keep a food and exercise diary

I’ve actually been doing this. Not as much as I should… but I’ve been doing this. I bought one that I love. It’s the size of a CD case… and I got it from www.fitbook.com

Get one! It really makes you realize what the hell your putting into your body!

I also use online sources to check the calories in things.

... But I’d love to do it for 3 months. It is really useful and really helps me to stay on track.Not a single day has passed where I have exceeded 2000 calories (most days I have around 1500!) and I have exercised on EVERY DAY BUT ONE! I am very happy with myself and this has only been possible by getting my boyfriend to agree to having an exercise machine (a crosstrainer) at his place too so I can exercise there too. I feel fantastic… at the moment and my clothes feel slightly better on me already.

I only do this Monday through Friday. I just forget to jot things down on the weekend. And when I eat out…well good luck getting all the nutritional info on restaurant food. I guess I’ll keep this up a while longer though. 5 days out of the week isn’t SO bad.

I think I’m done with the food diary. I know how to make the right choices and my fridge is stocked with good healthy food. All i need to do is be conscious of what I’m putting into my mouth and make the right choices.

Wish me luck!

Breakfast – 1 cup white tea with soy milk

1 choc chip muesli bar

1 milo with soy milk

Lunch – 1 plate chinese broccoli stir fried in ginger sauce with rice

2 glasses water

3pm – 1 can coke zero

1 pancake

7pm – 1 bowl jasmine rice with small tin tuna and french onion soup mix

9pm – 1 glass drinking yoghurt

I am still making some unhealthy food choices such as sugar in my tea, full fat soy milk, icy poles at work, generally just sugar hits.

Need to buy some more berocca for such occassions.

I am proud that I am eating Subway and salads instead of hot chips, creamy pastas and potato cakes.

I am proud that I’m drinking more water than I used to and rarely drinking alcohol – only 1 drink in 5 weeks)

I will buy some lean cuisines for emergency dinners. I hope they have vegetarian.

Breakfast – 1 cup of tea with soy milk and 1 sugar

2 pieces toast with marg and vegemite

Snack – 2 apricot muesli bars

1 bottle water

Lunch – 1 bowl salad with rocket, tomato, tuna, carrot and dressing

1 soy cappuccino with one sugar

2 small chewy red frogs

5pm – 1 small portion wholemeal spag with mushroom, tomato and garlic sauce

2 scrambled eggs with soy milk and marg, tomato sauce on top

6pm – 1 plate vegetarian fried rice

2 glasses water

Exercise – weights, stretches, crunches, 20 mins

Breakfast – 1 croissant

1 nectarine

1 coffee with soy milk and 1.5 sugar

Mid morning – 1 orange fruit box

Lunch – 1 vege delight sub, 6 inch

1 soy latte with 1 sugar

Snack – 1 apple chuppa chup

8 tsp fruit salad yoghurt

1 glass water

6.30pm – 1 bowl wholemeal spaghetti with tomato, 3 mushrooms, tomato and garlic sauce

3 glasses water

Exercise – dancing, weights, stretches 45 mins

Breakfast – 1 nectarine

2 spoons egg salad, 1 piece potato pie, 1 potato, 2 spinach and ricotta pistizzi, 1/2 glass orange juice, 1 glass cranberry juice and water

2 glasses water

Slept all afternoon

7pm – 1 tuna and rocket lettuce sandwich on soy and linseed

1 milo with extra iron soy milk

2 glasses water

Breakfast – 1 Yakult

1 white tea with soy milk

Snack – 3 handfuls seeds

1 bottle filtered water

Lunch – Salad and noodle rice paper roll

Chinese vege and tofu soup with noodles

1 small soy cappuccino with 1 sugar

2.30pm – Tuna and rocket lettuce on soy and linseed bread

3 glasses water

6.15pm – 1 nectarine

7.30pm – 1 soy smoothie with kiwi, banana, strawberries, ice-cream and honey (naughty naughty!)

Later – 5 sips Carlton Draught

1 bourbon and Pepsi Max