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

meanmarie

Today I have eaten:

B...half an apple, large mixed salad with 2 sls bread and butter, tea;
L...large handful raspberries/strawberries, stewed rhubarb, carton yogurt;
D...Thai fish cakes, salad, beef randang, boiled rice, pineapple fritters, ice-cream, glass wine, jasmine tea.

Need to move around a bit more I think.

Congratulations Vixtress, very well done.

Marie

sharloid

Just wondering how people count calories with batch cooked things/things you haven't weighed things out for/slow cooked dishes. I mean, you might know that 100g of carrots and 100g of beans went into your slow cooker, but when you deal yourself a portion do you weigh it out so that you can do some calculations? Even then it's not ideal as you might have more of one thing than the other! Or am I being too fussy and should I just estimate? :P

Thanks for any ideas!

Boodle

Well done Vixtress! You are an inspiration with the exercise... wow!

Mean Marie, that oriental meal is making me drool on a Sunday morning...:o

Sharloid, I would just work out the calories per pertion by working out a quarter/eighth/whatever of the whole batch

These past two days, I been bad...

FRIDAY
B: 1 slice Nimble granary with scraping vitalite + tea with splash of oat milk
L: Iceberg, watercress, 1 peppadew pepper, 1/2 avocado, + dressing made from 1 tsp ketchup, 3 tsp reduced calorie salad cream + water to thin it out.
T: 3 slices white bread with a scraping of vitalite each, 1 veggie finger + about 8 hm oven chips
a small bowl of veggies stir fried in about 1/2 tbsp rapeseed oil.

200 sit ups and quite a bit of housework + 20 mins playing with DD in garden

SATURDAY
B: Nothing!!! naughty me
L: 2 slices hm garlic bread, 2 slices hm pizza, salad, handful tortilla chips and salsa
Stir fried veggies in rapeseed oil with 1/2 packet chilli rice noodles and soy sauce

Forgot sit ups. About 1 hour walk.

SUNDAY
B: 1 slice of white bread with scrape of vitalite and marmalade
Will be small slice of butterbean, mushroom and stuffing tart and veggies.
T: Probably avocado salad with marie rose dressing as Friday.

200 sit ups and plan on walking in about half an hour, then lots of housework this afternoon. Then the weigh-in! :eek:

CCP

Afternoon all.

I did a quick weight check before going out yesterday and found I've lost 1.5kg (3 and a bit pounds) this week. Given I didn't eat very healthily last weekend, I'm quite pleased with that.

vixtress - well done to you - your signature's very inspiring. :T

Yesterday was a bit of a funny day as I was out all day and had to get what I could - I had:

B - jam sandwich and an apple
L - nothing
D - chorizo, king prawn and spinach risotto and a mini garlic bread baguette; three pints cider (:o. Nice, though! )

Today I've had:

B/L - cheese and salami toastie
S - pack of dried fruit and nuts
D - roast beef, roast carrots, lettuce and potato salad, chunk of HM cheese and tomato flatbread; stewed pear and HG blackcurrants

My meals tend to be a bit odd at weekends, but this weekend is odder than normal. Must go back to normal meals tomorrow!

vixtress

evenin!
thanks everyone for your encouragement. not a great day today but it was never really intended to be iykwim

2 x wm toast and a slice of pork for brunch
fish pakoras (deep fried) and a rather large chicken curry & 3 chappatis, 2 glasses wine
have just had a chocolate biscuit and OH has just come in with a box of maltesers.

did do 1 1/2 walk at least though.

am planning a largely vegetarian week next week with loads of fruit and veg, dont feel too great after a few days of carp.

hope you all have done better than me!

vix x

meanmarie

Well done CCCP, that's a huge loss!

Today I have eaten:

B....2 fried eggs, 2 rashers bacon, 3 small fried potatoes, slice bread no butter, pot green tea;
L....ham sandwich with butter, tea;
D...ham sandwich, butter, large bowl of raspberries, strawberries, slice pineapple, stewed rhubarb, yogurt, tea
Sn...2 handfuls of red currants, banana.

Marie

floyd

sharloid wrote: »

Just wondering how people count calories with batch cooked things/things you haven't weighed things out for/slow cooked dishes. I mean, you might know that 100g of carrots and 100g of beans went into your slow cooker, but when you deal yourself a portion do you weigh it out so that you can do some calculations? Even then it's not ideal as you might have more of one thing than the other! Or am I being too fussy and should I just estimate? :P

Thanks for any ideas!

