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

sparrer

Morning all, albeit yet another soggy one

B - spicy, fruity porridge
D - veggie omelette (was going to have it yesterday but the half rack of ribs escaped the freezer and jumped into the grill )
T - crackers with marmite/cheese&pickle/marmalade. Last of the crackers and can't afford to shop again this week so I need to find something to replace them with
S - melon, apple, orange, grapes
E - 45 mins routine at gym

Have a sunny day whatever the weather

savesummore

Afternoon all

Im afraid I wasnt that good lastnight on my meal out

I had pub burger and chips, 2 x diet coke :rotfl:and a mango, kiwi and lime chesse cake :eek: Ahem!! Ooooopppppps

Today:

B: 2 x boiled eggs, 2 x toast
S: Banana
L: ham and chesse salad (20g), 2 x satsumas
S: mini apple, HG strawberries and lf yog
T: pork loin HM escople things, salad and hm wedges

Rosewood- im eagerly waiting my copy of 'escape the diet trap' to land through my letter box

ragz_2

After an hour and 20 minutes in the doctors' waiting room with 3 small children, I came home and stuffed my face with mini marshmallows. Literally stuffed, I stood in the kitchen shovelling them in as fast as I could. I don't even like them really. And some cake mix. I am trying to break my sugar addiction... it is fine until I am under stress! I only feel sick and guilty now. I can finally see how hard my DH had it when he was giving up Heroin... in fact, this is worse, sugar is EVERYWHERE I look!

I found some advice here
http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/nutrition_articles.asp?id=1663
about giving up sugar. Wish me luck! I can't actually get rid of all the sugar filled foods as DH and the children eat them too (currently trying to reduce their sugar intake too, but I will have a riot on my hands if I do it all in one go!).

Aldahbra

sonastin wrote: »

Part of the problem is that we've bought a big house that needs lots of work doing and we're on a budget. OH gets the exercise from doing all the work. I don't get the exercise I used to get because we can't afford to go out and have the active social life I used to have.

Other part of the problem is OH has a sweet tooth. In a bid to save money I've been doing some baking. I can ignore shop-bought goodies but I feel it necessary to sample homemade.

So where do I start? I think I need to reconnect my Wii fit to up the exercise. We've started a 10,000-steps-a-day challenge at work today so hopefully that'll help. I also need to reduce the portion sizes for my main meals and reduce the snacking on baked goodies. Any other suggestions? The grocery challenge thread has helped me rein in my spending so now I need help with my calorie consumption. Can I use this thread as my conscience in that respect?

Thanks in anticipation...

Hello Sonastin, welcome to the thread.

minicooper272 wrote: »

Welcome Sonastin! I blame men for all of it. They get to eat 500 more calories a day than you, and you feel determined that every meal should be fair and equal. Instead of men eating less, you eat more. Plus they don't see the problem with brining home take aways and crisps.

That is exactly what I was going to say. It took me years to realise that I shouldn't split everything 50/50.

Have you tried the 30 day shred? It is on you tube. The exercise is 20 mins and then there is the cool down so it takes about 1/2 an hour. I think it is so good I'm going to buy the video (my internet is a little slow too, so sometimes I'm left doing one exercise for ages whilst the pc is buffering)

Can I join your 10,000 steps a day challenge? Don't know how many I do now but it must be way less than that since I stopped work.

LittleMoog wrote: »

Morning all

Courgette fritters turned out delicious.

I'm going to give them a go thanks.

ragz_2

savesummore wrote: »

Hopefully someone who actually pays attention will answer your question properly :rotfl:

I hope you don't mean me :rotfl:
2 weigh ins left of this challenge. New challenge to follow on immediately so get thinking caps on. I think I will aim to lose a stone in the next challenge (unless a miracle happens and some comes off this week, not looking good so far!), like Rosewood I am reading Dr Briffa and really liking his approach, it makes sense and is certainly Old Style as there's no processed foods, no Low Fat foods, no 'meat alternatives' etc.

At the moment, breaking my carb/sugar addiction is more important than actually weight loss as I will never achieve the latter without dealing with the former.

