The Lose Weight The Old Style Way Thread.

Cute_'n'_Quirky

The Paul McKenna 'I can make you thin' CD is very good to help keep you on the straight and narrow, whichever diet you happen to be on.

Anyone tried it?

recovering_spendaholic

Hello again everyone - having a better eating day today - just realised that my TOTM is due so that will have provoked yesterdays food extravaganza I think - I am always much worse just before my TOTM for some reason. Anyway today I have had a thick hm soup with half a wrap with salad and chicken in for lunch and so far.. NOTHING ELSE! Just nipped out to Boots for TOTM supplies and got some lovely 3 for 2 No 7 gifts in there for my sister and for DD1 - I get great staff discount thanks to DD1 working there on a Saturday so I got £65 worth of stuff for £35 thanks to 3 for 2 and staff discounts.

Thanks Mrs M - I will have a look in Ikea for some baskets - hadn't thought of there, but then I tend not to venture into Ikea as I seem to always come back with a sofa or table or new kitchen that I didn't need but couldn't resist!

While I was out at Boots DD2 persuaded me to go into Iceland and get some of the party food that was on offer (the stuff they advertise at the beginning of I'm a Celebrity) - She has been dying to try it, so I got some crispy duck filo thingies (46 calories each - not bad), some mini hot dogs (didn't even look at the calories as hot dogs are the rankest things ever) and some prawn crispy things (50 calories each but I don't really like prawns so...) all for £5. She is going to have them for her tea on condition that she has some fruit for afters (she is a terror for not going to to loo and needs to not eat rubbish or she can go for a week without going...)

Are any of you watching I'm a Celebrity? I hate that sort of programme but am strangely drawn to it (probably because both DD's love it) - I just can't stand that Lyn woman for some reason.

Anyway will go and make my sugar free jelly, and see if my pork steaks are defrosted.

Keiss_21

Hya folks

Thanks Mrs M for the pork recipe...it was VERY scrummy :D...and the left-over gravy with veg (DS2 doesn't like gravy!) went into the HM soup I was making last night too....mmmmm. If the boys hadn't been rushing out to a rugby match, there probably wouldn't have been anything left. So I put it into the soup as I was quite stuffed and didn't want the temptation to overeat...:o

I probably didn't put in enough sage...so I will use more next time. Thanks for the idea of freezing the sage..I must do some...yes my plants...both purple and green are 3 or perhaps even 4 years old, and are approaching mega size..so they will get the chop in the late winter/early spring.

Doing well today, 3 km on the bike this morning and been tidying up old hanging baskets, binning old dead stuff and re-potting those plants that will come back next year. I must get the last of the plants into the greenhouse, though I should really get some more bubble wrap to finish off insulating the roof. A good excuse to go to the garden centre tomorrow methinks...perhaps I will get a few goodies to go into my MIL gardening box. :A

As to boxes and baskets: I got a pack of 3 bread-roll baskets from my local cheap shop as well as a couple of round clip-lid plastic tubs for £1 each. Then at Morrisons, I got a cake storer with a mince-pie box inside for £2.99...pretty good. At least with all these, the recipients will have a useful box/basket to use after all the goodies have been finished.

I haven't yet made my Christmas cake as I usually make a fat free one (Kim's cake from RC), which doesn't last, and has a tendency to go mouldy (I have found this to my cost!). I did get all my dried fruit half price from James Graves, so I just might make a mixture with fat (soya as I have many veggie friends). I always make cakes for my sister and neighbour, but this time they will be slightly smaller as well as ours and I will make a series of little single cakes using clean empty tins (which had sweetcorn or fruit), small baked bean tins are good, but we are not a family of BB eaters! I did this years ago at playgroup...we made over 30...great fun, and got the children to decorate them too before taking them for Christmas.

Food today:

B: Special K, soya milk + OJ
carrot + 1 small square HM flapjack
L: HM Soup, 2 slices cheese + 1 slice of local baker's bread
1 small square HM flapjack
T: HM burgers, M&S garlic flatbreads (mmm) + veg

So I am off to start soaking the fruit in brandy...yummm!

Promise I won't munch on the cherries and pineapple...well I will try! :rudolf::xmassmile:rudolf::xmassmile:rudolf:

kittyscarlett

Good eve all !

recovering/frogga... the thing about counselling is that its not meant to " cure " you but help you get to a place where you can feel more comfortable with the painful/bad/sad things that have happened to you in the past, and develop a coping strategy for any behaviour patterns that have evolved from that which may cause you distress or problems. It's not going to erase those hurtful things but there is a point to examining and confronting them - or else there is the possibility that you are going to let them control you conciously or otherwise the rest of your life.

