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

TravellingAbuela

Hi there everybody, I am a newbie to this thread and reading your posts has inspired me! I stopped smoking 3 years ago and put on a stone and a half almost overnight! The half a stone eventually came off again but I am stuck with the excess stone! I really have tried (honest!) but the scales refuse to drop below 10 stone!! I still have all my size 12 clothes in the hope I will get back into them, then the 14's I have replaced them with can go in the charity shop bag! This time I am really going to try to shift that stone! Watch this space .....!!

floyd

Hi folks,

Yesterday started fairly well, went out for a 10 mile ride on my bike in the sunshine and felt really good after doing it. Then I went to a friends for a belated birthday celebration so I ate far too much, chilli, nachos and a slice of cheesecake Hopefully some of it will have been offset by the biking

Today is a new day, sticking to plan

B: Porridge with skimmed milk

L: HM spanakopita

HM veggie chilli and brown rice and a side salad

S: Maybe a small skinny latte later today

Have a good week all

Boodle

Yesterday

Breakfast: apple and glass of oat milk
Lunch: veggie samosa
Dinner: Linda Mc's mince pie, red cabbage, peas, carrots and 3 pieces of roast potato + a little gravy. Glass of red wine. Followed by 1 scoop hm ice cream (made with almonds, oat milk + maple syrup)
Supper: Cucumber and carrot sticks with about 2 tbsp lemon and corainder hummus, followed by 3 squares of dairy-free white choc.

Today

Breakfast: hm cereal bar (bit soft now but still ok, which is why I am the only one still finishing them off lol)
Lunch: will have hm artichoke hummus in 1 slice brown bread + salad.
Dinner: not sure yet, might do the tofu veg skewers with potato wedges or rice, or pasta with figs, olives, walnuts and hm soy cream cheese.

If I want a snack mid-afternoon I will hopefully stick to an apple and glass of oat milk/tea. Will also try to do 15-30 mins yoga later on depending on how long before the girls get bored.)

mlz1413

I'm not doing well, I'm tired and I have no enthusiasm, I've just run a payroll year end at work and could happily go to the car get in the back seat and sleep. Thank goodness its a short week !!!

moan over! I amazed myself at being 10' 2' today...... hooray. think I must have burnt that 1lb off by luck as I've eaten badly and burnt the candle a little bit too much at both ends for about a month now.

Think home and work should get back onto an even keel this week and I'm going to be in bed before the 10 o'clock news tonight and hope I feel a bit more like me tomorrow

shall post eating another day.

jennyo

kateweb wrote: »

I'm working full-time, go out most nights straight from work and am trying to lose weight and save money. So I'm aiming to take lunch and dinner (and breakfast, really) to work every day! I agree I don't find soup a terribly summery lunch, so the sort of lunches I've been packing are:
- Roast vegetable cous-cous (home made cous-cous; only takes ten minutes and 1 batch (125 gm) makes 3 days lunches)
- Tuna and cannellini beans (mix two tins together - done) with pitta bread
- Hummous and pitta with sticks of carrot/pepper (no prep except chopping vegetables, which I try and do while making something else)
- Vegetable lasagne (home made from a Sxxxxs recipe; no bechamel sauce, which makes it easier and much healthier, and their quantities made my lunches for a week).
- Tuna nicoise salad (leftover green beans and new potatoes from a bigger meal, plus tinned tuna and mixed leaves)
- Rice salad (leftover rice mixed with sweetcorn, pepper or cold veg like baby sweetcorn/mange tout, with low fat dressing)

Salads are easy and quick to put together at work, but bagged salads are expensive and don't seem to last very well, so I'm trying to avoid those. I've also been planning to try making falafel (a tin of chickpeas, beaten egg and some spices, so very cheap), maybe to put in a wrap (£1 for 8 from Txxco) with salad and yoghurt.

For breakfast, the market had huge bowls of plums for £1, so I stewed those (1 tspn of sugar and 1/2 tspn of cinnamon) and have had them cold for breakfast every morning with a big spoonful of low-fat yoghurt. I had some basics in the cupboard, but my food shop this week cost £2.39 at the supermarket, then £2 on fruit at the market.

Some brilliant idea's here. Another pound off for me this week, but i do feel more than one pound thinner this week, thats one and a half stone gone now, just another stone to go.

Fredula

B: Porridge with 1 spoon of sugar
S: Caramel bar
Turkey sanwich and an apple
S: Alpen bar and french fries crisps
T: Chicken, Ham, Mushroom omlette and beans

And for later I've got a piece of birthday cake waiting for me when I've finished the vacuuming and cleaning

Not very healthy probably, but it's a lot better than what I have been eating (plus the chicken was leftovers from last night so wahey for money saving)

TravellingAbuela

Hello again! Well I managed my first day without falling by the wayside! Here's what I ate -

B - Porridge, topped with raspberries
S - 2 clementines and some grapes
L - HM Tomato & Lentil soup and tuna salad sandwich (made in Weightwatchers granary bread) followed by a WW fromage frais
S - 2 crackerbreads with homemade lemon & pear jam smeared on and almost scraped back off again!
T - Piece smoked haddock with a mountain of salad, few new pots and peas. For afters an individual meringue topped with a WW fruit on the bottom
fromage frais and a few raspberries (only 100 cals!)

And in the evening I refrained from my usual (large) glass of wine! But will it last ....? So far I feel confident!

mlz1413

MORNING!! amazing how much better I feel for 10 hours sleep

I've also managed to get a wash load done and on the line before work AND run the hoover around downstairs. So I'm feeling pretty good about life today.

Only thing is for having had such a busy month there is not a lot in the house so todays meal plan isn't brilliant....

B: hot cornish pastie didn't have any bread for toast - honest!
S: clemetine
L: soup (on the hottest day yet :cool:) and last of tomato bread
S: muffin
salmon, aparagus and stuffed aubergine

I also have a banana and bag of crisps with me but am going to put them away for tomorrow.

Eenymeeny

You all seem to be doing so well. Welcome to the newbies. I've fallen by the wayside a bit. (buying a 'bargain' pack of 'cornettos' from Morrrisons didn't help:o) Been spending a lot of time in the garden, convincing myself that I am feeling more supple and using a lot of calories. Downside is that I've been grabbing a sandwich instead of a piece of fruit. Must do better...
Enjoy the sunshine everyone:)

springiness

I've not been as good as I could be but not doing too badly. I've had at least one meal a day which is healthy, fresh vegetables but skipped a few breakfasts

Doing lots in the garden and walking more often which has to be good.

I don't feel I've lost anything, clothes don't seem any looser but I think I look a bit slimmer (wishful thinking?) :rotfl: