Lose Weight 23

katiepoppycat

recipe for you bails -

peel and deseed your squash and cut it into chunks. Peel and quarter a couple of onions. Put it all in a roasting tin with a squirt of frylight and roast until looking brown in places. Meanwhile, peel and a chop a couple of spuds, rinse them well and cook in a pan of stock. Scoop out a bit of the stock to soak some dried porcini mushrooms in - i had 1/2 a pack kicking around that wanted using up. when the spuds are done, add the porcini and water, squash and onions. Blitz with the blender, add a little thyme and let down with more stock/water if necessary. Roasting the squash gives it a bit more taste!

Hmmm, portion control. . . .is that like self control? Alas OH and I are rubbish at portion control. We had a roast chicken the other day and it did 2 of us and 2 days sarnies for oh ( 4 slices of bread each day). My mum could have made that feed 4 of us and give us all sarnies for a day after. We're aren't very MSE with that sort of thing. I did a bolognaise last night and forced myself to potion some out for OH for his tea tonight, otherwise we would have had the lot.

Lois_Lane

Hi all :wave:

Well done Student Midwife - losing 10% of your bodyweight can make a huge difference healthwise, as you probably know! :T

Well done Marion too - just goes to show you can have the occasional slip up without undoing all your hard work. :j I know lots of people who buy chocolate and eat it in small quantities, but that's impossible for me, once I've started, I have to finish!

Vix - I echo Bails comments about teaching, it's definitely a vocation so if it isn't your lifetime ambition, you need to find something that is.

BB - please can you take me off the chart. I've decided not to take the scales to Europe, but I'm not giving up, I'll weigh myself when I get the chance and also judge it by how my clothes fit.

I've decided to try WW again in the new year - I've got the little book and the points calculator, and I think it might be easier than trying to follow SW when I may not be able to work out if foods are free, synned, healthy extras etc.

Catch you later!

LL

x_raphael_xx

Lois_Lane wrote: »

It's great when you get compliments like that, and you deserve it, you've done really well - give yourself a big pat on the back! Are you going to share your before and after pictures with us? (Or have you already and I've missed them? :rolleyes: )

LL

I'll get some photos done over xmas, and post them in the New Year if you like I'll have to dig out a 'before' picture.

Just received my letter 'inviting' me for my first ever smear test. Rang up the docs to arrange it, only date they've got is 5th Jan (day after my birthday :rolleyes:) and there'll be some students there too! What fun!

tagz

x_raphael_xx wrote: »

I'll get some photos done over xmas, and post them in the New Year if you like I'll have to dig out a 'before' picture.

Just received my letter 'inviting' me for my first ever smear test. Rang up the docs to arrange it, only date they've got is 5th Jan (day after my birthday :rolleyes:) and there'll be some students there too! What fun!

Well done Raph and Studentmidwife!! You must be feeling great.

Raph I always seem to get the students too when I have a hospital appointment. Don't worry about the smear - not the most pleasant (wouldn't recommend it as a day out!) but not bad either.

x_raphael_xx

tagz wrote: »

Raph I always seem to get the students too when I have a hospital appointment. Don't worry about the smear - not the most pleasant (wouldn't recommend it as a day out!) but not bad either.

Well these things need to be done at least they only come once every 3 years.

studentmidwife

Lois_Lane wrote: »

Hi all :wave:

Well done Student Midwife - losing 10% of your bodyweight can make a huge difference healthwise, as you probably know! :T

Thanks everyone still on cloud nine today :j . With regards to my health my blood pressure has already gone from high to normal and I can walk places without being out of breath after a few minutes. I feel like I can really do it this time (after many years of trying!!)

Missy™

funkyfunkymonkey wrote: »

Hope that my figures can also give hope to other maintainers, although I may be 'obsessive' about monitoring my calories, I do still enjoy my food and 'let my hair down' from time to time.

Thanks for your support FFM Your numbers have certainly been a help to me, because if it wasn't for you I would be doubting that it would be possible to maintain on such 'high' calories (well, that seem high to me after my own experiences...) no matter what all the textbooks say So thank you again for being my calorie buddy on here

I forgot to summarise my exercise for last week. It went like this:

Monday: Cycle 33 mins / Cross country run 60 mins / Cycle 17 mins
Tuesday: Pilates 24 mins
Wednesday: Cycle 45 mins
Thursday: Cross country run (with pic stops) 2 hours & 45 mins

The long run in the countryside was my second favourite run this year. I'm enjoying the cross country trails so much even in December, that I think when spring and summer come, I just might burst I swear I don't recognise myself. When did I become this woman that LOVES to run!!!

I'm trying to pace myself a bit better this week because I'm supposed to be sticking to 4-5 hours weekly, but last week I'd done almost 6 hours by Thursday! Still, it was nice to have three days off!

vixarooni

grannynise wrote: »

Can't do this Sunday or the one straight after Christmas. Which Sunday did you mean?

sunday coming!

vixarooni

tagz wrote: »

So Sunday tea with Mr Al Fayed it is then! Granny should we wear a red rose so Vix can identify us or should we let her guess?

Harrods is lit up like the proverbial Christmas tree! You CAN'T miss it.

i missed debenhams when i was in oxford street. Everyone said how but who knows. Probably in shock over how pricey the tour busses are!

I wont be able to guess you. I look at everyone in London with my left eye looking at everyone else. I love London, but i could not live there in a million years. I know i walk down the road and dont really see anyone i know, but its literally loads of people on a pavement. Its quite dirty too, like black dirty. That sounds racist but i mean walls of buildings seem black with dirt.

I sound like i live in penzance which is actually in cornwall and not wales Raph

vixarooni

katiepoppycat wrote: »

and with no buttonhole where would you put it? my eyes are watering.

very well done student midwife, and you raph, you're an inspiration!

if granny and tagz have big boobs they can do the pencil test.

Techically though, being able to put a pencil under your boob and it staying put either means you got a big sweat problem or youre over 30. Im being nice there cos i dont really know when gravity kicks in .