The Lose Weight The Old Style Way Thread.

floyd

Well today has started ok, as I got up later today I had a sandwich for brunch, just Dairylea light with lots of salad on wholemeal bread.

Maybe later I will have some hoummus with sliced peppers as OH is working until 7 when we will have Sausage casserole with sweet potato mash, greens and carrots.

The only arsey thing about making sausage casserole is that I don't like meat sausages and OH doesn't like Quorn so I have to cook them separately to get rid of the fat in the pork ones then add to the sauce later! Maybe I should just do sausage, mash and gravy next time!

mumoftwo

Good morning

Yesterday was good. I managed to control myself in front of the tv. Saturday night with the kids and tv. Instead of a whole Galaxy bar, I had 2 squares and really enjoyed them slowly instead of just wolfing it down, I made some popcorn (in popcorn maker without fat) and then brushed my teeth as to say to myself: That is you finished eating.

Today:

wholemeal roll with turkey rasher, tomato and lettuce, 2 oatcakes with light phili (only had it a few minutes ago so brunch)

Homemade chicken curry for tonight, low fat yoghurt

My goal for this coming week is:

Be prepared, meal plan and have the right foods in the house

To eat slowly and really taste the food I am eating, not just stuffing it in, or in front of the tv.

Not to deprive myself too much, if I want some chocolate or a biscuit, have a little bit

If stressed, read ww magazine or craft or put music on, rather than eat.

drink more fluids (I forget to drink most days)

Go to aquafit, prepare my bag in advance go and not to make excuses

I like what you wrote Toonie: to go by how clothes fit and not so much what it says on the scales. In the past I got so obsessed by the numbers on the scales and if it said I lost 1lb and I felt that I worked so hard I should have lost more, I gave up, feeling a failure. so I think I will adopt that attitude. Maybe weigh once a month only.

Toonie

mumoftwo That's why I don't weigh myself much. I'm not so worried about what I weigh as I know that I am "big boned" and that is something that I deal with. My goal would be to fit into size 14 jeans. That would be nice, but I'm not sure if its possible, as I've been a 16 for quite a long time primarily because of my hips. I do wear a size 14 dress, which was a nice goal to hit. I just checked out my BMI and my body shape to see what it said about me. If I go by BMI I am in the overweight-obese category. However, my body shape says I'm a pear and don't have so much to worry about. The link for body shape is here:

http://www.eatwell.gov.uk/healthydiet/healthyweight/yourbodyshape/

aurora_borealis_2

I saved this online slimming journal in my faves a while ago.

Might be useful for some

http://www.fitday.com/

... just had a good look at this. It's excellent, you can input all that you eat and it will count calories and assess nutritional content. On another section you can input your exercise or activities as well as tracking weight loss. Then there's journalling section ... I'll keep looking.

**purpleprincess**

I remember someone said that they wanted a recipe for carrot soup. What I do is peel and chop a load of carrots and boil them in about 2 pints of veg stock and then when the carrots are soft I simply blend it!! Ta da!!! Obviously add more or less carrots or stock and add herbs, garlic whatever you like really but so so easy and really yummy.

odds-n-sods

Took a look at the 'fitday' one, but it tells me I should be eating over 2000 calories a day to maintain my weight???? Another site said 1950 to maintain it and 1200 to lose 2 lb a week.

recovering_spendaholic

Hi Everyone - hope you are all having a good day with regard to food choices. I had a good eating day yesterday but then last night at around 7pm I got an episode of Atrial Fibrillation (fast irregular heart beat) and had to go to hospital by ambulance. Once I got there they gave me some digoxin through an iv and it settled back to normal rhythm at 11pm. I then had to spend the night on a heart monitor and have blood tests and chest x-ray and so on. Came home late morning but the whole thing has really freaked me out again and I have to be really careful that I don't stress eat. I have been in hospital 7 times this last year with this problem and it is so frightening when it happens that I get totally panicked. I am on my own with two DD's and have no family support network at all so I am totally reliant on ex-OH who won't let us know where he lives and who can only be contacted by mobile phone, which he screens and only answers if it suits. Last night I had to leave kids on their own, which is okay as DD1 is 17, but DD2 is only 10 and she gets upset when the ambulance comes and she sees all the monitors and stuff. The stupid thing is that I can have this problem fixed with a day case procedure but they won't do it unless I lose 8 stone. You would think that that would be a huge incentive but it just adds to the pressure and guilt I already feel and I end up overeating. I have come home today and didn't have any breakfast at the hospital and had three ryvitas with a little cold pork on them and a pear for lunch. I am going to a friend's house for tea and have rung her and told her that I can't have anything fattening so she is doing me meat and carrots and cabbage and some fruit salad. I feel so upset today - they say my weight hasn't caused this heart problem (my Mum had it and she was only tiny, and Tony Blair had it too and he is slim and keeps fit) but I know that my weight is stopping it getting sorted out. I feel really panicky most of the time in case it kicks off and when I am like that I tend to overeat. Anyway I am determined that I am not going to overeat from now on and hopefully I can lose the 8 stone within a year and get the procedure done next summer. One good thing though - my cholesterol was only 4.8 and my blood pressure was normal, which considering I weigh nearly 22 stone is not bad!

Some of the recipes on here sound lovely. I like the sound of the blueberry cake but might not be able to exercise portion control so might have to wait until I am a bit more into it and used to smaller portions.

Sorry if I sound sorry for myself!

MRSMCAWBER

Hi there recoveringspendaholic

Heck..what a night you had :eek: ....glad you are back home, safe and sound..

That must be terrifying, my dad had heart problems - and took digoxin too, and i remember what its like to see someone trying to stay calm when it kicked off....

Its sounds like such a terrible cycle....eating through stress n worry... putting on weight, which makes you stress n worry....and round it goes !

You dont sound like you are feeling sorry for yourself..... and if you were..i think your entitled.

I have heaps of weight to shift too...about 8-9st:rotfl: it would make a medical condition i have easier to deal with, you are right - sometimes even that incentive isn't enough to stop you eating is it ...

If you are ever in need of a chat to stop you from eating, feel free to PM me... and if you are looking for any new recipes..let me know what sort of things you like and don't like and i will post some that might suit -that goes for anyone else too

You take care of yourself, put those feet up with a cuppa and relax... we will all get this weight off between us..come on we can do it... nice and sensibly - so it stays off:j

pounds_and_pensive

odds-n-sods wrote: »

Took a look at the 'fitday' one, but it tells me I should be eating over 2000 calories a day to maintain my weight???? Another site said 1950 to maintain it and 1200 to lose 2 lb a week.

I think you should be aiming at re-training your appetite and tastebuds (unless I've got the point of the thread wrong). 1200 calories is very low, and certainly not something I think anyone would be maintaing forever. I read somewhere once that if you want to be a certain weight, you just eat the calories needed by a person of that weight (plug your ideal weight in here to find out http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/content/PED_6_1x_Calorie_Calculator.asp ) and sooner or later, that is the weight you will be, and by then eating for that weight will just come naturally. The calories needed by a person of my ideal weight are substantially more than 1200, yet substantially less than I've been eating in recent years. Which is why I weigh substantially more. It makes a lot of sense really

I love the fitday site (I've not seen that one before). I was pleased to see that the activities it quotes calorie usage for are normal day-to-day ones, and not the 'salsa-ing down cliffs' type that I've seen elsewhere. I was quite astonished by how basic their activities are to be honest. Sitting on the toilet? I suppose every little helps, but I think you can take worrying about your calorie expenditure a bit TOO far

Recovering Spendaholic, you are not entirely on your own. You have got us now. It CAN be done, and if we get our heads together, not only can it be done without feeling in the least bit deprived, it can be done while having a bit of fun too

odds-n-sods

pounds_and_pensive wrote: »

I think you should be aiming at re-training your appetite and tastebuds (unless I've got the point of the thread wrong). 1200 calories is very low, and certainly not something I think anyone would be maintaing forever. I read somewhere once that if you want to be a certain weight, you just eat the calories needed by a person of that weight (plug your ideal weight in here to find out http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/content/PED_6_1x_Calorie_Calculator.asp ) and sooner or later, that is the weight you will be, and by then eating for that weight will just come naturally. The calories needed by a person of my ideal weight are substantially more than 1200, yet substantially less than I've been eating in recent years. Which is why I weigh substantially more. It makes a lot of sense really

I love the fitday site (I've not seen that one before). I was pleased to see that the activities it quotes calorie usage for are normal day-to-day ones, and not the 'salsa-ing down cliffs' type that I've seen elsewhere. I was quite astonished by how basic their activities are to be honest. Sitting on the toilet? I suppose every little helps, but I think you can take worrying about your calorie expenditure a bit TOO far

Recovering Spendaholic, you are not entirely on your own. You have got us now. It CAN be done, and if we get our heads together, not only can it be done without feeling in the least bit deprived, it can be done while having a bit of fun too

You misunderstood my post. the fitday website isn't accurate - it said I burned over 3000 calories a day - no way I do! and that I could eat over 2000 calories a day and lose weight. Another site said to stay the same weight was 1950 calories, and to lose 2 lb a week would be 1200. That is more realistic.