Who knew how many calories were hiding away in certain little sneaky corners, the little ratbags. I am at the stage of wanting to make some long term changes alongside trying to lose a ton of weight, so its interesting to see where changes can be made.
When I was younger and started to put on a few pounds, I stopped having sugar in my tea, which worked well, I drink ALOT of tea everyday, in fact I am rarely found without a cuppa to hand, its my little comforter.
Then when I was about 26 I had a tumour which seriously messed with my tummy, leading me to quickly lose plenty of weight. I would highly recommend this from a weight loss perspective, but not from a stress and worry point of view.
After that I again gained a little, but decided to give up drinking coke completely. This worked a treat, for a while I really missed the addictive dark brown sugary gloop. Now it just tastes foul if I ever take a sip, odd how these things change.
Now after having a pregnancy and birth in 2002-2003, 2006-2007, 2007-2008, and then 2011 I have totally lost control of the weight thing. I tried to work it out the other day, but instead I opted for a conservative estimate, so I guess that over the last 10 years I have had roughly 7 years of being disturbed at night by screaming horrid little babies or children. I know there is evidence that poor sleep is partially linked to weight gain, and this is definitely partially to blame with me. To get over the tiredness I simply ate sugar, I think Lucozade was my main drink during my third pregnancy, this is highly not recommended for the health of ones teeth, mine are now paying the price.
Back to my point I now need to think about those little long term changes, but can't see any obvious things to completely give up. So instead of focusing on single elimination I am looking at those little changes.
I did not know that bananas had a lot more calories than most other fruit, I am a big fan of the lovely yellow fruit. I am a fan of most fruit, but I could merrily eat 3 or 4 bananas a day ( as long as they are on the lovely side of being slightly under ripe. At about 100 calories a banana, that's about 400 calories just gone on snacking on nanas. Simply replacing one banana with an apple will half the 100 calories to about 50, so that's an easy change to make. Don't get me wrong I still love nanas, but maybe not at a rate of 4 a day!
Then we have my favourite drink ( next to tea), I love lime cordial, ummm tasty. I can honestly say that I have never looked at the nutritional guidance on my bottles of cordial, so I was a little shocked to find each glass has about 60 calories, this may not sound a lot, but at 3 or so glasses a day that's nearly 200 calories wasted on drink.
I am not a fan of plain water straight from the tap, don't ask we all have our little odd ways. so I plan to replace the lime cordial with the occasional glass of water or cup of tea. Then I am going to dilute the cordial by about half the amount I currently have.
Those are a few starting baby steps, so watch this space to see how Ali and I do
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