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

The_Dragon

So far today for me

Glass of water

I am about to eat a cheese sandwich and pour a mug of tea, and supper will be the other half of a beef in red wine casserole (nice and easy, chopped some carrots, leeks and onions into a pan, added half a pack of Sainsbugs frozen beef cubes and half a bottle of half price red wine and stuck it in the oven at 175 for 3 hours!) with either rice or mash (depending on what Dr Dragon fancies)

Lazy_Liz

Made some bread with chick peas in it in the breadmaker last night, found it on one of the bread maker threads. Its very nice too.
Also made a raita salad to go with a grilled lamb chop and rice, its really easy and refreshing, you might like to try this.
Chop up any salad veg in to bite size chunks (not leaves) (toms, red peppers, spring onions, cucumber, grated carrot etc depending on what you like) add a handful of chopped fresh mint and season well, dress with plain yogurt. If you want to add beetroot do this immediatly before serving or it will all go pink! You can also do this with a teaspoon or less of mint sauce from a jar.

Perhaps you can see what my problem is... I love cooking and then eating!:rotfl:

CCP

Lazy Liz - could you possibly provide a link to the chickpea bread recipe, please - it sounds really unusual and delicious (the breadmaker is one of my major problems - I just love freshly baked bread! ).

The_Dragon

Could the chick pea bread be done with sour dough? that being the bread we make in this household!

Had cheese sarnie, put my calories so far into calorie count and without the carbs with supper I am up to 660 calories out of 1800 , um could be rice AND a glass of the left over wine tonight :rotfl:

TizerCat

TizerCat wrote: »

Today Breakfast = porridge, milk and sugar and coffee.
Lunch = HM Chicken and potatoe soup and 2 slices bread and marg
Dinner = 3 pork sausages and onions, mustard mash and b.beans.

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OK have to add a slice of jam on bread and marg and a cheese sandwich

springiness

Good day:

B - cereal and banana
L - cup a soup and two small bread rolls
D - pasta followed by one bag of crisps (nothing short of miracle) and single row of chocolate from a big bar

I'm very hungry now and contemplating another banana...

Plan for tomorrow:

B - cereal and banana (yes, I'm eating lots but if I don't eat them tomorrow they'll be a bit yucky)
L - salad and pasta
D - soup with bread

Had one horrid moment today, met someone I used to work with years ago, we've a mutual friend who told me she spoke to her later and she'd said she couldn't believe how fat I've gotten. :eek:

springiness

Chickpea bread sounds good! :j

sparrer

ragz thanks for your comments. Not interfering at all, it's constructive to read other's comment/suggestions. I just think toasted cheese sandwiches weren't the best choice for breakfast, another sandwich at lunch time is def too much bread, and think I'm kidding myself choosing low fat products when some of them are full of calories etc. I know I should be eating sensibly, not losing is proof of that. When I was on holiday in June I was eating 3 good meals a day and actually lost a lb! Now I wonder what that tells me? Yet to eat more seems wrong, i just need get my head round it properly, be more organised.

Today's breakfast was disgusting due to leaving home at 7am then spending 2 1/2 hours going from one dept to another in hosp with DD That was enough walking/exercise for one day!

B yesterdays scone with butter, paper mug of hospital machine 'tea' :eek:
L 2 slices WW wm with Brie, tomato, cucumber, fresh mango, grapes
D Cold chicken, tomato, cucumber, 3 tiny hg new potatoes
Snacks nectarine, grapes, pear

TravellingAbuela

Morning all, another day of childminding looming - the 3 DGD's are expected shortly. Hectic day with them yesterday but somehow I managed to stick to plan - apart from the flying biscuits which found me too! Once I succumb to one it is fatal, I just can't resist another, and another ...!!!

Weigh day tomorrow and I don't really hold out a lot of hope of having lost anything to be honest! Nonetheless, menu planned for today and will try and stick to it and also avoid the flying biscuits:

B - Usual porridge with raspberries
L - HM Red Pepper soup, Thins sarnie & bowl of salad. WW berry fromage frais.
D - Smoked haddock, salad & HM wedges. SF jelly, mixed berries and dollop of FF vanilla yogurt.
S - Grapes, satsumas and nectarine.

Have a good day all. Exercise today should involve a bit of walking and pushing a pram!

CCP

Morning all.

Weigh day today and, despite the encouraging result earlier in the week, today I'm back to STS again, for the fourth (or maybe fifth) week in a row. :( I could just cry!

I have just got to get things moving again, so my plan for the next week is:

• Breakfasts will be a small portion of muesli, LF yoghurt, and fresh fruit
• Lunches will be salad or, if the weather's as unpleasant as it has been this week, veg soup
• I've revised my main meal plan to be healthy and low calorie, and I will limit myself to the smallest portions I can manage without feeling permanently starving
• Snacks will be fruit or veg sticks. I'd prefer to cut out snacks entirely but the medication I'm taking can apparently cause low blood sugar - I'm not (quite) desparate enough to risk collapsing at work!
• I will walk for at least 30 minutes every day, even if it's raining - if I get soaked it's just tough luck

And if all that doesn't work, it's Slimfast. (I'm joking - I think! )

Today goes:

B - 40g muesli with LF raspberry yoghurt and chopped nectarine
S - portion of dried fruit
L - this could be where my plan collapses - it's the annual work lunch and, having looked at the menu online last night, it will be a case of finding the least unhealthy option - everything's either deep-fried or covered in cheese, or both
D - small bowl of tomato, veg and bacon soup, with a slice or two of unbuttered spelt bread; fresh cherries

Exercise will be half an hour or more's walking after the work lunch - I think I'll need to work off the calories!

I hope everyone else is doing better than I am - have a good day, all.