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Does taking a break mean no synning of KitKats?

December 1, 2009 · 5 Comments

Hi all

So, it’s freezing. So, it’s almost Christmas. So, New Year’s Resolutions are about a month away.

Truth is, I think I’m coming to the end of the road with Slimming World for this year. I just found out that my group is moving and even though I still have three groups left of a countdown, I think I am going to say fare thee well to going to class until January, at which point I will have to find a brand new class.

I’m still going to be eating healthily but just not worrying so much about it. I think at the moment I’m so worried about every single thing that goes into my mouth that I rebel, and rebel big time.

I was given an SAS log to fill in this week and every time I went to fill it in I thought that I really really didn’t want to do it. I just wanted to have a bowl of cereal, or some prawn crackers, or a few chips, and not worry about them.

So, I will be making healthy choices, I will not be going on all-you-can-eat KFC binges, but I won’t be sticking to Slimming World 100%. If I want a bowl of cereal, I’m going to have one. In fact, I just did. Oh hellooooo at least 50g of Fruit and Fibre…!!

Another thing is, I have at least 2 functioning type things to go to per week from now til after Christmas. I haven’t been drinking, I’ve been saving syns, and I haven’t really been having any fun at all doing it. I want to have fun this festive season, so I quit. Albeit temporarily.

Sorry guys, berate me if you must, but come January I’ll be raring to go again. I think that if I keep going to class now it will just be a waste of money. And if I put on a few pounds it’s allowed, because WE WERE ON A BREAAAAAAK!

I’ll still be updating though, so please do keep reading!

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Weigh-In Wednesday

November 25, 2009 · 5 Comments

Ok so, here I am, a little sheepish. I have had a whole week off the plan. It all started on Friday when the boyf and I had a day off together and we went for lunch, then dinner. I behaved so well all damn day whilst other people had chips and hot dogs and yumminess that I had low fat frozen yogurt at the cinema. A large one. Whoops. Oh and THEN… we went to the supermarket on the way home and got some Pringles.

Saturday started off pretty much the same, with me being determined to stay on plan. Ended up in the Buffet Star Chinese restaurant. Sunday came and with it brought rotisserie chicken from the Nile indian takeaway at the end of our road.

Monday brought huge warm fresh baked cookies from our landlady’s daughter and Tuesday brought Tesco giant toffee chip cookies and a roast dinner with my special OXO roasties, cooked in light oil, not Frylight and real gravy.

All for the low cost price of…. a 3lb gain!

Needless to say I have been sent away from group today with an SAS log to fill in to find out why my sabotaging happens. I don’t want to sabotage!! I was 3lbs away from my Club 10, and now i’m twice that! I think I am just going through a major diet crisis, having a big huge massive case of the Can’t Be Arseds. I want to lose the weight, I just seem to want it to happen magically without any actual effort. Which as we all know, is the losers way to lose weight.

At least I wasn’t alone though, the cold weather seems to have fattened my whole class up a whopping 44.5lbs this week.

So I’ve come home, made some scrambled egg and HEa cheese sandwiches with ketchup and dug out my food diary, and am vowing to be 100% til Christmas. And MEAN it this time!

Most Interesting Thing Learned Today:

1 Pringle = 1 syn. What the feck?!

True story.

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Seismic Changes

November 19, 2009 · 2 Comments

No, this isn’t going to be some gung ho Global Warming warning post, although it’s interesting to note that I no longer make the earth shudder in fear as I stomp along its streets… it’s more about how I went to Dorothy Perkins this week to get some new work clothes and I was all HELLO SIZE 14!!

Oh yes, I know Dotty P’s sizes are generous and if I dared to try and get my arse into a Warehouse/Oasis size 16 the kecks would laugh me out of there quicker than you could say ‘inadequate changing room space’, but Dotty P RULES!

My 2 new pairs of size 14 trousers and my 2 new size 14 tops are a testament to that! Amen Dotty P!

Big Grin All Round (even though I only lost a pound)

YEEERRRRSSS!!

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Weigh-In Wednesday

November 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Lost another pound. Single pounds are so boring, though since I’ve been out of work I’ve been very broke, ergo very bored and with lots of bad weather, very staying at home. So I think I need to make a concerted effort to move more.

