Frugal Frump to Fab/Winter Solstice

fedupandskint

Just totted up the amount of inches lost since May

In 7mths I've lost 18.5" in total all over including an unbelievable 6" from my hips. I had no idea I had that much to lose from there!

Anyway it's gone and there's no way it's going back on either!

Callisto

lessonlearned wrote: »

I recently tried to buy a calorie book but couldn't find one. Any recommendations anyone. It may sound old fashioned but I've always been very successful when calorie counting. I find the new WW points system quite irritating. Tonight I made sure I had protein for dinner and I feel much better - no munchies tonight.

I use 'My Plate', part of the Livestrong website to count calories. It is an American site, but there are a lot of UK users on there as most food I have typed in is listed.

Sorry to hear your news Bratz, hope you get a treatment date soon.

Well done on your inch loss Sparkles.

Podperson - ooooh a novel, can we have first look when it's published?

Molly - Hope you are looking after yourself and I am sure you will get a lovely present bought back for you!

Sophistica - I have wanted to read 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' for a while, so I will order it from the library or get it when my next Amazon survey voucher comes through.

Took part time dog for a 30 minute walk this morning, and will take her for a longer walk on Friday morning as OH needed the car today. I am annoyed with OH as he has been tampering with the 'tick over' on my car and now it stalls on a regular basis (there was nothing wrong with it, other than the exhaust rattled.) Have told him to put it right, but he hasn't been able to fix it today despite trying and I have to drive to the city tomorrow morning for an appointment. I am a nervous driver at the best of times, not being able to rely on the car (it stalls at junctions/traffic lights etc) will just make it worse.

Dad is still waiting for buyer to complete sale, apparently buyer is waiting for local council searches to check on planning permission etc for the local area. No idea how long this takes, but Dad wanted to have concluded sale by tomorrow as he will now have to start paying out expenses for December.

sophistica

I agree wholeheartedly with you LL. I live in London and I have been on most of those seminars and I rarely meet anyone who has taken any action (other than going on a seminar) and anyone who is anything other than flat broke. Some are bankrupt etc. The seminars appeal solely to people's desperation and their need to feel good - hence all the high fives and group hugs. I go there with my notepad- if there is anything to learn you can learn it there (at the first one) for free...and if you go on enough of them, you can piece your strategy together for nothing. I work in learning - all learning is about repetition, action, thinking, consolidation, making mistakes, learning from your mistakes etc. You have to take action. Most people can't take action and they have to have a mentor there to tell them what to do or coach them. It's shocking. I remember one seminar on property investment where they showed a disabled man being supported by his father to compete in a Triathlon (Team Hoyt - The Iron Man) all to gospel music...what has this got to do with property investment - Uh - nothing but it gets the participant's emotions going so they rush to the back with their credit cards. But no one learns how to be a millionaire in school and so we have to think of how e are going to learn those skills and that's where the books and free first seminars have a place.

sophistica

I recently tried to buy a calorie book but couldn't find one. Any recommendations anyone. It may sound old fashioned but I've always been very successful when calorie counting. I find the new WW points system quite irritating. Tonight I made sure I had protein for dinner and I feel much better - no munchies tonight.

I just got a year 2000, calorie counter book from the charity shop. It does what I need. All I am doing is eating what I like eating and normally eat BUT I am:
1. Using smaller bread slices (medium loaf slices instead of large stoneground wholemeal).
2. Using smaller teaspoons full of things like cream, jam.
3. Using no oil - just the FryLight.
4. I am checking the calories of everything that I eat (either on the label or in the book so I know where I stand.
5. I am roughly having 300 for breakfast, 400 for lunch and 500 for evening meal.
6. I have found that the low cal dressings that you buy in the shops e.g. Kraft or Lidl low fat can be enhanced by adding honey, mustard, balsamic vinegar, garlic, herbs...and then you have a nice dressing for salad and vegetables and no oil.
7. I am also using my regular recipes with substitutions e.g tonight the Goat's Cheese Beetroot and Broad Bean salad was made with a dollop of cottage cheese instead of the goat's cheese.

I am planning on starting a diet diary where I put my weight each day and what I have eaten with the calorie totals. Ruth Watson (Hotel Inspector) did the same when she lost a stack of weight and it worked for her (until she took her eye of the ball and put it all back on). This calorie thing is quite empowering...the WW point make no sense at all...points for FryLight no points for apples - it is all topsy turvy. Didn't somebody do a survey on WW and found that your long term success rate was something like 1 in a million...and as we don't know the calorie content of the food we eat we have to keep going back.

lessonlearned

sophistica wrote: »

I remember one seminar on property investment where they showed a disabled man being supported by his father to compete in a Triathlon (Team Hoyt - The Iron Man) all to gospel music...what has this got to do with property investment - Uh - nothing but it gets the participant's emotions going so they rush to the back with their credit cards.

