Weight Loss the Old Style Way! Part 8. Please read posts 1 and 2 before posting.

ellie99

Need2bthrifty wrote: »

Time now for a change of clothes, get the roller out ....
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As I read this I thought you were telling us you had a rolls royce :rotfl:a paint roller, what a disappointment

Sue14 wrote: »

OH had an appointment at the hospital today, and we decided to have mcd before heading home, not good, lol! However we did have a single cheeseburger, small fries and medium milkshake, instead of double CB, large fries & large MS.

It's making changes like this that make changing your diet sustainable, so well done...and walking up all those stairs would help work it off, maybe you should do it every time

Well I've had a really awful experience today...I've had to look at myself in a full length mirror starkers :eek: (I was going to the osteopath and needed to see "before and after"...my back problem is often obvious just looking at it)
Now I don't make a habit of this..it's too cold to wander about in the nuddy for a start...and it wasn't pleasant! I can almost kind of convince myself I look not too bad in clothes, but this just brought home to me how much I still need to lose, mostly from my bottom half!

So...I'm determined to keep going, I want to look better by easter. Have not been well enough to walk all week and really missing it, it gets depressing having to stay in the house all the time...trying to eat well to compensate for no exercise.
(with one exception...DS phoned on Sunday night after I'd eaten to say he was coming home with his mates and they were having pizza and did I want one?...well, what would you do? I couldn't sit and watch them eat pizza without joining in )

officeguru

ellie99 wrote: »

As I read this I thought you were telling us you had a rolls royce :rotfl:a paint roller, what a disappointment



It's making changes like this that make changing your diet sustainable, so well done...and walking up all those stairs would help work it off, maybe you should do it every time

Well I've had a really awful experience today...I've had to look at myself in a full length mirror starkers :eek: (I was going to the osteopath and needed to see "before and after"...my back problem is often obvious just looking at it)
Now I don't make a habit of this..it's too cold to wander about in the nuddy for a start...and it wasn't pleasant! I can almost kind of convince myself I look not too bad in clothes, but this just brought home to me how much I still need to lose, mostly from my bottom half!

So...I'm determined to keep going, I want to look better by easter. Have not been well enough to walk all week and really missing it, it gets depressing having to stay in the house all the time...trying to eat well to compensate for no exercise.
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Hi Ellie

I haven't had a chance to post as we've had problems again with the in-laws again.. These are not going to go away... we are just lurching from one crisis to the next.. but never mind...

You know, I won't look at a full length mirror fully clothed, let alone naked.. Actually the one I have upstairs makes me look fat :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I have to admit that my food control has gone out of the window this week, so rather than fight it... I will go along with it until I get back on track... I think it has something to do with the cold weather... I tend to want comfort food... so today, I have made homemade meat loaf... It could have been good for me, but I had some minced pork in the freezer, so I mixed some Aberdeen Angus sausages through it... I was doing well at this point :A and then, instead of breadcrumbs, I added a couple of handfuls of porridge oats, an egg, seasoning and a generous dollop of Worcestershire sauce... but then I ruined it... I had to go and add a load of grated cheese... I have mixed it all together and made 6 mini loaves, which I will bake in the oven... I shouldn't have added the cheese... but, never mind.... and like you, I am determined to lose the fat... :beer:

I also liked the comment about the 'roller' ha ha ha ...

Well, that's about it... apart from the fact that my fingers are going blue with the cold... so I am off to light a fire...

Take care...

WantToBeSE

*shudder*..i don't even OWN a full length mirror, for fear of accidentally seeing my whole body in the mirror :rotfl:

lobbyludd

I'm not sure about the starvation mode thing either, people who are starving lose a lot of weight, (not advocating that) but I do know if most of my intake of calories is carbs I'm hungry and don't lose weight, as if because I'm handing my body energy it's not going to bother mobilising my very large fat reserves. if it's mostly protein and veg - I do lose weight. I'm not low carbing but if I have a choice of where I get my calories from then protein/fat/veg is a better way for me to go (if I go low fat my skin falls off!).

