Lose Weight 24

x_raphael_xx

Thank you all for your messages (and the flowers are lovely granny) I've just gotten in from an 18 mile walk and just reading posts before heading off for my birthday meal. We left the house at 10.15 and got back in at 5.30, I am shattered!! I feel I deserve this meal now!
My birthday meal main will be free (going to Old Orleans) so I'm going to have a tuna steak. I've always wanted to try one and at £12.50 I wouldn't have bothered before, but for free...:D it comes with salad and spring onion risotto so I'll balance out the healthy main with an unhealthy and cheesey starter

Poor poochie has had her legs walked off so is snoozing on the sofa, C was wearing her pedomiter and clocked up over 26000 steps! :eek: I'll sleep well tonight!

Annie021063 wrote: »

Raphael - you look fantastic now - what were/are your weights?

I was 17 stone at my heaviest, at my last Weigh in I was 11 st 10 (my next WI is tomorrow!)

fitorbust wrote: »

Raph - can I join in with the others to say how fab you look (you looked nice before but you seem to have an inner glow now) - I know you are in love but you can see how happy you are!

I am so much happier in everything now, my best friend keeps telling me I am glowing now too. I am almost debt free and almost at my target weight so I guess it's because I've less weight on my shoulders (excuse the pun) and I'm so much more at ease with my life and less stressed.

victory

mazza1985 wrote: »

You know, I feel so relieved, I thought I was going mad!

I've been eating natural yoghurt when I feel actuall hunger- but I am still craving sugar! At least I know it will probably get easier with time.

I think that I will have to go cold turkey too, I can't eat just 1 or 2 squares of chocolate, it always ends up one or 2 bars!

Im gonna stack up on brown pasta and the such I think. I have been planning my meals. For example, today I had special k (not the best I know but Im working on it!) for breakfast today, then vegetarian raveoli on wholemeal toast, for a snack this afternoon I had yoghurt with honey and banana, and for tea I am having baby potatoes, with some veg and gravey. So I've made sure I've got healthier food in the house, but my fella is a postman and eats like a horse (which is why Im now a size 14 and trying to change that) and so there is so much rubbish in the house! THAT is what I'm going to find tough!

It is just as easy to have ready sliced cucumbers, peppers and baby tomatoes as a snack in the fridge. easy pickings as I call them as to grab a choc bar, the cals are a lot less, getting you to target a lot quicker, they are healthier, much better for you, rice cakes, snack a jacks, sugar free jelly is def my saviour for hunger, no added sugar angel delightchoc flavour is a winner and helps with the sugar cravings, dark 70% or even 85% if you can handle it as it is very tart, green and blacks dark choc you only need a few squares and you get the hit you need, whether he eats like a horse or not, put it away keep it away, let him have it on his rounds or in another lockable area of the house or whatever it takes, you are the most important person, treat yourself as your best friend, a best friend would want you lovely and lsim and happy relaxed, healthy energetic, full of life with plenty of exercise, drinking plenty of water and loving the journey from here to target...:D

porridge for breakfast keeps you full until lunch time better than special K,there does not seem to be any protein in your dinner?

funkyfunkymonkey

victory wrote: »

dark 70% or even 85% if you can handle it as it is very tart, green and blacks dark choc you only need a few squares and you get the hit you need

Good advice, but I got through a whole bar of G&B dark just before Christmas - made me feel incredibly sick - but it didn't make me stop . I did stop once the bar was gone .

So, do as I say, not as I do.

FFM

mazza1985

victory wrote: »

there does not seem to be any protein in your dinner?

Sorry! I realised reading back, I also had a quorn burger for dinner! I've been veggie for 18 years now!

I absolutely love dark chocolate! So maybe this will be the way to go? I always do seem to eat less of it as well! And chocolate angel delight? maybe this wont be so bad after all!

fitorbust

Sadly dark chocolate gives me the most awful headache even if I only eat 2 or 3 squares (as if!).... I find that baby plum tomatoes are too high in sugar for me too so try them and see how you feel.
Just had the mutton done slowly in stock with garlic, carrots and shallots - it was absolutely gorgeous. I never thought I would like it but has a deeper flavour but isn't too gamey at all! Managed to leave some for tomorrow too!
L x

vixarooni

Happy Birthday Raph! Hope you had a lovelly day

Happy new year everyone - forgive me for not reading from page 7 to 20 but it would take me a loooong time.

New year in brighton was fab, nice drive west, then we went shopping and the place was heaving! came back, checked into the travelodge and then fell asleep for a bit watching sister act! got ready and had a nice meal in donnatellos, then we went to a pub which was ok, but the losers got the time wrong so we celebrated to make ourselves look normal, then 5 mins later did our own version. Then we walked down to the sea front to watch people nearly kill themselves letting off fireworks on the beach, and that was the best bit! then next morning we went on the pier, had lunch and drove home.
ooh and matt won £100 so it paid for itself too

then today i drove to stanstead and back to pick up my brother. Had to do a motorway journey on my own for the first time! i managed it ok.

hope everyone had a nice new years, so many newbies im lost! All those resolutions being made i see!

vixarooni

wow, just noticed your pics raph on page one. Blimey. You've gone from looking in your forties to mid twenties!! and your boobs!!!! theyre half the size. Obviously good for you, and the lady in your life. More than a handful is a waste as i constantly tell myself every day

you wearing a 32 back on your bras raph?

tagz

Happy Birthday Raph!!!!

:bdaycake:

And blooming heck Raph! You look amazing!

nmm

No HHE tonight i'm shocked :eek: Only joking, i guess people have got work/school etc tomorrow, or have the HHE's killed you all off, am i alone now :rotfl:

funkyfunkymonkey

Spot on with your deduction nmm, getting stuff ready for school tomorrow - last minute homework - you know!!!

And, yes, my calfs are killing me :eek: , I don't know how I managed to drag the dog around our circuit today - it was murder - not sure if it was the Wii jogging, RC toning or previous dog walking that caused it - but I struggled round :A

Not sure if I will be around for the HHE tomorrow night - a work colleague was talking about a kick boxing free trial at a local school - could be a laugh and it is free :money: . I'll let you know if I go, if not HHE here I come 7.30/8pm ish if I don't go out.

Have a good day tomorrow.

FFM