Hello and welcome one and all to the Daily Diary for Sunday 1 September – goodness is it that time already???
This is where we share our meal plans as well as a great big dollop of inspiration and support.
To get the most out of this fabulous forum, please share:
- your calorie range or other plan;
- your food for the day and calories or other macros if relevant;
- your exercise plans for the day.
Please also share some encouraging and constructive feedback with at least one other person – probably the one just before you on the thread – more if you can manage it. The conversations that result are usually lovely, and we can all learn something from each other. I will check in when I can although I will be travelling some of the time.
I am on a maintenance plan of 3 decent meals a day, no snacks. However I’m also staying with my mother … I can’t control what’s on offer, but I can control how much of it I eat. (Oh yes I can!)
B: toast and banana; fruit yogurt;
L: poached egg on toast;
D: [home again] roast chicken, a modest roast tattie and veg.
Milk in hot drinks.
Exercise: walking and lugging luggage; cycling back home from the bus stop (only around a mile and a half).
Wishing you all a lovely Sunday and look forward to reading you plans. Over to you.
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Good afternoon Bikegrrl and thank you for hosting 😊. Enjoy your weekend with your Mum, your menu sounds good, apart from toast and banana, my hubby’s favourite though 🤣
Tomorrow is a tricky one for me, as I’m out most of the day.
I shall take some nuts with me to have with a coffee mid morning
Lunch is out, (my friend is treating me as I’m driving). I shall choose carefully but still enjoy my lunch guilt free.
Dinner will be a bowl of soup and maybe some yogurt and seeds if I’m still hungry
Exercise will be walking around large Craft Fayre and maybe a short stint on my exercise bike before dinner
Thanks fo posting early, bikegrrrl. I’m posting quickly and going to bed. I’m pretty exhausted and decided that caused my blowout yesterday. I did pretty well today but need to get some sleep or I will not be able to resist carbs for a sugar rush.
Tomorrow:
B: berry almond smoothie
L: Tuna and salad
Sn: veggies and marinated artichoke hearts
D: chicken drumsticks with skin, spinach. Blueberries and cream.
Good night and I’ll check in with others tomorrow. Best wishes, everyone!
It wasn't too bad so shouldn't make much of a difference. I'm drained today though so reaching for food - never noticed this before, so it's good I'm starting to be aware of my habits.
thanks for hosting, bikegrrrl . I'm back after a week away, not been very controlled with eating so I'm not looking forward to my next weigh in. From tomorrow I'm going to try low carb, not counting calories, to see if that shakes things up a bit.
B- scrambled eggs with butter
L- buffet. Meat, fish, salad, cheese
D- salad, sardines. Also eggs and cheese if hungry. Plenty of water.
Thanks for hosting bikegrrrl, enjoy your busy day-you’ve a lovely menu.
We’re all a bit buggy at home so think tomorrow will be another quiet one-some food shopping, jobs around the house and hopefully a walk in the park
Food wise, the plan is:
Lunch: the eggs with cabbage leek and mushrooms dish I didn’t get to make today
Dinner: Not sure yet, possibly the Mexican food I thought I would have tonight but we didn’t fancy in the end! As you can see I didn’t stick to plan today (but have eaten well!)
Personally, I think touching base with Daily Diary helps me make healthy choices and that is as important as rigidly sticking to the plan. Hope you feel better soon X
Completely agree Hopalong. It’s the discipline of sitting down and planning which I may not do otherwise.
Thank you, just a cold which I get rarely so am not very tolerant! My oldest daughter has felt really rough this week and is only just beginning to eat so I’ll want to make something she fancies tomorrow
Yesterday, because it was a dinner party, we had oat cakes, but I ate one, it was like cardboard. Forgot to put out fruit. Today with just eat cheese as it is just me and husband. We have a lot of cheese left, so there is broccoli and stilton soup later in week. I think celery and cucumber would be good as there is cream cheese.
I don't know what's wrong with me, I keep sabotaging myself. Plan all my meals and then go off track and eat rubbish. Oh well, will try again today. Will be getting back into routine this coming week as we are all back to school/work so hopefully that will help.
B - raspberries, strawberries and Greek yoghurt.
L - lamb grills, roasted squash and mixed veg.
D - mushroom omelette, yoghurt, hot chocolate.
Ex - need to find an online Pilates video I like as I really need to work on my core.
Today’s menu looks gorgeous! Have a lovely, non-sabotagey day. Hopefully getting back into routine will do the trick, but if not, maybe consider non-food rewards for a “sticking to plan” streak? Good luck, cheering you on!
Good luck, I competely empathise with the self sabotage! Come back here if you're tempted during the day. Or imagine us all in your kitchen as you reach for the snacks!
I use a website called fitness blender for pilates and other exercises at home, they have masses of short and long routines perfect for fitting into a day.
Hi Schoolie, I think it is natural that you have enjoyed treats as a family over the holiday. I think it is hard to watch your weight when there are young people in the house anyway, but you have a plan. I have had a couple of months when things have slowed down with the weight loss, was just rewatching this film for restarting you weight loss, it may help and thanks for getting me to watch it again
Thanks. Yes, it is definitely difficult with little people in the house although they have reduced their snacking loads since last holiday thank goodness! I do worry that I give them too much to eat at mealtimes though. 🤦
Well you are a Mum, worrying is par for the course. They are growing and need to eat. I have two six foot sons, they took some filling and we had fussy habits at times, cooking more than one meal. I think the only thing is I am glad of is not making food a big issue. If it didn't get eaten we cleared away and tried again later. Glad that's over!
I felt much the same when I came back from holiday-it’s taken me a few weeks to feel properly back on it. I’m sure it will help being back into routine. Enjoy your day
Good morning all! I have missed you lovely forum folk as I took a bit of a sabbatical from the forum during August - mostly for good reasons - two holidays - which was rather a treat, first camping in the UK and then a rather special family holiday in Mauritius. I also wanted to take some time to think about my life, always feeling hectic and too busy, and struggling to get back on top of my eating habits (I think those two are linked).
So, here is September, the return of routine, and for me a return to the basics of calorie counting. I've rerun my calorie allowance, and tipped into the 'overweight' category by a fraction, which is not great. But my activity levels are higher than when I first lost the weight two years ago, so I'm going to try a slightly higher calorie count of 1600 a day.
Today is a calm day at home sorting things out.
B - 2 pancakes with peanut butter, greek yoghurt - 350 cals
L - 3 egg omelette with sauerkraut and chickpea salad - 450 cals
Small glass of rose wine - 80 cals
D - crusty bread and butter, coleslaw, prawns and piles of salad. 700 cals
Total 1580 cals
Exercise - mostly just pottering about the house tidying and unpacking, but I'll do a good walk to the supermarket too. And 10 mins stretching.
Nice to see you, Salcheq , what lovely holidays! Good opportunity to “take stock”. Today’s menu looks very nice as well. I’m looking forward to seeing your progress.
That is good. As long as you know those calories are there, so you don't get too hungry. My allowance was high in the 2000s to start and I still lost weight. I feel I ate too many carbs, but your meals have a nice shape to them. All the best
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