Jenni's diary: Given up chocolate!

69 hours, or approx 250000 seconds - I've made it to a quarter of a million seconds! :bliss:

The only thing worrying me is that I'll semi-consciously eat chocolate, say if it's offered to me, or like when I got a value meal in subway and I almost got a cookie instead of crisps. Hmmm. I suppose I'll just have to be careful!
 
Jenni for some time yet you will need to be more aware - but it wont always be like that

at the end of my posts in my siggy is a list of all the advantages to me for losing weight
from the frivolous (so I can wear heals again) to the far more important - the avoidance of knee surgery - make your own list of the advantages to you of what you are doing
make them public so we can all help to remind you on the difficult days and also keep them on little cards in a couple of places so you can read them twice a day and also when you think you might cave

I read mine first thing in the morning - I keep a set in my makeup bag - at my age I dont leave the house without my slap on
and a set in my purse - then of course on here as well
I read them and then decide if what I want to eat is really worth delaying my journey for - sometimes it is but mostly its just a craving that will go away and it stops me delaying myself :):)

so now its been approx
74 hours 4440 hours or 266400 look at that it wont be long before you can rightly claim to be a millionaire - problem is there is no money involved - buy you must have already saved yourself some pennies :):)
 
I shall have to do that at some point. Suppose I'll do it tomorrow at some point since I probably won't make it to lectures :rolleyes:

I've been trying to resist boredom eating this evening as it's been a long one sat in front of my computer. I dug out my 'thing' (picture at the bottom) that I pulled in a favour to get, they give them to smokers trying to give up so that they have something to do with their hands. Food is a bit like that for me sometimes, so I got one :D

I'm sure I have saved myself some money. Like the other day I got a subway, but didn't upgrade to a 'meal' cause I couldn't have a cookie OR coke :p:

TBH I don't feel like I'm depriving myself at all. I've forgotten what chocolate tastes like! :eek: I might let myself have a cambridge bar at the end of this two weeks. I'm actually not fussed about it at the moment though, hopefully this lasts :D

I just decided to sniff my chocolate spread, and there's a tiny reaction, but I put it back with no hesitation, so that's a good sign, right? :D


This is my toy! :p
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My daughters partner has one of those
it hasnt helped with his smoking though
he keeps trying but not getting very far - even though he knows I gave up cold turkey after 40 a day for more years than I can remember - been nico free now for over four years - can hardly believe its been that long
nhs didnt give out toys when I did it - not that I went anywhere for help anyway - but I love having a little fiddle with his when I go round :):)
 
:eek: well done! :hug99: I've never smoked (tried it a couple of times, it's just horrible! I love the smell while people around me are smoking though :p)
Jon's dad gave up smoking after a lot of years, just decided to quit one day. Never said why :confused: I'm glad Jon isn't like that, I'd hate not knowing something like that :p
I suppose some people can just give it up, some can't. :confused:

I think part of it must be to do with your mindset - I know I can do this, maybe you knew you could, maybe he thinks he can't :confused:
 
Its that old, but very wise saying

"If you think you can, or if you think you can't - you're right"

What you believe will become your reality - this is the sort of stuff I do on my training... a little insight into my training room!!

Just remember Jenni, that when you did Cambridge for all those months, you gave up loads of stuff that you would normally crave - and managed it successfully without freaking out too much.

This is just one thing to give up - just the one - a big one mind, but one thing nonetheless

You can do this (and are doing it!!) xxx
 
Woohoo, I'm almost at 100 hours :bliss: I'm up to 354000 seconds :p:

I'm still not craving, but I am comfort/boredom eating a bit. Need to work on that once my chocolate/sugar addiction is gone.

I'm pleased though - it's been 4 days and the sweetest thing I've had is a kiwi! :D
 
101 hours! :D :bliss: Woohoo!