I guess we all have to find what works for us. not that I think it will this week, yesterday took friend out for italian for her birthday - think I've had all of this week's and probably some of next weeks calories already but it was very yummy

ellie99

officeguru wrote: »

You know, I won't look at a full length mirror fully clothed, let alone naked.. Actually the one I have upstairs makes me look fat :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I totally believe you about the mirror that makes you look fat

My mirror is just a big piece of mirror I lean against the wall, and when I don't want to look in it I can hide it behind the door...
but last year I bought a big cheap mirror from our local factory shop...and it makes me look so tall and slim :rotfl:...I think it's so flimsy the backing doesn't hold the mirror straight...I looked in it so much I had to put it away, I was starting to believe what I was seeing and convincing myself I wasn't overweight :rotfl:

The next time I was in the shop I told the girls the mirror I'd bought was faulty, but I liked it so much I wasn't returning it...when I told them why they went off to try out the others that were left in the shop :rotfl:

I plan to look in it again when I'm at my target weight...I'll look like a super model :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Knit_Witch

We are now over 10k posts on this thread - should we start a new one off?

daisiegg

sachatith wrote: »

CCP, daisiegg, Molly41 make sure you are eating enough otherwise your body will go into starvation mode because it doesn't think it will get any food. As a result it stores all the food as fat because it doesn't know when it's next meal will be.

I'm only mentioning it because it took me AGES of doing exactly that to realise (and to believe) and I tested it this month - one week I ate 1000 calories out of my 1400 a day and STS, last week I ate as close as possible to 1400 (and went slightly over on two, oops!) and lost 3lbs.

I know it sounds weird (I have no science capabilities whatsover ) but for some people it makes all the difference. Obviously everyone is different and I'm not saying that it will be the same for you but my body definitely does it - fingers crossed for you all for a loss this week

Sorry.....but I have read quite a lot recently that says 'starvation mode' is a myth sorry!

ellie99

Knit_Witch wrote: »

We are now over 10k posts on this thread - should we start a new one off?

Are there any technical issues with the posts being so high?

If not, I'd say wait until this challenge is done and dusted...maybe the challenge starting in the new year would be a good place to start anew?

Knit Witch - have you kept the challenge totals throughout the year? It would be really interesting in December to see how much this thread has lost in the whole of 2013!

daisiegg

Going out for dinner tonight on a long standing date so wanted to try and be as good as possible during the day so I can enjoy it...haven't done as well as I'd have liked

B - banana porridge
L- 2 tiny tiny satsumas
S - just had a small bowl of cereal with soya yogurt. Felt I needed something before travelling into London if I am not to pass out on the tube.
D - going out for Mexican. Will probably have fajitas or something similar.

I'm pretty sure the scales are not going to be kind to me today I am going to have a really strict day tomorrow - fruit for breakfast, weightwatchers 100 cal soup for lunch and a 400 cal stir fry for dinner just to try and see if I can move anything before Friday.

ellie99

daisiegg wrote: »

Going out for dinner tonight on a long standing date so wanted to try and be as good as possible during the day so I can enjoy it...haven't done as well as I'd have liked

B - banana porridge
L- 2 tiny tiny satsumas
S - just had a small bowl of cereal with soya yogurt. Felt I needed something before travelling into London if I am not to pass out on the tube.
D - going out for Mexican. Will probably have fajitas or something similar.

I'm pretty sure the scales are not going to be kind to me today I am going to have a really strict day tomorrow - fruit for breakfast, weightwatchers 100 cal soup for lunch and a 400 cal stir fry for dinner just to try and see if I can move anything before Friday.

daisiegg don't stress too much, you've eaten very little so far today, so you can enjoy your meal out

and please don't eat so little you begin to feel ill, it will just make you feel disheartened!

(btw, I'm going to start having a yakult again every day, to get things moving again, IYSWIM )