Extra Easy Online - attempting to maintain!

I had the munchies too but managed to stay at 1200 cals with gin ;-)
 
Well done! Are you cal counting instead of SW now? It's much more flexible but I'm trying to stick to the principles of SW as it's so healthy. Hoping to have a healthy one today!
 
vintagepockets said:
Well done! Are you cal counting instead of SW now? It's much more flexible but I'm trying to stick to the principles of SW as it's so healthy. Hoping to have a healthy one today!
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Same kind of thing. Work and the new house is just mental so the fitness pal app is really helping me to keep track of thing and also portion control.
 
It's not easy but a real eye opener.


For my height and weight to lose 1-2lbs a week I'm to stay between 1200-1400 cals.

It soon adds up especially if you like a drink or three like I do ;-)
 
Applekath said:
It's not easy but a real eye opener.

For my height and weight to lose 1-2lbs a week I'm to stay between 1200-1400 cals.

It soon adds up especially if you like a drink or three like I do ;-)
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Oh I can imagine! I must check what my daily calories are and start usiny myfitnesspal!
 
If you're struggling with SW it might help you to mix things up a bit. It's more restrictive in ways as you can't eat as much as you want as there is a cap on your intake but if you eat low calorie foods then it should be easy to do. I'm a SW girl through and through so I probably personally wouldn't calorie count to lose weight (as I love big portions) but I'm finding it's working for me whilst I'm trying to maintain!
 
Started a bit of temp work this week - nothing too exciting so no congratulations necessary lol! I had to dig out a pair of black trousers I bought last year and they look like clown trousers. I never wear trousers to work so I forgot that I'd probably need a new pair. A great excuse to go shopping though and Dorothy Perkins have 30% off online today so I'm taking advantage! :)
 
Love dotty p's!


Know what you mean about the cal counting. It's all alien to me too. I feel very lost at the moment and am pinching ideas from here there and everywhere.

The only thing I have ever had success with ( three stones worth ) is Atkins. However that runs expensive and its not fare for james. Also re the ketosis thing it restricts you on fruit and sweet stuff which doesn't bother me much but I ended up eating what I wanted to and got complacent with the rules. If I let myself I'd just live on Parma ham, salami and cheese ;-)
 
Well I still say well done on temp work because work is work. I saw your FB status re returning to the BBC or TV. That would be very cool! Any idea which aspect you would like to go back to?

My *ahem* "experience" made me realise that you only live once and you have to go for what makes you happy. I know that two years down the line I'll be so grateful that I went for teaching and the course will have been worth it. I'll be much happier having kids knowing I have a career you know? I bet you will rock whatever you end up doing!

Work is crap a lot of the time but we all have to do it, so I suppose I have adopted the attitide of just getting on with it and planning lots of holidays/weekends away/ nice things to look forward to to keep me sane during the week. I've always been like that though. Always booking something! Lol

Was thinking of you yesterday with all this Cheltenham talk :) is it a crazy place to live at this time of year? Have you ever gone to the festival?
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I'm actually really missing Cheltenham at the moment. Manchester doesn't feel like home just yet but I'm hoping that will change the longer we're here, and more importantly when I have a job I actually see a future in. At the moment I kind of feel that there's no reason for me to be here especially with Jack working away. I just think I'm a grass is always greener kind of person which isn't the best way to live - I need to work on that!

A return to the BBC is just me keeping my options open. I don't really mind which area as long as I'm not doing productions!

Cheltenham is great over raceweek and absolutely full to the brim with the Irish! :) I've not actually been to the races over Gold Cup as I'm normally had to work during it. I was actually hoping to be in Cheltenham this week but I got offered this job which is good and bad. Good because of money, and bad because it's an incredibly boring data entry job. It's meant to be for a month but I don't think I'm going to last that long. Fingers crossed something else comes up!
 
vintagepockets said:
I'm actually really missing Cheltenham at the moment. Manchester doesn't feel like home just yet but I'm hoping that will change the longer we're here, and more importantly when I have a job I actually see a future in. At the moment I kind of feel that there's no reason for me to be here especially with Jack working away. I just think I'm a grass is always greener kind of person which isn't the best way to live - I need to work on that!

A return to the BBC is just me keeping my options open. I don't really mind which area as long as I'm not doing productions!

