Trying to lose!

5th Sept 2019 – another day I can cross off as done well

Let’s start with fluids – 1.5 litres today – WOOHOO! There were 2 teas, 1 with halfspoon sugar, and the other with two full fat sugars. A glass of milk – but idiot that I am I had it in one go, so had to apologise, profusely, to my poor work mates who were deafened by my stomach! Two runs to the loo, and I was fine again.

I think I’m gonna change to a milk alternative! Any suggestions or advice will be gratefully received 😁

Food, 1 egg, 25g nuts, cherries, strawberries, grapes – not quite enough for two portions, so I added some raisins as well. My usual salad.

Tonight we had gammon, and we bought smaller ones with fat removed. I then cut into small pieces and cooked with a few squirts of 1cal, dried sage and tumeric, added in a good three handfuls of quartered mushrooms, 1 chunked up pepper and four roughly chopped spring onions. Once it had all simmered down for about five mins I added a good amount of garlic puree and a teaspoon of Dijon mustard, and let it cook through for about 7 minutes. Along with this I cooked wholewheat pasta, and drained it when it was just about cooked. Emptied all contents into saucepan (No point dirtying a bowl 😁), mixed altogether. Dish up and gobble away 😋

I really don’t want yoghurt tonight, so foodwise, that’s it.

Exercise – yep! Pleased to report, that despite really not wanting to do them today, I forced myself. All three programmes. Done!

Now to Paul – so Paul has done really well so far this week. He doesn’t like the salad, but he thinks a Greek salad is alright, so I shall do that for him next week. He doesn’t like tomatoes, so I shall ruin the salad a bit by taking them out. I’ll add the five bean salad to substitute.

I know he gets hungry at times, I’ve suggested increasing his food, but he feels that’s just adding more calories. But I don’t want him to feel hungry, that’s not what my journey, or his journey is about. I haven’t felt hungry and I’m succeeding, as far as I am concerned, hunger is not something we should be worrying about. Quite besides anything else, if you’re hungry you’re more likely to hunt down whatever food you find, and it’s usually bad! (I know the farmshop he works close to, he’ll hunt down their lovely scotch eggs).

And, in my mind it’s not a sustainable healthy lifestyle change. We’ve come to a compromise – we’ll discuss his daily foods after he’s weighed in. 😊

My daughter has just phoned, she’s bored and wants some company and is coming to see us, better unlock the front door 🤣

So that’s my good day today. Hope your day has been good also, and wishing you a good day tomorrow.

4th Sept 2019 – fab healthy eating day and walk

Not a bad nights sleep last night, felt quite perky during the day. It’s so debilitating when I have bad nights, I go through days as constantly tired and in a fog. But not today 👍

I also applied for a job, completely different to my usual type of role, and have an interview on Friday. I won’t say anymore, don’t want to jinx it.

So, on to the reason for my blog 😊

Started the day with a cup of tea and my usual food, and as I was working from home I took a pic.

I had about a litre of water and a glass of milk throughout the day.

Then my salad. I won’t be using the bag of rocket, spinach and watercress again, at least not the Tesco one, Paul’s right (don’t let him know I said that 😉) there’s too much stalk with the watercress. And there was quite a bit of leaf wiltage, which is disappointing as we still have a days salad to go. Still tasted good though.

And then for dinner, chicken breast cooked in herby maggi paper (brilliant stuff), boiled potatoes, frozen sprouts and fresh cauliflower. I always find boiled spuds need loads of butter and salt, but today I had a bit of sweet chilli sauce, loved it 😋

Then we went for a walk, with a stop at the supermarket for more water. The walk took about 45 minutes.

And now I’m sitting here, looking at my Greek yoghurt with seeds and honey. Can’t wait to tuck in. YUM!

And last but not least, another glass of water.

So, that was my day. Hope yours has also been a good day. Tada for now.

3rd Sept 2019 – WOOHOO! Exercise and good eating!

A fab day, yes, yes I know, if you read my previous post, naughty treats and trade offs, you’ll know there were two not perfect moments. But they were excellent compromise moments 🤣

So, no nuts, no eggs, yes cherries, strawberries and grapes, yes healthy salad. Yes welsh cake and caramel bite.

