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Brighton_belle

funkyfunkymonkey wrote: »

With 2 Christmas lunches lined up this week that shouldn't be a problem

I've already started with a custard filled doughnut - just got back from Tesco's and am starving - I'm batch cooking a homemade chilli con carne for tea tonight so it will be a while. Bulking up with lentils and oats to minimise the lbs and £'s - very mse.

FFM

Well done - I know you know when you need to stop losing, I just wanted to acknowledge that.
I've had 2 biscuits this afternoon but was able to stop at that, miracle of miracles. And I'm not having roasties with my sizzling lamb, just veg, but cooking enough pots so we can have them reheated tomorrow on a green day with baked beans and an HEb of cold meat. I just wish being good for one day resulted in a 4lb loss:rotfl: Some how I always feel agrieved that it doesn't.

BabyKat

i have Lost 1lb this week making me now 13 stone 2lbs 8 oz...another 2lbs and i will have lost 3 stones

purplecatlover

ive been nibbling here and there bb, i know ill regret it when my heads screwed on properly again and i pile weight back on. but january makes a new year, and a year since i joined the gym already (and gave in and admitted none of my clothes fitted me anymore) :O cant remember when i joined these threads though.

my friend does something wonderful with beetroot, actually a few something wonderfuls, ive never dared ask what, its too deliscious.

victory

BabyKat wrote: »

i have Lost 1lb this week making me now 13 stone 2lbs 8 oz...another 2lbs and i will have lost 3 stones

:j :j :j :j :j :j :j

funkyfunkymonkey

I'm very happy to say I cooked up my huge batch of chilli con carne, I have frozen 8 additional meals for 4 and we ate one last night. Each individual portion is about 195 calories, so by the time I add rice, peas and sweetcorn a whole meal for each person is only 400 calories. OH and the little monkeys add grated cheese and have bread and butter, I also had a slice of b&b last night

Total cost for all 9 meals was only £10.65 (rice, veg, cheese, b&b extra)

I always dry fry mincemeat and when it is cooked pour off the excess fat. From 2kg of minced beef (Tesco 20% fat), I poured off 1 pint of fat and gloop When it set I bagged it up for the bin - it was like a huge slab of butter - yuk, imagine that inside your veins and arteries.

Tonight I will be cooking up a batch of bolognese sauce, the ingredients are so similar that I will probably get the same quantities for the same cost :j This will save me so much money and weight increase, 'cos I've been a bit partial to takeways recently because I keep staying late at work. At least this way it will only take me as long as it takes to cook the rice/spaghetti in order to have a nice home cooked meal. I feel so proud :rotfl:

FFM

Brighton_belle

You should feel proud FFM - that's seriously good healthy home cooked food and very MSE:T . I must do some batch cooking myself today for our month's worth of packed lunches.
I too feel ridiculously proud of another ebay sale today:D . That's a chair now going that never got sat in because it was always a dumping ground for clutter.
Well done babykat - 3st is fantastic:T
I'm on day two today. Breakfast = quorn burger and poached egg. Lunch is HM tom soup & roll(HEb) & dinner is reheated roasties with baked beans and HEb cold chicken . Snacking on fruit and raw turnip which I love.
Pcl -Nibbling is better than nothing and you are getting some nutrients down you to keep yourself functioning and warm:T . It's not easy when you are not well to juggle everything. Just remember you are worth looking after, and food is nature's fuel you need to keep functioning.

fitorbust

HI everyone - it made me mad reading the bunkum that so called health professionals are churning out to people who actually have gone to them for help. It's made me realise that the only good advice and support you can rely on is on THIS BOARD!!! lol
We have been doing some batch cooking too - as we speak I have the slow cooker going with pork steaks with Reggae Reggae sauce, onions, peppers, tomatoes and carrots and it smells gorgeous.
Our new boy Tod is still as gorgeous as ever and I#m hoping all this extra walking will show - I think I have been doing my usual self sabotage routine of eating extra to cancel out all the walking so have given myself a good talking to and am ready to lose weight!!!
Lesley x
PS well done student midwife for being slimmer of the week!!!!!

funkyfunkymonkey

Thanks BB, wouldn't raw turnip give you a stomach ache? Like raw potatoes?

FFM

Brighton_belle

funkyfunkymonkey wrote: »

Thanks BB, wouldn't raw turnip give you a stomach ache? Like raw potatoes?

FFM

Well, it never has. Maybe because I have always naturally perfered raw veg to cooked, so my stomach has got used to it over the years . Raw turnip, carrots and this morning raw sweet potato too. Raw runner beans are much pref to cooked. Never occured to me that it might cause stomach ache because it never has.
Sweet pot & split pea soup cooked. Tom soup cooking and lentil luches in slow cooker.
While cooking, I was wondering if regular peeps would fancy posting up their hopes/goals for 2009 - but non weight related ones as we can take it for granted that we would all hope to get slimmer/fitter healthier! Doesn't have to be a big goal - may be something like doing more batch cooking or as big as throwing in your job and going travelling:D . I could collate a list and post it with the last chart of the year. Then you could break down those goals in to what do I need to be doing now to make it happen in 2009?
Just an idea. Maybe nothing like 'get a job' because again, one assumes ifyou need one you are already doing all you can to get one. Why not go for something you've been putting off for years, like take up sumo wrestling or something?

fitorbust

I think that is a great idea BB - we do something similar at home and store the list in a right hand draw and it is always interesting finding the list a few years later and seeing what we achieved!