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

mlz1413

Oohh Grateful! That's so sad, big hugs too.

suzid

Hello folks,
I've been reading all the posts but not really had anything to contribute. First let me say how sorry I am to read your news gratefulforhelp. Both DD (all still well this time) and I know what you are going through and sends you big hugs and loving thoughts.
So many of you are doing so well with your weight loses and a big congratulations to valm, jojo and rainbowfairydust. I also saw the Alder Hay program, mlz, which went to prove that you can pile on the weight eating healthily of you eat more than you burn. The poor kid was being killed by his over protective mother who couldn't see she was over feeding him because it was all 'healthy' food.
I'm very proud of my boys as both lost weight last week. DS has lost 7lbs and DH is now on the scales. Prior to Sunday he had to hang an arm on the towel rail for the scales to register a weight rather than an error. He told me off for giggling when he first told me and then proceeded to weigh his arm on the kitchen scales :rotfl:. So we think over the last few weeks he must have lost at least a stone. I've resisted the urge to weigh myself but my clothes are definitely looser. All the gardening and digging must be having an effect.
Watching Supersize V superskinny has made me realize that I have an unhealthy attitude to food which I must tackle inorder to stop DS going down the same route. In the past I daren't eat certain foods or I'd think all my efforts would crumble and I was a pathetic failure. Now I'm telling DS he can eat anything but to have a greater variety and a little and often rather than not eating for hours till later in the day and then eating loads in the evening. I'm planning Sunday treats when we can have a guilt free favourite food. Last Sunday we all had a Magnum ice cream. Here's hoping it works because my past methods haven't stopped the yoyoing, and there's a definite limit to my saintliness :A. Fingers crosses that common sense will overcome the years of screwed up eating habits.

gratefulforhelp_2

Thanks, guys.

suzid am loving your siggy, can I nick it, please??

suzid

Grateful - feel free to nick the siggy. I think I got it from a GSD calendar so can't claim it as my own. It's so true for me.

gratefulforhelp_2

Thanks! Just noticed your avvie, he/she is gorgeous.

Our GSD/collie died a year ago, aged 15. She was a menace, but we loved her to distraction.

franby64

Hi all

gratefulforhelp - very sorry to hear your news - look after yourself.

rainbowfairydust - I didn't eat the coleslaw in the end but I will have to eat it eventually now I've got it as another of my bugbears is not wasting stuff. I just have to remember not to be a human dustbin either!
We're having soup for tea in the end with a bit of toast so that's not too heavy.

I might watch the programme about overweight children - I was an overweight child (though not 10st just a couple of stone heavier than everybody else which makes a big difference when you're little! Also this was when fewer children were fat anyway.) I find watching these programmes really upsets me - I really feel for them - it obviously hits a nerve

It brings back memories of incidents like this. When I was about 10 at school we read a book called "Fattypuffs and Thinnifers" (anybody rmember that little gem?) and the teacher asked the class if anyone was a fattypuff (she'd be sacked now). Anyway one boy pointed to me!! And the class laughed. I was mortified!! Sadly I was much to good at school so I didn't thump him but I can still feel that moment now .

Sorry...I'm ranting.
Hope everybody is having a good day .

gratefulforhelp_2

Thanks, franby. I had a boyfriend (hardly a boy) who referred to me as a fattypuff.

Anyone wondering why he's an ex??!!

ragz_2

Another 2lb loss this week and that makes 7 so far!
I managed to bag another copy of Barbara Currie's Power of Yoga on video to replace my old one the last VCR chewed up. Very pleased and did it this evening. Love that it's so easy but makes me feel like I've exercised!

Roast chicken thighs (2, no skin, dh just found that on the table and ate it lol) for dinner with new potatoes (no butter, yay me!) salad and HM coleslaw, was delicious and am now stuffed.

carol01

hi everyone
great thread i need to lose three stone for my best friends wedding in july although i may have left it too late. i really want to look girlie for a change, as i have to wear combats and steel toe capped boots in work if any one has any tips that would be great and well done to all you guys that have lost weight thanks inadvance

mlz1413

Franby you could have your coleslaw in a jacket spud with cheese as a main meal rather than waste it or use it as a snack

Ragz you can record videos to DVD if you know someone with a recordedable DVD player or a HDD (Hard Disk Drive) box, just encase this video gets eaten!

Hi carol01 welcome to the thread. 3 stone in 3 months is a very high challenge, are you strong enough willed to stick to a diet of 1500 calories for that time?

I found writing a food diary of everything I ate for a week really helped, it made me realise the things I really didn't need and simple stuff like swapping crisps or apples. Personnaly I'd go for a really healthy diet & exerice for the 3 months rather than specific weight loss.

I'd also get a friend to go shopping with you and just have a day out trying on girlie clothes and the sort of thing you would like to go to the wedding in - you might be surprised how much more flattering some clothes are then combats and baggy tee-shirts.

I fall off the waggon this morning as the milk was off and the bread had been used so Breakfast was a sausage roll

not sure about lunch but I do have a Jacket Spud in the oven for when I get home and intend to have that with baked beans.