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lostinrates

OK, I've planned for it, and I am going crazy tonight: I'm going to get some indian food. I have given myself a day to reflect on last night's almost supper, and I think I can justify curry (head cold!) and that I will choose carefully. I actually don't think I'll go for a normal diet option (e.g. tandoori/tikka) but some spinach (and drain the fat off) and a non cream based sauce curry with A LOT of heat, and just leave most of the sauce (which I always do anyway) because I want the heat medicinally. I have thought about this and if I were a habitual takeawayer I wouldn't do it, because I think it could be a slippery slope thing, but I'm not (in fact I feel a bit odd going to buy it myself, not sure I've ever done that, and the people at our local Indian always gve me free lager, sometimes just offering me one on the street....I have no idea why they think I'm a lager drinker, I find it slightly...upsetting, if sweet!)

A friend of my mother's commented today....(I still can't see it myself....). I'm told my rear end is smaller.

AdrianHi

I made room in my calorie budget for one of two Chinese takeaway's a month (and probably 2 or 3 Indian takeaways in the year) while loosing weight last year. You gotta live!
I avoided creamy sauce dishes too, I quite like a rogan josh but that might not be your idea of *HOT*
That's part of the point of our way of loosing weight, not making it anymore of a drag than it has to be. Enjoy, I'm sure you've earned it.:D

Over the Christmas break at a party I discovered my friend who is on some kind of vegatable shake diet is actually one of 3 women all doing it together. They are suffering... needlessly, but they are loosing weight (fast, too fast!). I wonder what state they will be in come next Christmas.

Alexnikov

Well done losers (we really need to come up with a new word for that don't we?)

lir - I hope you enjoy every mouthful of it You're doing so so well at the moment (still super impressed with you for ignoring the chip shop) and it sounds like you've chosen your options well to limit the cals. And hurrah for the shrinking bum!

posh - Biscuits are mandatory in that situation aren't they?

I'm off swimming again tonight. I seriously love swimming. It's such a joy to me that I don't feel mortified (much) in a swimming costume anymore because that's why I stopped going in the first place.

lostinrates

ROFL:

5.00 a very excited lost calls the Indian takeaway and gives her order, and drives over to collect it (they get it ready faster than I can drive there) gets home and plates up with yummy pieces of steaming chicken, some tandoori prawns they threw in because they know I love them and spinach and aubergine (in which I've dipped kitchen roll to soak up any extra fat that couldn't be poured off, why do they do that? None of my friends from those regions use so much fat in their homes!)....(putting the wretched lager in the fridge for DH) and greedily skip to the table.

All notion of eating slowly left ....gobble, gobble, then all of a sudden......full. So full I can't tell you. I look down at my plate, and half the food is still on it.


I have been calorie restricting seriously since I got ill, and before that with more success and less effort, but TBH there has often been a sense of unsatisfaction, and having to stop before I'm ''ready'' because of watching amounts, even when I was very slim. Since pubescance I've known that like my mother's side of the family I always had to go hungry to watch my figure: my appetite has never scaled down to my genetic needs, let alone my complications with health/''metabolism'' that came 7 years ago when I piled on the weight. So, perhaps my stomach is finally catching up with my brain. I still realised to late I was full, but I didn't almost clean the plate to get that way, over half is still on it: and not because I was being sensible...but despite be NOT being sensible.

Who'd have thought!? (what will I do with the left overs?)

xxvickixx

Over here LIR, you got me craving something hot now!
I was going to try the tofu for dinner but chickened out might rustle a chick pea or lentil curry up (low cal of course)

Amanita_2

lostinrates wrote: »

ROFL:
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All notion of eating slowly left ....gobble, gobble, then all of a sudden......full. So full I can't tell you. I look down at my plate, and half the food is still on it.

Well done!!!

I'm feeling a little hard done by. I was due to go to a breakfast meeting ( full English breakfast which is a real treat as I don't do them at home) but I double booked myself and had to cry off.

To make things worse I was also invited out to lunch - again I had to cancel . The only consolation is the chicken salad sandwich was probably about 2000 calories less than I would otherwise have eaten.

This deprivation had better show in the scales tomorrow is all I can say....

AdrianHi

lostinrates wrote: »

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All notion of eating slowly left ....gobble, gobble, then all of a sudden......full. So full I can't tell you. I look down at my plate, and half the food is still on it.

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I still realised to late I was full, but I didn't almost clean the plate to get that way, over half is still on it: and not because I was being sensible...but despite be NOT being sensible.

Who'd have thought!? (what will I do with the left overs?)

You've reminded me of Christmas and father-in-laws Christmas dinner portions with a, yes, insane amount of turkey and other food on the plate. I used to be able to eat it, this year I gave half the meat back, still couldn't eat all that was left and had to leave half (3) of the potatoes. Physically couldn't eat it.
Stomach must have shrunk. Bodes well for managing appetite going forward :T

coco1980

i was bad last night, we ended up having to get food in so it was pizza:eek: for tea, in my defence i didnt eat as much as usual, they had cut the slices on half of it very small and i took the smallest, in the gym tonight and im gonna attempt an extra 30 mins:j

Valentina2

Hi everyone,
Like some of you, I actually left some food on my plate yesterday too! I used to eat everything on my plate, even if I was full towards the end of the meal so I was proud of myself. I weighed myself this morning but I haven´t lost any more weight but I think it is due to hormonal water retention so I will leave weighing myself until the end of the month now and hopefully I´ll have lost some more.
If everything goes to plan, God willling, I should be debt free end April (been paying off debts for 5 years now) so I have decided that to celebrate becoming debt free, I am going to treat myself to a few new clothes and I am determined to be at least a dress size or two smaller than then.

mumofgirls_2

I lost another 3lbs this week.:j Really pleased DH thought something was wrong when he heard me shouting from behind bathroom door:rotfl:

Well done to everyone for keeping going even if you have not lost anything as it will happen. Next week could be a tough one for me so I am aiming to just lose a pound. Good luck guys!!!!