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

Patchwork_Quilt

Thanks to everyone on here, I made soup for lunch.

B: Porridge, made with water, and jam.
L: Chicken and winter veg soup, 1 rice cake, banana
T: (Spanish style) chicken tortilla, home-made potato wedges, tomatoes, small slice of low-fat banana cake.

The soup was

1 litre chicken stock, fat scraped off
cubed swede, potato, carrot and pak choi
3 cloves garlic
1 tsp salt
1 handful of red lentils.

The banana cake is an old Rosemary Conley recipe

1 lb bananas, peeled and mashed
6 oz sugar
2 eggs
8 oz flour

I adapt it by using brown sugar and then adding ginger and sultanas, or cocoa powder and chocolate icing (made with Green and Black's cocoa powder and icing sugar so hardly any fat)

NualaBuala

Patchwork_Quilt wrote: »

Thanks to everyone on here, I made soup for lunch.

B: Porridge, made with water, and jam.
L: Chicken and winter veg soup, 1 rice cake, banana
T: (Spanish style) chicken tortilla, home-made potato wedges, tomatoes, small slice of low-fat banana cake.

The soup was

1 litre chicken stock, fat scraped off
cubed swede, potato, carrot and pak choi
3 cloves garlic
1 tsp salt
1 handful of red lentils.

The banana cake is an old Rosemary Conley recipe

1 lb bananas, peeled and mashed
6 oz sugar
2 eggs
8 oz flour

I adapt it by using brown sugar and then adding ginger and sultanas, or cocoa powder and chocolate icing (made with Green and Black's cocoa powder and icing sugar so hardly any fat)

All your food sounds scrummy but I am especially taken with the banana cake. I love the idea of adding sulatanas and ginger. Is it self raising flour used? And how much ginger/sultanas would you use? And I wouldn't mind the method if it's not too much trouble!

Rach - I have bookmarked that FoodFocus site, thanks for recommending it. I'm also looking at other similar sites including SparkPeople, MyFitnessPal and Fitday. I think they're all free but a bit American.

Eenymeeny

Thanks everyone for the advice and links. I make Monday my weigh in day as it means I'm less likely to 'treat' myself on the weekend.;)
I'm also trying to stick to healthy eating which we do usually, but smaller portions... I even use a smaller plate! Then get up and do something instead of thinking about it. I once read that the best exercise you can do is pushing your chair away from the table:rotfl:
I find that a small portion of something I fancy works for me, rather than thinking about it as 'forbidden' then going on a binge when my (very weak) willpower breaks down.:) As others have said trying to work two different menus is too much hassle and I don't stick to it.

Eenymeeny

Ps Imataloss... if it's any help I haven't been sticking to my walks either but I'm thinking even if I'm shopping at least I'm moving! Made myself go for a quick walk 25mins last night as I felt so guilty and felt much better for it. Good luck, I'm thinking of you!

imataloss

Eenymeeny wrote: »

Ps Imataloss... if it's any help I haven't been sticking to my walks either but I'm thinking even if I'm shopping at least I'm moving! Made myself go for a quick walk 25mins last night as I felt so guilty and felt much better for it. Good luck, I'm thinking of you!

Eenymeeny - thanks. Good luck with your walking. Got myself to the gym this morning and managed the following:
15 mins cycling
10 mins rowing
20 mins walking
Felt much better afterwards.

Foodwise yesterday was ok for most of the day and then opened a bag of cashews that were still hanging around after Christmas.
Went down well with a bottle of lager
Weigh in this morning and am the same as last week. So have started logging calories.
Heres hoping for a small loss next week.

To everyone else thank you for your tips/inspiration.

mlz1413

Hi All,

Imataloss - could you bike any of your journeys? you can get child seats or attachable bits if DGS is old enough to cycle - like this sort of thing

mlz1413

I did OK yesterday, but we are really low on food stuffs in the house - will probably shop online so I have to stick to whats on the list!

B: hot cornish roll (milk was off and no bread)
L: cheese & coleslaw sandwich with an orange
S: carrot sticks and cheese/chive dip
shepherds pie, washed down with a vodka and coke (naughty but nice!)

Went to corner shop & bought milk, bread & cheese £3.43 nearly fell over!!

Today:
Already eaten
B: 25g cereal & milk
Planned
S: ww yogurt
L: left over (and last of) shepherds pie
S: one piece of toast with bovril
Omelette with cheese
Am baby sitting tonight so no tempations of being in my own home.

vixtress

hi everyone

am going a bit stir-crazy.was at home ill sun and mon then t=have had ds off school ill since and my car is in the garage so i am well and truly house bound. i am still not feeling too great myself so still no exercise. can you tell, im feeling sorry for myself

yester wasnt too bad, had
b, go ahead oat bar & fruit smoothie
l, 2 x wm toast & marmite
d, haddock with cruncy garlic mushroom topping (new recipe was delish! with salad and a few mini roasties
snack: nicked 2 chicken dippers off kids and 2 large glasses of red wine

only spoiled a bit by the wine,!

todays plan is a bit wooly!

b: 2 x toast with cheese spread
l, no idea, probably somthing with a wrap (have some open)
d, either OH with cook or brisket & salad

no wine and try not to snack

have a good day x

rachbc

B - the usual porridge today
S- pear
L - Hubby wanted to go to GBK for buy one get one for £1 - so I had a small lentil burger and no fries!! never shwon such restraint before!
S - sausage, loads of veg and oven baked wedges

Last night I stuck to one glass of wine whilst out which meant I also managed to keep disciplined and not pick at the crisps and choc

walking/ running tonight - 45 mins or so

vixtress

been a bit hit and miss today, not quite stuck to the plan but not too bad (i have eaten far too much of a beautiful joint of brisket that i cooked think im going to do the pub quiz tonight but will try and stick to a diet coke or 2 :eek:

today has been:

breakfast/brunch small amount of left over haddock & garlic mushrooms on 1 slice wm toast

lunch, smoothie with banana, mango & pomegrantate juice, brioche with elf philly

dinner, brisket, onion & horsradish sandwich on wm bread, square of green & blacks

snack: a couple of lumps of brisket that just fell off the knife

vix x