That makes me both cringe and my blood boil. So manipulative.

Sparkles - well done on the inch loss - what an achievement. I have definitely stalled - what I really need to do is exercise - not done any since I did my back in. Now I've had my physio things are much easier so am aiming to start again tomorrow - slowly at first.

Have booked another physio for next week to keep on top of things.

Thanks for the link re calories Callisto - will look into that.

Right now time to get back to the filing and shredding - that's what I came into the study for.

I have at least got everything ready into neat piles now ready to get cracking tomorrow and Friday - urgent pending, pending, when I feel like it and can I really be bothered:rotfl:

G'night all x

rosieben

What a great thread! I wish I'd found you earlier.

I want to lose a substantial amount of weight before the end of March, for my son's wedding and be fitter too. And because of illness/depression I'm out of the habit of using make up and wearing rings and earrings - all of which I used to love - so can I join in please, and try to get back to something like normal.

I know we're near the end of the year but I'm hoping there will be a 2012 thread?

Going to go back over the thread and try to catch up with some of it

maman

Sorry, not time to post as I should be in bed. Early start in the morning. Off to France for a short break but back late Saturday. Meanwhile, since I was asked:



" We are Southampton, we're top of the league":D:D:D

Willow92

Been fabbing it up today, I wore liquid eyeliner in the day for the first time in ages

Also bought some Rimmel eyeshadow and Chit Chat (£land's own makeup brand) mascara from £land. I put some of the eyeshadow on the back of my hand and it seems to be really soft and a lovely bronzey colour. I think it's called spiced bronze or something.

bratz81

thanks for the reassurance and well wishes guys. I have to admit that part of me was secretly hoping they'd need to remove everything so I'd get the sterilisation I'm after but you can't have it all I guess :rotfl::rotfl:

Still, if you didn't laugh you'd cry sometimes. Not very fabbly dressed today - in jeans for the first time in forever and feel very casual. In my defence though, my clean stockings I'd left out were savaged by the cat and all the others were planned for washing tonight. I've ordered some new ones to replace the shredded ones so hopefully they'll come soon.

I have been keeping up with skincare, makeup and nail care though, and I feel it's really paying off in that I'm feeling prettier now than I was. I haven't changed my appearance, my features haven't changed I mean, but I'm seeing myself differently :T

Also feeling better in part because my hair is growing. Up until I was about 21 I had classic length hair (long enough to sit on) then I took the head staggers one day and got it chopped into a pixie. Missed my long hair and started growing it but haven't got beyond about collar bone length since. I was a huge fan of unusual hair colours and the bleaching didn't help, plus I saw all these funky shorter cuts and kept getting them. Forgetting that a) I look better with longer hair and b) I'm too 'cute' looking to pull off funky hair cuts!
Well now I've been babying and growing it and cut out all heat styling and dying, it's now about 2 inches past shoulders and so soft and shiny. Just like the hair I used to have

lessonlearned

Good morning ladies

Just a quicke for now = got a busy day ahead.

Maman -bet I've probably missed you but have a great time in La Belle France. Will Christmas markets be on the agenda:rotfl:

Willow - glad to see you are fabbing it up. I meant to say to you the other day - you seem so much happier and perkier these days - very upbeat and positive. Keep it going.

Bratz - Naughty kitty. Interesting about the hair, glad it's growing back nicely. I think sometimes you just have to stop the colouring, crimping and faffing and just give it time to recover.

Not very happy with my hair at the moment. I can't seem to do anything with it. Now that winter is here it doesnt look silver and shiny it just looks dull, grey and nondescript.

My skin is awful too and I just look so tired and drained. Every time I look in the mirror I seem to find a host of new fine surface lines.

Stress can do so much damage to our looks. I'm hoping that once OH is fully settled in the New Year, the stress will then ease off. We will be heading into Spring - less central heating/cold winds etc. Hopefully I will sleep better etc and then my skin/hair will start to recover.

I might have to see about some "Industrial Strength" salon treatments.:rotfl:

Rosieben - Welcome, no it's never too late to start building a bit of fabness into your life.

It's four weeks till Christmas - you can achieve a lot in that time. Eat healthily and start a few daily fabbing routines, skin care, a nice new hairstyle perhaps, dressing nicely, a bit of jewellery and of course, never forgetting, perfume. It all starts with smelling gorgeous.

And yes, the thread will continue next year.;)

Anyway off to start the day. Have a good one ladies. Happy Fabbing.