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

juliethemuse

i am being really good and sticking to the diet :A
no point in weighing myself for a few days, its that time of the month and i'm bloated like a fat pig,
i shall be pleased when i do hit the menpoause tbh as then i wont have to suffer like this each month
there thats my self pitying done for the day and i'm off to make sometthing healthy like salad and chicken, although i havent really got a huge appetite which is a plus i guess,

procrastinator

Hi
Where did the morning go?
Fruit and Fibre with fresh raspberries for bfast. Been getting rasps reduced and making a small punnet last 2/3 days so enjoying the treat.
Lunch. HO leek and potato soup on as I type.
Dinner spag bol with soya/quorn.
Snack so far 1 banana will have a couple of kiwis in nat yog after lunch.

newlywed

Hi all,

Well done to all losers. i weigh on a Sunday so will let you know if there's any change after that (though I suspect not!)

Eenymeeny - I'm not good with dairy anyway so giving it up is fine for me - I have oat milk which I need to look up but you can have it as a healthy extra. The only thing is lots of the snacks that are free are yoghurts

Well I've counted up today so far (and been better than normal) and have already had 17.5 syns :rotfl: the maximum was meant to be 15 :eek:

So dinner is roast chicken with veg and no roasties at all for me

Food so far:

b: 2 shredded wheat with raisins and oat milk = 1he and roughly 4.5 syns by the looks
s: one crumpet with jam (tis usually two with choc spread so that's an improvement for me) = 5
l: scrambled egg and bacon on a basics muffin - the muffin is 8 :eek: - it's not even a cake!!!! :mad:

s: grapes and pineapple
d: roast chicken and veg - oh and a bit of gravy - oops more points

Well anyway, todays counting has given me a good idea of what I'm eating that's wrong And shown me that if I do follow sw, a lot of my snack foods will be cut out (or replaced by fruit and veg) which can't be a bad thing at all.

Have also discovered that I can have two weetabix as a HE so could swap breakfast to that and sometimes have the 1 shred wheat.

I think once I have worked out a suitable breakfast that fits in with SW and my lifestyle, things will get easier. Cooking from scratch means it's easier to chuck lots of free foods into a soup or a pasta sauce, or a veg curry. Plus casseroles, omelettes etc are easy to sort out for dinners.

Hence the plan this weekend is to sit and try and work it all out, rather than launching into it and finding I can't each much and I'm hungry

katylou6180

Thanks everyone, ragz & procrastinator your help is very much appreciated! In the ol' meal plan I automatically add vegetables to dinner with literally everything (that includes the spag bol, as moneysaving and bulks things out so less protein) Noted about the "lack" of breakfast ragz, its normally an apple and grapes or banana- I get up at 5.45am so need something portable to take to work and eat at my desk, would adding something like a low fat yoghurt make a difference? We don't have toasters etc at work otherwise would regularly pack a couple of slices of wholemeal!! I know i do things the wrong way round as should be eating more in the day and less at night, but by nature of lifestyle have to have main meal at night. At least I am winning though, clothes are getting looser and I have learnt (it's been a mountain of a struggle) to not 1) eat for the sake of it and 2) not "emotionally binge" I've found the way that works for me is not the "little and often" it's the "three meals per day, nothing inbetween and if it doesn't get eaten as part of a meal it doesn't get eaten at all" lol it's the only method i've found where i haven't failed at the first hurdle. I am weighing in at ww as i need the "weigh in threat", but kinda ignoring the system, I know it works etc but i am so busy i don't have time to work out how many points are in my sandwich and see whether i have enough points left to "reward myself" with something fattening later on- I would rather just cut it out completely, as I am frightened that one taste, and one treat will turn into two...and spiral downwards starts there!!

slowlyfading

Not been so good today, oops

b- skipped, had a lie in
l - one poached egg on slice of brown toast
s - walkers baked crisps, 1 jaffa cake
t - med vegetables with lamb (superhealthy), 2 slices crusty bread, 1 small slice baked cheesecake (:o)

Was a fab tea though

katylou6180

I think once I have worked out a suitable breakfast that fits in with SW and my lifestyle, things will get easier.

Newlywed I feel your pain totally!! I am struggling with the breakfast thing!!

slowlyfading

katylou6180 wrote: »

Newlywed I feel your pain totally!! I am struggling with the breakfast thing!!

Me too, I'm so bad with eating breakfast... I'd rather have 15 minutes more in bed!

vixtress

morning

had a fairly terrible day food wise yesterday did manage to swim for an hour though at least.
went out to eat last night and tried to be good by ordering a 'fish salad' - it was ENORMOUS and so delicious that i had to eat it all. i also had a mcdonalds at lunchtime :o

i find it so hard to plan at weekends as i am always out and about. not sure of the plan today but i will try to be good. will definately stick to the no s philosophy of back to the plan strictly tomorrow.

hope you're al doing better

vix xx

TravellingAbuela

Morning all - great excitement here! My first week is up and I got on the scales this morning with trepidation. I told my OH that if he heard a crash I had thrown the scales through the window! But I weighed in at 9 st. 11.5 lbs! Thats a two and a half pound loss!!! The first time I have dropped below 10 stone in 3 years! I really am spurred on now to keep on with the diet. I have already had breakfast (Benefit flakes, a sliced banana and sk milk) and got a nice piece of smoked haddock out to defrost for my lunch, with salad and new potatoes (no butter!!) Yet to name tea but maybe tuna pasta for a change.

We are off back over to our caravan early tomorrow (till Thursday) and I am already planning what low fat meals I shall eat there and what I need to take with me! I hope I don't have a lapse in willpower and undo all the good I have done this week! And how will I manage without coming on here for encouragement? Hope the first week of our May challenge has been as successful to you all.

vixtress

well done TA :j its a nice feeling isnt it! i just hope i havent undone too much of my acheivements

well, ive had a re-think and come up with a plan.

today is like this:
2 x wm toast

wraps (at a friends house)

dinner will be faux 'steak sandwich' made with roasted portabello mushrooms with a bit of pesto and cheese. saw them once on a nigel slater thing and they looked delicious. OH can have some wedges with his.

back to the plan, feeling better. by downfall has always been the attitude of 'ive blown it now, so what the hell' ive got to change that and get back straight away :cool:
vix