Fantastic, flabless February

poshstock66

Hi all :hello: happy Pancake day!

I'm over whatever it was I had, thank god! :j I am feeling a little bloated now though, so I think TOTM is around the corner ..............(How wonderful it is to be a woman sometimes, but I defo don't want to come back as a man!)

Anyway that said, managed to get into town this morning and weigh myself, but am a little disappointed as I stayed the same - but looking on the bright side I didn't gain!

Re the pancakes, I've had 2 small ones with a small scoop of strawberry ice cream on each for my lunch and nothing else, well..........only a drink!

TARA747 - I would like to join you in giving something up for lent, let me have a think and I'll get back to you...........think it's gonna be difficult to choose though when you feel like that you've given up nearly everything 'nice' anyway!! :rotfl:

Amanita_2

lostinrates wrote: »

I feel like I've been doing lent pretty continuously for a long time! .....I'm also toying with red meat...but a bit worried about iron...I can simply tke an iron supplement every day though.

Me too. I'll be avoiding the pancakes as well. Hospital visiting is a great aid to that - I'll be back home too late to want to bother.

As for the red meat issue, I haven't eaten it for over 25 years now and my iron levels are fine.

The vegetarian society has a factsheet for alternative sources.

I am not christian so Lent doesn't mean anything to me but I might just try to "improve" something in my life instead rather than give up something - perhaps make the effort to do some exercise.

lostinrates

Amanita wrote: »

Me too. I'll be avoiding the pancakes as well. Hospital visiting is a great aid to that - I'll be back home too late to want to bother.

As for the red meat issue, I haven't eaten it for over 25 years now and my iron levels are fine.

The vegetarian society has a factsheet for alternative sources.

I am not christian so Lent doesn't mean anything to me but I might just try to "improve" something in my life instead rather than give up something - perhaps make the effort to do some exercise.

Thanks! I'll take a look. I was briefly a vegetarian in teens, but I do have problems with iron levels, and personally have found them easier to keep up with some red meat in the diet, but I don';t eat a lot of red meat, and I'm sure in the short term at least dietary adjustment and supplementation would be perfectly fine.
Off to read the fact sheet now!

CompletelyLost

I wish I was able to give up red meat. We must eat it 2-3 times per week (we often have roast beef, or beef mince)... I have tried giving it up in the past, but iron supplements make me feel nauseous.

Well this morn (when I say morning, what I mean is midday ) I've had two slices of 50/50 bread toasted with butter. I don't eat butter any other time so this is allowed.

I'm not sure what's for tea tonight, but given that my appetite is pretty much non-existent, it'll probably be something light like fishfingers and cauliflower cheese.

lostinrates

CompletelyLost wrote: »

I wish I was able to give up red meat. We must eat it 2-3 times per week (we often have roast beef, or beef mince)... I have tried giving it up in the past, but iron supplements make me feel nauseous.

Well this morn (when I say morning, what I mean is midday ) I've had two slices of 50/50 bread toasted with butter. I don't eat butter any other time so this is allowed.

I'm not sure what's for tea tonight, but given that my appetite is pretty much non-existent, it'll probably be something light like fishfingers and cauliflower cheese.

TBH, I don't think you'd need iron supplements if you ate red meat say once a week. I now lots of vegetarians who take no iron supplements and seem ok...I just wasn't one of them.. for me it mad me examine what I believed and an initial career on large animal welfare research..and a love of meat, bu a determination to eat it rarely and of the best source possible.:o

lostinrates

Oh, d'uh, meant to say today that yesterdays veg juice was divine....it really filled a craving gap. Today I fancy fish, so rushed a=out and bought some....I'm trying hard to listen to my body. Fish is a fear zone/weak spot in my cooking, and I stick to recipes and methods I know and trust, but tonight I'm trying haddock in a foil parcel in the oven. I'm going to try hard not to hyperventilate about timings (I never seem to get fish right in a foil parcel, when I check first its undercooked and then I overcook it....)

coco1980

Hi guys just to say I found a pancake recipe where you use half plain flour and half wholemeal, also replace white sugar with brown and only use the egg white, I dont have the recipe as im at work but they are really yummy and healthy:o
for Lent I think I'm gonna try and instead of giving something up I will try and eat more fruit and veg everyday and hopefully the habit will stick:D

I just find if I deprive myself I will want it even more

lostinrates

coco1980 wrote: »

for Lent I think I'm gonna try and instead of giving something up I will try and eat more fruit and veg everyday and hopefully the habit will stick:D

I just find if I deprive myself I will want it even more

Good plan. Why not try and actually target the five a day...a definite number o portions might help you achieve it? Good luck!

AdrianHi

50g of Oats = 67% RDA of iron.
Plenty of iron about without the red meat http://www.vrg.org/nutrition/iron.htm

I've been feeling good on the 50g+ of porridge a day I've been having. Red meat once or twice a week too.

AdrianHi

poshstock66 wrote: »

How wonderful it is to be a woman sometimes, but I defo don't want to come back as a man!)

Then you can experience "man-flu" and tell all the girls we weren't kidding after all :rotfl: