Well there isn't really any other headline for today, I am so utterly chuffed! 7lbs lost in 5 weeks, even though I ate every type of junk imaginable last week.
So how was my diet today? How did I react? I was pretty good, but working to the theory that perhaps I was eating too little before, a couple of sneaky fat additions made their way in today. Let's see what the scales do next week for the final weigh in of the challenge...
What I ate today:
Frosties with milk
Slice of toast with butter
Pitta bread with ham, EL Philly, cucumber and a smear of hummus
Shapers snack bar
2 mini cocktail sausages (HOW hard is it to resist a cold sausage in the fridge?)
My wine-rich bolognaise sauce made, I think, in week 3 to a low fat recipe and shared with my eldest.
Weekly weigh-in:
10st 2.2lb
Exercise of the day:
Nothing, except tidying the house
Product of the day:
All the products being donated by generous sponsors to the sale I'm helping to organise...
Monday, 27 September 2010
Sunday, 26 September 2010
Day 35 - Frankie says...
Well today I relaxed things a bit. A friend came over and we had some nice nibbles for snacks, and I just kept things in moderation. It felt good, though it felt less good when I realised that each of the mini muffins I scarfed was 5g of fat... each of them!
It's the end of the fifth week. Here goes for tomorrow's weigh-in...
What I ate today:
Frosties and milk
Hot chicken baguette with two Aunt Bessie's stuffing balls
Cereal bar thingy I got free in my Adidas 5k bag
2 mini muffins
Some ready salted crisps
More chicken baguette for dinner
Exercise of the day:
None. Blessed none. It is the day of rest...
Product of the day:
Aunt Bessie's Stuffing Balls - so easy to heat in the microwave and add to a plain chicken sandwich... yum!
It's the end of the fifth week. Here goes for tomorrow's weigh-in...
What I ate today:
Frosties and milk
Hot chicken baguette with two Aunt Bessie's stuffing balls
Cereal bar thingy I got free in my Adidas 5k bag
2 mini muffins
Some ready salted crisps
More chicken baguette for dinner
Exercise of the day:
None. Blessed none. It is the day of rest...
Product of the day:
Aunt Bessie's Stuffing Balls - so easy to heat in the microwave and add to a plain chicken sandwich... yum!
Saturday, 25 September 2010
Day 24-33 - Holiday!
Where have I been? Well, gentle reader, there have been two reasons for my extended absence.
One, up till just over a week ago was continued loss of diet mojo.
Quite honestly I was boring myself, and feeling the slog so badly. In terms of the diet changes, they were routine and I was quite comfortable with them, but the bloody constant self-examination and dietary self-consciousness was wearing. When you look in the mirror and cannot identify the imperceptible changes it's hard to feel like it's all worth it. I was however branching out into looking generally more closely at labels, and choosing more foods we could eat as a family (see products, later).
The second was a holiday in the New Forest, where we struggled to receive 5 channels on the telly, let alone Beebies (sob) or a mobile signal... so surfing was restricted to a minimum and there was no chance to post anyway.
Dietwise, it took me a good four or 5 days to properly break diet, although when I did I enjoyed my whole holiday so much more. We self-catered, so from the off I had my staples of EL Philly, Slimfast and 'good' snacks. I was pretty good the first couple of days, but then the ice creams and pizzas snuck in, and quite frankly I felt awful - I was so entrenched in the diet that all I felt while I ate was guilt, and not in a productive, motivational way either, just sadness, guilt and self-loathing. I wanted to give myself a break, to enjoy the food, but I found it so hard.
I found it much easier to break the diet when we ate out. Because I wasn't making the food I had less responsibility for its fat content, which I guess is why eating out is such a diet downfall for some. For me, I found it utterly liberating. In our last couple of days I surrendered to good food, and ate chocolate cake, ice cream, pizza, fish and chips and a huge roast dinner. Happiness was back, even though I still disliked the face in the mirror. There is only one pic of me from the holiday, and not just because I wield the camera; it's a design of mine.
I arrived home, exhausted and visibly porkier. I stepped on the scales this morning, and I had today's headline all ready in my head... but then... what's this?
Enjoy the light reading: A Theory, as we head into the final week of the Alli 6-week challenge.
Interim Weigh-in:
Fri 17 Sept - 10st 3.8lbs
Sat 25 Sept - 10st 3.0lbs
What I ate today:
I won't include the diet for the last week as your keyboard will jam with drool.
