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

vixtress

good evening
have finally had an ok day (well so far) said no to bacon butties and lemon drizzle cake! a bit (a lot, looking back at my day) heavy on the bread though :eek:

it should be an easier than usual weekend as i'm not seeing much of OH. makes it easier to not have wine and man sized portions
also did a fairly big shop today, plenty of salady stuff

today has been:
2 wm toast, 1 cheese triangle, no butter

2 wm toast, tiny scrape of lf spread & 2 small poached eggs

snack: 100g prawns

dinner was some very delicious ratatoulle with a wedge of the 'posh' crusty loaf we had last night

so, to sumarise: BREAD, BREAD, BREAD & MORE BREAD!! whoops

the plan for tomorrow will be something along these lines:

maybe try to have a smoothie for breakfast, have a load of milk that needs using.

luch will probably be a picnic type affair, salad, maybe some parma ham

dinner, i may let the kids have pizza and treat myself to some mussels that i bought today. otherwise may be poached eggs with asparagus soilders

hope your all enjoying the sunshine

vix xx

TravellingAbuela

Morning all. Well yesterday I did behave myself a little bit better, sticking to plan with meals but, come evening, as usual, I was tempted to start ransacking the fridge (and I wasn't even hungry!) but did try to keep to low-cal/low-fat snacks. I picked my goosberries yesterday afternoon, washed, topped and tailed them and put them straight in the freezer before I was tempted to make a pie or crumble with some!

As I got weighed Wednesday to see what my May loss had been, I am now sticking to Wednesday as my weigh-day and already in a panic thinking I may have already put my May loss back on again! I really must find some willpower from somewhere!Thanks for all the tips ragz, by the way.

Todays menu:
B - Porridge with mixed berry compote
L - Poached egg on LF muffin, some lean ham, gently stewed tomatoes. Mixed berries & WW fruity fromage frais with SF jelly.
D - Smoked haddock with a huge salad and a few HM wedges. Maybe a slice of Nimble. Individual meringue, raspberries & FF yogurt.
S - as usual, hopefully (!) will be grapes and satsumas.

Have a good day everybody and enjoy the sunshine - sounds like it's downhill after today!

prophecy_grrl

Morning all

Today's plan is...

B - 1 x wm toast with jam
L - Have just been informed I'm going out with friends, will try to be good, but likely to be in a beer garden somewhere so no promises!
D - something v. small, possibly veg sticks with LF houmous
S - None, to try and compensate for pub lunch

Exercise - walking to pub for lunch

In my defence I'm having a bit of a pants time at home. Today is the first non-working day I can remember that I haven't had my DS with me. Soon-to-be ex is with him today. He's coming back by 6pm so need to keep myself distracted till then else I'll end up in a crying heap on the floor all day!

Hope everyone else manages to be good xxx

bramble1

Right. Back on it today!

Taking it a meal at a time rather than trying to plan my entire day in the morning.

Some hot crumbly cereal this morning for breakfast.

ragz_2

Breakfast - HM low sugar raspberry and oat slice (was a bit yuck) and a ryevita with marmite and light cheese spread.

My course is starting to get really interesting, the bit I was studying last night was about the three most important weight loss food rules.
1. Eat less fat (don't add fat to food when cooking and trim fat off meat, choose leaner cuts)
2. Eat less sugar (don't add sugar to food, don't drink fizzy pop, limit booze)
3. Eat more fibre. (Fibre can't be digested so it's effectively calorie free but is filling so plenty of fibre rich fruit and veg will fill you up)

Off for my run soon, 3 five minute sessions interspersed with walking. Totally do-able (she says with more positivity than she really feels!). I'm on week 5 which is where it starts to get intense, we jump from 5 minutes today, to 8 minutes next session and 20 minutes last session!

CCP

Evening all.

TA - I sympathise with your evening problems - I'm not much of a snack person but that tends to be when I cave in to large portions / unhealthy additions to my evening meal. If I could crack that I'd be fine.

