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

sparrer

A no pressure day today so I was able to sit at the table and eat each meal sensibly with the garden door open to let in the sunshine - I could get used to this!

B 2 slices ww toast with lf spread and marmalade, grapefruit juice
L Dry-fried egg, hm wedges sprinkled with 1/2 beef stock cube
D Chicken curry, naan bread
Snacks grapes, pear, 2 satsumas, banana

Bought lots of lovely salady things this afternoon so no excuse not to eat properly over the weekend

TravellingAbuela

Morning all. Well I have just braved the scales - 9st 7lbs - so that's half a pound back on. Not a lot I know but another half a pound off would have been better! So it's a case of "must try harder" yet again! Off food shopping this morning and DH is in for a shock as none of his usual goodies will be going in the trolly - I just can't be trusted not to eat them!

Today's menu:

B - Porridge with raspberries
L - HM Red Pepper soup, bowl of salad and a Thins sarnie. WW berry fromage frais.
D - Jacket potato with prawns and more salad. SF jelly and small sliced banana, dollop of FF yogurt.
S - Cherries, grapes & satsuma.
Exercise - walking the aisles of Asda, cleaning up, then ironing!

Have a good weekend everybody and hope you are having a better start than here - drizzle and grey sky!

lesley1954

Purpleclutterbuck wrote: »

Hiya to all you! "OS welcomes careful eaters!"I 'm trying to follow a careful plan and I'm going to read back for lots of ideas but all this talk of food makes me hungry!
Has anyone got an idea for a tasty dip to have at lunchtime with lots of chopped veg /fruit I quite like tatziki but I need a quick low fat dip recipe or suggestion to fill me up- please????

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Hi this may be a bit late in the day but I found a fab recipe which uses lean mince beef/pork but does equally well with chicken or turkey and has great variable dips as well.

Greek Patties:
400g minced chicken/turkey
1 red onion
70g brown seeded bread for breadcrumbs (roughage)
1tbs dried oregano
1 egg, beaten
1 clove of garlic, crushed
200ml 0% Greek yoghurt
2 beefsteak tomatoes
2 wholemeal pitta breads
Frylight
Method:
Mix chicken/turkey mince with breadcrumbs,beaten egg,half finely chopped onion and half crushed clove of garlic and salt and pepper to taste, form into approx 12 patties and fry using frylight.
Cut the beef tomatoes into wedges slice remaining onion and put them over the tomatoes
Dip:
Here you can use either radishes,pieces of cucumber,peppers I squished some in my blender and left some more roughly chopped for a crunchy texture, add the rest of the garlic and mix into the yoghurt.
The radishes make a pinkish dip, cucumber makes a pale green dip and the peppers, I used red,(dependent on which color pepper you use) make a more deeper red color dip all very tasty.
Cut the warmed pitta bread into strips
You could just make the dip to go with your carrot sticks and stuff.
The whole dish is very low fat, it doesn't take long to prepare I really don't have the time or the inclination to make something that takes ages to prepare and cook (lazy or what :rotfl:) and I had it for lunch.
Hope this is of use to you

sloan

9 st 13 again this morning.
B: 1 slice toast, margarine, baked beans, 3 cups coffee with ss milk
L: macaroni cheese
salad

Must try to get some more exercise in!

ragz_2

Had to go to page 3 to find you all!

Just popped on to quickly share that I did my 5k Race For Life today, in 30 minutes 45 seconds!
So I had chips and a very greasy very big spring roll for lunch! Pain au chocolat for breakfast and curry for dinner... with wine...

I think I earned it, it was pouring down when I ran!

Weighed this morning at 172.2lb am now going to weigh on those scales every saturday morning as my official weigh in rather than using the Wii. I like the pounds rather than stone, don't know why. I'd love to be 170 by the end of the month.

sparrer

Congrats on the Race for Life ragz, well done for doing it even though the weather was foul :T. Don't know how true it is but I heard that the wii isn't absolutely acurate so scales are probably better

B - 2 slices WW wm with 2 dry fried eggs, grapefruit juice
L - Cheese salad, pear
T - Crust of bread with apricot jam , never could resist a fresh crust
Snacks - scoop lf ice cream, nectarine, apple, grapes

S

TravellingAbuela

Morning all. Well done ragz, an even bigger round of applause for doing it in horrible weather. Oooh sparrer you have my mouth watering with thoughts of the fresh crust - but how you stopped just at the crust on a fresh baked loaf I don't know! I'd have worked my way through the whole loaf!

