MWWWD (or Moonwatcher's Weight Watchers Diary!)

Atomic pink said:
Food sounds good :) Sounds like things are clicking in terms of food choices. I do wonder whether splitting the fast between two days might actually encourage better food choices rather than the mentality of "diet days" and "non-diet days". I will be interested to see how it works when I try it next week anyway.
Click to expand...
Yes I am finding it really interesting - I have things like chocs and crisps, biscuits and cheeses in the house, and if I fancy them on an up day then I have some, but don't feel the need to go mad. It is a completely different feeling to when I was on WW, which was more of a feeling of really wanting to eat more and more, but using will power to resist. I genuinely do not want more. Today was an up day, and at break I walked past the canteen and thought about getting a snack, but simply didn't want anything. I find it quite amazing! Of course the question is will I lose any weight at WI on Saturday? A sneaky scales peek today shows me up a pound and a half, but from reading a few diaries it seems that I may be able to expect a whoosh of weight loss right at the end of the week. I certainly hope so! Food today for an up day today was a pecan maple danish with a cup of tea for breakfast, cheese and pickle sandwich, cherry toms and a small pack of crispy fries for lunch with another pasta dish with cheese, veg and chorizo this evening, one orange and five celebrations chocs with a coffee and cream.
 
Well it is weigh in tomorrow and I have a strong feeling I will have gained.:(
I'm not sure if the split days are the best way to go for me - I feel I am then eating too much when I break the fast in the evening, and this is bumping up my cals for my up days. There is a lot about the diet that I really do like though- especially how it is changing my attitude to food.
 
How did weigh in go? Hope you got the result that you wanted but even if not it might be worth trialling it over a longer period. Very few people get losses every week and this is quite a new way for eating for lots of us so it might take some time for our bodies to adjust to it. In the long term (if we can manage it for the long term) I do think the chances it makes to the way to feel and behave around food would have significant results on weight just by themselves, but that's very much the long term perspective and I emphatise with sometimes being a bit inpatient, especially if you've been dieting over a long period already.

This is my first split day fast today. Had breakfast this morning at my mum's and am fasting from 10am - 10am. We shall see how that goes.
 
Hi Atomic, hope you enjoyed your weekend away. Well I gained back the one and a half pounds I lost last week. I wasn't surprised as I had been monitoring the scales during the week. I am sticking with the fasting diet though, although I am going back to the whole day arrangement. I think that it was too easy to eat too much on my UP days the other way. I could work on restricting my cals those evenings, and also being careful the following day until I started another Down day again, but to do that, realistically, I would need to limit the evening meal to 500 cals and then 1500 cals the next day.Now that is doable, but then I would effectively be counting cals at a dieting level every day, which rather goes against the spirit of the diet and for me anyway, sort of negates the whole point of doing it.

Last week was not a typical week for me - rather a lot of BIG eating out and takeaways. Also I sometimes gain now and again on ANY diet - it seems to be one of the things I have to accept. The OH and I watched the BBC Horizon programme about alternate fasting this afternoon and the health implications are phenomenal. I'm pretty hopeful that another week will see some positive scale movement.
 
Food for Monday 11th February was...

One tin WW Tomato soup (76 cals)

Half a carton of Tescos Bean, corn, veg and chipotle soup with 4 garlic dough balls (378 cals) (Yum-yum!)

Drinks - one cup Earl Grey tea, one cup of Twinings Rose Garden tea, one cup of coffee - splash of milk in each (45 cals), water, NAS squash, one cup of Twinings Lemon and Ginger tea, more water...

Total calories 499 (any ideas what I can spend that last calorie on? ;) )

Couple of sessions of hunger pangs today, but then I had had no breakfast as I decided to keep more calories for the evening. Love how those hunger pangs make me feel a bit smug!

Went shopping to Tescos after work - bought a mixture of cakes for work tomorrow (late Birthday cakes!), plus a white chocolate sponge for us at home. We've decided to stay in on Valentine's night, so for a change we got one of their Finest Meal Deals, so neither us of have to think about cooking. Looking forward to lamb shanks in garlic herby tomato sauce with roasted veg, potato and gruyere cakes, followed by belgian chocolate hearts and a couple of glasses of Prosecco, maybe a couple of chocolate mints to follow. It's pancake day tomorrow, so looking forward to that too. Think it was extremely good planning for my UP days to fall on Valentine's Day and Pancake Day!

I so, so hope this works long term. I love how I can see some food I really fancy, and... just... buy it, knowing I CAN eat it in a day or so! Even though I've been very impressed with Weight Watchers Propoints, that freedom with food was never there - I was always thinking about points and how I could fit it in, or deciding that I couldn't fit it in!

Debating whether I ought to start a diary in the JUDDD section, or if it's a bit too soon to do that...
 
