Another day another diet idea

You know what its like when youb have weight problems. Some days are good, some days are bad. And most of the bad days are played in the head.

Life is always full of temptation and I believe the saying goes , "idle hands make for the devils playground", or something like that.

Towards the end of last year I was doing manual work. My days were spent lugging around washing machines, cookers, fidges and freezers. It kept me busy and helped me burn up the calories. Unfortunately my work at the moment is writing a number of blogs and calling people to change their energy and phone suppliers.

I tend to have a lot of time on my hands and life as it is, always full of temptations. In my neighbourhood there are a number of bakeries selling some very nice cakes and pastries. I am only human:-)

So at the moment I am trying my best to limit myself from those things that I feel makes me fat. I still have my noodles everyday which is around 270 calories but has 18% fat. But hey we all need our vices. I even had a bowl of my egg fried rice this morning, probably a little fattening;-(

For the rest of the day I will eat fruit, bananas and if I can find some decent mango's then I will. Where I live  you can always get bananas, they sell them down the market by the hundreds. They also sell some other fruit that I don't quite know. Sometimes I don't feel so brave by trying new fruits but maybe this week!

I try to go swimming everyday, and although I am not a very good swimmer, I manage to get some decent exercise. So I am burning a good amount of calories by exercise on top of what I sweat here. The temperature is never below 22 here and during the day is usually around 30 and is very humid.

I still don't have any bathroom scales so I have no idea what my weight is, I am hoping I am still under 100 kilos, I only have the mirror as my guide.

So I keep trying and evryday is a battle with temptatiopn but we keep trying.

Eighteenth July

First of all today my weight was 114.6 KG (252.6 Pounds). A little up on yesterday but yesterdays's was well down on the day before so within the margins of my expectations. As far as what I ate. Not all that much, my usual 3 or 4 cups of coffee with 2 sugars and semi skimmed milk. A cup of soup out of the packet, tomato and herb. I also had an orange which I had after taking a multi vitamin tablet and some colon care fibre. For my children I made a bacon, sausage and egg pie coupled with a potato pie. I had a small amount myself, given that the potato is loaded with cheese, maybe not a good idea along with all the fat from the bacon and sausage and the very much buttered pastry. However my portionn was the smallest using on a small bowl. So that was about all for yesterday.

So for today I am hoping to not have anything substantail to eat until 6pm. I may have a piece of fruit during the day and maybe a cup of soup to keep me going. I would like to get out to ride my bike but I have had quite a bad cold over the last few days, so I will have to hold that for a few days longer.

It has always struck me that as succesful as my diets have been over the years, there are always people telling me I am doing it wrong. That may be so, but I am always being told by people who have hardly been successful themselves when trying to lose weight. My problem has never been losing weight as I can lose it quickly, it is keeping it off. I know I need to make permanent changes to my eating habits if I want to make sure I don't put any weight back on.

So I hope I can get my weight down a little from today when I do my daily weighing ritual tomorrow. See you then.