Then salmon with aubergine, butternut squash and red onion mixed with dried herbs (thyme I think) and about 15 squirts of 1 cal spray and oven cooked, and my usual potatoes with garlic puree, different dried herbs (sage and oregano) and tbsp olive oil mixed together and thrown in oven. And I listened to myself and stopped when I was satisfied, not stuffed!

Good result with milk, had 100ml this morning and 100ml this evening, no dodgy tummy !!!! Thank goodness for that!

Also good result with water, drank my water more slowly throughout the day, no desperate dashes to the loo!

Have just visited with my mum and aunt, had half a can of Pepsi max, left the rest for mum.

Exercises…. YEEEES! all three routines. It was a struggle today, but I’m having a rest day tomorrow.

I’m about to tuck into Greek yoghurt with seeds and honey…. YUM!

So that’s my day, do hope you have had a good day too. Here’s to many more good days. 👋

Naughty treats and trade offs

Oh dear!

You’ve probably all been there, you walk in to your work place, and lo and behold!!!! cakes, treats, nibbles, pastries etc etc etc….. And if you’re anything like me, you’re thinking, ‘oh wow, they look good! but I’m tyring to be good!’

Well, this happened to me today BUT instead of just eating away, giving no thought to the consequences, I made a different choice. It wasn’t the best choice, but it was a good compromise.

There are countless times in the past where I’ve happily eaten the occasional bite size treats (i mean, how much damage can one treat do?), and tucked into bigger ones, saying to myself, ‘ah well, it’s a treat – it’s fine for today’

Our Supervisor returned to work today, bearing gifts – welsh cakes, toffee, biscuits and caramel shortbread bites!

I simply can’t refuse!

My compromise?

I don’t count calories as a rule, but today they were useful. I know nutritionally the naughty stuff is not good, I mean, look at the traffic light on the welsh cakes! But, as I am still getting my minimum 5 a day fruit and veg, plus all my protein even without the nuts, I’m ok with myself.

For the welsh cake which is about 150 calories, I didn’t eat my nuts, also about 150 calories.

For the caramel shortbread bite, about 70 calories I walked for about 15 minutes, fast (for me)! It’s such an eye opener to realise just how much exercise you have to put in to counter such a small nibble!

please excuse the blurry pic, details read 100 cals (read 23 cals before my walk), 14 minutes walking and that little cube is the size of the treat for that 14 minute march!

I did enjoy the treats, there won’t be any more for me, but I did enjoy them 🙂

2nd Sept 2019 – yep, exercises done!

Yes!!! Did the exercises…

Not at my most attractive – sweat is fat crying! 🤣

Greek yoghurt (fat free proper greek yoghurt, not greek style) eaten, with a drizzle of honey and seed mix. It’ll be interesting to see how my body reacts to the yoghurt.

Now I am saying goodnight, promise 😁

2nd Sept 2019 – excellent healthy day

What a difference a day or two can make – I’m feeling… not motivated as such, it’s a better feeling than that, I feel the food has been a normal day, rather than a healthy eating day… almost as though my mindset is changing?

There’s been a couple of eye openers today, first one, milk – I believe whole heartedly I have an intolerance, I drank a glass this morning before work, and spent the morning with a grumbling stomach, wind and a bit of diarrhoea. This has only happened when I drink milk, but there are a couple of things I can try, so from tomorrow I shall have half a glass in the morning and half a glass in the evening.

The other thing is water, I drank, yes me, a full litre of water by about 2pm, and I needed the loo so much, I think I wee’d out two litres! So I’m going to try make tomorrow’s litre last me all work day and see if the loo stops ease off!

Paul did well and ate his food, which mirrored mine, with only a bit of grumbling. To be fair, the cherries from Tesco were tasteless, so I actually agree with him. Even more impressive, he is practising mindful eating!

So today, 1 hard boiled eggs, 25g natural nuts, 80g each of grapes and cherries, salad. 1 tea with 1 half spoon sugar, 1 litre of flavoured sugar free water, 1 cup of milk.

Tonight we had pork, heated through with a knob of butter, quick cook rice and loads of peas and sweetcorn.

We have still to eat Greek yoghurt with honey and seeds, and do exercises – step and strength, which we’ll be starting in about 15 minutes.

