It's nice to be eating up again. I'm eating six times a day with protein in
every meal - chicken breast, crumbed fish, eggs, baked beans, some cheese,
some peanut butter, and the protein drink myoplex. Myoplex is incredible -
chocolately and thick when refridgerated, it reminds me of eating cake mix.
I eat carbs but I'm trying to be careful with them. Bread is a really bad
trigger food for me. I eat healthy wholegrain bread but get me started on it
after dinner, and if there's something good on TV, I'll polish off half a
loaf no problem. All I can think to do about this is to say 'no bread after
lunch'. I going to have to try really hard to stick to this rule. I've made
some other rules about junk food that still allows me to eat basically
anything I want but in very limited quantities.
I'm not going to track my calories. I find it a bit confining. I'm always
aware when I'm overeating. In most cases it a conscious choice. I know a lot
of people here use Fitday and what not. They may be right and I may be wrong
:)
Thx everyone for your ideas over the last few days.
Polar Light - 16 Mar 2005 10:59 GMT
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> I'm not going to track my calories. I find it a bit confining. I'm always
> aware when I'm overeating. In most cases it a conscious choice. I know a
> lot of people here use Fitday and what not. They may be right and I may be
> wrong :)
There's no 'right or wrong', just a matter of personal choice. Some like to
track what they eat all the time but I agree with you, counting calories
forever can take the spice out of life. Keeping an eye on the scale once a
week or so should be enough, it's always easier to lose 4lbs rather than 40!
Although I recommend FitDay, I only use it whilst losing weight, not as a
life-long thing. I find it serves two purposes:
1) It provides a sense of accountability, even if only to myself & the
program. For some reason I tend to go off track a lot less if I know I'll
have to record it later.
2) Having a record makes it easier to pinpoint the causes of stalls or
gains: if records show a calorie deficit every day, then the 1lb gain shown
on the scale HAS to be water & it'll go away.
I'd say don't obsess with food & there's no need to count every calorie or
every gram of fat you eat as long as you use common sense.
Best of luck ;-)