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

LittleMoog

hello all, I'm back from my weekend at the coast, we ended up staying an extra night to avoid the sunday night traffic. Went a bit off the wagon food and drink wise, but also quite a lot of exercise so hoping it's balanced out. planning to be extra good for the rest of this week, as I'm off for a girly day in London with my best friend on saturday, and I'm sure it will involve lots of eating/drinking we've already planned a trip to the hummingbird bakery for cupcakes, and that's just the start of the day

so today:
breakfast: none slept in til 11am
lunch: soup and ryvitas
dinner: HM spicy lamb burgers (grilled), roasted peppers, herby yoghurt and 2 WW pittas

exercise: swimming

Boodle

Love to Paint - you could try soy yoghurt as it is lower in saturated fat than dairy yoghurt. Although the plain one has a different taste to dairy yoghurt, Alpro's vanilla soya yoghurt is very nice.

Yesterday:
B: 4 tbsp hm muesli with oat milk. Tea with oat milk.
L: 3 oatcakes, 2 tbsp hummus and 1 tsp lime pickle, salad.
S: In the afternoon I had 2 cups of tea with oat milk.
1 'omelette', ratatouille, salad.
Supper: Glass of red wine. Half a dozen green olives, 3 broccoli florets, 1 tbsp hummus.

Today:
B: 4 tbsp hm muesli with ot mik. tea with oat milk.
L: 1 heel of a 50/50 loaf with olive oil spread + mustard, 2 slices of 'beef', half a tomato.
Quarter of a wholemeal sub topped with tomato sauce, hummus and baked. With salad.
Not sure if I will want supper or not, and what it might be.

slowlyfading

Today's food:

b - HM banana and strawberry smoothie
l - chicken soup
t - pesto chicken and roasted new potatoes, with one slice of bread, rocky bar
s - 2 custard creams

I need to focus some more...

ragz_2

Lovetopaint Don't apologise for the links, the more the better! I love learning new stuff.
Manged to stay on track pretty well today, no exercise as yet but there's still time... dinner is now fish, chargrilled veg and RICE as I had no room in the oven for the wedges!

sparrer

Not a good start but it did improve a little toward the end..til I remembered the ice cream in the freezer

B 1/2 bowl FnF, skimmed milk
Snack slice chocolate cake (couldn't offend my friend )
L 2 croissants with lf spread, one with lf cheese, one with tspn marmalade
D grilled mackerel with 1 tspn bearnaise, 8 mini aspagarus spears. Slice fresh pineapple
Snacks satsuma, banana, 1 scoop lf ice cream

Have a good evening

Miss_Penny_Pincher_2

well done on the losses.

love to paint I'm glad it helped a little that's some interesting information on fats - I would not have thought yoghurt would be medium saturated fat as I mistakenly thought full fat yoghurt generally seems to be under 5% fat. i try to have mackerel fillet each week but when comparing the fat / calories to white fish get a little nervous lol

i've been eating too much bread i think but tried to get back on track today. in black is what eaten today / blue is plan for tomorrow.

b: special k red berries with half ff milk and half water / same
s: pear, a chocolate from chocolate box at work, cherries / orange
l: HM fajita using 1 tortilla wrap and lots of low fat filling - really enjoyed this so definitely going to make more for work lunches - used Aldi red kidney beans rather than refried beans as currently only 16p a tin / organic leek, potato and chive soup (29p Home Bargains), lil pincher's LO bio yoghurt, full fat but only a small amount left and soooo tasty. Anyway, research shows that low fat yoghurts and foods can make you overeat so that's my excuse
s: apple, salsa dip with carrot instead of tortilla chips! / plum, salsa dip (only 32cals / 0.2g fat per 100g and is actually quite tasty with carrot)
d: chicken leg with lots of veg and mint sauce / HM Thai green curry made with lots of vegetables and reduced fat coconut milk and small portion brown rice

Exercise: 1 hour walking, 30mins washing / 1 hour walking, 40 mins Kinect Dance Central

CCP

Morning all.

I haven't posted for a while as my PC's caught a virus and I never feel right using my work computer to read and post on the forum somehow. I haven't been having a great time since I got back from holiday and I've found myself slipping back into bad habits - I weighed myself this morning and I haven't put on any weight but I haven't lost any either, so I think I need to start posting again to get myself back on track.

Today goes:

B - two and a half small slices of spelt bread with ginger jam; two apricots
S - banana
L - [STRIKE]ham and coleslaw salad; chunk of spelt bread; small portion of olives[/STRIKE] scrap that - it's not salad weather! I bought some LF tomato soup and a salmon sandwich instead - it's probably not as healthy as salad, but it's a darn sight more warming!
S - fresh cherries :drool:
D - pasta with tuna, pesto and cherry tomatoes

Exercise - I intend to go for a walk at lunchtime but I'm not sure how far - I've picked up a nasty cough which has rather dimmed my already limited enthusiasm for exercise.

I'll catch up on everyone's progress later (during my lunchbreak, at least in theory ) - have a good day, all.

lovetopaint

Sparrer and Miss Penny Pincher - glad the fats link useful, it has made me look at the food I eat regularly, though we all need a treat every now and then (cake!).

Boodle - thanks for the soy yoghurt suggestion, will have a try .

CCP - nice to have you back, keep going .

LittleMoog

Morning all
Weighed in this morning, lost 3lb since last Monday

Plan for todays meals:
Breakfast: 20g cereal, yoghurt and 5 dried apricots
lunch: soup + 3 ryvitas, pear and satsuma
dinner: HM beef/lentil chilli in tortillas baked with tomato sauce

Exercise: pilates tonight

We're also planning to go to the cinema, as we're on hols, may have a few of DH's sweeties, or maybe a small popcorn.

Boodle

Everything yesterday went well. Then when we sat down to watch Walking Dead for the first time (recorded them back when they were on TV) and so hubby made some oven chips and buttered me a slice of bread as well as himself... then I ate 2 little oaty biscuits. Bad Boodle - and I say that cos I didn't really want them. Tonight I will be prepared and make a bowl of popcorn - its popcorn kinda TV after all.

Yesterday's excercise: 1 mile walk, back was uphill carrying a 4 year old :O Then another mile walk about 8ish. I need to do more toning and get back into yoga will also attempt Wii tennis again.

Did 100 sit-ups this morning. Mile walk pushing buggy. Will be doing another mile walk later on. Also aim for 30 mintues of yoga and another 100 sit-ups before bed.

B: 1 slice of 50/50, scraping of olive oil spread and some hm berry jam. Tea with oat milk.
L: About to make a salad with 2 tbsp hummus, baby avocado and 2-3 oatcakes. Will probably have a tea or coffee with oat milk afterwards.
Sweet potato bake with salad.

Later on will have some popcorn and a small glass of red.

ETA: Love to paint - If you fancy trying the soy yoghurts, I also like the Peach and Pear Alpro ones that come in a 4pack even though I have never been a fan of fruity yoghurts - but DH and DDs love all the flavours.