The OS Doorstep - a helpful and supportive thread in these tough times

mcculloch29

SQ, I went on a diet some years ago when I cut out salt, sugar, wheat and dairy for a while.

The only way to do it was not to buy products with sugar, etc in, but that is difficult with a family. The weight fell off me, I lost a stone in a month. A little went back on but I stayed 10lb under the start weight.

When I am faced with temptation in shops, I visualise myself eating that product and how it tastes. Does it really taste good enough for me to put on weight again? Usually the answer is no.

Good quality dark chocolate is very hard to say no to, so I normally pretend I haven't seen it.

monnagran

SQ: The book I read ages ago and lost a lot of weight with was 'Only Fat People Skip Breakfast' by Lee Janogly. I stopped eating anything with sugar in and lost a lot of weight - Put it all back on again, sob, sob.
She also advocated largely cutting out carbs, but no diet is ever going to last with me if I can't have my bread, so I made an executive decision on that one. She advised having fructose instead of sugar but the book I am reading now says that fructose is even worse than sugar and is what food processors are adding. The book I've just started reading on my Kindle is 'The Sweet Poison Quit Plan' by David Gillespie.
I think you have to have all the facts and then work out what you can live with. I'm spending the weekend eating up all my sugary treats, so I'll probably be dead by Monday!

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paidinchickens

nuttyp wrote: »

I will be helping her, as she will be sat in a chair telling me weed or plant (I am that good).

take care all, washing needs pegging out. x

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SQ I'm a total sugar addict as well. I shake and feel ill without it. I never used to though it's got worse from giving up smoking and the painkillers I've been on

Been unpacking at Now not homeless mans (NNHM) bungalow. Why can't men pack?

Some funny things, all his guide dog ornaments and pictures are nicely wrapped and all the Wedgewood/Doulton stuff has just been chucked in boxes :rotfl:

I've taken round my mini oven for him to use until a main oven can be installed as it's [STRIKE]got it's own legs and could walk straight out the house[/STRIKE] a little dirty. I miss my oven already :rotfl:

Womble has been scratting and chewing himself for the last couple so I've booked him in the vets for a check up, that's if I can catch the emergency fund piggy bank as it doesn't like being emptied.

PiC X

Cheapskate

Forgot to say thanks to sq and mcculloch for your kind words, ladies, thank you.

After all the sugar talk, I have just ploughed through 3oz of dolly mixtures, and I don't even like them, what nonsense is that? :rotfl:
Our sugar consumption has sneakily crept up on us, from well under average to almost average, which is too much for us, so will have to stop. I am the worst offender, by half, can manage the kids and DH, but not myself, get tired or CBA by the time it gets to my health and diet, which has to change!

I have only a few more weeks of counselling left, so wishing it could continue as I get on with this lady, and terrified I'll not continue to "get well", but I suppose there are others waiting for help, too.

Right, off to get the littlies before I eat more of their sweets! :rotfl:

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Pooky

Nutty - Glad everything went ok yesterday - hope the pain dies down quickly for you.


Magnesium - DH was advised to take a really high dose by the pain clinic specialist, he said in parts of Europe they'd been trialling it for a while now for pain and it was having great results. The blood tests for magnesium deficiency only show what's in your blood and not what's stored in your body so they often come back as "fine". By taking the supplements for a while (he only recommended 3 months) you're topping up your system. Some people just don't seem to store it as well as others and will often need "top ups". DH did 3 months, a month off and then another 3 and it made a big difference to his background pain levels. Again it's all down to tablet strength/content though so take advice on which ones to use for best results.


It's been a strange old few days here, freezing cold yesterday morning with a thick frost, warmed up to t-shirt weather by lunch time and then at 6pm we had a freak thunder/hail/snow storm - I've not heard thunder like it before, it felt like the windows and doors were coming out of their frames. The cats were not impressed!


I'm luckily not fussed about sugar, I can take or leave sweeties and would much prefer something savoury......although if someone put a bag of dolly mixtures in front of me now it would be rude not to indulge....wouldn't it?

paidinchickens

I know how to stop my sugar intake..........


Go onto faceb00k and look at some pictures someone posted from the wedding I went to last week :eek::eek::eek:

PiC x

the_cake

Freaky weather here ... black skies, thunder, hail, now torrential rain (just when the mud was drying up, too) - really frustrating as I need to do lots in the garden, and was just getting into the swing of it.
When a particularly loud clap of thunder happened just now, Jeeves fell off the sofa, then had a coughing fit!

paidinchickens

Ok now my daughter has found a two year old walking down the street. She took him to the police station at 4.30 and no one has claimed him :eek:


PiC x

ginnyknit

OMG Pic :eek: thats scary. Hope the parents turn up soon poor little child.

fuddle

I'm after a little help if you can?

I'm looking to have only one red meat dish on my weekly mealplan and figured it should be a slow cooked simple stew.'m trying to take it back to basics and not use gravy thickener/granules and only diced beef, carrots and pearl barley... how would I make the juices tasty? Just stock cubes? I bet they are full of salt and additives too though