Food
Posted by: aulelia on: March 17, 2009
The one thing I have realised that I need to fix is how I buy food. I can spend as little on £12 on a weekly shop for essentials but then, I just end up spluring during the week on sugar and more sugary things!
I am on a diet and to be honest, I feel so frustrated at how restricted I am moneywise from it. It is very frustrating.
I think I need to relax from this diet because my financial situation needs strength to deal with!
Any advice?
6 Responses to "Food"
Sorry, I meant : “too make up for the fatty food”. Not to make it.
LOL.
@kimi, you speak the truth!
I think I will try your tactic of not trying to feel guilty.
I think I just find it so hard to lose the weight but I think the trick is that I need to do more exercise.
Focus on one thing each week. So next week for example, focus on drinking 2 litres of water a day.
Diets don’t work, you want a lifestyle change. That will take time.
Re the budget, I always think there’s a trade off between time and money. If you don’t have the time you have to spend the money and vice versa. Which one is more important to you right now?
If it’s the money, then make the time to get and cook your food.
Plan your meals every week, be realistic and include something you enjoy or a new recipe to keep it from being boring.
You can make sugary things cheaper than buying them!
From about June last year I was living on £7.50 a week and managed to eat properly. It took planning though. I didn’t start blogging until November, but my older blogs do have some recipes and tips.
@hewb, £7.50??? wow! thanks for the advice. I need to start planning meals.
1 | kimi
March 20, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Sure, dieting costs a hell of lot of money. Fresh fruits and veggies, turkey. dried fruits are always so expensive whereas junk food are so cheap.
Up until this month, I used to be like you : buy healthy food, but 2-3 days later, I would crave crunchy muesli and buns and bagels, and ended up spending much more money than if I had bought the junk food ( and not the healthy food) right from the start. LOL
Sadly, I don’t have any advice.
Personally, I have noticed that I’m eating wayyyy more healthily since I’m more ready psychologically and more laid-back.
Up until this month, I couldn’t follow any diet : I would always cheat. Then, in february, I told myself : ” Okay, I’m going to stop dieting and just enjoy whatever food I want to eat, be it crisps, fruits or cakes.”
The two first weeks, I ate whatever I wanted. It was hard, because you don’t remove away guiltiness of stuffing yourself so easily.
By the third week of february, I was already tired of eating junk food. I didn’t have to force myself, I just get tired of those kind of food. Probably because they weren’t labelled as “forbidden food” in my mind.
And, well, since march, I’m doing well – I have started working out again. Okay, it’s only 2 hours a week, but it’s better than nothing at all.
Since I was PMSing last week, I was less disciplined, yet I didn’t rushed toward cakes or biscuits, nor did I try to force myself to stay on track. I followed my heart and because I allowed myself to treat myself, I wasn’t irresistibly attracted to calorific food. Instead, I bought low-fat corn flakes with chocolate pieces ( I bought the store brands to save money), gingerbread and low-fat chocolate-flavored yoghurt.
This week, I’ve been pretty good despite being on my period.
I’m convinced that I’m doing good because firstly, I’m ready psychologically, and secondly, I’m not anymore in a guilt trip. When you treat yourself with chocolate or crisp when you feel like it, chances are the very next day, you’ll eat healthily to make it for the fatty food you ate the previous day. But when you are in a I must-not-eat -this -or -that- trip, when you try your hardest not to satisfy a craving, you’ll fuck up sooner rather than later…and feel guilty and give up your diet altogether.
Anyway, good luck with your diet. Today is the start of spring, so i understand that the pressure to be in shape for summer is going from strength to strength.