Be Good To Yourself - Part 1

[brendawilliams]

Marie, you haven't upset me at all, I am so pleased to hear where I am going wrong and make it as blunt as you want - I need to hear it warts and all[msnsmile]

The food diary I thought I was following is green, I must admit I haven't really examined the red closely as I thought as a veggie, the green would be most appropriate.

The quantity of food I am eating now is not dissimilar to that I used to eat before. I have always been someone who nibbles between meals, usually the wrong foods such as crips and chocs, but since taking on the SW plan, have stopped the inbetween snacks. My main meals before used to be lots of vegetables, salads, cheeses and fish, I very seldom used to have milk, except in cereals, bread or butter etc. and potatoes, except in potato salad. And before I quite often skipped lunch but snacked instead.

I am finding that I am not hungry with the current food diary. When I say I have had a salad, it is a plate piled high with lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber and beetroot. What I have cut down on is the amount of cheese and fish as I am trying to go with the recommended amounts in the book for green. Before SW plan, I would have lots more cheese and/or fish with the salad, plus the finest range coleslaw and potato salad which is high in fat and dessert was creamy yogurt or other creamy puddings. Perhaps I need to change to the red plan where I can eat more fish and still have the greens free.

I thought I had the recommended amounts with the cheese and milk combined as an HEA, the oats so simple as one HEB and the Ryvita as another HEB. Perhaps this is wrong and it is my calculations that are at fault?

Sandra, I probably do need to chat to the consultant but I don't have much confidence in her and this week it is going to be another person as she is off to an Andover group.

Any comments on where I can improve would be most welcome[msnsmile]

[mizzy]

i'm so glad i have not upset you [grouphug]

how to improve, keep asking for help until you are more comfortable with the plan, talk to the consultant especially so if you have a new one even if it's temporary, she should be asking the class to give you some ideas during image therapy

if you like <span style="color:red">fish, poultry or meat </span id="red"> then choose a <span style="color:red">red day</span id="red">

if you are thinking of <span style="color:green">potatoes, rice, beans or pasta </span id="green"> then you would follow the <span style="color:green">green</span id="green">
if the diary above was green then that's what was missing[msnscared]

i can only say that perhaps for the first few weeks you could maybe download the 7 day trial menu or follow one from the magazine and get some ideas from there of food diaries, i would also recommend that you fill up on free foods (and i don't just mean lettuce and salad veg here) and also not forget to have your healthy a's & b's PLUS at least 5 syns

if you like potato salad you can make this free on a green day using cooked new potatoes and natural fromage frais or quark, salads are great but they soon become "well i'm on a diet so just eating salad" and it becomes boring, there is a whole load of food choices so you can add some bacon and eggs to that salad or nice lean ham, chicken or fish and so on for a red day and how about a warm pasta salad or mixed bean salad for a green alternative

with this plan you can eat normal everyday food like a roast sunday lunch, full english brekkies, curry, fish and chips and spag bol and so on you just need to know how to adapt the recipe to make the food work best for you

i'm sure you can do it Brenda you just have to ditch the i'm on a diet so must eat salad thing that's going on in your head?, it's great if you like salad but possibly hard to maintain over the long term and it will become boring after a while and we all know that when the food becomes boring we give up eat whatever we have been depriving ourselves of and the weight goes back on superfast

so come on Brenda get those trial menus downloaded and lets get you eating something exciting [clap]

Sorry ladies I have missed a lot of the posts today but I have to say Marie's advice is spot on[clap] and it's exactly that advice that got me to join SW and go on to lose 2 stones (I have put on about 13lbs of that but I am working on it[msnwink])

Brenda I felt I had upset you the other day when I corrected your diary[msnsad] and it's the last thing I wanted to do but it's very hard for us old pro's to sit back and let you continue to make mistsakes which are hindering your weight loss. If you read some of the old posts on the Slimming Club threads you will see I made the same mistsakes as you when I first started[msnwink]

Brenda if you imagine a log fire, if you fail to put logs on the fire will go out, well its the same for your metabolism to lose weight you need to fuel the fire and at the moment you are not eating enough of the right foods to do that in my view[msnsmile2]

Finest coleslaw by the way has 6 syns for just a 100g!

