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

bramble1

I've gotten into the habit of eating fruit at about 10:30/11:00 - then i eat lunch at 12, then i don't snack till dinner time.

At work if i have food i have to eat it all at once, then i don't think about food again till i get home (no shops etc near my office, so i can't cheat!)

I'm going to try and get up a bit earlier tomorrow, make my fruit salad at home and sit and enjoy it before work.

Winter time i find it easier to eat as i have porridge to warm me up - can you eat it cold in the summer?

TizerCat

Can i join? Have been dieting since Feb and had lost almost 2 stone. Have another 2 stone to go and seem to have stopped losing. Also I am doing the Cheap Family Recipes to keep my food budget down and when I did it before I put on weight. so I need to lose weight and keep my food budget down!

Currently sticking to 3 meals a day and no snacking. Will do weigh in tomorrow and then once a week. If this doesn't work i will have reduce the portion sizes or tweek the recipes to reduce the energy content. Will aim to increase exercising too.

TravellingAbuela

Morning all and a warm welcome to TizerCat. You have done very well so far so hope you can soon start losing again. Well I went off the straight and narrow again yesterday, I seem to have my naughty head on at the moment! I was ok sticking to plan at meal times, it was inbetween/evening that was the problem!

We are off over to the caravan as soon as DH gets up (he's not an early riser like me!) and staying till Thursday evening - need to be back for the childminding on Friday! I have just been packing our provisions - as usual, a low-fat box for me and a full-fat box for him! Not a bad forecast so, hopefully, we should get some walking done (avoiding pubs and ice-cream shops along the way this time!) Today's eats:

B - Porridge with raspberries
L - HM Tomato & Basil soup with a ham salad Thins sarnie & bag of Aldi cheese curls. Sliced banana & strawberries in WW choc dessert.
D - Quorn sausages, salad & HM wedges. Slice WW granary bread. SF jelly, meringue nest, mixed berries & dollop FF yogurt.
S - Grapes, nectarine, satsuma.

Have a good week everybody.

LittleMoog

Morning all

didn't have a chance to get online while I was home with my family for the weekend. My Nannie died yesterday afternoon, htanks for all the thoughts last week.
Can't say my food choices have been brilliant this weekend, understandably, but I tried to stick to plan as much as I could!

Saturday:
Breakfast: bacon sandwich (1 slice bread, 1 slice bacon, ketchup and real butter )
Lunch: beans on toast, apple
Dinner: takeaway curry

Sunday:
Breakfast: Muesli and dried apricots, SS milk, then when sister and nieces came down she made scotch pancakes for us all, so 4 scotch pancakes with jam, some grapes and an apricot :eek:
Lunch: shepherds pie and peas, fruitcake
Dinner: chicken fajitas

Both days, about 8 cups of tea, so probably a pint of milk all together. With 6 women in one house there's always someone putting the kettle on :rotfl:

Exercise: running around after nieces and nephew.

Weighed in this morning, I've put on a pound this week. Not surprised! will try and get back into the swing of things this week.

So today's meals:
Breakfast - nature valley granola bar (from my emergency stash at work!)
Lunch: Carrot and coriander soup, yoghurt, apple, satsumas
Dinner: undecided, will pick up something at the supermarket after work.

Exercise: 45 minutes of swimming after work, plus supermarket (which should count as exercise as I hate it so much :rotfl:)

StickyNikki

Thanks Everyone for the birthday wishes.

My birthday as actually on Saturday which was spent with my family at my Dads house. Healthy tea too with BBQ Pork Loins, salad & baked potatoes. (just ignore the big slab of chocolate cake and a fair few drinks!)

Yesterday we went to see our new 3 week old puppy, just another 4 weeks and he can come home with us. On the way home we went to the Trafford Centre for lunch and ended up with a Thai Banquet. Needless to say we didnt eat for the rest of the day!

Over all only put 1lb over the weekend so I dont think I did too badly. :j

Today:

B - Branflakes with SS milk & Banana
L - Beef & Ricket s/wich on wholemeal bread & LF Yoghurt
S - Handful of grapes
D - Salmon & coucous salad

p.s. Littlemoog thoughts go out to you for the loss of your Nannie

CCP

Morning all.

TizerCat - welcome to the thread!

Today for me:

B - two slices spelt bread with raspberry jam
S - banana
L - pate and rocket on spelt bread; cucumber sticks
S - grapes
D - tomato and mushroom pasta bake with a very small quantity of cheese on top

TA - have a lovely time in your caravan.

LittleMoog - I'm very sorry about your loss of your grandmother. My thoughts are with you and your family.

lovetopaint

Thoughts to you LittleMoog.


Morning all. I was struck down with a case of stiltonitus at the weekend, was a bad case.

Back on track now, loads of planning to do to make sure I don't deviate.

Lazy_Liz

Morning all,
Hi Tizercat welcome to the thread. When you are doing your cheap recipies watch out for portion size and of course seconds/leftovers. I find if I make a big casserole it all gets eaten regardless of how much should actual be on the plate!

LittleMoog, thinking of you.

Weight stayed the same, which is no surprise and actualy good as I have hardly moved an inch with this cough. A better today but still suffering.

A while back I posted a tip I overherd a personal trainer giving his client at my gym. "Stand up from your chair without using your arms to improve your thigh strenght" I've been doing that and am amazed at the improvment, I need to listen for more tips, I certainly can't afford a personal trainer but I'm not ashamed to listen in and get what I can for free;)

Lazy_Liz

Just been reading Bramble1 about breakfast. Do you eat your evening meal very late? less than 3 hours before going to bed? I find if I eat late I really don't want breakfast and often can wait until lunch time boefore eating. However if I have eaten normaly and miss breakfast for some reason, I'm starving by mid morning.
Although having a sensible breakfast is a good idea we are not all the same and you seem to need a late breakfast, make it work for you.
You can eat porridge cold but it thickens up and goes really solid.

Eltee12

Morning All
(or afternoon, depending on how long it takes me to post, am easily distracted)

Hugs to anyone who needs them

had WI last Friday, was SHOCKED to find had lost 2.5 lbs since 1st July :eek: . Think is to do with being really busy at work and making myself busy at home so am not doing so much boredom eating. I did think I was comfort eating, but it's deffo boredom.

Today

Br - Mr M's cereal breakfast buscuit (not w33tabix!), milk, sug
Lu - ham, salad, mustard sarnie (just finished it! had brekkers at 6.30)
Sn - bananana
D - might be pie, mash & beans or HM lasagne & salad

Walking - 10 mins this morning, planned 20 mins after work

Tuesday plan

Br - see Monday
Lu - Tuna salad sarnie
Sn - whatever fruit I buy from fruit man
(grapes for eyes, pear nose and a banana smile - that's fruit man)
D - whatever I didn't have last night

Walking - 20 mins before work, half hour lunchtime, 20 mins after work

EL