Shame about the gain but I really do think you will get good results over the longer term. Its interesting you think it might be connected to the split days as I am trying them this week. First one ended this morning, it does feel a little bit like cheating doesn't it??! Though I did manage to use way under my 500 calories on my 24 hour fast.

Your plans for the week sound very tasty, i had completely forgotten it was pancake day tomorrow, though i am on a fast day tomorrow so will not be partaking. I *might* be super nice and make them for OH anyway. *Might*.

I keep wondering about putting a diary on the JUDDD boards do but most people seem to have at least 3 or 4 fasting days a week so I feel like a bit of a wimp with just the two! Will consider it if i keep going with this (which I fully intend to at the moment) as I do feel a bit guilty having my diary in the weight watchers section still.

By the way where did you find the bbc programme to watch? I still haven't seen it but i thought it wasn't available anywhere now.
 
Atomic pink said:
Shame about the gain but I really do think you will get good results over the longer term. Its interesting you think it might be connected to the split days as I am trying them this week. First one ended this morning, it does feel a little bit like cheating doesn't it??! Though I did manage to use way under my 500 calories on my 24 hour fast.
P
Your plans for the week sound very tasty, i had completely forgotten it was pancake day tomorrow, though i am on a fast day tomorrow so will not be partaking. I *might* be super nice and make them for OH anyway. *Might*.

I keep wondering about putting a diary on the JUDDD boards do but most people seem to have at least 3 or 4 fasting days a week so I feel like a bit of a wimp with just the two! Will consider it if i keep going with this (which I fully intend to at the moment) as I do feel a bit guilty having my diary in the weight watchers section still.

By the way where did you find the bbc programme to watch? I still haven't seen it but i thought it wasn't available anywhere now.
Click to expand...
At the moment it feels more 'right' to me to be doing a full day and day about. I find the fast days quite empowering. I googled the programme - under 'eat, fast and live longer' and it came up on a site called 'dailymotion' or something like that. Well worth a look.
 
Cheers for that. Might have a look when I have more time. This split fast day doesn't feel quite the same - I don't feel quite as motivated. Maybe if I am splitting I need to start earlier in the day and just have breakfast and not lunch as well.
 
Yes I felt it was like I was cheating and therefore found it harder to make sensible choices on my UP days. It seems a bit daft, but that is definitely how I felt on the split days. Have felt much more positive this week, so hopefully the scales will be kind to me.
 
Last edited:
Food for Wednesday down day.

One tea with splash of milk (15 cals)

Half a tin of Baxter's spicy parsnip soup and one slice seeded bread (200 cals)

Small chicken sandwich with seeded bread and a scrape of mango chutney (290 cals)

Drinks - lemon and ginger tea, water, diet squash.

Total cals 505
 
Very good down day calorie use :) Sounds delicious. I never ate sandwiches at all when on SW and still avoided them most of the time on WW, it was so nice to have seeded roll with my soup for lunch today it isn't funny!

When is weigh in? Is it saturday? My brain is like a sieve at the moment. Hope all goes well.
 
Yes Saturday WI it is. I'm not sure what to think this week. I have been monitoring the scales this week and they were up this morning. That was after an UP day yesterday though, but I don't seem to get the fluctuations a lot of others on here have written about - I seem to get the gain after the UP days, but not the drop after the fasting days!

Today's fasting food was a tin of WW Tuscan minestrone soup, a small ham and mustard sandwich, two after eights, a small coffee with cream, and 5 cherry toms.

The soup was 129 cals - bought it thinking it would be a lot lower than that. The OH had a 400g tin of another make which was practically the same cals per 100g and looked a lot nicer, so will not be buying the WW one again! Early night for me tonight - cough (blood tests confirmed whooping cough) has been bad again today and also feeling nauseous and shivery. Would dearly love a whole week of feeling well for a change! :(
 
STS this morning. Will update my thoughts on this when

a) I have been shopping with the OH
b) I am back on my lap top, as I am on my kindle at the moment and screen typing does my head in!
 
Sorry about the STS, I get the impression you were hoping for a better result this week.

You definitely seem like you are making good use of your down day calories though. Are you still enjoying the plan? I guess no plan tends to give you losses every single week and when you have unwell the way your body responds to things is always a bit more unpredictable. Fingers crossed for having a proper "well" week soon.

Enjoy your shopping. I did the shopping after the gym this morning and although I only popped in for a list of 9 things I managed to pick up lots of other things that I fancied because it was my birthday next week. Oooops! I have to say it was the most ridiculously middle class shop I have ever done! All taste the difference grapes, blood oranges, deli counter cheese (smoked goats cheddar sounded too exciting to pass up!) and pear, rhubarb and coconut juice.
 
Atomic pink said:
Sorry about the STS, I get the impression you were hoping for a better result this week.

