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

sparrer

lovetopaint wrote: »

Well...I looked at my nails last night and they were in tip top condition...

...so I ate 2 packets of crisps, some salted peanuts and a slice of toast with jam. QUOTE]


I should be :eek: (but secretly I'm )
Let that be a lesson to you, if you forgot to pedicure as well

B - small bowl F&F, ss milk
L - dry fried egg, tomatoes, grilled[STRIKE] lean rasher [/STRIKE] sausage on toast. Weren't any rashers in the freezer
D - veg curry, spoon of pilau rice. have to admit the veg curry from bits in the fridge and freezer is very morish, have to be careful how much I serve myself!
Snacks - melon, satsuma, nectarine, mini cornetto - couldn't resist and they have to be used up, don't they?! Will look for something healthier next time I go shopping. Snack-a-Jacks perhaps?

Exercise - general weeding and pulling gooseberry roots, they've spread like wildfire and are a S.O.B to get out.

Re exercise before posting - I have to do all my work, posting etc before lunch if I can, otherwise my chair pins me down for a siesta

LittleMoog

Sparrer - If you're after an icecream fix mini-twisters are pretty low cal (50ish from memory) and are really yummy, we've had them in all summer :cool:

LittleMoog

Afternoon all

Out for pub lunch today as our current batch of placement students are leaving.

Breakfast: muller breakfast corner
Lunch: Jacket potato with chilli and salad
Dinner: lamb ragu with couscous/bulghar wheat (depending which packet is open!)

Plus a few glasses of pink wine, as my friend is coming over to watch the first new episode of Glee

Rose_Wood

Afternoon All,

Well, I had an unexpected treat today as DS and family came back from holiday this morning rather than tonight and took us out to lunch to say thank you for all the housework, feeding the cats etc that I'd done whilst they were away. I had planned to go swimming but leapt at the chance to see them all instead.

B: Poached egg on toast
L: Steak pie with carrots, peas, green beans and cabbage. I shared it with DGD too so not too large a helping.
S: Small piece of fruity oat slice to try it out as it was a recipe I made up as I went along and wanted to make sure it was ok.
T: Smoked salmon pate on bread or toast with HG cherry tomatoes. 2 pears.

Exercise: 20 minutes DVD (Level Three of Jillian Michael's Shred), 5 mile walk with dog walking friend, about 2 miles of other walking back and forth shopping, cafe and DS's.

Rose

TravellingAbuela

Morning all - back from my few days at the caravan, just in time for weigh day! 9st 3lbs - so I have put on half a pound, but that is quite miraculous considering all I have been eating. I really expected to have put back on more than that. The diet was non-existent and I just ate the same as DH & DGD, including the all-you-can-eat buffet at Pizza Hut and a meal in a Fish & Chip restaurant. Oh and I won't mention the chocolate bars, crisps and wine! I have really pigged out but oh I did enjoy it! Nonetheless, back on the wagon this morning determined to do better this week! Three days of childminding to be done so no tripping off to the caravan this week, which should help me stick to plan better. Have a good weekend everybody, will have a quick scan back through all your posts now.

sparrer

LittleMoog thanks for the suggestion of Twisters, the choccie ones look just my sort of thing. Will get some when the cornettos have run out (still 6 to go)

B - F&F, ss milk
L - Sausage, egg, tomatoes on toast
D - Veg curry, pilau rice
Snacks - melon, mineola. Raw runner beans! Prepped some last night for the freezer and couldn't stop eating them, they're really sweet and delish. Have left them in the fridge so I can pick at them when I want to

Exercise - more gardening, still got half a bed to clear before I can do any planting

Have a sunny weekend

outtawork

I have lost 8lbs in a the few weeks, since my daughter left for Uni and the only thing I have changed is I don't eat sliced bread anymore.I weigh everything now and worked out balanced healthy meals. Per person.All meals are from scratch.
Meat = 125-140gms
All veg = 60-80gms each
Pasta = 100gms
Potato = 175-200gms

kiss_me_now9

Hey I've put about 10lbs on over summer so I'm looking to lose that and a little bit more - hopefully before Christmas. Ideally I'd like to be 135lbs by Christmas Day, though I don't know if that's achievable! Shouldn't be too hard though, now I'm back at uni I'm walking everywhere, exercising (cheerleading, gymnastics, swimming and circuit training) more and eating healthier as I have complete control over what goes in my cupboard Not a processed food in sight! Also trying to make sure I'm efficient with my food shopping and that I only buy what I will eat so I don't waste money throwing expensive food away in the middle of a diet :rollseyes: Was weighed the other day in my cheerleading kit (which is really, really heavy, at least 4lbs) and I was just over 151lbs so I've got about a stone to drop I think.

Breakfast for today was a banana with a cup of green tea, lunch will be a garlic sausage and cheese sandwich with grapes and two Petit Filous, dinner is a jacket potato loaded with cheese and bolognaise with an apple for dessert.

ETA - Does anyone have any good ideas for what I can do with Bulgar wheat? I have a pack in the cupboard but no idea how to make it

LittleMoog

I love bulghar, we use it all the time. You can cook according to packet instructions, and use like couscous. It has a nutty flavour and chewy texture. I like it mixed with chickpeas to go with grilled lamb chops or fish, or with a tagine/stew
I often use it to make a large salad bowl by mixing with roasted veggies and dressing. Top with grilled halloumi, chicken or a poached egg for protein.
You can also use it like rice in a pilaf - go to 101cookbooks.com (great sire for veggie and whole food recipes) and search for bulghar and spinach pilaf, it's lush
I've also used it as one of the grains in a veggie chilli from the same website - made an enormous vat of chilli which froze really well

Hope that's enough ideas to get you started.

Ida_Notion

Morning All. It would not be an exaggeration to say that yesterday was a day of extremes (but it probably sounds better than saying 'Well, it started well..!'). At some point during the previous day I'd decided that since I was so useless at cutting down on the smokes the only thing for it was to go cold turkey from midnight. So yesterday morning I got up, and having decided to weigh daily in between the official Sunday weigh-in announcements, found that I'd lost the fraction and was smack on 11st 5lbs. I then automatically reached for my cigs, remembered I'd put them out of the way and resolved to get on without. So far, so good.

During my foray around Asda the previous evening I'd found this thing, a heart rate and calorie counting watch/gadget effort. Although it does not say so on the site, they were rolled back from £19.99 to £14.99, and so I bought one. I tested it out yesterday morning by running back through the fields after taking my daughter to school and comparing the results to what I was getting just from sitting on my bum. Obviously I do not have the heart rate of a premium athlete, and I have doubts about accuracy of the 'calories' burned figure since the watch only knows my age and gender and not my current weight (it didn't ask), but it does at least give you a figure that you can continually try to boost with further activity throughout the day in an attempt to beat a previous day's record. Good enough for me, and I needed another watch anyway.

So... I went home, had two pieces of toast with a cheese spread triangle and about half an hour later started to feel a bit sleepy and dizzy. I knew at once that it was a nicotine withdrawal effect and that my body was being invaded by a stranger (oxygen!), and so tried to ride it out. It got progressively worse and was constantly being punctuated by cravings too. Come mid-day, I thought I'd at least get rid of the tiredness by going to bed for a bit, but when I got up I felt no different, and my concentration was shot to pieces by this time as well. I was totally on Planet Outtavit when I was collecting my youngest from school.

Two crab paste and salad rolls later, I was feeling just as tired and dizzy, it was seventeen minutes past five and I had the biggest nicotine craving of the day just as I was being faced with the ultimate challenge - Confrontation With Teenage Daughter. I caved. I was so disgusted with myself that I opened the fridge door and ate the first thing I put my hand on. And I don't even like steak and kidney pies. I had to eat a portion of blackberry and apple crumble with condensed milk just to take the taste away...

I had seven cigs in total last night. I looked up the tiredness/dizziness and quitting smoking thing on the web and found that it is not uncommon for it to last up to two weeks. Apparently flatulence is also a potential problem, which is a bit of a worry when you're due an op under anaesthic and would rather the surgeon wasn't knocked out during the procedure too Anyway, I figured that the best thing to do would be to adopt Plan B - go cold turkey again today.

This morning, I'm now mysteriously down to 11st 3.5lbs, have had four cigarettes and another portion of blackberry and apple crumble and am trying to formulate Plan C. Oh well. It started well