The Lose Weight The Old Style Way Thread.

BigMummaF

Yep--must be something in the air today:o ......I'm ready to take on any wet paper bag that crosses my path:D
Been rather sleepy past few days & now have a bunged up doze so I guess I'm the latest casualty to the lurgy:o Last night I just had to have chocolate, & never even thought about a hot choc sachet, & went straight for a well-known choc bar that is 'out of this world';)
But that was yesterday & today I intend to not let one slip dictate the rest of my life.

I'll be chasing up you gardeners.....I've killed off 6 lots of mint:eek: .....for some help in growing herbs & salad stuffs. Can I plant carrots into a grow-bag affair or do they need something deeper? What soil do you use for potted herbs etc? How can you keep herbs over winter-time? What else is relatively idiot-proof in the garden?
Perhaps I need to visit the greenies board:o but I'm absolutely hopeless with anything growing in dirt:rotfl:
Healthy Eating folks.

Cheap_Date

Hi EVERYONE!!

Breakfast was porridge again!! I do like it though. I've just eaten fruit for lunch, feeling bunged up and lazy so can't be bothered! Hopefully will feel a bit better later on.

Nix, I threw away loads of half finished Festive food yesterday. I hated it too - not very OS! The alternative was to sit and eat it all. Although it wouldn't have been wasted, I think I'd have felt really awful afterwards. Its gone now and forgotten.

BigMummaF, I can't grow anything at all! I don't know why - I try, I really do! The only thing I have still growing in my little garden is rosemary. I get very excited when I find a new recipe that involves rosemary. I really must try again to grow one more thing so I can go mad with some different recipes!

Hi to everyone else. I love reading these posts, the positive ones make me feel focused and the not so positive ones make me feel like it isn't only me that isn't Little Miss Extreme Health and Fitness!

xx

pigpen

breakfast.. packet of hula hoops on the run.. but it was 'breakfast' before 1pm!!!
Lunch.. 2 satsumas ham and I resisted the ginger slices in Cooplands and bought fruit instead!!!
Dinner tonight.. 2 fried eggs, 2 waffles and half a tin of baked beans.

Satsuma saved for later!

MRSMCAWBER

ECKY THUMP

we are full of aches, pains n gripes today aren't we :rotfl:

Its probably the slump after the xmas festivities... just think ladies -soon we wil be getting more lovely day light -we will all be a few lbs lighter, and a few pennies better off :T come on we can do this....

I hope everyones aches n pains are gone soon

BigmummaF

I grow carrots in a container.. its only about 12" deep, but i think a grow bag might be too shallow -
Lettuce, raddish, spring onions, carrots, runner beans and tomatoes all grow easily....
If you have any nice tomatoes in the fridge -pinch the seeds out of them -that will be even cheaper -and i do the same with pepper seeds too:p

Potatoes grow easily too....
Im going to test what my mum has read this year too... apparently, if you get a potato that you are peeling and it has started to get an eye, cut the small chunk off it and push it into a bit of compost, when it shoots through the top, place in a bigger pot and you should get enough potatoes for 1 meal - for nothing :T rather than planting the whole potato -although i have some of those planted too
and when preparing carrots if you cut the top bit off and place it in a bit of water until roots appear -then transfer into compost another carrot will grow -but it won't make a proper long carrot but a small round one :T

I thought this was brilliant for those with little ones -who would be so happy to grow even a small carrot.... so im going to give it a go and see what happens

Well i have had 2 granary cobs with squeezy cheese and an apple for lunch.. and have mad the gammon stock into yummy soup by throwing in red lentils and broth mix and cooking until tender..just have to blitz it now -it is gorgeous.mind its going in the freezer for hubbies flask :rolleyes:

Had a walk to the garden centre earlier to get some bit to send back for my mum - so its a bit of extra exercise i guess. I was very good and ignored a stunning cold frame for my garden :A it was over 1m square and had a double lid and was polycarbonate..oooh i was sooooo tempted and at €50 i thought it was a great price.. but i have decided i will carry on as i am this year and then see if it comes down at the end of the season

well i will get off and get some sewing done... hope all is better soon and everyone is fighting fit

swampduck

In true MSE Style I have been on a diet since January 2007 and am proud to say that I have lost 10kg!!:j

All done by portion caution!! Or as someone mentioned on an earlier thread, war time rationing or similar. It really does work - it takes time but I'm getting there!! Now all I need to do is trim my Debt the same way and I'm sorted!!

