The Edcawber Principle

edinburgher

Suffolk_lass said:

That sounds all good and you have smashed the first stone 🎉🎉🎉. Even a few extra calories has not stopped you. I find that each half stone in round figures really helps me psychologically, spurring me on with the next little ambition. I am about 4lbs from the next stone number on the scales - about a week or so for me I expect. And eggs are excellent and filling, nutritious and a good source of vitamin D. 

We had courgette soup for lunch but I was hungry by four and had some celery hummus and cheese. The last of my super stodgy chilli last night. I have not weighed in today because it won't be good.  I plan to have the rest of that fillet steak tonight - either grilled super fast in strips with steamed veg or stir-fried if I think I can get away with egg noodles and sweet-chilli dipping sauce (the flour is 2/3rds cup to one egg and a pinch of salt, plus flour to roll out and cut) and of course, the flour and sugar is verboten but add so much to a stir-fry. I think I have just made up my mind. Steamed veg it is!

I suspect it will be a while for me before the next half stone, but it is fun to have little milestones.

Another carp day for me today. Eggs, mayo and coffee with cream for breakfast and a protein shake for a snack.

Then our crappy tumble dryer (a fancy heat pump model but plagued with problems) died with thunderous rumbles and a worrying sparking noise after 5 annoying years.

  It is possible that we could have had it fixed, but The damn thing is the bane of my life, it takes an age to clean and so I've replaced it with a cheap condenser model that gets fab reviews. The upshot of that was no time for lunch so I had (shudder) a bag of Fridge Raiders (chickenesque lumps that smell like God knows what).

Then a plate of cucumber and tomato and some lean beef mince for dinner.

1100 calories or so.

Greying_Pilgrim said:

So good to see all the pictures of the Aurora Borealis show over northern Scotland.  Refreshing to see something 'nice' in the news for a change.  Would love to see it for myself one day - but these pictures are definitely a very pleasant, second best.

Greying X

Me too Greying, too much light pollution in our neck of the woods!

Suffolk_lass

I skipped breakfast but had celery, apple and cheese for lunch, then a clementine (because the skin is just threatening to go tight so they become impossible to peel) dinner was the predicted residue of the fillet with steamed veg, followed by wonky berries and cream. What a treat! Then I snacked on about a quarter bag of roasted monkey nuts and an orange in the evening (mostly because I was bored with TV and trying to stay off e-media before bed) - I do a controlled cheat with an orange every day because I need the vitamins. I haven't weighed in yet today, but I will.

No chance of seeing the Aurora from here but the pictures looked great

edinburgher

@Suffolk_lass - do you take a multivitamin? I tend to do so, although it's usually just a generic A-Z type one.

Food under control today, I think round about 1,000 is just my workable minimum. 2 dry fried eggs with 2 slices of carvery turkey and 17g of cheddar for breakfast (with sriracha), a can of tuna with mayo, cream cheese and salad veg for lunch and am planning steamed haddock with spring greens for dinner. Buckets of coffee (think I'm up to 10 shots) 1.2lbs lost.

Everything else is also coming up Ed! Our summer flights were rescheduled (thought we were getting the cancellation email of doom), now they just leave from the same terminal as our connecting flights I also received a refund of £850 from our previous mortgage lender and this has been added to the holiday pot, meaning that it's now 75% complete. I also withdrew £9.50 from P@ypal for a recent L3go sale (set was £6, so up 58% in 6 months or so). All is good.

Right, should probably do some damn work...

Suffolk_lass

I have been buying the Centrum  50+ because the Morries own brand had sold out. We are on pot 3 with 30 in each so started a bit late this winter, starting in early December instead of late October (usually when we are on GMT) I have not bothered with men vs women vits (IMHO that would be akin to cooking him special man-dinners and that's a path we are not going down!). It's really to top up our vitamin D and things like zinc and magnesium at this time of year.

I did weigh in this morning and just squeaked into the half a stone. 9 days, not too shabby, considering I have done it before so my body went "aha! we know what you're up to, store, store!" I'll only get upset if you pass me somewhere along the way (not for a while yet, I might add). I'm approaching the next size jeans which is almost as good as the weight on the scales (not sure what is going on with bras but you don't need to know EmnEss changed the sizes recently (fume)).

edinburgher

Woohoo - well done - half a stone is good stuff! 

Enjoyed my food too much today, not sure I'll be losing tomorrow 

ajmoney

edinburgher said:

Woohoo - well done - half a stone is good stuff! 

Enjoyed my food too much today, not sure I'll be losing tomorrow 

Ed, don't forget that no weight gain is also good. 

edinburgher

ajmoney said:

edinburgher said:

Woohoo - well done - half a stone is good stuff! 

Enjoyed my food too much today, not sure I'll be losing tomorrow 

Ed, don't forget that no weight gain is also good. 

Thanks ajm, unfortunately it was 0.8lbs on!

Suffolk_lass

At least you found out it was 0.8lb on after one day of "seeing how far I can go" eating - that is the thing with this regime and weighing yourself more frequently than normal. I sticky-stuck this morning, having had another cheese and nut snack I did not really need, in addition to cauliflower cheese (which has a good heaped tablespoon of verboten plain flour in the cheese sauce). This is the danger time for me. I need to be super strict today as I plan roasting lots of veg with sausages and adding a spicy sauce and maybe a bit of cheese melted over the top. It's due to snow here. That's my excuse. No potato but will be squash as well as the usual suspects.

Stay with it Ed - think, I want to be thinner than now, more than I want that bit of x! It helps me. That and distraction. Washing underway and kitchen painting project about to be resumed here.

edinburgher

I pranged the car on the way back from dropping off DD  Nobody hurt. Lots of snow

Busy_Mee

Eek nightmare. Glad you are OK. We have had about 4 inches of snow this morning (Yorkshire) and it is still snowing. Doubt I could get our car up the lane, lots of cars being abandoned.

Hope you don't have to drive again today