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Saturday 7 January 2012

End of week update

So heres our weekly food menu ahead

Quorn southern fried chicken burgers, with a slice of tiger bread and pasta salad
Turkey curry with a sharwoods curry sauce, weight watchers naan bread and vegetables.
Eat smart sausage casserole
Low fat grilled breakfast with scrambled egg and wholemeal toast
Vegetable lasagne, with cottage cheese instead of white sauce.
Spanish omelette.
Thursday will be something we have left over.

For all this week i have had weetabix and all bran for breakfast, a few days crumpets for lunch,

Wednesday i made a low fat beef stew with rice and a weight watchers pudding. Thursday i made a cold chilli cooked trout with tortellini, and friday was the quorn chicken burgers.

Now as ive been shopping and bought alot more snacks, im going to try and do 4 things for this month. Only 4-6 slices of bread a week, no potatoes, no choclate and try to have as little fizzy juice as possible and swap it with fruit juice or cordial.

My target for the month is to lose half a stone. which in my first month will be a good achievement and a platform for the rest of the year ahead. I know there may be tougher and harder times ahead, as the less weight i have, the harder it will be to go.

I beilive dieting and losing weight is a way of life, especially when it hasnt been part of your life for, probably all your life, as im making the biggest changes ever. I dont work the perfect job for dieting, as im a cook in a kitchen filled with food and constantly making things and the temptation is there every single day. The other tough thing is the hours, as i dont get the normal breaks a 9-5 worker will get, i dont have regular breakfast times, and my afternoon break is it at 3 and i dont get home till 8. So ive got to find someway of making dieting with the hours i work, work for me and work right.

Friday 6 January 2012

Mid Weekly Update, Food Shopping heaven trip.




Well, this week has been tough, challenging but upto now, i can keep this up and liking the new diet. Each morning ive been having weetabix and all bran, with a small lunch and dinner, all within my points, and having a few snacks inbetween as well.

Im going to try and do the 40pro points diet with weight watchers, which means i have 40 point limit to eat each day. I have gone over once, which was the first day by 5 points, which was 5 jaffa cakes! Since then i have always finished level or under my point balance.

Points can also be converted to calories, which my diet would be a 1600calorie a day diet, for a man they reccomend between 2000-2500 calories a day. So by cutting down the calories, im eating less than i am needed, but still eating a good balanced diet as well. Eating 3 meals, having snacks and also drinking more water as well.

I went into the gym on wednesday, and it kinda killed me thursday. I was working a 12hour shift thursday so didnt go in. and was planning to go in on friday after work, but i was so hungry, i opted against it, as you cant exercise on a empty stomach. So i went shopping instead.

Our weekly food shop, is usually one of mine and janettes favourite expierences of the week. Usually janette picking up lots of bad unhealthy stuff, and followed up by the word "NO!!!" from me, bit like a mum telling off there kids in the toy shops when they want something which they cant have! One time, Janette put a bag of minstrels in the trolley, when she wasnt looking, i chucked them back out at the checkout whilst emptying the trolley. She is kinda determinded to find fat free but full of flavoured choclate and sweets, but unfortunatly some bright spark just hasnt invented it yet.

But this week, i went shopping to morrisons on my own, with my list in pocket and my emtpy stomach in full flow, i then proceeded to pack the trolley full to the top with, nearly everything healthy!!!! Except the jaffa cakes and quavers, which are one of the snacks which are low in fat/calories/pro points etc. Lots of lots of offers on at morrisons, so any UK readers get yourself down there

Big box kellogs bran flakes £1,
chinese sauces 80p, the sharwoods ones are pretty low fat as well,Also blue dragon have alot on offer.
clementines 50p a bag,
weight watchers meals £1.23, the ones in the fridge section, lots and lots of new ones on special offer, tikka masala, thai red curry etc.
Weight watchers puddings £1.
Morrisons have there own low fat lemon mousses which are full of flavour and not many calories.
Jaffa cake dark choclate or 100gram free for £1.20.
Quorn chicken nuggets £1 a bag from the frozen aisle.
Good quality chopped tin tomatoes 60p each, then some which are £1 a can! Weight watchers cake bars £1 a box (lemon, blueberry and belgian choc brownie)
Tilda Rice half price! I i love the jasmaine rice as its more flavour and a bit stickyer
Crumpets buy one get on free.
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Morrisons didnt even have any cous cous as that was on special offer. So any dieters and waist watchers among us, then get yourself down to morrisons this week.

I will post tommorow, my weekly food diary and the meals i have planned for the next week as well.

Tuesday 3 January 2012

New Year, New start, New goals

Well its been a long ol year. I started off badly, then did brilliantly on my diet, and then when i moved outta home it didnt go as well, then let myself down a little come end of the year as expected.

So this year has to be the biggest of my life!

My girlfriend is doing weight watchers, and im going to do the diet part with her, well the points. Im giving myself a maximum of 45pro points (pp) a day and trying not to include the extra 45 a week you are allowed. My starting weight on the scales is 16st13lb, and im going to weight myself monthly.

My first day meal plan:
Scrambled eggs on toast, crumpets and a turkey noodle stir fry.

2 Scrambled Eggs 4pp
2 toast with butter 5pp
1 Coffee 1pp
Milk 1pp
2 Crumpets with butter 12pp
Noodles 7pp
Turkey 5pp
Pate+Toast 2pp
Jaffa Cakes 4pp

PP total= 41

I had eat smart pate and eat smart melba toasts after my dinner as a snack.

My second day meal plan:
Weetabix and allbran with crumpets, spicy chicken tortelinni, WW chickey Curry and rice.

Weetabix 6pp
Allbran 2pp
Milk 4pp
Jaffa Cakes 4pp
WW chicken curry 8pp
Tortelinni 8pp
WW pudding 4pp

PP total= 36

I will try and update the blog and diet every few days, if not daily. I am also going to try make food as well. I really dont wanna eat alot of ready meals, but may have a few in a week as i go along. I am going to try snack a little more and eat more fruit and also eat the foods which are free as well. Try and have 3 meals a day, and my main aim is to go to the gym alot more, 3 times a week is easy for me, as i have a gym at work, do more cardio work, running, walker, bike and progress how i am doing and hopefully, run more etc as i get fitter and healthier.

So i am going to forget everything i have done bad over december and write down plans for 2012 and my goals and aims.

Weigh 14stone or less by the end of 2012
Be able to drive and have a car
Go on holiday
Still be living out of home
Live a good healthy lifestyle
Blog more!
Do a stable but strict diet
Have different months were i give up potatoes, bread, chocolate.
Dont have more than 1 fastfood/takeaway meal a month

I have my first diary ever, and im keeping it to track savings and more importantly a food diary and it will be filled in every day as well.

I think if your dieting, its important to keep track of were you are and what you have been doing, as if and when you get on them scales, you will know what your doing right or wrong, and if what you are eating is working for you and if it isnt, where to change. I think its important as it gives u structure and routine and when you have hit your points for the day, its time to stop and give up eating or just eat your free zero point foods.

Heres to 2012 and the delights it will bring us all!