I've been using My Fitness Pal after being recommended it from a few friends, I've used it a few times before but that was back when I didnt really need to lose weight, this time, it's a MUST. I've been super impressed with it and can really see just how much food i've been eating and the calories, fat content and sugar it all has in it, that mixed with me exercising 0% has really made me unhappy with my body. I'm fully determined this time, no treats, not until I reach that goal in December, i'm motivated and excited for the change!
What have I been eating? Using My Fitness Pal i've been working out what I can and can't have in the day, what I tend to do is plan what i'm going to eat for the day, then see what the calories are and what I have left or what I have to substitute, Sunday for example I was going to make sweet and sour chicken for dinner, but the sugar content was so huge I would've gone over, so we changed it to something else..The app took into consideration my current weight and active levels to determine how many calories I should be consuming a day in order to lose my request of -2lbs loss per week, so my daily food intake has to be 1300!
You can see I learn pretty quickly what foods almost push me over the edge on my RDA's or calories, baked beans have become a treat now!
Off the menu! Chocolate Fizzy Drinks Cake Crisps Sugar in Tea Pizza Takeaways Alcohol Bacon Bread
Starting Weight - 10st 13lbs First Target - 10st (on or before our holiday in December) Goal Weight - 9st 7lbs (pre-pregnancy weight)
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Thursday 25th September
Breakfast | Shredded Wheat Summer Fruits With 125ml Semi-skimmed Milk
Lunch | Baked Beans and Jumbo Sausages
Dinner | 2 x Beef Burgers with Roasted Veg cous cous and parmesan cheese
Snacks | Nothing
TOTAL calories: 1200
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Friday 26th September
Breakfast | Shredded Wheat Summer Fruits with 125ml semi skimmed milk
Lunch | Ham & Egg Salad 4 x Crab Sticks
Dinner | Pasta Bolognese with dash of parmesan cheese Boiled egg left over from salad at lunch
Snacks | Muller Light Banana & Custard Yoghurt Red Apple
TOTAL calories: 1381
Earned 101 extra calories through exercise
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Saturday 27th September
Breakfast | Cheerio's with semi-skimmed milk
Lunch | Prawn cocktail salad with beetroot
Dinner | Jacket Potato with tuna, mixed veg and some beetroot
Snacks | Muller Light Banana & Custard yoghurt
Half Banana
TOTAL calories: 1072
Earned 138 extra calories through exercise
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Sunday 28th September
Breakfast | Cheerios with semi skimmed milk
Half a banana
Lunch | Cous cous with stir fried veg & mozzarella cheese
Muller Light Strawberry yoghurt
Dinner | Omelette and chips with stir fried veg
Snacks | Nutri grain apple bar
1 chicken drumstick (random craving ha)
TOTAL calories: 1404
Gained 323 extra calories from exercising
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Monday 29th September
Breakfast | Cheerios with semi skimmed milk
Half a banana
Lunch | Tuna salad with beetroot and mozzarella
3/4 Muller Light Strawberry yoghurt
Dinner | 2 Sausages with sweet potato mash & cous cous
Snacks | Handful of grapes
Muller Light Toffee
TOTAL calories: 1203
Earned an extra 260 calories from exercising
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Tuesday 30th September
Breakfast | Cheerios with semi skimmed milk
Quarter of a banana
Lunch | Homemade Ham salad
Dinner | Sweet potato jacket with tuna & tbsp of salad cream
& stir-fried mixed veg
Snacks | 1 sugar ring doughnut
TOTAL: 1045
Earned 83 calories from exercise
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Wednesday 1st October
Breakfast | Cheerios with semi skimmed milk
Half a banana
Lunch | Sweet potato jacket with salad and tomato pasta
1 tbsp salad cream
Dinner | Ham & onion Omelette with chips & salad
Snacks | 1/2 Nutri grain bar blueberry
TOTAL: 1140 calories
Earned 220 extra calories from exercise
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Week 1 weigh in
-4lbs
Current weight: 10 stone 9lbs
YAY! Hard work really is paying off :)
And you don't have to completely restrict yourself either, i've had chips and a doughnut this week and still lost weight! Treats are okay so don't stress about them!
If you want to follow my journey, add me on MyFitnessPal @ourbabyblog
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