Lose Weight 14

tiredycustard

newlywed wrote: »

When I'm tired I always want extra food.

Just say that you will start again tomorrow and that just one day isn't bad since you've been good for 6/7ths of the week!

I also crave sweet food if I get a very bad headache ... I just HAVE to have something sweet ... don't know why - just instinct.

So what do you have when you are tired - sweet/savoury?

ajaxgeezer

tiredycustard wrote: »

(whispers) okay ... don't think anyone else heard :rotfl:



Well - in the past - def. a 'talker' but just recently I've taken it very seriously. See - it's not just about the weight ... I genuinely want to improve my overall health and hopefully be less tired! I guess, in the past, If I fell off the wagon I'd just go off and carry on munching my merry way through choccy bars thinking 'well I've blown it now'. Whereas, now I'm taking a more mature (I think) approach to it all by accepting my 'blip' and moving on. I do feel better already (or is that the coffee talking!:rolleyes: )



Yee ha!:j

:rotfl:

I'm pretty sure (and I think you know it yourself) that the reason you are tired is because of the lard. This isn't really a vicious circle, because it can be broken by committing to lose the weight - nothing vicious about a fresh challenge, especially when you own the challenge, not the other way round. You do have full control over this.

Let the coffee talk, go have another one, have another 5. It's free goddammit, notwithstanding milk as a HEa.

tiredycustard

ajaxgeezer wrote: »

Let the coffee talk, go have another one, have another 5. It's free goddammit, notwithstanding milk as a HEa.

.....hmmm ..... now if only I'd had the coffee (s) before I started scoffing:rolleyes:

(trundles off to boil kettle again:D )

ajaxgeezer

tiredycustard wrote: »

I also crave sweet food if I get a very bad headache ... I just HAVE to have something sweet ... don't know why - just instinct.

.... pack the fridge with veggie yogurts such as the Morrisons or Tesco ones we talked about. Make some chocolate mousse by combining some vff fromage frais and creme fraiche (IIRC? - Bbelle?) with a Cadbury's Highlights sachet for 2 syns per sachet. That's probably better as the kids won't beat you to those ingredients

ajaxgeezer

To satisfy a sweet tooth in a relatively SW-friendly way:

Hot Lemon souffles. - done in 35 mins from start to finish.

You'll need:

Fry Light
2oz golden caster sugar and 4tbsp canderel or similar
200g pot of very low fat natural fromage frais
3 eggs
juice & zest of 1 lemon
icing sugar

Preheat an oven to 200*C (gas 6). Spray four ramekins with fry light and sprinkle the sides with a bit of the sugar.Mix the sweetener and fromage frais together in a bowl. Seperate the eggs, beating the yolks in with the lemon juice/zest. Stir this into the mixture of fromage frais.

Beat the egg whites to peaks, and then whisk in the rest of the sugar until the mixture is thick. Fold this into the fromage frais using a metal spoon. Divide the lot between the ramekins and chuck it in the oven for 25 minutes or until it's risen and golden. Take em out, dust em over with the icing sugar, eat at once

3 syns per souffle on original or green

petrichor

tiredycustard wrote: »

Fell right off the wagon this afternoon. Won't say what I've eaten ... but it's probably about 2 days worth of calories in 1 afternoon!

I have come on here to confess my sins (and get my 20 lashings ..... smilie for that anyone .... petrichor?)

I'm just a bit low. Work is not good and I still cant shake this relentless tiredness. Humphhh:(

Sorry guys ... don't want to be a misery guts!

Now heres my biggest challenge ... not completely quitting. I've done so well this last week (even though the results dont quite match the effort put in). Usually - when I 'lapse' thats the end of my regime and I drift back into old habits. I really wan't to prove to myself that I can just pick back up and get on with it....

If only I wasnt so f**** b**** bleep bleep TIRED!!!:mad:

I could give you the lashings but think that they would be inappropriate because you came here, thereby accepting that you knew that it would help, and look at all the splendid advice that's been given :j . You are learning to control your bad times and that's what matters. We learn to form habits and replace the bad ones with good ones!! Could the tiredness be due to iron deficiency? I mentioned this the other week to one of our veggie friends, if it was you I'm sorry to repeat it but I have the memory of a fish but if you could include foods that are rich in iron (tofu, breads, fruits, breakfast cereals, vegetable, legumes (e. g. baked beans, chick peas), nuts and eggs)* this link may help.

xxxx

victory

tiredy we all have 1 day that is a disaster, the trick is to acknowledge it, not beat yourself up about it, get straight back on the wagon and move on, learn from it, it did not make you feel any better did it? You are no different to anyone else but if you can move from it and better it the next day, bonus for you:D

aussiesbird

I am having a bad day today aswell, had steak pie for tea then 2 bars of choccie :eek: . Yes, not one but two!! I love chocolate and when I get started I cannot stop, no doubt I will have another couple before the night is out!

katiepoppycat

noooo aussiebird! stay good! or someone will get the bitey boot out again and i actually had a nightmare featuring the bitey boot. Still I went on to lose 2kg in that week because every time I headed for the biscuits I would remember waking up in a cold sweat about the boot and they suddenly looked less attractive.

lol petrichor, I've hung my dress up near the fridge - can't remember who suggested that but it's a good idea thanks. Medieval is where my heart lies but the forties is growing on me. I'm enlarging a vintage pattern so i can make myself a playing out dress. Then I can go in the battles as an SOE agent with a sten gun woo hoo! The neighbours are starting to get a bit bothered by the vast amount of weaponry that we have around the place but we never get any trouble from the local kids . . . . Re-enactment is tons of fun and re-enactors are the only people who talk about their bowels more than the denizens of the LW thread!

thanks for the offer of the links ajax but I think i'll just use my imagine. *shudder*. Was v amused at the ingenuity of the SW peeps liquidising macaroni cheese to make cheese sauce. I have eaten some pretty bizarre combinations when trying to stay good with the free food. Instant mash with peas in it for breakfast was particularly bizarre.

keep at it tiredy custard, I don't think anyone will better ajax's advice so go back and read it again! OH is sitting on the sofa waiting for Nigella Express to come on and I'm never sure whether it's appropriate for me to be in the same room with him and his dream woman . . . before oi head off though I need some help. I've been invited to a fancy dress party an the theme is carry on films. I have no idea what to go as. Help!

ajaxgeezer

petrichor wrote: »

I could give you the lashings but think that they would be inappropriate because you came here, thereby accepting that you knew that it would help, and look at all the splendid advice that's been given :j . You are learning to control your bad times and that's what matters. We learn to form habits and replace the bad ones with good ones!! Could the tiredness be due to iron deficiency? I mentioned this the other week to one of our veggie friends, if it was you I'm sorry to repeat it but I have the memory of a fish but if you could include foods that are rich in iron (tofu, breads, fruits, breakfast cereals, vegetable, legumes (e. g. baked beans, chick peas), nuts and eggs)* this link may help.

xxxx

... yup, good call pet, there's another potential reason. Spinach is often said to be a confusing thing when related to iron as although it is iron-rich, it also has things in it which slow down iron absorption. This just means you should eat a lot more iron than you think (I have 75 million trillion bagfuls of it a day just to be sure as it's one of my favourites .

Tomorrow morning I will post up a recipe for Spinach and Sweet Potato curry, which is free on SW green, not got time now.