I have not had good experience with counselling and most of my problems I deal with myself with the help of close friends that understand me well, but that doesnt mean I dont advocate it for other people. As MrsM says re food, its finding what works for you... counselling helps some people and not others, but you don't know til you try it. I just wish I could transfer some of the strength of mind and coping strategies ( self evolved and they work !! ) that I use on a daily basis to combat my agoraphobia, to the battle against eating crap food and too much of it too often. I love really good food, I love a lot of really healthy food, I eat loads of fruit and veg and organic/free range/ wholegrain stuff, I just wish I could defeat the choc/crisps/diet soda/endless bits of bread, cheese etc thing more often than I currently do. Cos I know when I am feeling rubbish, my defences are down and out comes the chocolate etc shovel - like yesterday.

Anyway ! Things I am proud of myself for doing today - beans on seedy bread toast for work brunch. Not napping when I got home despite a sodawful work day but staying awake against all the odds and am doing a bit of tidying up and the laundry. Total of 30 mins brisk walking in short bursts today. ( Know what you mean about the walking making you feel better, MrsM ! certainly does. I have even managed to get my Favourite Gent In The World ( hence to be referred to as the FG ) having a 20 min walk lunchtime - having to trust him on that one as can't see the other side of the 'puter but sure he wouldn't fib ) Will be having hm cauli cheese, more beans ( oh my poor colleagues tomorrow, LOL ! ) for dinner followed by apple and grapes.

Things am not so happy with - packet cracked pepper kettle chips, small packet revels and pepsi max when I got home... oops

this_is_it

Evening everyone, not done any walking today unless you count the supermarket.had a late breakfast 2 weetabix/sultanas skimmedmilk/water.
had some fruit later and hot dogs for tea but only had one bread roll, made some lemon sponge cakes with dd and ds didnt have any but did eat some of the lemon icing while i was making it:o in the end i demolised a mars bar last night but today i got the kids extra fruit instead of crisps i did stop buying multi packs of crisps as they werent lasting 5 mins but they'v been creeping back into the house again.looking forwards to sharing a bottle of wine with oh later if hes awake that is as at the momment hes snoring his head off lol.
looking forward to a roast beef dinner tomorrow.

net x x x

MRSMCAWBER

Evening all

well i wallowed in my bath..with my mug of tea -as predicted and that mag is quite interesting.... lots of bits in there that echo what we are trying to do on here... lots of bits on things like reprogramming the way you think about food, even a page called "back to the future"..telling you to go back to cooking from scratch, rely on the car less, eating at the table, and grow your own veggies..sound familiar ???:rotfl:
And most interesting to me a page called the "weight debate" with rosemary conley talking of the joys of low fat diets, and a Dr john Briffa arguing that "low fat" isn't always best... im with him on this one..after many a moon eating "low fat, fat free, virtually fat free"...

a section on beating the middle aged spread,
beat emotional eating
is your past making you fat?

Im toying with having the next edition before committing to a subscription..if i do subscribe though you get a pilates kit... giant ball, pump, dvd and chart ..woohoo:rotfl:
there also success stories and recipes

1. veg n barley bake
2. mushroom risotto
3. sausage, squash n root veg
4. mediterranean style pot roast lamb
5. sweet pork n chilli stir fry
6. pepperpot..amb, rice n things
7. pot roast chicken
8. lamb n haricot stew
9. jaffa cookies
10. apricot n cranberry squares
11. raspberry oaties
12. mango n passionfruit muffins

if anyone wants any..just give me the nod

All in all it seems to be a refreshing change to the usual mags... worth a trial copy at least..well i think so
And do you know why i like it most? because on the weight chart in the back im classed as "very overweight" and not "seriously overweight" :rotfl:

Just had a think and reckon i will get hubby to subscribe for me... its £2.60 an issue and you don't save on getting a subscription..just the free gift...but i will get it sent to my mum..who can read it and for the price of a 1st class stamp she can forward it on to me ...to have it sent here would be £4 an issue, and to buy it here is 5.20euros....so a subscription it is

well enough rambling about that..

I had my poached egg on toast - done by hubby...after asking me

• "is 1 enough?"...
• yes thanks....
• "are you sure?"
• yes..
• " doesn't seem like much"...
• no no its plenty ....
• "sure you don't want 2?"
• NO 1 thanks....

brings plate through....