My day went:

B - two white rolls with a thin spreading of butter; two hard-boiled eggs; large glass of banana and strawberry smoothie (I do voluntary work on Saturdays and rarely get time for lunch so I try to have a larger than normal breakfast to tide me over)
L / S - apple
S - bottle of cider while watching the football
D - tomato and onion dahl with four mini WM pitta bread; small piece of apricot and parsnip cake (a gift from a customer, which I think it would be plain rude not to try ); glass or two of white wine

Exercise - a day of moving plants and water containers, followed by a bit of gardening when I got home

prophecy_grrl - hope you're as OK as you can be on such a stressful day.

vixtress

evening all
not been exactly perfect today but its definately an improvement on recent weekends -by a long way definately goes to show that its all OH's fault :rotfl: its the first weekend for ages that ive not seen much of him. we did manage a walk with the kids and a play in the park, i managed to resist a delicious, real dairy, double choc ice cream (just had a lick of his )

so.....today has been:

a big glass of hm strawberry & banana smoothie - ta da, no toast!!

2 poached eggs and a huge bunch of steamed asparagus on just one slice of hm toast

a bowl of mussels in garlic sauce, am embarassed to say these weren't hm but only 130 cals with one crusty roll.

square dark choc & handful of doritos whilst watching BGT with the kids (i hate reality shows so i did well to resist the wine )

tomorrow should be,
not sure about breakfast
lunch will be wrap with marinated chicken & salad
dinner may be chilli & tortilla chips, glass or 2 of red

i will swim 50 x 25m lengths

hope you are havig a good weekend

ragz_2

Evening all, quiet on here today, guess we're all out doing our weekend binge of unhealthy foods!

Food diary
Breakfast - as above
Lunch - pack of crisps (given to me by my neice who had sharing issues so I had to accept!) and a ham and cucumber sandwich, no butter to make up for the fat in the crisps.
Dinner - Spag bol followed by meringue, fat free yogurt and strawberries. (and a few bits of garlic bread, oops)

I was very controlled at dinner (apart from a few bits of garlic bread that snuck in when I was helping to clear up, I'd passed them over at dinner time!) - I had a very small portion of spag bol (same size as my 9 year old niece's) and passed on the grated cheese trough and garlic bread mountain as I knew I was having pudding. Then instead of ice cream AND cream AND toffee sauce (which everyone else had) with my strawberries and meringue I had a fat free yogurt :A. Unfortunately I did scoff a few bits of garlic bread when I was tidying up but I think I didn't do too much damage. Comparing what I ate to what everyone else managed I had hardly anything.
I cannot believe the amount my SIL and BIL eat :mad: they are grossly overweight and beyond caring, they had a HUGE pile of spag bol, about half a baguette each and a mountain of cheese, then had seconds! The worse thing is they appear to be getting their foster daughter into the same habits as she had a serving the same as mine then they dished her up seconds (which personally I would not have done as we were having pudding) even bigger than the first serving. I did comment (couldn't help myself) but they just said she has a healthy appetite, personally I consider that to be unhealthy, the child clearly can't tell she is full that quickly after eating and possibly only has seconds to please her foster parents (at least that's my opinion) so they are just encouraging her into bad habits. She then had two puddings! I'm sure she has put on weight since she's been with them, I know kids should eat well and not worry about their weight but I really think they are going to make her fat (cannot stand fat kids, no reason for it except bad parenting I think it should be considered neglect to let your kids get fat because they will struggle with that for the rest of their life). But anyway, that's me ranting about rubbish none of you care about so I'll shut up

ragz_2

Vixtress well done sounds like you did really well today, that food plan looks great for a weekend! I would give you a virtual gold star if I knew how! (I think it would take several whiskeys to get me to watch reality TV)

newlywed

I'm not being unhealthy - i've been a good girl!

I've dusted the bedroom, cleaned the kitchen, scrubbed the oven door, walked to the library to get low fat cook books, carried two very heavy bags home from lidl - where the nearest thing to something naughty is dishwasher tablets!!!

Food today:

b: 2 wbx and nana, a couple of strawb and a few blueberries
s: 1 crumpet with jam
l: salad
s: yoghurt and strawbs
d: turkey bacon and potato casserole with lots of veg
s: cherries baked in the oven with an attempt at meringue on top