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

fozziebeartoo

I think officeguru is right about me forgetting calories.....

4 days at 1200 calories a day and I am up .2 of a lb

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Btw my new scales do much smaller increments than my old ones did, I am not REALLY as obsessive as worrying over a 1/5 of a pound, honest!!

:D:D

Yesterday was:-

B - granola and greek yog

L - 2 small slices seedy bread and ham (no butter and it was okay without) cos I also had a bag of Wotsits

S - Mango smoothie lolly

T - WW chicken casserole

S - 20g granola

500ml milk

Hope everyone is having a good day!

Hubby is in the kitchen, cooking me a roast for tea (he has to work all over the weekend) so he is treating me today instead!

FlubM

I hope you don't mind me joining you all. I am completely new to both old-style and money saving and have a LOT of weight to lose. I have been messing about with WW for two years and weigh exactly the same as when I started!

I have just been made redundant so am faced with a lot less money (bad) but a lot more time (good, especially for my health).

So yesterday, I cancelled the WW subscription (I only ever did on-line so won't be missing out on any group support) and signed up to Myfitnesspal. I definitely need something (at least for now) to help me see whether I am eating too much as I seem to have lost all sense of proportion about it. Myfitnesspal is easier to use and it's free FREE:T so it's money saving as well .

Strangely, without the stress of work, I seem to have lost my compulsion to fill my face with junk.:T

I am also working my way through washing a ridiculous amount of baby and toddler clothes which we kept in the (seemingly forlorn) hope that we would one day have nieces or nephews (we now have two due before Christmas). It's a surprise to me that something so simple should be so good for health and fitness: apart from the running in and out of the house betrween the washer and the washing line, and up and down stairs to the airing cupbaord, I must have been doing about 100 squats a day just bending down to pick things out of the basket for hanging on the line.

On top of that, I now have time to actually use the gym membership which runs for the next year: I've been three times in the last four days which is fantastic (and money saving becasue it is already paid for and I shower there so saving hot water and shower gel, and I make sure to have the coffee and piece of fruit included in the membership).

So all in all I am extremely hopeful that the change in lifestyle will also mean a healthier and slimmer me and look foward to giving and receiving lots of support on here.

FlubM

Hi Need2bethrifty, I noticed your comment about liking somehting sweet with your coffee. This has been my downfall too and usually means several biscuits or a huge piece of cake with every tea or coffee. I realised it was the sweetness I wanted so recently started adding half a sugar to my hot drinks which doesn't sound very good for weight loss but actually works out a lot fewer calories and a lot less fat than the biscuits or cake.

officeguru

Welcome, FlubM, You'll certainly get lots of support....

I couldn't do it without this lot !!! :beer:

Knit_Witch

FlubM wrote: »

I hope you don't mind me joining you all. I am completely new to both old-style and money saving and have a LOT of weight to lose. I have been messing about with WW for two years and weigh exactly the same as when I started!

I have just been made redundant so am faced with a lot less money (bad) but a lot more time (good, especially for my health).

So yesterday, I cancelled the WW subscription (I only ever did on-line so won't be missing out on any group support) and signed up to Myfitnesspal. I definitely need something (at least for now) to help me see whether I am eating too much as I seem to have lost all sense of proportion about it. Myfitnesspal is easier to use and it's free FREE:T so it's money saving as well .

Strangely, without the stress of work, I seem to have lost my compulsion to fill my face with junk.:T

I am also working my way through washing a ridiculous amount of baby and toddler clothes which we kept in the (seemingly forlorn) hope that we would one day have nieces or nephews (we now have two due before Christmas). It's a surprise to me that something so simple should be so good for health and fitness: apart from the running in and out of the house betrween the washer and the washing line, and up and down stairs to the airing cupbaord, I must have been doing about 100 squats a day just bending down to pick things out of the basket for hanging on the line.

On top of that, I now have time to actually use the gym membership which runs for the next year: I've been three times in the last four days which is fantastic (and money saving becasue it is already paid for and I shower there so saving hot water and shower gel, and I make sure to have the coffee and piece of fruit included in the membership).

