Weight Loss the Old Style Way! Part 7. Please read posts 1 and 2 before posting.

meanmarie

Hi all,

Today I have eaten:

B....3 slices brown bread with butter and gooseberry jam, tea;

D....Steak, mushrooms, onions, baked beans, potatoes, butter, mixed fruit sponge and custard, tea;

Sn...2 spicy fairy cakes, tea.

Not great on 5 a day side....must do better, must do better, must do better...

Marie

mlz1413

I've bought some new digital scales and so weighed the marg & topping on my toast to be utterly amazed at just how many calories I was clocking up :eek:

B: 2 toast & spread + 1 with honey, other peanut butter 450 cals!!
S: none, busy at work
L: wrap with chicken mayo & salad
S: Low Fat crisps
prob pasta with something.

Yesterday was:
B: 2 toast with same as today
S: banana
L: last of left over mossakka
S: L/F crisps
mackeral, pots & 2 green veg
total calories for day 1500 which I was really please with.

Then..... went to pub for 1 glass of wine and ended up meeting friends we had seen in ages, 3 glasses of wine later I arrived home and raided the fridge


Welcome otterspasm & tess!

Keiss_21

Well folks, I'm back!

I have decided it's about time I took myself in hand (again!) and try and shift this weight, or at least some of it.

Like Vixtress, I lost 3 stone last year...but mainly due to illness. I managed to keep it all off for a while, but I have now gained a stone back..:mad:

Just back from my hols in Scotland...and thought I had lost 4 pounds (after weighing yesterday morning)...but weighed in today and that weight has gone back on!! :eek: Think I will stick with today's weight, so if I do manage to lose some by next Monday, it will look good!!

Been very busy, getting back to work in March after being off for 15 months. Then broke my toe in April, which curbed the walk-more plans!

Now I really MUST eat less and do more (exercise)...it's the only way to go for me. Sounds easy doesn't it!!!

Food for today@

B: 2 weetabix, soya milk, 1/2 tsp sugar + OJ
S: Handfull of dried apricots
3 ryvita crackerbreads with v low fat cream cheese (Tesco), sliced toms; banana
S: Fat-free HM fruit loaf
T: Poached salmon, noodles and veg, probably HG B beans and local carrots
S: fruit or a bun if I have been baking

Exercise....not sure...walk the dog?/do some RC exercises? We'll see !

Plan on making a two-week meal plan this afternoon/evening, hoping to save £s as well as lbs!!

mlz1413

Hello again Keiss, hope the toe is better & lots of will power to you.


I had a lovely pasta dish last night with garlic, chilli, mushrooms and an olive pesto very yummy.

Today:
B: 2 toast, spread & peanut butter 400 cals
L: chicken mayo & salad wrap + fruit drink - 550 ish
lamp chops, pots, b/beans & cabbage

murphydog999

Hi,
I am a fairly new MSE convert and have just come across this thread. I am a certified Nutrition and Weight Management advisor and also a Fitness Instructor, may I give you a few tips? I apologise if they have been covered before or are common sense to some of you.

Firstly, regular exercise is the key to weight loss - let alone health - you will not be able to maintain any loss/weight without somehow burning excess calories.

Don't think of dieting, just think healthy eating. As soon as you think 'diet,' give it a few days and you will start craving. Forget 'fad' / celebrity, they are devised to make money, they will do nothing for you in the long term.

A previous poster got it right about grazing. Listen to your body, if you are hungry you are not eating enough, apart from this, if you don't eat regularly your metabolism slows, so if you think by not eating anything you will loose weight, you are not doing yourself any favours, in fact, fat weight (which is really the only weight we should be losing) will not budge, you will be losing water and lean mass - which is not a good idea.

Make sure you have a really good breakfast. 1/3 of your calories should be at breakfast - put fruit/dry fruit and plain low-fat greek-style yogurt with your milk and cereal, change from white bread (no nutritional value/high GI) and have a couple of slices of stoneground wholemeal/seeded/granary bread instead with stewed fruit instead of sugar laden jam. Filling, and full of vitamins and fibre.

Make sure you drink enough water throughout the day. How many of you drink 2 ltrs of water a day? If you don't drink enough your body will retain it for it's own uses - and it uses a lot. Women can store from 1-10lbs of water - caffeine, fizzy drinks, chocolate, amongst others will all make you retain water, so extra is needed if you take any of those in quantity.

My last tip is to limit heavy carbs at dinner. That means cutting down on pasta, white bread, rice and potatoes (esp. mash). Have them for lunch, and then you have the chance to work them off later in the day, in the evening (unless you are working out after) they are big calorie brutes that get processed pretty quickly due to their med/high GI levels, and you will feel hungry again fairly quickly.

Hope that helps.

Murph.

EstherH

Hi, I too have just found this thread. No time to read through it all yet so just first and last page. I've been trying to lose weight by eating 6 small meals/snacks a day. Can't exercise as have M.E. this makes it hard to lose as last poster said, but in the past I have always managed by counting calories and sticking to 1500 a day. But I can't motivate myself to do this again and thought I would try to stick to (mainly) healthy eating although have slipped a bit. Todays tea, small portion of home made pie, so not brilliant, but could have been worse. Lots of veg in it and with it, and home baked wedges too.

Rest of day something like this:

B: Small bowl cerial
S: Two pieces of fruit/Veg
L: Soup or cous cous and salmon
S: Grapes and couple of spoons yoghurt.
As above but could be pasta or rice with stir fry veg and chicken or gammon
S: Small bowl cerial or strawberries and yoghurt.

I just don't seem to be losing though and am thinking I need to go back to the calorie counting.

Keiss_21

Thanks for you comments and good wishes. The toe is fine, though the new crumpled nail is still a mess!!

I agree about eating healthier and taking regular exercise...making it part of your life means you are less likely to give up/fail in losing weight.

I know when we got our dog (a rescue 11 month-old retriever), I walked her twice a day, without changing my eating habits...and lost a stone in a month easily!!

I know I just have to get a routine that fits in easily with the rest of my life, then I am off!!

I hope to get back to swimming ...which means early mornings, which will do me the world of good!!

I did some exercise last night and coped well with it, so plan on doing it again tonight, at least I am getting started, albeit slowly. I have a bad back so have to take things gently.

Will be walking the dog tomorrow...DS1 is doing it today. Ds2 has hurt hs leg today...hope it's nothing serious...seeing physio Friday.

Right, off to make tea....quiche for the rest of the family, poached egg on toast for me ...with lots of veg!! Rhubarb crumble for afters....yum!!...With a bit of ice-cream rather than custard methinks.

floyd

Thanks for all the info Murph, very useful

I'm doing OK this week but this evening is testing me to my limits, still stuck in work knowing full well that OH has dinner ready to go when I eventually leave work but I'm bored, hungry and starting to pick at things here in the office

B: 2 wholemeal toast with HM blackcurrant jam

L: HM scouse

Wholemeal spaghetti matriciana with a huge side salad and a piece of HM focaccia

S: Small skinny latte, a pear and some strawberries

Also just had 2 crackerbread with cream cheese on to take the edge off my hunger

Hoping to get out and do some more mountainbiking this weekend and get the blood flowing as working 13-14 hour days isnt really conducive to me doing exercise during the week

murphydog999

floyd wrote: »

Thanks for all the info Murph, very useful

but I'm bored, hungry and starting to pick at things here in the office

B: 2 wholemeal toast with HM blackcurrant jam

L: HM scouse

Floyd, whatever is homemade scouse? If you are having lunch at usual time and nothing 'til you get home, of course you are going to be hungry.

How come there are things in the office that you can pick at?

I recommend to people would don't have ideal schedules and maybe cannot access decent food during the day to weigh out bags of dried fruit (check that there is no sugar added) and mixed nuts (unsalted, dry roasted), 40gs each. You can keep them in your hand-bag/desk/car and you know you have something to
1, keep up your blood sugar levels, and stop you craving sweet things,
2, provide you with vitamins and minerals,
3, increase your fibre intake, which will also make you drink more water,
4, give you something healthy to pick on during the day.
If this can be combined with a glass of skimmed/s.skimmed milk it is a very healthy snack. Just go easy on the walnuts, pecans and macadamias as they have more saturated fat than the rest.

floyd

Scouse is a stew made with lean beef (although traditionally it was fatty lamb), potatoes, carrots and onions. It's a Liverpudlian version of Irish stew.

The stuff in the office is actually pretty good but I just end up eating too much of it. I had fresh pears, apples and strawberries in the fridge and oatcakes and porridge oats in my drawer but I just eat too many of them.

I have tried having carbs at lunchtime and not the evening but I fall asleep, even if I stick with low GI wholegrains and pulses, my colleagues think it's hilarious as they can tell what I've had for lunch based on how drowsy I get in the afternoon.

My usual meal times are:

7.30am wholegrain toast, no butter and home made jam or cottage cheese

10.30am apple or pear

12.00 lunch of vegetable chilli and tiny amounts of brown rice or some sort of veggie stew with beans

3.00pm soft fruit or yoghurt

6.00pm evening meal varies from roast meat and steamed veg to wholemeal pasta and veg sauce

I am quite strict about portion control and calories in < calories used but I'm constantly tired and my hair is dropping out but blood tests show I'm perfectly healthy, any tips?
I don't eat nuts as they give me wild acid reflux so what else makes a good snack to stop the mid-afternoon comatose feeling?