overfed and underpaid

Can't believe it's Thursday already, I have a million things that need doing! Gah

Today: museli, semi skimmed,juice, earl grey
lunch: baby toms, grapes, wholemeal salad pitta, mini pretzels, yoghurt, dried apricots, sunflower seeds
dinner: pasta thing (1/3rd of - 450 calories low fat) and blackcurrant sugar free jelly w/ berries for desert

Last night went as planned, but I had a SMALL glass of wine. Will undoubtedly do the same tonight

Hiya

Well, last night we had Chili (home made) for dinner (not too much), but I washed it down with a glass of rose. I worked out that was slightly healthier / nicer than angel delight for desert. So there.

Today:

Breakfast: Wheataflakes, semi skimmed, earl grey, small juice (raspberry lime and something nice!)
Lunch: leftover chili in a wholemeal pitta (!), grapes, celery stick, dried apricots/cashews/sunflower seeds, muller light, coke zero
Dinner: Fishermans pie, sweetcorn, peas, mushroom rice
Desert: Melon and strawberries

Have walked a lot today unintentionally, window shopping and to the Post Office. Will try and actually skip tomorrow!

I've lost weight, so don't feel too bad about admitting:

Friday: 1/2 bottle of sparkling red wine w/ strawberries & 2 stubby bottles of french lager
Saturday: a whiskey and diet coke
Sunday: 2 x JD and diet coke

Am i right in thinking that 3.7kg is about 7 pounds?!!! WEE!!!

It's Tuesday, and i've got 4 whole days to tell you about.

Friday: Did a lot of walking, around Carshalton, Ikea, Sainsburys.
Breakfast: bacon sandwhich (healthy! brown roll)
Lunch: sausage sandwhich (ate out), brown bread
Dinner: Low fat veg lasagne from Sainsburys

Saturday: Walking again, around Homebase. Batch cooked, sweated a lot.
Breakfast: tomatoes on wholemeal pitta
Lunch: Ryvita and philadelphia?
Dinner: chicken fajitas (x 3!) w/salad

Sunday:
Breakfast: Cereal
Lunch: warm salmon and asparagus salad
dinner: chicken pizza (healthy one, but shouldn't have ate it all)

Have been snacking on cashews, sunflower seeds, apricots and ryvita w/ light philadelphia.

Find it easier to control at work.

Original weight was 100kg. Now 96.7kg(first thing in the morning).

... well, it's the hottest day ever.

Breakfast: museli, tea, juice (and am now drinking the fizzy mango juice)
Lunch: wholemeal salad pitta, ryvita, grapes, yoghurt
Dinner: tuna pasta and salad
Desert: Angel Delight and frozen berries

Am walking to John Lewis at lunch to buy the pie scales.

...was a bit of a write-off. My mum is ill, and as she sounded so sad I raced back to Northampton to see her... so random food day! Very stressed day too, so figure i've burnt off stuff in nervous energy.

Breakfast: Museli, semi skimmed, apple & blackcurrant 100% juice, earl grey
Lunch: leftover bbq pork chop (!)
dinner: spicey chicken breasts (x 2), thai rice, salad
Snacks: packet of jelly tots, cashew nuts

Then I had a bottle of wine x

Right, so Tuesday:

Breakfast: museli w/ semi skimmed, earl grey, apple and elderflower juice (small)
Snack: 6 x cashew nuts
Lunch: Salad wholemeal pitta, celery & humous (1 stick and tiny bit of humous), grapes, 3 x sesame ryvita, muller light yoghurt
plus fizzy sugar free mango juice

Dinner tonight is Home made spinach/ricotta/mushroom/tomato/mincey lasagne, salad. Will have just a little. Have a mango to share with my man if we're hungry later.

Will drink at least 1.5 litres of water today as well as tea, as didn't drink much yesterday.

Will buy those scales tomorrow, I think. Not sure how often to weight myself yet though.

Morning!

I stayed on the bus until the end last night, but I think I still got my 2 miles in.

