TaniaBarnet的日记, 2020年05月28日

If you have two portions,freeze the other one or just leave it in the fridge for the next day. The cost of food is not worth your quality of life, so if some of it gets thrown away, then it does. The world won't end. Have you tried making a detailed list of the food you're allowed for the day within your calorie plan? Once you've had it, cross it off, if it isn't on the list, you don't have it. You'll need to start pointing your anxiety and worry in a different direction, I have found lists are great for that, something to focus on.  

Great advice 

Smoothtoffee, I used to plan the week's meals and balance them out but after a family tragedy I became unable to look after myself. Even placing an order online was a task. It has been a long uphill struggle thereafter but I put on so much weight that my life became even more restricted. I am coming out of it slowly. I just need to cook more often and secure daily help. (The wok kept spitting at me today. It is not easy cooking sat down. Or washing up.) I am also annoyed that my tendons won't stretch to put my leg straight. It is constantly bent at an angle so I have to walk stopped like the old peasant women you see in Greece. I have always had issues with my tendons but the lymphoedema made things worse. So it is a lot of problems that I need to solve. If I had help, I would start a page on FB so people can see what life becomes like when you let go of yourself and allow others to use you and put you down. People think the worse that can happen to a fat person is death. Many of us reach to a point we pray for death! If I have learned anything, is that no matter how bad things are, they can get worse! 

Just an aside: isn't it annoying that supermarkets cater to the mum, dad, child family unit and not to smaller households? Why are sausages sold in packs of 6?  

Tania, but you still eat every day, right? I'm not saying plan for the week, I'm saying do it daily when you wake up, so you know your calorie count for that day. It looks like a lot of work but if you do it bit by bit, it's not too bad. Swap biscuits for carrots or watermelon, coke for sugar free squash (I used sparkling water to still get the fizzyness), you can chop cucumber and tomato when sitting down, get bags of salad mixes to bulk it up. They have microwaveable veg mixes you can use. If you have a steamer, that will do potatoes and veg as well without you needing to stand up for long periods. Fish comes in pieces and can go in the oven. There are ways of getting around everything, you just need to want to do it instead of finding ways why you can't.  

It isn't cost effective to sell two sausages, not for the shop nor the shopper. Buy the 6, use what you need and keep the rest in the fridge or freezer for another day.  

My carer is not coming AGAIN! My life is descending into chaos... 

In my younger days, we used to have local shops and you could buy just a bit of this and a bit of that at no extra cost. You wanted a quarter of a chicken? That is what you got! 2 eggs? No problem! Half a loaf of freshly baked bread? 100 grams of freshly ground coffee? Sure thing! Supermarkets have ruined our lives. We shop there for convenience and because it is such a big task, we shop for the week...only it never is a week, is it? We always have to pick this or that mid week. So many arguments during the weekly shop! We have behemoths for fridges and what happens? We always end up forgetting food at the back of the fridge that goes mouldy or rotten or find something ancient in the freezer that cannot be used. I could really use a time machine... 

Is that going to stop you from making a meal plan for today? Is it going to stop you from trying to do knee lifts? Focus on the things you can control, have a cup of tea and make a plan of action.  

I need sleep... kept waking up every hour at night and only slept for a longer stretch after 8. But I need to go clean kitchen because daughter seems to think it is OK to leave raw meat to fossilise. I will steer clear of knives though. (Have a bad history of dropping them and cutting myself which means uncontrollable bleeding for hours and instant infection.) I will pretend I have my cheerleaders present. It will be OK. I can do this! :) 

Smoothtoffee, I have planned for baked chicken wing drums with bbq sauce and mash with cucumber and carrot salad. I will not have a coke today. Nor sweets. But might have an activia yoghurt as I am still plagued with constipation caused by paracetamol. What are you cooking today?  

I had a cucumber, tomato and radish salad with one boiled egg for breakfast, a fruit salad for lunch and then a weight watchers hotpot for dinner. Have you tried the roasting bags for chicken? The ones that already come with seasoning? They're lovely and less calories than sauces.  

No, I haven't tried pre-seasoned roasting bags but I'd be very conscious nowadays cooking in cellophane. Plus I really don't have the storage space for more items. I wish I could throw away everything and just keep a couple of knives and an egg beater. I 💘 clutter-free spaces and yet my life is so cluttered! BTW, my carer decided she won't be coming over the weekend as promised. That will make it 5 days without help and to be honest there is no guarantee she will come then. We've been through thus in the past... 😕 I just placed an advert on FB to find a new one. I won't be holding my breath, though.