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

marri_lou

I'm going to give this a go over the next few weeks. I'm going to try and eat more healthily basically. I feel that the reliance of "low fat" "low cal" has kind of derailed my own healthy eating message.

So over the next few weeks going to try and stick to the following plans.

Fruit/cereal + toast/porridge for breakfasts
HM soups/stews/sandwiches for lunches
potatoes/pastas /rice along with whoopsies for dinners

Do you think that this will be alright? I'm not buying any snacks if I can avoid it, as not really needed.

floyd

Morning folks,

Feeling rubbish today and can't bear the thought of eating so I am going to hold off having breakfast until I can face it

B: Nothing yet, prob toast as porridge will make me gag

L: Lentil soup

Not sure, OH is cooking so it will be on the meal planner. He did a lovely roast yesterday that really cheered me up

S: Last slice of banana loaf

Tomorrow we are going to a friends for a dinner party so that will be tough as I have no idea what we are having. Will try and have light stuff early in the day to give me the maximum flexibility later on

Have a fab weekend all (when it arrives)

spugzbunny

Darn it - went out last night for a friends 'leaving the country' party and I had chips (boo hoo!). Back on the wagon today! I went to poundland yesterday and picked up some loaf tins and a pizza baking tray (for cookies!) and I'm going to attempt to bake this weekend. My goal is to make all my snacks HM in my attempt to become OS in all my eating.

I'm going to make Morag's version of Twinks hobnobs and the weetabix cake. I can't remember where I got this from - it may have been another forum but my word document says it was by someone called 'perfectsanity'... so thank you!!

2 Weetabix
4oz sultanas
5fl oz skimmed milk
5fl oz water
4oz self-raising flour
1 tsp mixed spice
1/2oz artificial sweetener
1 egg, beaten

Instructions

Preheat oven to 180C/350F/GM4. Put Weetabix and sultanas in a bowl. Pour the milk and water over the top and leave to soak up all the liquid. Stir in the flour, mixed spice, sweetener and beaten egg. Spoon the mixture into a lined 1lb loaf tin and bake for 1 1/4 hours, until cooked. Cool on a wire rack before serving, then cut into 12 slices (1ww point per slice)

taplady

Morning all!

Marri_Lou - your plan sounds fine to me - good OS food:T good luck!

Marion - your hash browns sound nice, I love hash browns so when I've been shopping I'll give them a go - be great with veggie sausages and egg:T

yesterdays food was ok - bit stressed due to a disagreement with DH but hopefully that is blowing over now.
yesterday

B - spaghetti on toast

S - banana

L - pasta n sauce(needed a quick meal)

S - ryvita goodness bar

D - SW wedges, peas and 1 frozen cheese and onion cake in breadcrumbs

S - muller lite
not enough of the 5 a day yesterday.

today

B - poached egg on toast

S - clementine

l - mushroom cous cous, salad and tinned mackerel

S - fruit - either grapes or banana

D - quorn chilli and rice

S - yoghurt

hope you all have a great day x

JoJoB

Well the last 2 days have not been good, largely because I drank both nights. Alcohol really doesn't do me much good and makes me crave rubbish food. And OH saw the waitrose meal deal thing was on so we got some yummy Gordon Ramsay chocs with that and a big pizza. Was nice, but have a hangover again and it's just ridiculous really.

So back on the wagon for me!

Today's plan:

Breakfast: banana, 2 poached eggs on potato waffle

Lunch: pasta

Dinner: veg and chickpea curry

suzid

Good morning all,:hello:

Congrats to all you fantastic losers, well done.

Had a good day yesterday with no unplanned nibbles. Today I plan to have;
Breakfast – 1 oatabix with wheat bran, half banana, grapes, dsp spoon of set yogurt, sprinkling of coconut with SS milk. Small glass of juice.
Lunch – boiled egg and mixed salad followed by whole grain yogurt.
Tea – HM steak pastie, mash, sprouts and mixed veg
Snack – Medjool date and snack pack of organic raisins

Marion your hash brown recipe sounds great will give it a go this weekend. Talking of recipies, I tend to use honey to sweeten things as I try and avoid all things manmade. This will sound barmy but I make scones with wholemeal flour, honey and dried fruit and it reminds me of mince pies . I even skip the baking powder and make a big round with the mixture then cut it like a cake. Looks like a round flat thing and is nice and chewy so I don’t need much of it to satisfy the munchies. Hardly any fat either .

Well off to start the dog walking day. Just printed out the tide times for the next 2 months to cut out the guess work. DD on hols for the next two weeks so hopefully will have some good walks with her and grandpup. Got quite exasperated with him yesterday as he’s like a four pawed hoover. When he had an x ray a couple of months ago he was sick and brought up a sock – that says it all!!!!:rotfl:

Have a great day all - Suz

ispartacus75

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

:hello: Everyone!

On the issue of Splenda - you replace it volume for volume so I weigh the required amount of sugar and then put it in a measuring jug to note the volume and then tip it back in the sugar jar and measure the same volume of Splenda. It works okay but doesn't always taste brilliant. What I have found is a new variety of Splenda called soft brown Splenda. It has the consistency of soft brown sugar but is twice as sweet. You just use half the weight of sugar as brown Splenda and it works really well. It is also lovely in hot milk or coffee as it gives the same taste as demerara sugar (sort of a bit toffee ish) Also do you know that you can get Splenda from approved foods for 40p a cannister or 3 for £1? http://www.approvedfoods.co.uk

I made my version of Marion's hash browns tonight and they were LOVELY. I just cubed some unpeeled potates and par boiled them and then spread them on a non-stick baking tray and sprayed with spray oil and sprinkled them with some dried onion (from Costco - it's fantastic stuff) and salt and put them in a really hot oven for about half an hour. We all had them for tea and they were great - the onion really added to the taste and went mega crispy!

Thanks for that. The price of the Splenda seems incredibly cheap. Would you use the brown suga Splenda as a replacement for caster sugar or stick to the white Splenda?

If its of any use Tesco Extra's sell dried fried onions in the world foods section.

Yesterday went well. Just one small change, I had my tuna rice instead of soup at lunch.

Today is another bit of an unknown as I am at my mums to build her a new cupboard. Though she is also trying to lose weight aswell so lunch should at least be easy on the body. Im not going to bother with breakfast coz its just too early. Might get something later at my mums. There is a pork joint in the slow cooker for tea with some SW roasties and steamed veg (I think they are SW roasties - sprayed with fri-lite and shoved in the oven?).

Dont know whether I will be on over the weekend. If Im not have a good weekend all and I will see you Monday with another weigh in.

retiredlady

Daily eating plan Good morning everyone - and yes it is raining again:mad: My morning walks are getting muddier every day and Charlie looks like a liquorice allsort - snow white on top and black on the bottom! Went to the chiropodist yesterday so am skipping about (I wish) with pain free tooties for the moment:j

On with my eating plan for the day - as usual its EE on SW

Breakfast - hot blueberry rice BC (breakfast concoction) (free)

Lunch - Leftovers from last nights dinner (carrots, broc, pasta, spicy pork) and perhaps the last of the celery soup as made a few days ago (all free)

Dinner - Sausage and mash with peas and yorkshire pud (6 syns,free,free,3 syns) and then later on will have some scan brans (heb) and yogurt or may do another rice BC. Milk in coffee will be my hea

Love
Marion

newlywed

Morning all,
Well done tappy on getting to goal (bit jealous as I want to be back at goal )

Hope your disagreement with OH sorts itself soon

I'm in a really good mood today, just found out I've won something worth about £300!!! First time I've won anything worth more than £15 so I'm plotting about selling it and buying new saucepans things Still can't quite believe it though!

So I'm in a good mood today - hopefully it will be payday too, as there's only just enough food for the weekend and after that it will get "interesting" :rolleyes:

Food today:
b: oats, syrup and raisins (left the nanas for step son's weekend breakfasts in case I'm not paid today)
l: HM leek and potato soup - my favourite
d: smoked salmon omelette using whatever veg I can find lurking

Snacks - none - unless I'm paid

recovering_spendaholic

ispartacus75 wrote: »

Thanks for that. The price of the Splenda seems incredibly cheap. Would you use the brown suga Splenda as a replacement for caster sugar or stick to the white Splenda?

If its of any use Tesco Extra's sell dried fried onions in the world foods section.

Yesterday went well. Just one small change, I had my tuna rice instead of soup at lunch.

Today is another bit of an unknown as I am at my mums to build her a new cupboard. Though she is also trying to lose weight aswell so lunch should at least be easy on the body. Im not going to bother with breakfast coz its just too early. Might get something later at my mums. There is a pork joint in the slow cooker for tea with some SW roasties and steamed veg (I think they are SW roasties - sprayed with fri-lite and shoved in the oven?).

Dont know whether I will be on over the weekend. If Im not have a good weekend all and I will see you Monday with another weigh in.

The Splenda will be at or just past its best before date on approved foods, as is all their stuff, but it is perfectly fine in a sealed tub!

The onions I get in Costco are just dried onions - I know the Tesco ones you mean but they are fried and although extremely yummy are full of fat!

I have just made some all bran mixed with chopped up banana and an Aldi optifit muesli yoghurt and am waiting for it to get nice a mushy!

Hope you have a good day everyone!