Gobolino's Food Diary - converted to ww now!

[gobolino]

I have shreddies in the house and I'm really fancying them This is dangerous territory, but I've managed tonight and hope to stay strong tomorrow too..... in fact I've pretty much decided that I'll plan my day around my shreddies treat!

Mondays plan: Green Day

Breakfast
vlf fromage frais with raspberries and peaches, banana, 2 scan bran (part of 2HB's)

Dinner
New potatoes, baked beans and red lentil soup.

Tea
74g Shreddies (HB HB HA 2.5syns), banana, shape delight (5.5syns)

Snacks
banana, pineapple, vlf fromage frais with raspberries and peaches, milk in tea (part HA)

Exercise:
35mins walk

Syns:
Minimal (fingers crossed!)..... so far 5.5+2.5+2+6 = 16 ok, not quite minimal eh!

 

[gobolino]

Mmmmmm just realised I'll have 2 lots of scan bran or ryvita to eat as part of the shreddies HB too - horray, more food

 

[gobolino]

Just weighed out my shreddies for tonight and a fairly small bowl (for me) was 74g (HB&HB&2.5syns). I think this is the main culprit for my weight gain, pre SW I'd think nothing of a 100g bowl and then another one to follow

 

[gobolino]

Well, I've had my shreddies and absolutely loved them. Seriously though, my capacity for cereal is huge and it took alot of choice power not to have another bowl of the same size! Been thinking, they are not really satisfying in terms of a meal though. I followed them with a banana and a shape delight (5.5syns).
I think this monday is feeling more like a philisophical monday rather than a sabotage monday, which is good. Been thinking about things as a whole and it seems that the way circumstances are, getting to target would appear to be the next thing on the agenda. Also I've decided on a target too 11stone 1lb

This target puts me at a healthy BMI and even just below (since my real weight will always be what I am first thing in the morning naked!). So I'll need to be under 11 stone in the morning to achieve this target at weigh in. For me I dont know if this is achievable but I think its just a case of sticking with it and seeing how it goes!

 

[gobolino]

Syns review: Total so far= 86.5 for 6 days
Weds 5.5, Thurs 9, Fri 28, Sat 13.5, Sun 14.5, Mon 16, Tues ?

Not stuck to 10 syns a day limit, so we'll just have to wait and see what WI brings, fingers crossed it'll be a pound loss

 

[Beegee]

Fantastic job of managing the Shreddies craving there! Cereal was one of my big problem areas too, the amount I used to put away was ridiculous in retrospect. You've done really well to plan a decent sized bowl (compared to the 28g at least), stick to it and enjoy it.

Good luck with weigh in tomorrow!

 

[gobolino]

Thanks for your support Beegee Sometimes I'm not sure if its a good idea to start at all where cereal is concerned but at least this was planned, so I feel pretty good about it

 

[Beegee]

You should do! Now you know you can 'manage' it you could have them more often!!

 

[Derbynanny]

Good luck for wi. Sounds like you were very sensible with the shreddies.

Sorry I have been a bit quiet but just busy busy busy so reading but not posting much.

 

[gobolino]

Hello - nice to see you, as long as you're doing ok, thats the main thing. Thanks for the good luck

I maintained my weight loss. I'm hoping the loss will follow next week! A different consultant suggested that I eat all 15 syns every day. Reverse physcology kicks in and I'm immediately thinking perhaps I'll stick to 10. I'm out on sat night for drinks and think I'll use 30 for the night out, so sticking to 10 every day and then 30 for sat night should be doable.

I'm concentrating on loads of speed and super speed foods and lots of water.

Wednesday: Extra easy

Breakfast:
pineapple, peaches, kiwi

Dinner:
monster salad (tom, cu, green beans, sweetcorn, carrot, spring onion, pepper, peppers in brine, beetroot), mixed leaves and probably a tin of tuna

Tea:
innocent moussaka veg pot (2.5syns), BNS wedges and mixed leaf salad

Pud:
Hi Fi Delux (HB), latte (HA)

snacks:
apple, banana, strawberries, rasperries, milk in tea (not sure, I'm taking measured milk to work as usual but want to cut back so will just measure and syn) 4syns for 230ml

 

[gobolino]

This is how today looks....

