Had an ok day yesterday, could have been worse, could have been better. The childcare centre I was at always has tons of food around. The things that are served to the children are usually healthy, the meal plan was devised by a nutrionist. Yesterday they had 'pizza' but it was healthy- made using turkish bread with capsicum, onion, pineapple, cheese and ham. I had one small little bit and well....ended up having a few more bits in my lunch break instead of the sandwich I brought from home. I wish I could say I was sorry but its been such a long time since I had pizza and this was relatively healthy.
Yesterday's food:
6am: a small serving of special k and small serving of cornflakes (they were both in those small pre-packaged packets) with some skim milk. I was full halfway though the cornflakes but I stupidly kept eating, I treated myself like a garbage bin
9am: a peach and a tub of forme yoghurt
11:15am: another tub of forme yoghurt and a cadbury roses chocolate
1:30am: healthy 'homemade pizza' on turkish bread with capsicum, ham, pinapple, onion and cheese
5:30pm: nature valley roasted almond bar (they were giving out free samples at the train station so I tried it, it was really nice and tasted a bit like an anzac biscuit)
8:30pm: a frozen meal from aldi, 'Be Light Sundried Tomato and chicken pasta' I'd never tried it before and it tasted a bit odd
12:am: tub of forme yoghurt
Exercise: 1 hour on the bike before work and a further accumulative 1 hour walk throughout the day and after work.
Have a huge challenge this weekend with two family birthdays. I've been weighing myself everyday and the scales keep saying '77' kilos, they are the old-style non-digital kind but. I feel pretty upset.
CronicBadger wrote:Hi Steph
Just a few thoughts on your comments over the past few entries:
If you've discarded calorie counting, may I suggest restricting yourself to low energy-density foods which will give you a decent chance at feeling full and not bulking up on the kilojoules.
Keep listing your binges though, or otherwise they'll be swept under the carpet and forgotten - potentially making any weight gains seem normal rather than a result of a particular action.
I reckon personal actions and their effects are important to recognise, since this is the only way to have control over our behaviour and reach a desired outcome. Once you can control the impulses resulting in "binges" then you should be fine.
I've noticed, both with myself and via the comments of others in the forum, that eating high-Glycemic Index (GI) foods like rice and white bread, and those with empty carbs such as choccies, sugar, some oils and fats, tends to make the body desire more and more similar foods for a period of days. Conversely, abstaining from those types of foods for a few days seems to reduce the craving for them. Perhaps if you can grit your teeth and keep off any related foods for just a week (even stuff like peanut butter and rice cakes) then it may gradually take the edge off your cravings for junk. Try it and see.
Perhaps approach it mentally as it being a simple fact that bad habits and impulses must be controlled in order to regain good health and weight-control. There's simply no other way. You don't have a choice, so the only real course of action left to you is not to binge. Tell yourself that every day, and perhaps also tell yourself that you'll reconsider your stance "tomorrow". When tomorrow comes round tell yourself that again. And again, constantly pushing the possibility of binging into the future.
Anyway, just a few ideas there that might help.
Hi there, thankyou for your comments. I agree that at times certain foods are addictive and can lead to cravings for more and more. However there are occasions when life simply gets in the way of avoiding junk all together, for example today and tomorrow are my cousin's and my aunty's birthdays, my mother has gone to a great deal of effort to make their cakes and of course I'm expected to eat them.
In October when I started this weight-reducing program there were a few weeks where I avoided chocolates/junk and I stopped having cravings for them at all though, so that was nice.
court wrote:Awww Steph!!
You know what I found helped me - even just for a little while.. "The Gabriel Method"...
see if your local library has a copy
I sporadically calorie count but after reading that book I feel a little bit less pressured about everything
Thankyou court! I think I will check that out, I know that book is in the library because I can remember my mum borrowing it about a year ago. At the time I wasn't interested in or trying to lose weight, but I sure am now! XD
