This week's diet

This week's diet has been interrupted several times. Things like lunches out, large Sunday roasts all put a strain on your diet. Without being a social leper you have to join in these things are and so have to develop coping techniques. Picking something delicious but healthy on the menu can sometimes be tricky. Sometimes picking a basic sandwich can result in huge plateful of sandwich packed with meat and salad, which is bad really as long as it's not so it's in butter or mayonnaise. A healthy salad can be unhealthy when drowned in a dressing. Picking fried food is an obvious no-no.

Sometimes a treat is what you need, and as long as you have saved up some extra calories, syns or points then you should be fine. If you have to do it a couple of times in a week, it can get quite stressful having to juggle your entire diet so much.

Diet books at amazon

diet books

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The Italian Diet by Gino D'Acampo (Paperback - 7 Jan 2010)


Excerpt - Front Cover: "talian DIET GINO D A CAMPO INTRODUCTION BY DIETITIAN JULIETTE KELLOW BSc RD 100 HEALTHY ITALIAN RECIPES TO HELP YOU U C LOSE WEIGHT AND LOVE ... "

2.

101 Low-fat Feasts ("Good Food") by Good Homes Magazine (Paperback - 5 Jun 2003)


3.
Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Hardcover - 20 Oct 2009)

Excerpt - page 24: "Butterflies were provided with a healthful diet, excellent medical care, a well-rounded education, and the best wage going: as much as $400 a week, or the modern ... "

4.
Rosemary Conley's Amazing Inch Loss Plan: Lose a Stone in a Month by Rosemary Conley (Paperback - 7 Jan 2010)

5.
The Curry Secret: How to Cook Real Indian Restaurant Meals at Home by Kris Dhillon (Paperback - 27 Mar 2008)

Excerpt - page 13: "concept of medicine and diet called tridosha, which teaches that some foods have a warming effect on the body while others have a cooling one"

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The Secret Ingredient: Delicious, Easy Recipes Which Might Just Save Your Life by Sally Bee (Paperback - 21 Jan 2010)

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Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World by Barbara Ehrenreich (Paperback - 7 Jan 2010)
Excerpt - page 15: " ... Nothing had so far come along that could not be controlled by diet"

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I Can Make You Thin - Love Food, Lose Weight: New Full Colour Edition (includes free DVD and CD) by Paul McKenna (Paperback - 1 Jan 2010)

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I Can Make You Thin (New edition - book & CD) by Paul McKenna (Paperback - 17 Dec 2007)

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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Paperback - 18 Jun 2007)


Excerpt - Back Matter: " ... weight con- trol. Over the years, he had tried a sushi diet, a tubular-pasta diet, a 215"

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Anna Richardson's Body Blitz: Five Rules for a Brand New You by Anna Richardson (Paperback - 4 Jan 2010)

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How Not to Get Fat by Ian Marber (Paperback - 1 Jan 2010)

Dieting properly again

I'm back on a diet. I've put on too much weight over Christmas.
I'm using the green and red days plan of slimming world. I could do with a new directory as mine is a little out of date. Have been looking on ebay but they're a bit dear. Will keep looking.

Have had 28g of porridge this morning and grated an apple in before microwaving it. Added a spoon of blackcurrant jam when it was done and it was very yummy.

An interestly easy way of getting an extra piece of fruit into my diet.

The scales haven't been so busy for years.

Interesting though to see what 28g of Christmas cake looks like. It's a tempting tasty morcel!

Wow look at that! Long time no post

calories in a swizzels drumstick lolly 16.5g??


I don't know. But I've decided to start blogging regularly as I try to lose weight as I'm getting married next year. When? Don't know.

There are 75 calories in 1 serving of Swizzels Matlow Raspberries & Cream Drumstick Lolly.
Calorie breakdown: 13% fat, 86% carbs, 1% protein.
Calculated Weight Watchers® points: 2 points.
Estimated Net Carbs (non-fiber carbs): 16.04g.

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Weighed at the docs

I was cheeky today and asked the doc if I could weigh myself. I did.

Eeek.

A memory of slimming club

Everyone without fail used to go and have a wee before weigh-in at slimming club.

That few ounces of liquid make all the difference!


I've done a week's good dieting and weighed myself last night and hadn't lost weight so went and had three segments of terrys chocolate orange segments (calories 122 for 3)

Today it appears the scales have worked in my favour so in future I won't scran down a massive plate of low fat curry and expect to have lost weight!

Weigh it

Scary stuff weighing things out. I poured a huge bowl of museli today and then decided I'd weight it. Just abouts 100g - twice the recommended serving of museli and would have given me over 460 calories without milk!

Needless to say I put half back and had a respectable amount.