Aldahbra

ragz wrote: »

I hope you don't mean me :rotfl:

I think she just meant that she wasn't sure her answer was correct and someone else might know better. Things can look very abrupt in print.

WelshWoofer

Afternoon all.....
Not too bad but not a brilliant today so far....

Breakfast - cereal bar (100 cals)
Mid morning - nutrigrain (130 cals)
Lunch - wrap (180 cals ) with quorn (120 cals), lettuce, cucumber and tomato (40 ish cals at most), grapes (100 cals), strawberries (approx 50 cals)
Snack - 2 choc digestives:o 170 cals

Thats a running total of ....890 - didn't realise it was that much:eek: Naughty nutrigrain and biccies!
So, tea tonight will have to be good one - will have a think about it. Maybe some veggie sausages and salad?

Its swimming night so I'm hoping for a minimum of 50 lengths - will do my best. Have also walked the dog for 45 mins so far with another short walk (15mins) later.

sonastin

Aldahbra wrote: »

Have you tried the 30 day shred? It is on you tube. The exercise is 20 mins and then there is the cool down so it takes about 1/2 an hour. I think it is so good I'm going to buy the video (my internet is a little slow too, so sometimes I'm left doing one exercise for ages whilst the pc is buffering)

Can I join your 10,000 steps a day challenge? Don't know how many I do now but it must be way less than that since I stopped work.

Haven't tried the shred yet - only just heard about it on this thread - but I'm certainly going to give it a go. OH won't let me connect the Wii to his super-expensive-extra-large Sony TV so Wii fit is going to have to wait until we've got a bit more space to get my cheap-rubbish TV out. By which time we'll also have space for the concept rowing machine to come down from the loft too :T

You're certainly welcome to join the walking challenge. The official challenge at work is, between those of us signed up for it, to "walk to the moon" :eek: They have worked out how many steps that is, how many people we need and that we need to do 10,000 steps each between now and xmas. It started on Monday and we've already found out that the pedometers are less than reliable. The one I had on yesterday was counting every 3rd or 4th step which explains why the count was so low :mad: Today, I have 2 on. Both put on at the same time this morning and one now reads 3017 and the other says 2121. Guess which one I'll be reporting for today! I'm tempted to add the 2 together :rotfl:

Breakfast today - 2 slices of toast with HM lemon curd. Must get down to once slice
Lunch - HM roll with YS luncheon meat and coleslaw, crisps, apple, yoghurt
Dinner - supposed to be HM pizza
Snacks - none yet... ate them all at lunchtime! Out tonight so a small glass of wine but probably no snacking :T

Rose_Wood

Evening All

I'm sat here in my dressing gown as I was out for a walk when the heavens opened and I got absolutely drenched! So I've had a lovely hot bath and am not going to bother getting dressed again. DH is away so I might as well.

B: 2 boiled eggs mashed with butter, salt and pepper.
L: Last of the HM mushrooms soup. Small portion of HM chocolate mousse.
HM low carb pizza - this was an experiment and I quite enjoyed it. The base was made of grated cauliflower mixed with quark and an egg and baked for 15 minutes. I then topped it with a HM tomato sauce made from 2 soft tomatoes cooked and mixed with a tsp of tomato puree and some red pesto. I topped it with some left over cooked spinach, grated cheese and chestnut mushrooms cooked in garlic butter and then put it back in the oven for another 10 minutes. I served it with some pickled beetroot and a spoonful of HM red onion marmalade. It was very tasty and there is half left for tomorrow.

Exercise: 10.5km run/walk - 3 min run/1 min walk repeated. 2 mile walk. I may do some strength exercises later if I feel like it - adapted from some of the Jillian Michaels DVDs.

Rose

savesummore

ragz wrote: »

I hope you don't mean me :rotfl:.

Ermmmmmm I may have meant you :rotfl:Im so bad at paying attention to fine details!!
And I hope I didnt come across as abrupt- I have what some call a dry sense of humour

My Dr Biffa book has come today :j cant wait to read it but just need to get my exam tomorrow out of the way first :eek:

If anyone has been watching 'The men who made us fat' on BBC2 on a Thursday night the 3rd part is on Thursday next week (the flipping tennis over ran last week and it was cancelled)