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

Marru

Hello and thank you for welcome,

Today:
Brekkie: Bran flakes
Snack: apple and satsuma
Lunch: HM sarnie
Snack: muesli (I was really hungry:o)
Supper: some left over boiled potatoes fried with couple of eggs and leftover sandwich meat (before it goes off ) and frozen peas served with lettuce, cucumber and tomatoe

Very proud of my good start and not eating any treats at work.Also went for a walk with friend but we had my 15 year old dog and her 1.5 daughter with us so can't really call that much of excercise

katylittlelady

Hi everyone!! Could I join in as well!

It may just be the motivation I need! I have been healthy eating since beginning of year and have lost 1 stone and 4 pounds but have plateaued for a bit! I am now 13st 1lb and plan to lose about 3 stone in total! Just need to be a bit more disaplined so hopefully following this thread and posting occasionally it will help me to my end goal.

xxx

meanmarie

Hi everybody and a special welcome to newbies

Have read your post twice Keiss, very sensible advice, thanks.

Have been having a bit of a binge over the last few days....blaming the fact that my car was stolen on Friday night, as I always eat for Ireland when stressed. Car was found on Saturday but haven't got it back yet so still feeling stressed and paranoid about things being stolen! Well, that's my excuse anyway, have been a little better to-day. Menu was:

B....Banana;
L....turkey salad sandwich with side salad and large cappuccino with no sugar;
Sn..Apple, plum, 2 satsumas;
D....Steak, sweetcorn, steamed potatoes, whole fried onion, little gravy, slice of banana bread with butter, tea;
Sn...Quarter pineapple

Congratulations to losers

Marie

WelshWoofer

Morning all!
Had a very busy day in work yesterday so didn't get any time to post - it wasn't too bad a day though (apart from the Revels in the evening - flipping OH!)

Today's food will be...

B - cereal bar (running late)
L - leftover chickpea curry and rice with a satsuma
D - probably a jacket potato woth beans and cheese
S - banana

E - lots of dog walking and some hoovering!

Good luck to everyone else!

Keiss_21

CHEWY FRUIT MUESLI SLICE

- Makes 8 slices

75g ready to eat apricots –chopped
1 eating apple -cored and grated
150g Swiss-style muesli - you can make your own, again saving money
150ml apple juice
1tbsp soft sunflower margarine

1. preheat the oven to 190c - 375f-gas5
2. place all the ingredients in a large bowl and mix well
3. press into an 8"/20cm round, non-stick sandwich tin
4. bake for 35-40 mins, or until lightly golden and firm
5. mark into 8 and leave to cool in the tin

nutritional values -per slice:-

112cals
2.75g fat
0.48g saturated fat
0.13mg cholesterol
2.09g fibre

Recipe given by Mrs Mcawber many many posts ago!

A good, relatively low fat option. It took a while to find it in my collection of saved recipes from this thread. Will root around for another I am sure I have. So far I haven't made any as I am likely to eat it all in one go, but will give it a try and see how it works...much better than the traditional high fat originals!

By the way, has anyone seen or heard from Mrs M lately??

Lemon_Verbena

Mrs Mc regularly posts on the Grocery Challenge thread so you can catch her on there. Thanks for the recipe Keiss I have everything in bar apple juice, do have cranberry juice and orange juice, may try making them with one of those juices to save pennies, got some dried cranberries in I could add as well. They'll be about the same cals as the shop bought ones but will I think be healthier! Was going to make apple & raisin bran muffins this aftie but will change and make these instead

Breakfast - Yogurt & Apple & Decaf Coffee
Dinner - Ham Salad Sandwich, Grapes
Snack - Banana
Tea - Tuna Bake, Wedges & Salad
Pud - Sugar Free Jelly, Peaches & Ice Cream

If all goes to plan!

LV x

RainyWednesday

Hello, doing well today - walked 5 miles after breakfast in my fitflops (feel the burn!)

B - rice crispies
L - houmous sandwich and vegetable soup
D - cajun chicken legs, HM wedges and HM coleslaw

drinks (being good) water with a slice of lemon or lime

snacks - fruit

Keiss_21

Lemon_Verbena wrote: »

Mrs Mc regularly posts on the Grocery Challenge thread so you can catch her on there. Thanks for the recipe Keiss I have everything in bar apple juice, do have cranberry juice and orange juice, may try making them with one of those juices to save pennies, got some dried cranberries in I could add as well. They'll be about the same cals as the shop bought ones but will I think be healthier! Was going to make apple & raisin bran muffins this aftie but will change and make these instead LV x

Thanks Lemon Verbena, I was thinking of making some too...only have cranberry & blueberry juice, so might try that, should be interesting. Do you use your namesake in cooking? I put some lemon verbena leaves into a jar with hm caster sugar. After a few days/weeks the sugar is lovely and lemony...use it for baking sweet cakes & things, oh I am getting hungry again for sweet stuff!

I will go and see if I can track down Mrs M, she is such an inspiration, shame she doesn't post here any more.

Anyway, food for today:

B: Porridge with soya milk, water & raisins, OJ
S: nothing!
D:HM Houmous, with toasted HM Bread, tomatoes, sweet peppers & lettuce - yummy, and very filling plus banana/apple if I am not too full!
S: fruit, probably a nectarine
T: DS2 making pizza for everyone else, not sure what to have, probably Baked Pot & baked beans, we'll see, make have some cheese-less pizza if the temptation is too great!
S: perhaps some HM cereal bars if I make some!

Must try and track down the other cereal bar recipe, then off out for a walk, not sure how far I will get today. Slow but sure is the motto I have to try and stick to!

Enjoy the rest of today.

M

vixtress

good afternoon
after 10 days from hell am trying to get back some normality.
plan for today is

toast and low fat pate
3 oatcakes, 1 slice beef and a muller lite.
not too sure yet, either teryaki pork and veg or liver, bacon and veg.
snacks are fruit.

have a good day and welcome to all the newbies xx

Keiss_21

Another good cereal bar recipe, but higher in fat:

Chewy seed health bars

200g butter
200g golden syrup
300g porridge oats
50g pumpkin seeds
50g sunflower seeds
50g dessicated coconut
50g plain flour
150g brown sugar
150g chopped dried apricots
125g peanut butter (crunchy)
1 tsp vanilla extract

Melt butter and syrup in a saucepan.
Add all remaining ingredients into a mixing bowl and pour in melted butter and syrup.
Combine thoroughly.
Pour onto a baking tray lined with greaseproof paper.
Cook for 20-25 minutes in pre-heated 160C oven.
Cut into pieces and allow to cool before removing, else they break up.

You can also vary the seeds and fruit used to any of your choice. Try prunes, sultanas, sesame seeds, etc.

Provided by Toxic Lemon, again, many posts ago!