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

adelight

Can I post here if i'm sliiightly following a diet plan? Strictly hm food and free exercise though!

b: porridge
l: souffle omlette w/cottage cheese
s: smoked mackerel
d: roast chicken w/broccoli & roast peppers

God knows how I managed to cook roast spuds, parsnips and stuffing for OH but resist the lot
Going to make a little strawberry mouse(jelly whisked with fromage frais) later yummmm

nickynoo08

Welcome littletinygem and adelight:wave:

Whoop whoop. I had my wi this morn and i've lost 3lb:j

Today i've planned.....

B - cereal and cuppa 300cals
L - 2granary bread and poached egg plus satsuma and cuppa 300cals
T - chips (small portion),be good to yourself chicken kiev and veg - 550cals
S - alpen light 65cals

So thats 1215cals accounted for and 285cals left.

Hope everyone has a good day and wrap up warm its freeeezzzing out there:snow_grin

JulieGeorgiana

I just noticed this thread... I've been doing weight loss the OS way for a long time now....

I have lost over 6 stone, and still generally loose weight, slow and stead.

What I deem to be OS is no diet at all, no worrying about weight, no Kcal counting!

I cook from scratch, and I eat on small plates. I eat until I am full, and I eat what I want when I am hungry. I recognise when I am bored and go for a walk!

I eat dessert, or cheese and cracker whenever I feel like it.

I've lost 12inc of my theighs, and more off my waist!!!

I have got from a 48C to a 40G!

I don;t care if my body is not perfect, if I have lines, or love handles!

I am me, and I will eat well (not what is considered healthy, but hearty HM Foods) and I will eat whenever I am hungry and I deny myself nothing....

Most people are scared of this due to advertisment telling us this is bad for us... yet i've lost over 6 stone...!

And it's staying off.... because this has been a 2 year journey, and if it had been a fad... I would be fat again!

mlz1413

Hello and welcome littletinygem, adelight and JulieGeorgiana.
so good to see new posts!

nickynoo well done on 3lb loss.

juliegeorgiana I have eaten what I wanted and ended up 2 stones overweight! I agree different diets / eating styles suit us all as we are all different. You have come a long way and the fact you now enjoy cooking from scratch must have made a huge difference to your lifestyle. May it long continue.

Well my last 7 days has consisted of:
xmas 3 course meal, a curry, a roast, 2 course xmas lunch and last night my works xmas 3 course dinner! which only left 2 'normal' nights and one of them I didn't eat until 9.30pm. oh and I've been on the wine / alcohol every night....
adelight your bad has nothing on this!

So was really pleased to have only put on 2lbs.
Have a normal weekend and week planned so next pig out will be xmas, when quite frankly I don't give a stuff what I eat (til I can't do my trousers up;)).

Will keep the exercise up and hopefully that will balance out the excesses.

Good luck to you all during this season of excess!

Boodle

Welcome everyone

Last night I had a slice of toast with spread + a 30g chocolate crisp bar with a cuppa - twas all lovely

Yesterday's exercise was walking up to work and back.
Today's exercise was/will be walking back and forth to pre-school with buggy. Must get butt in gear and get back to sit-ups as thats my main area to work on and they make such as difference to my tum within a month.

Today:
B: Branflakes with rice milk + tea with rice milk
L: About to have leftover couscous with mixed bean salad + some extra olives and probably cashews too for some crunch.
T: Will probably have an earl grey with one of DD's fairy cakes when they have theirs.
Think it will be nut cutlet with mashed potato and mushy peas.

Dessert/snack will be the last pear in the fruit bowl (now that's sad ) and earl grey with rice milk or black coffee.

JulieGeorgiana

mlz1413 wrote: »

juliegeorgiana I have eaten what I wanted and ended up 2 stones overweight! I agree different diets / eating styles suit us all as we are all different. You have come a long way and the fact you now enjoy cooking from scratch must have made a huge difference to your lifestyle. May it long continue.

Before I ate from scratch I used jars and packets, had a few takeaways, but again nothing too much.

Most of the weight loss is do to the stopping of binge eating... I would buy and binge the foods which were forbidden to me.

Also I never ate slowely, I ate what was on my plate and would feel hungry afterwards. That's when I had my 'lightbulb' moment!

