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

officeguru

MaddyWaddy wrote: »

Really sorry I haven't been keeping up with the challenge ... Rather than keep messing you about I will pull out of it.

Due to a few hormonal issues I am finding weight loss extremely difficult

Hope everyone is doing well on your challenge x

Hi MaddyWaddy

Don't pull out... Life isn't easy you know and losing weight is one of the hardest things to do... Apart from hormonal reasons we are surrounded by many temptations and we would have to be saints to be able to resist everything... I remember when I was a young mother, I would eat any food that the kids left as I hated waste and that was the start of the lbs piling on... It is now 40 years later, and only now do I feel that I am winning... :A


So just you put yourself on hold for the moment and get yourself sorted out and keep putting in your tuppence worth into the forum and don't you worry whether you put weight on or not .... just take it easy and when you are ready and got your life in order, the weight will start coming off... :beer:

You know, no one has any photos of me as I have avoided a camera like the plague for years... Everyone else in the photos are tall and slim and I am the wee fat one... If by chance, I cannot get out of it, I usually hide behind someone else.. and joke about making me a size 14.... so you can imagine how I feel in a swim suit... :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

So keep with us....

Knit_Witch

MaddyWaddy - if you want I can take you off this challenge and you can rejoin the next one (same as Daisiegg)

CCP

Sorry for the lack of posts recently - I'm definitely slipping into pre-holiday CBA mode (three days to go! :j). I'm managing to be relatively restrained, I'm just not posting!

I think I'll give into the inevitable and hit the 'pause' button until I get back from holiday, hopefully without too many pounds added as I intend to make the most of having a fully functioning foot, for the first time in best part of two years, and do lots of walking while I'm away.

Best of luck to everyone being more sensible and ploughing on.

sparrer

OG I'd be hopping mad too! How dare your OH eat and drink all that and still lose weight?! There's just no justice, is there?

MaddyWaddy KW's idea is a good one, sometimes taking time off for a short while seems to kick the weight loss again when you get back to your eating plan (never use the word 'diet', it makes me shudder!). As OG says don't worry about your weight, it's more likely to happen when you feel ready

CCP you're leaving as I arrive, or nearby anyway. I'll be in Hayling for the weekend. Hope you have a super holiday

B - Toasted bun with rf yogurt & marmalade
L - salad and small jacket
D - stir-fry 1/2 leg of duck, red onion, runner beans, noodles
S - appple, grapes, 1/2 nana, carrot & celery batons
E - moved 3 pots in the garden to their new sites - not very energetic you think but they're huge, heavy and have trees in them! Took best part of the afternoon with several breaks to catch my breath. Vac'ed through downstairs, did 2 x 10mins. Now very, very tired and sitting with a cuppa before I nod off!

Enjoy the evening, it's still lovely and warm and sunny and seems it's going to last all week. Perfik

Tiffany_Aching

ellie99 wrote: »

When I started walking a few years ago at my highest weight, I used to wait until it was dark to go out, so people wouldn't see me struggling :rotfl:,at first I only did 15/20 minutes at a time. I didn't even increase my steps every day, maybe every week or two...as each walk got easier to manage, I'd make it a bit longer. I got to the stage where I was doing around 3 miles in my job every morning, and then another 3/4 miles in a walk in the evening. Now that my back has been injured again, I'm back to square one, but I really miss walking, so am trying again.

I'm sure if you keep going out nearly every day, you'll soon build up your fitness, and that first mile won't be hard at all...and it's a good mood lifter as well, even in bad weather...there were days in the winter where the best thing about my walk was getting home and getting the wet clothes off, it really made me appreciate my warm home

Have you got a pedometer? Seeing the steps mount up is encouraging...you could note them in a diary, and then you could see your progress.

TY for this post, it has been on my mind since I read it and yesterday it motivated me to get out and carry on when I really could not be bothered and didn't want to walk at all! In the end I managed 2 miles! And today - oh I am so pleased with myself - 2.3miles.

Ok, so I was a total state when I got home and bright red, but I did it!! My toes hurt like hell, I don't think that my trainers fit as well as I thought! Although I can't really afford to, I'm going to buy a new pair of trainers tomorrow as my toes are so sore I don't think I'm going to keep this up otherwise.

Can anyone recommend a decent pedometer? They look quite expensive and I dont want to waste money on one that isn't up to the job

B - toast and mushrooms
L- mackerel, 2 ryvita and salad
D - 2 quorn sausies, small potato, mange tout and watercress
s - banana, raspberries and couple brazil nuts

Has anyone here drastically reduced the amount of carbs that they eat? I'm in my second week of cutting back and (sorry if TMI) am now chugging back the syrup of figs like water:eek::eek: Has anyone else found that things have gone all sluggish when cutting back on carbs?

Need2bthrifty

Hello
What a gorgeous day it’s been – very unusual for NE Scotland at this time of year (September aaargh :eek:) although a bit windy a very warm breeze and really hot in the sun – lovely

Well for me another day, another set of windows cleaned, blinds & curtains washed, ironed and re-hung. But couldn’t stay in with this great weather so did a bit of gardening (pruning the roses and other shrubs/bushes) in time for the garden waste collection this week.

Meal-wise today =
B – Greek yoghurt, raspberries, drizzle of honey
L – Egg Sandwich, Pear & Kiwi
D – Lentil, Mushroom & green peppercorn salad, roasted peppers & sweet potato wedges – wow those peppercorns pack a punch, never used them before…..but I like!! :T

Maddywaddy – as others have said you may just need to give yourself a few weeks off – I’ve done that in the past especially after a few weeks of sts or a gain – sometimes it’s the jolt your body needs or even just taking your mind off the healthy option helps.

Need2bthrifty

Tiffany_Aching wrote: »

Has anyone here drastically reduced the amount of carbs that they eat? I'm in my second week of cutting back and (sorry if TMI) am now chugging back the syrup of figs like water:eek::eek: Has anyone else found that things have gone all sluggish when cutting back on carbs?

I go through periods when I really cut out the carbs but never really found that em....area... a problem, I often have a glass of hot water with lemon slices first thing before I have anything else and find that to be......quite cleansing IYSWIM :rotfl:

SIRENS

Evening All

Well back to work for me boo hiss and what a doozy of a day, we were so short staffed I had to stay an hour overtime (which they don't pay) so welcome back me:mad:

Any way trying to get back on track although taking the kids to Legoland on thursday as a surprise but will take a packed lunch so hopefully shouldn't fall too far from the wagon!

B. 2 slce wml toast 2 l/f cheese triangles
L. Couscous salad and ham, apple pear
D. Not sure yet just got in, dd has made me a strawberry sundae though which she is very proud off so that will be pud!
S. apple and 1/3 tube of refreshers I found in the bottom of my bag on the train, not sure how long they'd been there and frankly didn't care:rotfl:

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Hi Chums
Sainsbobs 'Balance' is really nice and at 2 big boxes for £3.00 well worth the cash.Tastes nicer and is cheaper than 'special K'

so
B: Balance and chopped banana

L: veggie soup

D:very large salad with cold tomato pasta and sweet potato, no pud I was too full
only three cups of tea today but pints of water
S:a medium sized orange mid-evening

Still feeling positive and suprisingly not that hungry.I normally never used to have three meals a day and often would skip either breakfast or lunch,but DD said I have to eat three meals regularly to kick start the metabolism so I have
Onwards and upwards chums
JackieO xxx

MrsCD

sparrer wrote: »

Not quite sure I understand this? I'd have thought that any exercise/moving is better for me that sitting on my butt doing nothing, if not for weight loss then for suppleness, and to be fair I'm no more likely to have a cake afterwards than if I'd been to the gym for an hour- where incidentally I have seen women disappear to the cafe for a scone and coffee after their session!

You're probably right sparrer! I was just having a moan

ajt85 wrote: »

ajt85 - I have shopping envy - what sort of fabric did you buy and what do you make? I'm more of a yarn addict myself

Cotton mainly to make a quillow, and some poly cotton to make iPad cushion also got some PVC table covering but got my measurements wrong for my table 4inchs too short boo :-(. I have actually just ordered a beginners crochet kit from this lovely lady that just started this cute kids one that has little teddy and instructions and yarn to make little hat,scarf and blanket for it that I've got for my niece. http://www.facebook.com/uniquepatchwork here are the pics of fabric and kit, if link works? Do you do yours as a hobby or to sell?

Would love to decorate but we rent and they are a little funny about it, looking at wallpapering my side unit that got free recently to give some life :-)[/QUOTE]


Love the kit ajt85. I just make things for myself and for gifts. I also make hats and scarves for the Operation Christmas Child shoebox appeal. http://www.operationchristmaschild.org.uk/