Halesowenmum
Joined January 2014
Posts
26
Following
3
Followers
20
Weight History

Start Weight
120.2 lb
Lost so far: 1.8 lb

Current Weight
118.4 lb
Performance: losing 0.1 lb a week

Goal Weight
105.8 lb
Still to go: 12.6 lb
I'm a mum of an 11yo girl and 14 yr old boy and hail from the West Midlands. My aim is to get more healthy and this will include losing some weight and doing more exercise for my health. My weight history is I've pretty much always been the ideal weight, certainly never been significantly over or under but reached my only ever peak of physical perfection when I reached 40 where due to (guess what?) diet and exercise, I was a size 6 and felt great. Becoming a single parent and working full time got on top of things for a while and I'm struggling to get into a size 10 these days. So I've taken myself in hand and am doing something about it. When you're vertically challenged like me, getting too wide is not ideal.

I'm opinionated but kind, swear too much at times and love all kinds of music and dancing whenever possible.

Sound like I'm making up a dating profile here - I'm not! Just trying to give you the flavour or my good self (for whatever that's worth).

Here's to success in our endeavours!

Halesowenmum's Weight History


Halesowenmum's Latest Member Challenges

79
  Less alcohol....
status: Completed
ended: 21 Apr 14
view progress
 
  
37
  No Crisps Challenge
status: Completed
ended: 20 Feb 14
view progress
 


Following

Porkpie1
last weighin: losing 2.3 lb a week Down
 
Chickturu
last weighin: losing 0.3 lb a week Down
amyrosenew
only visible to followers
   



Halesowenmum's Latest Posts

Help me with my recipe
Hmmm, yes, I'm actively trying to AVOID recreating a shop bought style bar as they are of little benefit to anyone (nutrition or fibre-wise that is) other than when you eat one you do know exactly how many calories you've had, which is one plus point.

But when I eat a bar I want a blast of nutrition and fibre and low sugar. I find I can eat one for breakfast and one for lunch and they don't present any problem at all to me with not being able to control how many I eat - I have one at each meal and I'm happy. Although up until this week I was doing that by eating Alpen and other shop bought bars so the one thing I did know was that I wasn't getting anything very positive out of them.

A cereal bar, just because it's a 'cereal bar' isn't by definition a dangerous item - you only have to class them in the ilk of a cookie if they are shop bought and loaded with sugar.

I agree, honey is a good binder and I did use that but it doesn't half add the calories from sugar which I want to avoid if possible which was why I was musing about alternatives.

I think I'll try bitter chocolate next time, melted or chips, and see how that works and reduce the dried fruits a bit. However, the figs for eg are in there because they are high in calcium and iron, and the raisins contain several anti oxidants including resveratrol which reduces stroke risk and contain 10% fibre so if we're comparing high sugar foods as things go, you could do worse because at least with that sugar they offer nutrition as well.

I think I'd like some nuts in the bars as well so will add some to my grocery order next week and chuck some of those in. I had wondered about using of carob as I quite like it. I view what I'm trying to make here as a wholefood nutrition and fibre hit, not a high sugar piece of confectionery that's got little benefit to eating it. Hopefully with some of the suggestions above I can and up with a bar that's got the taste I want, the nutritional make-up I want, and it actually is nice and crispy and chewy (if you can have both!!).
posted 31 Mar 2014, 02:57
Help me with my recipe
Partly answering my own question, dark chocolate (70% or more cocoa solids) is 24g of sugar per 100g, which compares favourably with the honey which sits at 82g per 100. And it fits with the fibre goal as it's 11% fibre when I just checked. Wonder if that would work...
posted 29 Mar 2014, 09:36
Help me with my recipe
Hi. I often eat a cereal bar/breakfast bar for brekky but hate the way that the supermarket brands are rather high in sugar, don't contain much actual nutritional value, and certainly don't have even half of the amount of fibre in them that I would like to see.

I've just made some bars (first try) and the nutritional data is coming out follows (please follow this link): http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/recipe/3068291/2?quantity=15.0&nc=1&autosave=form.info.autosave.

I'd like to get the sugar down. I used honey to make it sweet enough to be palatable but mainly I used it as the device for binding the ingredients together.

I wondered if anyone has any other ideas for what I could use to combine the ingredients instead of honey or golden syrup or melted chocolate - I can't think of anything else at the moment...

Any ideas most welcome - thanks!!

posted 29 Mar 2014, 09:28
Question about fatsecret
I eat with great gusto - can I count this as exercise? Only kiddin'...!
posted 04 Feb 2014, 02:45
how do u get past the cravings??
gnat824 wrote:
I'm with mrspackrat- part of managing cravings is to allow yourself to eat things you like occasionally and in reasonable portions. Complete denial can lead to binges, which is not a good thing! Plan for your pizza, set calories aside for it, and limit your meal to a piece or two (depending on the size) accompanied by a big salad or some other form of veggie. Then enjoy it, guilt free! Savor it! They say the first bite is always the best, so if you appreciate every bite, you'll probably realize that the one piece IS enough.

There are no "good" or "bad" foods- there are only "anytime" and "sometimes" foods. Smile

Excellent job making food to take to work- that's a great way to stay on track! Sounds like you have a good plan- now just have to stick with it!


i sometimes like a treat on a Fri or Sat night or to not have to cook one night in the week. So on that day I'll make sure I meter out my calories over the day eating breakfast a bit later than normal, ditto lunch, and picking meals with less protein/fat... Then at tea time it's amazing how you can fit in horribly unhealthy things if you want - I had one 200g (I think it was) portion of chip shop chips this week and on friday even managed kebab and chips - yum!! within the framework of carefully counting calories 7 days a week there is definitely room for the odd treat - and I still managed to stick to an average daily calorie intake over the week of 1089 calories - and not once did I feel I was hungry and really wished I could eat.

I still find the evenings the worst and have just walked into the kitchen, opened the cupboards and the fridge. Then marched myself back into the lounge - it was a close shave, but I had to be firm!!
posted 01 Feb 2014, 13:53
Halesowenmum has submitted 5 posts
Get the app
    
© 2024 FatSecret. All rights reserved.