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

blondy24

Hello All,

Nice to see many new people joining.

Today's food:

B/F - HM Cranberry & Almond Granola
S - Milky Coffee
L - Heinz Chicken, Tomato and Rosemary Soup with 2 x white toast and a little bit of butter
S - Banana, Oats, Honey, Greek Yoghurt and Milk Smoothie
T - HM Leek, Bacon and Cheese Quiche with Jacket Potato and Salad

I have started drinking over 1200 ml of milk/calcium products each day since the other day as it is supposed to help with PMT symptoms as seen on the food hospital, so fingers crossed this helps with the dreaded symptoms.

I will start on the Wii fit later tonight.

Have a good day all.

soupdragon10

Today so far have had
Breakfast weetabix
Lunch 2 thin toast with low fat cheese spread + remains of beans, and a banana
Dinner - potatoes, broccoli and quorn fillet (I will have a huge pile of broccoli as I love it).

Already done 15 minutes on Wii and have challenged OH to Wii tennis when lunch settles.

Feels so much better doing this with family plus this group for support.

sparrer

Welcome more newbies :hello:, my goodness we must all have eaten too much and sat too still over Christmas :rotfl:

infopremiere imho the most fun way to 'diet', or find a decent eating plan as I prefer to call it, is to eat what I like, not what I think I should. By depriving myself of some favourite foods I'd crave them and probably (surely!) pig out on them. The main difference between me and dieters is I use a small plate/bowl, a small fork, a cake fork is ideal for slowing my eating down, and always leave something on my plate, even if it's only a teaspoon of lettuce/veg/pasta or whatever. That way I break the 'must clear my plate' habit. These are suggestions from Paul McK's book 'I Can Make You Thin' which I find sensible and suit me, I'm sure others will come in with suggestions which are just as effective.

B - F&F ss milk
D - pasta 'carbonara' with diced bacon, a little green pesto and yogurt, lf cheese on top. Was really tasty
T - will be 3 crackerbread spread with yogurt, 1 peanut butter, 1 vegemite, 1 lf tomato & basil cream cheese
Snacks - fruit various
Exercise - 1/2 hour pulm, 10 mins weights, 5 mins step

Have a good rest of the day

slowlyfading

b - cheerios with skimmed milk
l - pork and stuffing sandwich
s - 2 clematines
t - ham hock, carrots, spouts, brocolli with gravy, dried apricots.

Not too bad, but can do better.

vintagebrighton

Not started my challenge yet but picking up tips and gearing myself up

I'm waaaay too podgy ~ I guess I'm back to a size 16. Twice in the last 3 years I've done a meal replacement liquid diet. I've lost the weight (not all of it I have to say) but then gone on to put it back. I think for me it's been all or nothing for too many years. In fact, when I think about it, I went on my first ever diet at 15. I'm 50 this month and still playing a game that obviously I can't win at. What's the answer? The only thing I haven't tried. Eat what I want but less of it! Simple

I haven't got my scales up and running yet but I will start on 6/1/12.......... I think I'm about 14st which at 5' 1" means I should be really really unhealthy. The thing that saves me is that I eat everything - fruit, veg, pulses etc etc as well as the junk. Plus, I walk everywhere and have an active job. But I don't want to tempt fate - my blood pressure and cholesterol is normal and no sign of diabetes.

I won't post what I've eaten today but I will go and sort out my sig and sign up to a couple of the sites recommended here. I'm keeping an eye on you all for inspiration

lissadenton

Big birthday next month-so want to lose some weight from tum and hips.

Doing slimming world again-I think it's the best-lost 2.5 stone 10 years ago and have kept it off.

Breakfast-2 fried eggs

snack-apple

lunch-parmesan chicken-chicken in egg white, parmesan and paprika-grilled with sweet potato tomatoes and grilled pepper

1.5 syns of bournville chocolate-

roast dinner tonight

anyone any good recipes that don't use artificial sweetner or sugar free jelly for a nice dessert

Molly41

ragz wrote: »

The Dragon - New challenge 'starts' 6th Jan but feel free to declare a loss that day if you have already started. Most people have already declared a target and may well WI Friday with a loss.

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Hopefully I may well have a loss by then too:T:T:T

vixtress

evening all
managed the gym yesterday. 40 mins cardio and some sit-ups. i was quite pleased with that.
today has ben reasonable but i really could do better, i need to get a grip of the little picking habit i seem to have aquired.

today has been:
2 x wm, seeded toast, butter & marmite ( as always)
picked at a small slice of pizza & a few lf wedges then had lo veg chilli in half a square wrap.
picked at half a dozen doritos
dinner will be hm morrocan chicken & chickpeas with cous cous

so on the whole an improvement but not brilliant, am back to work tomorrow, thats always tough.

Rose_Wood

Evening All

I've been at work all afternoon and have to admit that I succumbed to not one, not two, but three chocolate biscuits over the course of the five and a half hours I was there. I am quite cross with myself as the biscuits have been there all Christmas and I haven't even thought about them till today.

B: Bran flakes with sultanas and topped with buttermilk (left over from my buttermaking)
L: (Pack up at work) Egg mayonnaise, cherry tomatoes, piece of Camembert. 3 chocolate biscuits!
Yellow fin sole in a lemon and pepper coating. Creamed spinach and peas - cooked with onion and garlic. Raspberries with HM Greek style yoghurt.

Exercise: 30 minutes on exercise DVD. Walk to work and back so about one and a half miles.

Rose

fuddle

Not bad today:

breakfast - fruit, low fat natural yoghurt, drizzle honey.
lunch - 1 cheese and pickle sandwich, easy on the cheese
handful of crisps

snack - 4 quality street chocolate
3 cups of tea skimmed milk no sugar

dinner - bowl of broth
very small helping of HM steamed fruit pud and custard

For me this is good going. I am aware wheat I'm eating. I'm also aware that I shouldn't have had the crisps, the quality street, or pud and custard but that's not what I'm doing. I want to continue to enjoy eating but in a controlled way. If I start going 'oh, I can't have that' well I'll fail straight away. I'm much happier with my food consumption today than I was yesterday.