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

blondy24

Hello All,

My food today;

B - 2 x WM toast with a bit of butter and vegemite
S - Options Hot Chocolate and harvest bar
L - Chicken & Mushroom Pasta (LF)
S - Apple
T - HM Toad in the whole, swede and carrot mash and jacket potato, LF yoghurt

Exercise:

30 mins on the wii fit

lovetopaint

valk_scot wrote: »

Rosemary Conley used to sell Portion Pots which were basically scoops of various sizes for measuring portions of various foodstuffs. I did get a set but for taking camping, plus one currently lives in the jar containing the dried cat food, lol. It's useful though to collect a couple of cups or mugs or small jars as measures for things like pasta or rice. It's easier to be firm with a portion size if you use a scoop rather than look at the scales, think that it doesn't look much and add an extra 10g or so.

Thanks valk_scot. I am leaning more towards the above method of portioning food, especially as the batteries for my scales are not cheap! I have cup measures, plus the breadmaker measure cup will come in handy. I just need to remember to use the right measure for particular foods, but that will stick in my head eventually.

Off to sort a meal plan, this works when I do it.

(I have exercised today)

LittleMoog

Morning all
Food today:
Breakfast: toasted warburton's thin with low fat spread and 2tsp jam
Lunch: small portion of leftover chilli with a thin for dipping, apple, satsuma
Dinner: not sure yet, maybe thai green curry if I've got any coconut milk. :think:

Exercise: Pilates

sparrer

A bit late checking in today, been doing an hour's pulm exercise at home then a bit of pruning, dead-heading etc, all bending/straightening stuff. Weigh day tomorrow and am getting very conscious that I have 11lb to lose in 13 weeks :eek:

Solved the prob of yesterdays cream scones, my lovely neighbour came home for lunch so I gave them to her for her DD. Still can't believe I gave them away .

B - dry fried egg and hg tomatoes on slice wm bread
L - Leek & potato cup-a-soup, sliced banana over scoop lf ice cream
D - 1/2 gammon steak, green beans, marrow
Snacks - mineola, nectarine, melon. Small bowl dry F&F to pick at but will try to resist

Exercise - as above.

ragz_2

Sparrer :T on resisting the cream scones!
I've been checking my cups and none seem to hold the right amount of anything! Maybe I'll have to invest in some measuring things. Problem is I'm cooking for 2 adults, a 5,4, and 1.5 year old so we all have different size portions. I think I'll just weigh out mine cooked... need to find out what cooked portions should be now!
Also, if I gave my gardener husband a 75g portion of pasta he'd faint (then blame it on starvation!):o

Had a rubbish day so far, things seem to keep going wrong

Food has been good though, have had 600cal and it's nearly 2pm. CBA to list
ETA Dinner - Roast chicken, roast potatoes (done with frylight), roast carrots and roast sweet potato, broccoli and green beans. Homemade gravy. Apple sauce (I know!). Had a huge plateful but over half was veggies, only about 600cal...
So I had an ice cream for pudding! Just under 200cal. About to have a cappuccino (70cal).

Total under 1600 but I'm bound to get the munchies tonight as had dinner early. Want to (well, should) go for a run but depends when DH gets back as it's getting dark early now.

Rose_Wood

Afternoon All,

It's another glorious autumn day here and I had a lovely walk this morning. I'm now going to go and do some more spring cleaning at DS's and burn a few more calories. I've just put a fruit cake in the oven so have succumbed to scraping the bowl I'm afraid. I got a great bargain at our Co-Op this morning - 8 packs of Lurpack Spreadable normally £3.29 each for 50p each. We never normally get anything marked down by more than 50% so I was thrilled to get them. Most are in the freezer now but should keep me going for quite a while for the home baking.

B: Poached egg on toast
L: Prawn salad wrap. Raspberries with Greek yoghurt
Chicken thigh baked in the oven served with cabbage and green beans. 2 pears.

Exercise: 7 mile walk with friend plus another mile backwards and forwards to DS's a couple of times. 2 hours spring cleaning.

Re the portion sizes RAGZ when mine were small I used to work on mentally dividing into eighths. I used to do 4/8 for 6ft 2 DH, 2/8 for me (5ft and under 8 and a half stone at the time) and 1/8 each for DD and DS. Nowadays I use a side plate for me and a normal dinner plate for DH.

Rose

Eltee12

.......AGAIN!!!!!????


Naughty Eltee been off-grid for a while. Starting again today at

15st 1.5lbs eeek .:eek:


br - porridge w/honey
sn - oaty type bar thing
lu - roast beef and mustard sarnie (very nice)
Sn banana
D - egg, black pud, bubble & squeak, bacon, mushrooms

am back to regular walking and a bit of 'running' (ha!) - not liking the dark mornings though bluergghh.

must eat more veg

Lazy_Liz

Very odd day today as the electricity was off for scheduled maintance this morning. I went out delivering catalogues but stopping to get a coffee fell victim to a bacon butty! Got home and didn't really feel hungy so ate some crisps, then a pear then six pieces of chocolate covered orange rind. I should have made myself eat my lunch it would have been healthier. Now lying on sofa by the fire as it got really cold and damp, pouring with rain and windy here today. Electricity is back on but CBA to go to work inthe office so just answering e-mails on by blackberry.

Addition to yesteday. 1 choc coverd ginger biscuit, delete snack.

This evening rest of Thai prawn curry not sure if it will be with noodles or something else.

slowlyfading

My food today hasn't been very good...

b - shreddies with skimmed milk (146 cals) 2 slices of granary toast (250 cals) - 396 cals
l - crudites and hummous (90.08 cals) babyb£ll (42 cals) sunbites (120 cals) banana (100 cals) yogurt (54 cals) - 406.08
s - prawn cocktail crisps - 186 cals
t - veg soup (178 cals) 2 slices wholemeal toast (192 cals) m!lkyway (98 cals) - 468

Exercise - none due to feeling absolutely rubbish.

Total: 1456.08 cals :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Oh my goodness, it needs to be better than this.

financially_gaga

Evening all

Ragz, anoher smiley for me please! another 1lb of, scales showing 10st 6lb today.

Food today
B- skinny latte, banana, apple
s - nothing
L - granola bar and packet of crisps :eek:
s - 4 small cubes of cheese
D - 2 x toast, peanut butter, peach, coffee
s - choc frozn yogurt (100 cals, can you believe it)

Exercise - 1 hour's speed walking and will try to do some weights later on.

Hope you are all doing well. i really don't hav patience to measure things out, i normally look at how much i would have taken before starting this journey and then half it! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: