Weight Loss the Old Style Way! Part 6. Please read posts 1 and 2 before posting.

lainz

Hello folks

Good to see you are all doing well - I've had a viral infection for the past week, now seem to be coming out the other side (and have a very pretty rash!) My recovery does seem to be down to Jaffa Cakes though - so will jump back on the wagon next week when I'm back to full fitness!

Someone was after a carrot cake recipe. This is a WW one and is lovely, my mum was disappointed this year I made her a chocolate cake and not this carrot one for her birthday :rolleyes: !

125g (4 1/2 oz) soft brown sugar
2 eggs beaten
125g (4 1/2 oz) low fat spread, melted
200g (7oz) wholemeal plan flour (I use self-raising)
1 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
3 tsp mixed spice
zest of 1 orange (can be missed or a spoonful of orange juice helps)
200g (7oz) carrots, grated (I have one of those 3 in 1 stick blender things with a little chopper and do my carrots in there - waaaay quicker !)
125g (4 1/2oz) sultanas

Mix sugar, eggs and melted low fat spread together, then add flour, bicarb and mixed spice (it does says sift - but lifes too short!), mix well, chuck in orange zest, carrots and sultanas and stir well. Bung in baking tin (grease and line if that's your thing!) and shove in oven at gas 3/160c/fan 140c for 35 mins or firm to touch in fact my oven is normally much hotter than this and I've not burnt it to a crisp yet!

You can have it plain or add a topping of soft cheese with icing sugar etc. I've done a quark with orange juice and that was nice and sharp on the top.... I'm sure carrot cake must count as one of your five a day :rotfl:

newlywed

procrastinator wrote: »

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I am feeling deeply despondant. I have checked back to my first post which was July 2008 and my weight was 11st 6lb. I have lost just 4lb in 7 months. Rubbish. I am lost for words so will say no more. Hope your day is better than mine.

Don't feel like that.... just imagine how much you would have eaten if you weren't on this thread... then think how much more you could have weighed if you weren't thinking about what you eat

That's what I try and do

recovering_spendaholic

Hello everyone! Procrastinator - don't feel bad - at least you are excercising some kind of control and you could have gained loads but you haven't... and you will get the weight off because it's not that much and you seem to be focused by coming on here and I do think that helps.

Spugz - what a horrible thing to say to someone! It is so hard to reply when someone says that because I don't know anyone for whom that wouldn't hit a raw nerve and make them feel embarassed. It makes me angry for you! Take no notice and don't let them make you feel bad.

Marion - sorry about the little gain - I agree with you about the EE plan - that's what I found with it too - in theory it sounds great but in practice it takes iron control and small portions for it to work out.

lainz - that carrot cake sounds fab! I was in Tescos at the weekend and bought the new Weight Watchers baking book and that cake is in it. There is also a courgette cake which I am itching to try!

Taplady - I am afraid I don't like quorn but otherwise your menu sounds lovely! Do you not find that quorn upsets your IBS - I get the most incredible bloating and indigestion with it!

Today I have had sultana bran for breakfast, with semi skimmed milk and Splenda, and my sister is coming for lunch with her carer so I have made a low cal coronation type chicken salad using natural yoghurt and hellmanns extra light mayo for the dressing, which they will have in baguettes and I will have with mixed salad. Dinner I'm not sure about yet.

I am so tired and feel every pound of my huge weight because of it. I had my Goddaughter's little girl overnight and she was great until at 1am she woke up because the dog started to bark. She got in a right state and the more she cried the more the dog barked. By 2am I was at my wits end so I rang her Mum and she said to just bring her home - so in the middle of the night I had to drive 15 miles to take her home! It wasn't too bad at the time but I didn't get to bed until nearly 4am and had to be up at 7.15 to get DD2 to school - I'd had to leave her in bed asleep in the night so she wasn't too bad!

Anyway - hope you all have a great day - and Spugzbunny try and think of a horrible veiled comment to the person who asked you if you had gained weight - once at work someone called me lard-a*se and I remember how upset I was.

bigsmoke

morning all

first of all, procrastinator, don't be so hard on yourself! think about how much you might weigh now if you hadn't been monitoring what you ate, it's definitely better even just to stay the same rather than gain

at least, that's what i'm telling myself this morning! once again, i've not been on here for a while - went away for a month over christmas/january, then have been ill for a few weeks since i got back. having lost lots of weight rapidly due to the illness, once i regained my appetite i ate like a pig and have put it all back on:rotfl:
still, this means that i'm still exactly the weight that i was before christmas, so time to get back on the wagon. it's great to come back on here and still find you guys all here, working hard at it - really motivational, so thanks!

i'm hoping that stating my targets out in the open might help me so:
at the moment i'm 10st8 (i'm 5'6"). i have 3 motivators at the moment: a party in one month, a wedding in 2 months, and glastonbury in 3.5 months. i'd like to think that i can lose half a stone for the party in a month, but think that's probably pushing it a bit. still, i'm going to go for it. i'd then like to lose 4lb by the wedding and another 4 for glasto, if at all possible. this would take me to my proper 'on paper' ideal weight, although i know from past experience that this is incredibly hard to reach and maintain. to be honest, if i could stay on or around 10 stone normally i'd be pretty happy, and rop down to 9 and a half for 'special occasions'. does that make sense, or sound sensible? or do you think i'm aiming too high?! basically, i want to look fab at glasto, and be able to fill my face with all the fab food without feeling too bad about it!

anyway, i guess we'll see if i even manage to get the first half stone off, i would feel like getting under 10st would be a really big achievement to be honest, as it's several years since i was there:rolleyes:

hope it's a good day for everyone anyway

bsx

bigsmoke

oops - sorry, that took about 3 hours to show up so have missed several posts!
spugzbunny, that's absolutely horrible - try to ignore them as best you can, they are clearly thinking of themselves rather than you in saying something like that (perhaps feeling a bit tubby themselves and trying to make themselves feel better?!). we can all do without people like that in our lives bs x

AudreyHepburn_2

Spuz- don't get them get to you, set yourself mini goals like losing 4 pounds in March maybe and keep chipping away at it :-)

I got very hungry after dinner (soya cottage pie ) last night but managed to limit myself to small bowl of cereal.

I could trough down at any given moment still, it will take weeks to re-educate my appetite, but posting here is helping big time.

I am keeping a food diary as apparently it can double your chances of suceeding, and certainly seeing what I have eaten in the day helps stop me pigging in the evening.

Best wishes to all.

ispartacus75

Late sign in for me today.

Well the soup got screwed up again. Im 0 for 2 now. The first attempt a few weeks ago I blitzed everything in the slow cooker so while it was still soup it was just soup. It tasted ok but I wasnt happy with it.

Last night I removed some of the cooked content, unplugged the slow cooker, plugged in the blitzer, and blitzed what was left, before returning the cooked content back to the pot. This made it exactly as I wanted it, the soupy texture with chunks of potato, leek and bacon in it. That was at 5 oclock. Then I went out with the kids to basketball. When we got home at 8.30 I realised I hadnt plugged the SC back in. So there was a pot of stone cold soup. It got nuked and it still tasted fine, but its just not the same as when its straight out of the SC.

One day I will get it right hahaha.

Today
Poached egg on toast
Mushroom soup w/toasty squares
Chicken pie w/boiled potatoes and fresh veg.

Hope everyones day has been good so far.

Paul

spugzbunny

Thanks for all the nice supportive posts! I'll have to run back through with the thanks button in a sec!

TBH I'm not exactly big! It's just that I used to be and I lost a lot of weight and now I've put some of it back on. Maybe people are just pleased to see me slip??

Well mini goals - my current goal is to lose 5lbs by 20th March. That's 3 weigh ins so I can do it as long as I don't slip up. After that it's another 7lb's before beginning of May then 2 more lbs before I go to singapore at the end of May. That should put me back at my happy weight where I feel OK.

Thanks again guys! xx

4Moneysaver

Hi everyone, I'm typing this at work so it won't space things out as I'd like but never mind. I felt really hungry too last night but had a tiny portion of dry cereal and was fine again. Breakfast today was X2 toast and marmite and a banana, lunch was half a tub of M&S butternut squash soup with a wm finger roll and a portion of spinach pasta, an apple and a clementine. I have a carrot and some hummous if I get peckish later. Dinner will probably be naughty but I'm clearing the freezer and there's a pack of belly of pork that needs eating. I'll slow roast mine and do some sweet marinade/sauce for my OH. Gook luck, I think this place is so fantastic, so supportive and most of all SENSIBLE. This isn't about dieting for me, although I want and need to lose weight, it's about changing the way I eat for life.

KITTY_2-2

Hi all

Late updating as usual but managed another 1lb off this week. Slow start but at least I'm losing.

Good luck for this week, K x