As Marie says the HE's are weighed and measured for a very good reason - your health! You need to get in the habit of weighing out the correct amounts - I don't like meat but once a week I make a beef chilli and tonight I made it in three different pans so I could weigh out my 85g of lean low fat mince to make my portion. In Sainsburys at the moment they have sets of diet scales (reduced) for 75p and they are ideal for weighing out just how much you need[msnsmile2]

One final point - another key to long term success and optimum health is variety[clap] by eating salad everyday and skipping lunch is not going to get you anywhere[msnsmile] If you follow how myself and Marie eat most days, we are both green girls and you can see quite clearly that we eat more than you with a lot more variety.[msnwink]

One more question have you got or read any of the SW mags? They are full of recipes, ideas and success stories so well worth getting and are only £1.50 from group[clap]

So onwards and upwards Brenda you can do this so go for it[clap][clap][clap]

My green dairy for today, another good day..............

banana and actimel 1.5 syns
starbucks tall skinny lattes (350mls of skimmed milk each) x 2 = HEA's
potato omelette made with 1 tablespoon of olive oil = HEB
half a be good to yourself hot cross bun 4 syns
85g lean low fat minced beef HEB made into a chilli with boiled rice
muller light
lots of grapes and melon
lots of water

syns so far today 5.5[msnsmile2]

[mizzy]

well i've gone all red again today (tried to expand on my food diary to help new ones a little)

usual brekkie of toast n jam 3 syns for jam my toast is 2 x healthy B med slice wholemeal
banana and yoghurt
carrot and ginger soup (homemade so syn free)
big brekkie for tea quorn sausages, lean bacon, eggs x 2, mushrooms & fresh tomatoes [msntongue]
melon kiwi and pear chopped up in fruit salad for afters
mini honeycomb bites 4 syns
milk 350 ml skimmed (i use this in coffee throughout the day and keep it in my own measured beaker in fridge)

total syns 7 [angel] walked to mums with Olly too (this used to take over an hour at first now takes 35 mins max)[sporty]

[brendawilliams]

Julie, you didn't upset me, I very much valued the advice you gave, I think my quip about not wanting to post was more against me, as I realised I had not put together a good food diary again, yet I posted it. I am very easy going, not a lot will upset me and certainly not the forum members on here - after all we are just one big family with the same goal and that is to eat more healthily and lose weight into the bargain [grouphug]

I think part of my problem is that I never used to eat a lot before SW and I think it is getting used to eating more but making sure it is the right foods.

Thank you Julie and Marie for the pep talk it is just what I need [laugh]

I have seen some slimming mags on the table in the room we use but they have a label on them not to remove, so it is just a case of flicking through rather than reading. I also haven't seen the directory but will ask for one when I go as I think it is going to be essential. I also think it is a trip to Sainsbury's tomorrow to buy the scales as mine at home are not good for weighing small amounts - thanks for the tip Julie [msnsmile]

Green food diary which is better today - no salad [msnwink]

28g Oats so Simple with 150 semi skimmed milk, plus milky coffee with 100ml ss milk, plus ryvita multigrain HEA & HEB
Baked potato, 28g Emmental cheese HEB, with baked beans, banana
2 Vegetarian Cheese & Leek sausages (7 each syns) with baked potato, tomatoes, cauliflower and green beans. Fruit salad and muller light

Total syns 7 - should be 14

OMG only 29 days till we go and I need to lose my chubby tummy[msneek][msnembarrased]

Hope all of you quiet ladies are doing OK?? Frances, Julieanne, Fiona, Paula[msnwink][msnwink][msnwink]

[mizzy]

not long now Julie but i'm sure you can do it [msnsmile]

Brenda that food diary is much improved [clap] just a quick tip if you shop around you can get syn free veggie sausages, most of the quorn ones are free or very low syns and my favourites are tescos meat free spinach and ricotta, oooh they are gorgeous and free on both plans [msntongue] i took these sausages to a food taster and they where a big class hit also by swapping the sauasges to syn free or low syn ones gives you the syns back for chocolate or a glass of wine[msnwink]

i agree Julie it is very quiet on here, hope everything is ok

good luck ladies to those weighing in today[msnsmile]

[Paula D-S]

I'm doing OK and check in all the time. I have my class tonight so will post later to let you all know how I got on.[msneek]

[another]

Julie, thank you for thinking of me!! I put on this week [msnsad] Had a good day yesterday, quorn sausages, nimble wholemeal bread, eggs, veggie curry and rice. White roll counted as all my sins!!

Just had porridge for brekkie.

I have got a pasta'n'sauce out ready for lunch and left over curry for tea - so all sorted for a fab day!!

Can't believe your holiday is so close now - are you getting really excited!! - I know I do with less than a month to go! I'm surte you will get to your target by then - keep up the good work!![msnsmile]

[canarypam]

Good luck for tonight Paula!
Chin up Frances hopefully just a small blip.

I thought I would post a food diary to try and help anybody struggling.
Although it may not help much as I have mostly red days.


Red Day

Hi Fi Bar 6 syns
Banana
Grapes
Muller Lite
Wholemeal Roll HEB
Ham, eggs and salad
Orange
More Grapes
Beef chilli (no beans)
Jacket Potato HEB
Milk for teas throughout the day HEA
Lots of Water


Total Syns 6