Sausage and Egg McMuffin. They know the secret to attract fat people. Why doesn’t someone reverse it?
A quick count indicates I have 17 Saturdays to work before I retire. I may start a Saturday Series to mark their passing. Or, as usual, I may talk about starting a series and do nothing about it. Who can tell?
The irony is not lost on me. I started off with Saturday job, I have ended up with one. Working Saturdays is one of those things that tells you success has eluded you.
Julia has just come down and offered me toast. I was going to leave, but the lure of toast is too strong, despite my commitment to losing weight. If I remove six slices of toast and marmalade from my diet each week, it is around 1,500 calories, which is a lot of calories. If I don’t remove them, I enjoy toast and marmalade, though some of it may be rushed and the rest may be spoiled by guilt. It’s a balancing act, but on Saturdays the toast tends to win.
My recommended daily calorie intake is 2,500 calories. If I want to lose a pound a week they recommend 2,100. Taking out the toast and marmalade and a few more tweaks (no more second sandwich for lunch) should do the trick.
It sounds so easy.
If only . . .
What these diets don’t include is the sitting at work feeling bored and eating that single sandwich for elevenses. What happens then? Dieting is about more than simply cutting back on food, or we would all do it.
In retirement I may concentrate on making meals from cardboard. That should do the trick – zero calories, no enjoyment, plenty of fibre and chewing. What more could you want? I suppose there must be more to it than that or we would all be doing it. On the other hand, having just had a bowl of bran flakes I am left with the impression that it would have been much the same if I’d just cut the packet into small squares and forced them down.
Other breakfasts are available, or not, in the case of the much missed Olympic Breakfast. Other waistlines, and coronaries, are also available.
Olympic Breakfast – much mourned
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🙂 I my try your approach to dieting when I get tired of fresh veg and virtue.
Weetbix with milk and honey and coffee will get me going most mornings – just enough to have in my stomach to qualify for the pharmacist’s instruction on my blood pressure tablet: to be taken on a full stomach.
Sounds good. We used to have Weetabix but I decided bran flakes were easier to eat in a hurry, In retirement I may return to the leisurely option.
Drink plenty of water as well!
In two weeks I have a telephone consultation about my ongoing urological problems – until then I am trying to limit my fluid intake as a matter of practicality. Always something else to cause a problem . . .
We’re recyclable, so have to behave as if we are. That can be hard.
Yes, I definitely have to change my thinking.
I used to use free myfitnesspal dot com which counts every microdot of calorie and nutrient in every bit of food you ate and exercise you do. It was fun on and off but got tedious since you need to find the food item–one egg–and then it gives calories and nutrition and you can get into the rabbithole of it all. It seems great for those into counting online, and there are many support groups etc. on there for free. Might be worth a look–
Yes, I will have to start looking for things to help.
Myfitnesspal might be a start, plus it’s free (there may be things you can pay for but I never did and never missed them). I used to get great pleasure out of the little charts and graphs they show of calories or weight over a week or month or year etc., and even how much sugar or fat one had–
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I still think that eating less of what you always eat is the way to go. Buying a smaller loaf of bread so the sandwiches are smaller, putting a little less porridge in the bowl and so on. Then at least you are not missing out on things that you enjoy. This message comes from someone who has just put on half a stone and can’t shift it.
I put a lot of weight on few months ago, without seeming to eat more. Now it has all gone and I feel better. Weight is strange stuff and does not always do what you would expect.
You are right – portion size is definitely what I need to concentrate on.
One gets used to eating differently over time, keeping the desired result in mind. Thick cut oatmeal with blueberries and walnuts, and a couple of eggs on the side might be worth a try. A good cup of black tea to wash it down with even better. 🙂
Oatmeal, yes. Blueberries, yes. Already doing that. I will try the walnuts. Eggs will have to wait for retirement, when I will start to take more time over breakfast. 🙂
Hard boiled or soft boiled eggs on the side are very little work. We older folks need our protein, and vegetables. 🙂
🙂 My mind only thinks of eggs as fried or scrambled – something else I need to change. 🙂
I hadn’t thought of boiled eggs. I only think of fried and scrambled. Something else I need to alter. 🙂
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Why is it that so much of what we love is not good for us? Unfair!
This is the eternal dilemma. 🙂
I fully understand the toast and marmalade dilemma. We have managed to drop that breakfast and generally save the fry up for the occasional brunch which means I don’t eat anything later – if I can resist. In such circumstances I could probably manage the Olympic breakfast.
🙂 Yes, I am going to have to start some new habits. To be honest I feel a lot better now that I have lost some weight.