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

Frith

I don't think I'll have lost much weights at the end of this fortnight!


We're still eating leftovers from son's birthday party yesterday.


breakfast - toast and jam


lunch - chicken and pepper sandwiches with chutney


tea - pasta bake (HM with sliced LO sausages), few LO potato wedges. 3 jam tarts. Small piece of birthday cake.

ellie99

Sue14 wrote: »

I think 30 years ago there was no such thing as a size 8, the smallest I remember seeing was a size 10. When I was younger, and even after I had my DS, I had a 24" waist and always wore a size 12 (although occasionally I was pleasantly surprised to fit in a 10), yet now I have a 28" waist and I can get into size 8s, so obviously clothes sizing has changed drastically! I have a size 12 skirt which I bought when I was 18 (more years ago than I like to remember, lol!), which I would never wear in public now, but I would like to be able to fit comfortably in it.

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You're absolutely right Sue, (and I think we must be the same age ), my work skirts were 24" waist, and were a size 12.
(I had the curvy shape of 34, 24, 34 :rotfl:)

I don't think it's done us any good as a country changing the sizings so drastically, it's just lulled us into thinking we're slimmer than we are.

I'm SO hungry today! Was up early to give DS1 a lift, and all I could think about was getting home for breakfast, and I could quite happily eat it over again...twice!
I'm trying to not snack this morning, I'm going visiting this afternoon and there may be biscuits offered. We also have birthday cake

savesummore

Oh everyone's eating birthday cake! Im kind of jealous but kind of glad I havent got the temptation

Bit of a nothing day today but I do have the overwhelming urge to eating about 12 choc biscuits I have no idea why though

Today:
B: 1 toast with scrape butter, 2 eggs scrambled
S: banana, chicken drummer- skin removed
L: HM ham and lf feta cheese salad with tsp branston, satsuma
S: strawberries & lf greek yog, 2 small boiled sweets
T: turkey leg with rice and peas
S: maybe a small choc

Going to the gym later not sure what ill do yet im abit rowing machined out so may do 1/2 hour on the cross trainer :cool: plus some weights

tessie_bear

funny its my sons birthday tomorrow and we have a massive cake in the kitchen...its catching

good day today just had lovely lamb chops for tea...waitrose lovely i like their meat...tuna for lunch and cereal for b/fast

re sizes....i am wearing a pair of shorts as we speak that i used to wear when i was one and a half stone lighter than i am now....strange bit is they are now bigger on me than they were then....they could have stretched but i dont think so i think my legs are slimmer now then when i was the lighter weight....odd I agree we dont do ourselves any favours as i nation making sizes bigger but smaller numbers imo

hope everyone is doing well
tessa

*zippy*

Evening :wave: aww no birthday cake here wedding cake tomorrow though forgot about that :happyhear

I will confess I looked for popping candy chocolate today, but luckily they only had the cookie one so came out chocolate free

Been down the beach all day so more chips

B- beans on toast with cheese
L- banana, protein bar
S- cookie, smallest welsh I've ever seen
D- reg chips, half a caramel shortcake
S- hot choc later
E- walked a good 2 hours and will walk dogs later

Hope everyone has had a good day x

minicooper272

I agree, it doesn't do us any favours that they make the sizes bigger. I tend to think it's time of go on a diet when a size 16 starts to feel too small (i.e. when it means no more shopping in your average high street shop). I just wish they would all be consistent about it as well!

I had a mixed bag today:

B: 1/5 honeydew melon, bit of protein bar
L: Tuna salad, plum, vegetable crisps
Chicken stir fry, ice lolly, crackers and a bit of cheese
S: about 8 brazil nuts

savesummore

*zippy* wrote: »

I will confess I looked for popping candy chocolate today, but luckily they only had the cookie one so came out chocolate free
Hope everyone has had a good day x

Its a slippery slope Zippy!! :eek::eek::rotfl:
Dont bother with the cookie one though- yuk!

Went to the gym again last night and did 15 mins cross trainer, 12 mins rowing maching (260 cals burnt total!) plus 20 mins weights/sit ups

Dont think ill be losing anything this week as we went out for a steak Tuesday night and I had chips not jacket potato as planned, I had a chocolate biscuit yesterday and a doughnut today :eek: girl in the office's birthday. I wasnt going to have one but I was starving about 12noon so caved in!

Today:
B: bran flakes, berries, lf greek yog
S: banana, chicken drummer, doghnut
L: HM ham & boiled egg salad
S: satsuma, apple
T: hm spah bol & pasta

Am trying not to snack in an evening especially as ive already had a doughnut today! My only saving grace is ive just noticed they are sainsbobs 'lighter' doughnuts with 30% less fat

minicooper272

I'm sort of thinking I might bow out of the challenge until after I've moved. I've got myself in a pre-holiday sort of treat mode now! Plus I know I really need to run my cupboards down...

Well today I had:
B: bit of protein bar, 1/5 melon
L: Tuna salad, vegetable crisps
Chicken stir fry, 2 ice lollies, 8 crackers with cheese
S: mini yum-yum, a piece of baklava (lady near me brought in birthday treats), 7 brazil nuts, some dried cranberries

Sue14

ellie99 wrote: »

You're absolutely right Sue, (and I think we must be the same age ), my work skirts were 24" waist, and were a size 12.
(I had the curvy shape of 34, 24, 34 :rotfl:)

I don't think it's done us any good as a country changing the sizings so drastically, it's just lulled us into thinking we're slimmer than we are.

We also have birthday cake

I was exactly the same size before I started putting on weight in my early 30's, the perfect size 12 at the time.

minicooper272 wrote: »

I agree, it doesn't do us any favours that they make the sizes bigger. I tend to think it's time of go on a diet when a size 16 starts to feel too small (i.e. when it means no more shopping in your average high street shop). I just wish they would all be consistent about it as well!

I'm exactly the same, 16 gets too tight so it's time to either buy size 18s or do something about the weight, and I always decide to do the latter. Hopefully I'll never have to make that decision again, because it is NOT going back on this time!

We had a lovely day in London yesterday, plenty of walking (got there at 11am and didn't get home until nearly 9pm), but went to mcd's for lunch ! However we didn't have an evening meal, and just had some fresh fruit and natural yoghurt when we got home, so when I worked it out I was still almost 200 calories under my goal because of all the walking.

I don't really expect to have lost anything this week, but we'll see! Hopefully I'll eat better next week, as although I have another week off work, OH goes back on Monday so I won't have him tempting me to have a cereal bar with each cup of coffee, lol! Of course Saturday night won't help as we are going out for a meal for my birthday, where I will probably have a dessert, and we may have birthday cake! :eek:

Mozzakate

Hello everyone, can I join in please? I feel disgusting at the moment as I've put so much weight on recently due to overeating. Enough is enough now though else I'm going to have serious health problems if I'm not careful! Please feel free to give me a kick up the backside when needs be.

I've started having green smoothies in the morning and I'm starting to feel a lot better, I just need to stop picking throughout the day.

I basically need to up the exercise (I've got a body blade which I need to start using again) eat cleanly and stop eating crap between meals. I need to lose about 4 stone and start to feel healthy again. There's no time limit so I'm in it for the long haul.

Kate x