Need to watch stuff in jars though - lots of salt and sugar. Fruit definitely the way to go for snacks though.
New Healthy Start
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Ashtonian
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So today is weigh in day again. Overall the last week hasn't been too bad, and i feel slightly less fat so here is hoping for a positive weigh in.
Food wise, had 1 bad tea last week. Saturday had a family box from iceland split between 3, but picked chicken wings up as well and just had mainly chicken for tea, not a huge amount either. Not saying that is good for me, but better than loading up on wedges anyway. Yesterday was a bit of a blow out of sorts, had a cooked breakfast in the morning (apparantly fine on slimming world though?!) and then had half a oven pizza for tea with a bit of jam roly poly and low fat custard for tea. I think yesterday was me not completely restricting myself to what i eat and being miserable.
But the more i look at this, the more i just think i am less about the losing weight bit now. As much as i would love to blitz it over 3 weeks and drop a stone or more in that time and cut a couple inches off my waist, i just can't bring myself to do it. SO......this is where the healthy eating comes into it now. Where i am not motivated to be exercising, i am still very much motivated for eating well. Today is another fish salad, which has been refined from the salad kits which had a bit of fat in the sauce, to simple salad bag with sweet chilli added so drops the calories again. I wont know how good or bad i did until just after 12 but i reckon i lost another couple of pounds this week at least and yeah, i may not drop as much as i ideally wanted to by the point i set, which is 100% down to me mentally, but perhaps what i am doing will allow me to achieve it over a longer timeframe? Still 2 months to the wedding, and going on what i think of 2 pounds a week just eating better, still over a stone to drop, stone and a half if i can add a third one in here and there. Put me down to around 14 if i managed that, which is one stone off where i want to be that, so same sort of goal, different target.
Food wise, had 1 bad tea last week. Saturday had a family box from iceland split between 3, but picked chicken wings up as well and just had mainly chicken for tea, not a huge amount either. Not saying that is good for me, but better than loading up on wedges anyway. Yesterday was a bit of a blow out of sorts, had a cooked breakfast in the morning (apparantly fine on slimming world though?!) and then had half a oven pizza for tea with a bit of jam roly poly and low fat custard for tea. I think yesterday was me not completely restricting myself to what i eat and being miserable.
But the more i look at this, the more i just think i am less about the losing weight bit now. As much as i would love to blitz it over 3 weeks and drop a stone or more in that time and cut a couple inches off my waist, i just can't bring myself to do it. SO......this is where the healthy eating comes into it now. Where i am not motivated to be exercising, i am still very much motivated for eating well. Today is another fish salad, which has been refined from the salad kits which had a bit of fat in the sauce, to simple salad bag with sweet chilli added so drops the calories again. I wont know how good or bad i did until just after 12 but i reckon i lost another couple of pounds this week at least and yeah, i may not drop as much as i ideally wanted to by the point i set, which is 100% down to me mentally, but perhaps what i am doing will allow me to achieve it over a longer timeframe? Still 2 months to the wedding, and going on what i think of 2 pounds a week just eating better, still over a stone to drop, stone and a half if i can add a third one in here and there. Put me down to around 14 if i managed that, which is one stone off where i want to be that, so same sort of goal, different target.
Bungle
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Only if you cut the fat off the bacon and have less than 10% fat sausages (might be 5%), also only using that 1 calorie spray oil rather than normal stuff.
Ashtonian
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ok i didn't do the first two no.
I did use 1 cal spray though!
(to be fair i'm not on slimming world so not arsed, like the fat on bacon.
Ashtonian
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Had weigh in. bit weird this week.
Only lost 1 and three quarter pounds from last week. But i feel like i have lost more? I can tell in my stomach and obviously the pants thing was telling as well. But yeah, not even 2 pounds off, bit fustrating tbh. what i may have to do is where a couple weeks back i experimented on losing weight without exercise, i may have a week where i do exercise quite a bit and see what difference that makes to me. Just so i know the difference between the two and then eithe ri can maintain it, or know what might of been.
Either way, aiming for 4 pounds next week. at 15 and a half so if i can push myself to lose 4-5 then i will be on 15 stone, which is still an achievement of 3 stone in just over 2 months. But we will see what the week brings eh?
Only lost 1 and three quarter pounds from last week. But i feel like i have lost more? I can tell in my stomach and obviously the pants thing was telling as well. But yeah, not even 2 pounds off, bit fustrating tbh. what i may have to do is where a couple weeks back i experimented on losing weight without exercise, i may have a week where i do exercise quite a bit and see what difference that makes to me. Just so i know the difference between the two and then eithe ri can maintain it, or know what might of been.
Either way, aiming for 4 pounds next week. at 15 and a half so if i can push myself to lose 4-5 then i will be on 15 stone, which is still an achievement of 3 stone in just over 2 months. But we will see what the week brings eh?
l4toffee
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Grill sausage and bacon . Tastes well better
Ashtonian
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i doubt i will be eating much of either tbh. We only got a cooked breakfast in because my mum was staying over at the weekend so being nice as we couldn't do her a roast we done her a brekkie instead.
Although we do have 6 slices of bacon now in the freezer and 6 sausages
Somebody in work has asked me for tips on what I have been doing.
The little things eh!
The little things eh!
Ashtonian
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haha bet that is a good feeling though mate! Where i work everyone is an expert on the matter and yet don't follow them. Yoyo dieters where they don't lose much weight and yet sound off as experts. Whereas there is me actually losing weight and sticking to it and no-one thinks to ask me.
Probably because you're getting on with it quietly and getting results mate - sounds like they're not taking it seriously.
Ashtonian
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im not shouting about it no. prefer to just eat what i am eating and get the comments from who i sit next to, 'eating healthy?' yeah , been like this for 2 months.......especially the fruit part. got on my tits that, i was eating fruit 2-3 weeks before i officially started and they only noticed about 2 weeks ago.
The Cowboy
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We always do our sausages in the oven. They retain a lot more of the moisture, don't burn as easily as frying/grilling, but it does take longer.
Ashtonian
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Not much to update this week so far.
Had my bad tea last night, been eating low calorie salads for lunch as well all week so far. Monday and tuesday was a bit of a pain in the arse because i didn't eat that much monday, then tuesday i apparantly under ate despite having pudding after my tea. Yesterday was probably under calorie wise as well despite the bad tea.
To be honest i am starting to lax the whole thing now. It has been two months and in my little bubble in the world, it is miserable to cut myself completely off from anything. So as i have said rfecently, i am more pushing to eat a bit more freely but making sure the healthy side is still there. The weight loss may be slow as a result sure but as long as i keep dropping, it helps the long term eating as well. So that means i am still going to avoid sweet stuff and snacks and sugar and bread/pasta (although getting a baguette today for lunch) and still aim to eat 5 a days, smaller meals, water etc. The lack of workouts will slow it down sure, but maintained all along the main thing was the long term aspect of it. So if i can eat more freely like i would if i was already down another couple stone, then i will find it easier to adapt 3,4,5 months down the line.
To be honest my attitude change is just down to how difficult i just find it. First 2 weeks i was crash dieting and tbh if i had maintained that over 2 months i'd have put myself in hospital as a result. Looking now to at least drop weight and not feel like i can't eat anything. Still will strive to be active, will do workouts when i can and insanity will start up again enxt week so perhaps, or i hope, i can naturally fall back into an old routine rather than force myself to.
Had my bad tea last night, been eating low calorie salads for lunch as well all week so far. Monday and tuesday was a bit of a pain in the arse because i didn't eat that much monday, then tuesday i apparantly under ate despite having pudding after my tea. Yesterday was probably under calorie wise as well despite the bad tea.
To be honest i am starting to lax the whole thing now. It has been two months and in my little bubble in the world, it is miserable to cut myself completely off from anything. So as i have said rfecently, i am more pushing to eat a bit more freely but making sure the healthy side is still there. The weight loss may be slow as a result sure but as long as i keep dropping, it helps the long term eating as well. So that means i am still going to avoid sweet stuff and snacks and sugar and bread/pasta (although getting a baguette today for lunch) and still aim to eat 5 a days, smaller meals, water etc. The lack of workouts will slow it down sure, but maintained all along the main thing was the long term aspect of it. So if i can eat more freely like i would if i was already down another couple stone, then i will find it easier to adapt 3,4,5 months down the line.
To be honest my attitude change is just down to how difficult i just find it. First 2 weeks i was crash dieting and tbh if i had maintained that over 2 months i'd have put myself in hospital as a result. Looking now to at least drop weight and not feel like i can't eat anything. Still will strive to be active, will do workouts when i can and insanity will start up again enxt week so perhaps, or i hope, i can naturally fall back into an old routine rather than force myself to.
The Cowboy
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Don't worry pal, you're not alone. Most people struggle to persist when the rate of weight loss decreases. Due to water retention, weight loss is usually quite dramatic in the first couple of weeks, but it can get very tough after that. That's when you start to think 'well if I'm not losing weight, what's the point of eating like a monk?' and you start to slip.
Sounds like you've a pretty busy home life, and finding the time to devote to creating healthy meals is tough - my wife has recently started work and I've noticed a lot more eggs/ beans on toast / pizza being consumed as time is of a premium. It's not easy!
Ashtonian
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I have always thought it was not down to me not being arsed or anything, just finding it hard to get the time to exercise or anything. Take monday, i genuinely did want to do something, but baby fell alseep about half 4 so it meant she wasn't going to bed early. It sounds like i make excuses but i genuinely don't, and after several weeks of it i am not going to bull about it anymore. If i get a night where 9pm i'm in the living room by myself, i probably will throw a workout on but if i don't ge tthe chance to as much then i won't hold it against myself either. As long as that weigh in every monday is a loss, whether it is 5 pounds or 1 pound, it is just nice to keep dropping without having the song and dance a diet club would bring.
TLDR, i'm trying to adapt all of this now into a real life rather than massively go out my way to do it.
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