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

Eenymeeny

Hi, I'm back... got very discouraged because I wasn't losing any weight and you all seemed to be doing so well. But, it has to be done, so here I am again. (Puts on brave smile)
Has anyone any thoughts on this 'discovery' about people on type 2 diabetic diets losing weight? Sorry, I haven't researched it, but remember my MIL losing weight when she was diagnosed with diabetes as she got older. I told her that it was just that she was on a healthier diet than before. Baked potatoes instead of chips etc ... I just feel that I can't lose weight although I don't eat a lot. I do know that I should move more though.
Well done to all of you losers, I'm so envious! and Dawn French... four and a half stone! As she said, I just have to eat less and walk more!

LittleMoog

Morning all
Weighed in this morning, 0.5lb off this week, very pleased with that as I had a day out last weekend, and have been poorly since so DH has been sorting the evening meals, and I've done no exercise
feeling mostly better so hoping to get back to exercising more this week.

todays meals:
breakfast: cereal + yoghurt, apple
lunch: HM minestrone soup, satsumas
dinner: sausage and mash, veg and onion gravy, plus a few beers as we've got friends coming over (and sausages are almost the last thing in the freezer which I'm hoping to defrost tomorrow! :rotfl:)
snacks: cupcakes iced with leftover frosting from the freezer: I'm saving 4 of these for dessert with friends tonight, but will take the rest when I go home to visit family this afternoon, so may eat one then too :cool:

Shelleyphant

Good morning all

Hi Eenymeeny - If it helps I've been plateuing for 6 months now. It's driven me to insanity trying to work out why and getting upset and discouraged. I've given up now and am just following the diet and keeping up with the running ho hum

TravellingAbuela - well done! Thats nearly a bag of sugar!

I was going to weigh myself today but have forgotten and just had breakfast doh!

Plans for today...

B - two toast and low fat spread.
5mi Run
L - Subway meal (picked out the lowest options from the website with diet coke and will donate the cookie to OH)
EM - Red pepper bake (see below for recipe)

Am at my fella's tonight, for some bizarre reason I always feel like I want to overeat when I'm there. No idea why as he never has any food in

Red pepper bake, serves 4.

400g fresh Penne (or 160g dried)
700g Passata with onion and garlic (or Asda smart price with crushed up garlic in )
12 olives in brine, drained
4 spring onions, sliced
10 fresh basil leaves torn up
200g Roasted peppers from a jar, drained and sliced finely.
75g Mild blue cheese crumbled
30g Parmesan, grated
1/2 slice white bread, diced small
spray oil, salt and pepper

Heat oven to 180.
Cook the pasta and return to the pan with 100ml of the cooking water.
Stir in the passta, olives, onions and basil. Season as required.
lace in an oven proof dish and scatter over the peppers followed by the blue cheese, breadcrumbs and parmesan.
Spray the top of the bake and bake for 25 mins. Finish with the rest of the Parmesan.

TravellingAbuela

Thanks for the recipe Shelleyphant, that sounds delicious! Really I am better with recipes that just serve 1 person - recipes to serve 4 usually end up as 1 giant portion just for me!!! I cannot be trusted to eat 1 portion and save 3! However, next time my DD (vegetarian) is here for a meal I shall give it a go as it's all stuff I usually have in. So thanks for that.

Ida_Notion

Eenymeeny wrote: »

I just feel that I can't lose weight although I don't eat a lot. I do know that I should move more though.

It might help to get yourself a small notebook. On the first page, the one facing the cover, rule several columns to record a weekly date and what you weighed and - if you want to - your measurements too. Use subsequent pages on the left hand side to record what you ate on a given day, and the pages on the right hand side to record any exercise you did that day (so that for each day you have two pages facing each other and can see at a glance what you did).

I keep all my notes on the computer since I know that my only problems are having eyes bigger than my belly and being bone idle, but the point of the notebook is that if you stick to the plot for six weeks or so and find that nothing shifts at all, you'll have something you can show to your doctor so that s/he can either point out where you're going wrong or see that there is an issue beyond your control and can do something to help you.