I have been back on track today though...
Weetabix and milk
Tuna, tomato and EL Philly rolls, and a Shapers bar
A Sainsbury's pasta meal, indifferent and blandly tasteless
Exercise of the day:
We didn't do all the exercise we planned; no cycling trips or forest walking, but we did get lots of fresh air.
Product of the day:
Before the holiday I discovered Bisto Ready Toad in the Hole. At about 16g of fat per portion (4 skinny sausages) and just a pound this was lovely and crispy, and perfect to share with my eldest. We usually eat Aunt Bessie's version, but that has a massive 25g of fat in it! I know which one we'll buy going forward.
Another discovery was tuna, particularly tuna in spring water. Virtually fat free, so versatile, and yummy mixed in EL Philly in sandwiches. Get fishy!
One, up till just over a week ago was continued loss of diet mojo.
Quite honestly I was boring myself, and feeling the slog so badly. In terms of the diet changes, they were routine and I was quite comfortable with them, but the bloody constant self-examination and dietary self-consciousness was wearing. When you look in the mirror and cannot identify the imperceptible changes it's hard to feel like it's all worth it. I was however branching out into looking generally more closely at labels, and choosing more foods we could eat as a family (see products, later).
The second was a holiday in the New Forest, where we struggled to receive 5 channels on the telly, let alone Beebies (sob) or a mobile signal... so surfing was restricted to a minimum and there was no chance to post anyway.
Dietwise, it took me a good four or 5 days to properly break diet, although when I did I enjoyed my whole holiday so much more. We self-catered, so from the off I had my staples of EL Philly, Slimfast and 'good' snacks. I was pretty good the first couple of days, but then the ice creams and pizzas snuck in, and quite frankly I felt awful - I was so entrenched in the diet that all I felt while I ate was guilt, and not in a productive, motivational way either, just sadness, guilt and self-loathing. I wanted to give myself a break, to enjoy the food, but I found it so hard.
I found it much easier to break the diet when we ate out. Because I wasn't making the food I had less responsibility for its fat content, which I guess is why eating out is such a diet downfall for some. For me, I found it utterly liberating. In our last couple of days I surrendered to good food, and ate chocolate cake, ice cream, pizza, fish and chips and a huge roast dinner. Happiness was back, even though I still disliked the face in the mirror. There is only one pic of me from the holiday, and not just because I wield the camera; it's a design of mine.
I arrived home, exhausted and visibly porkier. I stepped on the scales this morning, and I had today's headline all ready in my head... but then... what's this?
Enjoy the light reading: A Theory, as we head into the final week of the Alli 6-week challenge.
Interim Weigh-in:
Fri 17 Sept - 10st 3.8lbs
Sat 25 Sept - 10st 3.0lbs
What I ate today:
I won't include the diet for the last week as your keyboard will jam with drool.
I have been back on track today though...
Weetabix and milk
Tuna, tomato and EL Philly rolls, and a Shapers bar
A Sainsbury's pasta meal, indifferent and blandly tasteless
Exercise of the day:
We didn't do all the exercise we planned; no cycling trips or forest walking, but we did get lots of fresh air.
Product of the day:
Before the holiday I discovered Bisto Ready Toad in the Hole. At about 16g of fat per portion (4 skinny sausages) and just a pound this was lovely and crispy, and perfect to share with my eldest. We usually eat Aunt Bessie's version, but that has a massive 25g of fat in it! I know which one we'll buy going forward.
Another discovery was tuna, particularly tuna in spring water. Virtually fat free, so versatile, and yummy mixed in EL Philly in sandwiches. Get fishy!
Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Day 23 - Onwards
Yesterday was not a good day. I really struggled and the temptation to utterly jack it all in was strong. Part of what kept me going was the thought of you all, so please do keep following me, and tell your friends and enemies, and shame me into continuing!
So today has been a long one. At home with both children, both exasperating in their own unique and lovable (are my teeth gritted? No...) ways. I stayed strong, gentle reader, and I think I did okay. I'm hungry now, at a quarter to midnight, and that's a good sign I guess.
I did some surfing today while pinned by the smallest one.
I found a 'foods you mustn't eat' list and a 'foods you must' list. How do I score?
DO NOT
DO
How about you? How do you do?