Wednesday:Green

Breakfast:
pineapple, peaches, kiwi

Dinner:
monster salad (tom, cu, green beans, sweetcorn, carrot, spring onion, pepper, peppers in brine, beetroot), mixed leaves and a tin of tuna (HB), pasta and tbsp sun-dried tomato pesto (1.5syn)

Tea:
innocent moussaka veg pot (2.5syns),
BNS wedges

Pud:
Hot chocolate made with skimmed milk (HA) and 2 sachets of hot chocolate powder (4syns)

snacks:
apple, banana, strawberries, rasperries, milk in tea (HA), Hi Fi (HB), vlf fromage frais & hot chocolate (2syns)

Total syns: 10

 

[gobolino]

Going for the double milk HA at the moment as my scales need a battery so I cant weigh my cheese until I get one !!!!

 

[gobolino]

Thursday 14th July – Extra Easy

Breakfast:
Peach, apple, 2 kiwis, 2 x Aldi 70 calories bars (HB)

Snacks:
Milk in tea (1/2 HA), apple, 2 scan bran (2syns), banana

Dinner
Red lentil and tomato soup for starters! Crunchy salmon and pasta salad (roasted thai salmon, pasta, 35g phillidelphia light (1/2 HA), gherkins, celery, pepper and spring onion, with cherry toms and beetroot on the side.

Snacks:
Raspberries and strawberries, peach, aldi diet cola, 16 mini chocolate buttons (4syns), another 70 calorie aldi bar (3syns).


Tea:
Jacket potato with beans, leafy salad, baby plum tomatoes, cucumber, beetroot and sweetcorn. More strawberries and 1/2 a peach

Snacks:
May have some melon later on

Syns: 9
Exercise: short walk (25mins)

 

[gobolino]

Its early in the week but I'm getting ready for a syns review:
Weds 10, Thurs 9, Fri ?, Sat allowing 30 but hopefully wont use all 30 ?, Sun ?, Mon ?, Tues ?

At the minute I'm concentrating on a meal at a time Slowly but surely I'm sticking to it!

 

[gobolino]

Friday 15th July – Extra Easy

Breakfast:
Peaches, apple, strawberries, melon
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Snacks:
Milk in tea (1/2 HA), 2 scan bran (2syns), banana
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Dinner
Crunchy salmon and pasta salad (roasted thai salmon, pasta, 35g phillidelphia light (1/2 HA), gherkins, celery, pepper and spring onion, with cherry toms and beetroot on the side.
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Snacks:
HiFi (HB), apple
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Jacket potato.....plus kedgeree with smoked haddock and brown rice, onions, peas and something else superfree J !!!! <-- had a salad with it!

Pud: 1 alpen light bar (3syns), 20g 70% dark chocolate (5syns)
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Syns: 10 syns - woohoo

Weds 10, Thurs 9, Fri 10, Sat allowing 30 but hopefully wont use all 30 ?, Sun ?, Mon ?, Tues ?

 

[Derbynanny]

How was your saturday?

Teresa x

 

[gobolino]

Hi Teresa

I hope you are doing well. I've not been about too much to check up on your diary. My saturday went well thanks

Here's my update:
My saturday went well, definitely used 30 syns if not more, but held it together during the day, so it was only whatever nibbles and wine I had sat night. Sunday went ok, I ate alot (but plenty of free/superfree) and totalled 16syns. Today has gone badly though, it started this morning with 2 HiFi s and 2 Alpen light bars and thats before I even got to work. Ive had more scan bran, 1 bran choc muffin, cheese on a jacket potato in work as well as lots of syn free veg+bean chilli. When I came home I attacked the shreddies and had chocolate cake that a neighbour had brought over after her party on sat night. Its all fibrous stuff and I end up giving myself a horrible windy tum

I'm fed up of this cycle of events! Weds-Friday I stay on plan and feel fab and in control. Sat I allow myself a set number of syns and eat them, sunday is usually within syns but on the high side and then by monday I feel like I've been rubbish and then go and be a bit more rubbish. By Tuesday I've lost the plot!