I actually stuck to plan yesterday and no grazing in the evening, which is my usual downfall time. Perhaps I have got my willpower back (for a few days at least!!) Menu for today:

B - Porridge with raspberries (AGAIN! But it's what I find most filling and just about keeps me going till lunch)
L - Quorn lamb-style grill with new pots, carrots, swede, peas. Splash of gravy. Small sliced banana, strawberries & dollop of FF vanilla yogurt.
D - Tuna salad with 2 slices Nimble granary. WW layered berries on meringue nest and SF jelly.
S - Cherries, grapes, satsumas.

Hoped to have a walk over the moors today but it looks like we have rain on the way again. That's scuppered that idea! I'm a fair-weather walker these days I'm afraid. Have a good day all.

sloan

Unfortunately, ate too much vegetarian chili and then twix biscuits yesterday. Weight up to 10st again this morning!

Must be better today.

B: oats cereal wthe ss milk, 2 cups coffee with ss milk
L/D: Vegetarian chili and rice

ragz_2

172.8lb today. The problem with having scales in the bathroom, constant weighing! Cake with custard and jam for breakfast. It needed using up! Aim to really really try from tomorrow until end of the month as there are no more occasions like birthdays where I'll be having extra food...

Ida_Notion

Wow, Ragz - well done on The Race For Life! Your family must be so proud.

This morning I can report my first gain since starting this. As predicted, my lost pound came back, but at least it didn't bring any mates to stay. I can put this down to several things - partly the Time Of The Month and partly going a bit too mad with Yellow Sticker stuff and then feeling obliged to eat more of it than I should before it went off because nobody else was interested. Mostly though, it's due to the kind of apathy and deliberate self-sabotage that it's not been uncommon for me to indulge in in the past when I feel things are already going pear-shaped anyway. For instance, late last night I ate one and a half Terry's Chocolate Oranges (yup, the night before weigh-in day!), and I don't even like Terry's Chocolate Oranges. I felt positively sick afterwards. These last two weeks have been peppered with similar incidents of bizarre behaviour and so I'm surprised the damage hasn't been worse, but it stops here and it stops now.

THIS IS THE INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH LINE I'M DRAWING UNDER IT

I've already sat down and planned much of what I intend to eat this week from what's available, and although there are two more Birthdays left this month (mine next Sunday and my husband's a week later), they're both on a weigh-in day, so I can hop on the scales first thing before doing any damage and then spend the rest of the week behaving :rotfl:I'm thinking of weighing in more often (only when things seem to be going well, just to give my inner self-saboteur the odd poke in the eye to keep it at bay ), but only recording the Sunday results as usual, and am going to make efforts to resume the 'pampering me' time (AKA 'hogging the bathroom'!) which I've enjoyed in recent weeks but seem to have neglected lately.

I'm also thinking about what exercise I can incorporate into my life too, as my daughter breaks up for the holidays for six weeks on Friday, and - apart from participating in the Yellow Sticker scrum at Asda - the twice-daily walk to the school and back is about the only exercise I get. I've abandoned plans to ask for an exercise bike for my Birthday as being realistic, we just haven't got the room here, but I had a little 'boing!' on my daughter's ten-foot trampoline (after checking the neighbours' cars were out!) and enjoyed it so I will probably try to do it a bit more often. In addition, I'm hoping to start taking her on at wii Sports (world domination, here I come :rotfl:) and have a kickabout in the park with her now and again too. I'm intent on doing a bit of stretching, toning and yoga most evenings now as well.

Eat less, move more and see off the inner saboteur. Sounds like a plan :j

I'm not as bothered as I thought I might be about gaining that pound. In the scheme of things, it's only a few short weeks since I'd have given ny eye teeth to be the weight I am today, and having my pound back for a short-stay holiday has given me a kick up the rear sufficient to get me planning my next move, and more motivated than I've been in a while. I hope everyone else is feeling the buzz too, and that it's reflected this time next week in some nice weight losses for us all :T