Lose weight 30

bex2002

i love the biggest loser too, catching up on the us one at the moment, always seem to miss the uk one, will have to see if i can find out where to download them as would love to catch up on the biggest losers as i seem to miss quite a few of them, especially the beginning of the series as i dont realise they have started.

puddings_2

sarymclary wrote: »

Puds - what can I say? You have become a man on a mission, and I like it! I'm so glad the losses are coming in thick and fast. Out of interest, what is an average daily menu like for you?

Thanks:-)
typical= 12pm beans on toast. 3pm tuna salad. 6pm soup. 9pm turkey subway. midnight quorn cottage pie... plus coffee/squash/water and a few hard boiled sweets to suck on inbetween

Fellpony_2

Hi Sary, DD is loving school, wants to go full days but is so tired after half a day. I have spoken to school and they are happy with her going just half days for now, getting her past treatment is more important, keeping her strength up without wearing her out everyday with school.

Eric_Pisch

For those bored heres some stats about my year so far (start jan 4th)

I have lost 1078 Big Macs

I have over estimated my daily calorific deficit by 600 (this comes down with muscle growth)

I have walked 269.5 miles (all up hill)

I have done 38 3 min boxing rounds (only started august)

I have lifted 293,586.5 kgs !!!

Fellpony_2

OMG Eric thats some amazing stats!! Well done you.

victory

sarymclary wrote: »

Victory - that's a brilliant result for you and your LO. My lads don't seem to be losing anything, so I'm worried that it's me doing something wrong here now. What are you giving your LO each day, especially for packed lunches and evening meals? My youngest seems to be doing better than my 12 y/o, because he's more keen on sports, and has just started to go to a boxing club twice a week, where they do a mean workout each time for an hour. I'm hoping that will have an effect. I know I need to go out and exercise with them to encourage them more, but I'm concerned about tweaks to their diet most of all. They have cereal for b/fast, which they have to weigh out, with 1% milk, lunch is a roll, piece of fruit, piece of h/m flapjack, low fat yogurt, small packet of crisps. Dinner is usually what the rest of the family have, but occasionally they'll have a light tea of soup with toast, or eggs & toast. Are you calorie counting for your lad?

No calorie counting here, no weighing either, it is not a diet really just portion control and a vast amount more of exercise than he is used to, he now goes to 4 clubs after school and cubs, we walk with him at weekends and cycle, he loves being outdoors and OH is very into nature and ray mears kind of person so he talks to the lad about living off the land, what trees you can get water off what you can eat etc and he loves all that, all the one to one father and son he loves and the bonus is we get exercise.

I must say I was very unprepared for him today, he insisted on weighing himself because he had done 3 clubs yesterday and thought he felt thinner and had lost weight, before I could stop him he got on the scales and was the same, his little face, I had to stop what I was doing and explain to him that it is not him, it just takes time, that if we all lost weight as quickly as that we would all be stick thin, made it into a joke but it was really hard to pick him up from the devastating reality that not every day he can loose.

Anyway, he has chosen cornflakes for breakfast without sugar and is very proud of himself for not adding sugar so he was praised highly for that, little things mean a lot, lunch at school is quavers 83 cals or twiglets 90 cals or sunbites 118 cals, always fruit apple from our tree, pear, banana, loves grapes,plums, peaches all the fruit and veg comes from Aldi by far the cheapest place to buy that from, has a fad on those breakfast biscuits and everytime they are half price I buy them or from morrisons the sugar free rich tea biscuits which taste very dry but he likes them, in the sandwich althoug he prefers wraps but they are messy to eat all the salad, he loves fresh peppers and some ham or cheese, he also has plain crackers (yuck plain but he likes them!) for snack, sugar free juice, never have any fizzy pop in the house or sweets and now stopped buying tubs of ice cream that he used to devour.

Dinner is veg, his fav is peas and sweetcorn with chicken or spag bog a reasonable portion,or lasagna, or HM chicken skewers with cherry toms, peppers etc or fish, or HM cottage pie with butternut squash topping, for dessert he will have my sugar free jelly with fruit on or muller lite yogs in strawberry, toffee or his fav at the mo strawberry cheesecake one around 90/100 cals per pot but like I say no cals counting here. He asked me to make him my sugar free cheesecake with jelly that I make often so I did and he loved it, very few cals in a portion of that.

I have stopped cooking fairy cakes, coffee and walnut cakes all the stuff I used to because it is not necessary and they used to have a competition see who could eat it the fastest, I am sure they did:rotfl:

When we go out to the supermarket he points out all the stuff he used to have and then tells me the fat content of it all and how much he would have to run to loose the equivalent, we have spoken to him endlessly and he is well aware that treats are treats but not all the time, nothing is off limits but he can have a bit of it not the whole bar:D

For someone that could have eaten a whole tin of quality street himself and not flinch he is doing very well and also we have two things that stop him from eating , one is his eldest brother friend who is I would say 6/7 stone over weight that I have spoken about before comes by often and my youngest knows how terrible bullied and abused he is because of it and the second is he wants to be the same as all his classmates and not stand out and not be bullied and suffer as he knows this lad does:D

puds I love biggest looser, very avidly the USA one not UK, all the family watch it, I cry buckets over their struggle, I watch all the diet shows, everyone:D

victory

The milk is skimmed, the spread is flora extra light, the yogs are muller lite, the philadelphia is extra light but that is the norm here, has been since I started in Jan 07, so the kids use what I buy, not bought especially. I always dry fry or at worst use the fry lites, all the meat is extra lean, with no skin, masses of veg, the little one cuts up slices of pepper or cucumber like I do and eats that, he can have whatever he wants but he likes all the fresh stuff that I have and does not feel he is being deprived or on a diet or is being tortured:D

The fruit bowl is always full and constantly replenished:D

Eric_Pisch

This is very much worth a watch

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00tthry/Britains_Really_Disgusting_Drinks/

victory

Seen it, it is like the food progs they tell you actually what goes into it, you vow never to touch it again and you do:rotfl::rotfl::D

mazza111

Yep totally agree with u there victory. I will never drink coke or pepsi again, until it comes time to top up my Tia Maria


Off to work in a mo, my fav manager is in today:eek: Due my stage 2 warning, as predicted. Spoke to my manager about it, he's leaving a note for my fav manager not to discuss this with me, I'm under instruction to take regular breaks :eek: and avoid him at all costs. So why oh why am I still dreading going to work?


I really hate that place at the best of times, but today and tomorrow.... Have just dyed my hair to cover the old greys, but no doubt I'll need to do it again by saturday afternoon trying to keep my cool :cool: