NYBTC Food & Diet Chatter Week 1

I'm not going to put my daily diets stuff online unless I stuff up, mainly becuase on TF its very boring and much the same each day. I might do a blog post though with a sample days eating plan.

I was feeling so so hungry today though, I usually have my lunch shake or soup at or after 2pm but from about 12:30 I was feeling hungry which is really very unusual for me on TF...then I remembered that I'd forgotten to take my sugar balance (chromium type) supplement. It really is wonderful and something I am thinking of having even off the program.

Does Tracey come in to this thread? Tracey if you see this, does inliven have any blood sugar balancing effect at all. I have a tendency towards low blood sugar and find things like chromium help a lot..

Today I have been so good. No snacking at all.

So tempted to jump on the scales, but weigh in day is not until Saturday so don't want to blow it.

So I am very proud of myself. Rayray I am taking a sugar balance supplement too cause of being insulin resistant. Do you find it makes you thirsty?

Just ate a nice big salad with some cheese for lunch and just enjoying a glass of diet lemonade. I am now only allowing myself a diet drink after two glasses of water.

Leanne, not sure. I have to drink at least 2L water a day on the program, in addition to any other drinks, so I dont really get thirsty as such.
It sure beats fainting though! :)

RayRay - Thanks for the tip re: website - I might check it out.

Today is officially day 3 for me I think :confused:

Breakfast = strong black coffee, 1 watermelon fruche, 1 banana
Lunch = 100g hommous, carrot + celery sticks, 100g pineapple
Snacks = 2 packets (18g each) of those Snakata rice chip things. They come in packs of 10 and are low fat.
Dinner = planning to be grilled Atlantic salmon and garden salad. Just felt like fish this afternoon for some reason.
It was a huge 250g steak I couldn't finish!! Also ate some pre-packaged coleslaw at 7.5g fat per 100g.

I am getting bored with the hommous but made heaps of it on the weekend and need to get it eaten! Maybe a change tomorrow and then back to it on Friday. If anyone wants the recipe it is quick and easy so let me know :)

Water - only so-so today. I did a lot of running around at work today and was away from the desk so probably have about another litre to go. It'll be another night of frequent waking ahead for me :doh:

I'd love the hummous recipe Kaz, thanks.
Today I ate
1 slice Aegean apricot loaf with a smear of marg
cup of tea milk/2 sugars
Low fat turkish bread with smoked salmon and light cream cheese
5 meatballs (super lean mince) in tomato sauce with 1/2 cup brown rice

Lots of water, thats been the easiest part LOL

Ok - here it is! I cheat and buy canned chickpeas instead of boiling them myself.
Adjust the amounts of salt, garlic, oil etc to taste.

2 cans of chickpeas - drained; 1-1.5 tbs tahini; 1-2 cloves crushed garlic; 1/2 tsp salt; 2 tbs lemon juice; 1-2 tbs extra virgin olive oil. Put it all in a blender or food processor and whiz! (If it's a bit dry, just add more oil or lemon juice or equal amounts of both). You can halve it but I find there is not enough in my food processor for it to work properly, hence I end up with heaps every time.

For anyone who likes beetroot, you can also add a tin of that (well drained) for beetroot hommous.

Okay today I feel as though I've been naughty but I'm not sure that's been overly that bad.

Cornflakes and skim milk
Salada with light philly and avocado
Salada with light philly and tomato
A handful of seafood extender
Creamy mushroom chicken toastie
A tiny kinder surprise block
A bowl of raspberries with 2 - 3 scoops of light, low GI ice cream

I feel like I had more but I can't remember what lol...

I just made a TF friendly (which means I can have it in unlimited quantities) spicy roast eggplant di yum-o!

Lea your days eating sounds fine to me!

Today (Wednesday)'s fare:

Breakfast:
coffee
wholemeal muffin, half peanut butter, half vegemite

m/tea:
mueslie bar

lunch: coffee

a/tea:
4 rice thins, diet cordial

dinner:
2 veggo spring rolls
fried rice, beef in bbq sauce

(I managed to kill my microwave rice cooker when I was trying to do stuffed squash with rice & mushroom filling)

dessert:
mini weiss bar

This is my food intake on day 3

Breakfast
1 scrambled egg
1 mixed grain toast
1 coffee, white, 1 sugar

Morning snack
handful white grapes
yogurt
1 slice honeydew melon
1 slice rockmelon

Lunch
Leftover pizza from dinner (was going to have a salad with it but was busy!)

Afternoon Snack
Meusli bar

Dinner
Homemade beef burgers
small amount hot chips ( :doh: )
1 glass of pepsie

Dessert
Ice cream (the temptation took over today! :doh:

Water
2L

Hmmm my eating is OK, but I still have a bit of crap in there...

Today (thurs)

Water
3x 750ml bottle water

Drinks
2x Coffee - milk no sugar

Breakfast
1x large banana

Snacks
2x carrots
6x Seaweed rice crackers
2x oat biscuits
2x peaches
1x nashi pear

Lunch
Vege quiche - only ate 1/2 the pastry though
1 peach
1 nectarine

Dinner
Toasted panini with bacon , chicken, cheese & BBQ sauce.. naughty I know but damn yummy LOL

Exercise
40min brisk walk at lunch
10 min on bike (4km though)... Alexa & Kitten wouldnt behave long enough to do any more...grrr

Had a shocker yesterday. I am tempted NOT to wite it down, but now I must to keep me honest!

2 coffees
1.2 l of water
1 KM shake

2 Cheds

I diet yogurt
1/4 cheese toastie

steak
sausage (eek)
buttered bread roll (eek)
glass of wine (eek)
Loads of salad
Colesalw (eek)

Handful of toffees (double eeek!)

(We had friends staying. That is my lame excuse.)

Seeing it written down it's not TOO bad. But it certainly more than half of the things I ate are "not allowable" on Kate Morgan, so I feel guilty. But I kind of had a "****it" attitude, which is my downfall............

Lucy, KM may not allow it but its all not too bad if you look at it from a WW POV. You soo could have been worse, I think you showed great restraint.

What foods can you eat on KM other than the shakes?
Are you allowed to have dairy, nuts? Carrots?
I saw a promotional offer at the one near me and its 2 for 1 registration, thinking of hoodwinking mum into it...

Today (Thursday)

Breakfast:
Pineapple Juice
Glass water
Wholemeal muffin with vegemite & peanut butter

Lunch:
1/2 avocado with olive oil&balsamic vinegar. Glass water

Afternoon tea:
Glass mango nectar
Glass water

Tea:
leftover fried rice & bbq beef (small serve)
2 glasses water

10/01/08 woke up with a migraine head ache bad bad bad
breakie
2 panadiene forte
1 mouthful of diet rice custard ( which is crap BTW) 1 point

1.5 litres of water so far i'm sooo thirtsy
mid morning snack
6 blanched almonds 2 points

lunch
1 sugar free mint
i'm going to try and eat some thing more but i don't have high hopes of keeping anything down yet
ok got down 1/2 tub of bacon and beef sauce over pasta 2.5 ponits
600ml water

afternoon snack

10 x arrnotts shapes (ooops ) 2.5 points
and another 600ml water to wash em down
4 sugar free strawberry chews 1 point

tea

Shazz - I LOOOVE that diet rice! Might go get some!

Ok guys... How much fruit is too much a day LOL...

i have brought some peaches, nectarines, nashi pears & cherries... I Lurrrrve fruit & will sit & munch & munch away quite happily... so how much can i have before i have overdone it LOL...

put it this way mitch - it's not crap. Go your hardest. THere are way worse things you could be putting in your mouth....

Before I got PG with Olivia I did a couple of 4 day long "fruit and veg" only detox. (Not for weight loss particularly, but before we TTC'd again I wanted to give up the fags and the grog and coffee and a detox always helped....) It made me feel great....go for your life I reckon Mitch!

Okay today so far...

2 saladas with light philly, tomato and cheese
Banana & milo smoothie - skim milk and lite ice cream
Small zooper dooper
Tuna salad (lettuce, mushrooms, cucumber, tuna salsa, cheese)
Lamb chop and steamed brocilli, sweet potato and potato with reduced fat cheese
Raspberries and low fat yoghurt

I felt bad having the smoothie but the kids were having one and it tasted so darn good!!

