The Lose Weight The Old Style Way Thread.

lynzpower

mumoftwo wrote: »

That must be on the same lines as dividing your plate in three (mentally) 1/3rd protein, 1/3rd carbs and half the plate with veg/salad

Will try the teeth brushing, thanks but how do you stop the hunger pangs, drinking water doesn't help for me

If you eat carbohydrates, then they will always demand more. Therefore choose low GI carbs, as these take much longer to digest and release energy slowly, so the demands are not the same.

It works for me to have very low carbohydrate diets, having lean protein. When I do move towards increasing my carb intake ( which currently is about nil) I know I will feel somewhat terrible again. However, with the diet I am on when I hit maintainence stages, I have to have carbs, and they will be the corect portion controlled and they are low GI for example, a slice of granary bread, or a small amount of pasta or rice- but they must be brown.

I know that eating OS has put me into this mess ( to be completely honest) with th "bulking out". If i have a 5 bean chilli, white rice, dab of sour cream maybe, and possibly a slice or 2 of french bread, then this WILL make me fat. It will also make me crave more carbs, as the beans, the rice, the bread etc are all carbs.

Most of the OSing style I dont think will ever work for me, no matter how lean the meat is there will always be the carbs demanding more at all times.

odds-n-sods

mumoftwo wrote: »

That must be on the same lines as dividing your plate in three (mentally) 1/3rd protein, 1/3rd carbs and half the plate with veg/salad

Will try the teeth brushing, thanks but how do you stop the hunger pangs, drinking water doesn't help for me

What about making your own juice lollies?? take a while to eat not many calories, and you can dilute the juice with water.

Or try having a bowl of broth or tomato based soup with a few veg in it. Or a pair of handcuffs? (joke!)

vixtress

good afternoon :hello: i'm back home after a very rare night away went to see billy connelley and he was fantastic :dance:
i did go for a meal and drank rather a few G & T's now normally this would be me just thinking 'oh !!!!!! ive blown it i may as well eat enough to feed a small european country!'..........but not this time !! im back on the wagon, yesterday was a well deserved treat and i am now back to the healthy eating !!
i also bit the bullet and weighed myself in tesco :eek: 14st and 35% body fat :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
hope everyone is having a good weekend,

redmel1621

Hi all

Right i have just finished reading all the posts and I will definately be popping in here regularly, for both recipes and motivation......

I am just starting out in scratch cooking, I don't always manage it though. At least I have cut out ready pies and fish/chicken in batter or breadcrumbs. I don't have many herbs etc but will hopefully gather them up bit by bit.

I started out on my own weight loss mission on Monday, I will weigh in on Mondays, although I did have a sneaky peek today and have lost 4lb so hopefully I can keep it off till monday. This thread has come up at just the right time for me as my thoughts behind losing weight were as much about eating healthier as weight loss so I am thrilled this is here.

I set out my mission as follows.....
1) Eat healthy (filling) Cereal for breakfast,(this i never normally do)
2) Eat salads for lunch but varied with tuna, cheese, ham (or baked potato with beans)
3) Eat a healthy (scratch cooked if poss) meal for dinner
4) between meals eat only frut if peckish and drink only water (pop drinker)

For excercise I already go karate once a week but will try to up this to twice when money permits and go on my excercise bike 1/2 hour 3 times a week.

I am concentrating on the food aspect for the first week and next week will start to build up my bike use.

Mel x

debtfreehopeful_2

Well this is what im looking to do to so thought id say hi, hate to admit this but currently weigh 16st5 so want to lose a minimum of 6st, but as someone pointed out before 1lb a week would be nearly 4 stone by next september and thats less than i weighed when i fell pregnant with sophie.

currently im working on a large breakfast (i have pcos and read recently this was beneficial to getting the metabolism up and running especially so with pcos) either porridge or 2 eggs and toast with juice or yoghurt, then fruit mid morning, then either a sandwhich and salad or jacket spud or soup for lunch, another piece of fruit mid afternoon (trying to find something sensible to vary one of these snacks with) and a small portion of evening meal, lots of veg in comparrison to meat and carbs

as well as this im walking between 3 and 6 miles every weekday taking and collecting sophie from pre school, though this might change when the weather gets worse. on the days where im doing 3 miles im also going to the gym for a 50 minute session and trying to take the girls swimming at least once a week. i have a stepper in the house and aim to get back on that for 30 minutes every night too.

with a bit of luck between the eating aims and the exercise aims i should start losing this weight soon, ive had a series of things which have been convenient excuses not to do these things but im hoping with the help of this thread i will be able to get on with it and lose weight

thanks to the boardguides for allowing this, i dont want a fad diet i want to lose this weight sensibly so this thread is perfect for me

kittyscarlett

If the thread is going to become unwieldy because of popularity, then maybe a daily OS healthy eating/ weight loss thread would be more useful ?

And yes, thanks for letting the thread live despite some tangents and apparent disagreements. For me personally, the way I want to eat more healthily and the subsequent improvement in health, weightloss, fitness and purse, fits very much in with the " old style " ethos - cut down on processed junk, wastage of food and packaging, wasting money on foods, fads and subscriptions, use more locally produced and seasonal foods, use more " old fashioned " ideas, ingredients and methods in choosing food and cooking. To eat more sensibly, smaller portions. To exercise via the application of Shank's Pony and elbow grease. I don't want to be stressing out about weigh ins or calorie counting, because thats caused many a problem before. I want to retrain my mind and body to be sensible about what goes into them and when - permanently.

Anyway, off the soapbox now, I need it to put me veggies in Proud of not giving in to the two big temptations of the working weekend today - nipping over to the papershop mid morning and returning with not only a paper but with crisps, chocolate and soda. And getting off the bus a few feet away from the local co op and not doing the same there. No, I came home like a good girl and ate some turkey on rice cakes and a banana instead !

lynzpower

Just a quickie to say, for those on a budget ( and arnt we all!) one of the cheapest forms of excercize is skipping, watch your chandeliers if you do it inside I bought one from tescso for a pound or so, but being completely OS, any old bit of rope will do, years ago I used a bit of old toe-rope - but someone binned it thinking it was rubbish LOL . I like skipping as you can do 10 skips, then pack it in, or keep going until you are bored

Just also got a rosemary conley video in a charity shop today, for 20p, and this has to be part of my regime from now on!

MRSMCAWBER

Oooohhhh Kittyscsarlett

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I second that...how very well put:D

LYNZPOWER

If i was to skip..i would cause earth tremmors:rotfl: .... and exercise makes me hungrier ....so im scrubbing the house to within an inch of its life...this OS cleaning is burning some "wobble"

kittyscarlett

Heh yes, I think I too have a wee way to go before I can skip without doing meself an injury but give it a couple of months and I'll be digging the skipping rope out Reminds me of The Secret Garden when Martha's mother buys Mary Lennox a skipping rope. One of my favourite ever books, because the people in it and the garden undergo a slow but magical transformation.... maybe we could all do with a re-reading as encouragement

frogga

Got through another day without binging at all!!!!:T One more week til weigh day xx