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

smokybabe

Hi guys,

I have put on a massive amout of weight over the last 3 yrears due to various things happening (I am most definately an emotional eater) and now at a massive 19 stone 10 and a half pounds it is time to regain control and do something about this.

I started on January the 3rd and I will weigh myself on the 1st of each month to chart how I am doing. (Leaving the scales out only makes me weigh myself daily and encourages lapses.) I am battling a frozen shoulder and also back problems (due to the weight gain probably - smirk :mad: - GP'S off the cuff remark! :mad: but bu**er he is probaly right.)

I have noted over time that most meals make me incredibly tired after eating and have found that leaving out bread is a big help in overcoming this. The last couple of days I haven't had that feeling at all - yeah!


So I am following a healthy eating plan which means loosing all 'white' things - bread, pasta, rice etc - substitute granary or wholewheat and at least half of my meals will be veg. I can not face breakfast in the mornings but more than make up for it after about 2pm onwards!! Three kids in the house also make it difficult as none are overweight and love their little treats - meaning crisps chocolate chips which means they are here but I shouldn't eat them. (don't get me wrong it's all in moderation but they are here in my cupboards!!:mad:) However depriving me does not mean they should do without!

So can I join you guys please for the motivation and to track my loss? I have a size 14 dress in my wardrobe that I will fit in too again - sooner rather than later.

Edit: I want to weigh 10 stone so a loss of 9 stone 10 and a half pounds is what I am looking for. 126 1/2 pounds gulp!!!!

Welsh_Poppy

I have lost this week 2.2lb which I am pleased about .Exercising every day on the bike which I am enjoying not the same as running but kinder to my body.

ragz_2

List updated to here (if I have missed anyone please let me know). Welcome and good luck to all the new posters.

Wasn't online yesterday, ate pretty well until about 10pm when DH said he was hungry and I remembered I had cooked chicken to use up so I had half a chicken salad wrap. Not unhealthy, but I didn't need it...

Did walk a few miles with the kids though.

Monthly weight gain - When I did WW our leader used to ask if it was 'that' time when you gained a bit and it was noted on your scorecard. I gain 2-3lb, a lot goes onto my boobs (apparently because of the pill I'm on) and the rest is fluid retention. I note it on my calendar and it's always gone by the end of the week.

fuddle

In the end I wasn't happy with what I ate yesterday or the choices I knowingly made.

B - two slices toast with butter and jam
S - 6 rich tea biscuits dunked in cuppa
L - 2 soft boiled eggs and two slices bread and butter
D - chicken roast dinner

That's 4 slices of bread, 6 biscuits and a big plate of dinner (I chose to not have the side plate portion)

The thing is that I would consume levels like that day in and day out, thinking I was eating healthy, which it's not too bad stuff I'm eating really, just far too much! Now I'm aware, now I'm not happy with how much I choose to eat.

Still, it's a new day and I feel much better so fingers crossed I'm more focused today.

ETA: Just entered the details into MFP



So I actually came in under the calories allowed yesterday (although I was much more sedentary than I should be) but I guess the fat levels are not good.

Does anybody know what happens when you eat too much protein?

I feel a little better seeing that but still, I should never have indulged the way I did - at the time I needed it though. I wish eating wasn't connected to feeling better :cool:

Dragoncry

Morning all
Still feeling positive and will definitely keep this up as I don't want to stay like this forever. It will be a big surprise for my family members I don't see often, the look on their faces will be priceless

Breakfast : Fruit & Fibre with SS milk (small bowl)
Lunch: Homemade quiche with a large salad
Dinner: Pair of kippers , steamed
Snacks will be fruit or yoghurt
I only drink water with maybe 1 or 2 milky coffees a week as a treat, though they don't always make me feel good after (bloating etc)

I don't eat after 5pm, 6pm occasionally if something happens but I find that I am sleeping better without the grumbly tummy :rotfl:Also I never used to eat breakfast and it could be 3pm or later before I thought about food. Not good. I try to have my 'dinner' at lunchtime and vice versa.

Keep up the good work
DC xx

sparrer

Morning all, hope everyone's feeling a little more positive today

B - F&F, ss milk
D - chilli chicken & veg, been in the slow cooker overnight and the whole house smells so good! Mini pitta bread
T/supper - crackerbread with yogurt & lf philly - just one as dinner will be late (5pm'ish)
Snacks - fruit
Exercise 1/2 hour pulm, will try to fit in more later when I get back from my day out

Happy Sunday

margaretclare

I was talking to my husband last night about all this and we where thinking back to when we where young and the familys eating habits then, i remember we used to have 3 meals a day all homemade and fruit inbetween, maybe a glass of milk for bed, there was never no fizzy pop, biscuits, crisps or chocolates in, we used to get a treat on a saturday night and a video rented ! lol, but even then it wasnt excessive just a pkt of crisps or a standard size bar of chocolate, and it made it feel all special on sat nights lol

