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

Rose_Wood

Morning all.

It's quite windy here today but very sunny so I hope it lasts out as we are going to a car boot sale this afternoon. I've dug out a load of stuff to declutter, lots of clothes that are too big for me and am taking some stuff from DS and DIL.

It was my weigh in this morning and I've lost one of the pounds I put on last week. The scale was flickering between that and having gone down another pound but decided to stick on just one down.

B: Poached egg on toast.
L: HM butternut squash soup.
Vegetable bake. I am not quite sure of the combination of vegetables as it's one I made ages ago and have just dug out of the freezer to make the evening meal an easy one after being out all afternoon. Frozen yoghurt and raspberry smoothie bar.

If I am feeling really desperate I bought a tiny bar of chocolate (Freddo) yesterday to get some change for the boot sale and gave it to DH to hide so might persuade him to dig that out.

Exercise: 50 minutes exercise DVD. I've had a quick walk to the supermarket and back so far but that's only half a mile. If the weather permits I may have a long walk this evening with my friend and her dog but that's not arranged yet.

Rose

Exercise:

Rose_Wood

Morning Again,

You all must be very busy with no posts at all since yesterday. I've had a busy morning in the kitchen. I've made red pepper soup, stewed the last crop of rhubarb and made DH a marmalade roly poly and a spotted !!!!!! for his puddings. I've also just put homemade chips in the oven as we are having a cooked lunch with my being at work at 5pm tonight. I make my chips by microwaving potatoes in their jackets till almost done, then cutting them into chip shapes (still with skins on), sprinkling them with olive oil and cooking them in a hot oven (220C) for about 20 min. They are really nice and you can make them as thick or thin as you wish.

B: Low fat vanilla yoghurt with oat bran.
L: Egg, HM chips, mushrooms and peas. Iced yoghurt and raspberry smoothie bar.
HM red pepper soup (made with red onions and garlic).Stewed rhubarb with Greek yoghurt.

Snack: Crust of still warm loaf with lashings of butter - couldn't resist it!

Exercise: 50 minutes exercise DVD (can nearly do all the exercises now without having to stop for a breather in some). Walk to work so about 3/4 mile but will get lift home.

Rose

ETA: Just had a call from DS to ask me to go into work this afternoon for an hour as they are very busy so a walk there and back to add to total - plus quick walk to shop to buy a loaf and some ham so I could take a sandwich in for him. Total walking now about 2.6 miles.

The_Dragon

Well I weighed in this morning and I am down three pounds on the week , even better I am down 8 pounds on the month and 18 pounds from my highest weight!

b - none
l - bacon sarnie on homemade sourdough
d - leftover roast lamb in onion gravy over mash

and lots of tea! :rotfl:

Exercise - um does crochet count

sparrer

Yes very busy here Rose, have a VIP coming for tea at 4pm so it's been a mad scurry to get the place looking like it might be a house, and organising afternoon tea to her taste - hopefully!

B - none
L - packet snackajacks
T - anti pasto, cheese board, savoury biscuits, ciabatta, scones with jam/clotted cream, lemon flan
Snacks - grapes, satsuma, banana, mini cornetto (always enjoy one while I'm watching the box in the evenings)
Exercise - cleaning house, tidying garden, shopping, baking - generally kicking up the dust, phew!

CCP

Afternoon all.

Rose_Wood wrote: »

You all must be very busy with no posts at all since yesterday.

It was more 'lazy' in my case, tbh - I couldn't even be bothered to make a proper dinner last night and ended up having a sausage sandwich and several glasses of wine. Bad, bad CCP!

Today goes:

B - crust of HM granary bread with a scraping of peanut butter; banana
L - chicken and bacon wrap (a ready made one as I got very delayed and didn't get home until about an hour ago); small pack of cashew nuts; apple
D - bolognese-stuffed baked marrow with a ciabatta roll

Exercise - unless losing my temper over the useless directions from the shop I was trying to find this morning counts, nothing - I'm not now in the mood for doing anything except collapsing in a weary, irritable heap!

Have a good rest-of-day, all.

TravellingAbuela

Morning all - I never even had time to turn the computer on yesterday! The minding of the 3 DGDs has resumed with a vengeance this week - they all descended at 6.30 yesterday morning (2 leaving at 6.00 pm and the eldest still here!!) They are all back again same time Thursday and Friday and then all three here again Saturday afternoon for a sleepover - aaargh!! So a busy week ahead!

