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

sparrer

ellie I don't like chocolate enough to buy it for myself, just as well now I've read your link! _pale_
emmaneni your Mum is right, a cereal bar isn't really a proper meal. I couldn't eat a huge breakfast but a slow release like fruit'n'fibre, or porridge with spices and dried fruit sees me through til lunchtime. Fortunately I can have my main meal at lunchtime but I know it's difficult when you're working.
theatregirl everything x'd for you

B - F&F, ss milk
D - Veggie omelette, sweet potato wedges
T - carrot & coriander soup, 2 crackerbread with vegemite, rf cream cheese
S - apple grapes, nana
E - 3x10mins, usual housework/pottering

Em88

Hi,

Can I join please? I used to post on the wedding diet thread, then I got married (a year ago on Sunday! It's gone so quick!) and felt I couldn't hang around on there much after that, and I was too busy enjoying married life to worry about dieting. (hi daisie, I remember you from the wedding board - congratulations on getting married!!)

So now it's a year on and I have put on 13 lb opps. Is it bad that I feel a little better about it knowing my husband has put on weight too??!
I need to get myself back in gear and be sensible (for the most part) and would love the support of everyone here.

I have been lurking for a little while and see you have a challenge, could I be put down for 14lb please? Thank you!

I weighed myself this morning and got three different measurements depending where my scales were in the bathroom that ranged by 5lb, that's ridiculous! (Obviously I went for the lowest weight!)

The_Dragon

Em88 wrote: »

Hi,

Can I join please? I used to post on the wedding diet thread, then I got married (a year ago on Sunday! It's gone so quick!) and felt I couldn't hang around on there much after that, and I was too busy enjoying married life to worry about dieting. (hi daisie, I remember you from the wedding board - congratulations on getting married!!)

So now it's a year on and I have put on 13 lb opps. Is it bad that I feel a little better about it knowing my husband has put on weight too??!
I need to get myself back in gear and be sensible (for the most part) and would love the support of everyone here.

I have been lurking for a little while and see you have a challenge, could I be put down for 14lb please? Thank you!

I weighed myself this morning and got three different measurements depending where my scales were in the bathroom that ranged by 5lb, that's ridiculous! (Obviously I went for the lowest weight!)

Happy Anniversary (a tad early but otherwise I will forget :rotfl:), and of course you can join!

JellyBox

I'm starting to eat properly again, still not sure what went wrong over the past couple of weeks. Today has been a mega-breakfast, not massively (read: at all) healthy, but very delicious. Pancakes with apples and custard, one of my 5 a day and tastygood! That's me done now til tea, which will be something from the freezer with salad as cooking sausage casserole for the rest of the week today and I NEVER want to eat what I've spent all day cooking, very frustrating.

I really want some scales so I can check my weight at home, the ones I'm using at work are inaccurate to say the least, if I so much as curl a toe I can vary by a lb either way! Anyone got a recommendation of something clear, cheap and reliable?

The_Dragon

JellyBox wrote: »

I'm starting to eat properly again, still not sure what went wrong over the past couple of weeks. Today has been a mega-breakfast, not massively (read: at all) healthy, but very delicious. Pancakes with apples and custard, one of my 5 a day and tastygood! That's me done now til tea, which will be something from the freezer with salad as cooking sausage casserole for the rest of the week today and I NEVER want to eat what I've spent all day cooking, very frustrating.

I really want some scales so I can check my weight at home, the ones I'm using at work are inaccurate to say the least, if I so much as curl a toe I can vary by a lb either way! Anyone got a recommendation of something clear, cheap and reliable?

I got these from Tosco and they seem to work well!

officeguru

daisiegg wrote: »

Lol! It was the stupidest thing, I tripped over my pyjama trousers and twisted my foot! I did my whole wedding day on a broken foot and only went to A&E the following morning to find out it was broken!

