September's Schlankheitskur aka the 7 pound club

coffeeholic_2

tara747 wrote: »

Hi coffeeholic, oooh, lucky you going away on hols!! Where to (if I may be so nosy)?

Of course you may be nosy! I'm going to Corfu with OH and the in-laws :eek: :eek: :eek: and I'm still not packed, and the only bikini tankini things I can find I won't be able to get my kneecap in those cups never mind anything else :rotfl:

I am a bit stressed by the way

And I am supposed to be at work now

The_Dragon

coffeeholic wrote: »

Of course you may be nosy! I'm going to Corfu with OH and the in-laws :eek: :eek: :eek: and I'm still not packed, and the only bikini tankini things I can find I won't be able to get my kneecap in those cups never mind anything else :rotfl:

I am a bit stressed by the way

And I am supposed to be at work now

Corfu is lovely (and plenty of places to escape the outlaws!), good luck with the tankini hunt!

tara747

AdrianHi wrote: »

Are you on fruit and yoghurt for breakfast or has my memory failed me :rotfl:
I've found it much easier to avoid craving anything sugary by not having anything sugary at all, not even fruit (plenty of veg. for the vitamins though). OK I allow myself half a teaspoon of sugar in coffee but that's not too sweet. If I don't remind the taste buds what they are missing I find it easier to avoid.
May be try this out for a few days / a week to see if it works for you.

I am indeed AdrianHi, but I am trying to have a yogurt before leaving the house so I don't arrive at work starving. Interesting point about sugar, I'm pretty sure it is addictive.

lostinrates wrote: »

I do similar, but I do allow myself fruit. what I do always remember though is that the further from the equator the fruit is from than the less sugar its going to contain. An apple is a better diet choice than a mango. A mango though, when the treat food, is less ''sweet craving inducing'' than chocolate: so it would be my treat food.

I didn't realise this lostinrates!!! I always thought that bananas and grapes were the highest in calories, and you can grow grapes pretty far north. I mst eat more apples then - nice tangy Granny Smiths of course! :rotfl:

Thanks for the tips, both of you.

tara747

coffeeholic, oooh lovely! Boots have 75% off all adult swimwear at the mo, try there for your tankini (they have a lovely brown/cream zebra print one for £30 reduced to £9, it is gorge) xo

hethmar, don't question the 1lb loss, just enjoy the mystery of it!

tara747

I am off home shortly and WILL NOT be eating any chocolate this evening. No sir.

coffeeholic_2

I finally got my tankini at TJ Hughes, its not the most attractive looking thing I ever saw but it was only £6 and it keeps everything nicely tucked in.

Tara our Boots is only a smallish one so I doubt they would have had what I was after thanks though x

I have hardly eaten today, a couple of clementines for lunch and a diet coke, and a gallon of coffee but with all the rushing around I have done today I'm hoping I will have burned it all off.

Right, off to finish my packing, see you all in about 2 weeks
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lostinrates

I feel great, you no that eal when you newly commit to sorting yourself out? I have that.

Tara, stay busy tonight, whatabout some ironing, you can't eat while ironing. BTW there is a grape diet (I think its a crash diet where you eat nothing but grapes for 48 hours: crazy), and many diets featuring bananas(which are great after exercising, but bananas are from equator-ish regions, not really UK, so come in the treat fruit for me)

trudij

If you want some more ironing to do to keep you busy,Im happy for you to do mine too (in the interests of keeping you occupied).....

tara747

coffeeholic, well done on the tankini! Enjoy your hols.

lostinrates, I do know that feeling but haven't felt it in a while!!! I am inspired by you though, keep telling us about it and it might rub off. Thanks for the tips, I will do that.

trudij, thanks for the offer of the ironing (no, really), but I already have a mountain of the stuff to do

lostinrates

tara747 wrote: »

lostinrates, I do know that feeling but haven't felt it in a while!!! I am inspired by you though, keep telling us about it and it might rub off. Thanks for the tips, I will do that.

OK!

FWIW I felt a bit sugar deprived earlier (I was out and had forgotten the apple I usually cart with me just in case) and driving home I felt ravenous, but it just sort of ...wore off. I had ratatuille for supper (280ish calories , it was quite a large portion) and I'm trying to think of good things to eat over the weekend when dh is home.