Bandsters, What did you eat today???

[SaggiJ 2]

Hi ANON,

Thanks for a very wise advice. I totally agreed with you, your doc and your friend. I know I need to listen to the 'soft fullness of my band", rather than the 'fullness of my brain", which is nearly never. I feel I could do with a little defill, but am trying to see how much longer I could live with this tight restriction. As I said, it really is a catch 22 situation at the moment. However, each time I come on (and its 2x a month for me unfortunately) I feel I could gorge down everything. For some reason, a day or two prior to my menses, I can really eat alot if I chew and chew and chew, as if the restriction opens up during this period. The good thing is the weight is not going up. Thats a plus I suppose, even though its plateau and not going down either. I take lots of J2O (which is not good) cos I used to drink diet coke in pub/restaurant, but I cant take diet coke or any fizzy drinks now, so to prevent me from ordering alcoholic drinks, I go for J2O. Its not an option, but until I find something else, J2O is less calories (I think) than alcoholic drinks.

Anyway here's my food diary today.

Tuesday

BF - 2spoon of cruncy cornflakes with milk

Snk1 - Mullert light & 1 med size banana

lunch - 1 pot Weight watcher Tomato Soup (84cals) and some low fat

croutons. 10 pcs of Goumet Tiger Prawn & Garlic Crisps.

Snk2 - WW choc mousse

Snk 3 - A bar of cadbury brazil nuts choc (Very naughty!!!)

dinner -Starter: Small chicken pcs, 100g smoke salmon pcs, cucumber

& 2 slices of chick & mush quiche,

Main: Chinese duck fillet pcs stir fry

Snk 4: 1/2 apple.

Exercise : Zero

Monday

BF: Muller light

Snk 1: Banana

Lunch: Asda sweetcorn chicken Soup, 2 slices of mushroom&chic quiche

Snk 2: WW choc mousse & 6 pcs Gourmet tiger prawn&garlic crisps

Dinner: 1 small pc grill burger meat, 1 pkt chinese stir fry duck fillet,

some chicken fillet pcs & 1pc of quiche

Snk 3: Asda creme bulea

EXERCISE: 5 mins walking up a steep steps

[libertysuzanne 1]

I know I haven't done as promised and kept up dating what I have been eating, but now I really have to! My Personal Trainer suspects that I am actually not eating enough and my body instead of burning fat is actually trying to store it!

It's a nightmare and a dream come true, which I know sounds really stupid. All my life I have been fascinated by that phrase 'stravation.' I never thought that I would ever experience it. Yet, here I am going through it now, wishing I wasn't.

It certainly hasn't been my intention to cause my body to go into starvation mode. I don't think I am over restricted either, so it isn't the band fault. I have just stopped wanting to eat.

Now, of course you would think that would make the lbs melt off. Ha! Infact I seem to be stuck at 15st 13lb even with my muscle mass growing. Mind you, I suspect if I kept eating as I have been, it would start to do what it's supposed to. But, I don't want to lose my weight in a manner which would cause side affects.

It doesn't help that my body is toning up so nicely as well. I am physically seeing the changes and since Johnny has voiced concern about my lack of food, I am trying to do the 6 small meals a day. Yet, I feel a wee bit paniced after eating that I am going to put weight on. It is completely irrational and I feel ashamed of myself.

Everything has been going so well. I know I was disappointed that the second fill hasn't had the miraculous results when I first had the band fitted. I guess I have tried to over compensate, the will power that I have discovered regarding food has kicked into over drive. I know that another fill won't make a difference at the moment. I was tempted to go for another one, but there is no point, I'm not going up or down and I know now that I am not eating enough.

Sorry to be going on like this, I had to have a crisis at some point, things have been going so well! I now promise that I shall write down everything I eat, every day. I have got to do something, I need to turn on the brakes and stop myself going down a path that is so very wrong!

So here goes!

Today 18/04/2007

B: vanilla Slimfast Milkshake.

