Healthy New You: Your Change For Life

your diet isn't very good tbh and appletise is not healthy

Well my diet could be a lot worse than it is. To quite honest, my breakfast was no more than 400 cal - could have maybe done without the bacon but it was that or a plate of Kellogs. Lunch wasn't a lot of calories either - the soup was no more than 100 calories, the cheese sandwich - well yes, cheese is fattening I suppose. Appletise isn't *that* bad for you, it's high in sugar but low in everything else. It's also one of your five a day - and was an alternative to eating an ice cream at least! ... Not the best diet possible I agree but it's a working progress, I live at home and to a certain extent have to go on what my mum can afford to buy and not necessarily what I want to eat. I have done a fair bit of exercise - well, I walked a mile and a half (6000 steps on pedometer) so I'm not feeling too bad

Well my diet could be a lot worse than it is. To quite honest, my breakfast was no more than 400 cal - could have maybe done without the bacon but it was that or a plate of Kellogs. Lunch wasn't a lot of calories either - the soup was no more than 100 calories, the cheese sandwich - well yes, cheese is fattening I suppose. Appletise isn't *that* bad for you, it's high in sugar but low in everything else. It's also one of your five a day - and was an alternative to eating an ice cream at least! ... Not the best diet possible I agree but it's a working progress, I live at home and to a certain extent have to go on what my mum can afford to buy and not necessarily what I want to eat. I have done a fair bit of exercise - well, I walked a mile and a half (6000 steps on pedometer) so I'm not feeling too bad

Not been great in terms of food today (bit too high on carbs, not enough protein), but oh well - fine in terms of cals.

Breakfast: Wholemeal toast, small bits of chicken breast, 2 fried eggs
Snack: McCoys (my only bit of junky food in 2 weeks!)
Lunch: Raspberry and Strawberry smoothie with milk and natural yoghurt
Dinner: 1 yellow and 1 red pepper stuffed with brown rice, minced meat, black beans, chopped tomatoes, grated cheese and red chillies.

Just done a really long walk to the harbour and back.. Went into the shop and was tempted to buy an ice cream/sweet - it's scorching hot outside - but just had a bottle of appletise instead. Boring but healthy. Have discovered we have no chicken sadly - so it's turkey drummers, potato wedges and salad for tea instead. Processed food much but there's nothing in the freezer to make a meal with

I wouldn't say that was high in carbs, at all! If anything, lunch could have done with something carby. Unless of course, you're eating 10 slices of bread when you say toast.

If you think appletiser is healthy, you have a problem.

Hahah no, but I mean it's 100g of carbs for the day - I'm aiming for around 70g since I'm doing low-ish carbs. Which I'm quite liking so far, I feel much less lethargic with this new eating and I haven't had a single headache since I started (I used to get them every day)! I would have liked more for lunch but I got distracted (I meant to make myself a pork tenderloin wrap) and forgot, but then raspberries and strawberries have a decent amount of carbs (especially for the amount I had) - good carbs though in that raspberries are high in fibre I guess.

Tell me about it.. 10 pages in 24 hours, you bloody gossips. Get off TSR and go for a jog!!

(Just kidding)

Today has been AWFUL for me. Had family round, which meant BBQ (actually that bit was healthy) but dessert.. must have eaten about 600 cals in that alone! Don't think I'll have gained, but might have maintained this week.. which will be a right pain in the bum as that means I won't have lost for about 3 weeks!

I need to get a grip. Was thinking about investing in some weights (I've made £90 from matched betting in the past 24 hours so got a bit of cash to spare) but not sure where to get some or how much for??

Would prefer buying my own than going to the gym, as it's cheaper in the long term!

If anyone has some weights that are good and not too expensive could you let me know? Thanks

Ask in the Barbelles thread/Powerlifter's thread as they'll know more than me. But I have a metal York dumbbell set. However, it's only 20kg and I'm starting to think that this will soon be too little for some exercises. But you can always buy extra plates, so it's not much of an issue.

Oo yes good idea thanks! I've never done any weights before so I guess I won't need them too heavy for a good while, so I'll check that out thank you :-).