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

sparrer

Morning all, strange one here, we've have rain, gales, bright sunshine at the mo, and mild through it all. Confused!

Brunch - 1/2 gammon, tomato, egg, onion, mushrooms on slice hm toast
Tea - Crispbreads spread with lf Greek yogurt, vegemite, peanut butter
Dinner Cauli/courgette soup - have added some turkey & stock to it, it keeps getting better
Snacks - satsuma, melon, banana, apple
Exercise - moved 100 bricks :eek:. Spent next 1/2 hour on nebuliser/resting on bed but had to be done, every time I tried to get the bin through the side gate they got in the way of the wheels and I got in a muck sweat as me dear ol' granda used to say, swearing at the bleddy things!

Hope it's bright where you are

ps ragz, re lovetopaint's trying to slip off round the corner, good for you collaring her . Lovetopaint you can do it, believe me I'm the world's worst procrastinator but just had to get in the right mind set. I always think that if I give up now it won't be a wavering lb, it'll be back on permanently - probably with a few more - and I'll be kicking myself. Hugs

mardatha

I'm not so much interested in the diet itself, as wondering what 500 cals a day actually lets you eat ?? I dont know enough about diets or calories..

Rose_Wood

Afternoon All

I'm having a lazy day today and am still in my pyjamas as I woke up in the night with a cold coming. So I'm keeping warm and rested in the hope it goes away again! I cancelled my exercise class as I don't want to spread germs.

B: Muesli. Toast with raspberry jam
L: Poached egg on toast. 1/2 Eccles cake
HM cheese and onion flan with green beans.

Exercise: None!

I've not been very good with the eating just lately and am avoiding the scales. I have kept up with the exercise till today though - including a 30 minute run on Sunday. I was very pleased that I managed it as I've never been a runner but I actually enjoyed it.

Rose

ragz_2

mardatha wrote: »

I'm not so much interested in the diet itself, as wondering what 500 cals a day actually lets you eat ?? I dont know enough about diets or calories..

The soup I made today was about 150 cal a bowl (leek, green bean, chicken stock and small amount of potato). A slice of bread is 80-100, portion of pasta 150-200, an apple can be around 50, banana 80-100. It is difficult enough to manage on the minimum of 1000 (severe calorie reduced diet)...

For a 500cal a day diet I would have
- Breakfast fibre rich cereal and skim milk 120/150cal?
- Lunch soup 100-150
- Dinner soup and bread 250 or pasta and tomato sauce
- Snacks apple/banana 50-100
SO it could be done, but he would be STARVING (and low on protein) as you couldn't fill yourself up enough. Fibre contains no calories but enough of it to fill you up that much would make him rather uncomfortable! Best ask your GP about it, personally I wouldn't trust the research yet.

JBD

mardatha wrote: »

I'm not so much interested in the diet itself, as wondering what 500 cals a day actually lets you eat ?? I dont know enough about diets or calories..

The best thing to do would be to find a calorie register [there are plenty on line] and work out meals from that. I would imagine it would need lots of green vegetables, small amounts of lean protein [white fish, egg whites eg] and very little else.

ragz_2

JBD wrote: »

The best thing to do would be to find a calorie register [there are plenty on line] and work out meals from that. I would imagine it would need lots of green vegetables, small amounts of lean protein [white fish, egg whites eg] and very little else.

Yes, it could be done fairly healthily with a lot of planning (assuming he would co-operate!), but I would hope he is fairly overweight otherwise he will be very underweight after a few months!

JBD

In any case, I assume he would be referred to a dietician who would help plan menus. It really wouldn't be sensible to undertake such extreme dieting without medical supervision, especially for a diabetic.

Molly41

Just my thought re the 500 a day calorie diet. You would need to supplement the diet with good muti vitamin / mineral as there is no way you could get all the micro nutrients you need and would become deficient.

There are some days when I only manage 800 calories a day because of illness and I have become severely deficient of B12 and require injections now. I do know that Lighter Life (Pauline Quirk did it) has that amount of calories but is total nutrition as it is balanced and supplemented with vitamins and minerals.

Hopefully Im back on track today but feeling picky as opposed to eating properly. It is because hubby isnt here to keep me on the straight and narrow so will try much harder tomorrow xx

mardatha

Ok many thanks for that everybody. No he wouldn't try it and certainly not without the GP support so don't worry . I just thought it sounded very very low, is all. He isn't overweight at all anyway I think maybe it's semi-starvation to clean out the pancreas or something.
He has major health issues so wouldnt try this on his own - had 3 heart attacks and he too gets B12 molly as he's got pernicious anaemia, also low thyroid and diabetic.

sparrer

Morning all

B - F&F ss milk
L - not sure as taking DGD2 (14 y/o) pre-Christmas shopping, which means her going into every clothes shop in a 10 mile radius choosing clothes she has to have or she'll die! and Grandma giving in even though I've already bought her main present. Which leads us to lunch out. Hoping she's grown out of MackieD's and would like somewhere I can choose light...we'll see
D - soup, 1/2 slice hm bread, a whole slice being far too much these days!
Snacks - satsumas, apple grated into lf Greek yogurt, melon, banana
Exercise - see lunch :doh:

Hope you're all able to enjoy this lovely sunshine

eta - Hurray! We had a pub lunch, both had tortilla basket with lots of salad and chilli on top. I didn't eat the tortilla, but did have rhubarb crumble with ice cream for pud. Like a good girl I left almost half of it :eek:. Paul McK would be proud of me. We certainly walked it off going round all the shops. I'm jiggered!