Hi Daisiegg,

Sorry to hear about your foot... What a shame that happened... but you'll get years out of telling the story ... especially to your grandchildren !!!! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Have a lovely honeymoon..

officeguru

Hi All,

Yesterday wasn't a good day for some of us

I went into the village shop to post a parcel and was told by the shop keeper I was banned... It's a long story, basically he parks his huge van at the end of the lane so that anyone driving out of the lane can't see if anyone is coming.. I almost ran over someone (and I drive slowly) and if he hadn't jumped out of the way, I would have hit him.. he couldn't see me coming and I couldn't see him... Even the policeman driving up the lane reckoned it was really dangerous.. Anyway the upshot is I am banned out of the shop as, at the time, I had him charged with threatening behavour but I didn't realise he could stop me from using the Post Office (I checked, he can)..

It was the humiliation of it all.. He shouted it in a loud voice so that all the people in the shop could hear.. I was able to retaliate in that I was in good company as he had banned the local policemen as well ! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Last year, when this all kicked off, he tried to claim that I had called him a 'P*k* B...' but I was able to prove that I hadn't... in that, if I had used that language (which I don't).. I was privately educated and, if I was going to say that, I would have called him a 'P*k*stani B ...', so when the 2 policemen went to take his statement I was able to prove that there was no truth in it !!!! Hence the police getting banned as well ...

Anyway, later on, I got a phone call that my father-in-law was back in hospital ... he keeps having mini strokes... so life is not going well

Weight wise, I have been good... I've been power-washing all my driveway and garden steps and garden patio and garden path and path down to the chickens, so I am kn*ckered...

Eating wise, I haven't been munching anything... I almost bought something yesterday, but he had banned me out of the shop, so I didn't .:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

There's another little shop in the village, which is also run by another asian family but they are lovely people so there is no hardship... except the Post Office... but I might phone Environmental Health the next time I see a dog peeing on the rolls that are left outside the shop at the end of the lane :eek:

I am off to do a bit of digging..

Take care all

ellie99

Wow officeguru...an alternative view of village life, not all lovely and friendly like we might imagine! Mind you, I don't know why I'm surprised, I used to live in the country near a village, and the b..ching and backstabbing and falling out that went on in that village was amazing :rotfl:I like a nice peaceful life.

Sorry to hear about your father-in-law. Well done for not turning to eating from the stress of everything .

northwest1965

Wow officeguru, yep thats village life as I remember it:)
Dont forget, you can always print off postage from your pc if you are desperate. I know you still need to get rid of the parcel somewhere:(.

officeguru

ellie99 wrote: »

Wow officeguru...an alternative view of village life, not all lovely and friendly like we might imagine! Mind you, I don't know why I'm surprised, I used to live in the country near a village, and the b..ching and backstabbing and falling out that went on in that village was amazing :rotfl:I like a nice peaceful life.

Sorry to hear about your father-in-law. Well done for not turning to eating from the stress of everything .

Thanks for that, ellie,

Actually, I have a lot of friends in the village (although I am an incomer myself), who would do anything for me, so when I need something out of the Post Office, they get it for me.. and they get 1/2 doz free range eggs for the privilege :T
It's just that I got a letter from the post office, which informed me that I was getting to use it as long as there was mutual respect on each side.. Well, this was the first of me using it in a year (I do everything online and the post box is only 200 yards from my home) ... but I think he was just waiting on me going in so that he could ban me.. and he wonders why he isn't liked !!! He blames it on race prejudice, whereas I blame it on the fact that he is not a very nice person !!!

Anyway, I've now varnished 2 sides of a 12 foot x 10 foot summer house... I can't do the rest as I can't shift this big stone doodah thingy to get passed.. so I am now inside getting a heat... The sun is shining but the sides I painted were in the shade so I'm frozen.. I was going to dig some more of the garden, but I wanted to get the wood treated so that I can lay some drainage pipe for a soak-a-way..

I saw a little wren while I was painting and I was listening to the birdsong.. It's amazing how you don't hear it when you are upset... like yesterday !!!

I'm off to do the Cash Book for the local Railway Charity... It will take ages as the volunteers give me the receipts that should have gone in last quarter and I have to decipher the scribbles on the back of envelopes etc.. but the vat returns have to be in before the end of the month so I had better get cracking... The chances of it balancing first off is remote... but I can always hope !!!

Anything to keep me off the food.... :A

Bye for now....