Tag: diet

July 3, 2008 1:09 P.M. Weight: 349.2 lbs.

So it seems that my body likes the number 349.2 – I’ve been bouncing either side of it for the last week.

To be fair, I have been fairly busy, socially, and it isn’t really a great mystery why I have stopped losing. I had people round on Saturday for board games, and so there was coke and cookies in the house, and on Sunday I went out to lunch with a friend – the full roast beef and yorkshire pudding.

Also, as I am off work for the next week, I’ve been pretty busy, work-wise, so have missed out on my lunchtime walks.

Tonight, I am off to stay with my Mum for a few days in London, so see you all when I get back.

June 8, 2008 12:52 P.M. Weight: 353.8 lbs.

This weekend was the town’s agricultural fair, which, while not big, is normally worth going to. Yesterday it poured with rain, but today was beautiful, so I thought I’d go.

I was just about to jump in the car, when I thought ‘What am I doing? It’s only the other side oftown, 2 miles at most.’. Then I thought that there would be the chance I’d buy something that would need the car to get it home. ‘Simple – I’ll go early, and walk. If I see something I want to buy, I’ll come back this afternoon.

So I set out, had a great time, and although I bought a couple of things, they fit in my backpack.

As a treat for the exercise, I ate a pork and apple burger (the local pig farm had a stall) and enjoyed every mouthful.

Lunch:
Grasmere Farm Pork and Apple Burger
Orange Juice

May 27, 2008 5:16 P.M. Weight: 355.5 lbs.

(or for non-technical folks, starting again).

As I said earlier, while mum was staying here, she tended to do most of the cooking – especially during the week, when I am working.

As a result, my diet fell by the wayside, again and again. Don’t get me wrong – the food was healthy enough, but I wasn’t monitoring it at all.

Mum’s gone home again, now, so I have decided to zero my tracking, and start afresh with new targets.

April 28, 2008 10:41 A.M. Weight: 356.5 lbs.

Unfortunately, mum has been ill while staying with me the past month, having developed shingles.

She’s on her way to recovering from that, but is still not particularly well. Probably as a result of the various tablets she has been taking, she has been feeling nauseous, and generally out-of-sorts.

It’s easy to make excuses, I know, but as a result, I haven’t really given much thought to my diet for the last couple of weeks – simply coming up with food ideas that would appeal to both of us has been the priority.

Hopefully, mum is on the mend now, and I have suggested she stay with me until I am due to visit London in mid-May. No point in her going home to an empty house, while still not 100%

Despite all this, I do appear to have lost a few pounds. Having first gained a few pounds since the last blog entry, I have just weighed myself to find I have lost those, and a little bit more! No longer on-track, but at least I’m no worse off.

Anyway, I have just reset some missed targets, and am starting afresh.

March 21, 2008 9:16 P.M. Weight: 358.0 lbs.

Great gaming session, and lots and lots of pizza for lunch. I actually only had a couple of pieces, as I also baked some potatoes, as a healthy option.

However, after everyone had left, there was a whole half a pizza left over – and I had a choice – eat it for my dinner, or save it until tomorrow. I decided to go for it, as I didn’t feel like cooking.

For tomorrow, I have some vegetables in the fridge that need using before I leave, so I think I will make some soup for a healthy day.

Surprise on the scales today – two pounds down already. But I won’t read too much into that, I think it is probably simply weighing myself at different times of the day!

March 20, 2008 1:36 P.M. Weight: 360.0 lbs.

Discovered StartYourDiet today, and thought I would give it a whirl.

A couple of years ago, I was using Weightwatchers Online (UK) quite successfully, but it was expensive and certain aspects of their site really annoyed me. Foolishly, I decided my diet was going well, and thought I could manage without them. I did for a while, but not for long!

More recently, I have tried a couple of other sites:

Tesco’s Healthy Living Tracker – claims to be a free diet tracking site, but turned out to be very limited – predictably the foodstuffs are largely limited to Tesco’s own (although they claimed otherwise); nutritional details for their own products were frequently wildly different from those printed on the actual packets; and there was no way to manually input anything – if it wasn’t in their database, you couldn’t include it in your diet, and if you cook your own food, forget it!

Nutridiary – a free US site that looked quite promising at first, but after initial login, my password stopped working; the “lost password” facility said it was no longer available; and their support email address bounced mails. That didn’t impress me.

This site looks more promising. Although it is obviously based in the US (I’m a Brit), so the Food Database will contain mainly US products, this doesn’t bother me too much. My main beef with the previous sites was how hard they made it to set up your own foods and meals – rather than off-the shelf products – I like to cook a lot, from basic ingredients. It is easy to do that here, and even better, they allow you to add foods to the “Community Database”, which I will be definitely doing – marking any branded products with a “(UK)” to avoid any confusion.

Also, even for the “premium membership”, the price is good, especially with the current dollar exchange rate. A month and a half’s payment for Weightwatchers online will pay for my whole year’s subscription here.

So here I go again – wish me luck.