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

Kiwisaver_2

I seem to be fighting a losing battle, thinking healthy thoughts and meal ideas and then finding they're not so good when I do the maths and count the calories. I went way over today. I started well and I have been basically having the same for breakfast and lunch each day, it's the dinners I seem to struggle with:

B: Greek yoghurt (plain) and Muesli and an apricot (180 cals)
L: 100g Pasta / 30g Feta and salad (284 cals)
2 pita breads :eek: 4 x falafels (shop bought) :eek: hummus :eek: lettuce and tomatoes with a dessert spoonful of HM Yoghurt, Mint and cucumber (845 cals)

Snacks: Clementine, a Nectarine and a 'handful' of nuts (4 almonds, 2 macademias and a brazil nut)

Thankfully I do seem to have the snacking under control as this was my major downfall with a packet or crisps or two making their way into my life every day. So not going to beat myself up too much just now. I guess we all must go through a similar process of education and adjustment.

sparrer

Morning all

B - dippy egg and soldiers made with 1 slice Danish with scrape of spread
D - grilled port fillet, sprout tops, runner beans, 3 tablespns gravy
T - 3 rice cakes/yogurt with 1 x vegemite, 1 x lf philly, 1 x marmalade (feeling the need for something sweet)
Snacks - fruit
Exercise - 1/2 hour pulm/step/weights.

Enjoy the rest of the day

LittleMoog

CCP wrote: »

Morning all.

fuddle - I'm having much the same problem at the moment. I'm fine during the day but the last few days I've been ravenous by dinner time and have eaten far too much (last night went totally off plan - I changed my mind on what to have for dinner, then walked to the pub rather than driving and had 3 pints of cider - very naughty CCP ). I had a sneak peek on the scales and it's not looking good - I seem to have gained back the 2lb I lost last week. I really hope the scales show something different on Friday...

Today goes:

B - two scotch pancakes; banana (I wasn't really hungry after a massive dinner last night but I've got a meeting this morning so I thought I'd better eat something)
L - 3 small wraps, 3 HM falafel, red pepper sticks, and a small pot of houmous to dip everything in
S - kiwi fruit; clementine (the same ones I had yesterday and didn't get round to eating )
D - pork chop and squash wedges in a chilli marinade, with Chinese cabbage and - hopefully - brown rice ('hopefully' because I've never really got the hang of cooking rice )

Exercise - a walk at lunchtime if it stops raining; possibly a walk home after work if the garage hasn't finished trying to fix my car

Have a good day, all.

After many years of trial and error, I've developed a foolproof (well DHproof at least ) method of cooking rice:
white rice - weigh 2oz/person into a measuring jug, and check the volume. Add rice to pan (I never rinse) and add ~1.25 x the volume of water. Bring up to boil stick on lid and turn heat down to lowest. Leave for 15 minutes then remove lid and fluff up, leave uncovered for a further 1-2 mins.
For brown rice, use 2x the volume of water, and allow 25-30 minutes to absorb. check it's cooked by tasting before the fluffing up step.
Never fails!

fuddle

No snacks so far today! I have it back, whatever it is that makes you eat sensibly and not pig out!

Also, breakfast was cuppa and one slice of toast. Lunch was cuppa and two soft boiled eggs and two slices of buttered toast chopped to dip. I could have only had one egg and toast but my plan is to go till dinner time without anything, just until I feel confident about it again.

We are having lamb burgers (in freezer, nothing much in cupboards and no money till tomorrow) and roast veggies, roast potatoes and steamed broccoli. I will be filling my plate with veggies

Oh and water, must go get a glass now - thank you!

wuvvies

really pleased today. got on the scales and i weighed 9 2. so in about 6 weeks i have lost 11 pounds. im really pleased with that. i need to loose another three pounds and then maintain. i find it so hard to maintain. its just got to be healthy living for here on in.

b - cereal and milk allowance
l - ham and coleslaw salad
tea - 1 sausage and yorkshire puddings with loads of veg.

snacks (so far)
2 bananas
pear
grapes

got the evening to go yet but i think that the trick is not to eat after about 8 then it doesnt sit heavy in my tummy and i weigh less in the morning.

i have to say - im definately no expert - but i would be starving if i ate as little as some of you on here!! thank god for fruit. 0 points on weight watchers. yay
have a good day

ragz_2

Can I have 'it' please Fuddle?

So far today I have eaten - bowl of fruit and fibre, 2 slices of toast and jam, kids leftover toast (nearly a whole slice), bowl of soup, 3 biscuits, yogurt, bag of fruit and nuts with chocolate in ... and an apple.

Dinner will be onion and pepper omelette and beans.

Dragoncry

Afternoon

Breakfast: half a bowl of muesli + ss milk
Lunch: Salad sandwich (beetroot, lettuce mix and cucumber) on a lovely seeded bread. 1 potato cake with a lick of butter.
Dinner: Can't decide yet as not really hungry
Drinks: 1 tea no sugar + ss milk, water

Hope everyone has that 'it' feeling today
DC xx

Rose_Wood

Afternoon All,

I've had a less busy day today in that I haven't been working but still fitted lots in.

B: Toasted HM bread roll with butter and raspberry jam.
L: 2 poached eggs on another HM toasted roll (this one without butter). 3 Cappucino Roll wafer biscuits.
Wrap with chicken, mushroom, pepper, red onion and cremefraiche filling. Raspberries with Greek yoghurt.
Snacks: Pear, tangerine

Exercise: 40 minute run.20 lengths of swimming. About 3 miles of walking in total.

Rose

sparrer

Hoping to satisfy a rare moment of craving for something sweet (my fruit just isn't doing it atm) I've just made a pint of fat-free powdered jelly which I bought a while ago in a discount shop, and which is now setting in 4 ramekins. I'll try it with chopped dried apricots and ff yogurt and anything else sweet I can find in the back of the larder .

Need2bthrifty

Fuddle I think your "IT" must be in the same place as my "ROUND TO IT" I always mean to be getting one.....:rotfl:

Anyway I'm back on track today,
B – Yoghurt & Fruit.
L – Lentil Soup, crusty bread
D – HM Meatloaf, steamed veg – broccoli, carrots and the last of the brussels sprouts
Snacks = Pear, apple, clementine’s x 2

So as not to fall back into the bad habits that I’ve been indulging in over the past couple of days I’ve planned a pampering evening for myself tonight. Now that the kitchen has been tidied, oatmeal soaking for porridge tomorrow and shopping list done - I’m running out of fruit & veg - I’m off to run a bath, get the exfoliating kit together, face pack organised, so it will be a skin scrub, long soak, nails polished and luxurious body lotion before bed – BLISS.

Have a good evening folks.