Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

Wheezy_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

That's a tragedy ... crisps .....

I know!
Could easily scoff through a huge bag of Kettle chips in no time (great for sharing, yeah right!). Or buy a 1/2kg bag of raw monkey nuts, roast them and eat them in one evening.
Now I eat some olives if I'm desperate for a snack.

vivatifosi wrote: »

That's a really great, sensible diet. How much more do you want to lose? I am trying to lose weight too, so am always interested to hear how people get on. For the moment, my method is only exercise and it is working slowly. Except today I didn't manage to get my cardio in and I'm now sitting on the sofa eating a packet of Doritos:o

I was 17st 1lbs early May (don't quote, might delete :rotfl:)
Now 15st 12lbs
I'd like to get it below 15st, not sure if 14st is realistic...
(I'm 6' 1)

PasturesNew

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Looks as if they've dropped to 7th now... Wonder if they hit the mark.

Anyway, here she is at the extreme limit of my camera's capability.

I'd have to get on my bike and cycle a mile for a water view that good

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've never been in/on (?) a boat. I'd not be too happy to be on a lot as they look flimsy and unsafe. My idea of going on a boat is to sit on a comfy chair and be handed a drink .... not to lean out, or duck, or anything.

I've not been much, and not since I was rather young. I wasn't really interested in the boat bit, but where the boat ended up. Then I'd jump out and swim, for hours. When I was I. The boat I remember baking on hot wood, and there being lots of stuff. People talked a lot of boring stuff and drank a lot. I just wanted to swim more.

PasturesNew

Wheezy wrote: »

Could easily scoff through a huge bag of Kettle chips in no time (great for sharing, yeah right!). Or buy a 1/2kg bag of raw monkey nuts, roast them and eat them in one evening.
Now I eat some olives if I'm desperate for a snack.

I never ever buy the big bags.... I see a big bag and think "1000 calories in there...." and nobody to help out with the eating of them!

GDB2222

Wheezy wrote: »

Thanks!

Last year I had pneumonia, and in hospital they ultrasounded my kidneys and liver an such and they saw quite a lot of blub hanging around there - lifestyle they said.
I've been on the chubby side since my late 30's, but now it was getting out of hand.



Thanks!

- no more fizzy drinks
- much smaller portions, especially at dinner time
- less often pork, more often fish or chicken
- no more crisps
- longer doggy walks

that's it really..

So, to sum up, you ate less and exercised more. I'm sure I've heard that before.

neverdespairgirl

I reckon lots of us would like to hear about the "I scoff all the crisps / chocolate / chips / etc that I want, and lose weight anyway by doing X....."

Sadly, no-one ever does say that!

I went swimming for the first time for years on Monday, and again this morning. The water felt very thick indeed, but I'm hopeful it will thin out quickly. I did 40 minutes steady swimming each time, breaststroke. We live almost next to a swimming pool, which is very handy.

michaels

Generali wrote: »

At the risk of sounding repetitious, I'm still really bloody tired.

I slept in until gone 7am this morning. Then I slept for 40 minutes at lunchtime and I slept on the bus on the way home. Now it's 9:10pm and I'm zonked again. Aaargh!

Can't help thinking you need some time off work. Can you just work half days sometimes? You know there is an open ended offer around this.....

PasturesNew wrote: »

I never ever buy the big bags.... I see a big bag and think "1000 calories in there...." and nobody to help out with the eating of them!



I suffer from short-4rsedness.... 5'1"
Limits the calorie intake allowed significantly.

Taking a wild punt .... I'd always say I'm about 9.5stone (I think) .... sometimes the scales tell me I'm a bit more. Although I can't really remember as not been on any for months.

In about 2004 I went from 11st2 down to 8st3. Since then I put a bit more on and just wobble around at about the 9st7 mark. At 8st3 you can't eat enough pies.

I don't really like crisps but do fancy them sometimes when hungry, why don't we feel like healthy snacks when hungry? I am very lucky to be blessed with a high metabolism so can fool the medical establishment despite almost certainly being the least healthy person I know.

lostinrates

One of my new pills makes me almost anorexic. I eat when its infront of me or when others eat, but it don't think of eating. This week I've had a spoon of fake caviar while loitering near the fridge to prep something for RP, and a anchovy cos we'd mentioned them. Its not lack of appetite exactly. I'll eat food infront of me. I just don't think of putting the food in front of me necessarily. I have got two plums out of the fridge for later. ( cannot eat cold fruit, yuck)

Next meal I have planned is that I might do lamb shanks on Friday. We normally have either fish or something picky, but I keep seeing the lamb shanks, so maybe I'll deal with them.

Re crisps...aren't kettle crips unpleasantly greasy?

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Crisps and biscuits can be bought any time and shoved in a cupboard ..... healthy things tend to be fresh, so have to be eaten pretty quickly after buying them.

Unless you're working to a plan, this means it makes sense to add crisps/biscuits to your shopping basket.... but not the fresh stuff that you need to eat up quicker/this week.

Also, you can eat a packet of crisps alone, as that's how they're eaten. Healthy stuff tends to have the question hanging over it of "... what do I need to go with this then?"

You can eat most fruit and veg raw. But it does have a bit of a time limit. Not all of it. I've kept some cabbages in the fridge for an impressively long time.

ukmaggie45

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've never been in/on (?) a boat. I'd not be too happy to be on a lot as they look flimsy and unsafe. My idea of going on a boat is to sit on a comfy chair and be handed a drink .... not to lean out, or duck, or anything.

Hmm, you'd prob get by on Duck, though you might have duck every so often, but you'd get due warning. Plus if you're sitting on the thwart (bit like a bench across the middle of the boat in the cockpit) you'd hardly have to duck at all. Thwart isn't that comfy, though we could prob arrange a cushion. Drinks to hand out to you can always be arranged! We don't take novice sailors out unless it's really nice weather with just a gentle breeze so boat doesn't heel over too much, in which case no need to lean out over the side... That only tends to happen if you're seriously racing in light winds. And not at all if VERY light winds. Duck is 20 foot in length, and weighs (literally) a ton. Built of pitch pine and mahogany, so not what you'd call flimsy! And since she was rebuilt she doesn't leak much, and even the little she does leak improves over a few weeks in the sea as the planks take up water and swell. I love her to bits, even though it must be over 15 years since I sailed in her at all. Every summer I hope we'll have gentle winds on a race free day so I might get a little sail in her. Perhaps I will this year!

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'd have to get on my bike and cycle a mile for a water view that good

That's a x30 zoom, and above the row of caravans at the end of the field. But we do have a lovely view, love to look out across the bay to Snowdonia. Top of Snowdon in cloud today. Given how fantastic the weather is today I'm a bit surprised there aren't more boats out in the bay. Market day at Pwllheli is the only reason I can think of!