I have been dieting on and off for years now.
The latest diet is the Michael Mosely 800 calorie diet.
I have been on it for 5 weeks now.
I have been strict.
I have had 2 or 3 days where I went over. Consciously over.
Even up to 1000 calories that day.
I have lost 1.5 kg according to the scales when I saw the doctor today.
She advised I keep a food diary. I will add pictures when I get organised.
My diet is low in sugar anyway, no bread or white stuff, no alcohol, low fat and low other stuff.
There are days where I have to assess student work. (I teach Food Technology and English as an Additional Language.) I cater for this.
Heading into the school holidays this will be less of a factor.
Heading overseas on Tuesday 12th which may cause a suspension in the count and accounting. Back home Thursday 21st. I will see...
I have a fitbit.
I have 'taken out' the exercise from the equation, walking an average of 5 km a day, just to concentrate on the food aspect.
The fitbit also tells me the calorie equivalent of what I could eat based on my activity levels. I have set it to weight loss. I eat around half of that or less.
My husband says "It is not the food!!" He has seen what I eat and has at times 'ordered' me to eat or drink. He is insistent that my weight gain started as soon as menopause started. He has seen me eat less and less, exercise very well, follow nutritionist's eating plans, go to the gym....and still gain weight. He wants me to stop counting calories. He is over the whole dieting efforts and my failures. He tells stories of Weight Watchers and other diets and how I managed these whilst travelling. He wants me to stop dieting and just eat the healthy food we always eat. Vegetables, meat, fruit, nuts, and low sugar, fat and carbs.
I will record other factors, so as to add to the bigger picture.
My husband says I rarely snore.
...so here we go....
Today I feel really depressed. I want some results. I want to look good in clothes.
My sugar was 7 this morning. Before breakfast. Blood test on Saturday for thyroid function.
breakfast - 1 Optislim (152 calories) official count
lunch - salad vegetables and a little chicken (130 calories) official count
8 grapes (green)
5 cherry tomatoes (<100) best guess
butter chicken and vegetables (400) official count
psychological - choosing organic where possible, my tendency to pick is recognised as unhelpful even if the food is healthy. I want to look nice in the clothes that I wear (not to be thin or fat - it is more vanity and my sense of what I like to look like). I recognise I like to eat to make myself feel like I am achieving and also to feel good - comfort food (soy hot chocolate, nuts etc) but urges resisted (and it is not that hard and I even went shopping around lovely smells for a significant part of the day).
social - no pressure to go along with social niceties today, although Wednesday night family dinner I will eat more (less during the day in preparation, but more than the allocated 400 for the night. No desserts, but slightly bigger portions (even though they are small by normal portion sizes).
economic - I can afford to buy better quality food and do so. Salmon, lean meats, organic foods, free range eggs, mushrooms, almond milk and nuts. I have been buying packaged portions where I can (far more expensive) that provide nutritional information so I am not second guessing about calories, fat and salt. I have weighed food so have an idea of portion sizes.
The latest diet is the Michael Mosely 800 calorie diet.
I have been on it for 5 weeks now.
I have been strict.
I have had 2 or 3 days where I went over. Consciously over.
Even up to 1000 calories that day.
I have lost 1.5 kg according to the scales when I saw the doctor today.
She advised I keep a food diary. I will add pictures when I get organised.
My diet is low in sugar anyway, no bread or white stuff, no alcohol, low fat and low other stuff.
There are days where I have to assess student work. (I teach Food Technology and English as an Additional Language.) I cater for this.
Heading into the school holidays this will be less of a factor.
Heading overseas on Tuesday 12th which may cause a suspension in the count and accounting. Back home Thursday 21st. I will see...
I have a fitbit.
I have 'taken out' the exercise from the equation, walking an average of 5 km a day, just to concentrate on the food aspect.
The fitbit also tells me the calorie equivalent of what I could eat based on my activity levels. I have set it to weight loss. I eat around half of that or less.
My husband says "It is not the food!!" He has seen what I eat and has at times 'ordered' me to eat or drink. He is insistent that my weight gain started as soon as menopause started. He has seen me eat less and less, exercise very well, follow nutritionist's eating plans, go to the gym....and still gain weight. He wants me to stop counting calories. He is over the whole dieting efforts and my failures. He tells stories of Weight Watchers and other diets and how I managed these whilst travelling. He wants me to stop dieting and just eat the healthy food we always eat. Vegetables, meat, fruit, nuts, and low sugar, fat and carbs.
I will record other factors, so as to add to the bigger picture.
My husband says I rarely snore.
...so here we go....
Today I feel really depressed. I want some results. I want to look good in clothes.
My sugar was 7 this morning. Before breakfast. Blood test on Saturday for thyroid function.
breakfast - 1 Optislim (152 calories) official count
lunch - salad vegetables and a little chicken (130 calories) official count
8 grapes (green)
5 cherry tomatoes (<100) best guess
butter chicken and vegetables (400) official count
why I eat what I eat
physiological - hungry enough but not ravenous, would have liked some carb foods - feeling a bit empty. Probably need more calcium and protein. Have to remind myself to drink water. Will take a multivitamin and a calcium tablet tonight.psychological - choosing organic where possible, my tendency to pick is recognised as unhelpful even if the food is healthy. I want to look nice in the clothes that I wear (not to be thin or fat - it is more vanity and my sense of what I like to look like). I recognise I like to eat to make myself feel like I am achieving and also to feel good - comfort food (soy hot chocolate, nuts etc) but urges resisted (and it is not that hard and I even went shopping around lovely smells for a significant part of the day).
social - no pressure to go along with social niceties today, although Wednesday night family dinner I will eat more (less during the day in preparation, but more than the allocated 400 for the night. No desserts, but slightly bigger portions (even though they are small by normal portion sizes).
economic - I can afford to buy better quality food and do so. Salmon, lean meats, organic foods, free range eggs, mushrooms, almond milk and nuts. I have been buying packaged portions where I can (far more expensive) that provide nutritional information so I am not second guessing about calories, fat and salt. I have weighed food so have an idea of portion sizes.
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