Yes, eating habits have changed as time has gone on. We went to Tesco yesterday - well, DH went, he says he knows where everything is and he can whizz round. I hate going so I sit in the car listening to my iPod. I saw one couple coming out with huge bags of crisps in their trolley, 2 or 3 of the 'multi-pack' kind. And another family with little lad about to tackle a huge bar of chocolate by nibbling the silver paper off the end. I can go back in time a bit further back than you and a bar of chocolate like that would have been 2 weeks' sweet ration, not just one! We had 3 or 4 ounces of sweets a week and we walked 2 miles to the next village for it. But things have changed even over the last 10 or 20 years, more food items available just about everywhere you look. What we buy from Tesco is completely different from what some people buy, and what Tesco call their list of 'basics' is nothing like what we buy.

So I am following a healthy eating plan which means loosing all 'white' things - bread, pasta, rice etc - substitute granary or wholewheat and at least half of my meals will be veg.

This is a very good idea, because less 'white' i.e. less refined foods will mean that the wholegrains you're eating take longer to digest - they're low GI and this is good.

We don't eat breakfast cereals any more because mostly they're too refined and are loaded with sugar. The only thing we buy are mini shredded wheat which DH sometimes has as a late-night snack so that his blood glucose doesn't go too low in the night. I find I need protein to start the day and a boiled egg is as simple as you can get. We're lucky in that we have a small baker who bakes fresh every night and he does a special kind of loaf which is wholemeal with seeds, what he calls a 'low GI loaf'. It's very popular - get there before he's sold out or you have to wait until the following day!

LittleMoog

fuddle wrote: »

In the end I wasn't happy with what I ate yesterday or the choices I knowingly made.

B - two slices toast with butter and jam
S - 6 rich tea biscuits dunked in cuppa
L - 2 soft boiled eggs and two slices bread and butter
D - chicken roast dinner

That's 4 slices of bread, 6 biscuits and a big plate of dinner (I chose to not have the side plate portion)

The thing is that I would consume levels like that day in and day out, thinking I was eating healthy, which it's not too bad stuff I'm eating really, just far too much! Now I'm aware, now I'm not happy with how much I choose to eat.

Still, it's a new day and I feel much better so fingers crossed I'm more focused today.

ETA: Just entered the details into MFP



So I actually came in under the calories allowed yesterday (although I was much more sedentary than I should be) but I guess the fat levels are not good.

Does anybody know what happens when you eat too much protein?

I feel a little better seeing that but still, I should never have indulged the way I did - at the time I needed it though. I wish eating wasn't connected to feeling better :cool:

Hiya,
the targets that MFP sets are just guidelines - I try to be under my carbs, sodium and fat numbers, and over on protein and fibre (you can change which targets it displays) but if I'm not and my calories are under I don't worry too much. Bear in mind that the targets are in grams, so you were only 18g (2/3oz!) over on protein.

LittleMoog

morning all
Succumbed to an indian takeaway last night, as DH had been hungover all day and he really fancied one. We only ate half what we ordered though, and will have the rest for lunch. We would have eaten all of it in the past

Today:
Breakfast: none, slept in
Lunch: LO curry, mostly rice, sauce and veg
Dinner: lentil soup, mini naan
Snacks: apple, satsumas

heretolearn_2

I'd like to join in with this too - from tomorrow. I had already warned OH that today's dinner was our last big fat Christmas blow out meal (duck with potatoes in cream) and from tomorrow we'll be eating healthy, as we've both put on a lot of weight over last couple of years. Where do I find the challenge thread?

i'm feeling really bad right now - I've never been as heavy as this. I've been just under 14st for a few years, which isn't great but I felt ok about it, then I gave up smoking last Jan and put on another stone last year, and I weighed myself on friday and I was up to nearly 16stone! I was horrified, and I can see how fat I look, and it's really having an effect now on my general wellbeing and most worrying on my walking...I get out of puff quite quickly now. I used to be able to jog up the two flights of steep stairs at work...now i plod up and I'm all red faced and out of breath. People have commented and I fib and say I've had to rush over from the car...

So...I'm still trying to figure out exactly what's behind all this. To be honest I think I'm just greedy and not getting enough exercise, but i do find myself snacking when I know I'm not hungry and I want to stop myself but can't resist, so why is that? If I can solve that puzzle then life will be a lot easier.

anyway, I bought myself some proper walking boots in the Xmas sales as about the only exercise I really enjoy is a country walk so going to start trying to do something every weekend there. Also back to Zumba and not making excuses for missing the odd week. And eating better. And I also want to pack in drinking for a couple of months - it's been creeping up, it's not good for me, and it's loads of calories...

I want to do the Dawn French diet - she said her big weightloss was down to 'eating less and moving more'. Sensible woman.