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Weight Loss the Old Style Way! Part 8. Please read posts 1 and 2 before posting.
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I was going to come and confess my weekend badness but it seems like several of us struggled!
Oh well, onward and upward (or rather, downward with the numbers on the scales!)
today
b - porridge
l - pitta bread with salad & chicken, lf greek yoghurt & bananananana
d - pork chop, cabbage, carrot & 1 lonely little roast pot!
e - 2 dog walks, bit of chopping things down in the garden and jazzercise tonight!
Not too bad for a Monday!0 -
quick post as feeling v tired
b - bacon egg, 2 slices granary bread
l - noodles & 1 slice cooked beef shredded
d - sausage pasta bake, l/f rhubarb yoghurt
snack - 2 satsumas
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Evening All
I'm just back from work and feeling extremely tired so just a very quick post.
B: Raspberries with Greek yoghurt
L: Half a chicken legChicken and mushrooms in a creme fraiche and paprika sauce with HG green beans and HG courgettes.
Snack: 20g of dark chocolate.
Exercise: 4 mile run, 5.5 miles of walking. 30 minutes swim.
RoseWeight Loss Challenge 5/7/19 10st 6lbs
Target 8st 12lbs
Daily Steps Challenge 16,000
Average daily steps: January 19,317, February 19,449, March 20,330, April 22,026, May 20,412 June 15,6900 -
OMG - I ate a LOT this weekend, mostly Saturday. I won't list it because you would faint!
Me too ragz, went to the seaside for 4 days and their food is very calorie-laden!Morning All
I have had a very bad weekend eating wise and have put on 3lbs!! That despite running and walking 12 miles on Saturday and walking 14 miles on Sunday. Too much bread apart from anything else
Rose
Weighed myself this morning and have put on 4lb :eek:. Hotel breakfasts are full of fried bread and toast, lunches and dinners all have lovely soft brown bread rolls with them...what's a woman to do?! Go back to the gym tomorrow, that's what
Today I had..
B - mashed nana in ff yogurt
L - mushroom & rf cheese omelette (one egg)
D - skin off grilled chicken breast, tomato, lettuce, cucumber, red pepper, 1 desertspoon rf mayo
S - 2 pears, 2 oranges, nana
E - none, slept most of the day
Hopefully back to normal tomorrow, lots of work to do to lose the extra lb's0 -
Morning
Quick post as on my way to work.
Yesterday didn't quite go according to plan, my meals were fine but snacks consisted of a chocolate biscuit and 2 pieces of chocolate banana cake.
Wonder if its the start of my PMT, like savesumore, could have eaten my body weight in chocolate and cake!!!
Plan for today:
B: usual cereal and fruit
L: l/o pasta bake and brocolli, yoghurtchicken salad sandwich, banana
S: banana, ?nv bar
E:??? depends what time I finish work
Hope everyone has a good day
DSuccess is a journey, not a destination0 -
Hellllllllloooooooooo!!!!
Savesummore enters the room and looks around for all her weight loss friends........................................ no one to be seen :eek:. Ill smack ya fingers if you are all off eating cakes :rotfl:
I have just done Shred Level 3 :eek::eek::eek::eek: I actually felt faint at the end:o
Im struggling foodwise this week I think its because I was so good last week and didnt lose anything so im rebelling :rotfl:although ill only hurt myself
Today:
B: usual berries, greek yog, sprinkle nuts plus 1 hard boiled egg
S: 20g nuts, apple
L: pulled pork and salad, grapes
S: 2 x celebration chocolates1 lemon sherbet sweet
T: Jacket tata, 20g cheese, beans and salad
I have passed my assesment and will be starting level 2 of my course next week :T am very pleasedO/S weight loss 2.5 /10lbs (11st 8.0- 08.02)0 -
savesummore wrote: »Hellllllllloooooooooo!!!!
Savesummore enters the room and looks around for all her weight loss friends........................................ no one to be seen :eek:. Ill smack ya fingers if you are all off eating cakes :rotfl:
I have passed my assesment and will be starting level 2 of my course next week :T am very pleased
Ha ha haok so I was off eating cake... Well done on passing level 1!! :T
My week has gone to plan so far, except in my cake baking session last night (if it's your birthday, you take cake into work for everyone) I forgot to make any lunch for today. But lemon and blueberry cake is a good substitute!0 -
Food today:
b - fruit and fibre breakfast biscuits
l - tuna salad, pear, clementine, 5 pistachios, 5 almonds and an apricot yogurt
s - slice of toast with peanut butter, half a banana and a peach
d - chicken and bacon ravioli with spicy tomato sauce
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Evening all!
I wasn't eating cake honest! (well, actually I did have the teeniest taste of my friends birthday cake in work but it was virtually non-existant (ish).
Not a bad day today I suppose diet wise but only walking done - no running or swimming. Dog is happy though:rotfl:0 -
Ooooooppppppsssssss
I just fell off the diet wagon and landed face first into mini fish and chips :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
Guess I cant do anymore telling off for cake eating :rotfl:
MiniC- we have to take cake into work on our birthdays too- i dont get this rule surely you should be brought cakes on your birthday not buy them ..............mmmmmmmm 20 birthdays cakesO/S weight loss 2.5 /10lbs (11st 8.0- 08.02)0
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