Lose Weight 11

rach!_3

Mics_chick wrote: »

I've got the CD and planning on putting it into action fully from Wednesday onwards I'll keep you posted...

great, thanks

Lois_Lane

Mics_chick wrote: »

Thanks :T for correcting me Lois - I'm obviously waaaaaaaaaaaaaay out of touch on SW

No problem. There are lots of differences between SW as it was 6 years ago when I first started it, and now. In those days all kinds of foods were free, which aren't now, such as corned beef and canned macaroni cheese. Quorn sausages are one of the few foods that used to be synned but are now free!

LL

p.s. I love your sig (Just because you're big it doesn't mean you're not sex on legs) it's a good motto for anyone with a weight problem, as we're all brainwashed to think that only thin people are sexy/attractive.

play2day

Wow, a weekend of no browsing and there is page after page of posts to catch up on! I will just add a little more for those yet to log on to plough through. Lol.

I have managed the bank holiday weekend with chocolates; parties, barbeques and cooking a Sunday roast dinner with pudding for the extended family without breaking my diet. Thanks to you all for helping with my willpower.:j :j

To all the newbies, particularly those who have hung around from the OS thread welcome. I am sure you will find masses of warm friendly support here plus the occasional kick up the bum when needed. :rotfl: For those wary of joining an ‘established thread’ I have only been here for a couple of weeks and have been made to feel right at home. :A The members who have been around a while have given me masses of encouragement and advise so don’t be shy, join in! :A

Victory – Thanks so much for sharing your dietician info. I reduced my calorie intake as per your post and am pleased to report I have lost a pound after 3 weeks of maintaining.
I know you are doing marvellously with you diet but how are you coping with the new haircut? It can be harder to maintain a new hairstyle than your ideal weight especially when you have gone from wash and wear long hair to a styled do!
Do you ever feel your family is trying to ‘sabotage’ your diet? You have done so well but they out so much temptation in your path. My husband decided we should take the kids to McDonalds today. :eek: I had a fruit bag and water. I sometimes wonder if he does it on purpose or if he is just plain thoughtless…. Paranoid? Who? Me? Never! :rolleyes:

Honey, I know you are ‘stuck’ on the scales as I have been. It may be worth cutting the calories again? It has kick started me.

1sttimer - Sorry to take so long to get back to you.
Rice can contain bacteria known as Bacillus Cereus. It has two types of toxins incubates in 1 –5 hours as a food toxin and 8 –16 hours as a digestive system toxin. The bacteria is dormant in the dry rice but starts to multiply by binary fission (dividing in two) rapidly when water is added. Unlike most bacteria this one is not killed by cooking to high temperatures, instead it stops dividing only to begin again once temperatures drop. I seem to remember the same is true of freezing it but could be wrong…. Rice salads are great if you boil the rice, cool it rapidly and chill it then serve quickly. If you leave the rice to cool slowly and then leave the rice standing about for a few hours before heading to a sunny buffet table to be nibbled at throughout a party it is a recipe for disaster!

Froggy_girl128 Thanks for the links to the information about fruit digestion. I must say I have never read this before. It was very interesting. I wonder if the big name weight loss clubs and diets forbid fruit with other foods or limit them? There is so much conflicting advice about what we should and should not eat that I am sceptical before accepting new ‘diet’ advice until it has been tried and tested especially when it seems to go against medical advice. Perhaps other LW members can let me know how their diets compare?

Puddings – I like your idea of the photo of lard to lose. I shall definitely give that a go but (here comes the daft question… be gentle with me) what do I do with all the lard afterwards? Answers on a postcard please….

Katmad99 – I love the risotto recipe. Thank you and keep them coming!

Rach!- I am sure you can achieve your goal. You have something to focus onto motivate you. The weight loss per week is achievable and sustainable too. Good luck. I haven’t tried the Paul McKenna cd but did by the subliminal music weight loss CD that was featured in the Times a month or so back. I’ve played everyday but in all honesty feel it has done no good what so ever. Victory pointed out something obvious in one of her posts which was to cut my calorie intake and this worked.
Sadly there is no magic fix and CD’s like the one I bought seem to be a way to part a fool from her money.:mad:

Well done with the weight loss retiredlady & petrichor plus any other loosers and maintainers I haven’t mentioned. Any body who has kept on track over Easter has done magnificently and any one who hasn’t day one starts again tomorrow. :T :T :T :T :T :T :T

Lois Lane – Six and a half stones in 18 months. I am so very impressed! You go girl! :T

Wow... I don't half go on Thanks for listening and sorry for waffling everybody. Be good :A

beanielou

Meant to also say welcome to rach!
A 1 lb a week seems just fine to me.
Go girl go!

Mics_chick

Lois_Lane wrote: »

No problem. There are lots of differences between SW as it was 6 years ago when I first started it, and now. In those days all kinds of foods were free, which aren't now, such as corned beef and canned macaroni cheese. Quorn sausages are one of the few foods that used to be synned but are now free!

LL

p.s. I love your sig (Just because you're big it doesn't mean you're not sex on legs) it's a good motto for anyone with a weight problem, as we're all brainwashed to think that only thin people are sexy/attractive.

Is there anyway I can get a list of free foods to see what else is included now

About the sig - I put this on coz my OH loves me whatever my size just sometimes it's very hard for me to agree with him so I thought if I saw it everyday then it would have a subliminal effect

spandex

puddings wrote: »

You need to go on Murphys no more pies thread - its not £30 in cash its Boots vouchers that are on offer.

Pleeeeze sum1 help!!!
Av been looking for thred re Murphys but cant find it???
Can any1 pls point me in right direction???
Am over 14stone want to loose 3. If theres a prize to be won then i need to b init!! This is only loose weight thread I can find - was it murphys which was merged???
cheerz all
Kaz

Mics_chick

spandex wrote: »

Pleeeeze sum1 help!!!
Av been looking for thred re Murphys but cant find it???
Can any1 pls point me in right direction???
Am over 14stone want to loose 3. If theres a prize to be won then i need to b init!! This is only loose weight thread I can find - was it murphys which was merged???
cheerz all
Kaz

I think this is it

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=354203

retiredlady

Lois_Lane wrote: »

Well done Marion - half way to your May challenge already!! :T

LL

Thank you:D

Frankly I will need a head start - I am off to Malta next week for 14 days! Has anyone been and do you think it will be hard to more or less stick to SW plan? Any advice greatly appreciated!

Marion

Ishtar

southernscouser wrote: »

I don't wanna rock the boat here coz I'm sure it works for many but talk of certain foods being sins etc just doesn't sound right to me!

I tried the SW diet many years ago, but couldn't seem to make it work - I lost 7lb and just stuck there. Personally, the idea of Syns worked for me as they stopped me eating so much rubbish, but what I found more difficult was the concept of 'green' or 'red' days...I'm not a huge meat-eater, so found myself on a green day most days so that I could get enough to eat! On the down side, this meant I was using my Syns on what little meat I was eating (so, not on the 'wrong' foods :rolleyes: )

southernscouser wrote: »

Does it work for people long term? It just sounds like 'a diet' which in my opinion is the wrong way of looking at it. People just need to retrain themselves. Diets are for a set time aren't they? So what do you do after the diet plan? Go back to how you were and start putting the pounds back on. Or should you change your diet so that you can still eat things you like but in moderation? :undecided:

I'm now doing WeightWatchers, which I'm comfortable with and which has worked very well in the past (I lost 2.5st a few years back and kept it off for 8 months, until I fell pregnant). I'm only back on it to lose 1st of baby weight, then I'll go back on the maintenance programme, which allows me a few more points per day.

I can see your point, that people focus on a 'diet' for a set period of time - I'm sure that's where many people can fall by the wayside. Changing your eating habits is the way forward, even though it can be hard to maintain the change!

D.

victory

play2day wrote: »

Victory – Thanks so much for sharing your dietician info. I reduced my calorie intake as per your post and am pleased to report I have lost a pound after 3 weeks of maintaining.
I know you are doing marvellously with you diet but how are you coping with the new haircut? It can be harder to maintain a new hairstyle than your ideal weight especially when you have gone from wash and wear long hair to a styled do!
Do you ever feel your family is trying to ‘sabotage’ your diet? You have done so well but they out so much temptation in your path. My husband decided we should take the kids to McDonalds today. :eek: I had a fruit bag and water. I sometimes wonder if he does it on purpose or if he is just plain thoughtless…. Paranoid? Who? Me? Never! :rolleyes:

Yes the hairstyle is proving a nightmare, many an hour so far has been put aside to get it looking at least half like it did when the hairdresser did it but no such luck, yet!!!

All my family are naturally thin, not one of them has to count calories or watch what they eat that is for sure, so wanting to go to BBQ, Macdonalds, having huge desserts,birthday parties, take-aways, going to family buffets they see all that as nothing, let's go attitude, where as I think oh God no please, not again, what can I eat, what will they serve up? How much will I put on if I have so and so?

My thinking differs so much from their sometimes we clash, them saying what is the big deal let's go like your H and me saying all reasons why they should go and not me:D


I did notice in southend yesterday how little healthy food there was to choose from, the front was full of pizza, chip shops, kebabs, chinese take-away, candy floss, ice-cream (I took my own dinner) but I did wonder if not what healthy option did I have the choice to choose?:D

I am really please for your 1 lb loss:j :j :j

I have come up with a plan (still in the making!) to go 2 lb below the stone number and play with those 2 lb's as in when all the weight has gone those 2 lb's are my 'cut back you have put the 2 lb on warning' so never let it go over, the 2 lb buffer zone:D