Day 407: Sweet tooth
Posted by Paola
I’m trying to ignore the urge to fill a big bowl with food whenever I get hungry and instead choose a small bowl from the outset.
If I can just ignore the strange feeling of panic that it’s not enough I find that, as soon as I start eating, it IS enough and I don’t want more afterwards.
The irrational panicky urge of going hungry as I prepare my meal is really the only unpleasant thing about my diet.
2:10pm Cottage cheese and relish with rye bread + tea + squash
5:50pm Beef and beans in coconut with crackers + tea + squash
Quorn beef-style pieces, aduki beans, sweetcorn and onions in reduced-fat coconut milk with tomato puree. Flavoured with garlic powder, fresh ginger and dried red chillies.
6:50pm Finn Crisp with chocolate hazelnut spread and peanut butter + tea
I’ve run out of fruit and needing something sweet after my savoury main.
9:50pm Tomato, vegetable and bean soup with Finn Crisp
10:15pm Yoghurt with honey, sultanas and seeds
Ditto.
Day 406: Two times pasta
Posted by Paola
2pm Tesco Value tinned spaghetti with egg and toast + tea + pint of squash + plums + nectarine
On a proper adult-sized plate!
3:50pm Quark, tomato and pepper snack + pint of squash
5pm Sultanas and pumpkin seeds + squash with fruit juice
While playing with the neighbourhood kids.
7:20pm Pasta with frankfurters and sweetcorn + plums
I seemed to be on auto-pilot as I prepared this big bowl of pasta.
0:45am Crumpets with low-fat spread + pint of squash with fruit juice
1:30am Turkey, tomato and pickle snack
5:10am Bran flakes with sultanas and pumpkin seeds + squash
Day 406: weigh-in
Posted by Paola
Weekly weigh-in: 1 lb lost
Total lost: (total: 70 lbs / 5 st / 31.8 kg in 58 weeks)
Current weight: 144 lbs / 10 st 4 lbs / 65.3 kg
Will I EVER get below 144 lbs?
Day 405: Result sales
Posted by Paola
12:45pm Lentil and cheese salad with rye bread + tea + nectarine + plum
Afternoon drink: fresh coffee
4:40pm Butterscotch + tea @ Fego
We walked into town and I shared a slice with my neighbour.
I wanted another piece directly after and was feeling hungry by the way I got home
5:45pm Tomato, vegetable and bean soup with cheese and Finn Crisp
Still hungry.
6:20pm Bran flakes with sultanas and pumpkin seeds
8:40pm Pasta in tomato sauce with cheese
Day 404: Stallion sales
Posted by Paola
1:40pm Lentil salad with rye bread + tea
Afternoon drink: tea
4:50pm Tomato, vegetable and bean soup with cheese with Finn Crisp + nectarine
7pm Lentil salad with rye bread + tea
7:40pm Fruit-flavoured yoghurt-covered dried fruit + tea
They didn’t look like body parts in reality.
Evening drink: coffee
Thursday Treats
Posted by Simon
So McKenna says I can eat whatever I want. I think I’ve taken it a little too literally:
Breakfast: 3 bags of crisps
Lunch: almond crossaint & box of (8) choccy biscuits
Dinner: chicken curry
+ Some other stuff…
I did stop on the curry though, left some when I was full, took it and stuck it in the ‘for the freezer pot’ that I’d already served the 2nd portion into. And stuck it in the freezer. Job done.
(I now note I have 5 unlabled ‘for the freezer’ pots in my freezer…)
Day 403: Best rejection ever
Posted by Paola
Spurred on by Simon’s efforts with Paul McKenna, I thought I’d try the leave-something-on-plate thing today.
I didn’t manage to leave anything. In the afternoon, we went out for a late lunch. I realised after a few bites of my sandwich that I wasn’t hungry anymore and, given Paul’s advice, I should have stopped eating. Perhaps one could carry a couple of zip-lock food bags so that one can easily store any savoury and sweet left-overs.
It also seems to me that re-training oneself to eat for hunger only, and not for pleasure, means a completely different way of preparing and serving meals; as if a meal should be in form of bite-sized self-contained bits that make it easy to stop at any time and not feel one’s not sampled everything. Perhaps I should read the book, huh.
At the shopping centre in Staines, I noticed a sale in Anne Harvey, a shop for plus-size clothes that I used to go to. I stepped in, looking at a blouse that caught my eye, the only company were two staff by the till.
One called out “I don’t think there’ll be anything here for you in your size.” I grinned and walked up to them. I told them that I’d lost 5 stone last year and used to shop there but that I hadn’t gotten out of the habit of looking in the shop. I swear that their mouths fell open.
I was grinning for ages afterwards. I celebrated with a sandwich AND crisps AND cake. Feh.
12:40pm Turkey and cheese salad sandwich + plum + tea
What I left:
5:45pm Egg sandwich with crisps + tea + apple & blackcurrant crumble cake @ Costa Coffee
329 calories for the sandwich, the veggie option with the fewest calories.
I cut the cake into 8 pieces and savoured each piece but, by then, was already full and still eating. The cake was so fresh and it was right there in front of me…
And what I left:
8:40pm Lentil, soft cheese, seed, pepper and tomato snack + tea + plum
