Food Diary 18th January

I have realised over time that if I ever eat healthy, it's because I've written down what I've eaten! So that later on you realise "my lord I've had 19 snacks today? REALLY SELF?"! I'm a major list person, if I need to be productive, I have to write lists. I then feel a sense of accomplishment! SO I've decided that I'm going to plan my eating habits a day in advance. I know what I like to eat, and what I don't, I know when I start to feel impulsive & my main problems are eating at night & not drinking enough water! So hopefully, by planning what I'm going to eat in the day, I'll have to stick to it, and not stray away!

Breakfast: Porridge with 2 Tbsp of half spoon sugar! - 180 calories + 32 calories = 212 calories :)

I have university at 11am, so I'll take a midday snack with me of a chocolate chip cereal bar - 90 calories!

I'm getting a make-over at benefit at 1pm tomorrow with my friend Rose, so that will delay lunch, hence need for a snack!

I'm going to grab a baked bean jacket potato whilst I'm in town - NO CHEESE LAUREN! I'm almost going to be sticking around to do some work in university! 396 calories

My mid-afternoon snack will be some greek yoghurt - 79 calories :)

My boyfriend has work till 5pm so I'll be making dinner :) I think I'm going to go for Chicken Kiev, with new potatoes, brocolli and cauliflower :) with gravy! - 338 + 126 + 30 = 494 calories

Now if I don't go to bed till 11pm and I have dinner at 6pm, there's 5 whole hours where I'm not eating. That sounds silly but I know that I need to have a late night snack of honey nut cornflakes - 179 calories. I really have an eating problem, I will just eat anything in sight, especially when I'm working or watching TV. I just eat eat eat!!

I'm definitely going to drink about 5/6 glasses of squash, and take my litre bottle of strawberry flavoured water with me to university, just so I'm not tempted to buy diet coke. I know that most of the time we think we're hungry when we're thirsty & I do think thats the problem for me sometimes, the rest of the time, I want snacks nomnom. Badddd!

I bought zumba for myself the other day! So I'm definitely going to do the beginner hour where you learn all the steps tomorrow in the day :) so that I can do their workouts everyday! I tried to do this the other day, but the puppies decided to step in and dance with me. Very distracting!

Right so here's the embarrassing part! The reason I'm trying to stop myself snacking, try to eat varied meals, is because I went to the doctors for my health check, and the lady told me I'm overweight for my height. I know that I am, but she said she had to check my waist circumference to check if I'm 'fat round my middle, because that puts me at risk of developing diabetes." Now I think that is just rude, but it was the slap in the face I needed. I went to the gym 3 times last week and did the 20 minute shred workout, but I did both in one day, and my thighs were rock solid and aching for dayssss. I even did a warm down and stretched, I just worked them really hard. So I was out of action & then the snow hit and I was like ahh pooop.

So we're meant to get a massive amount of snow in cheery old England this weekend, so I'm going to try & focus on zumba, and do a workout every day this weekend! Then I think the snow is stopping mid-next week so I can get back into the gym :)

Current Weight - 150 lbs.

My aim is to have lost 30 by summer for my birthday. That's 6 months and about 5lbs to lose a month, very do-able I say. That sounds like a massive amount, and I thought so too because I'm only 5 ft 1, but the nurse said that was realistic because I would then just be a healthy weight for my height!

Here's hoping! Motivate me, thanks!

xoxox