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

Skint_yet_Again

Thanks LittleMoog I will look into pilates as well. Not sure which will be best as I've had back trouble on and off for over 20 years including sciatica so will do some more research before deciding. Cant blame it all on the back pain though, I am very lazy

LittleMoog

Skint_yet_Again wrote: »

Thanks LittleMoog I will look into pilates as well. Not sure which will be best as I've had back trouble on and off for over 20 years including sciatica so will do some more research before deciding. Cant blame it all on the back pain though, I am very lazy

Can't speak for all Pilates teachers, but mine is very good at adapting exercises to take account of injuries/problems. Even when my back was really bad I was able to do most exercises and it never felt worse after a class, always better. Can't say the same for my tummy muscles though

Aldahbra

I've had a stomach bug for the last day. If I haven't lost weight this week I'll be amazed!! Not the way to do it though, it was awful.

savesummore

sonastin wrote: »

This morning I can hardly move :eek: My calf muscles have tightened up so much that I'm walking like a duck :rotfl:
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:rotfl::rotfl:That really made me chuckle!!

DaisyDayDream wrote: »

Hello, have been a lurker on the forum for the past 2 years and never posted.
I need to lose some weight and get fitter and need to keep the motivaion going past the first week. Have lost count of the number of times I've lost and put back on over the past few years!!!:mad:
Daisy

Welcome daisydaydream!!

I think the way we all try and losse weight here- slow and steady really works- it helps you develop long term eating habits

I think with out this forum and everyone support and ideas here I would have given up by now!!

daisiegg wrote: »

I'm trying to think of healthy lunch ideas and drawing a blank. I am sick of salad! Don't have easy access to a microwave at work so soup etc is out. I think I need to stop just eating fruit for lunch because it probably makes me end up eating more in the evening. Even if it is easier...
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Hi :hello:

1.Could you take soup in a flask? I used to do this at my old job
2.What about hummus and cracker breads (ryvita type things) or bread sticks or veg sticks?
3.You could have a pitta bread with low fat cheese spread inside and lots of salad
4.Or a mini ploughmans 20g cheese some wafer ham, plus carrot batons, cherry toms and cucumber batons?
5.How about HM lentil pate with cracker breads?
6.Or a grated cheese and carrot sandwich on small bread
7.Oh or an open tuna sandwich- 1 bread slice pile on the salad, put on 1/2 tin tune- when I have this i toast the bread first and eat with a knife and fork

Right ill shut up now :rotfl:

Oh so close yet so far in my swimming challenge- got one more swim to register Fri night before challenge ends but doubt ill swim 70 lenghts :rotfl:

minicooper272

This has been a day where I just shouldn't have left bed.

Loads of things broke at work, making it a frustrating start, before a spider crawled onto my desk in the afternoon. I have a serious phobia but lots of people thought I was just being a girl about it, so they're all thinking it's hilarious. I got someone to look high and low for it, and they told me they'd spotted it a few desks down, so I was safe. I sat back down at my desk, 2 seconds later he comes running back again! I got such a fright, I wound up in the loo for 20 mins crying while they were trying to get rid of it. But they didn't catch it, and I had to spend the rest of the afternoon at my desk trembling, while people kept making jokes about it. I hate that people don't understand that I'm really a phobic, and don't just say it because I don't like them (I've had no end of panic attacks and nightmares after a run in with a spider)

To surmise how petrified I am, this little run in was so unexpected and so sudden, my star week came on 4 days early (and I've never been early before). I suffer from very heavy stars, which usually make me faint, but I had to push through, as I'd already made such a scene.

My afternoon has been full of lots of silly mistakes, which I contribute to all this, so I was glad when it reached time to head off for volunteering. Only when I arrived, I found it has been a bad day there, and that has really upset me, but I can't share the details on why.

In the end, I stopped on the way home and bought a big bar of chocolate and a big bag of wafer biscuits, and I've just been comfort eating. I'm confessing up to it, as I think the guilt of telling people will make me put the rest of it away.