That being said, I did eat that bread midweek, so I think I got away with it somewhat. Once my job kicks in I’ll feel loads better!

How’d you guys do last week? I’ll try and post some meal pics this week coming… however, Friday is going to be Eat Out day at Dietgrrl towers, we are going to try and find somewhere diet friendly and wallet-friendly too… wish me luck…

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Tips to stop emotional eating

November 15, 2009 · 5 Comments

After being the victim of a couple of bouts of EE this week (Emotional Eating, not Extra Easy, though it *was* extra easy to do!) I would looooove to hear more tips from you guys, how you stave off the ‘I’m-Not-Hungry-But-I-Just-WANT-It’ feeling.

Some of these are Just For Fun, some are serious. Up to you which ones you try out though, heh! If they work, please do tell me!

1. Naughty Food ‘Swear Jar’. If you eat something you’re not supposed to, put a pound in the jar. That goes for everything you eat that’s over your syns. You could take this even further and put 10p in the pot for every syn you go over 15. EG: You eat a KFC Tower Burger (29 syns), you owe the jar £2.90. See how long it is before you’re too skint to buy crap to shove in your gob.

2. Drink a large glass of water. True, this won’t do anything for actual non-hunger related eating pangs, BUT, if you swig it fast enough it might make you feel a bit sick, which will stop you wanting to eat. Yeerrrs!

3. Watch an hour or two of your dad’s World War II dvd collection. This will send you off to sleep in no time, you can’t eat whilst you’re sleeping, unless you’re one of those nutters who claims to sleep-scoff (yeah, right!)

4. Brush your teeth! This one is actually not too bad. Eating anything after brushing your teeth tastes awful. Except, erm, dark chocolate. Makes it taste like After Eights. FAIL! Get that Arm and Hammer (sorry if that’s the wrong brand) pink toothpaste that tastes like Germolene, that should do the trick!

5. Go on the internet! Right now, I could just go some cheese on toast, but that means I wouldn’t be able to sit here and type this out for you lot. RESULT! Might reward myself with a little something now…

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Warning: Dried Apricots (TMI)

November 15, 2009 · 3 Comments

Howdlydoodley Slimmers

I’ll just warn you now, this is a TMI (Too Much Information) post. If you read my post about Xenical/Alli and didn’t much care for it, don’t read on. If you like posts about poo, please read on…

So I have been trying to set myself a little HEb challenge this week, to see if I can have a different HEb each day or at the very least, try a couple of new ones so I don’t just eat White Nimble and wholemeal bread mix all the time.

I do looooooove apricots, and found that 142g of dried apricots is a HEb. No one, however, mentioned that this particular HEb should come with a Government Health Warning. I have been having my apricots mixed with a raspberry Fat Free Activia one-pot, enjoying them muchly and have had them three times now.

This morning, I had the tummy bubbles to end all tummy bubbles. It’s been happening gradually over the last few days and I have also been rather successfully going to to bathroom whereas for the previous few weeks I’ve had to have a little bit of ‘medicinal’ support once a week.

Basically, dried apricots rip through your digestive system like a dose of salts. You will find that after a couple of days on the Dried Apricot diet, every morsel of food that you put into your body gets rushed through your body and out the other end. I swear that I shit about 3lbs out this morning. Peter Kay would be proud.

I’m still going to have them though, for they are yummy, but not every day, because I have a boyfriend and boyfriend + chronic apricot farts = singledom.

Oooh in other news, Asda’s Extra Special Beef Burgi… burgy… that stew stuff, is no longer free on red – it has new purple packaging and I bought some because it’s £2 off at the moment at just £3 a pack. BUT, 5.5 syns per pack!! Gutted!! The pork shanks in honey and mustard are also in the offer, and are 3.5 syns each.

Lamb shanks are still free though, even though they are higher in fat and calories. Someone please tell me how that works???

Bugger.

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GgggrrrrrAAHHHHHHHRRRGH!!

November 14, 2009 · 2 Comments

I just ate three peices of thick white toast and loads of Lurpak. Just now. After having a 100% day.

WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY????

Answers on a postcard…

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CHANGES! A new HEb each day

November 14, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Howdy Slimmers

Trying to make changes in your diet is always tricky but this week i’ve decided that my change is going to be a new HEb each day if I can.

