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

taplady

Morning all!

Vixtress - have you got a slow cooker? they are great for having a hot meal ready when you come home , there is a whole load of recipes on the slowcooker thread. well done on STS:T

am off to work all weekend with an 11 hour shift today but am prepared food wise.

B - poached egg on toast

S - banana

L - dark rye ryvita(4) with laughing cow light cheese and salad and grapes

S - fruit of some sort - probably clementines

D - its cheese and potato pie on the menu at work so I'll have that with 2 glamorgan sausages and some brown sauce.One of the yummy choccy and vanilla mullerlites for pudd.

Thats it for now, I'll pop in and see how you're doing over the weekend x

frogga

Morning Guys ~ Happy Saturday

Just a quickie to say hi and let you know the cat still hasn't got me ( although he's had a good go :eek: )

Actually managed to make it through a whole week without bingeing :j Quite pleased. Really want to jump on the scales for a peek but I'm not gonna. I'm waiting til the 8 weeks is up and then I'll see how I did. I just know if it doesn't say I've lost 8st I'll be really cross and start bingeing again :mad: So it's best not to hop on in the first place

Had a terrible head last night so I went to bed at 6.30. It's still there a bit this morning but I'm trying to ignore it.

Have a good weeend everyone. Wouldn't it be nice if I could come back in one weeks time and say I'm still on track? Guess I'm in charge of the outcome

vixtress

thanks taplady and have a good day at work

yes i do have a slowcooker, i need to get into the habit of using it more. dont now what i do wrong with it but (please dont shoot me for saying this) i always think food tastes really overcooked in it. i somtimes do a morrocan chiken dish in it and thats ok but thats really been my only sucess.

think i might have to just bite the bullet and get used to it, it does seem a very sensible option. especially since im not a big fan of soup (this seems to be the other dieter's friend)

have a good day all
vix

ShelBell

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

What is the Sedona method?

http://www.sedona.com/ its a couple of different methods of mastering 'letting go'. The book explains it far better than I can

suzid

Good morning all,
Well done fantastic losers and STS's :T . So many of you are inspirational, coping with so many physical problems yet still managing to lose the pounds.

Just to let you know I'm still sticking to the straight and narrow. No snow here but the mountains look beautiful. Cold though so I've been trying to get up the motivation to start the days dog walking.

I've mentioned this before but having read so many of you suffer from IBS I wonder if any of you have the same problem as DS4. He started getting awful cramps and the runs which we finally pinpointed to coffee. I bought some decaf for him to try and amazingly he's fine, no more cramps, why??? He's fine with tea which contains cafeine, very odd.

I've started on me life memories on the new laptop and have a horrible feeling it's going to take over my life. I'm thinking about my early memories all the time and the time flies and I forget about food . However after an awful nights sleep I ordered myself not to do any more writing yesterday. My mum commited suicide in 1960 when it was still illegal and I'd tried to get a copy of the coroners report as I never knew if she'd left a note. They phoned yesterday to say all records were destroyed after 15 years. I almost cried, I hadn't realised how deeply it still effected me. I always had a feeling everything was hushed up in the family and now there's no one left to ask. This reinforces my resolve to get on and write all I can remember for future generations, if any of them are interested that is . Still it's supposed to be very cathartic, or so Paul O'Grady says, if you like having your emotions put through a mangle, that is :eek: .

Hope the cloud has stayed away Marie, I think of it as being in a dungeon when it hits me. Very melodramatic, typical! :rolleyes:

Have a good day all, Suz

recovering_spendaholic

vixtress wrote: »

thanks taplady and have a good day at work

yes i do have a slowcooker, i need to get into the habit of using it more. dont now what i do wrong with it but (please dont shoot me for saying this) i always think food tastes really overcooked in it. i somtimes do a morrocan chiken dish in it and thats ok but thats really been my only sucess.

think i might have to just bite the bullet and get used to it, it does seem a very sensible option. especially since im not a big fan of soup (this seems to be the other dieter's friend)

have a good day all
vix

I totally agree with you about the slow cooker - I think everything has a sort of "samey" taste in it too, so I very rarely use mine.

I am not the best one to give advice as I am all over the place with my eating alot of the time, but when I do have my sensible head on I batch cook things like mashed carrot and swede. I love this but cannot often be bothered to make it because of all the peeling and chopping etc. IF I am freezing it I stir in a couple of tablespoons of dried potato flakes (siansburys basics are best IMO) into the freshly mashed C&S in the pan, before decanting it into tubbits type containers and freezing it. I just take it out a couple hours before microwaving it although on occasion I have microwaved it from frozen on a lower power. It's great with a chicken portion, a stuffing ball and some mushy peas and gravy - sort of like a roast dinner!

I also make a broccolli bake which freezes well. I just blanch some broccolli in boiling salted water and then drain it and put it in a casserole dish. Then I make a tomato sauce with passata, a pinch of sugar or sweetner, dried onions, salt and pepper and pour this over the broccolli. Then I make up a sachet of Colman's cheddar cheese sauce ( I know its not strictly from scratch but it has loads less calories than making traditional cheese sauce) and pour this over the tomato and broccolli. I top it with some fresh breadcrumbs mixed with parmesan and salt and pepper and bake it for 30 minutes in a hot oven. I just portion it up and freeze and microwave it when I want some. It's nice with roast chicken or as a jacket potato topping.

I have been good today (so far so good....) and had some sugar free alpen with a banana and skimmed milk for breakfast and I have just had a big salad with home cooked ham, tomatoes, baby spinach, three bean salad, low cal coleslaw and cottage cheese for lunch - it was yummy!

Don't know about tea yet - I have ingredients for a stir fry but TBH I don't really like it so.....

procrastinator

Hello
I am sittinghere in my pj's reading all the lovely inspirational posts on here. Wish I had something to add. Out this eve so friends making dinner. I need to get out and buy something for pud, needs to be fruit based but no idea what. Feel very down. Want to go back to bed. Not eaten yet cos if I go into kitchen will not stop.

purpleorc

vixtress Taking a new post is always stressful and often things go out of the window at times like these. Firstly don't beat yourself up you have done your best at difficult times juggling different balls in the air is really hard going. Take things steady that is how I eased myself into my healthy ways rather than trying to do it all at once. Add a new thing each week maybe like batch cook once a week. Change from white bread to wholemeal etc until you gradually get to grips with everything that is going on in your life. If I had not eased myself into it I think I would have given up so quickly.

I do the meals in batch that you mention but I put finely chopped vegetables into those as well it cuts down on the amount of meat for one and secondly gets in those all important vegetables into our diets.

Other dishes I cook in batches are soups different varieties of homemade if you own a blender you can blitz down all sorts of vegetables and get hide them . Curry meat and vegetable variety. Then chili again a vegetarian one with beans or a meat one. Sweet and sour is another dish that you can make extra and freezes nicely for another day. If I think of anything else I will let you know my brain seems to have gone blank :eek:

retiredlady

procrastinator wrote: »

Hello
I am sittinghere in my pj's reading all the lovely inspirational posts on here. Wish I had something to add. Out this eve so friends making dinner. I need to get out and buy something for pud, needs to be fruit based but no idea what. Feel very down. Want to go back to bed. Not eaten yet cos if I go into kitchen will not stop.

Sorry procrastinator, I have just signed on and seen your message. Are you feeling any better yet:grouphug:?

Marion

recovering_spendaholic

procrastinator wrote: »

Hello
I am sittinghere in my pj's reading all the lovely inspirational posts on here. Wish I had something to add. Out this eve so friends making dinner. I need to get out and buy something for pud, needs to be fruit based but no idea what. Feel very down. Want to go back to bed. Not eaten yet cos if I go into kitchen will not stop.

Sorry you are feeling so down - I know how mood affects what we eat - if I am fed up then I can eat and eat and eat. If you are going to take something for pudding tonight could you make some sort of fruit salad or fruit jelly? I can't really advise you on the not eating front because I do that all the time - but it usually backfires on me because I get so hungry I overeat and then get the "I've blown it so I might as well really go to town" feeling, which leads to me being even more fed up and so the circle continues. Purpleorc - your advice is wonderful - you sound to have really cracked the weight loss thing. Can I ask - have you lost all your weight with diet or have you had weight loss surgery to assist you?