I threw away the foods I didn;t enjoy the 'healthy' stuff and I just ate things I enjoyed. But I eat them at the table, no TV, and I focus on the food and eat it as though I am at a dinner party.

When I am full, I stop and tupperware the leftovers.

I admit my exercise has gone up, but that was just because I wanted to, and we are only talking about a stroll at lunchtime. Due to health issues running is not an option for me

I agree with you that what works for one doesn't always work for another. But I wanted to share in hope that it might help others.

Also eating what I want, when I am hungry... doesn't mean I can binge eat because it's there.

I also found that drinking a little, slowly all day, helps you work out if you are hungry or not.

Also If I am hungry I eat, no matter the time, because if I 'waited' until lunch time, then I would be so hungry I would eat A LOT!

I just feel that back in 1950's people didn't worry about their weight as much, yet they never had an obesity problem.

nickynoo08

Morning everyone,

Hiya juile, well done on your loss so far you've done amazing. I really admire the way you now look at food, i wish i could be more like that, unfortunately i'm a rubbish cook. Although i'm counting cals i do genrally eat what i fancy and when i'm hungry as one of my biggest problems is also binge eating:o. I use my cals as more of a guideline so i can make, healthier and more filling choices and i still need my guidelines to keep me on track. I'm definately wanting to start cooking from scratch more and do agree its much better to do so. I've only last night dug out my gill holcome book (how to feed your family...) so i can plan our meals better and found a few simple recipies that even i can follow.

I've yet to plan anything for today as we're going out later to my mums so were likely to be eating there.

nikki-read

hi
i have been looking at the forums for years now and have never posted but after a rubbish 2010 i figured 2011 is the time to change please help i have to try and cut my food spend to £100 a month have already got it to £160 but want to cut it more and cut my weight i am 22st 7lb and i know that is terrible but i didnt realise untill i got on some scales theother day and cried my eyes out:eek:

the meals we eat i didnt think were to bad but they must be

we have
tuna pasta bake
bangers and mash and carrot
fish oven chips and mushy peas
quiche,potato croqutte and rattatoullie
spaghetti and whizzed up tin of rattatoulie
sausage oven chips and a dry fried egg
southern fried chicken peices,sweetcorn, jACKET potato and hm coleslaw


have sandwhiches or soup for dinner

and cup of tea for breakfast i know that is bad but feel awfulin themorning and never want to eat have been like this since i had kids, always ate breakfast before:o

help please !

Fruball

Awwwww welcome to the OS board

I hate eating breakfast too but when I force myself to have just a small bowl of porridge (which I had to 'learn' to like) then it does set me up for the day and I lose weight more easily too.

I need to lose some weight too and know exactly how but am not disciplined enough atm... But I will join you doing this

When I am determined I get a very good weight loss by following this homemade diet...

Breakfast: porridge with skimmed milk and maple syrup (or brown sugar) OR a small handful of nuts and dried fruit/seeds etc
Snack: few nuts, dried apricots, raisins
Lunch: houmous with multigrain ryvita and fruit or HM vegetable soup or ratatouille with little bit of grated cheese
Dinner: stirfry with chicken or lean beef/roast chicken with veg (no or few potatoes) and gravy/salmon with lots of veg and maybe just a couple of new potatoes

I make up a huge batch of hm soup (similar to minestrone) and if I am hungry I have a bowl of that no matter what time of day it is.

I have found that by cutting right down on carbs in the evening really boosts my weight loss and also makes me feel less hungry as I fill up with protein and veg.

I still have my usual cups of tea with sugar but I always have skimmed milk and prefer it now

I can lose shed loads of weight doing this and am never hungry, and I feel better.... There begs the question why I don't do it all the time

Re the debt - I get a huge kick out of going on my online bank account and paying extra off my CCs, even if its just £5 or £10 each month (in addition to Direct Debit that comes out)

Hope that helps - 2011 is gonna be better

Fruball

Oh, and the reason you feel awful in the morning could be because your body is tuned into eating later, therefore it doesn't want to get started unless it knows food is imminent Little trick I learned years ago.

So, step one, force yourself to eat breakfast even if its just a few nuts and apricots.