Breakfast:
1 mango; 175g low fat natural yoghurt; 1 black coffee - no milk or sugar

Snacks:
1 peppermint tea; 1 black instant coffee; 1 plum

Lunch:
left over salmon from last nights dinner; left over garden salad - no dressing; 1 green apple

Dinner:
currently being cooked by DP - 1 small BBQ steak, garden salad, coleslaw
1 coffee mug of 97% fat free icecream (I think after walking around the block this afternoon and then posting the bit below I gave myself permission to be naughty!! Hope I didn't undo the walk - feeling stuffed which serves me right!).

I think everyone is doing really well. Don't beat yourselves up too much for the small "slips" because they really are small (or read that way). Remember how we all used to eat last year? Surely, it's a million gazillion times better now, even if you do have the odd glass of wine or smoothie or bread roll. :clap:

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Remember how we all used to eat last year? Surely, it's a million gazillion times better now, even if you do have the odd glass of wine or smoothie or bread roll.

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Kaz, that is so so true.....xx

I have been excellent today:

2.4l water (and still going. Bloody hot here today!)
1 coffee

2 x KM shakes

1 low fat sausage and enough salad to sink a ship plus one hardboiled egg

1 diet yogurt

So so true Kaz.

I got a Bill Granger book for Christmas (he is like my fave chef ever) and in there was a flourless choccie cake. I have been really good and not really wanted anything awful, but I was dying to make the cake- so I did.

I figure when Cam comes back there's going to be way worse temptation and I can't be strict forever. So if I work it into my plan it's no biggie - right?

and I'm still under my points today. :D

Thats what I have decided today too. I have been soo cranky and short tempered cause I am not eating much that tonight I had a nice dinner at the club of steak and salad with about 7 chips! I felt much better.
Aside from that I had today
bowl of all bran with milk and 1tsp honey
tea with milk/2 sugars
skim cap with 1 sugar
slice of fruit toast smear of marg
toast with promite
1/4 krispy kreme donut that Riley was eating.

My big problem is the exercise, I never get time (or have the money) to go to the gym and i am really unmotivated, I wish i had a friend to walk with but I guess I just have to push myself.

Completely agree Kaz. Great advice!Gee my eating is better then just last month lol let alone last year!

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I have been soo cranky and short tempered cause I am not eating much

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I am exactly the same!! I tried a low GI diet once and didn't last long. Nothing would get rid of my headache - not even Nurofen. A couple of sandwiches for lunch though and I was A-ok lol! It was still healthy. Just full of carbs!

Christine I am finding little ways to help improve my fitness just around the house. If I water by hose I do lunges or I water by bucket (lots of lifting). I run up and down the stairs - just little everydays thing. Only little but they are a start!

Thats what i need to do Nat. I have been trying to run up the stairs instead of walk, tonight I was doing leg lifts while I sat on the couch but Jess told me I looked stupid!!

I've ditched my sureslim for that reason Nat. Not enough carbs, I was feeling really headachy, and even though eating protein galore, still feeling like snacking. They say that it is normal for the first few days cause you body is detoxing, but after 8 - 10 days??? And I got on the scales this morning and have not lost a thing this week (two days early on the weigh in but was expecting 1/2 a miracle).....

So.... i have decided to go back to ww and count points. And after just today of counting I realised I was not eating enough. Maybe 12 - 15 points total, and going by Jodies little calculator thing I should be having at least 20 for my current size, so the points it is. I am going to try to cut down on the spuds, bread, etc, but not cut them out, iykwim.

Oh boy, I am rambling. Sorry ladies. I guess I am pretty happy to have this support thread.

Like you Mrs Mac, I don't have enough time to go walking or money to go to the gym (I leave for work at 20 past 6 as it is), so I will be thinking of creative ways to get my body moving more, and hopefully the wobbly bits will soon be moving less. ha ha ha Good on you for the leg lifts on the couch. I danced to 1/2 hour of the wiggles with katy today, so does that count? I really looked stupid, but it was fun!

Anyways, off to ni ni's for this young lady.
Have a good one all - and congrats on the motivation to keep going.

We will do this. We will be the biggest losers!!!

On the cranky issue - I had a headache most of yesterday too and got majorly caught up in some group *****ing that was going on at work and when I read your comments this morning I think the lack of carbs might have been a factor because I am drinking most of my water each day and my coffee consumption hasn't changed much.

