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

lovetopaint

lovetopaint wrote: »

Hello everyone . As I have been trying to work out the balance part of balanced diet, this is what I am thinking I need each day (?)

-two low fat dairy foods
-[STRIKE]two[/STRIKE] three fruit portions (max)
-three or more veg portions (no max)
-two snacks (no carb)
-three meals that include protein, starchy carbs and veg +healthy fats.

CCP- Have made a couple of changes to above, now found out that three pieces of fruit a day ok, but more can apparently unbalance blood sugar. Plus I worry about my teeth, but then they say a cube of cheese after fruit helps to neutralise the acid. I will have a sweet treat of course from time to time (cake), but its the everyday stuff I want to get right. Makes my planning easier .

ragz- thanks for your feedback, I can see what you mean about looking at food intake over a week. I do include two portions of fish a week, at least one is oily, plus a few unsalted nuts and seeds (limited) for those healthy fats, also wholegrains etc. I have to say I haven't always been so diligent (hence being overweight), but something has clicked since having high blood pressure .

Good luck to all of you that run, if I did that, something might fall out, or at least that what it feels like! I am always impressed by runners. I am still doing my exercises though. Weigh-in tomorrow!

mlz1413

5 lbs :T I've lost 5lbs :j I knew I could shift 2lbs as I'd put them on (:o) and hoped to shift 3lbs but 5lbs WHOOPIE!

I have been power walking in the mornings and although I'd eaten more than I thought a couple of times I did compensate, so I feel gggooodd today!

Thank you to those who suggested lower calorie ideas for macaroni cheese, I had used strong cheese and mustard - probably why it tasted soooo good, but had never thought about putting in less cheese. so simple! Milk is hit and miss I have so little of it I tend to buy full fat for the calcium but do buy s/s occassionally. I do have cornflour so will try without the butter next time - which maybe a while in coming as I was trying to stick to 600 cal dinners.

Right I have a busy weekend ahead as a friend is over for one night only so we will be eating and drinking - must be careful not to put back on half of what I've lost

Today:
B: hot cornish roll (no milk or bread in the house and this was the best a bad choice - will be going shopping tonight!) 450 ish cals?
S: none! see above...
L: left over sausage in casserole sauce with large spoon of mash which was made with milk not marg so 400 cals ish
S: have an apple and small bag of crisps with me
must go shopping or its leftover chilli from last night.

so good to see so many people posting - Sparrer my dog would watch me for 2 goes and then huff off to the mat, at least yours is excited at the going up / down / up.

Lots of will power to you all.

sparrer

Eenymeeny wrote: »

Oo-er Missus:eek: It's not that kind of thread...:o:rotfl:

I wish!!! No 'significant other' so no chance

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

BlimusOreilly

Hi all,
Hope you don't mind if I join you?
I'm so glad to have spotted this thread as I intend to lose my weight the OS way. I don't believe in slimming clubs and fad diets (been there, done that and piled all the weight back on) - I want to keep on cooking from scratch, making healthy and tasty meals for my family and not spending loads while I'm doing it!

ragz wrote: »

Sparrer I am in favour of healthy eating for good rather than very restrictive diets and no one can go without cake for ever! Denial only causes miery and faliure, healthy eating for good means a little of what you fancy too

Here! Here! ragz - that's the view I'm taking too! And Hi Sparrer

I knew that from the beginning of the year I had put on an extra 7lbs and kept meaning to diet but didn't do anything about it till my NHS check showed up a high fasting glucose level (6.1). Luckily my cholesterol level was good at 4.4 and my glucose re-test came back okay but it really shook me up and made me start the new diet instantly. This was last friday and I have already lost 6lbs :j

I know that it'll slow down from here on in, but I'm happy to be back and starting again. So hope you won't mind me joining you!

sparrer

Hi Blimus :hello: welcome, only been here a few days meself (thanks to CCP) but this is a lovely board and really encouraging

Really chuffed with meself, gone from 11.st 5.1lb to 11st 2.6lb in 5 days. I know it's 'beginners luck' and all that but still miles better than I was expecting.