Dinner: 1 1/2 organic sausages, mash potato, mediterranean veg
Drinks: Sugar free orange squash
Snack: 6 x cashew nuts (unsalted, unfiddled with), stick of celery dipped in red pepper humous

And on to today...

I've been on the look out for a new set of bathroom scales (ours are ones that our landlady left, they have a foot missing)... anyway, have found the best sort of bathroom scales - ones that look like PIE!

Bloody delicious. Have £20 of John Lewis vouchers at home so will have to purchase them.

Well, im back from my walk. Did the 'walk to Sainsburys' and walked around half the shops on Oxford Street in search of a nice umbrella under £8. No luck. Have definitely done over 2 miles today already so will stay on bus until home if it's still raining later.

Have munched most of my lunch, am full now.

Dinner will now be 2 x organic sausages (maybe 1 and a half), mash potato, mediterranean veg & asparagus

Yummy!!!

I just did a BMI calculator, and with my weight and height i'm apparently obese and I resemble a small beached whale. How depressing! My BMI is 37.64. Gah!

May go for a walk in the rain in a moment x

Week 2, technically. Wonder if i've lost anything yet? Do need to buy some scales...

Today I have had / will have:

Earl grey
Apple and Elderflower 100% pressed juice
Fizzy SF mango juice for lunch

Breakfast: museli and semi skimmed
lunch: wholemeal salad pitta, 3 x ryvita (dry!), grapes, 4 lychees, 4 baby tomatoes, muller light yoghurt

Dinner: Wild Boar sausages x 2 (from organic farmers market), asparagus and potato? update later

Will walk to Sainsburys at lunch at from Doctors on the Hill on way home, should add up 2.17 miles again.

Well, I didn't really get online over the w/e, as my man's parents were down and visiting us...

So, rest of Friday:
Lunch: salad pitta bread (1, wholemeal), baby toms lettuce and celery
Dinner: Jacket potato, leftover chili/beans, salad
Drinks: Sugar free orange squash

Saturday:
Breakfast: wholemeal pitta bread, plum tomatoes
Lunch: tin of sweetcorn!
Dinner: Went to Gourmet Burger Kitchen, had chicken fillet (ate half bread) and salad
Snacks: Dried fruit, few nuts
Drinks: squash, tea and 3 small glasses of rose wine (tut)

Sunday:
Drinks: SF orange squash, apple and elderflower (100% juice), Earl grey
Lunch: Chicken / potato salad in O'Neills
Dinner: 1/4 of garlic chicken pizza and salad
Snacks: red pepper humous, celery, carrots, 2 x sesame ryvita, dried fruit

Haven't done as much exercise as i'd have liked though

Morning. I feel absolutely rubbish today so am off work. Will do housework with extra gusto to make up for lack of walking!

Last night update:
Dinner: 2 egg ommellette w/ 15g wholemeal pasta, mushrooms, tomato and onion
Desert: sugar free raspberry jelly

Drinks: Sugar free orange squash

And I got off the bus 3 stops early, making a full 2.17 miles (ish!) extra walking, hurrah!

Today:
Breakfast: 2 shredded wheat, semi skimmed
2 cups of earl grey

Gah. Throat hurts.

I have had 1.5 litres of water today, 2 cups of earl grey, 1 cup of coffee (with 1 sugar) and 1 can of sugar free fizzy mango.

That seems a lot of liquid.

Am munching on baby tomatoes. Nice!

I've been chatting to a lady who uses the same 'get out of debt' forum as me (i'm getting there, honest) and she's lost 10 STONE! 10 STONE!!! Admitedly it's through a LIghtlife plan thing with counselling and low calorie drinks, but b-jeezus, that's a lot of weight. She's a very determined lady!

Someone at work (kindly) made me a coffee with sugar in it. I drank it. Tut.

I didn't walk quite as far as I intended yesterday as it took forever to get home, so I think about 1.6 miles extra. Am intending to do a full 2 extra miles today though.

Last night:

HM bolognaise w/ 85g of Wholemeal pasta
Sugar-free raspberry jelly
Sugar-free orange squash

Fell asleep ridiculously early. That wholemeal pasta is very very filling!

