The Lose Weight The Old Style Way Thread.

MRSMCAWBER

Well done Taplady....:T

Get hubby to go and bite its head off

recovering_spendaholic

Well done Mrs M and Taplady for resisting temptation and hope you have a lovely dinner out Marie - enjoy what you have and don't worry if you have a bit "extra" as it will even out over the next few days as long as you don't give yourself a hard time about it.

I was wondering what nobbies were too! I LOVE sprouts so much - they are my favourite veg after carrot & Swede mash.

Well Auntie Pat came but I was saved from a long visit because my friend Maria had called round and she knows how stressed I get when Pat comes so as she arrived Maria said "Oh Pat I'm so sorry I didn't know you were calling and I've booked a table for us for a meal so we will have to go soon" Pat was not pleased but didn't stay too long and then went. Result!

I had a sensible lunch (leftover sprouts, turkey and courgettes micorwaved with a bit of gravy) and then I had a few of these Sula sugar free caramel sweets I got in the chemist earlier. I am not good with sugar free sweets as they tend to give me the runs and combined with all the veg means that I have had a bit of an upset tummy all afternoon. I haven't had any tea yet and it is after 7pm because my tummy is still wobbling. I just ate a tiny bit off DD2's plate of pasta and that has made me feel a bit iffy so I think I will wait a bit.

Hope you are all enjoying your Saturday evening.

rockie4

*Yawns*
Morning ladies, I was very naughty yesterday, the drink after work ended up being more than one or 2, followed by pizza on the way home :eek: (considering I don't normally drink very much - a bottle of wine usually lasts me 3 days!)........I've been more than slightly fragile all day and have had 3 slices of toast through the day.
Recovered now and had aubergine stuffed with couscous, spinach and a sprinkle of cheese followed by OH's home made apple and blackberry pie and custard - a small slice, about half of what I'd normally have.:rolleyes:
Today's plan of defrosting the freezer and having a cook-in to refill it went by the board though so I might have to do some tomorrow but the plan is to go for a good walk in the Derbyshire hills in the morning so I'll see how shattered I am when we get in!!;)

Well done to all the losers:A :A

redmel1621

Hi all

You all seem optimistic, i think I am becoming a bit obsessed with losing weight and am worrying that I have eaten too much today.
I have had
Breakfast - 1 weetabix
Lunch - salad with two boiled eggs and 1 banana
snack - 1 apple 2 ritz crackers
Dinner - spaghetti bolognese (decent sized portion)
Now I have just got back from karate and have eaten 3 ryvitas with dairylea plus half peice of toast ds didn't want......

I am feeling very fat at the moment and keep getting on scales few times every day...tell me to stop doing this......

Mel x

pounds_and_pensive

redmel1621 wrote: »

I am feeling very fat at the moment and keep getting on scales few times every day...tell me to stop doing this......

Mel x

STOP DOING THIS!

I've lost weight since starting this, I know I have, but my mind has been playing some unpleasant tricks on me too, and consequently I'm feeling far from optimistic. One comment from my husband this afternoon almost had me deciding to skip tea altogether until I talked sense into myself. He 'kindly' pointed out that he probably weighs less than me even though he's just over a foot taller. He doesn't know my weight, but he was right. I'm a stone heavier. He's very thin anyway, and probably underweight for his height (10st at 6' 3"), but I've just felt like a blob ever since he said this.

Never mind. The way I'm trying to see it is that in order to get where I want to be, I have to stop comparing the current point on my journey to the end destination. If I'm to compare anything at all, then it ought to be my current healthy diet to the revolting 24/7 stuff-fest that's been more-or-less my diet since I hit a bad patch three years ago.

I'm also considering a divorce

I was reading previous posts earlier and pondering the 'self-sabotage' question (I've been guilty of this too). Bizarrely (in my case at least), I think it's to do with a desire to succeed. If (as my warped brain often tells me) I can never hope to achieve and maintain my ideal weight, then my subconscious seems to want me to go in the other direction - 'Well you can successfully make yourself fat instead then!'. And I have :rolleyes: In the past, I think it's the same self-sabotaging subconscious 'desire to succeed' that would have had me listening to the inner voice telling me to skip tea earlier, and I'd have skipped tea - for weeks - quickly meeting my target and beyond, then going on to gain it all back and more even quicker.

It would seem that the answer is to work out just what sensible eating means, recognise that your emotions will probably furtively try to get you to deviate from the plan, and then determine not to allow them to. MUCH easier said than done, I know. If we continue to eat sensibly, then we'll be at a sensible weight and stay there.

We can do it. All of us

redmel1621

I will not get on the scales tommorrow
I will not get on the scales tommorrow

Thanks Pounds_and_pensive.....
My husband is also 6'3 and was always underweight he is now a much better weight for his height at just under 13st and looks better for it too. The problem is as he has put on 3 st so have I and i am only 5'2 so look like a blob.

I wil be good tommorrow no weighing and no pinching leftover toast hehe

Mel x

Dazi

Hiya all
Thanks Mrs Mc and Kitty, you given me the will to continue, I think the stress with me daughter is ok now, the going back to work, well I have to deal with that next week. Have not been to bad today. sorta had a brunch with apple muffin, DP suggested we went out for meal tonight but I didnt want to, made broccoli and stilton soup which we had with HM rolls.
Have got DD and future son in law coming tomorrow and going to roast pork dinner also going to do couscous and roasted peppers to take to work on Monday (eeeeeek I am really not looking forward to going back, probably wont be able to eat anything)

MRSMCAWBER

Evening all...

Pounds n pensive.... why not point out to hubby that if he makes a comment like that again.. he will way even less... as you will remove his dangly bits .

You are right... focus on the fact that you are now making healthy choices, rather than junk :T ... for the first time ever - i am now thinking "today i am making healthy choices".... so nothing is forbidden... im just not eating it "today".... seems to be working so far...

Redmel....."STEP AWAY FROM THOSE SCALES":p ...... And 1 weetabix.... that wouldn't fill my hollow tooth:eek: ....

Rockie.... glad you had a good time yesterday...well done on not letting it make you feel...oh heck may as well carry on eating :T

If im honest i know exactly where my overeating started.... and this is something that i have never said, or told anyone else :shhh: ..... my dad died on my sixteenth birthday.... and mum n 2 sisters were so upset they couldn't eat for a while.... my 2 brothers dealt with it their way...my logic was...well if not eating means im not coping..then "i will cope"...so i did the obvious and started shoving food down ..... see - i know what is behind it... the strange thing is, that of us all i am actually the one out of us that can talk about him without getting upset :rolleyes: ...still i have held onto a subconscious habbit of "coping" - by filling my face!!! Still at least i know why i do it..sorry - DID it... so hopefully after what will be 20 years on the 22nd dec i have put that habit into a box and locked it.:T

Well its the end of another day :T , not long now frogga ...keep up the good work folks...
We are getting there :j

MRSMCAWBER

Hi Dazi...

Glad to see you posting :T

Hope work isn't too bad.... and that soup sounds lovely mmm

We are all pulling each other along nicely.... It is so much more encouraging on here than any "class" i have ever been too.... think part of it might be because we have daily contact rather than paying through the nose once a week:D ...and of course cos everyone on here is so lovely:j

Keep up the good work;)

meanmarie

Just lost the post telling you that I had a springroll as a starter, noodles with stirfried veg and cod, glass of wine and pavlova with fruit and cream...lovely and what I allowed myself to have...yes, have to say that all my family are very good at treating us.

Had an unexpected visitor whom I hadn't seen for ages, armed with raspberry cheesecake....I had a piece when we were having a cup of tea so think that I need to be on fruit and veg for most of tomorrow.

I know that there have been umpteen things in my life that I have sabotaged for whatever reason so must be common problem....will have to try to deal with it in some way other than by eating

Night all

Marie