Pommette
Trying - very!
Lou - I've had a quick look through your MFP stuff and the food mostly looks ok. But . . . my comments would be
a) try and cut out any instant foods, things like tinned soups and the Mattiesons sausage. They are full of fat and E-numbers. Try making your own soup from scratch and try turkey or chicken sausages as these are much lower in fat. Don't bother with quorn ones - they are revolting! (Although some of the other quorn products are good and are fat free so low in calories). Also Processed peas are high in fat. Even breaded ham has extra calories over normal sliced ham - and cut the fat off.
b) if you need salad cream or mayo, buy the low fat ones (the ones I use are < 50 cals per 100g and therefore class as free on SW). We all underestimate the amout we have unless we actually measure it and salad cream and full fat mayo appeared a few times.
c) swap to Semi-skimmed milk instead of whole milk
d) lose the jelly - empty cals and not at all filling
e) lose the mug shots - again empty cals. You know the SW rules for snacks, it should be Superfree fruit or veg which will also help your bloat and any *ahem* toilet problems. But basically I would say no snacks at all - they are the root of all evil and when you are so close to target could be the extra difference between losing weight or not. (I had to cut them out completely to lose at all over the last 12 months).
f) why 2 * 185g salmon steaks? Just the 1 should be perfectly sufficient.
g) there seems to be a fair amount of bread being eaten. Which will not be helping with the bloat.
This might sound a bit picky but this is where you are adding extra calories that you can easily cut out.
I also can't see any mention of any oil being used for cooking. If you are dry frying things then that's fine. If not you may be omitting some big calories from your list of foods eaten.
Also, are you drinking enough liquid? There is no mention of this in your diaries but I don't know whether MFP makes you record this. It should be 6-8 big glasses of water a day which will help get rid of the bloat. Add NAS squash or have have herbal teas if you can't stand plain water.
Exercise.
Cooking times - I think you may be overestimating this. I reckon it normally takes me about 15 minutes of actual physical exercise to cook a meal. 20 minutes for something really complex. Ok it takes longer than this to actually cook but you aren't actually doing much during this time except to get up and stir it a few times maybe. Your numbers for the following dates are 22/11 is 180 mins = 3 hrs, 25/11 is 300 mins = 6 hrs and 28/11 is 180 mins = 3hrs. This is taking big numbers of exercise cals off so you may not be being as good as you think.
Watch Masterchef - they get 1 hour to do really flashy stuff and there is no way I would ever do this amount of prep and cooking for a meal.
The other exercise you add in like pushing stroller and cleaning are what I class as normal everyday routine and I wouldn't count these or eat the cals back. This is the core/basic exercise you need to do to actually burn up the calories you have eaten. The days you actually go out to your cleaning job can be counted as can the bike riding but I'd stop counting the rest and see if that makes a difference.
Little things add up and as I said your BMI Is already healthy so losing the last few pounds will be difficult.
Hugs chica
a) try and cut out any instant foods, things like tinned soups and the Mattiesons sausage. They are full of fat and E-numbers. Try making your own soup from scratch and try turkey or chicken sausages as these are much lower in fat. Don't bother with quorn ones - they are revolting! (Although some of the other quorn products are good and are fat free so low in calories). Also Processed peas are high in fat. Even breaded ham has extra calories over normal sliced ham - and cut the fat off.
b) if you need salad cream or mayo, buy the low fat ones (the ones I use are < 50 cals per 100g and therefore class as free on SW). We all underestimate the amout we have unless we actually measure it and salad cream and full fat mayo appeared a few times.
c) swap to Semi-skimmed milk instead of whole milk
d) lose the jelly - empty cals and not at all filling
e) lose the mug shots - again empty cals. You know the SW rules for snacks, it should be Superfree fruit or veg which will also help your bloat and any *ahem* toilet problems. But basically I would say no snacks at all - they are the root of all evil and when you are so close to target could be the extra difference between losing weight or not. (I had to cut them out completely to lose at all over the last 12 months).
f) why 2 * 185g salmon steaks? Just the 1 should be perfectly sufficient.
g) there seems to be a fair amount of bread being eaten. Which will not be helping with the bloat.
This might sound a bit picky but this is where you are adding extra calories that you can easily cut out.
I also can't see any mention of any oil being used for cooking. If you are dry frying things then that's fine. If not you may be omitting some big calories from your list of foods eaten.
Also, are you drinking enough liquid? There is no mention of this in your diaries but I don't know whether MFP makes you record this. It should be 6-8 big glasses of water a day which will help get rid of the bloat. Add NAS squash or have have herbal teas if you can't stand plain water.
Exercise.
Cooking times - I think you may be overestimating this. I reckon it normally takes me about 15 minutes of actual physical exercise to cook a meal. 20 minutes for something really complex. Ok it takes longer than this to actually cook but you aren't actually doing much during this time except to get up and stir it a few times maybe. Your numbers for the following dates are 22/11 is 180 mins = 3 hrs, 25/11 is 300 mins = 6 hrs and 28/11 is 180 mins = 3hrs. This is taking big numbers of exercise cals off so you may not be being as good as you think.
Watch Masterchef - they get 1 hour to do really flashy stuff and there is no way I would ever do this amount of prep and cooking for a meal.
The other exercise you add in like pushing stroller and cleaning are what I class as normal everyday routine and I wouldn't count these or eat the cals back. This is the core/basic exercise you need to do to actually burn up the calories you have eaten. The days you actually go out to your cleaning job can be counted as can the bike riding but I'd stop counting the rest and see if that makes a difference.
Little things add up and as I said your BMI Is already healthy so losing the last few pounds will be difficult.
Hugs chica
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I eat 2 slices of nimble almost every day as if I cut all carbs my ibs plays up and I do t eat rice and rarely eat pasta, do t have potatoes every day so don't think I'm over doing carbs tbh. I had 2 salmon fillets as I only had a mines ule amount of salad and didnt want to be hungry later and I do t think I went over cals that day, I've also cut down on cheese this week cos I thought I was eating too much of that :/ I will may e have to look at what I was eating a few months ago when I lost alot of weight quickly. I will make sure I don't ha e any more mug shots etc and I agree about the snacking thing. Its an area I'm really trying to work on. It's so bloody hard isn't it?! Thanks for looking cx