What I ate today:
Shreddies and milk for breakfast. I may not have mentioned it, but we always have semi-skimmed. I could go down to skimmed but as a family it makes more sense to stay with the semi.
Baguette spread with EL Philly, ham and tomatoes. Shapers chipsticks. Shapers snack bar.
Tesco Finest Chicken/Chorizo thingummy with mixed vegetables
Exercise of the day:
30 minutes washing windows, boxing, swatting ghosts and boogieing with the Eye-Toy (told you I had a plan)...
Product of the day:
Playstation 2 and Eye-Toy. An oldie but a goodie, you might consider this a precursor to the Wii-type platforms out now. Basically it's a camera, connected to a PS2, that 'reads' your movements onto the telly screen and uses those movements to make things happen on screen. So washing windows is a screen of suds, and as you move your arms and body the suds are washed off, and points are scored.
We had to dig ours out of the loft, and I still can't find my Kinetic disc (basically a fitness programme for it), but it was fun to battle my husband, burn some calories, and do something other than slob in the evening.
I have also found my old Davina DVD... hmm... watch this space!
So today has been a long one. At home with both children, both exasperating in their own unique and lovable (are my teeth gritted? No...) ways. I stayed strong, gentle reader, and I think I did okay. I'm hungry now, at a quarter to midnight, and that's a good sign I guess.
I did some surfing today while pinned by the smallest one.
I found a 'foods you mustn't eat' list and a 'foods you must' list. How do I score?
DO NOT
- Pork scratchings - that's okay, I don't even know where I would get them if I wanted them
- Fried desserts - I definitely haven't been eating these
- Cheesy chips - I wish!
- Fizzy drinks - I have so few pleasures - surely a diet coke isn't so bad? Who needs teeth anyway?
- Alcopops - that would imply I had a social life
- Liquid Meals - leave my Slim-fast alone!
- Processed/Mystery meats - Spam is off the menu
- Chicken nuggets - I leave these to my eldest anyway
- Doughnuts - (Homer drool)
- Canned soups - interesting about salt. I shall keep an eye out, as I do like soup when it gets colder
DO
- Grapefruit - erm, fruit intolerance issues...
- Cinnamon - can I eat cinammon buns then please?
- Chili Peppers - Nandos. Sorted
- Fennel Tea - Yuk?
- Salad - booorrrring...
- Green Tea - if I mix it with the Fennel will it taste better?)
- Celery - no. Just no.
- Lentils - I shall give these a whirl...
- Dark Chocolate - isn't chocolate! I know British chocolate is closer to cheese than Swiss stuff, but I like it!
- Quinoa - the mind boggles. I shall add it to the 'to try' list...
How about you? How do you do?
What I ate today:
Shreddies and milk for breakfast. I may not have mentioned it, but we always have semi-skimmed. I could go down to skimmed but as a family it makes more sense to stay with the semi.
Baguette spread with EL Philly, ham and tomatoes. Shapers chipsticks. Shapers snack bar.
Tesco Finest Chicken/Chorizo thingummy with mixed vegetables
Exercise of the day:
30 minutes washing windows, boxing, swatting ghosts and boogieing with the Eye-Toy (told you I had a plan)...
Product of the day:
Playstation 2 and Eye-Toy. An oldie but a goodie, you might consider this a precursor to the Wii-type platforms out now. Basically it's a camera, connected to a PS2, that 'reads' your movements onto the telly screen and uses those movements to make things happen on screen. So washing windows is a screen of suds, and as you move your arms and body the suds are washed off, and points are scored.
We had to dig ours out of the loft, and I still can't find my Kinetic disc (basically a fitness programme for it), but it was fun to battle my husband, burn some calories, and do something other than slob in the evening.
I have also found my old Davina DVD... hmm... watch this space!
Monday, 13 September 2010
Day 22 - Slim-Slow
20p. Twenty pence. 0.2lbs lost.
For goodness sake, I can lose that by sneezing!
Loss is a loss blah blah garble garble, but to hit this at week 3 is disheartening. It knocks my average weekly loss right down. It makes me wonder what the point is of never having cheese or butter again. It makes me consider liposuction, or more cheaply, just breaking every reflective surface in the house, and buying kaftans. If I wait for long enough, those will be in, won't they?
What do you do to self-motivate? Are you a picture-on-the-fridge person? Are you a treat-yourself person?
