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

popsytops

Husbands! I was doing really well today both calorie and penny wise until I got home from a later than usual finish (7.15pm) wondering what my other half had made for tea. Puzzled I found the kitchen empty, the oven cold. He'd sent for a takeaway and left money with the kids!

So when it finally arrived I was sooooo hungry. Completely mucked up my money calculations so I'm going to have to cheat and take off an 'average day'. Lord knows what the half chicken tandoori has done to my waistline.

bfast branflakes, milk, (17.1)
lunch apple, banana yoghurt (25.0)
'high tea' cheese on toast (10.0)
dinner tandoori chicken, popadom, a little rice. (?)

So a nominal £6.43 left for the week!

procrastinator

Just having bfast fruit salad and greek yog. Mr T has frozen luxury fruit salad at 49p at the moment and I'm really enjoying it. It does me 3 days so at less that 20p a portion I'm very happy.
Have wholemeal roll with philly and marmite for lunch.
Dinner HM mince and onion pies, using linda mccartney soya mince, I put it in ramekins and only put pastry on the top. Served with roasties, sprouts and carrots. Doing much better with the walking this week. Will be swimming this eve.
Floyd I don't follow any plan, have never done so and can't work out calories as I home cook most things and life is too short. I do like the tips those on plans post and like reading others meal plans to get ideas.

newlywed

Happy-Rags wrote: »

I was under the impression that this thread was allowed to run only because it wasn't about doing a particular 'diet' that you paid for. There are WW and SW threads elsewhere but I believed that this thread banned all references to them..... it was supposed to be weight loss by the traditional way of eating less and exercising more, saving money as you go... or am I wrong

I don't think reference to them is banned

The difference is that you CAN do WW and SW by filling your shopping trolley with branded ready meals etc. OR you can do WW and SW by making your own food from scratch.

That's more what this thread is about, making your own meals like OS but making them more healthy (whether that includes counting points, syns etc, or including your 5 a day, doesn't matter so much).

So this isn't really the place for continual diets of food replacement sachets or branded ready meals but IS the place for "proper" real home made food

So anyone that wants to shift the lbs by cooking their own healthier meals is welcome - doesn't matter whether you count points, syns, fat grams, calories, exercise more, weigh yourself, measure yourself - all are welcome

That's what I thought anyway

spugzbunny

Thanks so much for the recipes Keiss 21! I'm having a weekend of doing my chores and cooking up some good nosh so I'll bash those out! I'm not the best at baking so it may take a few goes to get it right!

This is exactly what I was hoping to get from this thread. I know how to eat well but I often fall to the laziest option and I want to curb my food spending. I think it can get ridiculous the amount of money people spend!

I guess I could have easily joined a WW thread but I want to break away from that and go back to basics so to speak. It is my aim to be cooking everything from scratch by the end of the year. I want to apply what I do on points to OS cooking and convert all my food stuffs to HM. Which is (trust me!!) a major challenge for me!

Plus .... OSers are nicer than most!!

retiredlady

Happy-Rags wrote: »

I was under the impression that this thread was allowed to run only because it wasn't about doing a particular 'diet' that you paid for. There are WW and SW threads elsewhere but I believed that this thread banned all references to them..... it was supposed to be weight loss by the traditional way of eating less and exercising more, saving money as you go... or am I wrong

Sorry - I am getting a little confused now - do I continue to post my daily menu plan on here or not? I don't use ready meals, everything is home made - it just that I follow the SW plan. Should I post menus and not mention syns values or free foods or SW or should I just don't want to jeopardise this thread my continuing to take part:eek:

Love
Marion

procrastinator

retiredlady wrote: »

Sorry - I am getting a little confused now - do I continue to post my daily menu plan on here or not? I don't use ready meals, everything is home made - it just that I follow the SW plan. Should I post menus and not mention syns values or free foods or SW or should I just don't want to jeopardise this thread my continuing to take part:eek:

Love
Marion

copied from first page:-

Important. Please read:

The thread should be about healthy, old style eating. That means recipes and meal plans, support and encouragement and healthy eating. What shouldn't be accomodated here is if the thread goes off topic and covers ready meals, fad diets and weight loss clubs. There is a good thread that covers all that on the 'I wanna' board. So if the thread becomes an extention of that, we will have to close it and ask people to join in there instead.

In the first line it says meal plans are OK so please keep posting retired lady, I like your posts and you are great at giving support and encouragement to others.

newlywed

Carry on as normal Marion - like you said you're not using ready meals and your meal plans give us all good ideas

The board guides keep a check and obviously haven't had any issues with any of your posts so far - they have posted comments here previously and deleted posts when things have gone off topic

suzid

Well done Tappy :T , you must feel so chuffed.

Glad to say things are still going well foodwise. Not been tempted so stray, however if I lose anything at all this month it will be a bonus. Please, please don't let me have put any more on . DD's birthday next week but she doen't want a cake so that's one less temptation. As her wedding dress has just been ordered in an american size 10 she's getting all worried that it will be a UK size 10 in measurements. When she was measured her bust was a UK 10, her waist an 8 and hips a 12. Should be interesting :rolleyes: .

DH took pupkin for a gallop this morning as I have DD's dog to take while she and SIL-to-be are working. So it will be the beach again for me and oldies and then a trek with the grandpup trying to avoid all the mud. The last thing she'll want after a 12hr shift is a house with muddy paw prints everywhere.

I ordered a laptop yesterday and can't wait to get my paws on it. My plan is to write down everything I can remember about family and my life so that if any offspring want to trace the family (and I'm not arround or totally befuddled) they will have a head start. The things I wished I'd asked my grandparents! I found my grandpa's family tree going back to the 16th century on the internet, put there by a very distant relation. The theory is that if my mind is accupied on a mission, I might get diverted from the kitchen and with a laptop I can shut myself away anywhere in the house. We'll see if it works, fingers and everything else crossed.:D

Have a good day folks, Suz

ispartacus75

Ok, so yesterday went very pear-shaped indeed.

Lunch ended up being the biggest plate of mince and mash that you have ever seen. A typical 'nans dinner'. Needless to say I couldnt finish it, but still my nan was asking if I wanted a bowl or rice pudding :mad:

The cooker didnt get fitted in time so it was a takeaway. I ended up getting an omlette. My thinking was as healthy as possibly but from a chippy that simply isnt possible.

And my downfall was a shared lemon meringue last night. Today I have a massive guilt complex because of it

Today
Poached egg on toast
Fruit
Tuscan Bean soup.
Fruit
Chicken, pots and veg.

Hope everyone has a good day.

suzid

:eek: I hope my waffle isn't classed as off topic. It all makes perfect OS dieting sense to me, exercise, and diverting the mind from food, but then alot makes sense to me and is totally incomprehensable to others.

Chin up ispartacus, that was yesterday and today all is going to be perfect, ok .