Food & Exercise Diary Saturday December 7th

Breakfast 213

Tetley - Tea With Semi Skimmed Milk, 2 mug - 30

Hovis - 7 Seed Sensation Wholemeal Bread Toast With spread 1 slice - 145

Golden Shred - Marmalade (Fine Cut Orange Jelly), 15 g - 38

Lunch 714

Sainsbury's - Wholemeal Flour Soft Bread Roll, 1 Roll - 231

Tesco - Mature Cheddar, 35 g - 146

Tesco - Salad Tomato (80g), 80 g - 16

Sainsbury's - Smoked & Meaty Kabanos, 1 sausage - 91

Cadbury's - Twirl (Per Finger) Updated 07/08/2013, 2 finger - 230

Dinner 289

Heinz - Baked Beans Half Tin (207.5g), 207.5 g - 164

Warbutons - Wholemeal Bread 800g, 40.3 g - 98

Olivio - Spread, 1 tsp - 27

Snacks 598

Tesco - Extra Mature Cheddar Cheese, 30 g - 125

Tesco - Plain Cooking Chocolate Dark, 20 g - 101

Tetley - Tea With Semi Skimmed Milk, 6 mug - 90

Tesco - Lemon Mousse, 1 pot - 115

Nestle Quality Street - Chocs / Sweets, 2 sweets - 79

Boots - Chocolate Flapjack, 0.3 bar - 88

Totals 1814 Exercise Cardiovascular Walking, 2.5 mph, leisurely pace - 65mins - 192

Food & Exercise Diary December 6th

Food Diary:
Breakfast
Tetley - Tea With Semi Skimmed Milk, 2 mug - 30
Oatso Simple - Golden Syrup With Semi Skimmed, 1 Sachet - 221
Tescos - Seedless Raisins, 35 g - 103
354
Lunch
Sainsbury's - Carrots With Chunky Houmous, 120 g - 135
Sainsbury's - Fish Sushi Medium Pack, 158 g - 256
Sainsburys Taste the Difference - Belgian Chocolate Rocky Road, 1 slice - 309
700
Dinner
Beef Casserole, 1 serving - 254
Walls - Cornetto Mix Mini Caramel, 216 g - 110
364
Snacks
Francis - Banana, 130 g - 134
Tetley - Tea With Semi Skimmed Milk, 4 mug - 60
Sainsburys - Cox Apple, 1 apple - 47
Hovis - Seed Sensations 7 Seeds Bread 800g, 0.8 slice - 98
Olivio - Spread, 1 tsp - 27
Marmite - Yeast Extract, 1/2 tsp - 8
Cheese - Cheddar, 10 g - 40
Tetley - Tea With Semi Skimmed Milk, 2 mug - 30
Sainsbury - Mild Cheddar Cheese, 10 g - 39
483
Total 1901

Exercise

Cardiovascular
Walking, 2.5 mph, leisurely pace 70 mins - 206
Stationary bike, very light effort 40 mins - 118

Total 324

Back Again - Friday 6 December 2013

It's now three years since I posted on this blog. In the intervening time I have gained a few pounds - nothing excessive, just some weight creep.  However the weight creep has reached the stage where it is getting a little worrying as a few items of clothing are getting too tight.

I have spent the year hovering between 9st 4lbs and 9st 6lbs. I see looking back at the blog that weight creep is an ongoing problem with me. I would love to be back at 8st 7lbs but oh dear its nearly a stone away now.

This year I have learnt the following with respect to diet:

• A calorie really isn't always a calorie - an experiment with low carb eating proved that you can eat lots of fat and not gain weight.
• In general though the calorie equation holds and less calories and more exercise tends to decrease your weight.
• Overeating anything, even on a low carb diet, makes me gain weight.
• I like low carb eating as a general thing and am now happy to eat less structured meals, as in I don't now bother with half a plate of carbs, quarter meat, quarter veg.
• Complete low carb eating frustrates me because I enjoy carbs.
• Complete low carb eating doesn't seem to be great for my digestive functions.
• Even though I know sugar is bad for me I have difficulty resisting it.
• Giving in to the sugar craving doesn't stop it - I end up eating even more of it.
• If I am not accountable in some way I eat more than I need.
• I will need to keep a food diary for ever - its just the way my mind works.
• Keeping the food diary is the only thing that has kept my weight as low as it is.

It's now the run up to Christmas - danger time for me. I want to post my food diary on the internet again, even though probably no-one is reading this blog, that's not the point, they could do if they wanted.

Hopefully that will make me less likely to eat 2 chocolate bars in one go and constantly snack throughout the day. It's not just about the weight; I'm conscious that having experimented with different styles of eating this year, namely low carb, paleo and intuitive eating, and also taking a break on the cooking blog I was writing for, I have ended up with a not terribly healthy diet at this stage, and that needs to change.