You definitely seem like you are making good use of your down day calories though. Are you still enjoying the plan? I guess no plan tends to give you losses every single week and when you have unwell the way your body responds to things is always a bit more unpredictable. Fingers crossed for having a proper "well" week soon.

Enjoy your shopping. I did the shopping after the gym this morning and although I only popped in for a list of 9 things I managed to pick up lots of other things that I fancied because it was my birthday next week. Oooops! I have to say it was the most ridiculously middle class shop I have ever done! All taste the difference grapes, blood oranges, deli counter cheese (smoked goats cheddar sounded too exciting to pass up!) and pear, rhubarb and coconut juice.
Click to expand...

Well, I was hoping for a loss (always am though! ;) ) Thinking it through though, I have only been on the plan for two and a half weeks, the first weigh in when I lost one and a half pounds was after only three days on plan, and I had been pretty poorly that week anyway. Then I gained it back the following week, and now STS this week, so in effect that is 2 and a half weeks where I have effectively STS. I'm definitely not myself physically, and have done very little exercise since Christmas, plus we have eaten out a lot on my UP days, much more than we would usually, because of Birthday meals, Birthday cakes at work, spending some of OH's overtime pay etc. Then there has been Valentine's day and Pancake day too, so overall if I am brutally honest I doubt I would have lost anything on WW over the last three weigh ins either, and with all the special occasion meals, would probably have gained. I also would not have enjoyed my meals out as much, as I would have been feeling guilty and stressing more over my choices.

I'm still enjoying the plan. I have a few plans for half term - first one is to get a bit more exercise into my day again. Hopefully I will have more energy as I am not at work, and this cough HAS to start improving soon (I'm two out of the typical three months into it now, so keep everything crossed!) Secondly I will be cooking more again this week - both on my Up and Down days. Thirdly I am having a few days out on my own for some retail therapy and cake and coffee will feature if it is an Up day. I also need to do a bit of pantry re-stocking - need some more home-made chutney and chilli relish. Add in defosting the freezers and making a proper list of the food I have in the house and that is my half-term pretty well taken care of!

That smoked goat's cheddar does sound good. Might have to look out for that on my shop musings next week. I like the sound of the middle class shop! My shopping was a trawl round the local second hand shops for some clothes - I refuse to pay full prices on the grounds that I WILL NOT be wearing them for long enough. Not as many bargains as last time, but I got a couple of nice scarves and one top for work, plus a very nice tapestry style bag. Can't really class it as a middle class shop - unless I call it 'sourcing vintage items.' That does sound a lot better than 'trawling the second hand shops!' :cool:
 
Glad that on reflection you aren't too disheartened by the STS and that you are sticking with this plan. For me as long as the weigh in results aren't worse that I was experiencing with WW I will be sticking with this plan for the reasons you pointed out. I can actually *enjoy* treats and look forward to them rather than having in the back of my mind that I am cheating and dooming myself to a a disappointing weigh in result. And I love feeling more in control about food choices.

I love charity shop clothes shopping. With my job I have to travel all over the place to appointments in people's homes and so sometimes have 15-20 minutes to kill inbetween appointments. I have become an expert in the charity shops of Nottinghamshire ;) Pretty much all of my work and everyday clothes come from charity shops or ebay. This does however mean I have FAR too many clothes now as because its keep I feel I am buy stuff all the time. I was sorting through my wardrobe yesterday to look for something and found that I have 4 black satin pencil skirts. That's a little excessive by anyone's standards...

Half-term plans sound like a lot of fun. I have never really got into homemade preserves and pickles and the thought does really appeal, especially the chilli relish. I really love doing a freezer inventry every few months, its like free shopping! I am probably due to sort through my freezer too. Might have to wait a few weeks until I have a week's holiday though.

Look forward to reading about all the tasty up and down day food you'll be cooking over the next week :) And hope your cough finally starts to ease.
 
moonwatcher said:
Hi Em. Nice to hear from you. How have you been? :)
Click to expand...

Thanks MW. I decided to stop posting as my weight had been stuck for such a long time that all I seem to be doing was moaning and moaning especially about my bad back!! .. :confused: and who wants to be reading that all the time hey?!
Pleased to say that weight is finally beginning to shift again...so I am a very happy bunny at the mo...:bliss:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

thenewnat
Food diary
2
Replies
23
Views
4K
Ravenous
R
F
My Food Diary
Replies
4
Views
4K
FruitLoops
F
T
My Food Diary
Replies
4
Views
4K
skinnydawn
skinnydawn
S
can you check my food diary?
Replies
2
Views
1K
TRISTAR
TRISTAR
Mom38
Mom38s Food Diary Old School Red/Green Days
2 3
Replies
50
Views
9K
Willivie
Willivie
Back
Top