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

smokybabe

Evening all,

B - nothing
L - The last of the hm chilli with veg and new pots
D - chicken pieces with peas, carrots, cauliflower and some peri peri sprinkled on, I heated it through and then mixed it all with some low fat garlic philly - lovely.
Snacks today - 1 banana, 2 tangerines and a couple of handfuls of hazelnuts.

LavenderBees

LittleMoog wrote: »

I do pilates every week, advised by my consultant to help my back injury heal. I really enoy it, great for my posture and core muscle strength, and I always feel well stretched and exercised afterwards. I think yoga is similar, but probably a.bit.more relaxing, some pilates exercises are quite strenuous!

Yoga poses can be stenuous to hold too. However, a good teacher will ensure you only ever do what your body can manage. No pushing yourself.

Both Pilates and Yoga are very enjoyable. Hard work....but enjoyable.

Edited to add - many thanks for the meal ideas and low cal recipes. I get so bored with the same things all the time, so this is a great help. Thank you!

Kiwisaver_2

May I join you please? Have been following you all the past two day and wanted to read the thread before wading / weighing in but fear I won't be able to catch up or keep up.

Anyway enough is enough, I have been very aware over the past year that weight has piled on.

Having been 'fortunate' most of my life to be a bit of a skinny minny, I have never really been on a diet before. However, I gave up smoking just shy of a year ago and have felt more compelled to concentrate on kicking the smoking into touch and not beat myself up for overeating and gaining a few pounds or ten. :eek: I simply can't let this continue .

I weighed in on Sunday at my heaviest ever: 10st 12lbs so if I could shift 7 lbs for this challenge I think I would be quite comfortable being 10st 5lbs

LittleMoog

Morning all
we had HM pizzas for tea last night, v yum

Today's meals
Breakfast: Granola bar
Lunch: none brought, will have to go to canteen. Probably chicken salad sandwich, diet drink and some wotsits

Off out for dinner tonight as it's my best friend's birthday. We're going to an italian and I'm driving so will only have 1 small glass of wine.

Exercise: swimming after work to earn some extra calories for dinner

ragz_2

Welcome Kiwisaver. Well done for giving up smoking. Don't think of it as a 'diet', it's a lifestyle, though you obviously haven't been eating too badly as you're not terribly overweight. I'd say adding a few hours exercise a week should really help shift those 7lbs. When you don't have a lot to lose it seems to come off slower!

Did my 70 lengths last night, really pushed myself at the end to get them done before the pool closed, so I really felt it when I got home. I don't normally need to stretch/cool down as I tend to slow off towards the end but I felt my muscles stiffen as they cooled down when I got home so I stretched them out, which helped a lot but I am still a little achey today. Shame as DH is home so I could possibly manage a run... Will see how I feel, I'll definitely do the Wii if I don't make it out...

More flapjack with milk for breakfast, may attempt that soup recipe if I have everything in as have no soup in for lunch. Also must decide on what to defrost for dinner, kids are having dinner at Granny's as it's their swimming day so I only have to feed me and DH. Maybe I'll get some fish out...

A thought on weight creeping up - this occurred to me while I was swimming yesterday. If you gain 1/2 a pound a month (less than 2000 excess calories) you will be nearly half a stone heavier after a year and 10 years later you will have gained over 4 stone.

sparrer

Morning all, checking in briefly to add my measurements before I go to pulm class which has now changed from Mon to Tues, Right put me out this week it 'as!

Upper arm - 12"
Bust - 40"
Chest - 36"
Waist - 37"
Hips - 41"
Thighs - 21 1/2"
Calf - 14"
all done after shower and nekid - not pretty!

B - grapefruit

back later to record the rest of the day's meals/exercise

rainbowfairydust

Morning All :beer:

Menu for today :-

B - 40g of cornflakes with skimmed milk, one mug of tea
L - Jacket Potato with low fat spread cheese
D - H/M Nutty chicken couscous with salad on the side

snacks: strawberry frootz buttons /Jelly Pot & 3 crackerbreads with a smattering of low fat peanut butter.

Excercise - cycled to work again today so just under 6 mile all round trip.

Have a nice day everyone

Need2bthrifty

Morning all, hope everyone is feeling positive, I had another good day yesterday food-wise
B – hm yoghurt, tinned peaches.
L – l/o cold SC chicken & salad, pear.
D – Sausage & butter bean casserole (f), steamed carrots & broccoli
Snacks = 1 Grapefruit, 1 triangle hm shortbread.

Did quite a bit of OS exercise washing down walls in prep for decorating so that should help with the “bingo wings” (don’t you just hate being a woman of a certain age) put on some 70’s disco music to make sure I got a bit of rhythm into my work, so what with the dancing etc I probably had a right good workout.

I notice that Ragz, JBD & Sparrer were brave enough to make public their measurements, I tend to go by how well my clothes fit but decided to measure up out of interest and OMG
Chest – 93
Bust – 103
Waist – 88
Hips – 94
Thigh – 49
Calf – 34
Upper arm - 27
(by the way cm's not inches)

Always knew I was apple-shaped (:j) but definitely now need to shift this dangerous build-up of fat around my middle.

Phoolgrrrl

Today's food

B - ceral bar
L - hm minestroni, ham sandwich, activia yog
D - salmon, new pots, leek and mushroom
S - 2 satsumas, snack a jack, apple, 2 ryvita and ham, raisins
E - dancing at Girls Brigade tonight, i'm recording it as 'slow ballroom' as it's v floaty/graceful (I try) dancing

The_Dragon

Ack done some of my measurements and I am a fat, horrible slob