I shall also have at least another half litre of water.

So, my days is going well, my only hope is that I don’t need too many loo stops tonight, disrupting my sleep.

Teddy bye for now!

1st Sept 2019 – healthy food day.

Feeling pleased today. There hasn’t been any exercise, but the food has been healthy.

For breakfast we had 2 slices of seedy toast with olive spread, with mushrooms and a couple of eggs cooked with 1cal, along with a glass of orange juice.4

For lunch my daughter and I shared a salad.

Then for dinner we had pork (fat removed – though I did have a very small piece of crackling), healthy potatoes and butternut squash, aubergine and onion, also oven cooked with some olive oil and dried herbs. AND I listened to my body and stopped well before feeling stuffed!

We have loads of meat left, so we’ll heat through with rice tomorrow, deferring our salmon to Tuesday.

Dinner – Paul’s hand was not on the menu! 😂

I had a good afternoon preparing all our salads, boiling up the eggs and weighing out the nuts for the week, then preparing dinner before relaxing with my daughter.

So all we’ll have to do each morning is pack our tubs along with our fruit.

I’ve had water today – WOOHOO! I’ve bought several bottles instead of Pepsi max.

I’ve also bought actual greek yoghurt rather than greek style yoghurt, as well as honey and mixed seeds, so hopefully this week I’ll be able to concentrate on upping my dairy as well as my water consumption.

All in all a good day, here’s to being determined and in control 🤗

31st Aug 2019 – welcome back health motivation. 2lb weight gain.

It occurred to me today that this is approximately the same number weeks that my motivation during health journeys begins to wane, regardless of success or failure. So with everything else that’s been going on, my own natural motivation drop was just the straw that broke the camel’s back.

However, I’m feeling the slump was just a small glitch this time round, and feel motivated again to carry on. As such today has been a good day…. bar the weigh in 🤣

Speaking of which, as expected, there was a gain, shockingly 2lb on, didn’t expect that much. Never mind, I’m still 8lb down, which is still good 👍

We had five beans baked beans on toast for breakfast, and healthier fish and chips for dinner.

We’ll be having a Greek yoghurt later.

Unfortunately no fruit or veg, other than the blackberries we picked while on our walk.

BlackBerry bush fighting back as Paul ‘scrumps’

We did a 2.5 mile walk in a local country park. The weather was lovely, warm, not hot. Occasional drops of rain, and sunshine. Pics below.

We have also had a pack each of oven cooked cheesy bites.

Anyway, I feel pleased with today. And better than that, I feel confident I will continue in a good way.

Me signing off for now. Good night.

Refusing to give up on healthy me!

Ok, last week wasn’t brilliant, last night was a disaster, that’s it, done. Back on track now.

Beans on toast for brekkie, scales shortly, walk soon, healthier fish and chips for dinner tonight…. I’ll let you know if that all gets done in my evening update.

Draw a line – don’t give up!

30th Aug 2019 – fallen off the wagon!

Ok, so I had a good day, with my usual day time food, and am topping the day off with lamb Korma and glass of Bailey’s.

I won’t post a picture.

I know, I know! I’ve been doing fairly ok up till now.

Now for the excuses. I am tired, I mean utterly dog tired, have been for about a week now. I can’t remember when I last only had to get up once or twice during the night for a loo stop, I’m currently going about 5 times a night.

I’m worried about my cousin.

Work has been a load of crap, both my team mates on holiday, and the shit well and truly hit the fan and just kept getting worse!

And Paul had a week off work to do housey stuff and had been cooking all week, but didn’t tonight as too busy. And as I was unable to meet mum for lunch today, because of the work situation, I popped round after work, so I was even more knackered.

And to top it off, we we’re looking forward to a quiet weekend together, the first in several weeks, but we’re now having our nephew and two of our nieces staying over from tomorrow! Love them to pieces, but my word, I could have done with a quiet weekend today.

Oh, and I’ve done no, that’s NO exercise, at all, this week!

So, tomorrow’s weigh in, it’s gonna be a disaster!

Heyho, I’ll try and eat better over the weekend, despite very fussy eaters, and will haul my arse back on track on Monday.

I will of course update you tomorrow, but for now, in my grumpy slump, I’m signing off!

Good night.