Gobolino's Food Diary - converted to ww now!

[gobolino]

Hi Both,

Thank you so much for your comments, (((hugs))) back to you as I really really appreciate your support. I know I'm like a broken record at times but yep at least I am still here (and thats mostly to do with your support)! I managed to drag myself to a body balance class last night, which made me feel a bit better.

Beegee, maybe I am overthinking a bit. To be honest I've tried planning in everything including snacks but I didnt always plan like this.....I used to plan most of my main meals and the rest fell into place. I think large meals are definitely the way to go, but I think I probably have large meals at the moment anyway. Maybe I'll try just main meal planning and thinking about food less. You're right the more you think about it, definitely the more you want of it! Thank you for the positive vibes, they are really appreciated I'm sending some to you too

Teresa, I thought you'd been hiding again Dont worry if you cant do the self analysis, I'll do it for you - lol! Seriously though, I think being kind to yourself is one of the best things you can do (I mean we can do!). Things do seem much better when you can be your own friend and be nice to yourself, then the physcological tellings off dont happen and therefore dont trigger the binge cycle. A paper diary is a great help as its all there in black and white, I may copy this strategy and post on here every few days to say what I've had, rather than what I'm planning to have. I too think I suffer from wanting to be miss perfect and thats why its even more difficult when we fall off plan. Perhaps we need to reinvent miss perfect and let her be less of a controlling/ all or nothing girl That would be more achievable. Wow, I bet you cant wait for your time off!

I'm probably heading to class tonight, I remember my consultant saying that this week would be a completely new starter! The last thing she needs is the weigh in lady going awol !!!

Thanks again both for being so lovely and helpful xxx

 

[gobolino]

I went to my class last night and I gained 1 pound. I've pretty much been maintaining for the last 4 months !!!!

Anyway, I stayed at class to do the weigh in and then I cam home, meaning that I had an extra hour in my evening to prepare todays lunch I needed a little extra time!

My aims for this week are to change my weekly happenings. When hubby came home on monday night I confessed that I'd messed up and his response was 'oh its always on a monday'. Exactly! So he's on board with helping me change my weekly habits (as I believe these start on a saturday!).

I need to remember that even when I think I've messed up, I've done a better job at staying on track than I give myself credit for. Its the believing that I've messed up that triggers even more mess up and thats where a gain will come from.

So, this week is about keeping calm and trying to focus on when/how things affect me and my thinking.

3 key things to help:
No sneaky peaking (this affects how I think about my week)
Keeping calm about a tuesday WI (its just another evening and part of my week)
trying to keep to 10syns a day or 70 in the week (BUT, not to panic if I do go over).
Keeping a paper food diary
No HiFi/ Alpen lights/Fibre plus bars (NONE!)

I do need to do a certain amount of planning as I take my lunches to work!

Here's todays menu:

Breakfast:
28g oats (will use the scan bran later) (HB), milk from HA, yog, grated apple, banana

Dinner:
Salad with beetroot, green beans, cu, tom, spring onions, pepper, new potatoes, tuna (113g HB) mixed with 2 laughing cow blue cheeses (2 syns)

Pud:
1 low syn scan bran choc muffin (2syns minus 1 for the HB scan bran = 1syn)

Snacks:
apple, melon, milk in tea (HA), grapes, scan bran choc muffin (2syns)

Tea:
veg&bean chilli with wedges and cheese (28g HA)

pud:
white choc options with vlf fromage frais (2syns), 1/2 a scan bran cheese muffin (1syn)

 

[Derbynanny]

Well done for going to group and your persevrance.

I have a little secret to share I STAY on track better when i do not have hi fi's for my healthy b. I think part of the reasoning behind this is 1) they are so yummy it is easy to go over board (and i have a spare room full of them)
2) If i have my hi fi's as a heb especially if i have 2 of them it is usually as a snack on top of my meals, if i have cereal or scan bran or cheese if doing green then that is part of my meal. I rarely snack on anything else besides superfree or hi fis so if i don't have the hi fi's i naturally eat less.
Good luck with your renewed commitment !
Plan monday's for your favourite meal so it feels like a treat.. this for me would be pasta n sauce mac and cheese YUM or egg and chips and if my tummy up to it baked beans ...so simple but so naughty feeling.

Teresa

Teresa

 

[gobolino]

Oh yes, I think not having the HiFi's definitely helps with staying on track!

Good idea to plan something yummy for monday, I'm going to get my thinking head on for that

Here's to staying on plan

 

[craftylucyloo]

Hi there. Just been reading your last few posts and I'm with you on the whole psychology of it all. The last couple of times I did this plan I struggled to lose and was lucky if I lost half. I was very syn focussed and all I could think about was fitting in my syns and what I could get away with. The problem was that my cravings were still there week after week and when I got to target I just reverted back to choc fixes. This time I am being free food focused and really not having many syns at all. I have cut out sugar almost completely and as such a lot of my cravings have gone and also weight loss has been better than it has ever been. If I want a treat then I can have one without having to think too much about it as it is a one off. I want this mental process to stay with me once I get to target and I think it is going to work. It took about a week of having no syns to get the cravings out of my system. Anyway just thought I'd share what is going on with me. Xxxx

 

[gobolino]

Hi Hazel

Oh excellent another physcological lady It sounds like you've definitely found something that works for you. I must admit I think going cold turkey on certain things will definitely work for me too.......thank you for sharing ! I agree with you completely about finding something that works for now and beyond (ie to target and beyond <--- have to say this buzz lightyear style). After reading your post it makes me feel like saying that synning should be the exception rather than the norm.... this type of thinking could work with me. I'm going to take a peek at diary and take a look at your progress

 

[gobolino]

Thursday
Breakfast:
28g oats (HB), yog, milk from HA, grapes, 2 nectarines,

Dinner:
Mixed veg and bean chilli (carrot, celery, onion, garlic, toms, baked beans, kidney beans, butter beans, borlotti beans), 2 new potatoes
Pud:
Half a melon and 1 low syn choc bran muffin (1 syn, the other syn is taken care of as part of my breakfast HB)
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Snacks:
Apples
3 cheese and marmite scan bran muffins (HB +1.5syns)
1 laughing cow deli cheese square (1syn)

Tea:
Pasta, with 35g light philli (1/2 HA), 10g tom pesto (1.5syns), peppers, onion, courgette
Pud:
VLF fromage frais, white choc options (2syns), latte (175ml milk 1/2 HA)

Syns = 7

 

[craftylucyloo]

I reckon many would shout me down by saying what I have said but I agree with you - they should be the exception and not the norm. It's like everything is permissable but not everything is beneficial and yeah you CAN have them but are they going to benefit you? I'm really hoping this is going to work for me long term. I'll keep up with your diary and see how you get on. xx

 

[gobolino]

Friday
Breakfast:
28g oats, milk, yog, grated apple, 1 scan bran choc muffin (HA HB 1syn)

Snacks:
banana, nectarines

Dinner:
Pasta, with 35g light philli (1/2 HA or 1/2 a HB), 10g tom pesto (1.5syns), peppers, onion, courgette. Melon, 1 scan bran muffin (2syns)

Tea:
SW wedges, eggs, sweetcorn

Pud:
VLF fromage frais (a whole tub eaten in two sittings !!!), white choc options (4syns), raspberries and strawberries, 1/2 a scan bran choc muffin (1syn)

Syns = 9.5

Extremely rare event- I've not had all my healthy extras today, but I am really full so I may not have all of them. Then again, I could treat myself to a latte later on. I think this is real progress for me as I usually crave healthy extras and could easily eat them all and spend all my syns on them, so the fact that I dont feel compelled to eat more and more of them is great! I could actually take off some syns from today as each scan bran muffin has nearly a whole scan bran (5 scan brans =HB choice). We'll see at the end of the day

 

[CharleyBar]

Thanks for this - got some really good meal ideas!

Good luck with your weight loss!

