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

mlz1413

Welcome to more newbies and Hello to all

Didn't do to bad at the weekend as I was out most of it and managed a short whizz around supermarket so we have veg & meat in the house.

Today:
B: toast, l/f spread and spoonful of b/beans
L: ham salad sandwich & lilt zero
S: banana (looks a bit battered) & crisps
pork steaks, apple sauce & vegs, do not intend to have potatoes.

no wine in the house so should be drinking unless we go out.

Eenymeeny

Well done everyone and welcome to all Newbies! I'm a bit disappointed to find that I've only lost a pound again this week, I suppose a pound a week is almost 4 stone a year!
I think that I'll do a diary this week to see where I'm going wrong. I know that it's silly but I tend to cut right down and live on fruit and veg and was told by SW once that I needed to increase my intake. I'm reading some of your menus and thinking if you're losing weight on that I could be eating more. I'll also increase my walking this week, I know that I haven't been doing enough and the weather's getting better so no more excuses! I've also got a big garden to sort out!
I was wondering if any of you have any favourite fat-burning tips, like eating little and often or drinking more water etc.? I could do with all of the help that I can get!

mlz1413

Hi Eenmeeny, I read once that cutting down drastically on food makes the body think a famine is coming and so it defaults to storing everything you eat, its better to eat regularly as then the body believes all is well.

Eating smaller portions & increasing excerise always work best for me but I'm also trying not to eat carbs at night now.

PennyGrabber

When I lost the most weight, I always had the radio on, and bopped to all of my household jobs. Washing up - dancing. Unloading the dishwasher, funky moves! You get the picture. You feel a bit daft at first, but then you realise that the more you move, the more you lose. It's a no-brainer. (Which is why I'm on another diet - derrrr!!)

Had a rubbish weekend dietwise. BF left, so went out to an all you can eat chinese restaurant, and ate pretty much everything. Thought I'd get it out of my system in one go! Back to it today, and had porridge nomnom for breakfast, yog for snack, crisps (couldn't be a@@ed to make sandwiches and they need using up), apple and go ahead bar for lunch, 2 sausages and some noodles for dinner. Will have a snack tonight, but don't know what yet.

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bramble1

the scales went up 3lbs this morning!!! im so mad!

Today:
Banana
Mug Shot pasta snack
WW cake bar
Lots of tea and coffee
Dinner will be stew.

marygoodwife

Hi all hope everyone is well, im sure now i havent been eating enough as i havent lost this week, and i only started to have snacks towards the end of the week, my energy levels have improved though so im ok with that, ill just see how i get on this week, i may need to tweak something....after all its not rocket science is it ??
B.porridge
S.apple
L.hm lentil and choritzo soup 1 x slice wm bread
S. 6 black olives
D. salmon burger stuffed aubergine grated carrot.

best wishes to you all x

newlywed

Hi all, may have sneaked a pint of guinness for lunch last week but I did have a jacket and prawns with it so not too bad. The next day there was toasted sarnies and a small slice of cake.

Today... hmm well. not a great day.

So.... try harder tomorrow!!

~moneysavingnovice~

Can I join please?

I have 17lbs left to lose, and want it gone by April ideally.

slowlyfading

Okay, so my food today was:
breakfast - special k, skimmed milk and 10 grapes
lunch - prawn salad sandwich, raisins
dinner - veg stir fry with noodles, christmas cake

Doing so well, until the christmas cake...

mlz1413

Morning all,

I didn't eat the banana yesterday and think it maybe past its best now (its at least a week old and been in my bag most of that time) so I think I did ok yesterday.

Todays plan is:
B: 2 toast, l/f spread, honey & peanut butter
S: 1 roast pot (from sundays dinner - which I'm amazed is still around)
L: sandwich of some form
S: light cherry yogurt
haggis, neeps & tatties - well it is Burns night

The scales said 10'5 on Sunday, which after the xmas excesses wasn't too bad, but would like to shift the last 5lbs ideally.