NYBTC Food & Diet Chatter Week #3 & #4

Welcome to the New Years Body Transformation Challenge Food & Diet Chatter.

Feel free to keep track of your eating/diet, share tips and provide support here.

This weeks article is on Changing Our Eating Behaviour


This weeks MINI CHALLENGES are

- plan your menu for a week & buy food with a list

- cut down on alcohol or coffee or soft drink (and cigarettes if you smoke)


Link to old thread found HERE

So how did everyone go with the challenges last week? Anyone fall off the wagon :redface: Is everyone still as motivated as last week?

Well this weeks challanges are sort of easyt.. I've already planned all my meals. I've stopped drinking coffee(used to drink about 3-4 cups a day with bickies) I have never really drunk soft drink The only thing I need to do is cut out the alcohol and ciggies.

Does anyone know a good site to tell me approx how many calories a day I should be eating to lose weight? I'm a little worried that I might be going too far with vutting back the calories and I don't want to become too addictive IYGWIM

hey go to calorie king, its great... you answer questions about your age, weight, height, level of activity etc, and it tells you how many calories you need to maintain your weight, and how many to lose weight (obviously less)... it also tells you how many calories in the food you eat etc... its great...

ive been trying to be good, but haven't really been very strict, so if i wasn't using calorie king, id be thinking 'hey why aren't i losing weight, im eating better foods', but in actual fact because im recording what i eat, i can see that im eating WAY too many calories still, because i keep allowing myself big treats.

in answer to your q lea, im still motivated but struggling with following thru 100% with not eating bad foods... i guess its a process... ive cut out soft drink (on most days) and am eating more fibre and not snacking, and ive been to the gym, and am trying to run, so i guess they are all improvements, even though im not 100% in 'the zone' with my mission of trying to lose weight.

I am up for those challenges!

Planning & being organised is the main way I stay on track and stay motivated.

Tomorrow I am planning on the grocery and veggie shopping (with 3 kids, I must be bloody mad!) so I am just about to sit down and plan our weeks grub.

Although I must say, being on Kate Morgan is good for me as it takes away the tempting choices and I notice we are not churning through anywhere like as much bread and cheese, but all of us are eating a lot more fruit and veg........which has got to be a good thing!

Gotta get myself a shaker to have at work. And I am also gonna take a nice bowl to work for fruit. And get myself a stash of water bottles for work too.

Challenges sound good...

Menu planning is not my fortay (sp?)

I quit smkin 5 months ago, have already cut down my coffee & alcohol.... LOL... this weeks challenge almost completed hehehe... will try & do last weeks instead though... forgot about push ups & sit ups LOL...

Emma: Thanks for that. I have already been looking at calorie king to count my calories but didn't know the had that other section... Shall go for a look now.

Ellie

23/1/08

Water
5x 750ml bottle water

Drinks
2 coffee - milk

Breakfast
4 small plums

Snacks
4 small cookies
cherries
small banana
cherry plums

Lunch
chicken/spinich stew with potato & feta

Dinner
1/2 pack 2 min noodles with mixed veges
Fruit

Exercise
Aquafit class

also something ive found cool on calorie king, is under the 'club' menu at the top in blue, there is a section called 'charts and reports'... very interesting!! it charts your progress and you can see on average where you have stuck to your goal and where you haven't, and also a breakdown of nutrition in your diet etc. so cool.

Ummmm well I was sorta on the wagon last week, but as I posted previously, I'm waiting until I get a bit more fit to work on the diet - it's just the way my body works.

today:
2L water (and almost finished the next L)

b/fast:
Ooops

MTea:
Ooops

Lunch:
Wholemeal sanga with chicken/cheese/mayo
fizzy fruit drink

A/tea:
Slice home-made banana & walnut cake. (no icing)

tea:
leftover chinese.

Exercise:
16,000 steps


So my challenge from above, Lea, is to cut out coffee. To lose my 3-cups a day habit (I've been good today so far!)

im eating healthily but just finding it impossible to stick to 1100 calories a day... not one day has gone by where i haven't allowed myself a treat, be it a can of coke, or a piece of cake, or at the momemt im eating weight watchers choc chip cookies.... i just don't seem to have any willpower whatsoever.... every single day i have eaten at least one piece of high calorie food which then makes all the other hard work i have done pointless. im not eating anywhere near the amount i was eating, so maybe thats a start??

hmmmmm im feeling like im never going to be able to eat the right amount to lose any weight... i probably need to exercise for 3 hours a day to work off all the extra calories i am consuming.

