Health Link: Looking to gain muscle? Buy Tea & Toast
By Groovybabe • Dec 8th, 2007 • Category: food, gym, weightlossThere is nothing like tea and toast in the morning. I never used to drink hot drinks at all but this winter I have needed something to keep warm. I don’t normally have toast in the morning either but lately my body has been making me eat eat eat and is never satisfied until I eat bread so I thought I’d save myself 500 calories and have toast for breakfast. And this morning tea and toast is making me feel all warm and fussy. If I had to go out to work today it would have set me up for the day.
I have been looking into doing weightwatchers online because I need to have something to help me to take control of my food. While I am not over eating as such I am eating enough so that I am maintaining and not losing and I need to get moving on the weightloss. I have half a stone to lose by Xmas to maintain reaching my goals. WW Online is too expensive though. I thought as I was a previous member it would forgo the registration fee but it won’t meaning I have to pay about £30 to join. No way. I then thought about going to classes instead, which would help me to meet other people too, but there is a class at 10.30am on a Monday when I am at the gym, and a class at 7pm on Thursday, which I cannot do as I do not have a sitter. I guess I could move the gym around but I like the routine I have with that (drop J at school and then go straight to the gym). Plus it is money I do not have really. I might just see how I go over the next few weeks and if I am still not seeing results after Christmas then join up there.
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The last day or so I have noticed a big rise in my energy levels. I am sure this is due to going to the gym 3 times in the past week. My mind is very much energy-driven too. I’d love to go for another work out today but I know my body wouldn’t cope with it. I was thinking of going for a jog/run outside as I can stop as soon as I have had enough but the rain is so horrible. I have tomorrow off the gym too and am at a loss as to how to fill my weekend. Back to the housework, I guess.
Groovybabe is 14.9 stones today and has lost 2lbs at her last weigh in.
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Tea & toast is my favorite “sick” food
pre-Burnout I had noticed that I was doing more maintaining than losing, which I think may have beem due to my portioning. I bought a digital scale which I have finally unearthed from the depths of my kitchen and am now using that to help me. I’ve been on WW before but never stuck to it, and with it being so expensive I didn’t bother going back. The WW magazine often has coupons for free registration in them though if that will help you? If not I’m sure they’ll have offers in the new year for all the resolution dieters.
Zanitta - Yeah I have digital scales. Weighing food is paramount to weightloss if you ask me. My maintaining is because I am eating far too much (I am surprised I have not put on a stone). I am doing weightlossresources.co.uk for their 3 day free trial to help me get back into the habit of dieting. That was the problem, I’d gotten out of the habit and it crept up. I am half way through the first day and it is torture but will be worth it in a few days when I have managed the psychological battle and am seeing the scales go down again.
Weightwatchers has a monthly pass which you pay for up front and means you have online access as well as meetings. It works out at about 4.00 a week and if you get hold of a voucher you shouldn’t have to pay the joining fee. I find the online planner really helpful.
Keep going to the gym. Look at a week of food journalling you did during a week you lost lots of weight and stick to that menu like glue. See what happens. : )
Betz - Yeah did another great workout today. I am also managing to save calories early on today so feel more under control again. I had an epiphany in the gym. I have got to just do it. I HAVE to lose half a stone by christmas to stay on goal and not staying on goal is not an option for me. I have like 2 weeks. So I am being really really good. Thats 3.5lbs per week I need to lose. I can do it.
I really believe in portion control. I’ve read about people who have started on programs that allow you to eat as much as you want or until you feel full like South Beach or Atkins but when it comes down to the end, everyone says you must find portion control to get to goal and stay there. I really think that learning proper portion sizes is crucial for all of us.
I can only drink hot drinks when its under 80 (26C) degrees but I really enjoy a cup of herbal tea after our evening walk on those cooler evenings! So soothing and it seems to curb my appetite.
If you really want to give WW a try, you could always hop onto Ebay and probably find some materials for relatively cheap. I think the major help is the point counter.
I find the meeting style really beneficial. They praise you when you have lost and they don’t even say your weight aloud they just write it down. And having to go face someone is a bit of pressure to do well. My weigh in is tomorrow and it makes me a little nervous. When you’re weighing yourself you can always skip a bad week or lie about it somehow. You can’t when it is someone else writing it down. I find it keeps me being honest to myself.
Diana - I hear what you’re saying and I agree up to a point. But you *can* eat large portions and loose weight. You just have to be careful. Theres nothing wrong with eating loads and loads of veggies if it fills you up, but with rice, bread, pasta you have to be more careful. My dinners, when being good, are huge. The make me feel full up and satisified. If I didnt have that, after eating small all day, I’d never be successful and portion control would be my fall down. I think it is more important to know your own strengths and weaknesses.
Susan - I think I am going to give ww a miss. I am doing WLR and that is adequate for now.
Betz - This is precisely why I was considering ww. I need to be accountable. Being accountable to myself is not enough. But it is just going to have to be for now. I’ve had a really successful day today so I am sure it is going to be all good.