The Lose Weight The Old Style Way Thread.

kittyscarlett

Hello there Penny - just join right in with the thread - no need for a number etc and welcome !

Eumenides, I have the same problem as you - can't face food at all first thing in the morning, need to be up 2-3 hours before I can eat - which is v hard when mingled with my working hours/conditions Nowt wrong with grazing, you just have to be thoughtful as to your grass If you have to eat at work, try taking in fruit fresh and dried, different type of cheeses, peanut butter, hardboiled eggs, tomatoes, tartex/veg pate/marmite - bagels or muffins either to toast there or as is - savoury biscuits/rice cakes/oatcakes/crispbreads etc - all of which are easily portable and mostly don't need a fridge - graze away !

Cotsvale, to my subjective eye that looks like a great breakfast - but then I don't know how much weight you need to lose or any other factors you have, and I ain't no medical profesh :P but, just an ordinary human being, looks good to me

Eumenidies

Thanks MrsM and KittyScarlet - those are great ideas

Glad to know it's not just me who struggles with the 'breakfast is the most important meal ever' concept.

I may just try the healthy grazing instead... *gets small green lawnmower out* :j

newlywed

Eumenidies wrote: »

Thanks! I guess I should try porridge... no snackies sounds good - any ideas for making it taste better?! :rotfl:

If you have texture issues then try normal oats as well as jumbo porridge oats - i don't like slop so go for the jumbo option

I like cinnamon, raisins and sometimes a drop of honey stirred in.
Or frozen fruits stirred through.

I don't have milk but I prefer it made with rice milk than just water as then it's REALLY boring!!!

debtfreehopeful_2

i was never a fan of breakfast and have trained myself to eat it and actually im doing so much better mentally and with the weight loss since i made a determined effort. I eat a fair sized bowl of porridge or have scrambled eggs on toast every day now then a snack mid morning, lunch, snack mid afternoon, tea and then a snack about 7pm and it seems to be working well for me

Leopardlady

On the subject of brekkie, when commuting 3 hours to work i would take bagels and marmite in with me, then toast and have a great brekkie at work. This also helped on fridays when the office always had cakes and bacon butties!

MRSMCAWBER

Hi there pennyT

if you put "nutriton in cornflakes" in google ithe first on the list is weightlossforgood.co.uk. it brings up a really detailed list..think it was 6.5g of sugar in 100g....

looks like a really good place for weired and wonderful info for the rest of us too..i am sad

PennyT_2

Thank you MrsM

Its really hard to find good cereal that doesnt contain a lot of sugar. My absolutely favourite breakfast before becoming diabetic was a small bowl of frosties with semi-skimmed milk and a banana sliced into it. I was able to eat it when I got up, and it appeared to be fine when I was losing weight.

The thing was, that prior to that I would NEVER have expected cornflakes to contain sugar! The diabetes really opened my eyes to hidden ingredients in food products

cotsvale

I got this from https://www.healthy-eating-made-easy.com

Thought it might help with meal plans




VEGETABLE SERVINGS: SIZES

• Asparagus, canned 7 spears
• Asparagus, fresh 5 spears
• Avocado Half
• Aubergine One-third of a large one
• Baby sweetcorn 6
• Baked beans 3 tbsp (1/2 cup)
• Broad beans 3 heaped tbsp (1/2 cup)
• Broccoli 2 large florets
• Brussels sprouts 8
• Cabbage 3 heaped tbsp shredded, (1/2 cup)
• Carrots 1 large
• Celery 3 sticks
• Cherry tomatoes 7
• Chickpeas See Pulses
• Courgette Half a large one
• Curly kale 4 tbsp (1/2 cup)
• Eggplant One-third of a large one
• French beans 4 heaped tbsp (1/2 cup)
• Kidney beans See Pulses
• Lentils See pulses
• Mixed salad Cereal bowl full (1 cup)
• Mushrooms, button 14
• Onion 1 medium
• Parsnip 1 large
• Peas, fresh, frozen or canned 3 heaped tbsp (1/2 cup)
• Potatoes Never count towards your daily vegetable servings, in any form
• Pulses, cooked: kidney beans, chickpeas, lentils etc 3 heaped tbsp (1/2 cup)
• Salad leaves, lettuce etc Cereal bowl full (1 cup)
• Scallions 8
• Snowpeas Handful
• Spinach, cooked 2 heaped tbsp (1/2 cup)
• Spring onions 8
• Sugarsnap peas Handful
• Sweetcorn, fresh, frozen or canned 3 heaped tbsp (1/2 cup)
• Tomato 1 medium
• Vegetable soup 1 serving of fresh or canned soup
• Vegetable sticks Handful of mixed - celery, pepper, carrot etc
• Zucchini Half a large one

FRUIT SERVINGS: SIZES

• Apple, dried 4 rings
• Apple, fresh 1 medium
• Apricots, dried 3 whole
• Banana 1 medium
• Blackberries Handful
• Clementines 2
• Cherries, fresh 14
• Dried fruits, mixed 1 tbsp (1/4 cup)
• Figs, fresh 2
• Fruit juice 250ml (1 cup) glass
• Fruit salad, fresh or canned 3 heaped tbsp, (1/2 cup)
• Kiwi 2
• Grapefruit Half
• Grapes Handful
• Lychees, fresh or canned 6
• Mango 2 slices
• Melon 1 large slice
• Passion fruit 6
• Peach, canned 2 halves
• Peach, fresh 1 medium
• Pear 1 medium
• Pineapple, canned 2 rings
• Pineapple, fresh 1 large slice
• Plums 2 medium
• Prunes, canned 6
• Nectarine 1 medium
• Raisins 1 tbsp (1/4 cup)
• Raspberries 2 handfuls
• Rhubarb, cooked 2 heaped tbsp (1/3 cup)
• Satsumas 2
• Strawberries 7

Deb_Williams

I remember Michael Winner talking about his diet.

He was asked by a publisher to write a diet book, following his weight loss.

He refused, saying his diet was only four words long:

"Eat less, move more"

:T :T

Sola

Afternoon all - can I join you? I'm at my heaviest @ 15 st 4lbs, and at only 5'4" it's way too much. Add into that PCOS, and I'm storing up health problems for myself, so time I got it sorted. DH is being surprisingly supportive and has said he will eat whatever I cook. I'll use up what we have in the house (within reason - the sausages in the fridge will be frozen individually, and DH can do himself sausage sandwiches if he wants) and shop for lower-fat stuff as I go. Before I went on holiday last week, I was moaning on here about having fallen off the homecooking wagon, so this is giving me the boost to kill 2 birds with 1 stone. I'll weigh myself weekly (Thursdays, seeing as that's how I've started).

I don't have a particularly sweet tooth, but my biggest downfall is always cheese, so I will buy a small pack of Cheddar, chop it into 1oz pieces and bag it for snacking or grating on food (1 piece a day if needed). Lowfat cottage cheese with pineapple works for me. I'm aiming to lose slowly @ 1lb/week - it could take 18 months for me to get down to my healthy range, but I'm prepared for that. In the past I've lost a stone in 2 weeks on things like Atkins, and of course it's come straight back on, so time for a new longterm approach.

Breakfast will be a challenge for me - I usually have 2 (2!) mozzarella and tomato croissants from Pret's, so instead I will have porridge and banana, or ricecakes and lowfat cheese spread. I'll also factor in a mid-evening snack of some sort - maybe a bowl of cornflakes.

So today is the first day of my new healthy living. So far since 8.30 I've had 2 cups of coffee, 2 apples, 2 Alpro chocolate soya desserts.

I'm about to cook some leek and sweet potato soup in the crockpot for freezing in tubs and tomorrow's lunch at work. Tonight's dinner will be roasted chicken thighs (no skin for me), baked sweet potatoes and whatever veg I can find in the freezer. There are some fab recipes on here which I've copied out to try.

I'm going to increase my exercise too; I've found my old pedometer, will walk to a different station in the mornings and will take the stairs at work. That'll do for starters; I can up it when I see how my back copes.