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

slowlyfading

Food today hasn't been brilliant...

b - half a portion of porridge with half a sliced banana and a tablespoon of peanut butter - AMAZING!
l - this was a buffet so I had half a chicken wrap, 1 mini sausage roll and then some fruit salad
s - rocky bar (101 cals), packet of skips (88 cals) and slice of ginger cake (94 cals)
t - left over chili in a pitta

Sigh.

Rose_Wood

Afternoon All

I didn't manage to post yesterday but stuck fairly well to a healthy diet apart from it being a bit bread heavy and had 1.5 hours of bodyconditioning and a 2.5 mile walk so plenty of exercise. Tonight we are treating ourselves to roast pork as I picked up a reduced joint on the way home from work and now cant fit it into the freezer easily. I shall save the leftovers to use in sandwiches I think.

B: 2 small HM toasted currant teacakes with HM butter.
L: Prawn salad wrap. Clementine
Roast pork with green beans and creamed spinach. I'll do roast potatoes for DH but none for me. Banana.

Snack: Met a friend for coffee and had an iced frappe which I know is about 300 calories!!

Exercise: 20 minutes run (should have been 45 but friend pulled the muscle again she'd pulled a while ago and we walked the rest of the way). 3 miles of walking. 45 minutes swimming.

Rose

ETA: Also bowl of muesli for supper!

Annie021063

evening all
knackered.com again but have worked bl@@@dy hard today
B porridge
L soup and crackers
D pasta and sauce
Snacks: FF yog, fruit, go ahead biscuits couple squares of fav chocolate

exercise
500m swim
1 hr yoga
treadmill run 10mins/walk 22 mins
plus a days work

The_Goose

Sorry I didn't post yesterday.

I'm finding it hard to know how much I've lost because my new scales seem to weigh differently depending on where in the room they are placed, even though in each place they appear to be level :mad: I need to get some kind of board to put them on I think.

I think I have lost five pounds altogether, that's over the last three weeks.

I've definitely lost five inches from my waist though, which I'm delighted about :j and I can fit back into some jeans I couldn't zip up three weeks ago, and my belt is on a tighter notch!

I've been out walking most days, plus I've taken up country dancing one night a week, though that is proving less energetic than I expected so I might swap it for something else. I bought a new battery for my pedometer, so I'm going to start increasing my number of steps day by day if I can.

I had two really bad days last week and they were both due to lack of advance planning really - eg on Sunday I was co-running a music event from 2pm to 9pm and was at the venue from 10am to midnight. I had porridge for breakfast then went to Sainsbury's (handily next to the venue) to buy food for lunch etc, but because everything looked too high in calories, I just bought some tuna and edame beans.

Not only did I have far too much real ale during the day - probably amounting to more than the whole of my daily calorie allowance - but by the end of the evening I was so starving that I ate packetloads of roasted peanuts and bacon bite snacky things from the bar

I would have been better getting something more filling from Sainsbury's in the first place!!

In case it's of help to anybody, here's some of my meals:

Breakfast -

two hard boiled eggs (hot not cold - I like them with Lea and Perrins Worcester sauce poured on for some reason). I boil more than I need for breakfast and keep the rest in the fridge as a basis for lunch or a snack on another day or

porridge (79p for a kilo from the Co-Op value range) weighed out and mixed with boiling water and powdered skimmed milk from my allowance, then microwaved with frozen fruit (3 quite big packets for a fiver from Sainsbury's) or

sometimes a smoothie made with natural yoghurt, unsweetened soya milk and fresh, frozen or canned (in water) fruit, plus sometimes a little vanilla essence or fresh ginger. I use a stick liquidising thing to mix it all up in a big jug, then divvie up the total calories and eat it over 3 or 4 days.


I don't find the smoothie as filling as the other two options though - if I have boiled eggs or porridge, they take me happily through to lunchtime without wanting anything else.

Lunch/Supper -

Soya mince or lean turkey mince plus potato and whatever fresh or frozen veggies I have, with a little miso for the gravy and often chopped dried chillis. I weigh out enough for four or five meals, have one and freeze the rest. I put a label on the frozen ones with the calories on, so I don't have to keep looking back.

Stir-fry with fish, chicken or soya chicken - I use packets of value stir-fry from either Sainsbury's or the Co-op. I do freeze these but they go soggy, much better when they're fresh. I use just a tiny bit of olive oil, and I do measure it out.

Jar of mussels, carton of chopped tomatoes, some other veg, on rice. It would also go with pasta, but I don't eat pasta much. I cook a load of weighed rice then divvy it up and freeze portions in bags, again with the calorie count on a label on the bag.

Soya meatballs (really cheap from Sainsbury's) with vegetables.

Canned mackerel, tuna or sardines, carton of chopped tomatoes, chilli, vegetables - I make it into soup with the liquidising stick, I can't pretend it's terribly yummy but I have to get some oily fish down somehow each week :rotfl:

Roast chicken piece and roasted vegetables - have to be careful with the oil though, I drizzle a very little over the veg and do them on a non-stick baking sheet.

Can of butter beans, carton of chopped tomatoes, other veg - I liquidise it all and make a sort of butter bean based soup.

