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

sparrer

officeguru wrote: »

Maybe it does All my brothers and sister are 6' tall and hardly an inch of fat... Brothers have plenty of muscle... I was the only wee fat one..:( Nothing looked good on me... my sister looked gorgeous in a sack !!!

I so know that feeling! I'm just under 5 feet tall, my son-in-law and two of my grandsons are over 6 feet and youngest granddaughter 5 feet 10 inches. When I'm with them I feel like a mushroom in a pine forest :rotfl:

CCP wrote: »

I don't like chocolate. :eek: My main temptations are savoury things - cheese in particular, which I usually have in the fridge and have to resist adding to... just about anything.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Someone on my side at last! :j CCP they think I'm strange cos I don't like chocolate - truth is it irritates my throat and makes me cough. Weird or what? But cheese, that's a completely different story. How to resist? I could live off the cheese shelves in Mr M

B - F&F, ss milk
L - finger roll with peanut butter, another one spread with rf mayo,with grated rf cheese and tomato
D - salad with hg new potatoes, new laid egg, ham from farm shop.
S - fresh fruit
E - 1x10mins done, just going out to empty another potato sack and see what treasures it's hiding. Need repot a rose, weed the pots, seed some bare patches...then siesta

Have a sunny day

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Heehee. I'm a self confessed chocoholic, but trying to be better, I promise! *hides the 3 chocolate biscuits she's munching her way through* :rotfl:

My old downfall used to be cheese!! I've weaned myself off it, I used to have it with EVERY.SINGLE.MEAL. Nowadays I just have it on toast for breakfast or perhaps in a sandwich, but the latter not as often as I used to. More than likely to grate it over pasta bake or a baked potato as well.
My big sin was eating it as a snack as well - often with a bag of crisps and nothing else. Of course not very filling and then I'd be back raiding the cupboard/fridge for something else. No wonder the weight piled on! :mad:

mealplan for now and then I'll get around to my "inspiring post" later lol

b - cheese on toast
s - grapes, 3 x choc bics
l - tuna salad (salad leaves need using up) with crisps
s - banana, 1 x choc bic
d - h/m quorn chicken risotto portion, slice of bread

no other snacks I hope.

e - walking to postbox and back later, then travel to/from work and running around whilst there

CCP

sparrer wrote: »

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Someone on my side at last! :j CCP they think I'm strange cos I don't like chocolate - truth is it irritates my throat and makes me cough. Weird or what? But cheese, that's a completely different story. How to resist? I could live off the cheese shelves in Mr M

I didn't know you were another chocolate avoider - welcome to the (very small) club!

I'm actually under-stating the case when I say I don't like chocolate - I loathe and detest the stuff. Even the smell makes me feel ill, and the taste... _pale_

theatregirl - cheese on toast. :drool: I'm glad I've already defrosted tonight's dinner as otherwise I'd be having cheese on toast instead!

Knit_Witch

CCP wrote: »

Lots of interesting posts and ideas on here at the moment! I'll get the big disclosure out of the way now, so you can all tell me to leave if you want to - I don't like chocolate. :eek: My main temptations are savoury things - cheese in particular, which I usually have in the fridge and have to resist adding to... just about anything.

sparrer wrote: »

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Someone on my side at last! :j CCP they think I'm strange cos I don't like chocolate - truth is it irritates my throat and makes me cough. Weird or what? But cheese, that's a completely different story. How to resist? I could live off the cheese shelves in Mr M

That makes three of us! I can leave or leave chocolate but show me a platter of cheese and watch me :drool:

savesummore

ellie99 wrote: »

S: tiny little dish of granola...note to self, next time use a tiny little spoon as well :rotfl:

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

officeguru wrote: »

Hi All

I've been really busy today but I thought I would add my tuppence worth :j:j:j

I know it's weeks before the challenge ends and it is easy not to bother too much at the beginning as there is plenty of time to catch up half way through..... Well, there isn't.... It doesn't work like that, we've got to be motivated from week one of the challenge so that we have a chance.... as it tends to tail off nearer the end...

If you can, try to clear all temptations out of the house... ... If it is not in the cupboard, you can't eat it when you are bored, upset, or just looking for a munchie...

If you don't eat sweet things for a while, you stop craving for sugar and you can easily manage without the chocs etc etc... but, remember, temptation is just around the corner....

I find it more motivating to hang an article of clothing that is a size smaller on the outside of the wardrobe door and try it on once a week....It feels great when you can finally get it on... and once it goes slack.... well, that's just a terrific feeling... :j:j:j I think it is better than just going by scales, as your weight can fluctuate so much in a day, let alone a week.... especially if you move it all over the bathroom floor :beer:

Having lost some weight since Christmas, I think the best thing is the fact that, although I am still fat, I feel neat and think I look tidier as I have come down several sizes...

The fact that I don't have to hang onto the bannister to drag myself up the stairs.... and, what puts a smile on my face, is the fact that I can get up out of a chair without using my hands... :beer: It's the small things that matter....

Last year, when I was gardening.... I had to use the garden fork to hoist myself up off my knees.... I don't have to do that any more.... :T:T:T

So all I am trying to say is..... Good luck everyone on this challenge and let's try and lose as much as we can/want....

and let the humour shine through... :beer:

Very very well put OG!!! :T

Julie67 wrote: »

I'm so cross with myself. I lost two stone last year for my sons wedding, down to12 stone with another two to go and managed to tear my cartilage running.
So unable to exercise and a whole stone back on. I'm so fed up, I just can't seem to get back on track. I've had the cartlidge done but still only three weeks in, not able to walk far yet.
But it's eating that's really getting me down, I just can't stop eating. My meals are good and healthy lots of fresh foods, salad and fruit, but I just ruin it all with my eating in between, crisps chocolate whatever I can find, normally in secret. I know what I should be doing, I know how to do it, I just can't control the compulsive eating.
If anyone has any ideas I would be eternally grateful.:(

I hope thing gets easier Julie

I have put back on 1/2 of the stone I lost last year but have thought to myself it could be worse I could have out it ALL back on or even more! So I have decided to go for damage limitation and try and sort myself out now

Could you try some 'armchair' upper body exercise just to get some exercise in?

Filled in MFP yesterday and today- seem to be way over with the cals so need to have another look at what im eating

Today:

B: museli with greek yog and a coupls strawberries
S: banana
L: HM tuna salad sandwich on seeded bread, packet french fries, 2 x satsumas
S: aplee. peach
T: Jacket potato, salad and prawns with a tiny bit of seafood sauce

gresleyrover

Knit_Witch wrote: »

That makes three of us! I can leave or leave chocolate but show me a platter of cheese and watch me :drool:

Actually Mrs K W that makes 4 of us. I don't hate chocolate but like you I can take or leave it. cheese on the other hand is a different matter. I love cheese and savoury things!

missrlr

Sorry RL has been beyond daft and busy.

Can't remember what last update was but then of this session was the same as the start. So not gained or lost, except as you all know it went up and down all overe the show in between.

Will try again this time to lose 6

S today i a munching beet root salad and lemon couscous. Have even more conferences and dodgy eating opportunities so Resorting to taking crisp breads with me !

daisiegg

I'm not that bothered about chocolate but that is because I am allergic to dairy so I can only have very dark chocolate. It is ok but not something I binge on. My weakness is just......food! Too much of it! Huge portions, carbs, baking, bread, pasta, biscuits, argh....not good.

Yesterday's food diary:

B - weetabix with soya milk, tea
S - mini pack of hula hoops
L - leftover pulled pork and Boston baked beans cooked up with peppers and onions, in 2 WW wraps
S - strawberries, half a glass of wine, a couple of squares of dark chocolate

Weird sort of day and not the best start to the new challenge! Must to better!

I must admit I am finding it so difficult and feeling incredibly unmotivated at the moment. I have good reasons to need to lose weight but it is just tough. It was so much easier when my wedding was looming. And now I have just ballooned since the wedding and feeling rubbish about it all. Why is it so easy to gain weight and so hard to lose it again?

financially_gaga

*VERY JEALOUS* of all those of you who don't like chocolate. Another thing to add to the 'if only' pile :rotfl:

I was only away for 3 days and there are millions of posts to catch up on! Well done to everyone on the last challenge and drum roll please...Mrs KW, please take a bow for keeping us all on the stright and narrow.

Why do i want to lose weight? Hmmm, well..

1. I married into a very traditional family where woman are seen nothing but trophies. I was not a trophy :rotfl: more like the size of a trophy at size 22 when i got married. I lost the weight slowly and have kep it off but i am just at that last 10 pounds stage.

2. Jiggly bits - i hate the jiggly bits! At my slimmest i still had them but they felt a bit tighter at least. Thats what i'm aiming for.

3. Health - like many other replies, lots of high risk of diabetes/CVD/COPD etc. Don't want to be another NHS statistic. Where i live, you are 11 times more likely to develop these conditons than the national average. Shocking perhaps but in my hands to fix.

With regards to tips for weight loss - you just need to find what works for you. I can't lose weight without exercise and i won't exercise if i am not in the right mental frame of mind. I know what influences all this and so my dialy goal is to address these internal issues and not get stuck into the 'blaming' everyone else game, which i still do on days when i am down. Once you recognise you are doing it and the destructive nature and effect on your loved ones, makes you think twice.

Now just need a strategy to stop eating chocloate and take aways!

Good luck for the challenge to the oldies and newbies, lets get healthy! :T

SuperXX

I eat a lot but never get heavy. All I do is just lifting 2 times a week. and drink soy milk instead of cow milk.