I'm seriously thinking about not going to class tomorrow night. We dont have our usual consultant as she's on maternity, so it'll be a different consultant (I have no phone number to let her know though). I'm feeling irritated by it all now. I resent the amount of time a tuesday night takes out of my evening (I'm there early and stay to clear up). I love the people at my class but I dont think they can really help me with this physcological stuff (they can only suggest what to eat instead thats a low syn alternative!). I need to break this cycle of events and I need to sort myself out.

Moan over....... oh its good to write down some feelings. Sorry for anyone reading though!

 

[gobolino]

Wow - I'm so up and down its unbelievable! Its no wonder I'm pretty much staying the same all the time.

I think I need to make a point of having a big protein filled breakfast on a monday morning, so as not to trigger any carb/fibre binge. Thats great for next week but the problem is I'm now worried about what to eat tomorrow..... take too little to work and I'll feel deprived and want to get more food and take too much and I'll just eat it all.

I dont know if its a good thing, but I dont feel that my behaviour upsets me so much now, I just have to suffer with the tummy aches. In the long term I think it affects me though.

Obviously cant give in or give up but just what can I do to change things around ? Perhaps the consultant last week was right, I should have had 15syns a day and 30 on sat and just gone ahead and done that, perhaps I wouldnt have messed up so much if I'd have stuck to that, she obviously suggested it for a reason!

Grrrrrr. Having a latte now and then will think about food for tomorrow

Ok, here's tomorrows plan:
B-fruit salad (melon, grapes, apple, kiwi), banana
D-Salad (tom, cucumber, sweetcorn, pepper), 114g wholemeal roll (2xHB) and 2 laughing cow blue cheeses (I'm really pleased to have finally found these!!! 1/2HA)
Snacks- full fat yoghurt (Perle de lait coconut 9 syns........ the idea being I want something to look forward to and if I can spend endless amounts of syns on crappy cereal bars then I can definitely spend it on a lovely yoghurt!), milk in tea (1/2HA)
T-the last HiFi bar in the cupboard (6syns), a pot of cottage cheese with 28g mature cheddar (HA)

My pledge -I'm not buying any HiFi bars this week and I'm not sneaky peaking- big promise

 

[Beegee]

Hello, I thought you'd been a bit quiet recently - you've been going through all sorts of ups and downs you poor thing. I've got to say, I can't be any help - I have no idea how to help you break your cycle. You seem to be trying everything and thinking everything through so if you can't suss it out I'm not likely to be able to!

Is there any chance you're thinking too much (she says clutching at straws)? I know you need to do a certain amount of planning to make it work but maybe if you think about food a lot it makes you want it more? I have no idea if that's really true but from my side I decide what I'm going to eat about half an hour before I have it and have big meals so that I don't need to think about snacking. Goodness knows why I'm recommending this though - you know I've been banging my head against a brick wall lately too.

I think all I can really do is send you positive vibes. Do what you think best. Maybe it would help to miss a week of class if it's annoying you, or just go to class not the rest of it before and after, or have a week off plan and chill about it, or keep going and maybe have a loss. The choice really is yours, ultimately you need to be happy. You're not a quitter which you should be proud of - we see loads of people on here fall by the wayside who haven't had nearly as many knock backs as you, so lots of credit is due for still being here. Good luck tomorrow, your plan looks good. Fingers crossed you stick to it!

 

[Derbynanny]

Aww big hugs. I empathise with you totally, my pattern is not exactly like yours and i don't come on here and talk it through (in fact i hide !!) BUT i do sabotage myself and get so cross about it but then immediately do it again a few days or weeks or months later (recently it has been ever few days :-() I go through all the emotions you do but can' t write it all down.

I have decided this weeknd that I am going to start writing a paper food journal every day for a month and hopefully longer and my rule is i do not have to be miss perfect but whatever i do good bad or ugly I have to write it down.

Just making this rule has stopped me eating leftovers of kiddie food today !! Now let's see if i can keep it up especially as i have 17 days off work soon and 5 days away !!

You will know what is the right decision about tomorrow night tomorrow just remember to be kind to yourself .

Teresa