Please join me in positing your daily food and exercise confessions! I look forward to reading your confessions!! Thanks!!
I'm new here. Stumbled upon this wonderful forum by accident. I had a read around alot of the posts, and one thing I noticed, is how friendly and nice everyone is! This place is brilliant!
I've been searching for a nice weight loss support forum for ages, and this is the best one I have ever seen.
my new eating programe, basically follows Paul Mckenna's 4 golden rules.
4 GOLDEN RULES
1. When You Are Hungry, Eat
2. Eat What You Want, Not What You Think You Should
3. Eat Consciously And Enjoy Every Mouthful (eat SLOWLY, no T.V)
4. When You Think You Are Full, Stop Eating
And checking if i am really hungry by drinking a glass of water. as 75% of the time, you might be thirsty and not hungry.
And also constantly monitoring my hunger level, by checking the hunger scale. avoiding the red zone of the hunger scale!
Also my plan includes the gabriel method, and a little bit of south beach thrown in
Also exercising everyday, no matter what it is or however short.
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my confession from today
exercise - loads of squats with hand held weights. stomach crunches. and 50 ab rolls with my ab roller. its this wheely thing that you roll infront of you.
late breakfast- 2 peaches, some cherries, 1 plum.
lunch - steamed vegetables, turnips and lamb stew, bowl of lentils, pickled onions, home made yoghurt.
for dessert, i had 40g of fruit and fibre cereal with half a cup of milk.
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dinner at 9pm. vegetables, turnips and lamb stew, 2 carrots, pickled onions, and home made low fat yoghurt.
i think that is a great idea. and i, like you, looked for an accountability thread. working out isnt my problem, but being accountable for what i eat is.
We used to have a food planning thread for everyday back in '06 -'07. I fell off the wagon then so I don't know what happened to it... but it's great to see it start back up. I'll join!
Today:
Breffix - 2 slices whole grain wheat bread, sundried tomatoes, sprinkling of feta cheese and chopped up basil. Toasted.
Lunch - 1 cup (cooked) white rice, spiced roasted potatoes, 1/2 cup plain yogurt.
Snack - 1 bag popcorn (100 cal snack bags), bunch of grapes (yum!), handful of toasted pita chips
Dinner - Noodles with plenty of veggies - bell peppers, bean sprouts, carrots, green onions, mushrooms and garlic/ginger.
Hmmm... I feel like I overdid the snacks today... something to work on for tomorrow.
do you track your food on something like Sparkpeople, fitday, dailyplate? to make sure you're getting enough calories, fiber, protein, fat, etc? that might help in addition to a thread here.
Exercise: 30 minutes fast walk on treadmill, 10 minutes stretching, 20 minutes weights
Breakfast: 1 cup ff Greek yogurt, 1 peach, 1/2 cup oatmeal , coffee with milk
Lunch: 1/2 cup turkey and bean chili over salad (lettuce, tomato, red peppers, carrots) dressing of ff yogurt and salsa, sprinkle of grated cheddar, water
Snack: 2 Tbs hummus, 1/2 pita, 1/2 cup raw veggie dippers (cucumbers, celery, red peppers), water
Dinner: 1 grilled chicken breast marinated in yogurt and curry, 1 cup grilled green beans, 1/2 grilled sweet potato. 1/4 cup white wine, water
Treat: 1/2 cup ff Greek yogurt sweetened with Stevia, with 1/2 cup raspberries
Last edited by Teachyrchildren; 08-06-2009 at 07:04 AM.
Awww thanks Sunnigummi!!! so encouraging of you to say! well i've been on and off my weight loss plan since march! lol so i've been yo-yo-ing up and down weight scale.
thanks again!
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my confession for today:
exercise = i did interval running. 1 minute running/jogging with walking to recover. clocked in 10 minutes of total run time. walked a total distance of 2.61 miles post workout snack : 2 peaches, 1 plum, few cherries and water
dinner:
appetizer - bowl of honey dew melon pieces.
2 barbeque chicken kebabs. onion, tomato and raddish salad. carrots, cucumber, raita (cucumber and low fat home made yoghurt with mint and coriander and black pepper), yellow lentil soup (yellow daal).
peppermint tea - (no added sugar or honey- just plain)and that's me done for today!
rest of the night will just be drinking plain water.
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