I am trying out a new idea for FatScrap this month and have created this space for you all to chat, record your food diaries, ask me questions and anything else you would like to use this for to help you all with your FatScrap journey.
I will still be producing weekly articles of motivation, tips and advice for you, and of course you are welcome to comment and respond to these on the relevant page.
Don't forget that you will need to click on the "subscribe by email" link (under the comment's box) to receive any updates of comments posted on each page.
I hope this new way might work better for us all so please let me know what you think.
Sue x
37 comments:
Hi All
Back on track again, here's my food diary:
Saturday:-
Breakfast - Scrambled eggs, bacon, spinach
Lunch - Salad with fruit and feta cheese and olives.
Snack - banana
Dinner - Vegetable chilli with brown rice.
later on fatscrap apple crumble with fromage frais.
Sunday:
Breakfast - porridge with water with nutes and seeds.
Lunch - roasted lamb with carrots, brocolli, red cabbage, 1 large dry roast potato with gravey.
Later - fatscrap apple crumble with fromage frais
Even later - Fatscrap brownie
Today (Monday):
Breakfast - raspberries, peaches with yoghurt and fatscrap flapjack.
Morning snack - banana, 2 oatcakes with peanut butter.
Lunch - greak salad with feta cheese.
Afternoon snack - fatscrap brownie.
Dinner - Beef stew.
My only problem is that tonight I feel awful - megga headache and haven't gone to yoga!!!!
Why - maybe not enough water? I have had 3 large cups of tea today which is probably a lot less than I normally have? Or maybe I'm allergic to work!!!
Claire
Hi Claire, welcome back!! I would guess the headache is due to your body detoxing and probably some dehydration if you have only had 3 drinks today. Your food choices sound delicious and very well back on track. I hope you are pleased that you made the effort to plan, shop and cook so that you had all these lovely choices available - what a treat!! Looking forward to reading your next installments! x x
Hi Sue
Struggled with lunch today!! Due to headache went to bed early and didn't prep lunch!
Breakfast:
Yoghurt with raspberries and fatscrap flapjack.
Morning break - Banana, 2 x oatcakes, peanut butter.
Lunch:
2 x fagots with mashed potatoes and sweetcorn.
Afternoon break - fatscrap flapjack.
Dinner:
Salad, with fish.
Evening snacks - 2 x after eights!!! Sorry couldn't resist.
Have a dilema now - run out of yoghurt! Have meetings all tomorrow morning and lunch time! and Thursday I am in london so can't take lunch with me!!!!
Planning:- I can use fromage frais instead of yog tomorrow morning (hope thats ok).
Lunch - not sure what to do!
Out tomorrow evening so I can use my frozen Veg chilli.
Anyway must go - have to get my lunch ready!!!
Claire
Hi All, I know a wide range of people - some have amazing lives and some really struggle. Some seem to have the knack of getting what they want and some rarely do. You could wonder why some people seem luckier and happier than others. What I notice is the lucky people are always positive, they see positive in any situation, they talk about the good things that have happened and only quickly mention the difficult parts. We should all aspire for this positive attitude throughout our walk of life, and help ourselves - positive attracts positive and yes you are right, the same goes for negative attracting negative.
Place these thoughts with Fatscrap and think postive and visualise those results.
Have a great evening, Bubbles x
PS. A quote from Yoko Ono
" I'm not going to doubt my life "
From Penny...
Hi..I've made it back!
After a manic few weeks things, I hope life is starting to calm down.
Yesterday I was in London Christmas shopping and it brought home that I need to keep focused and on THAT train if I want to reach Christmas and feel good about my shape.
Brekky yesterday:- shredded wheat with raisins.
Snack - banana
Lunch, round of wholemeal toast with rocket, tomato and feta.
Chicken Caesar salad.
Dinner - jacket potato and cheese.
Veg was very thin on the ground yesterday, but today's aim is to make more of that delicious soup I've been promising to make myself.
My body is definitely feeling the workouts with Sue which is another incentive to carry on the good work even when I am not feeling so great and a bit tired.
See you later.
Hi Claire, sorry I have only just had a chance to read you last post. I hope you managed to sort out brekkie and lunch for today. Fromage frais is a good choice instead of yoghurt although it does not contain the beneficial probiotics. I would suggest that if you know you are going to miss lunch that you make sure you have some healthy snacks available so that you can curb any hunger or any temptations to go for the chocie bars etc. Fresh or dried fruit, nuts, nut butters and oatcakes, healthy dips and veggie sticks and olives are always a good standby. When you are in London will you have the opportunity to buy a lunch? There are usually healthy soups and salads at coffee shops and sandwich bars. Alternatively take some easy to carry snacks with you so that you have something to nibble on. Even the flapjacks or brownies will be good as they contain a good balance of complex carbohydrates and protein.
