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

shezam

Hi all,

Welcome to newbies joining

Hope everyone has been better than me this weekend? I had a momoth amount of booze and buffet food on Friday, then on Saturday went to Mcdonalds in my hungover state, then had hot chocolate & a cake for afternoon tea, then had a curry at night! Goshhhhh! Weekends are my downfall!

Anyways, I feel if I can be super duper good during the week, then I can defo treat myself at the weekend, although just not to last weekends extent!

So today:

B- Scrambled eggs on 2 slices of wholemeal toast
Sn- Actimel & 2 go ahead biscuits (49 cals each)
L- Salad leaves, carrot, cucumber, cherry toms, ham & 5 drops of light salad cream, yoghurt
Sn- Apple or Banana (I have both in my drawer)
Di- Whatever other half makes, but I will make sure my portion is small!

Got my Step Aerobics class tonight which is amazing but very hard, I am bright red and very sweaty within the first 5 mins, which is when I usually think to myself "What the hell am I doing here?" lol

Hope everyone has a good day
Sx

ragz_2

Ida Notion Welcome to the thread, loved your first post! Good luck.
Sparrer welcome and good luck to you too.

Done my last session of the first week of the Couch to 5K programme today, it was rather harder with the pushchair, especially the uphill bits so I cheated a little and made 6 of my 8 runs be downhill! It was very hot and my face is still bright pink an hour later (please tell me I'm not the only one who goes a fetching shade of purple/pink after exercise!), but that and the half hour walk to school and back and another later should be a decent amount of exercise for today.

Food yesterday was

10am - Leftover curry! (Small bowlful, with a tortilla)
3pm - Slice of Fruit Loaf (no butter!)
6pm - Roast gammon, roast chicken, roast potatoes, parsnips, carrots, broccoli, cabbage and gravy!
9pm - A meringue nest.

Today...
8am - Slice of fruit toast, slice of granary toast with marmite and soft cheese.
Couple of coffees, one sugar and milk.

Will probably have veg soup for lunch, with maybe a chunk of cheese or a boiled egg for PROTEIN as not had any today and muscles will need it after the jogging!
Dinner will be cottage pie, veg and potatoes.
Dried apricots and clementines for snacks.

CCP You keep mentioning Olive Rolls, have you put the recipe on MSE yet? If so can you link it and if not can I have it please?

CCP

ragz wrote: »

CCP You keep mentioning Olive Rolls, have you put the recipe on MSE yet? If so can you link it and if not can I have it please?

I haven't posted it on here before, largely because there isn't really a recipe: it's just normal bread dough (made in my beloved bread maker ), rolled out and spread with olive paste (£2.50ish a jar from Lidl, which contained enough for one and a half batches of rolls); I then rolled the dough up swiss roll-style and sliced it into roll-sized slices (so they look like little pinwheels); proved then baked. My first batch was made with all white flour, my second with half brown and half white, and both are good.

I made the other half batch yesterday with red pesto in place of the olive paste and they're quite nice, too.

I hope you enjoy them!

mlz1413

Morning all - so many posts! well done all the losers and well done everyone for all the support.

I had a really physical day saturday did about 2 hours walking in 15 to 30 min blocks and 1.5 hours horse riding so I think I burnt off enough calories for the meal out that night! I also had prawns as my main as they are low in calories.

Sunday I surprised myself by how little I ate but again I was on the go alot so maybe that kept the hunger at bay. Had a roast but did chicken legs rather than a whole chicken so portion was just right and I couldn't pick at anything later

Still no alcohol which must have paid off as the scales are already 2.5lbs down so I'm really pleased with that but am going to do 'offical' WI's on thursday's which is when I started.

Today:
B: yogurt & apple 150 cals
S: mini sausage roll 100 cals
L: salad leaves, 2 ham slices, vingeratte dressing, tom and piece of bread 150 cals
S: crisps (must buy more fruit!) 150 cals
sausage casserole, 2 sausages, 1 pot and veg 500 ish cals
Drinks: have opened a bottle of coke so will allow 500 cals for this whoopingly sugary drink! and must buy some more sparkling water for home!

Eltee12

Afternoon All

Today
Br - crunchy museli type stuff & milk
Sn - oaty ceral bar thing
lu - chicken salad sarnie
sn - grapes
D - HM lasagne, salad

Walking - 15 mins this morning, 15 mins after work

Tuesday plan
Br - toast & honey, cuppa tea
Sn - banana
Lu - ham slaad sarnie
Sn - oaty ceral bar
D - egg, bacon, bubble, toms, mushrooms

Walking - 15 mins am, 15 mins pm, 30 mins lunchtime

El

juliethemuse

i know its silly but i'm really upset, i have weighed myself and i'm STILL 13 stones 5 pounds, i cant believe it! i'm always exercising, i know i'm quite fit (ish) but its not all muscle! i'm also 5'7 ins tall so average height, but i thought i would have at least dropped a pound, i feel like shouting very loudly, i have had no alcohol, no sweeties no treats at all,
what shall i do? i feel like raiding the kit kats if i'm honest

lovetopaint

Don't give up Juliethemuse, I am struggling to shift the weight despite being 'good'. It's just a plateau, hang on in there!

It has dawned on me that yet again I need to adjust/re-think what I am eating. Just when I think I have it sussed, I notice I am having too much dairy, too much fruit or not enough protein etc.

I think we are all at different stages of our healthy eating journey, it really is a long learning curve for me.

The weekend went well food wise, hooray, I can do it.

The_Dragon

Well my weight went up 4 pounds this week :mad:, but my thyroid is still not yet sorted out and I haven't been eating enough again *sigh*

Eenymeeny

Some lovely cheery posts on here lately. It's good that we can smile about it isn't it? Welcome all newbies again, we're turning into quite a big membership aren't we? Which brings me neatly to one of my thoughts: I've been thinking that as this is a money saving thread really we should be posting more of our money saving ideas, tips and recipes? (Don't want to get 'struck off!) I know that I'd love to hear any you have to share. I've listed a few of mine, hope that there's something useful here:
Have decided to put some 'membership fees' into a pot every week. Then I'll treat myself to something nice at maybe each half stone lost (she says hopefully) Make it low calorie though!
New rules: Kitchen is closed to me after 8pm. Saving money and illegal snacking! If I haven't had it by then, tough!, there's a fruit bowl in the lounge.
I'm going to start walking a lot more instead of using the car/ bus saving bus fares or fuel. I must keep moving (even walking whilst talking on the phone is better than nothing )
Leftovers are being put into small frozen dessert pots (now where did they come from?:o) I'll use those with baked potato or rice when I'm 'dining alone' instead of grabbing the usual sandwich.
I've found that using some frozen veg works better for me as I can add a handful to dishes instead of buying fresh which ends up being thrown out, and gives me more variety. (It can work out cheaper sometimes, and fruit like berries etc, depending on the season)
Grating cheese in advance and freezing it helps me too as I'm a cheese fiend! A spoonful of frozen cheddar soon defrosts and is a lot less calories than my usual chunk which I eat while I'm weighing out what I should really have.;) I sometimes add a spoonful to 'plain' cottage cheese, which is cheaper to buy than the flavoured varieties too.
Like some others posting on here this week I haven't lost any weight either but I've done all the right shopping now and am determined that I must show some loss by the end of May. Good luck everyone

The_Dragon

I put a pound per pound into a savings account BUT it has to come out if I gain weight so there isn't a huge amount in there at the moment :rotfl:, but I am hoping to save for some new jeans/trousers in smaller sizes