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

LisaJane

1 pound off

ok i know it's not much much but i have only been good monday, tuesday, wednesday and thursday. no big drinking or eating plans this weekend yet, so i am hoping to keep going downwards! I also only had crisps on wednesday of those days which is a huge achievement me for me!

i've just put my name down for the hairy dieters cookbook from the book man, has anybody else used this? a lot of the recipes look nice and very doable too??

sparrer

Get well now, Molly
CCP oh dear, poor you losing your delish fish dish . Hope today's is tasty

Weigh show a loss of .4 of a lb, couldn't even quite reach a 1/2 so will declare an STS
B - spicy fruity porridge with ff yogurt, fresh pineapple
D - hm veg soup, jacket with rf spread & prawns
T - 3 crackerbread with vegemite, rf cheese&pickle, scrape apricot jam.
S - 2 satsumas, melon, carrot batons
E - minimum household duties, not quite 100% so a rest day

Have a sunny day whatever the weather

CCP

LisaJane wrote: »

i've just put my name down for the hairy dieters cookbook from the book man, has anybody else used this? a lot of the recipes look nice and very doable too??

Is that the original one or the new one? If it's the first one then I've got it and it's very good - the recipes I've tried have been delicious (particularly the lamb and spinach curry, which is the best I've ever made, diet or not). I haven't seen the new one yet but I intend to get a copy when it turns up in my office book club.

My lunch today was a wholemeal baguette with roast turkey and the sandwich shop's HM coleslaw, which is made with lots of chunky veg and a relatively small amount of dressing. It was probably a bit generously-sized given that I didn't have the healthiest breakfast, but it was utterly delicious so I don't feel as guilty as I possibly should!

LisaJane

It is the new one I think, Eat for Life? It has a yellow cover. There are definately a few curries in there I would like to try.

lynsayjane

Hi all,
Is there room for a (not so) little one to join in? Was going to read through the thread to see if there is a 'plan' to the OS weight loss club but at 500+ pages I might struggle!

Started browsing the OS forum about 6 weeks ago mostly for the flylady thread as I was moving from a one bed flat which I felt I struggled to keep in the condition I wanted to a three bed house. I also now have my bf living with me which basically counts as having a child to raise/clean up after :rotfl:

I've always been big, hit 13st in high school and being only 5'2" made me the fat kid and I hated school for that. A couple of years ago I lost three stone and felt :jmanaged to keep most of it off for over a year but the past 14 months or so have seen some really tough times and I've basically stopped looking after myself, no exercise and comfort eating mean I'm probably back up at my heaviest. Am too scared to weigh myself knowing what it'll do to my confidence, but having to buy a bigger size jeans says all I need it to.

But it's a new house, new relationship and new start. I've finally got a proper grown up kitchen and want to get back into all the boxes of clothes I bought when I lost weight. I made a futile attempt a couple of months ago and signed up to a local gym, it's frozen this month due to the move but starts again 1st November so I intend to get going there. One problem I'll have with following any 'diet' is that I have to cook for the other half who stuffs himself and usually with unhealthy things (he has an active job so doesn't have to worry as much :mad: not fair) so doing it the OS way might be just the key to looking after us both.

Please can I join you? Where do I start?

LJ
x

CCP

LisaJane wrote: »

It is the new one I think, Eat for Life? It has a yellow cover. There are definately a few curries in there I would like to try.

That sounds like the new one. I'll be interested to see what you think of it as, as I said, I am intending to get my own copy soon.

lynsayjane - welcome to the thread! There's a very flexible approach, so you can do whatever works best for you (no fad or crash diets, though, of course!), with plenty of support and advice when needed. We are currently about three or four weeks into a challenge, where we all pick a certain amount we want to lose by a certain date (for this one it's just before Christmas). My own record on the current challenge isn't good so far, but generally it works well!

sachatith

lynsayjane wrote: »

One problem I'll have with following any 'diet' is that I have to cook for the other half who stuffs himself and usually with unhealthy things (he has an active job so doesn't have to worry as much :mad: not fair)

Hi Lynsayjane welcome my OH is exactly the same. I pretty much come home and make two separate meals and look longingly at some of his... which is why I now batch cook at a weekend so that it doesn't tempt me. So unfair I don't know how they do it - chips, crisps, sausage rolls you name it! Good luck anywho

CCP wrote: »

We are currently about three or four weeks into a challenge,

CCP this scared me - 3/4 weeks already? AAHHHH!!!! (and that's not even thinking about the lessening weeks before the erm 'festive day')

Weighing in tomorrow as completely forgot this morning however I feel that the two beer festivals last week may have meant I am on a gain albeit a lot of exercise this week. Next week won't be any better as it's my birthday and I already have three meals planned.... uh oh

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Good evening chums -1lb this week which takes me to the magical figure of 16st 13 lbs a touch under at my last weeks 17st.00.
Having broken through the line I am now looking forward to seeing the diet nurse next Wednesday as she will give me my BMI as well:j:j:jIts definitely going slow but sure I was so chuffed this morning.

B:mini shredded wheat,skimmed milk and chopped banana

L: HM soup and a couple of apples.

mid afternoon snack two small pears

D : Just about to have a jacket sweet potato with some cottage cheese, and some yoghurt for pud.

I will be making a vat of carrot and coriander soup tomorrow morning for next weeks lunches also some veggie curry to use up some past their best veg
Well done everyone on how you have got on this week.We will get there in the end.
Onwards and upwards.:D

Knit_Witch

lynsayjane wrote: »

Please can I join you? Where do I start?

LJ
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Well you have sort of joined in already by posting :rotfl: so welcome to the thread! If you want to join in the weight loss challenge, this one runs until the weekend of the 22nd December and this weekend is the third weigh in - so plenty of time left all you need to do is let me know how much you hope to lose in the time remaining of the challenge and then weekly let me know how much you have lost or gained and I update the spreadsheet, you don't need to say how much you weigh so no problems there

Sezzagirl

1lb off this week!!!

Not a lot but as it's the first of many that have been hanging around for weeks, I'm happy!!