An update on my new calorie counting regime - Saturday and Sunday went well, keeping my intake to below 1,000 cals. Felt pleased with myself BUT (always a but isn't there?!) yesterday it all went to pot - took the girls out for the day and, with all good intentions, I took my low cal lunch with me and DH and the girls got take-away fish and chips to eat by the riverside. As usual, they couldn't spare the time to eat so guess who ate all the leftovers!!!! After that I was a lost cause! Back on the straight and narrow today hopefully!

Well done The Dragon on the loss (am envious). Rose I do a similar thing with baked potatoes but I cut into thick slices (with skin on), quick blast with one-cal spray and pop under a hot grill till heated through and crispy.

Have a good day all.

Ida_Notion

Morning all. I've been more 'distracted' than busy, although there's been a lot of 'school holiday cooking' going on to help keep my daughter occupied. Due to my complete lack of culinary skills I'm pretty much discouraged by the rest of the family from creating anything essential or something that might later be relied upon to become a meal, so school holiday cooking generally means cakes, biscuits and all the other stuff you'd include in a calorie-beyond-control diet. Add to this the effect of having to take kids shopping that usually sees me giving in to the pleading to add a few treats to the trolley (probably to counteract the trauma of my extra cooking!) and the loss of my twice daily walk to school and back, and the end result is that I've put about two pounds on since the kids broke up six weeks ago.

Although obviously not ideal, I don't think this is that bad in the scheme of things and so in order to eliminate the guilt of keeping up any pretence that I'm actually sticking to the plot here, I've decided to give myself a break from it until the end of the week, when the school holidays are over. By the time I have my usual weigh-in on Sunday I'll have been shopping on my own again and the jam tarts and fruit 'crumble' with the inexplicable crusty/blobby sponge topping will all be gone and I can start again with a clean slate. I look forward to re-joining my favourite bunch of 'losers' and being back on the wagon again shortly. Take care all xx

LittleMoog

Morning all
not been on over the weekend, have an ongoing back problem which has flared up badly, so been pretty immobilised Also means that DH has been doing the cooking :eek: so my kitchen is an utter tip, and his range is a little limited (mexican, curry, macaroni cheese, tomato pasta sauce) so food hasn't been that great, but I haven't had much appetite either!
feeling a little better today, but working from home, as coudln't face getting in the car.

weighed in this morning, and I think last weeks horrendous weight must have been a blip, as I've lost 5lb :cool: (I'm sure I haven't really!)

today's meals:
breakfast: nectarine, granola bar, glass of SS milk
lunch: leftover macaroni cheese (1/2 portion)
dinner: veggie curry meal - butternut squash and spinach curry, muttar paneer and plain rice.
snacks: pear, satsuma.
drinks: tea with SS milk, sf squash, sf lemonade

CCP

Afternoon all.

My day today:

B - sliced banana with LF nectarine yoghurt
S - pear
L - ciabatta roll with herby sheep's cheese and sliced tomato
S - nectarine
D - not quite sure yet - it might be a pot of beef or venison stew* from the freezer with gnocchi and veg, or it might be something else entirely.

* I forgot to label the tubs so I'm not sure which it is!

Exercise - a brief walk up to the shops at lunchtime.

Rose_Wood

Evening All.

I've had a bit of a spendy day. It's getting colder and quite autumnal in the mornings and evenings and I decided that I needed to start wearing jeans rather than cropped trousers now for my walks. I dug out a pair that I've been keeping to 'shrink into' and found that they were actually too big. So we nipped into the next town to trawl the charity shops. I came home with 3 pairs of jeans, a jumper and a jacket. Two pairs of jeans were size 8 and one (Liz Claiborne) were a size 6. I think it must be a generous 6 though! So for a spend of just over £16 I have completly revamped my autumn wardrobe. Then this afternoon I won a set of pine bedside cabinets on ebay, which we are about to go and collect.

B: Fat free vanilla yoghurt with oat bran.
L: HM red pepper soup.
S: Iced raspberry smoothie
Chicken thigh, new potatoes, creamed spinach, green beans and mushrooms. Rhubarb with Greek yoghurt. The beans, spinach and rhubarb, plus the peppers in the soup were all home grown.

Exercise: 40 minutes of my DVD - had to miss the last 2 circuits as I ran out of time. 7 mile walk with friend and her dog - wearing one pair of new jeans and new jacket.

Rose