.
I find on GL that two fruit snacks is not always best. It's better to have one fruit snack and one savoury snack. A boiled egg, a baby bel cheese,peanut butter on two oatcakes, fish pâté on rye crackers, half an avocado, small mug of soup with no potato in it( tomato, onion, ) or a slice of oat bread.
So there's lots of options for filling snacks. Experiment till you find the balance that suits you.
You're doing great!
I find on GL that two fruit snacks is not always best. It's better to have one fruit snack and one savoury snack. A boiled egg, a baby bel cheese,peanut butter on two oatcakes, fish pâté on rye crackers, half an avocado, small mug of soup with no potato in it( tomato, onion, ) or a slice of oat bread.
So there's lots of options for filling snacks. Experiment till you find the balance that suits you.
You're doing great!
Emma-Jayne
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Thanks Molly, some great ideas there! I will definitely give them a go. I like the sound of boiled egg on a couple of nairns oatcakes or something! I'm really into those oatcake biscuit things, sooo yummy. And theres so much you can put on them. Do you know if banana's are considered to be low/high gi/gl? I read somewhere about 'ripe' ones and 'too ripe' ones but it just confused me so I've steered clear of them. But I used to love banana on rivita when I was attempting to diet pre-lipotrim so I'm sure I'll love banana on oatcakes now as part of a healthy diet!
01/12/11 Food Diary
Breakfast: 45g All-Bran crunch, 100ml skimmed milk, blackberries
Snack: Plum
Lunch: Chicken breast, lettuce, 3 cherry tomatos, 1 tomato, cucumber, carrot
Snack: Pear, handful of carrot sticks, 2 nairns oatcakes with low fat/fat free cottage cheese
Dinner: 125g extra lean steak mince, passata, 1/4 red onion, approx 100g wholewheat low gi pasta (frozen from refeed week and re-heated as in a rush), handful of blueberries and fat free natural yoghurt
Drinks: 4L water, 1 peppermint tea, 3 green teas, 2 black coffees
I really missed my porridge this morning! I look forward to it, I just wanted to try something different and didn't have time to make it. But it's back to ol' faithful tomorrow. Especially as today's was half as nice but nearly twice the calories. Lunch was gorgeous, I gave myself a little bit more salad today to see if I felt fuller and I did. I didn't have the urge to eat anything else afterwards. Regret eating the pear and wish I'd just had the oatcakes. I swear it made me feel hungrier. So like Molly said, I am sticking to one fruit snack a day. I might get rid of my morning fruit because it's not long after breakfast and I don't really need it.
Went to the gym again this evening, did 30mins on the cross trainer, 15mins on the exercise bike and then some toning using weights for my thighs and abs. Feel brilliant for going.....In the rain! And I had work this evening so I didn't get there till 9. Hence the later post. Xx
01/12/11 Food Diary
Breakfast: 45g All-Bran crunch, 100ml skimmed milk, blackberries
Snack: Plum
Lunch: Chicken breast, lettuce, 3 cherry tomatos, 1 tomato, cucumber, carrot
Snack: Pear, handful of carrot sticks, 2 nairns oatcakes with low fat/fat free cottage cheese
Dinner: 125g extra lean steak mince, passata, 1/4 red onion, approx 100g wholewheat low gi pasta (frozen from refeed week and re-heated as in a rush), handful of blueberries and fat free natural yoghurt
Drinks: 4L water, 1 peppermint tea, 3 green teas, 2 black coffees
I really missed my porridge this morning! I look forward to it, I just wanted to try something different and didn't have time to make it. But it's back to ol' faithful tomorrow. Especially as today's was half as nice but nearly twice the calories. Lunch was gorgeous, I gave myself a little bit more salad today to see if I felt fuller and I did. I didn't have the urge to eat anything else afterwards. Regret eating the pear and wish I'd just had the oatcakes. I swear it made me feel hungrier. So like Molly said, I am sticking to one fruit snack a day. I might get rid of my morning fruit because it's not long after breakfast and I don't really need it.
Went to the gym again this evening, did 30mins on the cross trainer, 15mins on the exercise bike and then some toning using weights for my thighs and abs. Feel brilliant for going.....In the rain! And I had work this evening so I didn't get there till 9. Hence the later post. Xx
irish molly
Maintaing LT loss on GL
Bananas are medium Gi. I get the fun size under ripe bananas, as they are smaller they are not too bad on the Gi scale.
If you want to bulk up your salads try blanching some fine beans and mangetout, then chop them and add to your salad. I find these make salads more filling.
If you want to bulk up your salads try blanching some fine beans and mangetout, then chop them and add to your salad. I find these make salads more filling.
summergurl
♥3 Years Maintaining♥
Looks like another great day hun. Well done on going to the gym again
I find certain fruits make me hungry. Apples are the worst so I try and avoid them.
It's trial and error and it's good that you're recognising things that make u feel hungrier etc
I find certain fruits make me hungry. Apples are the worst so I try and avoid them.
It's trial and error and it's good that you're recognising things that make u feel hungrier etc
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