 

[gobolino]

Thanks CharleyBar

The weekend:

Saturday

Breakfast
Nectarines, banana, strawberries, raspberries.... followed by beans on toast (HB)

Dinner
New potatoes, mixed leaves, tomato and 60g light mozzarella (HB) layered with basil, tbsp light salad cream (1.5syns)..... followed by instant strawberry ice cream (2.5syns for pureed strawbs, 2 syns for white chocolate options powder and vlf fromage frais)

Tea
New potatoes, 28g cheese (HA), h/m coleslaw, cucumber and tomatoes

Snacks
flat peach
amaretto latte (HA)
21g chocolates (5.5syns)
vlf fromage frais and options (2syns)

Exercise: 30 mins walk, 45mins zumba
Syns: 13.5

 

[gobolino]

Second part of the weekend! -Sunday

Breakfast
Scrambled egg (1.5syns for cant believe its not butter light) on toast (HB)..... followed by nectarines, banana, strawberries with vlf fromage frais/yog/11g white choc options (1.5syns)

Dinner
Aubergine and mozarella bake (HAx2 or HA HB), salad and h/m coleslaw

Tea
Huge pile of roasted sweede, carrot, BNS, peppers and potatoes. Cabbage, carrots and bisto gravy (2.5syns)

Snacks
del monte smoothie lolly (4syns)
flat peaches
strawberries
10g dark chocolate (2.5syns)
another HA choice - milk with a hot choc (1.5syns)

Exercise: tidying the house !
Syns: 13.5 (great for a weekend )

 

[Beegee]

Hello, just doing some catching up and am very impressed with you being so positive and sitting firm on the wagon after last weeks ups and downs. Well done you x

I'm also mighty interested in craftylucyloo's take on syns. I don't think I could do no syns but I do totally agree with the sentiment behind it. More food for thought!

 

[gobolino]

Thanks Beegee! Here's to a good week for both of us. I'm not able to do no-syns either, but definitely lowering them is seeming ok with me.

 

[gobolino]

Monday 25th July....red day

Breakfast
28g oats (HB), milk from HA, yog, apple.

Dinner
spicy BNS soup with vlf natural yog stirred through, 2 scan bran ( 1 covered in my HB, so therefore 1 syn), 1 blue cheese laughing cow (part HA), strawberries, peach, strawberries

Tea
Thai salmon, wholewheat pasta (35g HB) in a h/m basil and garlic sauce, veggies (broccoli and sweede)

pud1- instant strawberry ice-cream (2.5 for strawbs, 4 for white chocolate powder, vlf fromage frais)
pud2-1 square of dark chocolate (10g 2.5syns)
pud3-latte with remaining HA milk (if needed!!!)

Snacks
white hot choc (4syns), vlf fromage frais, banana, plums

Syns-14
Exercise-10mins walk, 60mins body balance

 

[Beegee]

My goodness, is 35g all you get as an hexb????? It surely can't be more than 8 shapes! Can you do an EE day, you always have loads of super-free?

 

[gobolino]

Well Beegee, I like the idea of having lots of healthy extras so I'm sticking with red (not that my day looks particularly red!).

I counted the pasta twists and there was 32 !!!! Rubbish portion if you ask me, but then again I did enjoy a nice portion of salmon, roasted with thai spices - divine

So pleased with all my food today and all totally enjoyed Will update my menu now.

 

[Beegee]

Glad it was good - it sounds as though you're on a roll at the moment!

 

[gobolino]

Oh crickey please dont jinx me !!!!

Tuesday 26th July
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Pre-Breakfast:
Vlf fromage frais and options hot choc (4syns)
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Breakfast:
28g oats (HB), vlf fromage frais, 7g sultanas (1syn) milk from HA, 2 peaches,


Dinner:
Wholewheat pasta, h/m garlic and herb sauce, 57g salmon (HB), pineapple
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Snacks:
Bear dried fruit (4syns), milk in tea (HA), 2 scan bran (1 already accounted for with HB. …. 1syn), banana


Tea:
Griddled courgettes with cheese (28g HA), 28g dark chocolate (7syns)

17syns.... damn I thought I'd put everything on my paper diary for the day (13syns) just now and then when I came on here I realised I'd also had 4syns of bear dried fruit!

Time of the month here, hence the dark chocolate. Fingers crossed for a loss but whatever doesnt show in the weight loss tonight, it will next week. I know I say this alot but I do think this time its true
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[gobolino]

Wow - I've lost 1.5lb even though its * week

What has worked well for me this week:
1) No HiFi's
2) less sneaky peaking (I'll go for none next week)
3) Nailing the weekend (this has a big impact on how mon and tues go)

I've also managed much better in the syn department (just over 10 syns per day average)

Here's to another good week!