I will be very glad when this day is over. Is it bed time yet?
*vent over*

Skint_yet_Again

Oh minicooper what an awful day for you, I can understand the spider phobia, because if I see anything that even looks like a spider - bit of fluff, bit of black cotton, totally freaks me out. So sorry your colleagues were not more understanding

minicooper272

dasiegg - I like to take pasta dishes for lunch quite a lot,

my fave is frying onions, peppers & courgette (chicken if you want) with a tsp of chilli, then adding in 1/2 a lime and 1tbsp of red wine vinegar. Mix that lot with a load of pasta and some dried basil. It's really yummy cold. I add in extre salad if I'm not sick of the stuff.

Cous cous is my other favourite lunch dish, I usually have a pack of the 'just add water' stuff as a back up in case I need it.

Alternatively, if you don't have a microwave at work, I've seen people coming in with thick soups and then just adding a mug full of boiling water to it to heat it up. I've not tried it myself yet, but I always have the worst luck with thermos flasks - they break so quickly!

daisiegg

savesummore wrote: »

Hi :hello:

1.Could you take soup in a flask? I used to do this at my old job
2.What about hummus and cracker breads (ryvita type things) or bread sticks or veg sticks?
3.You could have a pitta bread with low fat cheese spread inside and lots of salad
4.Or a mini ploughmans 20g cheese some wafer ham, plus carrot batons, cherry toms and cucumber batons?
5.How about HM lentil pate with cracker breads?
6.Or a grated cheese and carrot sandwich on small bread
7.Oh or an open tuna sandwich- 1 bread slice pile on the salad, put on 1/2 tin tune- when I have this i toast the bread first and eat with a knife and fork

Right ill shut up now :rotfl:

Oh so close yet so far in my swimming challenge- got one more swim to register Fri night before challenge ends but doubt ill swim 70 lenghts :rotfl:

What lovely ideas, thank you

I have just made a sort of rice salad for the next two days' lunches...rice mixed with lightly fried (dry fried) spring onion, green and yellow pepper, mange touts and kidney beans. It's a maximum of 250 cals a portion as there is very little rice and loads of veg. Probably not the most exciting lunch but slightly more interesting than salad anyway...

I also made some banana and strawberry muffins...hardly any fat and I also halved the sugar in the recipe. I know, I know, they're still not 'healthy' but it's better than chocolate cake! But I did accidentally eat two to try them they are small..but still...the rest have gone very quickly into the freezer!

ragz_2

Daisy Daydream, Msmanx - hi, welcome to the thread. My hubby used to live in a Hotel on the IOM as a child. I am not on MFP enough to be worth friending I'm afraid though I do use it sporadically and think it is very good.
Minicooper - Oh honey what a day! Ignore the people at work, you can't make them understand and their ignorance is not your problem if you don't let it be. I know it must have been hurtful though. xx

Good day today, only 50 cal over my goal and not much sugar though shocking how much was in the satsuma and tinned peaches!

msmanx

Thank you for the warm welcomes!

The Isle of Man is a lovely place to live - although someone forgot to activate the summer here this year. We still seem to be in October somehow..?! Ragz, which hotel did he grow up in? We still have a lot of the old hotels standing, either still running or converted into apartments.

Poor you, minicooper. People are mean. Do you have anyone at work who understands and will support you?

I had two hours sleep last night and my day started at 5am (I sleep at work a couple of nights a week - at work for 24 hours at a time) early starts always seems to make eating sensibly more difficult somehow.

Sooo..

2 slices of wholemeal toast spread with natural yoghurt and topped with a banana.
2 fat free yoghurts mixed with a handful of oats.
Tikka Masala with rice (ready meal).
A couple of nectarines, some raw carrots and some celery.

I've got into the habit of having a ready meal on the nights after a long shift at work, they are easy, cost about a pound each and seem to have a reasonable calorie count. Maybe it works for me because it's an enforced sensibly sized portion? After a 24 hour shift...I just haven't the energy to do much else, but want a hot meal.

No exercise to speak of today, but I have a day off tomorrow so I'll head up into the mountains with the dogs for a couple of hours. I'm blessed to have mountains, fields and beaches all within a few minutes of my house.....unfortunately I am not blessed with the motivation to walk as often as I should..!

MM xx