The main thing is that you feel in control and prepared as well as flexible to go with the flow if you have to. Keep tuning into the signals you are receiving from your body and treat it with love and kindness. x x
Bubbles, thank you for your motivating comments which I wholeheartedly agree with. I believe in the "The Law of Attraction" which is based on the theory that like attracts like. When we stay in a negative state we become stuck and find it difficult to attract what we think we want in our lives. Finding positive perspectives helps us to move out of the stuck state, create action and move forward and in turn attracts more positivity.
Going back to Claire's comments, thinking about the things she can do to be prepared for the obstacles she is facing with lunches and breakfasts will help her find the answers to feel positive and be more able to achieve positive results. x x
Ladies I am being positive!!!
I am doing it!
Last night doing the blog made me get up and do a salad mix with Quinoa! - it was delicious at lunch today. I had my usual snacks and I was going to have vegetable curry tonight (already in freezer but I had Pork Chop and loads of veg.
My regular snacks are keeping me full and I have been able to ignore sweets and cakes!!! This is an amazing feat for me!! YeaH!!
My plan for tomorrow is:-
Breakfast before I go - so I will have porridge, seeds and nuts and banana.
I will take my Quinoa salad in my ruck sack and my flap jack for later.
I should be home early so I can have my vegetable curry or I may do my Thai Fish!!!
I am feeling very full and happy:)
Fantastic Claire, I'm so pleased that you are feeling happy and full! Perhaps this feeling you are experiencing could also be called "satisfaction" Satisfied with the choices you made, the plans you have put in place the action you have taken. This may be the feeling you have been lacking recently and has led to you continually picking at food in the evenings. Now you are feeling satisfied you may find you don't feel a need to keep going back to the kitchen to gain satisfaction.
I love your plan for tomorrow, it should work so well and I'm very impressed with your quinoa salad..Gilliam Mckeith would be too!!
Will you be at training tomorrow evening? x x
Penny, I have reposted your entry here so that we can all read it and respond.
A couple of things jumped out at me whenI read your post..firstly, that you thought of keeping on the FatScrap track when you were on the train. Secondly that you want to feel good about your shape...I see that as a big shift from wanting to feel good about your weight!! Shape for me is a good way of looking at yourself. Being in good shape is about looking and feeling fit and well. when I thjink of someone being out of shape I think of someone out of condition. If you can think of your FatScrap journey as getting into good shape physically, nutritionally, mentally, emotionally and even spirtually then you will find more rewards than just losing weight.
Hope you managed to include a few more veggies today! x x
From Kully
Monday
Breakfast banana and mixed nuts
Mid morning 2 oat cakes with peanut butter
Lunch salad a jacket potato
Dinner sheppard pie with mixed veg
Tuesday
Breakfast banana and mixed nuts
Lunch humous and carrots
Dinner home made fish pie with mixed veg
Wednesday
Breakfast porridge with rice milk
Lunch mixed veg soup with 2 oat cakes
Dinner salmon with new potato's and broccoli
Kully. I guess you are eating nuts for snacks still as well. If not your protein intake is quite low, especially Wednesday. x x
Hello everyone,
I definitely did include more veggies yesterday. Despite it being a topsy turvy kind of day, I made a large pot of veg soup and had that for lunch and dinner!
Today I am full of cold again which I just can't understand why. Seem to have had it on and off for a month and I'm fed up with it.
Unless I am imagining it, my buttocks are feeling firmer:) My daughter is still permanently reminding me of pics and clothes I used to wear and I am finding this very hard, particularly as she is a tall, leggy teenager! Hey ho.
Yesterday's food:-
Brekky - shredded wheat, raisins.
Snack- oat biscuits and hommus.
Lunch - veg soup and jacket potato with cheese.
Snack - banana
Dinner - more soup as was to drained.
2 satsumas and cherry tomatoes. Odd combination I know, but very easy to sit and eat!
Hello everyone
This is a first for me (bit of a technophobe), so I hope I have done it right!
I am looking forward to starting Fatscrap tomorrow with Sue, and panicking a little because I need to organise some food shopping pronto, so that I can start as I mean to go on.
Sainsbury's here I come...
Hi Penny, sorry to hear you are full of cold again and that we had to cancel yuour training today because of it. You have done so well with your food choices inspite of it though! And what can be more satisfying than a bowl of soup when you are feeling poorly! Don't forget the protein foods though..how about trying to add some sunflower and pumpkin seeds to your breakfast to give your immune system an extra boost!
If you are feeling up to it, why not do some squats, press ups, lunges as well as overhead presses and single arm rows(with a couple of bottles of water)so that you feel you are still making progress in your fitness today. x x
Hello flo, so pleased you found your way here today, and welcome!
I can understand that you may be feeling a little daunted by the propect of shopping today, as everyone usually does, but try and keep it simple and basic. Use the shopping list to give you ideas and if you can plan your meals and snacks first. This will make it so much easier as you will know what you need.
Contact me if you have any difficulties..that's what I am here for!! x x
From Kully
Thursday
Breakfast Porridge with rice milk
Lunch Oat cake and chicken and sweetcorn soup
Mid after noon mixed nuts
Dinner egg salad
Friday
Breakfast missed breakfast pulled a muscle in my neck the pain was so bad didn't fancy food
Mid morning mixed nuts
Lunch chicken and sweetcorn soup
Dinner lentil and rice with mixed veg curry
Oh that sounds nasty Kully. Hope you are feeling better now and will be ok for training on sunday but if there is still any pain there then we had better cancel. Your food choices sound nice..I just fancy chicken and sweetcorn soup right now!!x x
Hi Sue, Just reading through the blog for inspiration for meal plans. Thanks for the work out this morning, we are on our way ;-)
Hello Uncle Simon and welcome to the chat room!! I hope you were pleased with your efforts at your first training session today and thank you for your interaction at the workshop. Your perspective was very interesting. Thanks to for asking about tapioca and whether this is a suitable choice starchy carbohydrate on the FatScrap Programme. And yes, it is..it actually is gluten free too! I'm interested to know how you are thinking of eating it as I only can think of the tapioca we had for school dinners which was pretty disgusting!! Hope the shopping trip went well!! x x
Hello Everyone
It was lovely to meet evryone at class this morning - I really enjoyed the session.
Food choices today:
Breakfast - Scrambled egg, bacon, mushrooms
Snack - chocolate brownie + satsuma
Lunch - Oatcakes, banana + nuts
snack - carrot + houmous
Dinner - Chicken, mandarin and sesema salad at wagamamas
My food diary today:
Breakfast Muesli, berries and soya milk (did not taste too bad, just different!)
Apple + oatcake for snack
Tuna nicoise salad for lunch
Oatcakes, carrot & Houmous + satsuma for evening
Nuts + raisins for snack
I am feeling very full and not at all hungry and I became re-acquainted with a few muscles I had forgot I had after yesterdays workout.
So far so good, execept Simon has had a bad headache for most of last night and this evening.
Food diary so far....(we are going to ignore Saturday as we didn't quite get our heads in gear ;-)
Sunday:
Breakfast - Porridge made with unsweetened soya milk, topped with nuts and berries
Lunch - Corn thin's with peanut butter and a banana.
Snack - Oat biscuits
Dinner - Roast fresh ham with dry roasted potatoes, carrots and parsnip and peas and sweetcorn.
Snack - Apple
Monday lunch is already prepared, remains of the ham, salad of pepper, celery and cucumber, handful of Anya potatoes.
Breakfast porridge (with unsweetened soya) fresh fruit and a few nuts.
Hi flo and Uncle Simon!
rhank you for your food diaries so far - they are looking great! Flo, nice to see you found something that fits the FatScrap eating plan in wagamama's, not that its too difficult there as they have lots of fatScrap suitable food choices! And, good to hear that you are feeling full! I think that is one of the biggest surprises that people find when they start to eat healthily.
Uncle Simon's headache is not unusual, even this early in the game! I have seen a few people suffer with this when they first start (see trials - Pear had headache for quite a while!)
Nice balance of food choices for all of you..well done!!
Hope you have had a good day and are preparing for tomorrow's meals and exercise session!! x x
Update on Kully..neck feeling better and she can drive now but had to abandon her training for a couple more days..
Update on Penny..her cold has affected her breathing and asthma has come on so she has had to abandon her training for a while.
If you are reading this, hope you are both feeling a bit better now and out of discomfort x x
Update on Daffodil..taking time out to sort a few life changes. We all are wishing you well Daffodil! x
Hi Sue/Everyone
Food diary for Monday:
Muesli, Berries + soya milk
Apple
Oatcakes, Banana + Peanut butter
TRout fillet, wholegrain rice and vegetables
Nuts+Raisins for snack
I had an upset tummy Sunday + Monday and wondered if the diet may have had an impact?
The soya milk and oats are the main changes - could they have caused the problem?
Looking forward to training again on Thursday evening - see you then
Hi Flo
Possibly the soya milk may have caused an upset so you could try rice milk instead or could it have possibly been your meal at Wagamama's?
Try and have at least one portion of vegetables at lunch time and not quite so much fruit...otherwise fantastic! x x
Hello Everyone
I have been full of cold for a couple of days so am sorry to say I will be unable to attend tonights class - but hope to have improved enough in time for Saturday.
Food diary;
Tuesday
Egg, Bacon + 1/2 grapefruit
2 satsumas + oatcake
Chicken salad
Chicken, rice + vegetables
Weds:
bolied egg, 1/2 grapefruit, 2 x oatcakes +dalfour jam
Trout + Crayfish salad
Nuts/raisins
Turkey+bacon bolognese+ rice spagetti+salad
grapes
Well done Flo, you are getting a nice balance and variety of foods. Interesting that you are choosing grapefruit as I have been reading that it works as a great appetite suppressant. I guess that's why the "grapefruit diet" was invented!
Hope to see you tomorrow if you are feeling better x
Thanks sue I am feeling better and enjoyed the class yesterday. Had a good weekend with friends and an emergency sainsburys shop saved the day at noon.
I was very pleased that I stuck to my eating plan and did not go off track at all despite lots of temptation being around.
Food diary:
Thurs:
Muesli, berries + soya milk
leftover bolognese, salad + oatcakes
Roast chicken, potatoes + lots of veg
banana + berries smoothie + oats
Friday:( up late + routine went haywire)
Muesli, berries + soya milk
banana
nuts + raisins
Vegetable soup + oatcakes
mandarins in juice
Saturday:
Muesli, berries + soya milk
nut + cocoa treat
melon + parma ham
nuts + satsuma
mashed potato, cold meat, salad, crudite + pickles onions/gherkins
grapes
I am pleased with my progress so far, even though it has been frustrating being ill this week. I hope to be more active this week.
Hi Everyone
My food diary is:
Sunday:
Muesli, bluberries + soya milk
Egg, bacon, mushrooms, tomatoes
Oatcakes + peanut butter
Jacket potato, chicken + ham salad+ houmous
Monday:
Grapefruit, muesli + soya milk
Chicken salad with pumpkin seeds +olives
Banana
Nuts & raisins
Beef + vegetable hotpot
Mandarins in fruit juice
Hi Flo, my goodness, you are doing so well with your food choices, but then as you have said to me in the past, it's not difficult as you like to eat healthily - as do must of us, I think, so often it's the rest of the family who interupt our healthy eating! Not that I am saying we should blame them for our choices, sometimes it just seems easier to have what everyone else is having. So, I am wondering Flo, is everyone else having the same as you, or are you cooking different meals? I know this has been one of the difficulties you have faced in the past. x x
Hi Sue/Everyone
I am really enjoying my food at the moment and feeling good because I know it is nourishing me.
I am cooking some meals for everybody, and preparing some separately for myself. I am buying a few days food at once and topping up a couple of times in the week as I need it, which seems to be giving me flexibility. I think the main thing however is that I am thinking consciously about the balance in my meals.
Diary for Tuesday:
Boiled egg, oatcakes + strawberries
Jacket potato, tuna, houmous + salad
Banana/Nuts & raisins
Salmon fillet, WG rice, Peas + sweetcorn
Portion of chips (late night theatre trip)
Wednesday:
Muesli, berries + soya milk
Nuts
Oatcakes, houmous + smoked salmon
Mandarins in juice
Roasted Med. Vegetables + Turkey steak
I am looking forward to working hard at class tomorrow as I have not been very active this week and have lots of energy!
See you then
From Louby Lou
Breakfast 17/10 - grapes, banana, 1 slice rye bread with a poached egg.
Lunch - peppers, tomatoes, cucumber, 1 slice rye bread with h/m mackeral pate.
Snack - raisons
Supper - cottage pie, cabbage.
Today
Breakfast - few raisons, satsuma, 1 slice rye bread with poached egg.
Seems to be going well, hope you agree. I have cut out tea and coffee too for fruit type teas, so slight headache ongoing. Sleeping much deeper already!
Hi Sue,
18/11/2010
Snack - n'kd bar, grapes
Lunch - 3 ryvita with marmite, brazil/peanuts and pinenuts. Satsuma
Snack - Carrot
Supper - Fritata and spinich.
Look forward to the workout later.
Really enjoyed our exercise session this morning!
Food Diary:
Thursday
Boiled egg, ham + grapefruit
Crayfish & avocado salad + Jacket potato
Nuts+ Raisins
Turkey Stirfry
2 x satsumas
Friday:
Muesli + berries + soya milk
Nuts
King Prawn salad + green beans+ seeds
Banana + nuts/raisins
Chicken casserole, potatos, brocoli,cauliflower
oatcakes + jam
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