Breakfast today was 2 grilled rashers back bacon with fat in the dog, sliced mushroom and egg fried in frylight, glass of grapefruit juice
Lunch - mackerel, hm oven wedges sprinkled with 1/2 a chicken oxo cube and a teasp tartare. Couple of pieces of fruit from the bowl
Dinner - to be decided but probably salad. Muller light
S apple, satsuma, banana

Trying to eat more in the day and less in the evening as that's my least active time.

mlz if you could see the dogs face when I try to do crunches you'd collapse laughing - which is why I'm not very successful at them

newlywed

Hi all, welcome to all newcomers.

Well done mlz!!!! :j Well done Sparrer :T Well done any other losers!!! :j

Yesterday was a very tired day but the only thing I gave way on was one boiled sweet.

Food today has been:

b: 1 shred wheat with fruit. 1 Ryvita with pastrami.
s: 2 Ryvita with pastrami (forgot that actually ryvita tastes quite good), and some grapes
l: hm veg curry and hm wholemeal pilau rice -yum yum.
s: erm the only thing left is a muller light.... unless I pop to the shops....
d: sausages (I'll only have one and they are low fat) veg, mash and gravy.

Interesting point about eating too much fruit making your blood sugar unbalanced - can you point me to a linky at all?? Ta
My blood sugar is usually up the creek anyway due to eating too much SUGAR!!! So would like to find out which is worse

CCP

sparrer wrote: »

Breakfast today was 2 grilled rashers back bacon with fat in the dog, sliced mushroom and egg fried in frylight, glass of grapefruit juice

Must... learn... to... read. I read that as 'back bacon with fat, and the dog, sliced mushroom....' and wondered what on earth your poor dog had done to deserve being eaten for breakfast! :eek: Very well done on your weightloss. :T

Blimus - welcome to the thread, and well done on losing so much so already. :T

mlz - very well done - that's a fantastic amount to lose! :T

ragz - thanks very much - you are a true bearer of good news - I can still eat peanut butter! :j I'll have to put my favourite veg satay stirfry into my mealplan for next week now I now that.

Right, I really must go and do some work now - I'm sitting in the office at the moment, although you'd never guess from the amount of time I'm spending on the forum.

juliethemuse

well done all you losers (does that sound rude?)
i hope to have lost something myself when i weigh myself Monday, this thread is giving me huge encouragement though,
i have had a slice of sons birthday cake , i wish i hadnt, talk about sickly,
right i'm off to do some exercise,

ragz_2

CCP You're welcome, just don't go eating a whole jar a week then blaming me if you don't lose lol. Everything in moderation! Stir-fry recipe would be good though please?

Newlywed The fruit sugar thing is true, of course fruit contains a lot of fruit sugars (fructose), some fruits more than others. These release fairly quickly into the body which is why fruit is a great source of quick energy but it can give you the same peak and trough in blood sugar levels that sugar in anything else will do, if not balanced out with fibre which slows down the sugar being absorbed.
You (and others) may find this article interesting
How blood sugar levels affect weight loss

Seem to have managed to accidentally eat 4 biscuits today, I shall blame DH for leaving the packet lying around. But I did make everyone else burgers for lunch and I had soup and a granary roll, so I still feel quite good. I'd have had a burger though if we weren't having sausage casserole for dinner.

CCP

ragz wrote: »

CCP You're welcome, just don't go eating a whole jar a week then blaming me if you don't lose lol. Everything in moderation! Stir-fry recipe would be good though please?

No problem at all although, like most of my 'recipes', it's a bit inexact!

The sauce is about a tablespoonful of crunchy peanut butter, a shake of dark soy sauce, a glug of sweet chilli sauce and some dried chilli (if you like food as spicy as I do ), stirred together with enough water to make a saucy consistency. Then I just stirfry my chosen veggies, chopped or sliced into bite-sized pieces, with a splash of water (rather than oil, as I find the steam makes the veggies cook quicker); once they're done the sauce goes in and heated through. I like to add cooked noodles (I'm currently working my way through a load I got cheap from Approved Food) at the same time as the sauce to make a meal in a bowl.

I have no idea how many calories this is, but it's probably not too bad as long as I don't go mad on the peanut butter, and it's certainly very scrummy! :drool: