The Lose Weight The Old Style Way Thread.

dawnylou

Morning all.
Hope everyone has a good day today!

Will be atough one for me - I haven't slept much again so dying for a coffee but I'm detoxing to kickstart myself into losing weight so will have to make do with a herbal tea.
Also we have a lot of popping out to do today and my biggest downfall is stopping off at a coffeeshop for a tasty warm beverage!!!

Well I just finished breakfast which was again warmed peach, pear and grapes sprinkled with cinnamon.

Lunch will be chicken salad.
Tea will be salmon stir fry again. Yummy!!!

Bought some smoothie banana and strawberry which counts as 2 portions of fruit and veg per glass I had a glass last nigh when I felt peckish and found it actually filled me a little so will drink a glas of that again today as a snack.

Can I just ask? This is an OS thread.....how is dieting OS?
Sorry for being thick!!!

bobbadog

Happy new year everyone... am back and sort of ready to go - am not weighing myself again until the end of the month though, as quite overdid it at Christmas (was at OH's parents and can't really control what I was being fed - portion sizes I could, but actual food I couldn't!) - so, today:

B: museli concoction (well, jumbo oats, raisins and some cashew nuts) w/ semi skimmed
L: veg soup, orange
no idea

Doing 'big monthly shop' tonight, so have planned extra healthy stuff for the month x

cheerfulness4

dawnylou wrote: »

Can I just ask? This is an OS thread.....how is dieting OS?
Sorry for being thick!!!

For me personally, losing weight OS means that I don't buy the lean cusine and other 'slimming foods' that I used to. I cook from scratch but concentrate on HOW I cook food and HOW MUCH goes on my plate.

Likewise my exercise is done through housework and gardening. Walking is about to begin, too each day.

Everyone does it differently but I decided for me that clubs and gyms weren't suited to me. Another thread on here is aimed at those and a lot of the talk on there is advice to work in with their specific programme of eating, but some on this thread are successfully combining the two, ie taplady.

HTH

newlywed

dawnylou wrote: »

Can I just ask? This is an OS thread.....how is dieting OS?

I think it's not so much that dieting is OS but that we are all using OS methods to diet.

Eg eating smaller portions, cooking healthy food from scratch

Rather than using bought premade "diet" meals and food replacement "shakes" etc.

dawnylou

Ah I get you

Well I can't afford the gym but have dogs to walk each day.
I don't take part in a slimming club as I despise having to pay out money tobe told if I lost weight or not lol
I did however buy a weight watchers read meal - but it was reduced to 10p!!!!

Keiss_21

Hya Folks

Gosh, aren't there a lot of newbies...must be the time of year!!

We had tea from the chip shop last night...not very good food./spending wise, but we had a good excuse:

:jDS1 got a conditional offer to study Maths at Cambridge..... fantastic!!!!!:j

Sorry, we are soooo excited! I did suggest we go out for a meal to celebrate (we didn't for his 18th last week)...but I think my son is more OS than me, he suggested tea from the chip shop...so much cheaper than a restaurant! OH then took DS1out for a drink at our local pub...all very grown up!

I have been working my way through the freezer, making a note of all of its contents. I am also going through all my cupboards to see exactly what we have. I think it will be pork chops, with apple sauce and some garlic bread, all from the freezer. We will have veggies too of course!

Must rush off to pick up DS2 from his rugby camp in Worcester...he paid for it himself with savings and Christmas money...I think my boys are getting the hang of this saving money lark!

Will pop in tomorrow or sometime over the weekend, once DS1 has finished his course work!

M

juliejim

Congratulations Keiss21's DS!

frogga

That is absolutly FANTASTIC kleiss, I'm SO proud for you :T I would never stop smiling if I were you, infact I would have to tattoo it to my forehead so everyone knew. Bl**dy great matey!

dawnylou ~ I think your question is very valid and in fact was the reason that the thread was resisted in the first place. Then , it became apparant that dieting could be O/S for the reasons mentioned by Newlywed and Cheerfullness in that we could omit paying for expensive clubs, paying for diet ready meals, and gym membership and instead burning off the fat with good old fashioned "free" exercise like walking the dog and housework and by eating sensible home mead meals.

A good place for a quick Thanks to the board guides me thinks :T

We've had a rotten day :rolleyes: Went to Pizza Hut for Tadpole 1's Birthday treat which was ok but expensive. We had never been there before as we don't do eating out but Tadpole 1 really wanted to go. It was £2.99 for each tadpole and £6.49 for me to choose what we liked from the buffet menu. They said it was all you could eat from a range of Pizza , Pasta and Salad. However all I could eat was the Salad and not alot of that as it was all smothered in mayo. Both tadpoles had 3 slices of Pizza and 2 bits of garlic bread. Ice cream was another £1 each extra and the drinks were £1.75 each! It cost me £18 something in total and when you look at what we ate it so wasn't worth it! Still , Tadpoles both really enjoyed the treat and you only get a twelth birthday once I guess.

After the Pizza we drove into town to go to the pictures, paid £4 to park the car, queued up , and were then told they had sold out!:mad: Tadpole 1 was SO dissappointed and there was nothing else suitable on so we couldn't watch a different film. I paid for tickets for tomorrow afternoon so we are going to go back then. However the vouchers I had for 2 free cinema tickets expired on the 31 Dec so I had to pay for all of us ~ another £18! :eek: This having Birthday treats malarky is pricey aint it?!:rolleyes:

Oh, well, will really have to tighten my belt for the rest of the month :rolleyes:

Cheap_Date

Wow Keiss 21! You must all be delighted. Well done DS1!! :j

Feeling a bit dodgy today, so have only had a small bowl of porridge so far! I might make some soup later - have tons of vegetables, need to do something with them!! Maybe veggie stew?

Caterina

Hello slimmers!

This thread is really great for me. It really keeps me focused knowing that I have to come back here and 'fess up if I hit the biscuit box!

Keiss, many congratulations on your DS Uni offer, he must be seriously brainy! Golly, Cambridge! and MATHS!!!!! Awesome. You must be so proud!

Dawnylou, re. how is slimming OS, well you can do it in whatever way you want and OS is one of the ways.

Many here have said they do not go to a club or to the gym, I do both, but the club really helps me keep focused - and I also treat it as a social outing, it gets me out of bed on a Weds. morning (sometimes I find it difficult to motivate myself as I work from home and can do my work even in the night, in my pijamas!).

Re. the gym, I was referred by my GP nearly 3 years ago to something called 'Healthwise' because of fat and blood pressure, and instead of paying £30-35 per month (varied over the years) I started paying £11 per month for the first year, then £15 per month, now I am on the last few months of the £25 per month. In July 08 I shall have to decide whether to go for the full whack £35 per month - as gyms go this is really reasonable, it is council-run and has amazing facilities compared to many private ones I saw, many more classes and even better, larger gyms with up-to-date machines.

Or I might decide to ditch the membership and do it myself, but I really enjoy the aerobics and yoga classes, so perhaps I shall treat myself to a full year membership (cheaper than paying month by month), or I might even get the 'general' membership and then pay for the individual classes. Because I am over 50 now I can attend the 'club classes' which are cheaper than your average snazzy-leotard-string-up-the-bum, perma-pumped-super-slim-bimbo-ridden aerobic classes!

I suppose I am OS in my slimming insofar I still buy all my clothes, as I drop in size, from charity shops, I still cook from scratch and use up leftovers, I still live OS regardless of how much fat I carry (or do not, hopefully, soon!). Also, reducing my weight for me means also improving my health and it gives me a sense of avoiding excess, if it makes any sense. I think that each of us does in the way that it seems right for them.

Anyway, here is my day, what happened so far is:

Breakfast: fry-light egg, mushrooms and tomato on 1/2 slice rye bread

Lunch: Bubble and squeak with 1 oz fat-reduced hummus

So far no snacks but planning a hit on the dried fruits and nuts with my next cup of tea!

Planned dinner: stir fry veg with tofu on brown rice, banana with soya yoghurt.

I feel quite proud of myself today, went for a walk with a friend of mine who is quite old and frail (so slow walk on the way down), we usually go for a cup of tea and we ended up in a French patisserie because our usual cheap haunt (the Age Exchange cafe in Blackheath - great place if you ever are around this area!) was still closed. My dear friend wanted to buy me a cake and there were even pieces of clafoutis and chocolate brownies on the counters for tasters - and I resisted temptation!!! Feeling really positive about it.

Then my friend went somewhere else and I walked back fast.

Feeling good, hoping to keep up the good work, still remembering that by Weds I hope to have knocked down 4lbs!

Love to all,

Caterina