New Weight loss thread!

Lilfatty - would you pretty please tell me what you eat during the day? I'm really struggling to come up with easy meals. We always have a big dinner so that's not able to change, but would look forward to any advice you can give!

emz - an easy meal is tortillas/wraps.. i've been eating lots of these over the past couple of weeks. they taste yummy, and you just shove whatever in them and can make them different each time for different taste. I just chop up capsicum, cucumber etc one day and do lots and shove the rest in the fridge prechopped for next time.

AnnC wrote: So what is everyone doing thats working to loose the wieght?

 

I eat really well and ensure I eat 3 good meals plus morning tea.  I don't deny myself dark chocolate but I don't keep it in the house/at work either so if I want some I have to go and buy it and I'm never allowed it before a meal so generally I don't buy it.

I am exercising regularly again (mostly resistance training) so that's helped heaps too, although I've had a cold for the last couple of weeks so didn't exercise during that time except my daily walks, but I also plan to start running.  I hate running too and I look emo when I run but I don't have time for a decent fat burning walk anymore so I'm going to have to run or I won't get any decent cardio into my routine (I currently walk for about 45 mins each day but it's broken up - during my trips to and from work and home - and 90% is on the flat).

My new plan is to also cut out wine for a few weeks.  I not a big booze hag or anything but I have been enjoying a glass of wine each night after Michaela's in bed and that's an extra few hundred kjs I can do without.

 

Emz, I have a plate that's bigger than a side plate but smaller than a dinner plate.  I use that at dinner time and make sure it's at least 1/2 full of vegetables.  I also ensure I have fruit/vege at every meal.

Edited by MrsMojo

Umm for those of you who asked I eat as follows Mon-Sat and on Sunday its the same except lunch is usually chicken and veges at Mums place and I have dessert.

Breakfast 1/4 cup oats made with water and I mix in 100g pineapple in juice

Morning tea .. low carb protein shake (Dymatize) and a small banana

Lunch .. 1/2 tin of tuna in water with either rice wafters or a slice of toast ... and I put hummus on as a spread before the tuna.

Afternoon tea ... protein bar .. or protein shake and a small piece of fruit.

Dinner ... grilled chicken ... small wedge of pumpkin or kumara and hummus.

Ive always eaten really plainly so thats about as exciting as it gets. Oh and I dont really do veges hence the reason you dont see any in my food lol.

And ... I tend to eat like above as its what I am used too not because its any special diet

Oooo I did try chicken and hummus on a wrap for lunch once ... it was very yummy .. but the carbs are SUPER high and I couldnt justify that on a daily basis.

Yeah I did that when I was competing peachy ... however Im soo lazy that if I eat the same on a daily basis I never have to think about it lol

Although Sundays are a great high calorie day so that my body doesnt think im starving it.

I am in. I need to lose weight but my PT has told me not to concentrate on the weight loss at the moment and concentrate on my fitness. I want to at the end of November run 2.4km in 12 minutes 30 seconds (it is the Army RFL run for my age and sex). At the moment I can run for 7 mins straight and then die and I can run just over a km. I know I need to get my eating under control but as we don't have easy access to a supermarket (30kms away) I find it hard to have fresh fruit and veges in the house.

So i won't be in with weight just at the moment as once my running is under way then my PT will weigh me.

Becks - remember frozen vege is as good as fresh, and often if you get fruit in juice not syrup (read the labels though) they can be a better choice than not eating fruit at all.

Lilfatty - that's where I'm going wrong. I like nice food There's no way I could stick to that cos I need variety. Plus I have IBS which just throws in another kettle of fish.

peachy mine is a bodybuilders diet but with carbs and a high calorie day lol

I did that for four years (bodybuilding competitions) so thats why I always tend to revert to that style of eating because it comes naturally to me

Tonight I cycled to the gym .. did leg training then cycled home ... I could hardly get up our stairs

ohanlon82 ...

Im doing the Adra Fun Run in November as a kind of mini goal for the Triathlon ... you might want to do that too (its a run along Mission Bay im just going to do the 5k option)

If I hunt out my WW books I will go by them again, but once I have my fitness sorted.