Weight Loss the Old Style Way! Part 10. Please read posts 1 and 2 before posting.

Frith

B - granola and yoghurt

L - squash soup then a bit of carrot soup to try it! Whole meal then sour dough bread (cooked by a friend).

T - jack Monroe’s vegan lasagne

lynnejk

Evening all

B.......spicy porridge, t/s syrup and s cream

L.......scrambles on one wm toast. conference pear

D......hm beef bourgignon, steamed veggies and mash spud. Bramley and bio yoghurt

Hope you all staying warm and dry
Lx

MallyGirl

Morning All

B: lo carb granola, berries and skim
L: homemade kale & bacon soup - with a random portion of dhal I found in the freezer thrown in for bulk!
chicken kebabs, salad, spicy couscous

50 min dog walk

I am starting to see some space in the freezer
Soon I hope to be able to get everything in its correct drawer - I have a drawer for meat, one for fish (well away from the icecubes), one for 'bread', one for fruit, one for veg and 2 little ones for desserts/icecream and twiddly bits.

CRANKY40

I went for a healthy breakfast yesterday with my friend so that we could meal plan (loosely) for the week ahead. Todays food

Breakfast : bacon medallions on small wholemeal bread
Lunch : courgette and light garlic cream cheese soup
Dinner : chicken and vegetable fried rice
Snacks : 2 asda ginger nuts

Florence_J

Hi guys.

Like many people I have joined a gym in the new year, but this was mainly because I am now back in work so can afford it.

I have also arranged to have one PT session a month, would like more but my budget is already being severely restrained by just having one so will leave it like that.

I have no problem with using gym equipment but exercise classes scare the hell out of me so I am trying to find a way to build up my confidence to give that a try.

One thing I'm going to struggle with is dinners, and this is why.

Breakfast and Lunch (at least during the week) are fine as I eat them separately to OH so can prep something healthy (i.e. something he wouldn't eat).

But dinners are difficult, for these reasons.

OH is stick thin and likes large portions, part of my weight gain is from matching his portion sizes.

OH hates fish and eats some meat. I don't eat meat and love fish (luckily OH does like and has no problem with meat replacement things like quorn and LM)

OH is very fussy, and generally the rule of thumb is my favourite foods are his least favourite.

OH is an unadventurous eater, whereas I love trying new things.

OH doesn't like eating things that are too similar/the same in quick succession whereas I am happy to batch cook something and eat it all week.

And the big one is OH doesn't cook.

Generally our dinners are jacket potatoes, burgers, mexican wraps, lasagne, SW Macaroni cheese, HM Indian, HM Chinese, pies, bangers and mash, toad in the hole, pizza, spag bol, spag meatballs.

So not really the healthiest options, and we go through a lot of cheese.

Basically my PT wants me to eat 1550 calories a day, with 1-2 cheat meals a week, and I am going to struggle to do that if I am eating those sort of dinners still every night, as I know from previously listing things on MyFitnessPal that they will make up most of my days calories. So it might be possible, but I would feel like I am starving during the day just to eat a massive dinner when I would prefer to have smaller meals.

What I guess I am looking for is meals which can be dressed up for OH, and dressed down for me. Has anyone experienced something like this and can offer any advice?

MallyGirl

My DH eats bigger portions than me (but really shouldn't) so I just have to put my foot down sometimes and stop him. I made something the other night that would serve 3 and was busy when it came to serving up so he just filled 2 massive bowls - I would have put a slightly smaller 3rd portion straight in the fridge for my lunch the next day.
In your case I would consider modular meals. I mean meals where either a meat option of a fish option would go with everything else. You still need to cook the 2 options but the rest is common.

I would just recommend not getting sucked into behaviour that doesn't work for you

Florence_J

MallyGirl wrote: »

My DH eats bigger portions than me (but really shouldn't) so I just have to put my foot down sometimes and stop him. I made something the other night that would serve 3 and was busy when it came to serving up so he just filled 2 massive bowls - I would have put a slightly smaller 3rd portion straight in the fridge for my lunch the next day.
In your case I would consider modular meals. I mean meals where either a meat option of a fish option would go with everything else. You still need to cook the 2 options but the rest is common.

I would just recommend not getting sucked into behaviour that doesn't work for you

Thank you MallyGirl, there are some good ideas in there.

Jacket Potatoes are an obvious meal where I could have mine with cottage cheese or something and OH can have full fat cheese and chicken on the side.

Some of the meals can definitely be made leaner then they currently are.

CRANKY40

Florence_J wrote: »

Generally our dinners are jacket potatoes, burgers, mexican wraps, lasagne, SW Macaroni cheese, HM Indian, HM Chinese, pies, bangers and mash, toad in the hole, pizza, spag bol, spag meatballs.

You could have your burger between two portobello mushrooms, he can have a burger bun. Bangers and mash is easy enough - if you buy good quality sausages with a high meat content they'll be fine for you and you can add butter to his half of the mash but not yours. Spag bol is healthy enough - give him crusty bread or garlic bread with his meal. Lasagne - use low fat cheese and give him doughballs or garlic bread with his while you have a side salad. You could make fish pie for you and cottage pie for him and use the same mashed potato topping for both. One portion of each can go in the freezer for an easy meal another time or make cottage pie with buttery mash on his half and root veg mash on your half.

Florence_J

CRANKY40 wrote: »

You could have your burger between two portobello mushrooms, he can have a burger bun. Bangers and mash is easy enough - if you buy good quality sausages with a high meat content they'll be fine for you and you can add butter to his half of the mash but not yours. Spag bol is healthy enough - give him crusty bread or garlic bread with his meal. Lasagne - use low fat cheese and give him doughballs or garlic bread with his while you have a side salad. You could make fish pie for you and cottage pie for him and use the same mashed potato topping for both. One portion of each can go in the freezer for an easy meal another time or make cottage pie with buttery mash on his half and root veg mash on your half.

Thank you for your suggestions

MallyGirl

Lasagne is a good one. I have very little meat in my version and could easily swap it for Quorn. Sometimes I add lentils but DD doesn't really like them and complains. I use fresh pasta sheets as it seems to cook better - my serves 6 version uses less than 1 packet. The ragu has grated carrot, maybe grated courgette or finely chopped aubergine, lots of tomato, onion, mushrooms, peppers. I only put a few drops of white sauce (or none) in the intervening layers and make it lightly cheesy for the top as I don't like cheese. DD and DH who do like cheese just add it at the table.
A very generous portion, which I serve with a green salad, comes in at 407 cals but feels much naughtier.