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

Eenymeeny

Well done TravellingAbuela! I feel your excitement as I go up and down by a few a pounds for what seems like years now:(
You've given me encouragement to really try this week. (One step at a time...:)) Well done everyone else, my weigh in is tomorrow so will have to be really good today.

CCP

Very well done TA! :T Enjoy your caravan trip.

I thought I ate too much yesterday - I certainly didn't need the extra slice of pizza I ate while watching TV - but I woke up at 4am feeling ravenously hungry. I'm going to go and do some research on low GI foods in a minute to try and stop that happening again.

Today's meals:

Brunch - three small slices brown bread (bought not HM, which isn't very OS of me ) with crab pate and half an avocado
Snack - banana
Dinner - three mini southern fried chicken fillets (actually southern baked chicken ) with a large mixed salad and HM olive rolls

I'm going out with friends this evening but intend to stick to fruit juice. :A

juliethemuse

sons making a steak and ale pie for sunday lunch, thats not going to do my diet much good, i suppose if i just have a piece of fruit for tea that will balance it out? i am sauch a pig sometimes though, i can put away vast ammounts, ( could easily win an eating competition - pity there arent any :rotfl:)
i was vey good at brealfast though and just had a bowl of muesli .

prophecy_grrl

Well after a week of eating more heathily, one exercise session and a family party with buffet food and beer yesterday, I have weighed this morning and have lost 1lb :j

I'm going to aim for 2 exercise sessions this week, no alcohol and no buffets and hoefully shift 2lbs by next Sunday.

Have a good week all!

newlywed

Hi all, weigh in today and the scales can't quite decide if I've stayed the same or put on half a lb. Whichever it's not that surprising.

Food today has been.... erm.... moving swiftly on...

Tomorrow I am starting my sw style eating plan Have been out and got lots of salad stuff.

This is the plan for tomorrow:

b: 2 weetabix (HE) and raisins and oat milk = 2
s: some fresh pineapple (aldi 69p) cherries
l: hm pasta with tomato peppers and sweetcorn and lots of herbs
s: salad with low fat wafer thin chicken, red peppers
s: banana
d: hm sweet and sour chicken and rice (think the hm sweet and sour has about 1 point)

So that should leave some syns left for something tasty like a couple of rich tea!!

Me and OH are going to give up our teacake habit, and I just need to stop eating all the rubbish at my desk (hence planning to take heaps of healthy food to work tomorrow!)

See planning it is half the battle - and it's all ready in the fridge so I grab and go tomorrow.

I've got a small notebook where I've planned out most of the week's food. Determined to get below my sticking point this time.

slowlyfading

Food has not been good today...

b - poached egg on slice of wholemeal toast with 2 rashers bacon
l - slice of cheesecake
d - low fat chilli, slice of bread, SW pear tart (didn't eat the pastry though...)

Weekends are definitely my downfall when it comes to food - there's too much sitting around!

Ida_Notion

I'm glad to see there's been so much weight loss on this thread - hopefully it means there's room for another one without everybody having to breathe in. I thought about trying to sneak on board surreptitiously, but at 12st 9lb and barely scraping five foot three, it's not going to happen

I've only been really overweight for the last four or five years - barring pregnancy, my weight was always somewhere between 8st 10lbs and 9st 8lbs, and even just before giving birth it was never more than 11st 4lb. I know I've let myself go and for some time now have been planning to reel myself in again, had it not been for a lengthy bout of Galloping Excuse-making-itis. I'm very good at making excuses and the place is littered with them. Probably because there's no work involved. No knitting, crochet - you don't even have to sew the bits together.

Unfortunately, I've yet to learn the art of making low fat excuses, and mine are all packed with calories. I tell myself that I can't possibly put together a sensible eating plan because my beanpole husband does most of the cooking and I have no way of knowing what he's going to dish up and when. However, the truth is that we're not really a cooked meal kind of family and he only does this three or four nights a week anyway, and when he does it's always something sensible of the meat/fish and lots of veg variety - it's my choice to go emptying the contents of the fridge down my throat an hour later. The "I'll get started after that forthcoming special occasion" excuse is another favourite, but we're a reasonably happy family who enjoy meeting up with each other and so even a chance encounter in Asda is a special occasion. There's almost always a special occasion on the horizon, however small.

Exercise is no different. I do the walk to school and back which is a quarter of a mile each way, but beyond that, nothing. This is because I wake each morning as stiff as a plank from The World's Most Uncomfortable Bed and 'don't want to aggravate my (occasional) bad back'. As excuses go, it's a lame one. There's a barely touched copy of 'The Back Smart Fitness Plan' in a box beneath the aforementioned bed together with a yoga mat and resistance bands etc.

Ironically, I've decided to join this thread after making yet another excuse to myself ('Give up smoking? At this weight? I'll only stack more on'), but I've managed to make changes in other areas recently and it's about time I addressed this one. I'm having a procedure under a general anaesthetic soon and don't want the surgeon to be faced with the prospect of cutting his way through the equivalent of the EEC butter mountain before he can even begin to locate what he's looking for, and I'll be going on holiday in six weeks or so too and want to be able to approach the beach without registering on the radar of 'Save The Whale' campaigners.

Today's intake...

Breakfast: None
Lunch: Two pints of Carling. (Not a regular thing. I was only in the pub at all because a rare visit on Tuesday lunchtime saw me win fifty quid in the pub's 'bonus ball' competition last night and so I went back to collect my winnings. This is a 'reason', not to be confused with an 'excuse' - like the one I'm searching for as to why I didn't drink orange juice instead )
Dinner: Two packets of Smart Price instant noodles, cheese sauce and a bit of grated cheese.

Exercise: Um...

Grim. I usually do manage to include fruit and vegetables (not difficult when you're eating everything that's not nailed down!), and although today's calories were eaten before I'd decided to join the thread, I usually do eat a heck of a lot more, especially at this time of night. Tomorrow will be a better day

sparrer

Hi, may I join in please? The forum was recommended by a poster from another board we both use, so having read through decided it's the sort of place I like - no 'leaders' having a moan or giving you a raised eyebrow if you fall off the wagon occasionally!
I was 12st 2lb at New Year, todays weight is 11st 5lb, my ultimate target is 9st, but taking it in small bites (pun intended ) rather than aiming for the seemingly impossible. I'm five feet tall (short?) so my current weight puts me in the obese section.
I have copd so can't exercise too well, I go to a weekly class specially designed for the illness so the exercise is more geared to keeping the lungs working.
Have given away all the cornettos in my freezer and stocked up with good food, so the last 2 days menus have gone like this -

Saturday
B - Fruit n Fibre, glass grapefruit juice
S - grapes, small apple
L - Salad of celery, cucumber, tomato, grated carrot, mange tout, fine beans, slice of pork will all fat removed
S - 2 satsumas
D - HM curried veg made with 1 teasp curry paste, 1/2 breast of chicken and small jacket

Sunday
B - Boiled egg, slice of WW bread no butter, grapefruit juice
L - Salad of lettuce, tomato, cucumber, mange tout, beetroot, mushroom, slice of pork with all fat removed (don't get used to it dog, it was the last slice )
S - Pear, apple
Dinner -left over curry from yesterday

I drink gallons of tea with just a small drop of milk, and green and Earl Grey without milk.
Sounds like an awful lot of food, it's been good to write it down so I can see where I can cut back. My usual weigh-day is Thursday but hopefully be invited back so I can record my daily intake.
S

TravellingAbuela

Two more newbies - welcome to the thread Ida Notion and Sparrer. Two more short people like myself - I am 5' 2" but if I was 5' 10" I would look skinny! Where's the justice!!

Yesterday's menu went to plan. I can't believe how well I have settled in to this healthy eating regime and, apart from my night out on Wednesday when I fell by the wayside (!!) I haven't had a glass of wine all week! Usually there is a bottle out every night!

I have just packed all my food for our few days at the caravan and hope I don't end up dipping into OH's supplies, as he insists he is alright as he is and prefers to eat what he always has! (His weight NEVER changes - not fair is it!)

Have a good week everybody - I'll report back when I come home Thursday evening and confess my sins if I need to!

CCP

Morning all.

Ida Notion - thanks for your post. You've got a lovely way of writing - I was reading your post with my hand over my mouth to stop everyone in the office asking what I'm laughing at! Good luck with the new plan from today.

sparrer - welcome to the thread! :hello:

I had a quick sneak on to the scales this morning and have lost 1/2kg since Saturday, which means I have made my mini-target after all, just a couple of days later than planned. :j

There were a couple of changes to yesterday's plan:

CCP wrote: »

Brunch - three small slices brown bread (bought not HM, which isn't very OS of me ) with crab pate and half an avocado
Snack - banana
Dinner - [STRIKE]three mini southern fried chicken fillets (actually southern baked chicken ) with a large mixed salad and HM olive rolls[/STRIKE] I didn't have time to cook the chicken so had healthy chilli con carne (more veg than meat) with a couple of rolls instead (plus a mini olive roll just after they came out of the oven - well, I had to check they were OK before serving them for dinner, didn't I?

[STRIKE]I'm going out with friends this evening but intend to stick to fruit juice.[/STRIKE] The evening out got cancelled so I had one glass of orange juice then went home. :A

So today now goes:

B - 45g muesli with sliced baby banana and fat free natural yoghurt (fat free yoghurt always sounds like the worst possible example of 'diet' food, but the Yeo Valley one is really nice (and if anyone from YV wants to send me some freebies in recognition of my endorsement, I'm more than happy to accept (yeah, right! :rotfl:))).
S - portion of mixed dried fruit
L - crab pate and half an avocado on two small slices of wholemeal bread; cherry tomatoes
S - apple
D - SFC with mixed salad (with some salad dressing - the first of the week's treats ) and an olive roll (or possibly two ); glass of low-cal sparkling fruit drink (not a treat as it's a) low calorie and b) not that nice - I think the rest may end up down the sink which is very un-OS of me )

Exercise - I'll walk down to the shops (just over a mile) at lunchtime to get some more salad stuff as I'm running low.

Right, sorry for the long post - have a good day, all.