Buy yourself a funky notebook and a Slimming Magazines Greatest Guide to Calories and you are on your way, most foods these days are calorie counted, you can do it J you really can. you soon remember most basic foods and once you write em in your book you dont have to keep flicking through the cal guide,
all the best to you on this fresh start.
you can have wine you just have to work out how much you can have according to how many cals you have left.
GO FOR IT !!

Do you have Hot pocket's there? in the freezer section, well Lean pockets are less fat hence the name, sort of a pastry pocket filled with different pizza like stuff, today's was chicken, peper's and onions with cheese.
Rest of today's food in my tum,

Dinner: 5oz chicken 5 pts
Spinich, mushrooms & onions 0 pts.
I slice potato bread 2 pts
saltine cracker's low fat, 5 @ 1 pt.

Total points so far today 20 I think...still have four more to go, so can snack this evening

I have no pockets at all lean or hot!

Sunday

• Bf scrambled eggs on toast and mushrooms & orange juice
• Tea M&S baked potatos and salad
• Large M&S beef crisps
• Throat lozengers

Yes I know not healthy...fruit...veg where are you?

Sunday:

Good start - 1 Muller, 1 banana, cup of tea

Lunch/Dinner Roast Pork, Roast Potatoes, Leeks, Cauliflower, roast Parsnips and loads of THICK gravy. 2 tablespoons Apple sauce and 3 glasses of white wine to wash it all down.!!

Not very healthy i know but i will start afresh tomorrow

Tracy

Started off great. Had only eaten 750 cals before going to the party. But blew that and more there on cake and flan and wine

More mind reading - strtign over again tomorrow

I have just posted this but it seems to have gone missing so here goes again
we went out for a thai meal last night so my calories went into thousands very nice though
www.jimthompsons.co.uk

Plenty of wine to wash it all down, i feel a bit guilty but as our son is with his nanny and grandad for a few days we thought we would go for it. I feel slightly hungover this morning and all that has passed my lips so far is iced water

I have to get organised and get back to it cos we went out for lunch on saturday too, i chose wisely but you know how it is!!

Hope we all have a great week this week, that sun is shining outside so it wont be long before we have to cast off our cardi's !!

• BF 2 slices of toast
• Dinner egg sandwich
• Tea aubergine pasta gratin
• Supper toast or sandwich
• Fruit I'll try and eat some today!

Im off sick couldnt face going in have slept all morning.

Brekkie - 25g Porridge mixed with a choclate Muller

Lunch - Cold roast Pork, Cottage Cheese with peaches and cherry tomatoes

Dinner - Beefburgers in gravy, new potatoes, cauli, broccoli

Supper - muller lite, chocolate options, 3 x laughing cow cheeses

have done 15 minutes on the rebounder and 15 minutes using exercise ball/fitness wheel and walked the dog for 30 minutes.

so far today, so good......

bfst: shake

lunch: shake

mid aft snack 1 apple

tea: curry, without rice, just salad

dssrt: sf jelly, with lemon shape yog

have done lots of spring cleaning and 30 mins walking too

off to the gym tomorrow, feel guilty, cos i didn't make it on thurs, so its' been a week

but did walk for 2 hours on saturday though, and did extra aquafit too...so shouldn't feel too bad!

i hope that I do loose on this plan, goin on 2nd honeymoon at end of august.....want to loose 50lbs for then

Hi Veggie,
I am no one to give ANYONE diet advice, AND I'm NOT a calorie slave BUT having said that, one of the things I have been doing is buying a load of fruit (I believe Tesco's stock it) including some I think of as 'treats' like strawberries, Sharon fruit, fresh pineapple etc, making a fruit salad using a tin of fruit in juice (mandarins are best) too which makes it a bit more swishy. I put it in a big plastic box in the fridge, and have it with a low fat Ski yoghurt (tropical selection from Tesco once again) over the top. It's more interesting than a banana and the addition of the goodies makes me feel like I'm eating it because I want it.
I would happily cook for a veggie, it's the only kind of cooking I'm good at. Was one myself for years and years until I got knocked up and developed a craving for ham sandwiches. DH and kids are carnivores, the cat is nervous.
Avoiding cheese is SOOOOO hard for a veggie, and the low fat stuff is no good for cooking (or so i think anyway). I use a teaspoon of red pesto sauce in veg sauces to cheer them up a bit, OR skin some fresh tomatoes in boliling water, chop up and cook with some fresh basil (gently until mushy) pour over pasta.
The other thing you can do to make a creamy but low cal sauce which is hugely good for you is use tofu. I loathe the slimy stuff, but if you have a blender of any kind, you can whizz it up into instant sauce which tastes of very little on it's own but is very creamy and picks up on the flavours of your veg. i give it to my family and they don't have aclue what they are eating! It's nice like this...cook some pasta in a wok or similar, not too much water, but put a veg stock cube in. When the water had evaporated a bit, put in some purple sprouting broccoli, the whizzed up tofu and some chopped red onion, OR some spinach, tofu and nutmeg. Cook until edible then as my 4 year old would say 'yum it up'
Good luck. I'm going to do this, eventually. Don't see why you shouldn't BUT don't be a slave to it. Food is supposed to be a pleasure, not a crime. Cheese pasties are vile, all that saturated fat in the pastry and contents, plus the additives and preservatives, not only fattening but probably carcenogenic...in years to come people will be sueing Pork Farms and their ilk the way they sue fag companies now.
Better than counting calories, try to eat food which hasn't been processed in a factory. A differnet slant on food may help you.
Good luck anyway,
geneve

I find it hard to think of cheese pastys as vile I get mine from the bakers and they are lovely...but I got this plan now haven't started it yet but I'll give it a bash it is from real slimmers I don't know what possessed me but I have done it now I get an emailed plan every monday for 12 weeks!

Good for you Veggie.

I haven't eaten a lot today, but what I have eaten has all been rubbish. Crisp roll, garlic bread and pizza mainly.

Here's to tomorrow

OK - at Veggie's request, here goes.....

Yesterday I ate:

6.15am Brekkie: 2oz high fibre shreddies, half pint skimmed milk - 300 cals

10am Snack: Medium banana - 80 cals

12.30 Lunch: 2 small wholemeal rolls (95 each) with tuna (40) - 230 Packet Netto/Gilroy's cheese curls - 76

3pm Snack: Apple - 40

5.45 Dinner: 5oz lean roast beef - 220
6oz low fat roast potatoes - 180
Very low fat Yorkshire pud - 148
Veg (sprouts, cauliflower, carrots, broccoli) - 100
Gravy - 50

7pm Snack: 2 pears - 80

8pm Yet another snack: Caramel Snackajacks - 140

9.15.... Just before bed: half pint hot skimmed milk - 100

TOTAL CALORIES EATEN: 1744


So,

Total calories I ate: 1744
Calories I burned off exercising: 551
Walking: 455
Yoga (about 30 mins) 96

Balance left to live on 1193

Stef says that I should be aiming to leave 1500 cals to live on, but I ate as much as I wanted yesterday. I think I am happy on around 1750 - on the days I ate 2000 I felt a bit uncomfortable but 2000 is OK for weekends or days I exercise a lot.

Our planned swimming for last evening got cancelled cos Kevin had to start work at 5 this morning!

• 2 slices of toast and baked beans
• wholemeal pitta with 2 veg sausages salad coleslaw banana
• veg quiche salad coleslaw ice cream fruit
• 1 lager or wine

Thats my personal plan for today...yes it tells me to eat ice cream!