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

minicooper272

ab.da54 wrote: »

Not specifically, magical. Other people mention low carbing as well and I wouldn't associate it with old style weight-loss, so curious as to how this works, that's all.

See I think old style weight loss is about restricting calories, but for me, the majority of my calories come from carbs. I don't go carb free every day, but aim for at least a day a week. It means that day i'll easily eat 500 calories fewer!

0.5lb loss for me this week. It's coming off slowly but surely.

ellie99

Well I managed to stay off the you-know-what, and have lost 1 lb

and that means I've hit my mini goal
I am exactly half way to gorgeous slimness :rotfl:

it's taken 11 months, at least no-one can accuse me of losing it too quickly :rotfl:

Need2bthrifty

Only managed a ½ lb loss this week but at least it’s coming off .


Jackie I can totally understand your wanting to go for surgery, a friend of mine had a single mastectomy years ago and didn’t opt for reconstruction. I have been shopping with her trying to find outfits for those special events and family celebrations and yes there have been days when she has been brought to tears with frustration at the fashions – everything seemed to be low cut or scooped necklines revealing way too much – she has been known to rant at shop assistants in the hopes that her feedback reaches the buyers and ultimately the designers who need to consider that not everyone has or wishes to reveal a cleavage.

Well done on your loss so far :T :T – keep at it.

minicooper272 wrote: »

See I think old style weight loss is about restricting calories, but for me, the majority of my calories come from carbs. I don't go carb free every day, but aim for at least a day a week. It means that day i'll easily eat 500 calories fewer!

This is similar to me and there are days when I try not to eat bread, pasta, etc after 5pm depending on how much I have had during the day. My problem is trying to balance healthy eating and keep within my food budget; unfortunately carbs are always the cheaper option and fill me up.


I’m off to secure and weight down the garden furniture – forecast that some blustery winds heading down the east coast……brrrrr

sparrer

Jackie good for you making the decision, if it helps one person who reads it, it was worth the time to make that post.
Congratulations on your mini goal ellie:T:j:T

Good luck for the WI everyone.
Reporting a 1lb loss this week, can't think why as exercise has slowed right down but then so have portion sizes. But I'm not complaining!

Confession, missed adding tea on Weds - I had tea with a friend at Champneys no less. Won't list it all here, suffice to say it was all very, very nice. Didn't have the supper planned as I was far to full

B - 2 crackerbread and marmalade
L - egg and tomato on 1 slice WW wholegrain toast
D - tba, can't decide what I fancy at the mo
E - running vac, polish and a drop of bleach over the house ready for friend coming this afternoon. She's not been here before so better make a good first impression

have a sunny day, stay warm

LisaJane

Hi there. I just wanted to check in on here. I have been having a bit of a nightmare weight loss wise. I found out I had a job interview about 3 weeks ago, stressed myself out revising for it, did it and then celebrated getting the job (all with food of course!) since I sat the interview I have been feeling really unwell. DH thinks it might be some viral thing brought on by stress. Just been feeling very lethargic and had a nightmare cough followed by cold like symptoms/aches and pains. So the diet has gone out the window...and this week for the first time in a long time, I've not been to the gym once. Hoping to get well rested and back on the wagon for next week!

ab.da54

minicooper272 wrote: »

See I think old style weight loss is about restricting calories, but for me, the majority of my calories come from carbs. I don't go carb free every day, but aim for at least a day a week. It means that day i'll easily eat 500 calories fewer!

0.5lb loss for me this week. It's coming off slowly but surely.

I think, if you look at old style recipes, low carb wasn't the way things were done.

I just wondered whether this was actually an old style weight loss thread with old style menus or just a diet chat thread that, for some reason has the 'old style weight loss tag' added just to fit in with the board it's on.

I have been reading through and this has been interesting nonetheless.

daisiegg

ab.da54 wrote: »

I think, if you look at old style recipes, low carb wasn't the way things were done.

I just wondered whether this was actually an old style weight loss thread with old style menus or just a diet chat thread that, for some reason has the 'old style weight loss tag' added just to fit in with the board it's on.

I have been reading through and this has been interesting nonetheless.

It is a diet chat thread but it is 'old style' to distinguish it from other diet chat threads on the board. The reason for this is that we do not talk about things like meal replacements or fad diets that cost money; just losing weight by making healthier choices with our eating and, those of us who can, moving more. That is actually 'old style' compared to all the modern fad diets, meal replacement bars/shakes etc or slimming clubs that cost money!

*zippy*

Well done everyone on your losses :j

STS for me, quite pleased with that as back to eating normally after being ill last week.

Hope everyone has a great week x

Need2bthrifty

ab.da54 wrote: »

I think, if you look at old style recipes, low carb wasn't the way things were done.

I just wondered whether this was actually an old style weight loss thread with old style menus or just a diet chat thread that, for some reason has the 'old style weight loss tag' added just to fit in with the board it's on.

I have been reading through and this has been interesting nonetheless.

This question got me thinking about what I’m doing and why do I think it’s “OS” – I am in my 50’s so OS to me probably means going by the example that I was brought up with. Most meals were cooked from scratch, balanced to include all of the main food groups and the only convenience food regularly in the cupboard was tinned soup – tomato of course, Mum was a great baker so all puddings, teabreads, etc were home-made and never shop bought.


I recall watching some of a Ch4 prog - diets that time forgot - an experiment of weight-loss diets throughout certain periods of time - Victorian, Edwardian and the 1920’s.
Victorian was basically the @tkins/low carb diet.
Edwardian was the mastication and high fibre diet – chewing mouthfuls exactly 32 times and the intro of all-bran as a breakfast cereal as a means of “oiling the system” (Edwardian obsession with being regular)
1920’s – the introduction of the calorie controlled diet - Dr Lulu Hunt Peters published Diet And Health, With Key To The Calories – the start of the deprivation diet and reported to be the worst of the three. Almost 90 years on, this is still the standard means of achieving and maintaining weight loss.

Interestingly according to Sir Roy Strong, who set up the experiment, results showed the greatest success by those following the Edwardian diet. He does however talk about the need for discipline, the far too readily available convenience foods and the sedentary life-style that we now live; therefore we eat higher calorie foodstuffs and are less active than our ancestors with machines doing more of the work.

So I am now asking myself what am I doing with the spare 40mins that the I gain from having an automatic rather than a twin tub washing machine?????

I drive to the SM whereas my mother walked???

……oh dear this has started something – a whole lifestyle review????........Maybe :eek:

WantToBeSE

Jackie0- thanks for telling me your 'story'. I hope you dont mind that i asked? Its incredibly inspirational. Well done for overcoming so so much.

Sooo, i have arrived at my sisters house (for those who dont know, i dont own scales so can only weigh when i stay at my sisters) and jumped on the scales. It says i have lost 2lbs, but i have just been eating and drinking etc all day. I'll weigh again in the morning and let you all know.