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

nikki-read

had some porridge this morn for brekkie and put a teaspoon of honey in made it with water and used milk to cool it down kids had it too and they love it

only ate half of it but dint feel hungry at 10 like i usually do

i have full fatmilk which i know isnt as good as the others but i think they dont taste the same do you get used to the taste of skimmed cause i drink alot of tea a day and that will be loads of calories wont it

greenbee

nikki-read wrote: »

had some porridge this morn for brekkie and put a teaspoon of honey in made it with water and used milk to cool it down kids had it too and they love it

only ate half of it but dint feel hungry at 10 like i usually do

i have full fatmilk which i know isnt as good as the others but i think they dont taste the same do you get used to the taste of skimmed cause i drink alot of tea a day and that will be loads of calories wont it

Nothing wrong with full fat milk if you're not using a huge amount of it - full fat milk is actually a low fat food I'm working my way up from skimmed to semi skimmed, and have been told firmly I need to eat full fat dairy as I don't have that much (either 200ml milk in porridge, or 100g yogurt or 100g cottage cheese normally - on the rare occasions I go into the office I'll have a skinny latter or cappucino - although I'm now trying to have them full fat occasionally I find I can do it with a cappucino but a latter is too heavy!).

Great to hear you've had breakfast. Make small changes slowly and you'll start to feel the difference.

I get lots of exercise at this time of year, as I don't like driving in the snow and ice (I can manage fine, it's all the other idiots on the road that scare me!), so I walk to the village shop (taking the longest route I have time for) every day for one or two things. I have plenty of stuff if the shop is short, but it means I don't run my stores down AND I get some exercise. And because its a small shop and I have to get everything home in a backpack, I don't end up buying anything I don't absolutely need!

Fruball

I agree with PenPen that there is no good or bad foods, just a good or bad diet.

Dieting makes you fat Its lifestyle changes and healthy eating that will help you lose weight and keep it off

Try to steer clear of pastry. Or if you really love it, scrape off half the pastry and put it in the bin before you take your plate to the table. If you make a quiche yourself, you can make it with no pastry, just pour the beaten eggs with whatever filling, into the quiche tin

Quorn sausages are lovely - I am going to switch to them I think as bangers and mash is one of our favourites and my healthy eating has somewhat slipped since winter descended.

Fruball

Re milk - I used to have full fat, switched to semi, tried skimmed but didn't like it at all... Went back to trying skimmed and forced myself to get used to it - I can't drink full fat at all now, I find it tastes awful!!! I can just about manage semi but I LOVE a nice cold glass of skimmed, and prefer it in tea too

My DDs have semi (they are 4) and if I run out of that, they have skimmed too and have never said that it makes a difference to them.

I do always use semi for cooking, like mashed potatoes or cheese sauce/parsley sauce as its a bit richer - oh and butter too But I have less of it than I used to and pile the plate with veggies

fingersxed

I agree u do get use to changing milks. I always have semi but can tolerate skimmed but full fat does taste to rich once u get use to semi.

Portion sizes are mega important. We are all maxed up nowadays. Plates have got bigger and we keep filling em up!! Cut portion sizes n bulk up with veg and its amazin ow full u can feel. if you feel full you get less tempted with goodies. Alchol is a real wieght booster. I was really glad of a glass each night but cut this down to once or twice a week and the weight came off quite steadily. n i still ad a treat once a day.

Gd luck

83jlg83

Hiya

I doing a similar challange how many are you trying to feed in your home ?

maman

nikki-read, I don't mean to sound cruel but I went:eek: when I read what your weight is.:Ton deciding to make some changes.

Back in September I started Slimming World as that's more about encouraging healthy eating than dieting as such. Looking at your typical menus then it wouldn't take much tweaking to make them healthy in the Slimming World way.

SW costs about £5 a week and that may be beyond your budget but I have heard that, in some areas, doctors are able to 'prescribe' SW classes. It's got to be worth a try.

I've no connection to SW other than I'm delighted with it because I've managed to lose 1.5 stone in 3 months and never feel hungry and feed my OH the same sort of food so no faffing about.

maman

nikki-read wrote: »

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 !

I just thought I'd try to 'SW' you menu as a guide. Briefly, you can have about half a pint of SSmilk and 1 slice of wholemeal bread a day (3 if you buy weightwatchers brown Danish but that's expensive). After that, it's about cutting down on fats, flour things like pastry and sweet stuff and eating lean meat and at least a third of your food a day as fruit and veg. You can have pasta and potatoes as well.

tuna pasta bake (tuna and pasta are fine but you would need to do it in tomatoes with only a sprinkling of cheese on yours also add some other veg like peas or salad)
bangers and mash and carrot ( try the quorn sausages for you, don't put any butter in potatoes and perhaps have baked beans with it as well as carrot)
fish oven chips and mushy peas (needs to be proper fish like cod or haddock not battered or breaded, mushy peas are excellent and SW oven chips)
quiche,potato croqutte and rattatoullie ( someone told you that quiche can be done without pastry or on a base of mash, rattatoullie is excellent as long as you know how it's made witout oil)
spaghetti and whizzed up tin of rattatoullie(sounds good, assuming HM rattatoullie as above)

sausage oven chips and a dry fried egg (as above for sausages and chips. Eggs are fine, by dry fried do you mean in a non-stick pan with fry-light or similar? It needs some veg like tomatoes, mushrooms, baked beans or whatever you like)

southern fried chicken peices,sweetcorn, jACKET potato and hm coleslaw (chicken needs to be cooked some other way (in passata or grilled), jacket is good and sweetcorn but mayonnaise in coleslaw not good for you better to have a salad or peas)


have sandwhiches (problem with cutting down bread) or soup for dinner (make your own with loads of healthy veggies and lentils and perhaps a bit of lean bacon)

and cup of tea for breakfast (this isn't a problem as long as when you do feel hungry you arent snacking on rubbish)

Make sure you only have diet drinks of NAS squashes. You are allowed a few 'treats' this will be in the range of foods to avoid, so a few sweets or alcoholic drinks or extra cheese through the week.

SW chips/wedges are delicious. Cut potatoes into shape you want, parboil for about 5-7 minutes then spread on abking tray, spray with fry-light and then bake for 20-25 mins at 200.

This is just a rough guide. There is a SW thread on the Fashion board that might help you. Good luck.

mlz1413

I was going to break down nikki-read's basic menu but then the last post was maman's - beating me to it!!

Nikki get yourself some digital scales for the kitchen, ensure they can be re-set - this allows you to put a bowl or plate onto the scales reset to zero then weigh each portion of food.

Knowing what you are eating is going to be your best starting point.

Write on a pad or in a diary everything you are eating, ie:
B: 50g porridge, 15g honey, 100ml milk
Then read the packets and jar they come out of and write down how many calories are in that meal.

it will seem painstaking at first, but by the end of the 1st day you will have most of the normal stuff written down, ie cups of tea.

Butter has about 7 cals per 1 gram - which means buttering a piece of toast easily racks up 100 cals. Use a low fat spread and this can be halved.

Fat in general has 9 cals a gram so cutting the fat off bacon, pork etc really will help and using a spray oil for cooking instead of pouring from a bottle.

Pasta is high in calories the same as pastry so if you have either of these donot add potatoes. All 3 are carbohydrates which you should not have more than 1/3 of in a main meal.

I buy the single packet cereals - this is an expensive way - but it shows how little a 'normal' portion of cereal is and helped me see what it looked like in the bowl so when I do buy big packs of cereal I know roughly what a portion is.

Jacket spud & mash are good filling things but NO to the butter and milk to mash them! just milk or just low fat spread and don't use too much.

newlywed

Hi everyone. Welcome to all newbies. Well done to all losers.

Well I was poorly on friday - very sick - and have since used that as an ideal point to reduce my ever increasing portion sizes. (Grocery bill has also increased horrendously with the increasing portions). Breakfast has crept up from 40-50g to 70-80g of cereal for starters

Eaten a bit more today but it's a rare day off so treated OH to bacon and egg on toast and then a toasted sarnie while out.

But that does mean I've lost another 1.5 lbs this week so I'm determined not to put it back on.

I have three pairs of size 16 trousers and two size 16 skirts (and a few others size 14 that I can just about get away with) and a HUGE wardrobe crammed full of clothes I could split the seams on if I wore them!! Plus the Dr told me the other month that I'm overweight

So I need to get my butt shrunk! and it starts NOW!!! - well from last Friday really

Walked for nearly an hour with OH too, as well as round the shops.

Depending how icy it is tomorrow, I might walk to work (40 minutes).