Cheltenham is great over raceweek and absolutely full to the brim with the Irish! :) I've not actually been to the races over Gold Cup as I'm normally had to work during it. I was actually hoping to be in Cheltenham this week but I got offered this job which is good and bad. Good because of money, and bad because it's an incredibly boring data entry job. It's meant to be for a month but I don't think I'm going to last that long. Fingers crossed something else comes up!
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I hope something comes up for you too hun! Have you applied for many things? I so feel for you because that limbo place is a strange place to be. You are buzzing for something to motivate and excite you, but it's just so hard to know and if you are anything like me you change your mind all the time! Lol!

OH has a friend over at the races at the moment and he saved something like 5,000 to go overad bet. He won 2,000 today alone. Madness! We have a history of good Horse Riders, particularly Ruby Walsh (who went to my school). I'm not a better (OH is) but I love putting a few bob on a couple of horses just for fun! X
 
My mum and sister used to live in Tewkesbury. The atmosphere of gold cup week was always fab :)
 
So since calorie counting I feel that I've let myself indulge a lot more than when I was being naughty on SW, to the point where I'm not sure whether to switch back to SW. I am still cooking SW meals and sticking to the SF and 2 HEXs but I'm probably having a few more treats than I would normally allow myself. So I thought I'd document today's food and compare the cals to syns.

Food Diary...

Breakfast - 35g porridge oats, shape 0%, blueberries, strawberries, 15g sultanas (326 cals) (HEXb + 2.5 syns)

Lunch - granary roll, egg mayo, lettuce, cucumber, 2 tsps flora light, carrot (282 cals) (10.5 syns)

Dinner - chicken breast, 2 bacon medallions, 25g rf cheddar, 1 tbsp bbq sauce, 75g oven chips, mixed veg, 1tbsp el mayo (500 cals) (HEXa + 4 syns)

Snacks - wotsits, 3 nairns ginger biscuits, banana, low fat rice pudding, 1 tbsp jam, 1 love heart, 125ml red wine, homemade mojito, 6 tea w/ semi-skimmed milk (30.5 syns) (783 cals)

Total syns = 47.5 :eek:

Total cals = 1891/1880 needed to maintain without exercise

I also REALLY need to start exercising! I'm doing so little I actually got a stitch walking to the bus stop. Bad times! Argh I don't know what to do. I'm thinking SW!?
 
No I'm going to give calorie counting another week and see if I can restrain myself a bit more... The rice pudding and alcohol aren't nightly occurrences so without those it would be an improvement. I just need low cal snacking options for boring days in work. Basically getting up early = more hours in the day to eat, add boredom to the mix and there's the problem! God knows how many cals I would consume in a day pre SW - hence the weight gain!
 
Eurgh I went out for dinner with a friend to an American diner place last night and I decided to work out my daily calories. What a shocker!!! Here it is for all to see :eek:

Breakfast - granary roll, flora light, ww sausages, frylight egg, ketchup (450 cals)

Lunch - banana, blueberries, strawberries, 0% Greek, sweet freedom (114 cals)

Dinner - cheese burger and fries (1185 cals)

Snacks (this is where booze gets involved and it gets ridiculous!) - shortbread biscuit, tiny bit of Mediterranean bread, rf houmous, honey chilli nuts, bite of chorizo, 2 box car cocktails, 1 large red wine, 2 pts aspall cider, 2 tea w/ skimmed milk (1937 cals!!!!!)

That's an entire days worth of calories mainly in drinks!!!!! Mental!

Total cals = 3686

I'm treating myself to a gym membership as soon as I have a permanent job as treat weekends like that are something I'd like to be able to do. Written down it doesn't look that bad but the calorie intake is absurd!
 
I think I'm going to go for a SW week this week starting today inorder to do some damage limitation before the weekend. I'll be going out for dinner with the OHs parents on Saturday night, and Friday night my friend is cooking dinner at her new flat. Inevitabley both nights will involve booze too! Apart from those meals I plan to be an angel.
 
My cals yesterday were insane too! Despite it not being an absurd amount of food! It's pretty shocking when you total it all up sometimes! I was trying really hard today but dans cooked a zebra cake so I'm having some! Oops! X
 
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