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

floyd

Thought I'd put in tomorrows plan because it's another 12 hour lab-day tomorrow so probably won't be on much

B: Porridge made with skimmed milk and fresh blackcurrants

L: Bulgar wheat with roasted beetroot, cucumber, red onion and mint

Chickpea curry with brown rice

S: apple, pear, cherries (or none of them if I don't fancy them)

murphydog999

Hi Floyd, I can't really comment on specific questions because I don't know your details, but
1, you may not be eating enough - yes I did say, enough!
2, your protein (complete) is non-existent in today's menu. Protein will fill you up and with carbs it will help with the afternoon tired feeling.
3, just toast in the morning is not really enough, porridge is def. better.
4, can you break out of your lab a couple of hours after lunch and go for a walk? 10-15 minutes, it will re-fire you. If not, a couple of times through the day, find somewhere to do some stretches for 5 minutes.
5, you haven't mentioned fluids. Layoff tea and coffee in the afternoon and drink water.
Hope that helps.
As for the snack, add some seeds (sunflower etc) with the fruit.

mlz1413

Hi to the newbies, Murphy & Esther

Murphy - Re eating more at lunch time I used to do this when I worked for a large corporation that had a cheap canteen. But I just went home and ate too much at night, I'd either have a sandwich and then snack after 10pm or cook something and eat another main meal. I put on about a stone in weight.

Although I agree it is the 'perfect way to eat', it works for some people and not others.

Today:

B: 2 x Toast with spread & honey
S: none, it was lunch time when I felt hungry
L: tuna & sweetcorn sandwich & apple
S: yogurt with some tinned peach pieces
Chicken probably in a thai curry with peppers & mushrooms

I don't tend to note my drinks as I have so little milk in the 2 cups of tea I drink a day that it bearly registers on the calorie count. Otherwise I drink water as the machine at work is free.
At home I try and drink flavoured waters & herbal teas (unless I go whole hog for the alcoholic thirst quenchers).


Esther re exercising with ME try and do a little / tiny bit a day, simple things like hoovering are exercise, Arm lifts with a tin of beans, a walk to bottom of garden hanging out washing and walking back etc all help.

Phoolgrrrl

Is any one else doing weight watchers and old style living? I have been and it seems to work quite well. Think my OS cooking from scratch ways and soup making have helped!

Pink.

Hi Phoolgrrrl,

We have a thread for people who are incorporate weight into their Old Style lifestyles.

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

And this thread from the Health and Beauty board is specifically for those following weight watchers:

Weight Watchers Support Thread 2010 and Beyond !

I'll add your thread to the first link later where you will get lots of support. Good luck with your weight loss.

Pink

Phoolgrrrl

Thanks pink-winged.

murphydog999

Miz, I think you misunderstand. I didn't say eat more at lunchtime, I said try eating more at breakfast, and cutting down on the heavy carbs at night, or have them at lunchtime. You are right though eating small, frequent meals is difficult, depending on your lifestyle; but if you have a protein based lunch, and a snack a couple of hours before dinner you should be able to eat less of an evening.

Loading the calories at the start of the day, like the saying 'breakfast like a king, lunch like a queen, dine like a pauper' has it's benefits.

sams247

Well, I guess I'd better shift my hefty hide and face up to the fact that I need to get healthy, so may I join in please?

I have been on more diets than books printed about them, have see-sawed in weight and have many excuses as to 'why I can't'. But, I started many years ago at 13st and said to myself - I do not want to be this heavy, padded down to WW and from that day to this......... well, I am now 20 stone. And my job is sitting all day, and my nurse tells me to get healthy soon or face type 2 diabetes. So, sitting eating a bar of chocolate for comfort, I decided I had better do something. That was amonth ago, my how the time plies. But here I am. I am hopeful rather than determined, and am going to try and be realistic (and honest). I know I'll do better with support than on my own. So hello all....

Two things - I also used to have ME and put on masses of weight at that time, it is very hard to exercise I know, and one of my (irrational) fears about exercise now is I hate getting over tired as it reminds me of the ME days. Logic says don't be daft, but mind says, rest, rest

And..... my partner is a 'feeder'. Anyone else have this? Bless them, no matter what diet I've been on, they buy me treats, and rewards, and chocolate to help me, and bake puddings and comforting cualiflower cheeses when I've had a down day, and sticky toffee puds for that late night supper with a DVD. It's a great and disasterous arrangement all at once.

I plan to weigh only once a month, to eat more healthily and to glean as much information as I can from you all

EstherH

Thanks Miz1413, I do manage moderate things like hanging the washing out and some days can walk further than others, some days need a wheelchair. Any type of repetitive exercise is exhausting though, even reaching out to move books off a shelf or sorting through clothes on a rail, so you can see the problem. However, not to dwell on what I can't do, I just wanted to find a way of speeding up my metabolism a little hence the eating six times a day. Maybe I still need to cut down a bit on the evening meal.

murphydog999

EstherH wrote: »

I just wanted to find a way of speeding up my metabolism a little hence the eating six times a day.

Esther, hot spicy foods (proven) and green and white tea - but depends on quantity.

What, when and how much you eat will be a fine balance for you, but you are doing the right thing by eating smaller portions more often, that way the body can cope without having excess calories and storing them as fat. I would suggest though, if you are worried, that you have your body composition and diet assessed.

Murph