Healthy New You: Your Change For Life #2

I've no doubt you'll achieve it

Question for pretty much everyone here. Do you tend to have one day a week where you do everything you shouldn't? Generally once a weekend I'll go out on the beers, eat out if im in a pub then probably have something in the early hours if I've gone to a club. I'm about to embark on a 24 hours like that once I finish work later. Uni reunion so it would be rude not to really.

every now and then yes every week seems very often

Same! For me it is struggling to know what to eat that is healthy but will increase my calorie intake. I'm thinking of having soup and a slice of whole meal toast with peanut butter as snacks each day which would be an extra three hundred calories.

If that doesn't work I may have to pay my doctor a visit :')


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Maybe not every week, but it certainly would not hurt to do it occasionally, say monthly?

You say that you have some drink and a pub meal in the evening? If you are strict with yourself for the day, and then treat yourself in the evening, you shouldn't do much damage

It sounds like a lot of carbs to me- cheerios, pitta bread, fruit, ice cream, all the salad items, etc are all carbohydrates.

Would you say its too much carbs? I've just found out that due to medical reasons I shouldn't be eating alot of carbs. Is there such thing as good and bad carbs? Sorry if thats a stupid question but I'm wondering if eating lots of fruit and veg with carbs is completely different to eating like bread for example. Obviously it is different but if I'm not supposed to be eating alot of carbs, does that mean that no matter where the carbs come from I shouldnt be eating them. Hopefully all this makes sense lol

just had mcdonalds for the first time in so long. It was really yummy but my stomach feels so full now like its going to explode.

Know what you mean, I haven't had a McDonalds chip in about 9 months - I'm almost scared to have one now, just incase I get hooked on the badness haha

You could try adding in a glass of milk?

Okay, so it hasn't been the best start back to eating healthily. I've exercised, and ate perfectly well until after dinner- at which point I shared around chocolates that my parents brought me back from holiday. But today was more of a maintenance calories day rather than a "binge and gain loads of weight" day like the past week has been, so I would call that progress. Holiday chocolate consumed, nice busy day planned for tomorrow, and I have no more excuses.

Edit: also had two pieces of bad news in the past 48 hours so feeling a bit shocked/shaken.. but the good news is that I'm NOT using food to try and make myself feel better.. at least not since parents came back from holiday. In the past that's how I would have coped, but not anymore.

I'm here if you want to talk

Had a terrible few days (not diet wise, although the issues I've had has meant I haven't exercised).
My dog is ill like really ill. She hasn't eaten since Wednesday night, and has been to the vets every day since (they have kept her in for tests and possibly a drip today). I've been up every night with her cos she's been in pain (Wed-today), and have no energy at all. I'm really worried, and am now just passing a little time while we wait for a phone call from the vets.

She's a member of the family It's horrible not knowing