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

Rose_Wood

Evening All

I am feeling rather too full after today's dinner - mainly due to sampling as I was cooking and baking earlier!

B: Toast and jam
L: Garlic prawn omelette. Iced raspberry smoothie
Lamb steak with Yorkshire pudding, creamed spinach and mushrooms, green beans. Piece of HM date and sultana oaty slice.
Snacks: Tastes of the oaty slice as I made it and when it came out of the oven.

Exercise: 30 minutes of Jillian Michael's DVD - I moved to Level 2 of Ripped in 30 today and found it a really good work out. I was far hotter and stickier than when I did a 30 minute run yesterday. Also short walk to shops. I am hoping for a long walk later if dog walking friend is available - which is usually about 6 or 7 miles when we go.

Rose

ETA: Did do a 7 mile walk

snapping_crocodile

So my first day of writing my food down, and it really makes you think doesn't it :cool:

B - cereal
L - 2 slices of toast and one poached egg
D - Sausage and spring green mash pie
S - half a packet of crisp (I made the OH eat the rest, not that he took that much persuasion!), one fun size crunchie and just enjoying a glass of red wine

In the past I have found my portion sizes to be a big downfall, hoping I have cracked it now....time will tell

Didn't mangae any official exercise today but I have been running around the house hoovering and decluttering

minicooper272

Thanks Ragz! I thought I was too late for weigh in, so I'll know to round it next week!

Welshwoofer - 10 minute solutions is a fantastic little exercise series, each dvd has 5x10 minute workouts on it, you can do 1 if you're pushed for time, I tend to mix and match 3 a night, but today I did all 5 on my 'dance your body thin' one, and I was properly dripping out the calories by the end of it! Look them up, there are about 30 different dvd's to choose from, so you will find one to suit you (They have boot camp, pilates, salsa, legs bums and tums...)

My adventures with the dvd have left me starving today:

Lunch: Baked potato with cheese and a large helping of salad
Dinner: Pasta with garlic & chicken sauce and a baked mushroom side

Snacks (deep breath): 1 bar of white chocolate, 4 dried apricots, 1 apple, 2 nectarines, 1 kiwi, 3 ryvita with reduced sugar jam, 1 bowl of muesli with fat free yoghurt and a nectarine, 1 cup-a-soup, a few spoonfuls of cous cous - all (except the kiwi) in the last 3 hours, and I'm still starving!!!

WelshWoofer

Thanks minicooper - off to investigate on Amazon in a minute.:)

Have stuck to food plan today - no nibblies:j
Had raspberries and 1 tsp of chocolate sauce after tea for something sweet.

I've just made lunch for tomorrow - a wholewheat seeded wrap with spinach leaves and quorn bits and a teeny squirt of BBQ marinade to perk it up, and some fruit (grapes, satsuma and small banana).
Am tired now so off to bed soon.... before I eat anything else!

mlarky

"Right the bagel is calling so I'm off to scoff (in a controlled and considered manner a la Paul McKenna!)" Welsh Woofer that fair tickled me. Thank you!
Ragz, thanks for adding me onto the list, could I aim for 5lb please?
I've not had the best of weekends. I spent yesterday attempting to face paint at a village fete in the pouring rain. I was so cold when I got back indoors that the WI's homemade cakes practically threw themselves onto my plate. And today I went round for dinner at my mum's and she insisted on doing 2 puddings. I've not had any major binges, but I've not been too good either!
B - 4 small pancakes + fruit+yoghurt+maple syrup (father's day treat for OH), L - tuna sandwich, D, Roast lamb, potatoes, veg, lemon and chocolate tart and Eton Mess :eek:. Snacks - 1 piece of plum cake, 1 glass of wine. Exercise - 30 min walk with neighbours dog - but even that was really more of an amble.
Here's to a better week next week! I've planned to go swimming in the morning as I do not have to teach and our gym has still not yet re-opened.:(
Mlarky

LittleMoog

Morning all

Must get better at logging on over the weekend, although this weekend was a bit of a washout due to Father's day lunch out on Saturday and lunch for our anniversary yesterday No dinner on either day though, as just too full!

Today:
Breakfast: peach, babybel, half granola bar
Snack: other half granola bar!
Lunch: chicken, houmous and salad wrap, hula hoops, apple, nectarine
Snack: breakaway bar
Dinner: ikea meatballs, mash and cream sauce, peas, carrots and broccoli.

Exercise: possibly swimming, will see how I feel.

sparrer

Morning all

B - spicy fruity porridge
D - veggie omelette. Apple
T - Chicken soup, 2 crackerbread w/marmite & marmalade
S - nectarine, banana, melon
E - 40 mins gym, 15 mins this pm step/stretch

Was a lovely start to the day, now black as the ace of spades out there! Hope it's brighter where you are, have a good day whatever the weather

Need2bthrifty

Morning All

Dark and dreich here too Sparrer….I sadly look out on the garden at all the weeds waving happily :wave: back at me and see all the slugs having a party _party_:dance:_party_ - gaily munching their way through my seedlings and herbs :sad:.

Postie not been yet but I’m hoping he brings the Shred DVD today instead of more bills – oh dear how depressed do I sound.

On a brighter note I’ve got some warming comfort food to look forward to =
B – Toast & Jam, Nectarine
L – Butternut Squash Soup
D – Cauliflower Cheese, Corned Beef, Carrots

ragz_2

Done fourth session of the Shred today, I feel ok after it now, no more jelly legs and unable to walk down the stairs! Amazing how quick the body adapts. I even did an extra bit last night as I was getting DH to go though some of the exercises with me, he's not overweight but want to turn his little bit of a belly into something more toned! We managed to get quite a lot done, was nice having the company, especially when the session ended in a little more exercise of the more enjoyable kind

N2BT - My DVD arrived pretty quick, but I did it on YouTube first if that's an option for you it's worth checking out and getting started while you're motivated!

Eating was ok yesterday, better than saturday. Today is like this

Breakfast - yogurt, tinned peaches and muesli
Lunch - Veg soup
Dinner - Lasagne (with Salad NOT Garlic Bread!)

Snacks - I have a couple of melons (Galia, my favourite!) and some dried apricots so will see if I can stick with them...

tink1981_2

Hi all

Just been reading back through all the posts since I last posted up. Well done everyone, it really made me smile seeing how well everyone has been getting on. :T

Sorry haven’t been on for ages, I have quite a brain blip. For the last couple of months I’ve gradually been feeling more and more down and had gotten to the point where I would just sit and cry without really knowing why and what about. I’ve been going for counselling at work and some of their suggestions have been helping.

I was struggling a bit with the battle with the scales and it was getting me down even more that I was trying really hard but never getting anywhere. I gave up at one point and had a real blow out that resulted in me putting 6lbs on and ending up nearly as heavy as I was when I first started trying to shift the weight a year ago.

I came off the pill 4 weeks ago that I’ve been taking for the last 3 years (coincidently about the same amount of time I’ve been struggling with my weight!). My moods seem to be improving and some of my self confidence and self doubt issues also seem to be getting better. On the advice of my counsellor I’m going to the doctors tonight to try and arrange some blood tests to check my adrenal and thyroid glands.

Because of the effects on my head of not seeing the numbers on the scales go down, I’ve asked my hubby to hide the scales! I weighed myself before he took them away and have taken my measurements. My plan is to carry on eating as healthily as I can and exercising and to weigh myself again in a month’s time. I’m hoping it’ll help keep me focused and stop me falling off the wagon if I have a bad weigh in.

I hope it’ll be ok for me to start posting back on here again but only to post up the odd weigh in rather than weekly ones?

Sorry for the long post, I’ve been trying to get my head around posting again for the last few weeks but just couldn’t quite get myself together.

tink x