The Lose Weight The Old Style Way Thread.

bobbadog

Morning everyone - Mrs M, you'll have your old rings on in no time!! Your food intake is spot on from what i've read and you're doing so well!

Feel a bit rough today, and am hoping that we get tomorrow off (as half the office are on a work Jolly in Iceland, and well, i'm not!) if so i'll be glorious and spring clean the house ready for OH's parents visit at the weekend and make my first soup - red pepper, tomato and red chilli Have to get through today first, mind.

Breakfast: brown roll, w/ light cream cheese. Green tea w/ jasmine
Snack: nuts/seeds/dried apricots
Lunch: Tuna / salad / low fat yoghurt

Dinner will be a problem, as we're going out for OH's best friends birtdhay, in a pub in Soho. Am going to take some pretzels with me and hopefully wait until we get home around 11 ish and maybe have some toast then... am going to have a few G&T's but not too many as tomorrow is Weigh Day

Hope to have lost 1 pound... have been very good this week. Made a sausage casserole yesterday in the slow cooker using low fat sausages and it was hideous... so have definitely decided that 1 full fat sausage is faaar better than 1000 low fat ones. Am sure OH agrees too

Have a lovely day you all x

this_is_it

Morning everyone, Atarting to feel laid up sore throat , snffles ect was grateful that i hadnt woke up with a headache but i can feel one coming think a couple of paracetomal might be needed.
food for today porridge for breakfast, dinner? tea dd2 is making a lasangne but her recipe has got quite abit of cheese in it plus cream so i might have some of the chicken i have on stand by in case her lasagne goes wrong or she eats it all at school lol.

MRSMCAWBER

Hi bobbadog.. thanks for that

Have to agree with you about sausages.... i make my own now...so i know there is not yuk in there - but because they are pure meat, no rusk etc.. i only need 1 and im happy.... i chop up onions n carrots, put them in an ovenproof dish sit the sausages on top, cover with foil and cook....half way through i add a drop of water stock and some gravy granules..sit the sausages back on the top and put back in the oven to finish off... it is soo tasty

I have now finally grasped that im happier with a bit of something really tasty than a plate full of anything... so i use butter not marge etc too.. and find im satisfied with less

I weigh in tomorrow..so will keep my fingers crossed for both of us .... have a good time out this evening

taplady

morning all!

busy day for me today, am off to help Mum with some jobs this morning then later we're off to visit Mums friend in hospital before returning to do DS2s paper round so not much chance to nibble!;)

have had porridge for beakfast

snack - banana

lunch ?? may go out with Mum but it will be healthy - promise!:D

dinner - toad in the hole with our local butchers sausages which are yummy with lots of veggies and possible a bit of mash although i may mash carrot and swede instead

snack - yoghurt

Hope you all have a good day. Good luck with tomorrows weigh in MRSMCAWBER!

madmae

Morning all.

Well I wasn't going to weigh myself this morning as I was sure after my slip this weekend that I would have put on. Its also the wrong time of month so am bloated and in pain.....but I have stayed the same and this week for me thats as good as a loss so I am very happy :j :j :j

There is so much I should be getting on with but all I want to do is curl up with a hot water bottle.....oh well painkillers will have to do instead, the joys if being a woman

rockie4

Morning all.
Not a very good night last night, stressful afternoon at work then the bus from hell on the way home (must do something about this hour and a half commute) got in late, starving and neurotic so ate 2 slices of bread and butter while waiting for the kettle to boil :mad: :mad:
Made egg and SW chips for tea so that wasn't toooo bad then had a packet og lowfat crisps and a G&T later on.
Today so far I've had 2 slices of granary toast and marmalade for brekkie and I've ejust had a banana. Hummus and salad sandwich and grapes for lunch.:T
Tea......should have made something last night but didn't:o
I've brought my swimmers so that I can go after work but if I do I won't be home until 8ish and will be ready to eat a soya-based scabby donkey so will have pasta with a bit of pesto I think.
Hopefully eating that late might stop me nibbling tonight as I'll weigh in in the morning

kittyscarlett

Morning folks

Grats on your loss, taplady ! yes if you do pick ½ a lb of lard or butter up it is quite substantial, and that’s what you are no longer carrying around J

Nodwah… ohh venison burger !! that had me drooling into my keyboard ! MrsM is right, venison is very good for you, and Scot-appropriate too

Mousey – nah, who needs slimming magazines when you have us , LOL. Just think of all the money you are saving not buying them – maybe you could work out how much you would normally spend on them over a certain amount of time and use them to give yourself a real treat.

Frogga – I wonder how many calories sulking burns up ?

MrsM – BBC website is indeed good but I still buy the BBC Good Food mag as not all the recipes there seem to appear on the website. And if you can’t think of any housework to do, you can always nip over here and do mine :P Its good not feeling daunted, isn’t it J good luck with the weigh in tomorrow.

Hugs to all the poorly people J

My attempts at actually for once eating breakfast before I went on duty were sabotaged by the b***dy door entry engineers turning up 40 mins before I was due to go on duty… sigh. Really annoying because I’d been up early doing laundry and a bit of hoovering and am actually hungry. Also finally have the woman come to pick up my breadmaker, that’s around lunchtime, so my prospects of eating properly in the near future are drifting off into the wide blue yonder. Will be nice to finally be able to relax and sit down and eat in peace and quiet ! Planning on having roast chicken breasts, roast pots and veg or salad this evening – so hungry I could happily scoff the lot now !

Cazzdevil

I'm trying to ease myself in gently rather than just straight away cutting out everything remotely unhealthy. For dinner last night the bf and I had hm chicken broth followed by apple pie & hm custard. Now that sounds bad, but I would normally have had a fatty main course too so having the broth meant I could justify having the pie.
That's my excuse anyway.

We're doing a bit of a storecupboard challenge at the minute so keeping low fat is meaning that choices are limited. We're having chicken curry tonight so I'll make sure I have smaller portions than normal (something I learned at Weight Watchers was that my portions are WAY too big!).

Hmm... What can I have for lunch though?...

kittyscarlett

Cazzdevil , that's not bad in any way and you don't need to excuse yourself After years of doing WW etc you maybe need to rethink whats healthy and whats not, perhaps - not everything has to be ultra low fat etc. Home made chicken broth and home made apple pie - nowt wrong with that at all, and you know what's gone into it - healthier than many low fat or diet foods in the shops full of god knows what e number and disguised sugar etc. As you've already said, you're going to be keeping an eye on your portion sizes - that's the important thing rather than feeling guilty about a bit of pie

Cazzdevil

It's funny, that's the first time I've made custard from scratch. I had to cheat and add a cornflour slip cos it wouldn't thicken, but it made me realise that there's probably a lot of the things I buy ready made I can easily make myself so an addition to my plan is to try my hand at more cooking skills. I could really benefit from gaining a better understanding of techniques instead of just blundering my way through meals.