Leanne - I have done sureslim before too. I found after the initial week I felt great but I was being weighed in every week and had that external motivation. I never got the maintenance stage because they kept pushing me to lose another 1-2kg and they'd give it to me next week. My weight was quite low and so it went up and down slightly each week - lose some this week and gain it back the next. After I stopped going it was too hard not to eat carbs.

Weighed in this morning at 78kg... yippee.. my scales are moving LOL, but not retaking measurements till the 1st of Feb... taht will really be the tell all figures!!!!

Water
3x 750ml bottle water

Drinks
1x Coffee - milk no sugar

Breakfast
1x large banana
1x peach
1x nectarine

Snacks
Handful Cherries

Lunch
Fried noodles & Sweet & sour fish... naughty girl
Nectarine

Dinner


Exercise
30min brisk walk

I think my scales are broken :( According to them I have lose 6 kilos in a week, which I know I havent, so I am going to wait til tomorrow morning (saturdays will be my TF weigh in day) and try again.

Ray ray i wish my scales were broken lol

11/01/08
Breakie
2 slices of whole meal toast with a spread of cottage cheese sprinkled with salt and pepper

morning tea
ww tub of fruit and 1/2 tub of vaalia low fat yoghurt

lunch
freash salad with a serve of lite chicken breast grilled with a WWtbs of cottage cheese and 1 tbs of WWgrated cheese and a drizzle of ranch dressing

afternoon tea

apple and WW caramel sundae ( yummmm)
chuppa chup
10 chico babies eeeeeeeek



tea
steamed fish vegges
caramel sundae


water
IIII I I I I I= 9 GLASSES

ha ha Shaz, its really not nice though because I do my offical weigh in on the calibrated TF scales, and I am scared it will be a big, unpleasant shock!

Hey Nay I was just reading your post last night. low GI is definitley not low carbs. It's just different sorts of foods. For example wholegrain bread has a lower GI than white, and doongara rice has a lower GI than short grain.
Chocolate has a very low GI however it's not necessarily all that good for you IYKWIM? As long as you have one sort of low GI food with each meal, you should feel fuller for longer.
The brain NEEDS carbs to function properly as it's only source of energy is glucose. Here is a good list.

How to apply the GI to your diet
Can you tell the GI of a food by its ingredients?
No, there are many factors that influence the GI of a food.

These include:


The amount and type of sugar in the food
The type of starch
The food?s acidity
The food?s fat and fibre content


Therefore it is difficult to predict what the GI of a food will be, just by looking at its ingredients.


How can I apply the GI to my eating plan?
If you wish to apply the GI to your eating plan, or have been advised to do so, it is quite easy:


Have at least three low GI foods throughout the day, ideally one at each meal. Remember, not all the carbohydrates you eat need to be LOW GI.
You don?t need to avoid all HIGH GI foods, but try to eat them with low or intermediate GI foods whenever possible. This will bring down the average GI of the meal.
Include low saturated fat, high carbohydrate foods with each meal and snack.
Try to evenly spread the amount of carbohydrate you eat throughout the day.

Hope that helps :dunno:

lol sorry I got confused. I meant a low carb diet. At the same time though I was looking at low GI products as well. Thanks for that info! Extremely helpful :D

Is it too late for me to join???

Today's fare:

B/fast:
1 glass pineapple juice
1 glass water
3/4 of a wholemeal muffin (1/2 with cream cheese, 1/4 with vegemite)

MTea:
Glass water

Lunch:
2 Poached eggs
Small amt smoked salmon
Large handful wilted spinach
1/8th of an avocado
2 pieces wholemeal toast
2 iced cofees *gulp*

A/tea:
2 glasses water
1 glass pineapple juice

Tea:
TBA (prolly pizza)


Hmmm, Not too shabby I guess.

I have been super good today.....been too busy ans enthused to be tempted!

3l of water
2 coffees

2 x KM shakes

Lime marinaded chicken and heaps of salad

Will tuck into fruit for snacks this evening.....

It's been a good day for all! Well done and lets keep going.

Hi Annie, it's not my thread, but you're welcome anytime. Just see the beginning of you thread and pm your stats to Nat. :D