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

sparrer

Morning all
TG pleased you got the tickets sorted and had such good seats. Bonus!
Lol ellie, just keep doing what you're doing and you'll see some excellent results in a few weeks
Hope you're feeling better now daisiegg, mackerel is yummy but it doesn't like me much so I know the feeling
CCP good loss, hope it stays off tor tomorrow's wi

re clothes sizes, I tried on 5 dresses in the same shop on Tuesday and only two fitted, had to go up or down a size for the others. Didn't buy the 'up' sized ones, not having that label hanging out the back of my dress

B - F&F, ss milk
L - panini with salad
D - hg baby new pots, asparagus spears, chestnut mushrooms, roast chicken thigh. Mixing a teasp ff yogurt and a teasp of rf mayo for the dressing, no butter on the pots or spears
S - fresh fruit
E - not a lot! Dusting tops and curtain poles as I have a man coming tomorrow to put new poles up and I can't let him see how dusty the existing ones are

Have a sunny day

savesummore

Hi Guys

Nothing much happening here again today

Last couple of nights i have done loads of washing ironing and sorting out so thats some exercise

Today:

B: Museli, s/s milk, 1 wholemeal toast with butter
S: Banana
L: HM Tuna sandwich with salad, 2 x satsumas, greek yog
S: apple peach
T: out for tea will try and be good

daisiegg

Wednesday's food -
B - cereal
S - apple
L - 2 graze box snacks totalling 200 cals, tea
D - ratatouille pasta bake, garlic bread, one and a half glasses red wine, a couple of squares dark chocolate

Not such a good day and nor is today...I am just useless.

Off to the theatre tonight and we don't think we will have time to have a sit down meal anywhere before the play so we are planning to grab something. Will do my best to make sure it is not a macdonalds! :eek:

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daisie - what play are you seeing?

went out to see World War Z with DM today, expected it to be more of a disaster movie than it was (I do love that genre!). Needless to say we are both complete wimps, viewing 80% normally and 20% between fingers :rotfl:
Had to do a ton of online banking before we went out though - bank account is looking healthy again after recent splurges, lol.

b - cereal bar, banana
l - mexican sub roll, crisps, large bag choc buttons in cinema
s - crisps and half a sausage roll
d - hm quorn chicken risotto portion, 5 choc bics

SIRENS

Day off for me today, so caught up on the mopping and cleaning, then spent an hour plugging all the little holes in the kitchen with bubble wrap and cardboard after our 2 kittens went missing for 5 hours. We thought they had developed mystical powers after the vanished within seconds, turned out they had squeezed through a tiny whole between the cupboards:eek: not used to this kitten business as poor old chubby basset wouldn't have stood a chance of getting one of her ears through there let alone any other part:rotfl: so hoping we are now kitten proof, only had them a week! Still hopefully problem solved and kittens now just have to avoid eager stroking by the kids!

B. 2 slice seedy bread and nutella!
L. Ham and cottage cheese salad, l/f crisp
D. Hm veg pizza and salad, 2 lindor choc balls
S. 2 hot cross buns.

Not so good today and off for my vascular check up tomorrowso hoping i've not gained any weight else nurse will tell me off!:eek:

CCP

SIRENS - glad your amazing vanishing kittens are OK!

Change of plan for dinner this evening as my appetite is still awol - I'll have a wholemeal pitta bread stuffed with a small amount of peanut butter and a mini banana. I do hope my appetite comes back soon.

Have a great time tonight, daisiegg.

ellie99

Sirens, glad you found out where the kittens were going, it's amazing the small spaces cats can get through...we used to have a big boy cat (not fat, just big) and I was surprised the small places he could get, though he only did it when no-one was looking...so it was just "how did he get THERE?"
I think the theory is a cat knows if it's whiskers don't touch the edges, it can get through...though I'm sure they sometimes just bend the whiskers and push through anyway!