1 Litre of Water

Snk: Half a bar of Milk chocolate Sense

500mls Water

500mls pineapple juice

Lunch: Heinz Beef & Vegetable Big Soup

250mls Tropical fruit juice

I'm not sure what I am going to have for dinner, I have bought some cucumber, celery and seed mix to make a salad for my afternoon and evening snack. Although I think I will be skipping the afternoon snack, or may finish the sense bar. See how I feel after my hour of exercise.

I jsut wish this feeling of panic would go away, it is really bugging me! It is good to eat, I love food and you can have your cake and eat it, as the old saying goes, 'everything in moderation.' That really does work both ways!

THanks for listening if you got this far

Hugs

Sx

[anon 1]

Keeping a food diary is the best thing to take stock of what you're eating and means that you are accountable for the things you put in your mouth!!

I'm not as good as I could be, but I'm better than I would be if I didn't fill this in! With this in mind today's intake is as follows!

18/4/07

B; cup of tea and 500ml water... still felt like I'd just eaten!

S; pear

L: seafood cocktail and green salad from M&S Deli cafe took ages to eat it... a woman who started her dinner 10 minutes after me had eaten, packed and left just as I was on the home straight.... either she ate extremely quickly or I'm definitely eating really slowly!

S; plum 1 brazil nut 2 cashews and a couple of raisins

D; home made italian meatballs and Pasta with a tsp fresh grated parmesan.

I feel totally stuffed!!!

Total calories for today 695! :biggrin1: makes up for the past couple of days of stuffing myself.

[libertysuzanne 1]

I can now add on:

2 egg omlette (with little olive oil) mixed peppers and onion

1 cup coffee

3 pieces Sainsbury fudge

I went to fitday.com and inputted my consumption today. It comes to 940 cals, 41g Protein.

Is this good? Think I may have to keep up with the food diary for a week, work out the average and then ask the nurse who assisted with my fill.

It's weird having to make a concerted effort to eat! That used to be my biggest problem, eating too much! Bizarre experience wearing the shoe on the other foot

[libertysuzanne 1]

19/04/2007

Porridge and raisins

500ml Water

coffee 2 sugars

3 pieces of Maple Fudge

Decaff coffee 2 Sugars

Heinz Beef and Vegetable Soup

Orange

500ml Water

Tomato sauce and Wheat Free Pasta

500ml Water

250ml pineapple juice

According to fitday, that is 1002 calories. Lot more than usual, shall check if my exercise has got rid of half of the calories......YAY! It has.

[anon 1]

<p>My Protein is around 55g level which is OK for my level of activity (Light exercise 3mile walk and light weight training 2x weekly) </p> <p>If you're really going for it then you'll need to up it to around 100g a day or 1g per KG of weight..... I'd really struggle to get there. </p> <p>19/4/07 </p> <p>B: 1/2 apple </p> <p>L: coq au vin with green Beans and courgettes (steamed)</p> <p>D: marinated salmon with red peppers, green Beans and broccoli </p> <p>1/3 of a piece of chocolate brownie with ice cream and a strawberry Daquari (sp?) TGI Friday's!!</p> <p> </p> <p>Total Calories: 846</p> <p> </p> <p>20/4/07 </p> <p> </p> <p>B: apple Slice canteloupe melon </p> <p>L: Cambridge meal bar </p> <p>D: Salmon fillet, cooked in foil with corriander and lime, green beans with lemon, pepper and butter new potatoes </p> <p> </p> <p>Total Calories: 820</p>

Also had 225 ml red wine ... really nice treat!

[libertysuzanne 1]

OK lets deal with the food first!

20/04/2007

B: Porridge and raisins

250ml Pinepple juice

500ml Water

L: vanilla Slimfast shake

500ml Water

D: Strawberries and cream (scrum diddly umptious!)

250ml Water

Add two cups of black coffee with sugar and I have had 1014cals and 40g of Protein.

I have had about 2 hours of exercise today as well unintentionally lol. Had to build my sons bed, walk the dogs and my hour session with Johnny! My feet are killing me and I think I wll sleep like the dead but it has been a great day!

Especially as I have finally started to lose weight again and I have gained 6lbs of muscle, so I now have 8st 7lb 4oz MUSCLE! My fat is down 3%, (this was a relief!)visceral fat down 6% and lost 2lbs of weight! So I am extremely chuffed!

Now if the theory is correct, my muscles are going to be burning heaps more calories to keep them fed BONUS! Really do hope that is true. Now I have to really focus on my diet to make sure I on't mess up. It does prove to me that I do hav to eat more rather than less!

[libertysuzanne 1]

21/04/07

Morning Pilates Workout - 20 mins

B: Porridge and Raisins

500ml Water

250ml pineapple juice

Walking around supermarkets and shops 1 hr

L: Half a seasoned chicken drumstick

250ml Water

Walking the Dogs - 35 mins

snack - (very bad) Box of organic Fudge (100g)

D: Heinz beef and vegetable Soup

Orange

Apple

250ml pineapple juice

Gentle exercise on Gymball - 20 mins

500ml water

[anon 1]

Yesterday's food 21/4/07

B; canteloupe melon with cottage cheese

L; two rye crackers (finn crisp... the best!) with more cottage cheese

D: curry night....2 spoons chicken bhuna achari, 2 spoons rice, 2 bites keema naan 1 spoon of saag paneer. Large glass of red wine.

Total calories 974

Had a really nice night out and enjoyed meal... although was totally stuffed on that little lot! I am still ordering pre band portions.... then only really eating a bit of everything that I previously would have polished off no worries.... I was really hungry before I started and ate the first mouthful a bit fast.... that hurt, I can tell you, but I knew as soon as I'd swallowed it that it was going to be a problem....must learn to eat before I get to being really hungry! It was 9.30 before we sat down, so my own fault... no pb, but it could have easily happened if I hadn't slowed down.

[libertysuzanne 1]

Hey H!

Do we get brownie points for being good lil bloggers recording our eating? :clap2:

Not that I have been good today, it all started off really good then got worse!

22/04/2007

Pilates Morning workout

B: Porridge and raisins

500ml Water

250ml Pinepple juice

Black coffee, 2 sugars

L: 100g Ice cool Dorritas

250ml Pinepple juice

500ml Water

2 hours building storage cupboards by myself.

D: 100g Ice cool Doritta

20 mins Gymball

I know this can only be considered as dreadful! I promise to do better tommorow, I didn't actually realise how bad it was until I wrote it down. Probably if I hadn't go so involved in building the cupboards, I would have eaten better!

[anon 1]

Oh Dear Sooz!!! Crapola city!!! Still it's good to write it down, it makes you less likely to do it again! I've just one word to say to you..... PROTEIN!!!!

If you eat enough of that, you won't have room for the other stuff!!! Get some cottage cheese in the fridge, eat it on crackers (whatever you like best, rye ones have no gluten in so you could manage those!) mix it with fruit (pineapple is good and it's better to eat it than drink it! You had 500 calories worth of juice ... IMHO a waste of calories there's no fibre in it at all!) Feel free to poke at my diet too, it helps you know!!!

My day yesterday was as follows

B: Cambridge diet shake

L: 140g canteloupe melon plus 175g cottage cheese

D: Red Snapper fillet with one tsp green pesto, 1 new potato and a small green salad.

5 mile walk with dog, 10min jog at gym(!me jog!!)

Need to eat more as today was only 750cals!

[libertysuzanne 1]

Thanks H,

I am in complete agreement, it was a 'capola' (like that word!). Not to be repeated any time soon!

I am wondering if it was the salt that I was actually hankering after? I usually live relatively salt free, I don't add extra or put it in things that don't normally have salt in, like veg. Yet, that is my favourite thing with Ice cool, licking the salt and whatever else is on the coating from my fingers, I prefer that more than the actual chip!

Today I have started off pretty well.

10mins on gym ball and weights.

B: porridge and raisins

250ml Water

black coffee, 2 sugars (I have to have one coffee a day, but that is it normally)

Shall let you know what else passes through my mouth later.

Did you watch that program on C4 called super skinny me: The Race to size 00? It was fascinating. I thought I might get some useful tips

Which I didn't, don't really want to go for colonic irrigation...urrrgh!

It's brill that you jogged H, I envy you, I can do most things but Johnny and I have given up on me being able to jog or hill walk as part of my exercise plan, my ankles just don't like it. The weight loss has eased my ankles but they are still really unstable, it's not likely they will ever strengthen to a point where I will be able to run. Still positive power walking is just as healthy, even if I do look like a right idiot!

Have you got a gym ball at home H? I love mine, it's a really fun exercise tool. You don't think you are actually achieving anything but you use a lot of muscles when using it. I balance on it for a little while, watching tv. It has taken me awhile to be able to do that, but even just sitting on it, with your feet on the floor gets the muscles working to keep the ball stable!

So far I can't point oput any wrong doings in your diet! I shall keep my beady eye ouf for slip ups *he he mwah ha haha * (hope you know I'm teasing)

Yours

Sx

[anon 1]

I don't possess any home exercise equipment beyond the dog! I do use the balance ball at the gym tho' to give core resistance to most of my upper body work out. My thoughts are that if I had it at home I would use it as an excuse not to go the gym and then not use the equipement at home either.... I have too many friends with really expensive clothes hangers in their houses!!

Well, I have to say today has been challenging, felt really tight until this evening then was ravenous.... but my pouch said NO to big portions and I still only had a small dinner!

Gym in the morning upper body weight training

B: 600ml Water 1 cup black coffee

Drinks 600ml tea 600ml water, 400ml oasis light

L : one rye crispbread, 100g of cottage cheese.... managed 3/4 of it. a couple of mouthfuls of tesco sweet and crunchy salad (carrot, red cabbage iceberg lettuce mix)

S: 1/2 apple.... wanted more but knew I had to stop!

500ml water

D; 100g cooked prawns 2 tblspns heinz salad cream Light, steamed broccoli and cauliflower .... had new potatoes on my plate.... NO WAY was I going to get those down me!!

I'm aiming to eat a Cambridge bar before bed to take my calorie total to 658 NOT NEAR ENOUGH!! But hey, I've drank loads and I've still managed 71g of protein!!! WooHoo!

Going to take the dog for 5km now, she needs the exercise almost as much as I do!!!

[libertysuzanne 1]

Your doing really well H. A 2 and a half mile wlak! Now that really is impressive.

I know what you mean about the exercise equipment ending up as just another dust collector. I used to be like that, until I had a few sessions with the P.T. Now those dust collectors are being put to work. Before I didn't even know what ot do with the Gymball - which I think is the same thing as your balance ball, unless you have the one that has a flat board on top?

I took you advice and for lunch I had Ryvita with pumpkin seeds and Tesco helathy life cottage cheese and pineapple. DIdn't like Tescos version of what is normally a really nice dish! Shall have to go to Sainsburys, I know I like theirs. The ryvita was such a pleasure! I'm still learning what I can and can't eat.

So have I been good, since I wrote earlier? Well I guess so.

L: 100g cottage cheese with pineapple and 2 ryvita with pumpkin seeds

500l Water

8 Minute pilates arm work out

500ml Water

1 hour with P.T, climber, rebounder and gymball

500ml water

Omelette with baked Beans. (actually cleared the plate! Normally with omelettes I am full half way through.)

Going to do some gentle exercise following pilates DVD later, an evening wind down.

[anon 1]

Been in the gym again this morning... here are 6.50am!!! Still here in the cafe posting on t'internet!

This morning was cardio workout... 20 minutes of a sort of interval training... It was HARD WORK....you work through level 5 to 9 at one minute intervals four times.... My son told me what it was called, but have forgotten! (some Swedish bloke's name who devised it) Main advantage is that it's short and sweet! Then supported OH through his lower body work out... he said I was a slave driver!!!

I've only had 600ml Water and a coffee as I can't manage solids first thing, and have forgotten my shake. Not hungry so, not bothered, will eat something later.