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Weight Loss the Old Style Way! Part 7. Please read posts 1 and 2 before posting.
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morning all
weighed in this morning, stayed the same again. amazed I haven't put anything on tbh, although we did do a lot of walking while we were away. Also did my waist measurement, and I've lost an inch :j not sure if this is because the original measurement was wrong though, I don't feel much difference!
trying to get back to normality today, although I'm working at home, which is not good for my tendency to browse through the kitchen in the afternoons!
meals:
breakfast: none, been up for ages and just don't fancy anything
lunch: chicken sandwich (2 slices wholemeal bread, sainsbury's garlic sauce in place of mayo) apple
dinner: chicken risotto with broad beans and courgettes from the garden
(we had a rotisserie chicken on sunday, trying to use it up!)
CCP could you post your baked courgette recipe please? I'm about to have a glut, and need to find ways to get DH to eat them :rotfl:Little monkey born November 2012:jFroglet due March 20160 -
182lb again today. Still hoping for 180 by the end of the month...
Just to prove I have been keeping track:
Monday
-1 slice toast, marmite ans LF soft cheese
- 1 1/2 clementines
- dried apple
- NCG soup, 1/4 naan bread
- Pork, bacon and leek pie topped with cauliflower cheese mash. (Not very low fat!) with broccolia nd gravy.
- Banana.
Yesterday
-1/2 slice toast, 2 spoonfuls of beans (kids leftovers)
- banana
-tuna and salad wrap
- Dried apple
- Special K mini breaks (freebie, very tasty actually)
- cereal/cake bar (cardboard with jam in... hit the sweet spot though)
- Juice
- Hot choc (instant, still 120 odd calories)
- NCG soup, 1 slice b&b
- Small portion of pork and leek pie topped with cauliflower cheese mash (Monday's dinner)
Today
- 1 toast with marmite and LF soft cheese
- 1 cakey cereal bar.
- Banana
Going to a party tonight, have made a quiche, there will be lots of fatty snacky foods... I will be good! I aimed to go for a run after but may well not manage that...
Interesting article in a running mag I read yesterday...
The Hunger Scale.
With 1 being ravenous and 10 being totally stuffed, you should aim to eat when at 3 or 4 and stop when you reach 6 or 7 (no more than 8). Eating when you are too hungry often means you eat more than you need and eating until you are too full means you take in too many calories.June Grocery Challenge £493.33/£500 July £/£500
2 adults, 3 teensProgress is easier to acheive than perfection.0 -
Don't know if you've tried the following CCP, but it's impossible (?
) to burn rice this way...
Put rice in a large microwavable bowl (I use a polythene one). Pour a kettle of boiling water over the rice, add salt to taste. Cover with film, cook on High til it comes back to the boil then turn off, stir and just leave it in the microwave. I usually find white rice cooks in about 10/15 mins, brown in 20/25 mins. When done turn into a colander and rinse with a kettle of boiling water, turning with a fork to keep it separate. I freeze any not needed in polythene tubs, and find it separates much better when thawed. I use exactly the same method for cooking pasta except I put it back in the bowl after rinsing, add a desertspoon of oil and mix through. Again it freezes beautifully. Both can be thawed and used for hot or cold dishes.
Oh, and allow plenty of room for expansion, first time I did rice it was all over the mw! :rotfl:0 -
LittleMoog - the baked courgette is so simple it's not even really a recipe: you need one courgette per person, trimmed, cut in half lengthways, the seeds removed with a spoon, then put into a baking dish. (If you're growing courgettes and any of them get too big and turn into marrows, it works with those too - just cut the marrow into thick slices and remove the seeds to leave yourself with a ring ready for stuffing. I know this works as the recipe is originally my dad's, invented to deal with a glut of over-grown courgettes / marrows.
) Chop the removed seedy part of the courgette, mix with pre-made chilli con carne or bolognese sauce, then use to fill / top the courgettes. Bake in the oven at 190 degrees until the courgette is tender - mine took just over an hour last night. Grated cheese on top is delicious but far from essential!
Another nice way with courgettes is my dinner for tomorrow - bacon and courgette pasta bake. That's just grated courgettes dry-fried with lean smoky bacon and some finely chopped garlic until most of the water has come out; then mixed with LF soft cheese, seasoning and / or herbs (tarragon is my favourite but it works with most herbs), and cooked pasta. Pile into a baking dish and top with breadcrumbs and parmesan or, healthier if less fun, sliced tomatoes and lots of black pepper, and bake until golden. Very nom indeed! :drool:
sparrer - thank you so much for that rice cooking method - I will definitely be trying that tonight. You may have saved my rice! :ABack after a very long break!0 -
Decided to measure my waist this morning as no movement on the weight front. Well what do you know? my waist is several inches smaller than it was when I joined this thread although I am only 1lb lighter. I thought I felt better, it must be those amazing muscles!
Cheese and onion pie last night was so good we ate it all! I was hoping to save a piece for my lunch today.
Courgette fritters are good. Grate three medium courgettes, place in a colander and salt lightly,leave to drain. When you are ready to cook put the grated courgettes in a clean teatowel and wring out as hard as you can. Place courgettes in a bowl and add 4 tbs of plain flour, 3 tbs grated parmesan (or any strong cheese) plently of salt and pepper. Lightly beat 3 eggs and add cautiously to the courgette mixture, you want the mixtre to hold together but no be too wet. Form in to 2cm thick patties and fry in hot oil turning carfully once the first side is set and golden."doing the best you enjoy, not the best you can tolerate, is truly the best you can do sustainably."0 -
thanks for all the courgette ideas ladies
my mum used to make stuffed marrow with bolognese and white sauce ontop, I'd completely forgotten! I'll have to try it, I've got 8 small courgettes in the fridge and another 20 or so growing on the plants - I planted 5 seeds and they all germinated, so I planted them all out, and then saw in my gardening book that 1-2 plants is sufficient for a family of 4. THere's only 2 of us and DH isn't mad keen on courgettes :rotfl:
I made a similar recipe to the courgette fritters last year - but used indian flavourings and gram flour & yoghurt to help them bind, so they were more like pakoras, lush! Will add those to my courgette ideas list!Little monkey born November 2012:jFroglet due March 20160 -
I've been lurking a little while and just wanted to say well done to everyone and thanks for being inspriational. Hope you don't mind me joining in now and then
I've been trying to lose weight this year for health reasons, and have so far lost 26lb which is so great, I look and feel much better and have dropped one dress size on bottoms and 2 on top. Weirdly very few people have noticed (or told me they've noticed) I have lost weight but I don't care, the important thing is me (and hubby I suppose! lol)
What I have noticed is I seem to eat a lot more than some of you, and I used to diet like that and it didn't work for me. I read about blood sugar levels etc and thought I's try to nibble a bit more (on healthy stuff) and that's what seems to be working for me. I have a bad thyroid and I just think the stricter diets made my body believe it was hibernating and it tried and succeeded to hold on to the fat. So now I scoff lots of seeds and fruit and nutella!! Which actually works out cheaper as I don't crave the bad stuff anymore, like crisps so am not spending money on rubbish.
Something really cool is that I have just learned that a marrow is a big courgette - I did not know that. Thank you CCP for the new knowledge!MFW 2015 so far..... £1808.702014 - £1451 2013 - £1600 2012 - £4145 2011 - £5715 2010 - £3258:)
Big new mortgage from 2017 :shocked:
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If analyze then we make the conclusion that most of the women face the problem of the over weighting and it become difficult for the women to reduce the weight by the use of the exercise. This is the reason that women use the supplements to reduce the weight.0
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Whilst reading all about the use of healthy low fat courgettes my fatty high sugar custard cream fellminto my coffee. i feel that someone above is helping me out here0
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financially_gaga wrote: »Whilst reading all about the use of healthy low fat courgettes my fatty high sugar custard cream fellminto my coffee. i feel that someone above is helping me out here
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Brilliant!0
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