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Weight Loss the Old Style Way! Part 10. Please read posts 1 and 2 before posting.
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zafiro, I'm so sorry that you have a DH who can eat to his heart's content and not put on an ounce. Couldn't you just smack them sometimes?
I don't know if this helps........I was leafing through a magazine this week while waiting for my friend to finish her shopping. Just reading it. you understand, no intention of buying it. Anyway, Lisa something, she was the fat Mandy Dingle in Emmerdale years ago, was talking about her Honesty Diary. It seems she has a diary in which she writes down every single thing that passes her lips during the day. Its not so much planning as confessing.
She goes into lots of details about the times she eats and her feelings at that time. Well, I can't be doing with that sort of faffing about, but I have dug out an unused diary I was given for Christmas and am writing down everything that finds its way into my mouth. I also write beside it a rough calorie count - very rough actually. Combined with the 5:2 diet it is seeming to have some effect.
The whole point of it is the honesty aspect. I've realised how often I conveniently "forget" the odd mouthful of something while cooking or the half a biscuit left in the tin. It has made me a lot more mindful..
I just offer it out there as an idea.I believe that friends are quiet angels
Who lift us to our feet when our wings
Have trouble remembering how to fly.0 -
I do that when i have my journal to hand.....I am just so hungry....
Today I plan
B. Was two cups of coffee
L greek salad, tiny italian pastry filled with ricotta and more coffee
D. Invited to neighbour...
I expect to have a glass of wine
Exercise..5000 steps and 10 flights of stairs so far with the cleaning to do yet...0 -
Good morning everyone :j
Hope you are all having a good day so far. I am having a lazy day and really enjoying it so far. I may get dressed a bit later on if I feel like it but I am not expecting any visitors thankfully.
I have got halfway through the Honesty Diet book and thought it was very good and Lisa has done really well and looks beautiful. As a larger lady it is inspiring to see how she looks like now.
Anyway, my meals are planned for the day and are as follows:
b - boiled eggs and soldiers
l - baked potato and cottage cheese with pickles and salad
d - butter chicken, brown rice, broccoli and green beans
Sending hugs to Knit Witch and family, really hope Mr Witch's nan gets better xx0 -
Oh dumpling. I didn't know there was a whole book, I just skimmed the magazine article.
I am very interested in the newish gene theory of obesity. I used to think it was a cop out but according to the Obesity programme on BBC1, scientists are working on isolating the gene responsible. A bit late for me but wonderful for future generations. I do know that I was born fat 79 years ago and have struggled with trying to keep it under control all my life. I come from a slim family although I have always eaten the same or much less than them.
However I have discovered that I had a fat great-grandmother who was always described as being greedy and lazy. Poor lady. Perhaps she was like me, born fat and tired. And all the fault of some old gene.I believe that friends are quiet angels
Who lift us to our feet when our wings
Have trouble remembering how to fly.0 -
Hi folks
B. Coffee
L greek salad, one piece of bread and butter
Tea...tea and 6 squares of chocolate
Dinner...chicken stew, banana
Also 3 brazil nuts....and I looked everywhere but no other treats to be found!...not even a jar of jam.
Ex. Run, cleaning...my tracker says I ve done 38 flights of stairs!!
Tomorrow I am going hiking.0 -
OK, starting again tomorrow.
I did very well in January on Michael Mosley's Blood Sugar Diet - losing 12 lbs in that month. I then dislocated my shoulder in February and just ate what I could cook one handed - I could no longer manage making different meals for my children so stopped the Blood Sugar Diet and the massive amounts of sugar crept back in...
I will weigh myself tomorrow but pretty much back where I started.
As an example, today's food looked like this:
B - granola and honey Greek yoghurt.
L - slice of left over pizza and 2 tuna and mayo sandwiches. Not bad but that's because it was made by my younger son while I was demolishing our porch outside!
S - At least 7 packs (2 to a pack) of little biscuits.
T - a prawn chow mein but cheating by adding a jar of very sweet sauce to veg and prawns because I was trying to get sorted after a busy day.
Evening snack - 4 slices of toast with nutella.
And I'm still hungry.
I've ordered the Blood Sugar Diet book. I keep getting it out of the library but it's a pain renewing and people keep reserving it.
If I could be under 12 stones by the start of the school summer holidays, I would be chuffed with that. Ultimately I'd like to be 10.5 stones. I'm 5 foot 7 but sturdily built with man sized hands, feet and head!0 -
Ive got that book on my tablet. I like the ideas but not the recipes...I prefer those in the other tv doctors book!
And it seems nigh on impossible when others are catering.
Today
B. Hm yog with hg black currants from the freezer, cahews and a banana and coffee with milk
L. Bread, cheese, boiled egg, beetroot while hiking
D. The rest of yesterdays chicken stew
The hike is only 13km but in the mountains and the first this year...not raining there....quite damp here.
Have a successful day, all.0 -
I've ordered the Blood Sugar Diet book. I keep getting it out of the library but it's a pain renewing and people keep reserving it.
I'm the same as TiredTrophy, I've got it on my tablet but prefer the recipes, especially the veg ones from the other book 'How to lose weight well' by Dr Xand Van Tulleken. I've started doing a sort of 8week blood sugar diet as it worked very well for me last year. (this yr I've put back a stone) I don't stick ridgely to the 800 calories but certainly eat far more vegetables and totally cut out any added sugar, plus pasta, rice and potatoes. I look on it not as a restrictive diet but how much can I get for my 800 calories and if I go slightly over the 800 providing it's not chocolate etc I don't worry
I'm not that much of an angel, after my dinner I always like a dessert and currently my favourite is a pint of sugar free jelly (ok I know it has sweetners in it) with either a fat free yogurt or frozen berries stirred into it before it sets (you have to use less than a pint of water to get it to set)
Weigh-in day today 3.5lb loss0 -
Bother....slipped and now have a very bloodied knee....0
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Hello everyone, can I join in from today please?
Looong time away from the forums, finding myself slipping in all sorts of ways. One slip was 'over' and I broke an ankle in Feb, resulting in an end to the New Year New Me plan. Convenience, limited mobility, pain, emotional snacking, tired husband... all contributed to me regaining the 11lbs I had lost up to that point. Hello BMI of 30 my old fiend. I also spent a bit too much on beer and takeaways, so there's money to be saved too in this.
I am hoping honesty and food logging, putting the purse away, trying to gad about on my stick a bit more and more veg, less vegging will mean I start shedding this again, though I don't expect such a good start as last time.
Thanks all!Keep reading books!
August grocery challenge Budget £150. Spent so far: £109.32. Remaining: £40.680
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