Warning - possible craving trigger! (I'm looking at you, Rosie! :p)
I have a major craving for the texture of crusty white bread right now :p might have some form of sandwich for breakfast :p

Off to Jon's today, so won't be around much this weekend - he'll be keeping a beady eye on me though! :D
 
FOOD PORN WARNING

can I just add to your big white space there though - that warm would be nicer

106 hours or 6360 mins or of course those seconds which now amount to 381600
really good luck of there weekend and have a great time

H xx
 
Yes! I had a toasted ham & cheese in the end, it was delicious :D

Rosie, if you want to torture yourself then you just highlight it, I wrote it in white :D

On the train now (I love my mobile internet!) so, next time I'm on will be Sunday probably - I promise I'll be good :innocent0002:
 
Oh, get you on the train surfing the net. I just bought one of those 3 mobile dongle things but haven't used it yet.

I got it to save me the extortionate rates that some hotels charge you to log on to their wireless.....it makes me mad cos it cost them nothing extra to allow me to use the blooming thing - they have it there anyway.

I always try to use hotels that give it for free as my little protest.

Cheese and ham toastie sounds devine.....mmmmmmm
 
Yeah, I got it for the train really - virgin trains charges £5 per HOUR to use theirs! :eek: And London midland don't have wifi at all.

I've been very good - technically had a minor slip up on Friday as I had an alcopop, but I was drunk enough that I was hardly going to wake up craving sugar (more likely to wake up craving water tbh :rotflmao:) so it doesn't really matter.

My boots still haven't arrived - I'll check when I get in but when I left on Friday they hadn't. Maybe they're waiting for next weekend ;)
 
So what about the chocolate
that is the real biggie isnt it
lets hope you are still choc free
if so how long has it been
 
It's been 165 hours :D go me!

I haven't touched chocolate. I've forgotten what it tastes like :( I can still remember the texture of galaxy though :p

I've had a good chat with Jon this weekend and I think I've come to a sensible conclusion, and that is to allow myself the odd bit after next weekend - i.e. have a cookie after a meal, or have something if it's offered, etc. But I'm not going to go out to buy chocolate to eat by itself - never ever. I'll probably try to stop myself from 'munching' while busy (i.e. popcorn at the cinema or crisps while on the computer.)

I'm going to try at stick to meals - little or no snacking in between. Yesterday I had a pasta and sauce thing, and then I had duck pancakes, and besides drinks that was all I had, and I was perfectly fine. I was surprised! I eat so much more than that normally. I've been starting to eat almost only when I'm hungry (I think I have Jon to partially thank for that this weekend too.)

All in all I think it's going very well. :) My teeth have vastly improved over the past week - when I talked to Jon he asked me what my motivation was to give it up, and I think I actually surprised myself when I realised that my main trigger was the toothache it was giving me. Obviously I've been wanting to do this for weight/health reasons, but actually it was the toothache that made me do it!

Here's to another week, anyway. :D I've surprised myself I think. I don't think I've quite gotten rid of the addiction yet, but that'll go eventually. :)
 
I'll be up to 600000 by the end of the night! :D

Mmmm, I'm so hungry. I may go for another ham and cheese toastie when I get into Euston :p
 
Well, I've given in and I'm having a glass of coke. Still no chocolate - and it's ONE glass of coke - so not that bad. :) my bottle will probably be too flat to drink by tomorrow, so it might just be the one in total!

I've decided to stop worrying about calories and fat and that sort of thing. Obviously if a low fat version tastes exactly the same then I'll have it, but other than that I'm not going to stress over it. I've been eating some nice food over the weekend and not worrying - that suits me a lot better than having to have icky low fat stuff so that I can eat chocolate :p
 
Oh and, I've decided this week to NOT spend ANY money on food - not at all. I have loads of frozen veg, chicken, pasta, rice, sauces etc to feed myself for a fortnight, and I'm still spending too much I think, so eating out of the freezer it is. I get a break Friday-Sunday as I'm off to France with my mum on Friday and then off to Jon's for the weekend after I get back. Looking forward to it :)

So yeah, I'm saving myself money and probably saving calories too as I don't really have any snacky food in any more. :)
 
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