Charleybarley
Gold Member
Hi all, I hope this will be my most successful attempt at SW - having spent years on and off, attempting the dark side (WW) and GI diet. They all left me hungry and pretty darn sad - so I am back, not that I really went away I have spent the last year trawling thru this forum collating recipes and gaining inspiration from all you die harders (Honeyoc is pretty much my guru - I wanna be like her! So many wonderful and imaginative recipes). I feel I need to start a food diary, for many reasons - for guidance, for support but mainly for me. I need to help myself - my weeks goes, Monday perfect, Tuesday perfect, Wednesday good, Thursday erm, Friday esshkk and Saturday and Sunday well I may as well be bad as I will start again on Monday! So I need discipline.
Especially now, I have been asked unexpectedly to go away with my girlfriends in September to Tenerife, so I want to lose some weight PDQ - I am going away on an amazing cruise with boyf in February and gave myself months to slowly lose a few stone - now I am under a bit of a deadline - 4 stone in 6 weeks....?! I dont think so - but I can try hard to lose as much as I can with grit and determination...oh and with some dreaded exercise too! So today:
EE day
B - Porridge, w milk, banana, 1/2 brown sugar (.5)
L - Serrano ham (no fat) and Mugshot (1?)
D - Chick Pea Dhal and 2 min rice (3.5) with niblet salad w mayo (2.5) and tomato and onion salad w balsamic
Snacks - Orange Apple Nectarine 2x Alpen light bars (6)
Syns - 13.5 - I only wanted to have 10 max
Areas for improvement
Cut out sugar in the porridge - the nana makes it sweet
I shouldnt have had the serrano and I could have made my day Green and saved myself 6 syns for the AL bars - darn!
Exercise
None :ashamed0005:
Musings
I have decided to masticate more! I have been told that you should chew your food until its mush - so instead of hoovering I am masticating.
Upcoming hurdles/battles
It is cake day tomorrow (Thursdays) this is always a battle - homemade cakes from our catering team.
I am going to lunch with my two oldest friends tomorrow - they are both skinny minnies and eat what they darn well please - when I go out to eat I get so depressed that I cant have what I want, I am going to battle through my misery and have something SW friendly - I will I will I will...... Will I?!? I hope so...
And finally....
I have 6 weeks and 2 days until Tenerife I resolve to diarise my food everyday at least until I go away - I must do, I have to, I want to - alas I am one of these people who gives up very easily - I am really hoping I do this, I am not expecting anyone to respond, but it would be great if they did - this is a little like my own diary but made public in the hope that it will spur me on and make me do better the next day....Until tomorrow ...x
Especially now, I have been asked unexpectedly to go away with my girlfriends in September to Tenerife, so I want to lose some weight PDQ - I am going away on an amazing cruise with boyf in February and gave myself months to slowly lose a few stone - now I am under a bit of a deadline - 4 stone in 6 weeks....?! I dont think so - but I can try hard to lose as much as I can with grit and determination...oh and with some dreaded exercise too! So today:
EE day
B - Porridge, w milk, banana, 1/2 brown sugar (.5)
L - Serrano ham (no fat) and Mugshot (1?)
D - Chick Pea Dhal and 2 min rice (3.5) with niblet salad w mayo (2.5) and tomato and onion salad w balsamic
Snacks - Orange Apple Nectarine 2x Alpen light bars (6)
Syns - 13.5 - I only wanted to have 10 max
Areas for improvement
Cut out sugar in the porridge - the nana makes it sweet
I shouldnt have had the serrano and I could have made my day Green and saved myself 6 syns for the AL bars - darn!
Exercise
None :ashamed0005:
Musings
I have decided to masticate more! I have been told that you should chew your food until its mush - so instead of hoovering I am masticating.
Upcoming hurdles/battles
It is cake day tomorrow (Thursdays) this is always a battle - homemade cakes from our catering team.
I am going to lunch with my two oldest friends tomorrow - they are both skinny minnies and eat what they darn well please - when I go out to eat I get so depressed that I cant have what I want, I am going to battle through my misery and have something SW friendly - I will I will I will...... Will I?!? I hope so...
And finally....
I have 6 weeks and 2 days until Tenerife I resolve to diarise my food everyday at least until I go away - I must do, I have to, I want to - alas I am one of these people who gives up very easily - I am really hoping I do this, I am not expecting anyone to respond, but it would be great if they did - this is a little like my own diary but made public in the hope that it will spur me on and make me do better the next day....Until tomorrow ...x