Brooke Lawson wrote:
A bit of an update...
Thanks heaps for all of your perspectives, To answer you questions, A typical day is this for my meals:
I glass FC Zymil milk
Breakfast: Porrige(1/2 cup) or 3 weetbix or 3 pieces toast (Burgen Rye) plus White coffee sweetened with Dextrose
Lunch: Chicken breast wrap/Sandwich (Helgas mixed grain) with cheese, lettuce, tomato, whole egg (thomy) Mayo
Dinner: Meat (mostly unprocessed meat like steak, Fish once a week) and 3 Veg (carrot, corn, broccolli, potato, pumpkin, peas or cauli).
Once (ok, sometimes twice) a week when Im tired we'll order a pizza for dins, I will get Supreme or Vegetarian. (I am thinking maybe the Pizza Dough contains fructose, and thats whats messing with my appetite control??)
1 small dextrose Ice cream (maybe 3 times a week)
Drinks: Water or Diet/Zero coke, Coffee (max 3 per day)
Not exercising, but running after 2 little ones ;)
Ok, So not exactly a dieter's menu but Its really not that bad... is it?? As I said portion control is the big downfall for me I think, but I am wondering would the bread or pizza maybe be inhibiting my appetitite control system from working properly?? I would have thought Pizza to be the "healthy" option for take away, but unfortunately there is no nutritional info available for pizza so im not sure if its full of fructose so it would explain alot if it is.
My BMI at last check was 38, so as you can see I have alot of weight to lose and have tried so many different things, Weight Watchers, Slim Shakes, So I am really wondering what im doing wrong, other than not "sufferfing enough" as David puts it :P
I also just had a hydrogen breath test today, turns out I am fructose intolerant, so off to the dietician for me I think :)
Any Imput would be greatly appreciated, No offence taken to any reality checks you want to give me :D
Why are you drinking Zymil milk, are you lactose intolerant ?
3 pieces of toast seems like a lot of carbs to me. I only ever have one, with something on it.
I used to have 3 teaspoons of sugar in my coffee and I have none now. I'd try to cut back on the dextrose as well if you can - that's also two cups of milk, if you have a milky coffee ( I have an espresso machine, so my coffee is all milk, is yours, or is it black ? )
*grin* I think everyone buys dinner once in a while. The tomato sauce and the dough will contain fructose, almost certainly. When we eat out, we go to the pub, where I can make choices that I can feel sure won't have sugar in them. Your meals overall, are pretty close to what I would eat, although I think you're eating more breakfast and perhaps also lunch than me.
You make dextrose ice cream three times a week ?
Pizza is both high calorie, and very likely to contain fructose. I would suggest being a bit stricter for a while and seeing what happens. Fish and chips is another option for fructose free fast food, dripping in oil, but certainly no sugar. I also think that your breakfast is pretty high carb, so I'd try to adjust that. I have one bit of toast and mushrooms most days, I put an egg in there to vary it from time to time. Or I have one bit with cheese and avocado. I'd never eat three bits of bread.
As covered in the books, exercise won't help you, it will make you hungry. And running after two little ones is indeed enough work :-)
What does 'fructose intolerant' mean ? It sounds to me like another reason for you to make sure you avoid all sugar, but, I'm not sure how it differs from what all humans are ( unable to process fructose except to turn it to fat ) ?
My personal opinion :
I think that Coke is bad news. The caffeine is addictive and bad for you, esp if you're having at least one, and sometimes three a day ( not sure if that's what you said ). My daily drinks is a latte in the morning, and water the rest of the day. I'll put lemon juice in it if I want something tasty. I would double check your mayo for sugar. I can't find any info online. I'd also cut the ice cream back from three times a week, to once. Dextrose is not a diet food, it's still going to impact on your weight loss. I'd also try eating a smaller portion then waiting 20 min to see if you're still hungry for more. That's how long it takes for you to notice you are full. Do that for a bit, then start regulating your portions based on what you find. I do think that, unless your fructose intolerance is somehow causing you to react differently to most people, if you avoid the pizza, and try to train yourself on eating smaller portions, you'll find that you start to feel more full with time, and then start losing weight. I would drink full cream milk if you can - the fats will help you feel full and any altered milk is likely to be bad, unless you need to drink it. If I were in that situation, I'd consider just not drinking milk at all.
That's my thoughts, in a fairly random order. Take them for what they are worth - I don't know everything, I'm just trying to be as helpful as I can.