• "it doesn't look much"..
• no, because you put it on the biggest dinner plates we have...
• would you like one of mine?
• ARGHHHHH.. im sure you get the picture:wall:

In the end..it was yummy..and yes 1 was enough :rotfl:

Mirandamayhem... being in germany back in 2002..is partly responsible for a bit of my extra "baggage":p .. this time i arrived ready for battle.. i knew it would be so easy to carry on... although my fave thing in the whole country has to be there krautsalat.. god i love it..haven't had any for the last couple of months...but im taking a bucket sized tub back to the Uk for my xnas treat....:T

recovering spendaholic... so glad to hear you are having a better day today,

Keiss21.. glad you liked the pork, and its so quick and simple isn't it :T .. im not a big fan of gravy either and sort of rescue the meat n veg out of it..but hubby loves lots of gravy so it doesn't go to waste;)
it also works with sausages too.. just do them the same minus the sage... and then near the end lift the sausages to the top if you like them crispy... i like mine squidgy...
shame i don't live near you..i have enough bubble wrap to wrap the whole house... left from moving here

We are at it again kityscarlett.. i was hanging my nose over the kettle chips today,, the cracked pepper ones and the balsamic ones..2 big bags for 3euros... but hubby prefered cheese puffs n chipsticks still if they aren't here i can't eat them
I have realised that i am starting to forget what things taste like..if that makes sense ... when hubby opened that topic..the smell was so sickly it made me feel quite squiffy.. but i can't remember what pork pie, etc tastes like.... its really strange.
The walking just blows the cobwebbs away doesn't it..and i get back more determined to eat sensibly....because i feel better about myself it seems a shame to stuff junk into myself .

This is it..hope OH woke up in time to have a nice relaxing drink with you!
my hubby has been yawning all day..just because he had a lie in this morning..it always makes him feel worse... he will be out at stupid o'clock in the morning golfing and will feel wide awake all day..so in future im gonna drag him out of bed early on a weekend:rotfl:

howdy doody frogga -hope all is well and you are having a good weekend

well ladies i will get off and leave you in peace..for now
keep up the good work everyone...and have a lovely weekend

pigpen

I didn't even try today.. it was DD4's birthday so I had next to nothing all day.. a couple of eggy sarnies, half a packet of cheese puffs, 6 day nurse capsules, 2 jaffa cakes, 4 choc fingers and 3 mini packets of chocolate buttons while I was doing the present wrapping... I had 1 cooked beetroot as well.

I must find something proper to eat.. problem is this cold makes me feel totally unhungry.. which is difficult considering I eat next to nothing anyway! Now I have realised how little I have eaten today I think I should really go eat something.. and I need to get the chicken out of the freezer for tomorrow.

meanmarie

Evening all,

Night-time eating report from me:

Lunch: hm veg soup, half slice hm rye bread with hummous, slice left over gammon from yesterday, 2 coffees

Dinner: hm pizza, extra thin base for me, topped with onion, 2 thin slices salami, mushrooms ( in olive oil), inch of thin chorizo, small piece feta and quarter ball mozzarella, one chocolate peanut and tiny slice of chocolate cake...not worth freezing Mrs MCC as DGS2 eats some and less than quarter of cake left.

Snack: Pear.

Only exercise was run to the line to get almost dry clothes in before it lashed rain...oh and I did cross the yard to get something from outside freezer....not totally outside Frogga its in a shed!

Sleep well all

Marie

kika

Cute_n_Quirky wrote: »

The Paul McKenna 'I can make you thin' CD is very good to help keep you on the straight and narrow, whichever diet you happen to be on.

A

I've tried it and it does help but you still need willpower

kittyscarlett

kika wrote: »

Cute_n_Quirky wrote: »

The Paul McKenna 'I can make you thin' CD is very good to help keep you on the straight and narrow, whichever diet you happen to be on.

A

I've tried it and it does help but you still need willpower

Also if the OP were to re-peruse some of the posts in this thread, they would have seen that several people here do use the Paul McKenna CD already to good effect.

You're right kika, it can help but nothing can guarantee perfection

Ok, I'm very glad I managed to have the un-CD-assisted willpower to stay awake yesterday evening, went to bed around 9.30 pm, was asleep by around 10.30 pm, slept right through apart from one trip to the loo and was woken BY the alarm not before it ( and laying awake for hours ) which is a minor miracle. Just about to leave for work, blegh. Breakfast, hopefully if I have time, will be seedy bread toast and a banana or two. Work lunch is going to be a ploughman's with us all bringing bits in - I will try my hardest to go easy on the cheese, but my colleague thats bringing the salad in is the " two tiny tomatoes and 3 slices of cucumber " gal, so looks unlikely I will be able to fill up on salad Dinner - no idea yet, hope I'll be able to do the staying awake thing again - probably scampi from the freezer as needs using up.

Have a good day all