CCP, where has your appetite gone? You can borrow mine for a while, I could quite happily eat double what I'm having

Today
B: cornflakes, sultanas, ss milk
L: cheese and pickle toasty
cheese omelette and micro chips, choc mousse

E: none really, just pottering around the house

Not so good today, too cheesy! I'm very impressed with those of you who have the days menu planned in the morning...on days when I'm eating alone, like today, I often have no idea what I'll have until I'm standing in the kitchen at dinner time...and then I want something quick and easy...and cheesy!

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Popping in to add to my mealplan:

s - handful of salted peanuts

ellie99 wrote: »

I'm very impressed with those of you who have the days menu planned in the morning...

I dont know if thats directed at me in any way? :rotfl:

I always know what I'm having for breakfast when I post because I usually eat sitting on the sofa with the laptop on my lap! Dinner is usually preplanned because of my portioning. I always seem to find lunch a struggle though...I've started down a path where if I have toast in the morning I refuse a sandwich at lunch. And if I've had cereal/cereal bar in the morning, then I can have a sandwich for lunch.
If I do the latter, normally its ok. If I do the former...I panic blindly and raid all cupboards trying to come up with an appropriate combination! :A

I also have a weird observation to make. More recently I've discovered the juice drink O@sis. I know its been around for yonks, but I started drinking a mini bottle of it here and there...and now I seem to have become obsessed with it. For someone who openly admits to having to have a cup of diet coke very first thing (it's like tea to me) to wake up, this is odd.

Not that I go overboard with diet coke, but I would say for me, intertwined with water, tea and other juice drinks, I probably inhale 2 glasses/1 glass + 1 500ml bottle per day. I have been drinking more water over the last few months though so it all balances out.

Back to the observation I made. I first noticed it on Tuesday night when I was running up a flight of stairs at the train station, in order to make the train sitting on the platform, it was that I felt strangely "light" on my feet. Not like weightless, but like I could move easier.
Of course I ignored it, thinking I must be having some sort of headrush....but then last night I had to do the same thing at a different station, up a flight of stairs to make a bus, and I had the same sensation.
I can only assume it must be down to not drinking as much fizzy stuff and going onto more juice drinks as described ^^. Anyone else have any thoughts on this?

In any case....hopefully tomorrow morning the scales will tell me if I'm going bonkers or not! :rotfl:

daisiegg

Thanks, CCP, we did have a nice time

theatregirl - we went to see The Mousetrap. Tickets weren't that expensive and we figured if it's been running for so long it can't be terrible. It was enjoyable - I am a bit of a theatre snob (having an English and Drama degree!) and I didn't rate it enormously highly but for a weekday evening out it was fun enough. There were lots of tourist and people with kids who were quite annoying but we bit our tongues!

Unfortunately I have to report the first STS I am upset because I have been doing sneaky weighs all week and most of the week I was down 2lbs. I think it proves that I just can't do it without counting calories. I have a subscription to Nutracheck so I am just going to have to do it properly.

Anyway, yesterday's food:

B - cereal and tea
S - apple
L - leftover ratatouille pasta, a few too many squares dark chocolate :eek:
D - popped into a really nice Mexican opposite the theatre and I had pork tacos (soft tortillas, not deep fried!) - they were tiny, no cheese or sour cream or anything and though they came with rice I didn't eat it.
Over the evening - 3 glasses of prosecco :o:eek::eek: an iced bun (200 cals) on the train home as was really hungry after such a small dinner.

I forgot about that chocolate at lunchtime. OOPS. It is gone now, though.

I NEED some motivation!!! I will count calories next week and see if it makes a difference. This is just not good. My work trousers are a bit tight and I don't feel nice in anything so why doesn't that motivate me enough?!

Anyway - best of luck everyone else for the weigh in, hope you do better than me! :rotfl:

daisiegg

theatregirl, I can't really comment on your weightless feeling! I don't drink many fizzy drinks at all and tend to just drink water or tea (and wine!). I hope the scales show today that you feel weightless because you've lost loads of weight!