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

retiredlady

Fingers crossed everyone, I guess we just carry on as normal! - It's pouring of rain here but hoping it stops before my walk in the park. I feel like the postman sometimes - come rain, sleet or snow I have to make my rounds - only mine is in the park! And don't think Charlie would let me out of it either - he seems to have a built in clock and if I'm not stirring my stumps by quarter to ten he starts nudging me!

I made the rhubarb rice for breakfast this morning - I think it was the best one yet! I used frozen rhubarb and for the amount I used the syns would have been negligible - about 1/4 of a syn, so I won't count it:p

Breakfast - rhubarb rice and 2 nectarines - (free)
Lunch - mushroom and onion omelette, pear (free)
Dinner - pork chops cooked in a home made spicy sauce made SW style and served on a bed of wholewheat penne, sprinkled with grated parmeson (free+hea)
Snacks - scan bran with fruit and yogurt (heb)
syns - red wine:D 6 syns

Have a good one!
Love
Marion

floyd

Jeez I wish I hadn't asked now :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Anyway, lets just bury that whole can of worms. We are all here for the same reason and its clearly working whatever way everyone chooses

Last night was actually OK as my friend knew I am eating sensibly so we had a lovely pasta pesto meal with lots of salad so I managed to be careful.

B: 2 slices wholemeal toast with cheese spread

L: HM indian veg soup

Not sure, either cauliflower curry or HM spicy veg noodles either way I will be happy

S: Slice of banana bread with a scrape of butter

Have a great rest-of-week all, you are doing fabulously :T

JoJoB

Well done taplady! You have a will of steel! :j

Last night's 1 or 2 glassses of wine took the inevitable turn into drunken idiocy and having to eat loads of carp. Had nutritious dinner, but was swiftly followed by half a packet of biscuits I spied in my friend's bag. Gimme the biccies! lol

Today have had a yoghurt, 2 eggs fried in frylight on waffles, and the remaining 2 biscuits

Not the best, but at least not the traditional fryup followed by cake

Lunch will be pasta

Dinner: baked potato with tuna and salad

Keiss_21

Well I went to the doctor this morning and he has given me even more painkillers...hopefully they won't make me too gaga! He has also signed me off work for 4 weeks this time...I came home in tears as I guess in my head I was sort of hoping I was going to be fine in another week or two (a vain hope!).

This means I will not be able to return to my lecturing job before the contract officially finishes (on Friday the 13th!)...and I still have so many assessments to mark...aargh! I should also be starting teaching a 5 week evening course (Grow your own veg) starting at the end of February...so that is out now I expect. Another garden teaching job at a school is due to start just before Easter...we had already discussed postponing it to after Easter, so there is a chance of me taking on this 9 week (only 2 hours/week) course...here's hoping...! :rolleyes:

I see an orthopaedic specialist this afternoon to hopefully be referred for an MRI scan...so perhaps we can at least find out what is actually wrong with my back this time...and get something done!

This is getting me all so depressed and I am trying to avoid the cake/hobnobs...I might go and watch the Murray tennis match...away from food!

Talking of food:

B: HM muesli, soya milk & OJ
S: one half/sugar hobnob
last of HM veg soup, slice of HM bread; satsuma
S: SF jelly with fruit (or hobnob!)
T: Pasta and cheese sauce for the boys ...I may have a bit (my comfort food!)... or some plain pasta and salad
S: jelly or hobnobs...see how I feel!

Now I must go and sit in my "comfy seat" and see if the Murray match is on tv.

Talk tomorrow, WI day as well!

M

newlywed

Just found this via someone else's post to the website....

Anyone fancy fat free pinto bean and choc chip cookies???
http://everydayfoodstorage.net/2009/01/08/fanatic-friday-rewind/food-storage-recipes

Whoever is the first to try, let me know if they are worth it??

taplady

JoJoB wrote: »

Well done taplady! You have a will of steel! :j

I wish!:D

Marion - keep posting as you are, I for one get lots of ideas from your meal plans:T

Newlywed - well said, I agree totally. Its not which plan you are following etc its whether you are doing it in an OS way! which I think we all are.

L - spaghetti on toast

S - banana

L - couscous and salad

S - ryvita goodness bar

D - ? not decided yet

will try and fit in some more clementies, grapes and yoghurt as my snacks.

Keep up the good work gang!

recovering_spendaholic

Wel done Taplady and any other losers! I weighed in last night and lost 2.5lbs which was okay, although I wish it were more:rolleyes: I had a big binge on Sunday though, and it is more than likely that which stopped a bigger loss. I ate sooooo much and my stomach has felt properly dodgy ever since!

today I have had:
B 42g All Bran with skimmed milk and chopped banana
L pasta n sauce with added chopped brocolli and 42g low fat cheese (was very yummy), followed by chopped fresh fruit salad (just grapes, apples, pineapple and oranges sprinkled with a bit of sweetner)

I don't know what to have for tea tonight. Kids want bacon egg and hash browns but I don't want the bacon and I don't like the ready made hash browns. Does anyone know how to make them from scratch? I have loads of potatoes and onions, but when I tried grating potato and onion and forming it into patties a while ago they went really sloppy and were generally rank, and didn't seem cooked in the middle (IYKWIM).

Hope you are all having a good day!

retiredlady

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

Wel done Taplady and any other losers! I weighed in last night and lost 2.5lbs which was okay, although I wish it were more:rolleyes: I had a big binge on Sunday though, and it is more than likely that which stopped a bigger loss. I ate sooooo much and my stomach has felt properly dodgy ever since!

today I have had:
B 42g All Bran with skimmed milk and chopped banana
L pasta n sauce with added chopped brocolli and 42g low fat cheese (was very yummy), followed by chopped fresh fruit salad (just grapes, apples, pineapple and oranges sprinkled with a bit of sweetner)

I don't know what to have for tea tonight. Kids want bacon egg and hash browns but I don't want the bacon and I don't like the ready made hash browns. Does anyone know how to make them from scratch? I have loads of potatoes and onions, but when I tried grating potato and onion and forming it into patties a while ago they went really sloppy and were generally rank, and didn't seem cooked in the middle (IYKWIM).

Hope you are all having a good day!

Hi Jane, I make hash browns all the time but make them Canadian style! Don't try and form them into patties - MacDonalds started all that off. Proper hash browns as cooked on the farm are simply chopped up boiled/baked/roast potatoes with some chopped onion thrown in and salt and pepper added to taste. Get the frying pan nice and hot and use a small dollog of real oil or loads of fry light (never use the stuff myself - real cooking needs real oil - but just a smidgon will do), put the onions in first let them soften a bit then add the cubed potatoes and let them brown - voila - authentic hash browns!:T

Love
Marion

PurpleSkies

Does anyone have a quick and easy way of keeping track of portion sizes?

I'm looking for a simple way to keep the weights and measures consistent without having to break out the scales every time I want to have a bowl of cereal for breakfast!

Was just wondering if anyone had some ideas.

newlywed

PurpleSkies wrote: »

I'm looking for a simple way to keep the weights and measures consistent without having to break out the scales every time I want to have a bowl of cereal for breakfast!

You could weigh your cereal and then find a cup that the measured portion fits in and use that as a measure in future?

Sorry no other ideas - except that for my porridge sometimes I weigh out enough batches for the week and baggy them up ready for the morning