from fat to thin

Wednesday 16 November 2011

Out with the old, in with the new - maybe?


Well here i am again. I think i got told off a little from my sister for not blogging the last few days, she said she missed me or maybe not me but my blog. It's just been a bad week so far with one thing and another but i will not dwell on the bad and plough ahead into the future.

 I've been having another look at the British Heart Foundation diet for those who would like to lose weight and i came up with a little chart which at first glance may seem a little confusing, but i felt their lists of this and that were confusing too. 


Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Breakfast
2c 2fv 1d
2c 2fv 1d
2c 2fv 1d
2c 2fv 1d
2c 2fv 1d
2c 2fv 1d
2c 2fv 1d
Lunch
3c 1p 1f 3vf
1t 1d 1f 1vf
3c 1p 1f 3vf
1t 1d 1f 1vf
3c 1p 1f 3vf
3c 1p 1f 3vf
3c 1p 1f 3vf
Dinner
3c 3vf 1p 1f
3c 3vf 1p 1f
3c 3vf 1p 1f
3c 3vf 1p 1f
3c 3vf 1p 1f
3c 3vf 1p 1f
3c 3vf 1p 1f
Extras
1t 1d
3c 1p
1t 1d
3c 1p
1t 1d
1t 1d
1t 1d


Oh still confused? Let me try to explain. We are supposed to eat the following every day;

 8 carbohydrates = c

 8 portions of fruit and vegetables = Fv

2 dairy = d

3 protein = p

2 fat = f

1 treat = up to 200 cals

So, I split the portions up throughout the day so that i would eat the recommended amounts and not too much of one or too little of another. These amounts should give you about 1,800 cals a day. Now i know that i eat far more then that on some days, probably most days and so i know that amount of calories would be a good place for me to start. As for how or what a portion equals too i did it in an earlier blog but an example of what i would eat or did eat on my nearest to perfect day, this is how it went;

Breakfast: 2 weetabix, milk,  1small banana, small glass orange juice
Lunch: 3 slices bread, mayonnaise, cheese, salad, grapes
Dinner: fish, potatoes, carrots, sprouts, pear, 
Extra: yogurt, jaffa cakes (4 would equal the accepted amount but i think i may have eaten more then that.)
So what looks complicated really isn't and it doesn't matter how you share things out in the end it all works out the same and everyone is different and we all eat differently so whatever way you want to go it all workd out the same. I have been weighing myself at Boots and i was beginning to think that the scales were broken because i was either the same or it went up but no, it is not true, they are not broken and today it told me that i had lost 5lbs. I have come to the conclusion that my body is just very good at food storage.

http://www.bhf.org.uk/




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