Hi Sharloid,
I do this alot so can tell you how I do things so it might help

I batch cook all the time but have only weighed things for each recipe on one occasion then I added it to my account on The Daily Plate to keep track of it.

I weigh what is going into the whole recipe then work out the total calories then divide by the number of portions. Even if we are eating some for one meal and freezing some, it all gets portioned at the same time as I'm dishing out dinner so I'm sure they are all a similar size.

I dont count calories in things like carrots, cauli, cabbage, green beans but I do in corn, peas and potatoes and fruit so you can have a little leeway as long as you're sensible

The key to it is not to get too obsessed with it, estimation is fine provided its with the things like veg and beans and not with the stuff thats more calorie dense like butter, cheese, oil, pasta, spuds and rice.

Doing things this way has worked really well for me (2 and 1/2 stone gone), I still have the odd day off but I make sure it is just that, ONE DAY.

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The weekend was a wipeout day for me as I went to a friends birthday so although I didnt eat a massive amount, it wasn't very healthy and I drank far too much :rotfl:

Sat:

B: 2 wholemeal toast

L: Egg sandwich, packet of skips

Small bowl nachos and 1 small slice thin crust pizza

S: Not really a snack but 2/3 of a bottle of Smirnoff escaped into my throat and I got home at 4.30am :eek:

Sun:

B: Bacon sandwich

L/D: BBQ so I had 2 sausages in small rolls, pasta salad, small spoon of coleslaw, salad and some crisps

S: Another roll with a cheese slice in it

Mon:

B: 2 wholemeal toast

L: Mozarella ciabatta with pesto and vine tomatoes

Wholemeal spaghetti zucchini

S: Probably nothing else

Have a fab week all

Eltee12

Hi all

foot getting looser now, am walking more normal speed (which being old & fat is quite slow!)

Yesterday

B - jam on toast, cuppa tea
L - Cheese & salad sarnie
oooops, following a trip walking to Mr M's 25 mins), shopping in Mr M's (40 mins) and walking home from Mr M's (30 mins, was hot by then), got back home and sampled much cold beer from fridge! So, dinner ended up as Steak, sausage and chips with french bread and profiteroles for afters instead of planned steak n salad!!

Today
B-toasted fruity bread, cuppa tea
Sn-Cereal bar
L-Pate n toast
Sn-rasperries & yog
D-lasagne, salad, coleslaw
Exercise walking: already done 20 mins + 10 mins. another 20mins tonight

Tuesday Plan
B-Supermarket own brand cereal biskits, milk, sug
Sn-dried fruit
L-cream cheese & salad wholemeal-bread sarnie :A
D-salmon, potato salad, beetroot
sn-apple

Exercise: 2 x 20 mins walking

vixtress

afternoon!
well a sneaky peak at the scales says i have put on 3lb since friday :eek: i am really hoping this is fluid and a bit of an internal 'go slow' if you know what i mean i know i wasnt great at the weekend but i wasnt really THAT bad!! i should at least have been good enough to maintain rather than gain!!

yesterday was ok, had
2 x toast with peanut butter .
fish with pots, carrots, peas and a creamy (ish) sauce & a muller light
hm tandoori fish (loads) with salad and 1 pitta bread for dinner.

i also did an hour of mega tough circuit training so surely i cant have put on 3lb!!

today have had/having
50g cereal with semi skimmed, a big handful of fresh cherries.

1 pitta, salad and some tomato, lentil bol sauce. apple

dinner will be spicy bean and veg fahita/wrap with a bit of 1/2 fat cheese & a square of dark choc.

tell me honestly what you think, thats not that bad is it?? i posted the weekend's menus earlier. not great, but ive had worse :rotfl:

hope you are all doing better than me.

vix

floyd

Hi all,

OK day for me although I'm hungry all the time

B: 2 wholemeal toast with light cream cheese

L: Jacket spud with cottage cheese, beetroot salad and a small spoon coleslaw

HM roasted veg lasagne with salad and a few pieces of garlic bread

S: Small skinny iced latte

Hoping to cut right back for the next few weeks to drop a few more lbs for the rest of the summer