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

ragz_2

Morning all. I must add 1/4 of an easter egg and 1 bourbon biscuit to yesterday. Not too bad, though I did eat a LOT of the the roast chicken dinner, mostly veg though but I still felt full this morning!

Magical - sounds like you have had some great advice there. The wiltshire foods or similar may be a good standby to have in the freezer, don't feel bad about having to use ready meals sometimes, at least they are portion controlled!
But my advice would be...
Soups... you can just bung a load of veg in a pan with some stock and it will make soup (once cooked and blended obviously), this can then be kept in the fridge and freezer (a few portions in each) and then you have your lunches for the week.
If you are too tired for loads of peeling, tomato soup made from tinned tomatoes is really easy and you can even use frozen onion/jars of lazy garlic. Throw some lentils in to make it more nutritious...
Of course, you can buy soup too, I think it is worth paying a little extra for the 'fresh' soups rather than tinned, they freeze well too.

You say you don't like 'salad', but there is more to salad than lettuce. You could have a chunky, crunchy salad (peppers, cucumber, celery, grated carrot, avocado...) with a good dressing, maybe a boiled egg, it really is a meal!

Not everything in a tin is bad for you and baked beans should be a superfood, they are nutritous, low fat, full of fibre and easy to cook, plus you can ring the changes with curry powder, chili powder... have them on toast, baked potato, with eggs.

Fruit and yogurt for breakfast or a snack is great, I use tinned fruit as it's easier and doesn't go off.

Hope that's given you a few ideas.

Need2bthrifty

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I remember 501's- all the cool kids had them lol!!! :cool: (cool dude smiley!!) [/QUOTE]

I doubt that I was ever “in with the cool kids” or a “dedicated follower of fashion” some may say it’s sad that a woman now in her 50’s is re-living her youth & wearing the like, what’s that expression “mutton dressed up as lamb” but I’m so looking forward to getting into trousers/jeans that have a waist – much better than the ones I have at the moment – hipsters ,huh, who invented them, definitely not someone who has to bend up & down doing gardening or cleaning, I spend half the day pulling the darn things up or upsetting the neighbours by having my Bridget Jones style knicks on display :rotfl: .

Another day, another cupboard to be sorted, what an exciting life I lead. The door curtains have been taken down and laundered so I now need to find space to store them for next winter.

It’s a use up, hotchpotch kind of day meal-wise, I hate waste but I’m finding it so difficult getting a balance between healthy menus and reducing waste/waist

B – Yogurt & sliced banana
L – L/O pasta & roasted veg & last bit of feta cheese
D – Cauliflower cheese, boiled potatoes

ragz_2

Food for the day.

Breakfast - greek yogurt and tinned peaches.
Snack - last 1/4 of easter egg. I'm not really keen on milk chocolate on it's own, which is the only reason it has made it to Tuesday!
Lunch - I really fancy scrambled eggs, so it may have to be that.
Dinner - Chicken soup/stew.

I'm sure I will need another snack there somewhere...

Oh, no exercise yesterday and probably none for the rest of the week unless I can get to the pool Thursday night so I am just going to have to eat less

Kiwisaver_2

Back to work and back to it today. Logged all my food on Myfitnesspal which has been my downfall as I haven't done proper tracking for a good while and extras start to creep in. I still have a few spare calories in case I feel so inclined as to attack the remains of the Easter Bunny in the fridge.

B. Greek yoghurt, muesli and a passionfruit
L. Feta Cheese, 'Salad' & Wholegrain Crackers (I am not one much for salad either but I try to make it a bit more exotic chunky tomato, pepper and cucumber with three olives and an incy wincy drip or three of my best olive oil):rotfl:
D. Chow Mein (Jamie's MoF recipe = massive meal for relatively little calories)
S. Small apple and five dried apricots

Robson65

Hello everyone.

I'd like to join the Summer Challenge please. My target loss is 14lbs.

I've absolutely pigged out on chocolate over Easter and I am thoroughly ashamed of myself. So control starts here !
I can only get on line during the week so won't be posting at weekends which is unfortunate because thats when I struggle the most.
But hopefully I can have your support and similarly support other people throughout the challenge.

Thanks
Robson

savesummore

I think I will set myself a challenge to get abit of motivation in the exercise department! :eek:

I usually go swimming twice a week swimming approx 20 lengths each time.
20 lengths x 2 times a week= 40 lengths x 13 weeks= 520 lengths i would 'normally' swim.

So im going to set a target of swimming at least 600 lengths by the end of this challenge :eek:

Back at work today so have been good-

B-porridge and banana
S- strawberries
L- HM tom and basil soup HM pitta bread & Orange

The rest of the day TBA!

Going swimming tonight so best do a couple 'extra' lengths :rotfl:

EllaRose

Robson65 wrote: »

Hello everyone.

I'd like to join the Summer Challenge please. My target loss is 14lbs.

I've absolutely pigged out on chocolate over Easter and I am thoroughly ashamed of myself. So control starts here !
I can only get on line during the week so won't be posting at weekends which is unfortunate because thats when I struggle the most.
But hopefully I can have your support and similarly support other people throughout the challenge.

Thanks
Robson

No need to be ashamed, Robson - I doubt any of us had the discipline to resist chocolate last weekend:)

EllaRose

Hi team!

I wondered if any of you could recommend a decent, not too expensive set of bathroom scales?
I don't have a set at the moment and so can only weigh myself every month or so when I visit my mum's.

I would quite fancy a set that measure body fat %, BMI, etc. but I know these can be very pricey and not always reliable. Is it best to get the bog standard mechanical scales or invest in something a bit more detailed?
I had a quick nose on Amazon but the reviews on there are mixed, so I thought I'd ask here for your advice! :beer:

Thanks!

tink1981_2

Hope everyone has had a good easter

Ragz - Sorry didn't post final weigh in for last challenge on friday, I've not been able to get to the laptop all weekend after we accidentially burried it as part of our DIY epic this weekend!! I'm 1lb on this week so finish with only 3lb loss. I'd ideally like to loose 14lb for the next challenge to get me down to 12st 13 for the summer but given how things went when I aimed so high on the last challenge could you put me down for 7lb for the summer challenge to start with and if I manage that then I might up my target to the stone... hope that's ok? I've taken a note for my weight today and will post my first WI in the 20th as we're away this friday and I'm still being taunted by a bag of mini eggs in the kitchen!

Didn't manage to loose as much as I'd like in the last challenge but after the post earlier about clothes stored away in suitcases, I've been and trried some of my old clothes on... I must have been doing something right over the last couple of months because I can now fit in a pair of walking trousers I've not worn in over 5 years :j we're off for a weekend walking in the lakes this weekend so I will be waring them with pride Just need to loose enough to fit in the summer dresses that are in there now!!

have a good day everyone

tink x

russetred

Yesterday my fitness classes were cancelled for the holiday so no exercise except walking to MrT for the whoopsies and walking back home with a couple of bags.

B: chocolate shake
L: ham sandwich with mayo
T mixed prawn salad
S: banana, bit more of my choc egg and 1/2 a ham and mustard sandwich.