Doh!

[tinyjo]

So much for OBLOAFA* plan! Quite apart from my weekend activities (of which more anon), I was going to get on with things this week. I have failed to do so. There was a plan, and it related to lunches. You see we get free lunches in the canteen. This is good, because free food! But bad because free fattening food! I'm eating 5-600 calories a day in lunches. So the plan was as follows:

1) Buy lower fat lunch alternatives that I can prepare in our minimally equipped kitchen (toaster, kettle)
2) Eat breakfast at work, thus still getting some free food! benefit
3) Eat said alternatives for lunch

Step 1 went fairly well and I got a selection of pasta pot type items to warm me up over the autumn and winter lunchbreaks (any other suggestions welcome, btw). Step 2 I failed at this morning, because I was very low in my "on the case" levels so I ended up starving 20 mins ago and went for biscuits. And step 3 is looking doubtful because I have forgotten to bring the cunningly purchased items from step 1 to work with me!

On the other hand, I did come in in the car today (naughty, but compensation to self for not so great night) so I could drive over to Sainsbury's and get something healthy. It feels like hassle but I probably should make the effort.

* Operation Become Less Of A Fat Ass

Comments

[twic.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)]

Agreed.

My preferred strategy for dieting is to skip breakfast, have some sort of smallish snack around morning tea break (1030-1100), then eat a big, starchy late lunch, coast through the rest of the day on that, and have no dinner, or just some salad or something. You need to eat in the day to give you energy for life, but you don't need to eat before you go to bed.

Some people wouldn't manage the no breakfast thing, though, in which case you just eat something sensible for breakfast and reduce or manage without the teatime snack. I'd probably be better off if i did eat breakfast, but i just got out of the habit at some point.

Seriously, big lunch, small dinner, it just works.

-- tom

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

I think I would find that really hard - dinner is about having a nice relaxing time cooking as well as having something to eat and I wouldn't be able to cook for lunch. I think I'd end up snacking in the evening a lot if I did that.