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im not eating anywhere near the amount i was eating, so maybe thats a start??

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That is what you need to focus on. Promise.

maybe type up a list of a "normal days food" PRE healthy eating plan? ie write down all the stuff that you used to eat in a normal day. And compare. You will be amazed at the changes you have already made.

Lol Lucy I did that - got myself some nice stuff to eat from at work - makes it much more enjoyable.

Emma, I had a look at the calorie king thing to compare that to WW. Man If I stuck to the amount of calories that they say I'm supposed to eat - I'd be starving!!!!

I am a diet coke addict - but having no oher vices I never thought this too bad - however - becasue I want to be committed to this i am trying to cut back. Meal planning isn't very exciting when there's only one of you though - but much easier I guess than when DH gets home. At least I don't have to please anyone else.

im a coke addict, ive actually been 'trying to like' diet coke and coke zero, but who am i fooling, i just don't like it...... dam!! barely any calories in either of them. so ive decided to buy the mini coke cans from kmart, and just have a little can of coke when the mood strikes me, which is a huge improvement on the amount i used to drink daily.

lucy you are dead right. ive improved leaps and bounds from what i used to eat, plus im actually thinking about food, and getting educated on kilojoules and calories and what it all means, so i guess its baby steps.

kim funny u say that about calorie king, i just dont get how people stick to this!! i mean if i was really disciplined i could probably stick to it and not go starving, but for me its just so hard not to eat a bloody potatoe and then BAM, there go the calories.... if i could be satisfied on the foods that are low calorie i wouldn't have a problem, but i just feel i NEED a good tasty yummy meal now and then that isnt salad or veg.

i nearly died when i made tacos last night and then put it on calorie king and my calories literally sky rocketed.... id pretty much consumed my total daily allowance in three tacos!!

i miss cheese.

Emma - I'm not sure that 1100 calories per day is achievable for anyone. Is that what they recommended in your profile thingy? I thought I read somewhere that no one should really go under 1200 per day and my recommendation from that site was close to 1300 (and I admitted I am pretty much sedentary :redface:). If you're too low you will constantly feel deprived and then blow your budget........

btw - I agree with Lucy that you are doing heaps already, even if you don't feel like you are. :dance: so challenge that negative thinking that says you will never get anywhere :) A smaller "serving size" of coke (or whatever you feel like) is a really great idea. I have been trying to limit serving sizes too - it's hard though!

i used to be a iced coffee freak i work at a shop one day a week but i used to venture in there everyday anyway to buy my iced coffee and we have notice a huge drop in iced coffee sales we used to buy in 3 crates a week that is 28 600ml iced coffee per crate ( 3x 28 = 84 ) after i gave them up cold turkey on the 1st of jan 2008 we now only buy in 1 crate a week so yep what i'm saying is that i used to drink 33.6 litres of iced coffee a week so i'm coffeee free now and it motivates me to put this out there i still can't believe what a piggy i was and i'm a tad bit richer it was costing me $165 a week that makes it even sadder

and on a brighter note i joined calorie king and i'm only up to 1030 calories for today and i'm not hungry I CAN DO THIS .... :)

Shazz - that is so excellent! Good on you for giving them up and then working out how much you were drinking and spending! Its kind of a :cryinglaugh: moment. I am sure we could all find something like that from our old 2007 habits to cringe about. For me, I wonder about the total number of cigarettes I have smoked in my lifetime (gave them up few months back - for good this time :dance:)......let alone the money I have spent over 15 YEARS of smoking on and off and more on in the recent 10 yrs than off......:wall:

Also the number of jelly beans I have consumed doesn't bear thinking about......

well done on the ciggies woohoo i gave a 3 weeks before i fell pg with ryan it is a great feeling of acomplishment isn't it :dance:

It is great not to feel a slave to something like that. I am really proud too because yesterday I was standing around outside at work with a bunch of colleagues talking sh@t and they were all smoking and I didn't even try to inhale their smoke (like I have in the past :redface:).

I definitely know I've quit for good now - avoiding smoking at work until now was one thing but now I've done it in my own backyard where the cues/memories for smoking are much stronger! We had a friend staying over last night and he is a big CHAIN smoker. DP broke and bludged a few off him but I stood firm and told the friend that I didn't want to be rude but I was avoiding the back patio because I didn't want to break. I also avoided smoking again this morning. WHOOOHOOO. Feeling very proud. :dance:

YAY KAZ!!!!!!

well done kaz!!! just remember smoking is absolutely gross...

Well done Kaz...

I know what you mean... DH & I gave up a few months ago... well I did... he still bludges now & then LOL....(but better than the 25+ a day he was smoking)...

Just remember... after 21days... you will have broken the habit & all the badies will be out of your system.....

I no longer even WANT a smoke... is such a wierd feeling... YOU CAN do this... & you WILL feel so much better for it too!!!!

Just reminding all quitters - keep strong!
My dad gave up and 5 years later went for a surf .... when he came out he reached for his ciggies, didn't have any and then bought a pack and lit up - it was just his habit. You have to break the habit one trigger at a time ...

I'm doing ok with the food. Today is going to be another story - we're going to high tea (my MIL & myself), but I've eaten a healthy breakfast and will do steamed veges for dinner :)

Good one Schaz - you sound like you're in 'control' by planning your other meals to limit the impact to one meal.

Thanks Kaz and Mitch - Kaz you are right about one trigger/cue at a time. My next challenge will be a wedding next weekend and alcohol consumption at night in that atmosphere. I have made two 'rules' - I will not spend money on ciggies and I will not "bludge".
I might have done well on ciggies Fri/Sat morning but managed to eat way over my daily calorie allowance last night. Home alone and bored. It was reasonably healthy food but just way to much of it. I am :angry: with myself because I wasn't even hungry!!! (and knew it as I continued to shovel food in my gob in front of teev too). On the upside I did go for a 30min walk in the afternoon (before undoing it with food!).
Oh well - back on the wagon today....got more stuff planned for today - staying busy always helps me. Boredom is a killer.

Hope everyone is having a most excellent long weekend :)

Back on the wagon for me too today. I've put a kilo back on :(.

I have a terrible habit of a night (again Kaz alone and bored on my own) of sweet stuff while I surf the net. I'm going to sew tonight see if I want it then...

i just made they most yummiest lunch grilled chicken breast with salad i can't beleive i'm saying that salad was yummy but yay i'm really motivated atm to succeed i can see the light at the end of the tunnel

way to go Shazz.

I just had toast with jam for lunch as my DD would not eat hers unless I had the same. Not too bad though. 3 points all up. Then had some grapes and now a big bottle of water.

I 'm a bit low cause I only lost 200.g last week, but as my baby buddies told me it is a loss, so should be feeling good still.

Back to the ironing.
well done everyone on your losses. To those like me who are feeling a little dismayed, keep it up, we CAN DO THIS.

Ummm well yesterday ...

b/fast - toast with vegemite & coffee
mtea - water
lunch - pharmacy shake
a/tea - ummm stress?
tea - 1 strawberry dacquari, 1 cosmo, 1 piece cheesy garlic bread, 5 glasses water, porterhouse steak with roast potatoes, garlic & carrots. shared a chocolate fondue with marshmellows, strawberrries, rockmelon, banana & biscotti.
More water when I got home :D

I am soooo not writing down my food over the weekend LOL... had a nsughty weekend with food & alcohol oops..... but I DID at least do my 12km walk & had a really hard aqua aerobics class tonight...

Ive had my wee blow out & im now back on the wagon & the wheels are rolling LOL...

oh god did i sink back into old habits over the weekend, i am going to just write it off. tomorrow is a new day and am starting a new week so will just get back on the wagon.... guess thats the only thing to do. up and down up and down, but its at least an improvement from just down down down (the throat with the food!!)

Hey girls - just wanted to recommend the calorie king website recipes if anyone is getting bored or stuck in a food rut. So far I have made bean moussaka; chicken, broccoli and cashew stir fry; chicken spaghetti bol and salmon patties with capsicum yoghurt and they have all been absolutely delish! :clap:

Just a quick pop in... busy day at work today!!!!!

i lost 600g this week... stoked cause i was not the best with food this week....

4kg in total now ... yippee...

that's great mitch, not much to go now!

That was a great article, it made the whole eating thing a lot clearer. I exercise well enough, do a fair bit of it actually, but my diet is SHOCKING. It's strange because I used to be the exact opposite - total control over my eating (periodically lol) but I could hardly ever get off my bum and exercise!

Thanks baby socks.. that is my first goal to get to 68 kg... then will reassess... I was 63kg before I had Alexa but will see how I so since bits have moved & altered since then LOL>..