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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 dont think I can manage 1lb a week and I dont want to stress myself out about it.(already stressed with work which is why I'm not sleeping and on here at this ridiculous time in the morning having been awake since 2am :eek: )
    I seem to either lose or maintain so as long as I'm not putting weight on its all good :D

    Yesterday

    B - weetbic & banana
    S- choc chip cookie at work someones birthday
    L - leftover pork pasta with garlic & herb sauce, l/f yoghurt
    S - plum
    D - chicken in curry sauce, rice, half a nan bread

    exercise - 10 mins power walk at lunch time

    Keep feeling really sleepy in the afternoons. Have been told by diabetes dietician to eat carbs at lunch and dont want bread but not sure if its the carbs or lack of sleep ;) am not usually awake this early !!
    0% credit card £1360 & 0% Car Loan £7500 ~ paid in full JAN 2020 = NOW DEBT FREE 🤗
    House sale OCT 2022 = NOW MORTGAGE FREE 🤗
    House purchase completed FEB 2023 🥳🍾 Left work. 🤗

    Retired at 55 & now living off the equity £10k a year (until pensions start at 60 & 67).

    Previous Savings diary https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5597938/get-a-grip/p1

    Living off savings diary
    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6429003/escape-to-the-country-living-off-savings/p1
  • cocalls
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    ah unfortunatly i am always up this early-already made a shepherds pie ready for tonights tea!!

    foodwise its not going well actually exercise its not going well either ate out sat,sun and mon. going to get on the wii now as feel very fat.

    B;already eaten slice of toast will have strawberries and l/f yog 2 cups of tea
    L; Cheese salad sandwich
    T; afore mentioned shpherds pie and cabbage
    S; Fruit

    Excersie; 1/2 hr extra cycling between work places and any wii i can now fit in before work!
  • morning ladies :)
    Been a bit disorganized with food this week so not been on to post my meals. Must get myself organised better, we have loads of healthy meals in the freezer, but most can't be defrosted at the last minute :o

    Today:
    Breakfast: yoghurt, babybel
    Snack: pear, plums
    Lunch: sandwich from canteen, apple, satsumas
    Snack: granola bar, mr kipling cake bar, half pint milk
    Dinner: sausage ragu & kale pasta bake, green beans.

    Exercise: swimming
    Little monkey born November 2012:j
    Froglet due March 2016 :D
  • Hello all :wave: :wave: stranger here

    It's been weeks and weeks since I've been on this thread, since I decided to stop weighing in every week. But I thought I'd pop by to announce that since I've stopped worrying about the scales, I've lost 4 pounds!

    So if it's ok ragz can you add this loss to this week's weigh in, I know I'm not technically doing the challenge, but I have still been ready the thread from time to time, and am still endeavouring to eat nutritious, unprocessed food and exercise. :)
    :)
  • Hi all,

    Gosh im frozen today!!

    Cant wait for my holiday to warm me up ;)

    Today:

    B: 2 eggs, 2 wholemeal toast with butter
    S: banana
    L: roast chicken and ham salad, carrot batons, grapes
    S: mini apple, slice HM tea loaf
    T: Hairy bikers pies and leeks

    Last night I went swimming and did 40 lengths :T but I also had a chocolate hob nob :o only 1 though

    Is it me or is this week dragging on and on and on and on.........................................................................................................
    O/S weight loss 2.5 /10lbs (11st 8.0- 08.02)
  • Evening All

    I had a better day foodwise today, though not perfect.

    B: 2 boiled eggs mashed with butter, salt and pepper
    L: Vegetable crudites with HM garlic mayonnaise dip. HM golden courgette soup.
    D: Stir fry with peppers, mushrooms, prawns, garlic and egg noodles. HM chocolate mousse
    Snacks: 2 Cadbury's fudges

    Exercise: 65 minute run, immediately followed by 1 hour of tennis with DS. Walks to work and back and from tennis courts, so about 2.5 -3 miles in total.

    Rose
    Weight 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 15,690
  • daisiegg
    daisiegg Posts: 5,395 Forumite
    Hi all :)

    I was here a little while and then summer happened and I was away most of the time....but I am back and back on the wagon! Got to get the wedding body sorted!

    Hope you don't mind me joining you again...

    I have signed up to nutracheck, I used to use it years ago and I decided I needed a proprer boost of calorie counting to get me started. I won't do it for ages as I really hate rigidly counting calories, but I think I need to do it for a little while.

    So today...

    Breakfast - porridge with raspberries and a little bit of vanilla soya yogurt, cup of tea - 250 cals
    Banana - 60 cals
    Lunch - hm sweet potato soup, kiwi, cup of tea - 221 cals
    Snack - tiny amount of cereal and yogurt (whilst tying to resist baking!!!) - 127 cals
    Dinner - hairy bikers' diet cassoulet with sweetcorn and runner beans - 573 cals

    That comes to 1231 so I figure I have a little bit left for a piece of fruit before bed if I'm hungry.

    Hope everyone has had a good day!
  • No worries if you don't think you can do 14lbs, I just think I need to give myself a big target and a set end date to really boost myself back into things. I've stagnated for a while but have my motivation back! Today I hit the gym with a vengeance for the first time in 2 weeks (I have been but not really put a lot into it) - it's 1 month to the local 4k fun run, and I'm going to see if I can manage to run 4k by then.

    another 1.5lbs of that pesky water weight disappeared today again, what a relief! (I don't know if it came accross how much I was panicking :rotfl:)

    Off for some training tomorrow, I have to get up at 5am :eek: so that I can get there for 9. It's going to be a 14 hour day, so I will have to watch that I don't eat too much because I'm tired.
  • sparrer
    sparrer Posts: 7,548 Forumite
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    Just squeezing mine in before midnight -

    B - F&F, sk milk
    D - other half of yesterdays carbonara a la sparrer - fusilli, chopped rf sausage, onion, courgette, mushroom beaten egg, ff yogurt
    T - panini with lettuce, cucumber, tomato, small grating of rf cheese, rf mayo
    S - nectarine, fig, pear, nana, kiwi
    E - 1 hour gym, 20 mins ironing

    night night :)
  • EllaRose wel done on losing 4 lb :T
    cocalls wrote: »
    ah unfortunatly i am always up this early-already made a shepherds pie ready for tonights tea!!

    :eek: couldnt cook at this time of day. This is my second night of broken sleep awake at 2.30am again. Hopefully will feel drowsy soon and nod off. At least its a non working day on thursday, but its playing havoc with my eating

    Wednesday

    B - 7.30am ... slice of pizza :o was awake at 2.30am thats my excuse ;) and really didnt fancy anything else
    snack 11am - banana
    L - ham salad on cheese roll. yoghurt
    snack 3pm - 2 plums
    snack 5pm- small slice chicken. HM carrot and apple muffin
    D 8.30pm- KFC

    Meeting at college started at 7pm so had a snack at 5pm and was planning to come home and have small meal but by time meeting ended DS railroaded me into KFC :p
    Scales are showing sts so far this week. I start yoga today (thursday morning) and plan to get out for a long walk
    0% credit card £1360 & 0% Car Loan £7500 ~ paid in full JAN 2020 = NOW DEBT FREE 🤗
    House sale OCT 2022 = NOW MORTGAGE FREE 🤗
    House purchase completed FEB 2023 🥳🍾 Left work. 🤗

    Retired at 55 & now living off the equity £10k a year (until pensions start at 60 & 67).

    Previous Savings diary https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5597938/get-a-grip/p1

    Living off savings diary
    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6429003/escape-to-the-country-living-off-savings/p1
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