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

daisiegg

Today was a bit better

I did 3 and a half hours in the garden and it felt like serious exercise. I'm so achey now I can hardly move (first activity resembling exercise I have done in over 2 months due to the broken foot!) so hopefully it burnt some calories.

B - cereal with strawberries, tea
L - orzo salad, mango, tea
S - half a glass of prosecco (it needed drinking is my excuse, it was a nice bottle opened at the weekend and I couldn't see it go to waste!), 4 mini oat cakes with a smear of caramelised onion chutney
D - baked chicken breast with a vegetable and noodle stir fry. LOADS of veg in the stir fry and I am stuffed now.
E - 3 and a half hours strenuous gardening!

Hope everyone else is doing well

[Deleted User]

evening all

so I skipped breakfast and just had a cereal bar in its place.
lunch was a sandwich, piled with salad leaves, onion, tomato, plus 2 slices cheese and the last l/o slice of deli ham, crisps.
snack - just a chocolate bar
dinner was beef hash, sliced tomatos and 3 rashers bacon. The hash was made with l/o mini roasting joint DM cooked the other day, onions, and some mash on top.
snacked on more chocolate after while watching tv.

was going to go swimming tonight but too cold and mucky here to venture out. better scoot as I have to get Milky bunny in for his run, hes been cooped up all day.

ellie99

Please forgive me, for I have sinned...quite deliberately and with great enjoyment

A friend visited last night, and we had pizza and wine, and it was very nice! My excuse is we only do this 3 or 4 times a year.

On the plus side, I managed a 40 minute walk yesterday, first one in ages (doesn't sound much, but every step is painful, so I'm quite pleased I could do it). I'm planning to do the same again today with a friend if it's not too rainy, I'd really like to get a bit fitter again.

ETA: officeguru...I think you need to ban your OH from the kitchen, it sounds like he's a liability in there!

sparrer

Morning all

Theatregirl turkey rashers are delicious with scrambled egg and sautee'd onions
OG re seeing to the pets, I forgot that one. To list it, not do it
dasiegg pleased you had a better day yesterday, and that was some gardening session! Wish I could manage more than 30 mins at a time, I might make some progress out there.
ellie I agree that it's more difficult to shift the lb's as we get older, in my case partly because I'm not as energetic as I was when working and running the family, and partly because in retirement I've more time to lunch with friends

To finish yesterday's menu -
L - Hunters Chicken, jam roly poly. It was very nice but now I'm feeling roly poly so I need to pull my belt in, literally!
T - rf cheese & pickle in a roll
S - fruit
E - none except climbing in and out of cars to see if they suit (my beautiful, very geriatric Korean jobbo is finally ready to go to that great car park in the sky ).

Today -
B - F&F, ss milk
L - salad
D - salad
S - fruit
E - gardening/putting up more brackets for hanging baskets. Little bit of housework. 1x10 min session already done

Have a sunny day

[Deleted User]

Sparrer - agreed about the scrambled egg with the turkey rashers! Although I'm not really all that keen on egg in the mornings, and will only have it when I fancy it.

Exercise today was taking bunnies to the vets. They both needed a little checkup and their nails trimmed, and they both put up a fight on the table although they were more than happy to sit on the scales and be weighed!
Oreo showed us up a ton with his struggling tho, and the vet had to resort to wrapping him in a towel - he resembled a sausage roll, with his head poking out of one end :rotfl:

Anyhoo, keeping it simple today and using up some y/s stuff from the freezer.
b - special k cereal bar
l - mini rustlers chicken burger + salad, 1/2 pack of microwave rice.
s- apple & 4 squares dark chocolate
d- ready meal cod and chips
s - quality street toffee yoghurt, probably cups of tea later on x 2 or 3, becoming quite partial to them recently as late night relaxation!

officeguru

Hi All,

Theatregirl...

I should get my latest cat's claws clipped... If you saw my legs, you would think I had some dreaded lurgy :eek: It looks like some nasty rash.. but it's not, it's millions of little needle holes that he is making when he 'pads' on my legs... but he's a lovely cat... He came to me just over a week ago a nervous, trembling wreck and he now tucks himself into the crook of my arm... and at night he lies so that he can put his paws into my hands while I am sleeping... ahhhhhh...:)

Sparrer.... What's friends ???? What's going out to lunch ???? I'm going stir crazy here :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Ellie .... I don't know where he is not a liability..... :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Hi Daisyegg... Gardening is real exercise...:) If you saw the size of mine and I have to dig, hoe, weed, lift heavy pots.. cut the grass etc etc so I am always bending, lifting stretching, working out .. It's the same with housework... but there are a lot of people who don't rate it as it isn't a treadmill or organised exercise... My brother is one of them !!! I may not run marathons, but I could dig for a lot longer than an average person... just like a runner could run further than me !!!! So just you keep plodding on...:) be it hoovering the staircase or pottering about outside, you'll be fine... :beer: Let your new life settle in a bit and find a routine and stop putting so much pressure on yourself...

