This is my first proper diary entry.
I have been a member here for about 36 hours.
I started back on my good eating plan as soon as I joined. I thought I would record yesterdays as it is fairly typical for me when I am eating what I think will work for me.
Yesterday that was
Breakfast:
HiFibre muffin, margarine, teaspoon of jam
Boiled egg
2 weetbix SoGood Splenda
Tomato juice
White coffee
Lunch
Chicken sandwich on wholemeal bread (margarine)
Pumpkin soup
Apple
White Coffee
Afternoon snack
An apricot, Small bunch of grapes
Dinner
Giant salad
Lettuce, beetroot, carrot, capsicum, cucumber, tomato, olives, mushrooms
Corn
Grated lite and tasty cheese
Low cal Italian dressing
Diet Apricot Yoghurt
Glass of SoGood
This is different to what I would have had in that I served my family salad, without corn or cheese and made them nachos. Also I didn't eat the baddies I have been having after dinner. I am kind of unsure about mentioning past bad foods because I don't want to remind some other reader about things they may be trying to avoid. Also it's different because I did have the yoghurt, and SoGood.
I am not ready to give up the jam on my muffin yet. I have been doing it for a while with no morning sugar cravings. My breakfast maybe could have one less serve of carbohydrate too. I probably will need to be a bit more careful about this when I am not usually going off to school in the mornings.
My recent efforts (in the past 2 years or so), have been to just try to avoid sugar without trying to balance my meals so carefully, though I have been careful to make sure I have some protein at each meal (to try to stop myself from eating badly because I'm hungry before the next meal). I recently saw a nutritionist who explained that making the effort to add vegetables and complex carbohydrates to each meal would help me keep my blood sugar levels up in a fairly stable way, so that I didn't go through highs and lows all day and didn't feel so inclined to grab the quick and nasty or have massive snacks. Since then I have been trying to add in the veges (breakfast and lunch) and complex carbohydrates (dinner), that I was missing. It took me a couple of weeks to work out how and get used to the idea of needing to change things that I thought were ok, but now I'm doing it and finding it does work. Recently I have tried to avoid the really nasty (in that they lead to bingeing) foods in the evening by eating cereals with some sweetness, but lots of fibre. (Like SportsPlus, or Sultana Bran). Last night I just had the SoGood. If I had been hungry I might have had some cereal too.
Today my breakfast was the same as recently except I controlled the margarine to 1 tspoon.
I have made a sandwich ready for lunch and left off the margarine this time. Next time I cook chicken for lunch I will trim the
fat before I grill it, and leave off the apricot marinade, which I have noticed has sugar as the primary ingredient. Maybe I will oven bake it with some herbs.
I will take the sandwich to school because I am working this afternoon - and technically that starts at 12.00 noon. From what I was told that means I start with lunch time, and it's easiest to take it with me and start my working afternoon with lunch! So I will take a carrot and some snow peas to be my veges, and a nice piece of fruit - an apricot or peach. However I will also take a can of pumpkin soup as a back up because I have been caught out many times at schools where I have ended up getting much less lunch time than I thought (sometimes less than 10 minutes), and I don't want to miss my veges, or feel deprived. I don't think the soup is as good as fresh veges, because it might have
fat added and may have less fibre - but I will keep it as a back up for now because I think it's better than nothing and seems to have helped me get more control so far. I won't eat before I go though because that causes its own set of problems.
Tonight I am planning to make a vege and salmon spaghetti for us all. I will try to keep the actual spaghetti in mine to a controlled level instead of a plate full. I won't mix mine in the pan - just put spaghetti on a plate then add toppings. Maybe I can add a salad (even though there are veges in the dish), so it doesn't make my serve look too mingey.