But am still gonna try some of the recipes given in this thread - they sound delicious.


Swampy

rockie4

BigMummaF wrote: »

I'll be chasing up you gardeners.....I've killed off 6 lots of mint:eek: .....for some help in growing herbs & salad stuffs. Can I plant carrots into a grow-bag affair or do they need something deeper? What soil do you use for potted herbs etc? How can you keep herbs over winter-time? What else is relatively idiot-proof in the garden?
Perhaps I need to visit the greenies board:o but I'm absolutely hopeless with anything growing in dirt:rotfl:
Healthy Eating folks.

You need something deeper than a grow bag for carrots and it also needs to be off the ground to prevent the dreaded carrot fly:eek: Something like a barrel??
I grow herbs in an old sink outside my back door, I usually buy ready grown plants (only 'cos OH has the house full of his seedling so I have no room) You can overwinter rosemary outside but everything else I usually freeze either in a polybag or ice cubes. I grow mint, oregano, sage, basil on the windowsill, thyme and anything else that takes my fancy. They grow for fun, I can't keep houseplants but herbs - no problem:D

Caterina

Good afternon, slimmers!

Sorry I did not pop in yesterday, just so much to do, but I am happy to report a very good day food-wise, ended up with only 4 1/2 points (I just CANNOT bring myself to call them SYNS!) on my SW diet sheet. Feeling ok and happy that I have somehow made up for the cake and crackers of Sunday.

Good to see you back MRSM!

Dawnylou, I hope that you will feel better about yourself, please love yourself as the kind and wonderful human being you are, regardless of size and what you ate!

JillD, Sorry to hear that you also had a difficult childhood, isn't it a shame how many parents work so hard to make their children feel down about their look? I hope to have counteracted that tendency, after being at the receiving end, with my two, especially with my DD, who is now a lovely 18 year old, full of confidence in herself.

It took me a lot of work to make her feel ok with herself, the self doubts of the teenage years are really very strong and society does not help, with its impossible role models, skinny film stars and the worship of glossiness! So I repeated to both her and her brother, at every possible occasion, how lovely and beautiful they are. I now know they believe it, because of their self-assuredness!

Frogga, I read with great sadness about the death of that young lady, it does bring it home that we need to do something about our weight, for the sake of our children as well as ourselves.

I was also thinking about your car predicament, it must be a difficult decision, with young children it is hard not to have a car, I was really glad for mine when I had twins to ferry here and there. I gave up the car when the twins were 12 years old and the old car died, we decided not to replace it and never looked back, but we live in London and have very good public transport where we are, so of course our situation is different. Good luck in whatever way you decide!

Ok, today my day is 'middling':

Breakfast: 2/3 slice of rye bread with pumpkin seed butter and 1 tsp HM Marmalade

Break: 1 choc digestive (awwww this is a bummer, was at a woodworking class I have just started, everyone was having tea and bikky and I just could not resist. Not the end of the world, but it means I cannot put as much oil on my dinner veg!).

Lunch: boiled brown rice with broccoli, chili and pecorino cheese.

Snack - am about to go and get it: soya yoghurt with apple and kiwi chopped in it, 2 dried apricots (for iron content).

Dinner: will be some sort of quick and easy veg soup, as I am meeting DH in Greenwich to go and watch The Kite Runner at 6:30pm, so I need to have eaten something quick before that or I shall end up buying an ice cream at the cinema!

Good rest of the day, all,

Love

Caterina

frogga

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

ECKY THUMP

we are full of aches, pains n gripes today aren't we :rotfl:

Its probably the slump after the xmas festivities... just think ladies -soon we wil be getting more lovely day light -we will all be a few lbs lighter, and a few pennies better off :T come on we can do this....

Don't you just hate those "always cheerful" people ? We're in a bad mood , leave us alone!:p

MRSMCAWBER

woohoo frogga you can't be "BLUE" as frogs are green

lots of :rotfl: :j :T :laugh: _party_ :dance: :wave: :cheesy: just for you-grumpy pants

Im even more smiley now than i was earlier as hubby is home.. and i was telling him about my resisting the cold frame for my garden - and he has offered to get it me as a late xmas pressie -well he didn't know what to get me, and at that point i didn't want or need anything... well now im getting a cold frame :j . I could have got it out of the "household" budget..but im in "tight fisted" mode :rotfl:

Come on frogga -give us a grin :rotfl:

frogga

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