But you have to ask yourself ... Was it worth dirtying a glass for just half a glass of wine ????? If you are going to have it, at least fill up the glass :beer:

daisiegg

officeguru wrote: »

Hi Daisyegg... Gardening is real exercise...:) If you saw the size of mine and I have to dig, hoe, weed, lift heavy pots.. cut the grass etc etc so I am always bending, lifting stretching, working out .. It's the same with housework... but there are a lot of people who don't rate it as it isn't a treadmill or organised exercise... My brother is one of them !!! I may not run marathons, but I could dig for a lot longer than an average person... just like a runner could run further than me !!!! So just you keep plodding on...:) be it hoovering the staircase or pottering about outside, you'll be fine... :beer: Let your new life settle in a bit and find a routine and stop putting so much pressure on yourself...

But you have to ask yourself ... Was it worth dirtying a glass for just half a glass of wine ????? If you are going to have it, at least fill up the glass :beer:

Thank you yes it really did feel like real exercise - I am still aching two days later! I mowed the lawn which in itself takes well over an hour as we have quite a big garden, dug over some of the flower beds and put in loads of bedding plants, did lots of weeding, and ripped out an entire gigantic passionflower plant (don't ask - it needed doing!) which was very strenuous!

As for the prosecco....trust me if there had been enough for a full glass in the bottle, a full glass I would have had! :rotfl:

Yesterday's food:
B - bran flakes and strawberries, tea
S - banana smoothie (80 cals)
L - roasted vegetable couscous with leftover cold sausage, yum
S - graze box mixed berries
S - tea and ONE biscuit! Get me! I managed to have ONE biscuit!
D - small jacket potato with baked beans with added onions, glass of red wine
No exercise...

[Deleted User]

been very quiet on here!

Well I am trying to be good in some areas. Yesterday afternoon before dinner I batch cooked risotto with mushrooms, onion and sweetcorn. got 4 portions out of a cup of rice and a small bag of quorn chicken.

However last night I sinned about midnight - had some cheese, crisps, and a whole pack of crunchie biscuits (about 8 or so to a pack of those). I was vaguely aware after I did it that this is how I used to be, back when I USED to comfort eat.
Slippery slope, I think I can ascertain why this is, I have a feeling I've just been very lonely the last few weeks on a number of levels

anyway, today had to go back to work, so eating was all over the place today:
breakfast was 2 slices toast with cheese, special k cereal bar, tea at 10.45am
lunch was skipped and I had a sandwich, crisps and a wispa bar when I got home from work about 6.30pm.
dinner was eaten at about 10.45pm and that was a portion of h/m stirfry, slice of bread, and then a few assorted sweeties (3-4 of them) and a fruit pot.

hopefully the scales will love me in the morning

ps: I do have a bit of a personal dilemma I need to get some advice on, if anyone is willing to pm me please?

daisiegg

Oh dear theatregirl, I know the feeling of wanting to comfort eat it is so easy to say s*d it and just have what you want even though you know you will feel bad about it later well, chalk it up to experience, move on and try to be extra good the next few days

Speaking of which...yesterday was a less good day for me...

B - cereal with sugar :eek: (this was a s*d it moment - I was so hungry for some reason and also exhausted as we haven't been sleeping all week so I just had what I wanted ), tea
L - roasted veg and houmous sandwich
S - tea and 2 :eek: biscuits (but there were 5 left in the tin so in a way that was a success! :rotfl:)
D - hm shepherd's pie with sweet potato topping, leeks, peas, carrots. Glass of red wine :eek: pudology strawberry pudding :eek:

Really annoyed with myself about the pudding. I didn't even particularly want it and certainly wasn't hungry. I only ate it because my husband was having a dessert and he noticed it in the fridge and that it was a few days out of date, so he brought it to me and I just sat and mindlessly ate it. I was full from dinner and would have been perfectly happy not having anything else. boo! Stupid daisie!

daisiegg

However, I have lost 2lbs this week thank goodness....

NOT for the challenge though Dragon - for the purposes of the challenge I am still +6 :eek: but that is better than +8!!! :rotfl:

Need to get myself in gear and lose the gained weight as quickly as possible....then start losing 'proper' weight...

Good luck all for the weigh in!