So far I've found that it's not necessary, and probably even damaging, to aim for 100% good behaviour (not to mention impossible ), but what is necessary is brutal honesty - if only with yourself - and the view that this is a long-term (forever) thing. Move towards a lifestyle in which you treat yourself much better than you've been doing, in a way that you can maintain relatively easily. Look to a future life where you've cut out unnecessary junk and are enjoying smaller portions of lower fat or sugar versions of the stuff you already eat, and claim that future NOW, rather than attempting to exist on grapefruit and cup-a-soup with the intention of taking up all your bad habits again once you reach target, and you're almost guaranteed to hit the weight you should be, and in a way that will virtually maintain itself when you get there.

Likewise with exercise - start small if you need to, with habits you know you can maintain. If I were to take my own advice regarding the notebook above, the pages which were supposed to show exercise would mostly be blank. I see talk of pool lengths swum on here as something to admire rather than aspire to (I can't remember the last time I got into a pool, never mind trying to swim from one end of it to the other!), and running is something I've done about twice in the last year with the sole aim of avoiding someone before I was spotted by them However, I do try to build more movement into my day, especially with cleaning and decluttering. The rule 'If you think of something that can be done in less than five minutes, get up and do it now' is great for keeping you on the go and will eventually get you a reputation for being dead organized as well as slender

Another thing that's helped me has been thinking not of how far I've got to go, but how far I've come. Even at the end of the first day when I had lost nothing at all I was congratulating myself with thoughts like 'Wow - I haven't binged for twenty-four hours!'. This was sufficient encouragement to take me to two days, then to three... before I knew it, a week had passed and I was recording my first loss. I'm only about a third of the way in, but I try not to think too much about the remaining blubber and instead revel in stuff like how much better my clothes already look and feel on me, and how much quicker it is to shave your legs when there's less acreage to cover.

Sorry if I've banged on a bit. I'm not the fount of all knowledge when it comes to this and still have a lot to learn, but this is probably the best thing I have ever done for myself. I have wasted too many years viewing it as a problem so big that it wasn't even worth me attempting to tackle it, and now that I know a bit different I want everyone else to feel the glow too. I'd hate to think there was anyone out there who really still felt that it couldn't be done. It CAN, even with the odd fall from the wagon (take that from someone who's spent a lot of this week metaphorically running along behind it!), and we're all here to help

Shelleyphant

Ida_Notion wrote: »

It might help to get yourself a small notebook. On the first page, the one facing the cover, rule several columns to record a weekly date and what you weighed and - if you want to - your measurements too. Use subsequent pages on the left hand side to record what you ate on a given day, and the pages on the right hand side to record any exercise you did that day (so that for each day you have two pages facing each other and can see at a glance what you did).

I keep all my notes on the computer since I know that my only problems are having eyes bigger than my belly and being bone idle, but the point of the notebook is that if you stick to the plot for six weeks or so and find that nothing shifts at all, you'll have something you can show to your doctor so that s/he can either point out where you're going wrong or see that there is an issue beyond your control and can do something to help you.

So far I've found that it's not necessary, and probably even damaging, to aim for 100% good behaviour (not to mention impossible ), but what is necessary is brutal honesty - if only with yourself - and the view that this is a long-term (forever) thing. Move towards a lifestyle in which you treat yourself much better than you've been doing, in a way that you can maintain relatively easily. Look to a future life where you've cut out unnecessary junk and are enjoying smaller portions of lower fat or sugar versions of the stuff you already eat, and claim that future NOW, rather than attempting to exist on grapefruit and cup-a-soup with the intention of taking up all your bad habits again once you reach target, and you're almost guaranteed to hit the weight you should be, and in a way that will virtually maintain itself when you get there.

Likewise with exercise - start small if you need to, with habits you know you can maintain. If I were to take my own advice regarding the notebook above, the pages which were supposed to show exercise would mostly be blank. I see talk of pool lengths swum on here as something to admire rather than aspire to (I can't remember the last time I got into a pool, never mind trying to swim from one end of it to the other!), and running is something I've done about twice in the last year with the sole aim of avoiding someone before I was spotted by them However, I do try to build more movement into my day, especially with cleaning and decluttering. The rule 'If you think of something that can be done in less than five minutes, get up and do it now' is great for keeping you on the go and will eventually get you a reputation for being dead organized as well as slender

Another thing that's helped me has been thinking not of how far I've got to go, but how far I've come. Even at the end of the first day when I had lost nothing at all I was congratulating myself with thoughts like 'Wow - I haven't binged for twenty-four hours!'. This was sufficient encouragement to take me to two days, then to three... before I knew it, a week had passed and I was recording my first loss. I'm only about a third of the way in, but I try not to think too much about the remaining blubber and instead revel in stuff like how much better my clothes already look and feel on me, and how much quicker it is to shave your legs when there's less acreage to cover.

Sorry if I've banged on a bit. I'm not the fount of all knowledge when it comes to this and still have a lot to learn, but this is probably the best thing I have ever done for myself. I have wasted too many years viewing it as a problem so big that it wasn't even worth me attempting to tackle it, and now that I know a bit different I want everyone else to feel the glow too. I'd hate to think there was anyone out there who really still felt that it couldn't be done. It CAN, even with the odd fall from the wagon (take that from someone who's spent a lot of this week metaphorically running along behind it!), and we're all here to help

I do this also - it's definitely the way to go. I always thought I didn't eat a lot till I wrote it down - Jeez did I pack it away! ha ha I also recommend a cheap diary to spend ten to fifteen minutes writing in every night. I usually write what happened during the day, how I was feeling and whether I stuck to my diet. It helps me spot patterns and learn to avoid things that are unconsciously triggering me to overeat.

CCP

Afternoon all.

Congrats to all the losers - there's been some great losses this week. :T

Eenymeeny - welcome back to the thread. Please try not to get discouraged - I know it's diffickt (speaking as someone who hasnt lost anything in the past three weeks ), but we will all get there in the end. It might be worth trying the diabetes diet you mention - I sometimes find that trying something - anything - differnet is what's needed to get things moving again.

Ida - that's a fantastically helpful post - I wish it was possible to thank a post multiple times. :T


I was a bit naughty last night - I found a block of feta cheese in the frisdge that I'd forgotten about, and decided a bit of that was just what my salad needed. Unfortunately, 'a bit' turned into 'a very large bit' - oops! I managed to stay off the alcohol, though, despite the temptation to have a glass of something cold to relieve the pain in my burnt hand. (I wish they'd fix that tap at work - it's plain dangerous! :mad:)

Today goes:

Brunch - two white rolls with lean bacon and HM guacamole; three quarters of a nectarine (the other quarter was furry :eek:)
Snack - large glass of apple and ginger juice; something from my Graze box (possibly the spicy crackers as they're about the lowest calorie option)
Dinner - French pepper and anchovy tart with mixed salad

Exercise - I had a brief mooch up to the shops earlier, and will try and do a bit of gardneing later

Have a good day, all.


PS - apologies for all the typos - I have a cat on my lap 'helping' with this post!

lickylonglips

another naughty day as had a day out in glasgow... daren't even divulge what i ate........

sparrer

missed yesterday as not on top of the world so very little intake - grapefruit juice, soup, lots of tea.

Today was better...
B slice of toast with scrape spread
L sausage & bacon casserole, few butter beans. Scoop ice cream
T slice hm bread, cold sausage
Snack bowl F & F

Ida I agree about getting up and doing small chores. My exercise is very limited (no walking, running, swimming etc) but I can get up and get something done during a break, washing up, clean cupboard fronts, wipe down cooker, vac the lounge rug, etc. Trouble is I get halfway through doing something and the programme starts again so it's a choice between finishing the job in hand, or watching the programme. Can't leave a job half done so I tend to miss the end of a lot of news, documentaries and films :doh:

sloan

Good day yesterday, although did succombe to a glass of wine with a friend last night. Weight: 10st 2 1/4 this morning.

B: 1 weetabix with dregs of muesli left in packet. ss milk, 2 coffees
L/D: steamed veg with lentils, gravy.

Possibly, another couple of coffees during the day with ss milk, but just water apart from those.