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

TravellingAbuela

Morning folks and hope you soon feel better Rose. Not a bad day eating-wise yesterday, stuck to around 1200 cals (which included a large wine at bedtime!) and lots of running around after small children:
B - Porridge & raspberries
L = Remains of previous day's Ravioli with salad.
D - Poached egg on toasted Thin, with tinned cherry tomatoes & 3 thin slices of ham. Sliced mini banana & rasps, SF jelly & FF vanilla yogurt.
S = Few grapes, satsuma, bag cheese curls & glass of wine.

No DGDs to look after today but have been roped into another mission of mercy this morning - do I have MUG stamped across my forehead? I must learn to say no sometimes! This afternoon I intend to have a trying on session of all my holiday clothes and see what I can get back into! I'm so glad I didn't part with any of them. Unlike my winter trousers & jeans! I put on a pair of size 14 black trousers yesterday and they hung on me! I went to the wardrobe to get out some old size 12's and then remembered I had bagged them all up in a charity bag last winter, not expecting to get into them again! So new trousers needed for winter! Have a good day all!

JBD

Morning all! I had a good day yesterday. I had to buy some new trousers [all my old ones are hanging off me], I have dropped 2 sizes. I bought 2 pairs of size 14, both fit me comfortably with no roll of fat hanging over the top. In May I could barely fit into size 18. By next Summer I should be a 10 or a 12 and will need a complete new wardrobe.
My eating plan -
B -fruit and fibre
L- pitta with cheese/tomatoes/spring onions all grilled.
D- egg fried rice [homemade so I can reduce the calories]
Usual snacks of fruit , FF yoghurt and nuts. Will exercise on the wi fit.
Good luck everyone. Have a good day.

LittleMoog

:T Well done on needing new trousers JBD and TA! It's always nice when you can fit into the next size down, although not very :money:

Stuck to plan last night, although I was tempted to nibble when I got home - DH is always about 1-1.5 hours after me so I have a lot of time to wait for my tea!

Today's meals:
Breakfast: Porridge with dried fruit
Lunch: Herby wrap with houmous, pepper and rocket, grapes, apple, satsumas
Dinner: Salmon teriyaki with plain rice (2oz), peas and broccoli, SF jelly

Exercise: 1hr Pilates - didn't make it last week as we were travelling back from our hols, so expecting it to be very hard work this week :eek:

CCP

Morning all.

I had a sneak peek on the scales this morning as I've got a doctor's appointment this evening (that's only the third time this week I've been on the scales, which is pretty good going for me ) and it looks like I've lost another pound. I can't say I like feeling as stressed as I have done for the past few weeks but the resulting loss of appetite is doing wonders for the weightloss.

Today goes:

B - small bowl of porridge, made with SS milk, with dried cranberries and a tsp of brown sugar
S - banana
L - ciabatta roll with chicken and stuffing (the ready-sliced stuff from the supermarket, for which I have a slightly guilty fondness (it would be so much cheaper and more OS to make my own )) and HG tomato; two plums
D - not sure yet - possibly the scampi, chips and veg I meant to have yesterday

Exercise - a walk at lunchtime, as usual

JBD - wow, what a success story! Very well done, you! :T

Molly41

Good Morning x
Welcome to all the new faces. Well done on resisting the scales CCP - I too am doing much better with not weighing daily and feel more positive because of it.

I do need to get back on track with my eating though. I have been very stressed and as a consequence I am eating rubbish like ice cream and sweeties. Anyway today I have had my breakfast and plan to make corn chowder for lunch or I have some broccoli cheese.

Good luck and sending positive vibes to those who are struggling. Keep on plodding on x

JBD

CCP wrote: »

JBD - wow, what a success story! Very well done, you! :T

Thank you . I still have quite a way to go [at least 2 stones] but these milestones feel great. When I started I was 5 stones overweight and it just seemed like a massive amount of weight to lose. I've been obese for about 8-9 years now and I'm really starting to believe that I can be slim again.

LittleMoog

Wow JBD, that's so inspiring I have about 5 stones to lose, and I keep faffing about losing 3-4lb and then putting it back on. I really want to be a healthy weight, so I'm going to have to pull my finger out

edit: I felt so inspired I went for an hours walk at lunch with colleagues, probably 2.5-3 miles in total, lots of hills. Will probably regret it at pilates later

TrixieB

TrixieB wrote: »

Planning ahead for the morns:

B: porridge made with half purple milk half water, pinch salt and tsp syrup - which is actually working out less cals than sugar??!!
Snack: muller lite
Lunch: LO Hm carrot soup with 2 slices wm bread
Dinner: lo fish pie, spinach, carrots
Snack: monster munch

Didn't have breakfast as I wasn't up til gone 1pm:eek: and didn't fancy the carrot soup so have made a broccoli and cauli one, the stalks in it make it all velvety smooth and with a splodge of total 0% greek yogurt and a bit of salt and plenty of black pepper it was DELISH. Had that with 1 slice of wm bread.

Dinner will be minced beef hotpot not fish pie as forgot I'd eaten that the other night:o

Making a concerted effort to drink more water and black tea today

Molly any chance of your corn chowder recipe please and littlemoog how do you make your teryaki? hm or bottle? if hm would love a recipe

LittleMoog

Hi trixie,
It's adapted from the chicken version from Nigella Kitchen, quick summary below. It’s quite similar to the mirin glazed salmon from Express, if you have that book. There is quite a lot of sugar in it, but very little fat so I don't worry about it too much :cool:

2tbsp sake (Japanese Rice Wine)
4tbsp mirin (sweet Japanese rice wine)
4tbsp soy sauce
2 tablespoons light brown sugar
2 teaspoons grated fresh gingerroot
Splash sesame oil
1 3/4 pounds chicken thigh fillets (no skin or bones), preferably organic, cut or scissored into bite-sized pieces (or 4 salmon fillets)
Serve with rice (sushi rice is lovely, and easy to cook, but I think brown would be good too)

Mix the sake, mirin, soy sauce, sugar, ginger and sesame oil in a shallow dish and add the chicken. Leave for 15 minutes. Heat a non-stick frying pan (with a lid) on a medium flame, drain the chicken from the marinade and add to the pan, stirring around until sealed on the outside. Add the marinade to the pan, put the lid on and simmer for 10 mins, then scoop the chicken out and keep warm. Turn the heat up and reduce the sauce until sticky and glossy, add chicken back to pan and serve.

For the salmon fillets I seal on 1 side for 2-3 mins, turn and add marinade, simmer with lid on for 5 mins and then remove to warm plates. Reduce the marinade until glossy and pour over the salmon and rice on the plates. The first time I made it I really over cooked the salmon, so I reduced the cooking time quite a lot – will depend on size of fillets though.

The amounts given serve 4, but it’s nice in a salad the next day

sparrer

Congratulations TA and JBD, you're prove it can be done . Looking (and working) forward to the day I can get into size 12's again

Brunch - dry fried egg, mushroom, tomatoes on slice dry wm toast
Dinner - 1 grilled Lincolnshire sausage, dry fried onion, tomato, mange tout, mushroom
Snacks - nectarine, pear, melon, grapes, maybe the last bag of snackajacks which I didn't have last night

My neighbour thinks I'm turning into a frugivore, says every time she sees me coming home from the shops my bag is full of fruit! When melons are 241, satsumas are £1 a big net, and the biggest pineapple in the world (it's at least 12" high, honestly) is £1.20p, I'm there at the front of the queue. I'm thinking of going to the market 6 miles away on Saturday, it's all even cheaper there

Exercise - 15 minutes step on the bottom stair, nothing else as breathing not at its best today. Hopefully it will improve later so I can do a bit more

Enjoy the rest of your day