So all in all I am extremely hopeful that the change in lifestyle will also mean a healthier and slimmer me and look foward to giving and receiving lots of support on here.

Welcome to the group FlubM , do you want to join in with the weight loss challenge or just chat?

fozziebeartoo

Welcome FlubM :T

Look forward to hearing all about your new weight loss/fitness journey!

fozziebeartoo

I love stroganoff and I think you should def have sour cream if you want!

I have been making a Slimming World (ish) stroganoff and using Philly Light once its off the boil and that is gorgeous too, if you fancy a slighly different variation at some time.

Need2bthrifty wrote: »

Afternoon All,

Bit of a “yucky” day here weather-wise, misty low cloud but still comfortably warm so regardless I’m getting out there for an hour or so to walk a few miles.

Motivation is high at the moment, as ever when I start something – did a bit of a “fly-lady” around the house this morning to take my mind off food.

Got my head around meal planning again but yesterday was a bit of use up rather than throw out day – but today its:-

B – Greek Yoghurt, honey & raspberries
L – Slices of Toast x 2, pate, cucumber & tomato
D – Beef Stroganoff, very small portion of brown rice & a huge green salad.

Yes there will be soured cream in the Stroganoff but the thing I really must get out of the habit of is a couple of digestive biscuits spread with h/m raspberry jam with my cuppa before bedtime……..aah simple pleasures .




Ellie you will get there - it took me 18months approx to get back to a weight I was happy with - but could ideally still lose more. I was beginning to resemble the michelin man when I started but determined not to go back there.



I love it too - found a recipe on BBCGoodFood website that only has 225cals per portion - using a griddle pan to cook the aubergines so you only brush oil on the slices rather than surrounding them in oil whilst cooking them in a flat pan - delish

ellie99

Welcome FlubM :hello:

All in all I think I've had a good week, if I don't lose tomorrow I'll be extremely peeved :rotfl:

Today I had granola
2 slices wholemeal with a banana
fish fillet, peas and light choice oven chips
yakult, linseeds

Also had 2 chocolates from my sons box - the ones he doesn't like! But when I realised they were more than 50 calories each I thought they weren't worth it...of course I didn't read the box until AFTER I'd eaten them At least it stopped me finishing the box!

Did a 50 minute walk with a friend...I'm feeling very stiff and sore, so it wasn't too fast, but I still want to try and keep moving, it's just getting the balance right. It's getting quite autumnal here, there were plenty leaves falling off the trees

Also discovered yet another reason why I should lose weight...
I have a small back garden but quite private, and my neighbours would have to be really craning their necks out their upstairs windows to see my washing line...so I hang everything out. So today I hang out all my giant Bridget Jones pants...and completely unexpectedly 2 young men arrived to take the top off a tree in my garden...right beside my washing line...oh the embarrassment, they might not have cared, but I did :rotfl:

recovering_spendaholic

Welcome FlubM

Went to Tescos this afternoon. Bought a large bag of maple bacon popcorn. Big mistake. Huge.

sparrer

Evening all <knees bend>
Welcome FlubM
OG yes I did reach target, then set myself another one but it's been difficult because I keep hitting plateau's. I think after this run I'll just have to maintain for a while

B - fruit salad, ff yogurt
L - 3 tiny scallops on 3 tiny medallions of black pudding with a teaspoon of pea puree and a teaspoon of crushed spinach in walnut oil. Designer food, tasted of nothing but salt, bleughhhh!
D - chicken salad. Much nicer
S - melon, nectarine, celery
E - none as was up all night due to a mahoosive 8-legged thing which ran under my bed so went downstairs on the recliner. Had to get up at 6.30am to visit DM, (I call it my tour of Britain's motorways although I only really have to use three of them, but one of which is known as the world's biggest car park and today it lived up to its name) to do her shopping and take her out to the above lunch, then drove back home to a late but long siesta. Now wide awake :mad:

Sweet dreams