Snacks

Oatcakes with cottage cheese (sometimes pineapple) and a little Branston Pickle

Prunes (if I'm craving sweet things - I eat them as they come from the packet, I don't cook them)

Rice cake with pear and apple spread (ditto, but the spread is quite high in calories)

Natural yoghurt with microwaved frozen fruit (I microwave the fruit so it's hot then mix it in with the cold yoghurt - yummy!)

Chopped hard boiled egg (see breakfast) mixed with green olives (I have a huge jar I'm trying to use up) and a little Hellman's Lite mayonnaise, sometimes plus oatcakes.

Sorry for this massively long post !!!!

Well done to everybody who's lost weight this week or stayed the same!

:beer:

ragz_2

Well done The Goose that's a great start, and thanks for the meal ideas. I like the sound of those...

Just weighed my muesli, only out of interest, the portion I have is fine for me as I only have that for breakfast and it keeps me full for a while. 80g! Which is twice the portion they give on the box, and it's not a huge bowlful. I imagined it would be more like 60g but that stuff is pretty dense, unlike cornflakes or something. So 300cal plus the milk, rather than the 150cal on the box. but like I said, that's fine, better that than biscuits!

WI this morning at 11st8lb so really hoping that stays off tomorrow. Cutting down carbs seems to be really working, it's easy enough at dinner time and lunch is fine if I have soup or an omelette. I'm not being fanatical about it, just consciously having less bread, pasta and rice and filling up with veg.

CCP

Morning all.

The_Goose wrote: »

I'm finding it hard to know how much I've lost because my new scales seem to weigh differently depending on where in the room they are placed, even though in each place they appear to be level :mad: I need to get some kind of board to put them on I think.

I have the same problem with mine. The best solution I've found is to weigh myself in the kitchen, which has a lino floor with a square pattern on it: as long as I always put my scales in the same square I seem to get a consistent reading.

B - my favourite PB and banana sandwich, on HM seed bread
L - veg stew (LO from Tuesday's dinner); two small slices quiche (LO from last night's dinner); crust of seed bread with no butter
S - apple; LF blackcurrant yoghurt
D - veg tagine with a small amount of RF feta and either brown rice or brown pitta bread (rice would be better as I've had bread at breakfast and lunch, but I'm not sure I can be bothered to fight with it before going out )

Out to the pub this evening with friends, so I'll probably have a couple of ciders. :beer:

Exercise - walk at lunchtime (about 40 mins); walk to the pub this evening (about 25 mins)

Have a good day, everyone.

lauzt1987

The Goose - thanks for the meal ideas, they sound yummy!

I'm feeling really down today. Stupidly weighed myself even though official weight day is not until Sunday and I've got on weight. less than a pound but I'm still really angry as it's totally my own fault. Haven't been to the gym enough this week and have simply eaten the wrong things.

Going to try my best to have an extra heallthy day today. Have a great day everyone. xx

Kiwisaver_2

ragz wrote: »

Just weighed my muesli, only out of interest, the portion I have is fine for me as I only have that for breakfast and it keeps me full for a while. 80g! Which is twice the portion they give on the box, and it's not a huge bowlful. I imagined it would be more like 60g but that stuff is pretty dense, unlike cornflakes or something. So 300cal plus the milk, rather than the 150cal on the box. but like I said, that's fine, better that than biscuits!

It's a real eye opener when you weigh things out isn't it. It's taken me a while but trying to find a balance that I am satisfied with that doesn't send the calories soaring. I have settled on having 25g of Muesli with 90g of greek yoghurt and a piece of fruit. Last week I stewed up some near to manky fruit too, which was nice stirred through the yoghurt an muesli.

Someone mentioned ratatouille and roast veggies which I love but OH hates, allegedly. Hah ha!! On Monday I roasted up a huge pile of veggies; including pumpkin, courgettes, red pepper, onions, tomatoes and aubergine and layered them into a big thick deep pan frittata with eight eggs and a teeny sprinkle of crumbled feta cheese. We scoffed huge portions for a semi-guilt free for dinner, with no complaints from himself and I have had a further wedge of it for lunch the past two days.

I am however feeling a bit fruit and vegged out this week and keep craving for crunchy buttery biscuits. :rotfl:

sparrer

G'day, and happy Australia Day to all our mates from a land down under

B - Grapefuit, 2 slices toasted Danish w/ff yogurt/scrape marmalade
D - Veggie omelette
T - 3 Rice cakes w/vegemite, lf philly, prawn mayo
Snacks - melon, satsumas, grapes, apple
Exercise 1/2 hour pulm, gardening, cleaned outside of patio doors, ironing

Hope the poorlies get well soon, enjoy the rest of the day
S

LittleMoog

afternoon all
I'm *still* off sick, but feeling a bit better this afternoon. still coughing like a lifelong smoker though! :rotfl: think I'll venture back to work tomorrow, we have a short day on Fridays anyway, and I'm sure my carshares wouldn't mind leaving a bit earlier if I'm feeling squiffy again
Actually hungry today, so will be taking over the kitchen from DH, meals have been interesting for the last few days

Today's meals:
Breakfast: grapes, clementines
Lunch: 200g jacket potato with 2oz rf cheese, spring onions and bacon lardons (not the healthiest i know, but I fancied it, and the bacon's about to go off. I'm trying to feel virtuous because I didn't put any butter on the potato, but not really fooling myself!:rotfl:)
Dinner: lasagne and some green veg
Snacks: more fruit