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

Palm_Centro

Thanks for the link ispartacus75 I've used both this one (BMI 38.2) and the NHS one (BMI 39.2).

taplady

evening all!

just got back from work.
Not too bad a day

B - 2 small toast and marmalade

L - salmon fillet, veggies small mash parsley sauce

D - mackerel on 1 slice toast with salad and a bit of low cal mayo

snacks - 2 chocolates and 2 small biscuits.
Highlights hot choc

welcome to the newbies!

Marie - not heard from Frogga for ages - RS - have you heard from her? I emailed her but havent heard back.

recovering_spendaholic

Marion - that meatloaf sounds yummy so I am going to give it a go along with the bean soup.

Tappy - I speak to Frogga most days - she is fine, and has started again today like me. She is really busy with her new job and doesn't get on the computer as much now but I have asked her to join in again and she said she might....... hope she does.

Well my first day back on the wagon wasn't too bad, but I think my idea of general principles of SW, WW etc might need a re-think - today was okay though. I got very hungry about an hour ago and so had a bowl of cereal with skimmed milk and sweetner, which could have easily been buttered toast and jam so not too bad there!

For tea I had hm curry with some Batchelors savoury rice (mild curry one) and it was really really nice. For afters I had some winter fruit compote (bought at Christmas in M&S) with an Activia fat free vanilla yoghurt. The Activia fat free yoghurts are lovely! I think the savoury rice packets are good for me because I am really bad at portion control and tend to cook miles too much plain rice - but if I do a sachet of Batchelors - okay it isn't scratch as such, but I know that even if I eat all of it, it's not too bad.

Hi Le Foot - glad you are recovered and you will get that weight off in no time!

[Deleted User]

Hi Chums,
have decided to be dedicated to losing some of the excess weight that I gained over the past 18 months.Want to get quite a bit off before the June 'Race for Life' at Blackheath. cetainly don't want to spend a fiver a week at WW's I am far too frugal for that. Owing to mobility problems I can actually swim better than I can walk, although that too has been on the 'back burner' for 18 months.I am going to get my pal to see if she can adapt my cossie's with a template as I am somewhat lop-sided now.mastectomy swimware costs a fortune.
wish me luck chums, first day tomorrow
JackieO
P.S. put on almost 4 stone with steroids and chemo, so it's gotta go !!

procrastinator

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

The only things I have in which I am not sure what to do with are Qunioa, Cous cous (plain not the flavoured stuff) and bulghur wheat - has anyone got any nice recipes using these ingredients?

Hi RS
I use bulghur wheat all the time, it's so quick to do and easy. You just add boiling water and leave it to soak. I use my smallest lidded saucepan, cover the bottom with the bulger (a little goes a long way) add the boiling water put the lid on and leave it. That's all. Not sure how long 20 mins perhaps, I try it should be like rice in texture, if there is any soaking liquid left I strain it. Then I use it as an alternative to rice, for stuffing peppers and always with a salad. For the salad add chopped toms, spring onions and if you have them, herbs, mint and parsley with lemon give you the classic tabouleh. My daughter likes it with pesto she got this idea from MS they use it with spinach, pine nuts and pesto and charge a fortune for a tiny tub. You can put it with any salad veg. I think cous cous is the same, just check the pack. As bulghur was the first one I tried haven't got round to doing the cous cous. Have tried it in prepared salads, has a smaller grain than the bulghur but very similar. Never cooked quinoa except in a bought meal - a veggie stew I think, it was fine not strong tasting. Do try them and let me know what you think.

procrastinator

Hi
Yesterday I went for a long long walk with a friend. Got up late and breakfasted on pinapple and yog covered in single cream (gota use it up.)
Took a couple of clemetines with me. Back to her house at tea time and had mince pie and clotted cream. Got home after 7 too late for dinner so had a bowl of tomato soup.
Today bfast 2 very hard boiled eggs.
lunch ? at work, leaving do will involve cake so will just take fruit with me.
diner - the spag bol I should have made yesterday.

retiredlady

Right - here is my eating plan for the day - I have been so good since Boxing Day (New Years Eve does not count:rotfl:) I am doing the extra easy plan on SW

Breakfast - fresh fruit salad with yogurt and 5 scan brans (free+2.5 syns)

Lunch - Spanish ommelette with slice ham and roasted peppers using 1 tblsp oil (free+ heb)

Dinner - Vegetable & ham rice (cooked in the remoska) with parmeson cheese (free+hea)

snacks - satsumas, mullerlite tonight

Started my £20 storecupboard challenge which will run Thursday to Thursday - spent nothing yesterday but going to Lidls today - hadn't realised I was out of olive oil:eek: - why didn't I buy this last week when I wasn't on a challenge:mad::rotfl::rotfl:. I will be picking up some veg as well although I still have frozen to use.

Marion

floyd

Hi all,

I'm still here holding it together. After finally shaking my Christmas cold I have now got an ear/throat infection instead, can't win can I?

At least the pain will stop me wanting to eat crisps and crackers!

B/L: 3 wholemeal toast with lemon curd

HM chilli chicken ramen soup

S: Probably nothing as we don't have anything in!

I really need to go shopping to get fresh stuff but I just don't feel up to it

Welcome to any newbies and well done to all the losers

sexykellylovespink

my new years resolution is to become frugal and lose weight, i spend well in excess of £100 a week on food for me oh and 2 kids and want to try and cut it by half, but my oh loves meat !!! lol i also want to lose my bit of belly lol.............
do you have any nice recipes that are frugal and healthy..........or any yummy recipes that we could have as a treat. kelly x

[Deleted User]

Well I didn't have a good night painwise as the damp and cold play havoc with my bones, so by the time I got off to sleep it was around 3.ish.woke several times and eventually went into a deep sleep about 6.30 so have missed breakfast altogether.
I am just about to go and have some 'Light' baked beans on two slices of whole grain toast for my late lunch with a yogurt for pud

Dinner to night will probably be a jacket spud with Tuna and Sweetcorn and a celery salad.I have quite a bit of fresh salad in my fridge ,for pudding I shall have some fresh fruit,possibly a mix of plums,apple and a pear.I bought a big bag of reduced fruit on Wednesday from Mr T's.Its in excellant condition and I keep almost all of my fruit in my conservatory as its like a cold store out there, and fruit lasts for ages as opposed to indoors where it goes off too quickly in the warm.
feeling fairly virtuous at the moment, lets hope it lasts.