Today:

Museli & semi skimmed
earl grey
small glass of apple and elderflower juice
grapes

lunch: muller light, salad wholemeal pitta (smidgen of low fat mayo today!), pretzels

Will walk to Sainsburys at lunch and buy mushrooms (for tonight's ommellette) and fruit.

Still need to buy some scales... how often is it sensible to weight oneself?

Well, have had my lunch, done just over a mile walk (will get off bus again early and walk home via supermarket) - that walk plus my lunch walk brings me up to an extra 3500 metres without really trying, which is 2.17miles. I don't need a full lunch hour, so I might as well walk. Though I have to say, my feet hurt a bit - Converse are shitty.

I had 4 edmame soya bean things too, but they weren't the ones covered in salt, so that's negligiable.

Now, is diet coke evil or not? I generally drink it quiet often, but am wondering if it really does rot you from the inside?!

Right...

Breakfast: 2 Shredded Wheat, semi-skimmed
Mouthful of apple juice
handful of grapes
2 cups of earl grey

For lunch i'm having:

Wholemeal pitta w/ salad
muller light yoghurt
apple
Pretzels if i fancy them

At lunch i'm going to walk to the big Superdrug to get my other half some deoderant. There's a Superdrug near my work, but that should work out near on 1 mile there and back.

I just brought a skipping rope on eBay, so can do that in mornings when it comes... have a good hour spare every morning after my man has gone to work. I've read that skipping burns 120 cals every ten minutes, or something, which would be nice - get the heart pumping!

Am still contemplating swimming, but don't think i'd feel comfortable doing it yet. The nearest pool to us is in Balham anyway, plus i'm poor and I hate chlorine.

Tonight we're having: Spaghetti Bolognaise (that I made and froze) and wholewheat pasta. Will measure out 35g for me, may cook OH normal stuff in case he doesn't like it. I've also made sugar free jelly for desert.

Need to research: What alcohol would be best for weekend?
What to have at GBK on Sat night? - going out for dinner with OH's parents.... veggie salad?

Morning!

Well, last night I got off the bus 3 stops early, adding about 3/4's of a mile to my total (I think. I've measured this with streetmap.co.uk and a piece of string - if anyone has a more scientific method of measuring walking distance from postcode to postcode i'd love to hear it!)

Last night's intake:

Food: Salmon Cottage pie (580 cals, low fat, Sainsburys - only ready meal we like)
asparagus
mushroom rice (1/3rd pack, 100 cals, low fat)
1 x cracker (as my man was eating cheese & crackers, and i figured one cheese & marg FREE cracker would be ok. And dry)
Sugar free lemon ice lolly

Drinks: sugar free orange squash

And now it's day two...

Only half hour to go at work, and so far i've ignored the pack of pretzels in my bag. They're low-fat, Sainsburys Be Good To Yourself ones, but still, i don't really need them.

But boy do i want them.

I purchased wholemeal pasta today...wonder what it tastes like?

I weigh too much and am going to loose it. Fact. I need to loose 30kg. This is just nearly a third of my body weight. I don't eat that much anyway. Will try and explain fully to start and then quick updates from then on. I don't have a set of scales at home yet, but was weighed yesterday at unrelated hospital appointment so have an accurate weight. I dont want to cook too differently at home as my lovely OH doesn't need to loose an ounce.

So, day 1, so far:

Food:

Museli & semi skimmed (small bowl)
apple
handful of grapes
muller light (lemon cheescake flavour)
wholemeal pitta bread w/ salad and few grains of rice

Drinks:
2 x Earl grey (tiny milk, no sugar)
1.5 litres of water
1 x coffee (milk, 1 sugar)
small glass of apple and mango juice

Normal activies: work, home, via tube
Extra exercise: 1 mile walk at lunch

Will update tomorrow with tonights consumption etc.

Feel much better writing this down. Intend to get off buss 3 stops early tonight on way home.

I'll also be babbling on about my money and my attempt at ignoring alcohol... but first things first.