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

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  • savesummore
    savesummore Posts: 1,134 Forumite
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    Molly41 wrote: »
    Im so happy because my son did very well in his exams:T:T:T

    Welsh Woofer - glad your classes did well and I would say you very much deserve a big glass of wine tonight x

    Great news to you both :D
    Sorry what does "shred" mean?

    Not a great day - been to a theme park.

    Breakfast - weetabix with a few strawberries and banana
    Lunch - grapes, chicken, tom and cuc on brown bread and a mini choc muffin
    snack - quavers and a mint club
    Just remembered I had an ice cream with a flake in the park

    I don't know what to do for tea ...

    Shred is The 30 day Shred work out DVD by Jillian Micheals-from America's biggest lossers- its great as its a tough work out that only lasts 25 minutes- you begin at level 1 and work your way up to level 3 over the 30 days :)

    I have been swimming tonight 40 lengths :T am starvin marvin now though :rotfl:
    O/S weight loss 2.5 /10lbs (11st 8.0- 08.02)
  • DundeeDoll
    DundeeDoll Posts: 5,270 Forumite
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    You can get the shred on youtube as well. Planning on doing that next week in france cos i won't be able to get to the gym :eek:
    1 pound :T:T:T
    B 2 crumpets with marmite
    L trout made into a sort of kedgeree yum
    S banana
    D still deciding while i have eaten 2 squares of dark chocolate :D
    E walk to gym, gym, walk half way back (then got lift lol)
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  • Rose_Wood
    Rose_Wood Posts: 867 Forumite
    Evening All

    Well done all those who have weighed in with a loss. I am not going to have an official weigh in tomorrow as I know I have put on at least a lb with it being TOTM and succumbing to a few carbs that I shouldn't have. Hopefully, by next week I shall be back to normal.

    B: None
    L: Large prawn mayonnaise salad. HM chocolate mousse.
    D: HM egg and chips with mushrooms.
    Snacks: HM scone and butter. HM jam tart.

    Exercise: 4.5 mile run. 4 miles of walking to and fro. 1 hour of Yoga.

    Rose
    Weight Loss Challenge 5/7/19 10st 6lbs
    Target 8st 12lbs

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  • Bluegreen143
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    I haven't weighed in today as I still don't have scales and forgot when I was at the gym :o

    B: two a*da wheat bisks with sugar and whole milk. As an experiment, I measured my milk and sugar and probably use around 150ml milk and 3/4 tsp sugar. Can't cut down sugar anymore or else they taste like cardboard :rotfl:

    S: banana and then one chocolate from the box being passed round - my work is SO full of temptation!

    L: leftover HM veggie shepherd's pie made with lentils, veg and mash. Plus had a couple of a colleague's spicy wedges :o

    S: apple

    D: planned meal was veggie pasta with salad but OH made lovely spag bol and garlic bread - this is what happens when you let a man make dinner :rotfl: did restrain myself re the garlic bread and it was all very yummy

    E: gym session but was very late getting out of work so couldn't do usual amount - just did 20 mins on the bike, 15 mins on the cross trainer and 80 crunches

    Task for the weekend - buy scales! And my task for tomorrow is avoid all chocolate at work :p
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  • minicooper272
    minicooper272 Posts: 2,131 Forumite
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    Woops! I didn't read all of your last post, so didn't get a chance to weigh in today, but it's ok, as I have gained about 1/2 a lb, and couldn't decide whether I ought to say that was an STS or a 1lb gain.

    Loooong day today. Didn't leave work until about 7, when they throw you out - everyone wants a piece of my time today, and everything is urgent, needs done before the weekend, and I'm out of the office all day tomorrow! And I have my own work to do, which is urgent, but had to take a back seat today. Grumble grumble.

    As a result, I am very stress-hungry:
    B: 2 crumpets with LS jam
    L: ham salad sandwich, 2 small apples, 1 small banana
    D: packet of crisps at usual tea time, then LO macaroni cheese, a few squares of chocolate, and 2 crumpets with LS jam

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  • MrsCD
    MrsCD Posts: 1,954 Forumite
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    Oops, sorry, I didn't read the pages often enough to see that I was supposed to get weighed today:o
    So I will wait until next Friday, and hopefully have something good to report :)
    I made my very first home made pizza for tea, so I knew exactly what was in it. I had the smallest 'quarter' ;) and some salad.
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  • cocalls
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    Please may i join in? Am i right in thinking there's 6 weeks left of the challenge? If it's possible my starting weight is 11st 9lbs and i'd like to loose 7lbs.

    Here's what i've had so far today
    Brekky-crumpet & LF marge, LF yog with apple and sprinkle of oat cereal. 3 cups of tea.
    Lunch- Hairy bikers diet sausage cassolet yum yum
    Tea-Jacket pot with marg, beans and cheese with salad and 1tsp oil dressing.
    snacks- Orange 2 glasses of wine oops

    Excersie - Didmy normal cycle to work and a mesily 12 mins on the wii-will do better tomorrow i promise!
  • chelle
    chelle Posts: 200 Forumite
    My food diary for today:

    B - none which is rare for me, ran out of time
    L - can of carrot and coriander soup
    Alpro soya yogurt
    Approx 5 slices of beetroot
    D - alpro soya yogurt
    S - flapjack finger, bag of dairy free buttons, frusili blueberry and 1 fig roll

    Exercise

    2 miles run and a 6 mile walk

    30 day shred level 2

    I've just got home from work and am now hungry, but know it is the wrong time to eat!

    According to myfitnesspal I have consumed 800 calories (which I know is it enough) and burned more than that in exercise.

    Am weighing in the morning, so will see if my body is coping with what I am eating .
  • cocalls
    cocalls Posts: 881 Forumite
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    hello

    Sorry my post yesterday was written in a dash as we had a male friend over for tea yesterday and he was leaning over my shoulder asking what i was doing and for some reason i got embarrassed that i was listing what i ate on a public forum. Him and my husband dont really understand my weight problem as they're both as skinny as rakes.

    I've managed to loose the weight i put on when i had my daugher but now i want to loose the blubber i put on beforehand.

    I noticed earlier in the thread that someone (sorry i don't know who it was) mentioned that if you have a underactive thyroid then a low carb diet is better for you. Thanks for this i've never heard of that before and have done a bit more reading on the internet. My TSH levels have rocketed from 8 to 26 and the dr said no wonder i was feeling tired so has upped my thyroxine to 175mg/day. However, I also realise I'm a carb and especially a bread junkie. Soooo I'm hoping i can use this listing of food everyday (and with the support of you wonderful people) to recognise how i can cut back on the carbs and hopefully loose the 2stone i'd like to.
  • chelle
    chelle Posts: 200 Forumite
    And have lost 3 lbs :-)

    Hoping I can continue to my goal!
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