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

lovely-cup-of-tea

Hello all,
I hope there's room for one more on this thread. I had a bit of a light-bulb moment over the weekend. I don't have any scales (don't like 'em as I get obsessed with the numbers rather than what I look like) but went to buy some trousers as all of mine had gotten rather tight. It was only as I admitted defeat and bought the size 16s that I dreaded that I faced up to what I needed to do.

I've been a serial dieter all my life, I've been through Ms Conley and WW twice (I was even a WW leader for a while) but it suddenly hit me. I need to make small changes, make new healthy habits and do it slowly. I need not to 'diet' but to change my life-style.

As of today my challenge is to change the bowl (or two) of salted peanuts which have become a nightly habit for some fresh fruit or a low fat yogurt....or even nothing if I'm not really hungry. Once this habit is established I'll work on the next habit.

I'm feeling really positive and up for this!

Wishing everyone here a great day.

lynsayjane

Morning all,
Well yesterday wasn't a great day diet wise as I was busy doing diy in the house and 'forgot' to eat till tea time which the BF organised (needless to say healthy it was not, though it could have been much worse).
One of today's tasks is to meal plan for the week and do a shop after work so not sure what dinner plans are but breakfast was a bagel with lactofree marg and lunch will likely be soup and a salad. We have a resturant at work which is paid for so it's nice home made stuff and should be relatively low fat.

Signed back into MFP and despite feeling bigger than I was it seems I've actually lost 10lbs since I was last on it two months ago! Either that or my scales got broken in the house move and gave me a wrong reading yesterday:rotfl:

Have a good day
LJ
x

Knit_Witch

lovely-cup-of-tea wrote: »

Hello all,
I hope there's room for one more on this thread. I had a bit of a light-bulb moment over the weekend. I don't have any scales (don't like 'em as I get obsessed with the numbers rather than what I look like) but went to buy some trousers as all of mine had gotten rather tight. It was only as I admitted defeat and bought the size 16s that I dreaded that I faced up to what I needed to do.

I've been a serial dieter all my life, I've been through Ms Conley and WW twice (I was even a WW leader for a while) but it suddenly hit me. I need to make small changes, make new healthy habits and do it slowly. I need not to 'diet' but to change my life-style.

As of today my challenge is to change the bowl (or two) of salted peanuts which have become a nightly habit for some fresh fruit or a low fat yogurt....or even nothing if I'm not really hungry. Once this habit is established I'll work on the next habit.

I'm feeling really positive and up for this!

Wishing everyone here a great day.

Welcome to the group

I am guessing as you don't weigh in that you won't be joining the weight loss challenge :rotfl:

Need2bthrifty

Hi Folks,

Hope some of you are having a better start to this week, I’ve been up and down the ladder painting again and OUCH my shoulders are in agony – may need to treat myself to a massage once this is all finished

Sparrer, hope you are better soon, sounds a bit like an ear infection but hopefully not labyrithitis (sp)- a friend of mine had that and it sounded yuk, take care.

Meals today =
B – Yoghurt & mixed berries
L – Chicken rice soup, toast
D – Slow cooked brisket & root veg, brussels sprouts & green beans

ellie99

sparrer...I second the nagging re going to the docs if your symptoms don't go away...I've had giddy and dizzy spells when moving my head, and it turned out to be an easily cured ear infection.

Need2bthrifty wrote: »

Hi Folks,
, I’ve been up and down the ladder painting again and OUCH my shoulders are in agony

Do you use a long pole on your roller? Means you only have to go up the ladder to do the edges

lynsayjane wrote: »

... tea time which the BF organised (needless to say healthy it was not, though it could have been much worse).

Isn't it funny how so many men can't do healthy and slimming, no wonder we struggle with their bad influence :rotfl:
When dieting, I was once presented with (after a huge main course) a doughnut and ice cream as dessert...yuck!

Had a very nice, and fattening, bacon butty for lunch, so trying to redeem myself with a salad for tea...I would quite happily keep eating, but keep reminding myself that it's not long until xmas, and I still have a lot to lose. I'm aiming for easter, which is 6 months away, I want to look better by then

vixtress

Daren't even weigh myself.
Have just typed a long, self pitying message that disappeared.
Feel dreadful today. It was OHs birthday, his brother's birthday and a wedding within 4 days, I haven't stopped.

I need to sort myself out, I was actually sick last night, I thought it was something I'd eaten but the more I think about it,my he mire I think it's my stomach shouting ENOUGH. :mad::mad:

I need a kick.

Hope you're all doing better than me

Vix xx

sparrer

Thank you all for your concern, it's been a weird day to say the least. Went to the surgery at 8am - the only way to guarantee a same day appt, got one for 8.20am! New doctor, about 18 I think, obviously hadn't read my notes as the first thing she asked is do I drink alcohol. Perhaps she thought I was drunk . Assured her I haven't for almost 9 years, so she took my temp, looked in ears & mouth, listened to my chest, said she was concerned about the slight grating until I said I have COPD and asked if I smoke - no, gave it up almost 7 years ago. She then took my bp. She asked what the tattoo on my arm was, I told her it was the symbol of my fellowship with the date of my sobriety. She studied it for a while than asked when I gave up drinking, so I pointed out the date on my arm that she had just been looking at! Advised me to stop drinking coffee (I have about one cup every three months) and arranged for me to have an ECG tomorrow and a blood test next week. And all I went for was a problem with giddiness

Back to today -
B - spicy fruity porridge, stewed apple with ff Greek yogurt
L - prawn sandwich, orange
D - chicken casserole, jacket
S - grapes, melon, carrot batons
E - dusted/vac'ed bedrooms, bathroom, landing, stairs. Scrubbed stairs, they looked really grubby but better now. Will wash the kitchen floor before I go to bed

Sweet dreams

lovely-cup-of-tea

Ha Ha Knit Witch, no I won't be weighing but I have a skirt which will let me know if I'm on the right lines. I also have a floor length mirror and a pair of eyes and figure on using them instead!!!

Breakfast - HM fruity porridge and toast
Lunch - salad, hummus, falafel and 1 small wm pitta
Dinner - lambs liver, pots, baked beans and onions

I've snacked on lots of lovely fruit and replace the evil peanuts with two fruity crispbreads. Felt well nourished iykwim.

There's a veg and lentil soup/stew in the slow cooker ready to be switched on before I leave for work which will feed me tomorrow.

G'night all.

Caterina

The eating today would have been fine, if it had not been for the biscuits between meals :-(

B. 2 small slices wm hm bread with hm plum jam
S. 5 biscuits
L. Small bowl tagliatelle in tomato sauce, mixed salad
S. 6 chocolate digestives
D. 3 hm smoked salmon fish cakes, spinach, runner beans
S. small piece of cheese, 10 almonds.

I am getting to a point of despair with the sugar addiction. Toying with the idea of going low carb again, and sod the "good" carbs that everybody goes on about! But not eating meat sometimes I find it difficult to have variety in my choice of protein, there are just so many omelettes a person can eat!

Need2bthrifty

ellie99 wrote: »

Do you use a long pole on your roller? Means you only have to go up the ladder to do the edges

I did do the first coat with a roller pole but found areas where I must have been spreading it thicker than others so thought I would try doing the second by hand (roller) and it's looking much more even - don't do it very often so haven't perfected any kind of technique......yet :rotfl:

Beginning to run out of emulsion so going to work on the stair skirting boards tomorrow then go for more paint - at least I will be on my knees for that

Suppose while I'm here this late best own up to a sneaky sandwich - leftover brisket was too tempting so had some in 1 slice of bread

Nite, Nite - hope you are feeling better Sparrer, but something to keep an eye on :cool: