Diane65 wrote:Good morning everyone and welcome to Rainey. Hope that Biggins and Preston1990 are having a fabulous holiday
Hope that ClareBarr, MsThrifty, anakin, jojojoanne and Valda are keeping well. Where are you havingascreen? Hows are guiding light MrG this morning?
Day 2 of 1500 calories - MrG if you think that I should lower this please just say and if anyone else has tips for me I would love to hear it. I'm not sensitive (I am towards other people) so you can say it as it is.
Menu of the day:
Porridge (large bowl) and a black coffee (400 calories) - I will go back to 300 calories tomorrow as I feel uncomfortably full and have healthy snacks instead
Large ham salad sandwich and 2 plums (450 calories- I am working a very long afternoon)
2 egg omelette with salad and balsamic vinegar and 2 mandarins (350 calories)
A cereal bar and I must try and get some nuts/seeds for healthier snacks (basically I need to do a shop ASAP)
Exercise of the day:
A brisk 4 mile walk and a coat of gloss and a bit of sanding this evening - I need the gloss work finished by Friday evening (doing it after work in the evenings) so that I can do the emulsioning over the weekend (its a large kitchen and its the drying time for the gloss which will hold me back). Daughter goes back to college in 2 weeks so won't have the time to do all the housework then with studying etc - so it will be my job once again plus I go to Berlin next Friday so I'm on a mission (I actually love doing it
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Have a fun day everyone
Diane65 wrote:
Bring it on MrG- I am ready for the next challenge and you are so right I have been letting the protein levels slip a bit and I will include some healthy snacks, I do love nuts and seeds so I will b*y some. I have my old faithful Kenwood Chefette which is going strong after 25 years so can blend away. I eat any vegetable and fruit going so I should be easily able to incorporate them into my diet. I have been reading up a bit and I need 1850 calories to maintain my weight providing I keep up with 6 hours of exercise a week so I'm thinking that if I up my calories to 1500 a day I should still lose weight but at a slower rate. My concern is that if I don't slow it down a bit due to my age (I still class myself as being young) it can get to the stage where you stop looking healthy and start looking older than your years.
YEAAAHH, just hear that roar! Wonder woman! All guns blazing now :) Well, you can lower the deficit back to your previous, if you want to keep up the same rate (assuming you do the same amount of exercises) or increase it a bit if you want to slow that rate down, its fine, you're advanced enough to assess what feels right for you when you make your next measurements. You are now aiming specifically at losing body fat, which calls for a similar journey that you were already on but now need more refinement in what you eat. Aim to eat more wholesome, unrefined, unprocessed food. Still need to see veggies in there, fish and white meat. And remember, your stomach will know when you have had enough (as long as you eat the food slowly). Dont eat more if you get the full up signals!
What type of bread are you having in your sandwich? Hope its wholegrain/wholemeal. White and brown bread is bad, all the goodness had been sucked out of it and you are basically left with unhealthy crap, yes the brown bread too, its a trick, all they do is use colouring agent, seriously. So stay away from the refined products such as white sugar, white and brown bread, and white flower. Sub for wholegrain/wholemeal bread, brown or molasses sugar (or even honey), and wholemeal flower.
I notice you have a lot of cereal bars. Is that to satisfy your sweet craving? I hope you not getting addicted to them! Limit yourself to 1 or 2 a week (assuming you have been having more than that a week so far which I think you have) and substitute for the more healthier alternatives I had mentioned such as a rice cake and low fat cottage cheese, perhaps. Dont be fooled by the so called healthy advertisements of these cereal bars.
I notice most of you dont list what you have to drink...? Needless to say, lots of (altogether now) water
Or herbal tea (my fav is still peppermint but I do drink other variety for the mix but man, nothing beats peppermint for me!), and if you do have natural home made or unrefined fruit juice, remember to account for the calories in that and your fruits too. Veggies have the same variety of nutrition but without the calories, which is why I champion the veggies over the fruits but of course fruits are delicious and natural, so eat fruits too but be more moderate.
Preston, you're not far from the acceptable range! 24.5% BF would be a good intermediate target for you and there isnt far to go. Ideally, try not go a backward step while on holiday but still more important is to ENJOY YOUR HOLIDAY, be worry free and we'll be keeping the place tidy for you when you get back
So how is everyone else doing? Making use of this abnormally sunny week, nice weather for a jog, huh?
I'll be making another run today to see a film at the cinema, possibly The Expendables, should give my adrenaline a boost as I run back home from the cinema!
- Which as luck would have it puts me in the "Obese" category 
Lovely, Eh!! 
I eat wholegrain bread the more seeds the better plus I will increase my veg and white meat (sorry I don't do fish). I need to find some good food which is higher in calories as I am getting full after about 1000 calories a day even with exercise - so I have done my painting for the evening and now going to walk to Asda to get some healthy snacks - jojojoanne does healthy seed mixes so I will copy her good example. Does anyone have any good recipes with lentils / pulses? They are high in protein and fibre.