I weighed ten chewy drumsticks yesterday and they were 130g
100g of them is 400 calories so 13g (one sweet) is 52 calories.

Why they can't publish the figure on the packet I don't know. Oh hang on, but I do! You would be put off eating them if you knew that a sweet that lasts about 2 minutes has so many calories in it.

Exercise more exercise

I only managed 20 minutes the last two days but I have been out for a walk both days.
It's hard work exercising every day and you need to do something thats

(a) very easy
(b) convenient
(c) enjoyable

A neighbour was telling me all their exercise equipment folds up and stores away (Or has clothes hung on it!) and this is part of the problem - that we do fold away exercise equipment and that makes it more effort to do exercise.
My cross trainer and trampoline are left out in my study all the time. If I had to drag chairs about to put them out I'd just not bother.

So when you plan your exercise routine - find something that is easy to sort out. If you like to shop every day, then work out how far the local shop is and walk a bit faster there and round. That way you might be able to do chored and exercise too!

Tired but knee better

So will risk some exercise this morning. Have been out all morning at work anyway so have had some exercise.

Parties bad for diet

No! It's people eating and drinking too much that's bad for parties.
Was out yesterday at a party. Lots of fun and food. And drink! Some lovely pear cider and wine.

Sore knee

I'm not happy. I've got a sore knee still. It's just not sorting itself out right so I suspect a visit to the docs is going to take place sometime next week. Perhaps I need to strap it up and just not move? We had a walk yesterday, not far but I knew my knee would kill if we went on the bikes.

I want to take more exercise but my knee just isn't up to it. It's not fair.

I've been sticking to the diet just abouts though so that should mean at least I don't put on weight.

knee sore

So didn't do any exercise yesterday. Hoping it'll be ok tonight though.

Weighed myself on Tuesday -lost 2lb!
Woohoo.


Am worried not being able to exercise is going to depress me and make me scoff some food I shouldn't be eating.

Thurs 9.3km 83.6 cal
Fri 3.6km (think the thing broke) 98.8 cal
And cycle ride to shop

Sat 10km 99.8cal

Sunday went out for walk only

Monday 32 mins of trampoline - 18 mins with weights

Update from yesterday

OK we had chinese takeout. It was yummy. I had water chestnuts and bamboo shoot special with noodles. But ate half last night and had half this lunchtime. Yummy. Both times!

Exercise was 80.1 calories yesterday and 9.1km


Todays exercise was 9.3km and 83.6 calories. I went a bit faster for a few moments today so perhaps it's time to up the setting a little

Also went to the supermarket on our bikes today. Its not far so not a great deal of calories burnt there. It's much quicker than walking though!

Temptation

My son wants chinese food for tea. I don't cook chinese food very well so it means takeaway. He's moaning that we never have chinese food. This is not quite true but it's an easy way to ruin the diet eating takeaway.

So should I give in and indulge myself in some delicious noodles? Or offer him some home cooked cuisine?

I know he'll probably have chinese food when he goes to his dads at the weekend so I'm not too worried on him missing out - but I wold like to be able to have the treat of a takeout with him sometimes.

I love crispy duck but that's quite greasy even though you get plenty of veggies with it.
Perhaps I should get the menus out and have a look at what they have that has plenty of veg in it.

You have to find ways of living with the family and not being in a food bubble. Takeaway is a fairly normal part of people's lives. We don't eat it very often anyway so as a treat its fine. But a calorie worry all the same.

Its very normal to struggle with these problems, but you have to be able to diet on.

So if I eat only half (and leave leftovers in the fridge for another meal)
Pick something less fatty
Pick something with plenty of veggies

Then that's a compromise enough.

Afternoon exercise

Bored of watching the olympics (15 gold medals!) so got on the cross trainer and did 30 minutes, 9.1km and 80.6 calories!
Warmed up and down on the trampoline too.

Had a walk round town this morning but not for very long.

And the scales say

I've lost 4lb!
Well I'm as suprised as the rest of you!

Hooray!

No work out

No exercise yesterday other than walking to work and being stood up for three hours solid! I always feel worn out - and then I didn't find time to do any as we watched a film we recorded the night before.
We'll ignore the donut I had too.

Not the best week to start a diet - but there you go. A very real week which gives me plenty of examples of the struggles I'm going to face over the coming weeks.
Time to read some inspirational stuff about diets I think - this article discusses dealing with cravings

Exercise this evening

After probably too much roast dinner and a chocolate eclair!

9Km, 30 minutes 78 calories - my machine told me. Feel much better than yesterday and although I'm very hot I'm not as worn out as yesterday! Hurray! That must be a good sign! I had my other half in the room with me chatting and playing music! I suspect that helps time fly by too!