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

LittleMoog

Morning ladies
Saw my GP on Friday, and she advised to stick to maintenance calories for now and ask the midwife when I have my booking in appointment. I've set MFP to lose 0.5lb/week though, in case I'm underestimating portions etc, I have plenty of reserves and even at that level my calorie target is over 2000/day, so there should be plenty of nutrients for bean.

Today:
Breakfast: fruit corner, grapes, dried apricots
Lunch: apple, satsumas, something from the canteen
snack: appple and cinnamon cake
Dinner: delux macaroni cheese, carrots, leeks
snack: mini cookies bag

Exercise: may go for a swim later, will see how I feel when I get home - feeling totally knackered at the moment, but i'm sure a bit of exercise will help.

lauzt1987

Morning all. Sorry for not posting over the weekend. Was out enjoying the lovely sunshine in Glasgow. Hope you all had a nice time.

Will catch up on posts later, just wanted to quickly post to say can you put me down for a 2lb loss (now 8lbs in total. Again!.) Ragz. Thanks xxx

Kiwisaver_2

Rose_Wood wrote: »

Evening All,

I am pleased to say I managed my 10K run today so had a day off dieting. It was cold, wet and very muddy in places but I did it so celebrated by having a Magnum at the cinema this evening where we saw The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which is brilliant.

Well done you and totally deserving of a Magnum. I can't wait for that film to come out here, I can tell from the 30 second trailer it would be right up my street.

I'm not watching too much of what I have eaten this past few days, still full of a rotten head cold and comfort eating bad things mostly. For dinner I just had some leftover roast chicken and gravy with a big pile of mashed potatoes.

vixtress

am embarrassed to report a sts on friday and an appauling weekend of eating and drinking way too much

why on earth do i do this to myself :mad::mad::mad:

onwards and upwards, i must keep posting and recording on MFP!!!!

ragz_2

vixtress wrote: »

am embarrassed to report a sts on friday and an appauling weekend of eating and drinking way too much

why on earth do i do this to myself :mad::mad::mad:

onwards and upwards, i must keep posting and recording on MFP!!!!

I wasn't going to admit this, but... just to make you feel better...
I had TWO bad days of eating this weekend and this morning I put on a pound. I totally deserved it, I was very naughty! Big pub meal and wine Saturday, thought I would still be full all day Sunday but no, I must have stretched my stomach because I ate constantly and mostly bad stuff

Lauzt - I already have you down at 8lbs, have I messed up somewhere?

slowlyfading

Food today:
b - banana and strawberries - 110 cals
l - chicken soup, greek style yogurt with honey, blueberries - 261 cals.
s - scotch egg - 257 cals
d - lasagne with salad, LF rice pudding - 512 cals
Total: 1,140 calories.

sparrer

Back to normality after my busy/foodie day on Saturday, still felt pretty heavy and overfull yesterday so hope being back to a regular 'diet' will soon sort me out (was good though )...

B - F&F, ss milk
D - chilli & green salad
T - 3 crackerbread w/vegemite, cheese&pickle, marmalade
Snacks - pear, melon, grapes, apple
Exercise - 3/4 hour workout plus 5 mins here and there through the day - need lose some of the weekend's calories!

hope you have a good evening

smokybabe

Evening all,

This weekend has been a bit of a disaster so I have got back on the straight and narrow today.

B - Banana.
L - Crackerbread with salmon.
T - Chopped sausages, rice, peas, cherry toms and some lf philly.
S - Apple and orange.

Rose_Wood

Evening All

Just got back from work so a very quick post.

B: Muesli with extra sultanas and ff milk
L: DS treated us to a meal out. I had roast chicken breast with carrots, peas, cabbage, broccoli and spinach and stuffing.
T: Cheese scone with pickled beetroot. Egg roll.
Snacks: Cadbury's fudge. Small bowl of muesli just now as I'm starving and won't sleep without something inside me.

Exercise
About 6.5 miles covered, most of which has been walking but 20 minutes of which was running.

Rose

The_Goose

Hi all, haven't posted for a while, sorry.

The week after 14 February I didn't weigh myself because I knew I must have put on weight or stayed the same, due to stuffing my face and/or necking loads of alcohol on several days that week, basically :rotfl:

And I really didn't want the demotivating effect of seeing that on the scales.

So when I weighed myself on 28 February I was disappointed but not surprised to find my weight hadn't changed for a fortnight - I reckoned that week I had just lost what I put on the week before!

Anyway, this week I am delighted to find I am under 9 stone for the first time in ages - 8st 12 and a half pounds - which makes my total loss since 3 January 8 and a half pounds.

Plus I've lost five and a half inches from my waist!

And I do feel a lot better and a lot lighter.
So OK, it doesn't look like I'm going to reach my target of losing a stone by the end of March.

But on the other hand, I have been generally eating more healthily and getting more exercise than before, and cutting down on alcohol too on the whole.

Plus I haven't beaten myself up when I've eaten/drunk "too much" , in fact I've just said to myself that I'm going to enjoy it rather than feel guilty about it, given that I'm doing it anyway! I've just made sure I've got back to "good" eating patterns quite quickly afterwards.

I'm mostly counting calories, but rounding up to the nearest 5 to make it easier to add them up. I'm also taking GI into account, even though that makes it a bit more complicated. But things like porage for brekkie definitely seem to make me less hungry later on.

If I eat out I don't try to estimate calories, I just try to keep off stuff like chips or very fatty things. I have been writing it all down, however.

And I have realised that I am far more likely to go off the rails if I have tasteless food like cottage cheese than if I have something more tasty.

I have taken to adding chilli or anchovy sauce to almost everything :rotfl: