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maman wrote: »

Good idea to plan your food and include a good breakfast if you've got a stressful day ahead missindependent (do you have a shorter name??:D). Remember you'll feel better for having coped with the day than any instant pleasure from eating rubbish.

Thanks Maman, I'm starving already and have another 2 hours until lunch! Will have to snack on SP fruit.

Some MSEr's call me MI or MissI or MissIndie! So its up to you really. Thinking of changing my username anyway as its from when I was a lot younger and doesn't really fit me anymore.

Have a lovely meal and time at the pub!

joedenise

Maman I can't see any reason why you couldn't substitute chicken or fish for the squid in the Nigella recipe. I didn't actually see it but she spice it up a bit as squid can be quite bland without spicing (I usually use chilli because that's how I had it first time I ever ate it!).

Thanks Miss Independence but I don't think of my menus as doing SW "in style" - it's just a case of digging around the freezer at the end of the month to try and use up as much as I can from the freezer and cupboards when I meal plan for the following month!

I know by doing this monthly it's never going to be exactly as I plan it as life gets in the way but it gives me a basis for a month's meals - some of which get changed completely or get left off if we for example we eat when we go away at weekends; although that hasn't happened this month as we haven't managed to get away as we've had something happening every weekend so far! At the moment it's looking as though we'll finally be able to get away the last weekend of the month - unless something else crops up!

I'm currently trying to empty my outside freezer before we go away for Christmas and New Year on 11 December! It's going down very slowly but I'm finding it very hard not to buy meat & fish when I see it on offer but I just can't do it at the moment and have to leave it in the shops - but at least my bank balance is thanking me, LOL!

Denise

lantanna

I no Maman, that's why I'm not losing anything as I'm getting away with it but not losing.


Need to make a massive effort and keep it going and not get distracted or comfort eat. The motivation just isn't there as it was before. Although the more I eat off plan the worse I feel and then I just have more to try and make myself feel better.


Doing some batch cooking tonight and hopefully some day I'll get back to target coz I know I can maintain ok.


May have to return to a group after xmas if I don't start to behave! Can't afford it right now and not overly keen on it so not really committing to the idea either. I'm just useless right now lol :rotfl:


I'd like to know peoples thoughts on losing and regaining, I lost 6.7, regained 2 anyone else had a regain??? of any short?


Did you get yourself motivated to ever get it off again?


What do you think led to your regain? Just interested

beanielou

Tulip~~Great result :j

Lois~~ I used to find that even doing some water based exercises used to help.cant find a pool warm enough these days though

theblackrose~~Popped in post yesterday~~hopefully you will have very soon

musogirl295

Afternoon everyone!

Menu today:

B- 2 x hifi, clementine
L - chicken veg noodles, kitkat (5.5)
D- sausage pasta (1.5)
S- ff Greek yogurt, berries, popcorn (4),

beanielou

lantanna~~I regained more than 1 1/2 stone & have now lost 1/2 a stone of that since I came back from France.
I am finding it really really hard going TBH.
I am trying to break it into baby steps.
Another 1 1/2 lbs I will be back into the next stone.
I just try to keep plodding~~plod with me

joedenise

Lantanna - I've been struggling since end of September when I came back from France. I managed to stay within the top end of target until last week when I went out - so really trying to do it this week to get back into target.

My consultant gave me a Food Diary to fill in and to hand back in next week and it seems to be working for me - maybe it's just the fact that I'm expected to hand it in for her to see that's done it!

Could you find someone nearby who is doing or has done SW to be someone you need to hand your Food Diary to to look over?

Is there a particular trigger that causes you to binge/comfort eat? Is it stress perhaps that breathing exercises may help?

Denise

lantanna

No more trips to France then ladies! :rotfl:


Really not sure Denise, I started to go off track when I got unwell with the gallbladder which was around last xmas time and since then I've never really found my mojo or drive for losing again. Although I really want to and have no clothes that fit. Dare I say and I hate to say it but Mildredd will agree with me to that I thought that life would be a lot better when I had lost my weight but really it was just the same. So now the incentive to get their isn't as big. There were still bits of me that I wasn't happy with.


I will keep plodding a think about what to do, a New Group in the New Year may have to happen. Its probably my head that needs sorting out more than anything else! :rotfl:

maman

Here's the Nigella recipe denise.
http://thetalentzone.co.uk/musictv/32504/nigella-lawson-squid-and-orzo-pasta-recipe-on-simply-nigella/
so not massively spicy except for the aniseed flavour which I don't really fancy.


My freezers are bursting at the seams at the moment. Last week I bought (and cut up myself) a large pork and a large beef joint from Sainsbury's. Then I got YS chicken breasts and then I made the chilli and portioned that up. And DH made a load of apple compote for his cereal from windfalls. I'm amazed how I manage to fit it all in. Definitely no more buying;).


I can't speak from experience lantanna but I think where you're different (and I admire you massively for it:A) is that you're determined to 'stop the rot' before it gets out of hand unlike people who get to target and then put it all back on again and then some. Of course losing weight doesn't automatically change other aspects of life (except for health of course june:T) but I know I was more miserable when I was fat so it's one thing you can control. For me then it was the fact that I'd achieved something made me proud of myself, more confident etc etc. Hope that makes some sense.:)


Interesting snippet of conversation earlier:
DH: What's this orange stuff in the fridge?
Me: It's 1% milk.
DH: Has it got even less fat than the one we usually have?
Me: Yes
DH: Is it cheaper?
Me:No
DH: Well it should be because they've taken even more out!
:rotfl: We've had two cups of tea with no further comment so we'll see if he returns to it before my next shop.

orlao

Hello all and well done to the losers and especially to the SOTW :j:j

STS for me please Shala and more than I deserve if truth be told!

Eating out a fair bit this week along with birthday cakes at work and I don't seem able to make good choices when out - did I really need that Eton Mess at the Toby last night???? :eek:

Anyway SP for a couple of days to hopefully kick start a decent loss this week another 2lbs off will bring me to the next shiny...