It's not terribly uplifting, but I guess I have to consider:
For goodness sake, I can lose that by sneezing!
Loss is a loss blah blah garble garble, but to hit this at week 3 is disheartening. It knocks my average weekly loss right down. It makes me wonder what the point is of never having cheese or butter again. It makes me consider liposuction, or more cheaply, just breaking every reflective surface in the house, and buying kaftans. If I wait for long enough, those will be in, won't they?
What do you do to self-motivate? Are you a picture-on-the-fridge person? Are you a treat-yourself person?
It's not terribly uplifting, but I guess I have to consider:
- I've been doing this for 3 weeks. This is my longest diet since 2007.
- A habit is formed after 21 repetitions (something that stuck in my head from God only knows where or when). I'm in the groove now baby!
- I'm halfway through the 6 week Alli challenge
- I DO want to lose weight. That hasn't changed
- Even at my crappest I haven't really fallen off the wagon, more like failed to keep my arms and legs inside the moving vehicle
I can do this.
I can do this.
I CAN DO THIS!
(can't I?)
Weekly weigh-in:
10st 4.2lbs
What I ate today:
Weetabix, followed by half a leftover ham, cheese and butter sandwich in defiance at the scales
Beans on Toast
Shapers snack bar
Slimfast Chocolate shake
Exercise of the day:
None. Not a sausage... but I have a plan...
Product of the day:
Slimfast Rich Chocolate Bottled Shake. A meal replacement in a bottle. I don't mind Slimfast shakes... so long as they are chocolate flavoured. I also can't be faffed messing around with powder (I make up formula for my child all day, in a sleepless haze I might easily mix up the boxes...). This, therefore is the solution, and you know what, I don't mind this.
For a start it is stupidly easy. Pull cap off, drink. If you're feeling posh, decant into a glass first. maybe add an umbrella and straw.
Taste-wise it's fine. I am not a fan of most chocolate-flavoured things as they taste like gravy granules and sugar usually, but this is smooth and rich-tasting. Good job really because the vanilla one smells like baby vomit, the banana one looks putrid, and I either can't/won't drink the rest as I don't drink coffee or eat fruit.
I find these pretty filling too. If you want to see how much thickener is in it, leave some to dry out on your kitchen side overnight then try and scrub the stuff off. It's like glue, which is not a welcome thought for the insides, but I shall la la la and ignore that.
It's still a whopping (in my opinion) 5g of fat, but it does what it's supposed to, which is take away the need for inspiration, creativity or effort from the delusioned dieter.
Worth having in the store-cupboard for unforeseen eventualities.
Sunday, 12 September 2010
Day 19-21 - Blogfail...
I'm so unmotivated. Not the blog, the diet. I just don't feel lighter. My clothes feel a bit better but ultimately I don't feel like the scales are my friend at the moment, and I've so much other (more interesting) stuff going on at the moment. So apologies, dear follower, for another composite post to close week 3.
High points? Well, getting off my bum this week and responding to a challenge from a fellow fat fighter was good. But then so was the chip butty on Saturday night (no butter, but still...)
Low points? Just feeling meh and not knowing how to snap out of it. Ideas please?
What I ate today:
Well across all the days I stuck well to the usual fare of cereal, EL Philly variation for lunch, something not very exciting for dinner, B&J frozen yoghurt for dessert. Punctuated by the aforementioned chip butty, it's been okay, though now the B&J has run out I am not going to replace it. I even packed a picnic lunch for an enjoyable tramp around the woods on Sunday, rather than casting myself at the feet of purveyors of snack and fried foods...
Exercise of the day:
No great inroads there. The trek through the woods was about 4h long though, does that count?
Why can't I burn calories every time my eldest whinges? I'd be a waif, a mere slip of a thing!
Product of the day:
As I was basically repeating the same foodstuffs as before there really isn't one of these this time.
So blogfail. Sob... Weigh in tomorrow...
High points? Well, getting off my bum this week and responding to a challenge from a fellow fat fighter was good. But then so was the chip butty on Saturday night (no butter, but still...)
Low points? Just feeling meh and not knowing how to snap out of it. Ideas please?
