The end of procrastination and disorganisation.......

doingitanyway

Less meat and more plant based food is the way to go.

If you have either one meal as a veggie soup or one meal as a salad and fruit for snacks you will be doing fine.

Have a good evening

Cherryfudge

parsniphead wrote: »

Perhaps I will break out the Jillian Micheal DVD. Mind you everytime I have done that in the past I ended up pregnant.

:rotfl: Jillian Michaels is very effective but I never heard of that result before!

Keep on keeping on: I love your determination, which keeps surfacing however often it gets blocked!

HairyHandofDartmoor

Less meat could help, although lean chicken and fish is very healthy. Try and fill half of your plate with vegetables and salad, that will lower the calories and raise the vitamin content of your meals. I quite like the packets of stir fry veg you can buy in most supermarkets, I just add one tablespoon of oil and fry in a wok for four minutes. Tasty and quick. Snacking only on fruit will help too.

Exercise is important too, of course, for speeding up your metabolism.

I need to take my own advice as I need to lose a stone :rotfl:.

redofromstart

I second the half of every plate as vegetables thing. Cheap, fills you up and low in calories. Frozen is cheaper still, and less effort if cooking is not for you.

parsniphead

Thank you all for the suggestions.

I could never do the vegan thing as Christmas dinner would make me crack and I couldnt give up cheese completely, though I do need to cut down. I shall be taking a bit of salad for lunch today and some fruit. I've become addicted to kiwis lately and got a punnet for 50p from @sda.:money:

I noticed something this morning when I walked into the lobby b my back door that it was clean and dust free looking.:j All that steaming seems to help and its good to see the dust problem slowly being dealt with. A long way to go but the steps are coming together. Ive got to the point where i dont want to leave the house to go to work. I just want to be here and clean and sort all day. Also another thing I've noticed is my skin is getting better. All that steam must be doing it the world of good.

I'm desperate to get out into the garden too. I have so much to do and so much planned but the weather is always so wet and cold when I have the opportunity, or dark when I get home. I may try and have a short time tonight, even if its sweeping up a little.

Right ho, time for breakfast then getting DS off to school (a place he is adament he is not going to today. I feel a meltdown coming on) Wish me luck.

abba1772

parsniphead wrote: »

Thank you all for the suggestions.

I could never do the vegan thing as Christmas dinner would make me crack and I couldnt give up cheese completely, though I do need to cut down. I shall be taking a bit of salad for lunch today and some fruit. I've become addicted to kiwis lately and got a punnet for 50p from @sda.:money:

I noticed something this morning when I walked into the lobby b my back door that it was clean and dust free looking.:j All that steaming seems to help and its good to see the dust problem slowly being dealt with. A long way to go but the steps are coming together. Ive got to the point where i dont want to leave the house to go to work. I just want to be here and clean and sort all day. Also another thing I've noticed is my skin is getting better. All that steam must be doing it the world of good.

I'm desperate to get out into the garden too. I have so much to do and so much planned but the weather is always so wet and cold when I have the opportunity, or dark when I get home. I may try and have a short time tonight, even if its sweeping up a little.

Right ho, time for breakfast then getting DS off to school (a place he is adament he is not going to today. I feel a meltdown coming on) Wish me luck.

My garden is a riot....toys abandoned etc it's starting to annoy me but like you said weather is damp and miserable

Hope wee ones meltdown wasn't too bad xx

lcc86

Hi parsniphead, just wanted to write about the food/veggie stuff, I've been a veggie for a few years now (barring a couple of slip ups in the early days!) and there are loads of slow cooker recipes for vegetarians that are healthy but also yummy! When I first went veggie I lost weight and had less IBS-symptoms than I'd had in a long time so I definitely think there's a lot of benefit to it.

doingitanyway

I too want a dry few days that coincide with non working days so I can tackle my garden and get it under control before Spring...

Cherryfudge

I daren't start on my garden. I have a healthy respect for wildlife, and I expect mine contains everything from woolly mammoths to T Rex. It's been a while...

in_need_of_direction

if you have netflix, have a search on it or on line for forks over knives. def food for thought