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

TravellingAbuela

A VERY good morning all! I have just been on the scales for my Saturday weigh-in and am amazed to find them showing 9st 5.5lbs. That's 1.5lbs lost this week, after being stuck for a few weeks. I haven't really eaten anything different this week, nor have I been exceptionally good, so I am putting it down to looking after the 3 DGD's 3 full days this week - I never stop so it must be good exercise!

That has encouraged me to behave myself now the end (final goal) is in sight. I would be happy to get back down to my stopping-smoking weight of around 9st but, as I have said before, a little more would be even better!! Off food shopping this morning so it's definitely a trolly full of fruit, salad and veg supplies and NO GOODIES for DH so that I am not tempted to nick them! Today's eats:

B - Special K (the one with choc bits) sk milk and slice of Nimble toast with HM jam
L - HM Tomato & Basil soup (simmering away as I type) Thins ham salad sarnie (getting addicted to them!) WW berry fromage frais with some raspberries
D - Chicken, LF cheesy pasta & salad. SF jelly, strawberries and dollop of FF vanilla yogurt
S - Grapes, satsumas & nectarine

Have a good weekend everybody.

ragz_2

sparrer wrote: »

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

Try entering your food diary into Calorie Count to see a picture of the calories and nutrients you get from what you eat. You may be surprised by how much you can have. (If you enter your weight and goal the site will give you target calories for a day) If you aren't eating enough, your BMR will SLOW down so you'll stop losing weight. You seem to have a lot of fruit snacks, which is good but that's a lot of quick release glucose that'll give you a high then a dip, could you maybe have a cracker/ryevita/cereal bar/handful of nuts with the fruit to slow the sugar down? More protein would be good too. Don't be scared of potatoes, a serving should be around 200g. Carbs are essential!

I too struggle with finding foods for breakfast and lunch that AREN'T BREAD! This week I've had tuna wraps and soup (not together) as a few of my lunches. I don't have time to cook anything fancy as I have a small pink naughty one at home! Summer hols will be even worse, all 3 kids home for lunch... need to branch out from sandwiches!

Weighed this morning 171.8 (yesterday 171.2 but that was because of wine drank the night before... dehydration). Hope to get out for a run this morning, depends when Dh gets up and whether DS2's temp has gone down a bit, was 39.9 last night.

Pee

How does anyone cope with the chinese buffet?

Next week we are doing a regular trip to the cinema with chinese, usually beforehand. (This is quite moneysaving as avoids any expensive cinema snacks / taking your own snacks in which makes me feel like a drugs mule and I'm sure anyone looking at me can tell... ) There will be three of us, one who stopped going to the Chinese when she was trying to lose weight and this did really annoy me at the time as we only go about twice a year. However now I am thinking maybe she had the right idea.

Usually I eat as much as possible to get my moneys worth...

I am wondering whether I should just do as normal but try to increase the amount of veggies and decrease the amount of fat and just be good for the rest of the week as this isn't a diet it's a new healthy way of eating and as long as it really is occasional it shouldn't do any harm... or am I just kidding myself?

(As a bit of background I'm usually overweight and rarely try to change this. I've probably started controlling my eating about six times in the last ten years and four times this has lasted a month and twice for about eighteen months, got to a weight I was happy with and then gradually put the weight back on...)

Ida_Notion

Pee wrote: »

I am wondering whether I should just do as normal but try to increase the amount of veggies and decrease the amount of fat and just be good for the rest of the week as this isn't a diet it's a new healthy way of eating and as long as it really is occasional it shouldn't do any harm... or am I just kidding myself

That's what I'd do. I'm viewing this as a long-term thing, where I behave like the person I'd be happy to be forever (the 'Act as if...' method!). I don't want to be Mrs Stuffalot, the 'constantly bingeing without a purpose' kind of person that I'd let myself become up until a few months ago. Neither do I want to be the kind of person who exists on a piece of toast and an apple every day and regards having two extra baked beans as 'a blow-out' (I've been her for a while in the past too, and she was every bit as unhealthy and ridiculous as Mrs Stuffalot was).

I know I could lose half a stone in a week if I wanted to, because I've done it before - lots of times. Which is the point. No one can keep up such extremes unless the goal is to starve to death, and without having practiced moderation you have no other experiences to fall back into after losing your weight, other than those that got you to where you were when you started. Which leads to repeated loss of the same weight over and over, often with even more poundage to keep it company.

I've been at this since April and know that even if I'd adopted a more extreme approach and managed to stick it out, I'd still be on the same never-ending bumpy path. It's far better to find the middle road that you were always meant to be on anyway. It's one that I'm comfortable with taking for life - it's realistic, which is the very opposite of 'kidding yourself'. Enjoy your Chinese

bramble1

Do you burn more calories if you are awake? I've been up since 3:30am and have been pottering around (obviously this burns more calories) but in general do you burn more awake than asleep?

Pee

I think you do burn more calories by being awake, but I did read somewhere that sleeping a full eight hours a night helps you lose weight... no idea the scientific fact behind this if there is any.

bramble1

i remember now about getting enough sleep helping (I just haven't been able to manage it recently ) Hopefully i shall sleep like a log tonight - although it was nice to watch the sun rise.

I've been good recently but maintaining my weight mostly as weekends i consume alcohol... i need to quite that and [STRIKE]increase[/STRIKE] actually do some cardio.

Not eaten yet today but have a melon, pineapple and strawberries so will make a fruit salad for dessert, and meatballs with spaghetti for dinner.

Lunch will probably be soup and low cal bread.

CCP

Afternoon all, and very well done TA! :T

My day's gone a bit pear-shaped already - usually I only eat two meals a day at weekends, a late breakfast and an early dinner, but this morning I woke up hungry so had an earlier breakfast, then needed lunch as well. So, the soup I was meant to have for dinner became lunch, and I've now got to go and find something else to eat for dinner.

B - bacon sarnie on HM spelt bread; chopped nectarine with LF strawberry yoghurt
L - tomato and veg soup; small pack of nuts and raisins
D - [STRIKE]not sure yet[/STRIKE] YS salmon en croute, HG chard and new potatoes, and mushy peas (from Approved Food) - not fantastically healthy, but very MSE! :money:

Exercise - a nice long-ish walk (about 5 miles), then some gardening.

Pee - I quite agree about the Chinese buffet - it's a rare treat so enjoy it!

Pee

Lunch was chicken kiev, as I am trying to use up the contents of the freezer, with a pepper and courgette that needed eating up roasted in the same pan with some fry light. I'd usually have a pile of mash at least the size of the chicken kiev, so feel quite virtuous for cutting that out. Saturday is a two meal day for me too.

bramble1

Scratch my dinner i'm having HM paprika potato wedges and sweetcorn..