What I ate today:
Well across all the days I stuck well to the usual fare of cereal, EL Philly variation for lunch, something not very exciting for dinner, B&J frozen yoghurt for dessert. Punctuated by the aforementioned chip butty, it's been okay, though now the B&J has run out I am not going to replace it. I even packed a picnic lunch for an enjoyable tramp around the woods on Sunday, rather than casting myself at the feet of purveyors of snack and fried foods...
Exercise of the day:
No great inroads there. The trek through the woods was about 4h long though, does that count?
Why can't I burn calories every time my eldest whinges? I'd be a waif, a mere slip of a thing!
Product of the day:
As I was basically repeating the same foodstuffs as before there really isn't one of these this time.
So blogfail. Sob... Weigh in tomorrow...
Thursday, 9 September 2010
Day 18 - Sausagefail
Back in the saddle again...
You may remember my adventure in venison in week one; the half venison sausages enjoyed by my husband and eldest while I looked on with my TLC banger.
Well, I found some actual venison sausages in the Tesco's finest range and, shock of shocks, they have less fat in them than my TLC pork tube... so it had to be done, didn't it?
Roll on this evening... venison sausages all round, mashed potato and beans to accompany. Tuck in everyone!
Oh 'deer'.
These 100% venison specials were rejected by 2/3 of the diners chez nous - my daughter didn't like the skin's texture, and my husband didn't like the whole thing really. Sausagefail.
Me? Well I quite liked them. they were obviously 100% meat, no fillers, cereals or any other crap in them. The smell was slightly reminiscent of a doner kebab, which, let's face it, is not necessarily a bad thing. The texture I found fine, more like a black pudding or a Spanish sausage than Walls' finest, though admittedly the skin was chewier than I am used to.
An expensive experiment, but such a shame. My family has been pretty supportive so far with my experiments, driven by a desire to see that they eat more healthily too, but I don't think I can justify buying these again, even though they are so low in fat. Sigh. Onwards...
What I ate today:
Shreddies and milk
TLC ham and cheese 'veneer' sandwich (by which I mean there was a veneer of pink, and a veneer of yellow, and the packaging said ham and cheese, though the flavour said... nothing), and three waitrose butternut squash pastries
I snacked on a virtuous Weightwatchers chocolate brownie (a bit dry. One for the custard treatment).
Dinner was venison sausages, mash and beans. never mind.
Exercise of the day:
A 45-minute walk challenge to the shops, carrying my big lump of a baby in a sling.
Product of the day:
Waitrose Delicatezze Spicy Butternut Squash Pastries These are yummy! As snacks go, they are not bad fat-wise, and the spiciness makes the flavour full and satisfying. Excellent hot or cold.
You may remember my adventure in venison in week one; the half venison sausages enjoyed by my husband and eldest while I looked on with my TLC banger.
Well, I found some actual venison sausages in the Tesco's finest range and, shock of shocks, they have less fat in them than my TLC pork tube... so it had to be done, didn't it?
Roll on this evening... venison sausages all round, mashed potato and beans to accompany. Tuck in everyone!
Oh 'deer'.
These 100% venison specials were rejected by 2/3 of the diners chez nous - my daughter didn't like the skin's texture, and my husband didn't like the whole thing really. Sausagefail.
Me? Well I quite liked them. they were obviously 100% meat, no fillers, cereals or any other crap in them. The smell was slightly reminiscent of a doner kebab, which, let's face it, is not necessarily a bad thing. The texture I found fine, more like a black pudding or a Spanish sausage than Walls' finest, though admittedly the skin was chewier than I am used to.
An expensive experiment, but such a shame. My family has been pretty supportive so far with my experiments, driven by a desire to see that they eat more healthily too, but I don't think I can justify buying these again, even though they are so low in fat. Sigh. Onwards...
What I ate today:
Shreddies and milk
TLC ham and cheese 'veneer' sandwich (by which I mean there was a veneer of pink, and a veneer of yellow, and the packaging said ham and cheese, though the flavour said... nothing), and three waitrose butternut squash pastries
I snacked on a virtuous Weightwatchers chocolate brownie (a bit dry. One for the custard treatment).
Dinner was venison sausages, mash and beans. never mind.
Exercise of the day:
A 45-minute walk challenge to the shops, carrying my big lump of a baby in a sling.
Product of the day:
Waitrose Delicatezze Spicy Butternut Squash Pastries These are yummy! As snacks go, they are not bad fat-wise, and the spiciness makes the flavour full and satisfying. Excellent hot or cold.
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