Yesterday one of my HEbs was 142g of dried apricots, which I had with a pot of raspberry Activia, and today, as it was freezing, it has been Ready Brek. 28g of Ready Brek is quite a reasonable portion compared to the same amount of porridge and was quite surprisingly filling. I added a sachet of dark chocolate Highlights (1.5 syn) to it and it made a deliciously warm gooey chocolate pudding, just the thing for this miserable Wintery rainy Saturday!

We are having slow cooked chicken and butternut squash stew for dinner, so I have another HEb to play with later, I might have some more apricots and another Activia. Those things are delicious, AND, since I’ve been having them I’ve noticed I’ve had much less tummy trouble. Win win!!

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Does a weigh a day keep the lbs at bay?

November 13, 2009 · 9 Comments

We discussed this in group this week. I confessed to my consultant that because this past couple of months I’ve been plateauing, cheating a bit, eating out with my OH and not sticking 100% to plan, i’ve reverted to weighing myself every day in a desperate bid to ‘not put too much on’.

I know that I shouldn’t, and I KNOW that it’s not good for me, but for me it kind of gives me a little bit of control, albeit slightly obsessed control, over my weight management.

She told me categorically to put my scales away and touch them no more, to only weigh on the assigned day, daily weighing gives false readings as your body fluctuates throughout the week and it’s not good for me to obsess, and she’s right, as per usual. However, I can’t stop doing it at the moment, particularly since we have gotten into the habit of eating out at least once a week.

I also didn’t think it would upset me, until today. I have been really obsessed with getting below the weight I was last Christmas in time for this Christmas so I can start the new year with a new slate. I am at the moment, at last weigh in, hovering at 1lb above that. I did lose a pound last week, despite eating out three times, I made sensible choices and that’s as much as anyone can do when they eat out, especially when OH orders sticky toffee pudding and I want it, but I feel like i’m banging my head against a brick wall at the moment. For every two steps forward I take, I take one step back and I can’t seem to break the cycle.

This morning I weighed myself and it said I had gained 2lbs. I was gutted, absolutely gutted and got really really upset. I feel really bloated and unhappy, whereas just Wednesday I felt really good even though I only lost a pound, I felt as though I’d lost inches. A pair of jeans that were too tight still last week finally fastened comfortably and I was all self-congratulatory and vowed to continue my reign of Being Awesome, but sadly, now it feels like it didn’t quite turn out that way.

So I am once again reverting to new tricks, trying to tell myself that being bloated means you’re full of air (and you know how much AIR weighs, right…?). A green tea detox is on the cards and I am doing the old switcheroo with my Healthy Extras. For instance, dried apricots. Dried apricots are awesome, I made a lamb tagine last week with them and I synned them but it was niggling me that you CAN have certain dried fruits as a HEb. I checked and lo and behold… 1 HEb is 142g. Yerrrrs! So I have had that today with a raspberry Activia one-pot (my new favourite), and the green tea seems to be working (lost 1lb since this morning – don’t shout Shirl!!).

I do need to wean myself off the scales though, I know I do. Maybe i’ll go for the every other day home weigh, then see if I can gradually stop altogether.

A girl in our class said that she weighs herself every day too, and it stops her from eating too much of the bad stuff, her obsession with it actually curbs her willingness to eat off-plan. She knows about body fluctuations, she knows that it’s not really an accurate reading, but she’ll do it to ensure she doesn’t hop into the nearest chocolate cake, which is pretty much exactly how I feel about it. And it’s also how I managed to regain a stone and a half this year. NOT weighing was detrimental to me, but once I got obsessed with getting the weight off and keeping it off again, it started coming off.

What do you guys think? Any mid-week weighers out there? How do you think about it and what do you do to stop yourself doing it? Tips welcomed!

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Weigh-In Wednesday

November 12, 2009 · 3 Comments

I am just popping online for five minutes to let you know that I lost a pound this week, it’s starting to come back off again, I am pleased, I have stuff to say and imminent blogs to post, but right now I have a pretty boy waiting for me to go watch a movie with him and some cups of tea to make, so I will love you and leave you and speak to you tomorrow. Check back after your tea for updateage!

Love Love Love xxx

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