Old Style Weight Loss 2019 Part 4

Blue_Doggy

Hello, everyone! I hope you’re having a good day despite its being Monday.

FrugalLina and tighteningthebelt congratulations on super losses! :j :j (I was going to put the ‘beer/cheers’ smilie, but that’s calories, so on second thoughts ‘jumping’ seemed more appropriate for weight loss. :rotfl:)

Tighteningthebelt rub a dub grub

SIRENS I’m glad you enjoyed comicon, and your takeaway. Have fun carving the pumpkins, and more fun cooking their innards.

Brambling some weekends are like that, very active, lots done, but the menu gremlins get in there and wave “the wrong foods” temptingly. I hope you can stay the right side of ttb’s line and achieve your goal on Wednesday.

Everyone’s soups sound really yummy, happy cooking sessions, people.

FrugalLina dieting with choccie marzipan :rotfl: I think it’s right up there as a slimming food with such delights as grated cheese mixed with mayonnaise, or a big bowl of chips for dipping into a big bowl of mayonnaise.

Thank you all very much for your encouragement, after two weeks of STS it really helps. :T

In Blue Doggy’s bowl today
B: bacon, mushroom and tomatoes
L: microwave baked sweet potato with fat free cottage cheese and lettuce, the last piece of friend’s flapjack with fat free yogurt
rooty soup, red pepper stuffed with rice and lentils, cauliflower and peas, fat free yogurt with blackberries and apples.

Molly41

Hello x
Well done on the losses x
Ive been out and about at the dentist this morning just for a clean though - I managed well as I'm phobic about the dentist - mind you the dentist is lovely and very kind.
Im going to choose some new clothes next weekend looking forward to it very much - just debating what size as I have lost 2 stone with my operation so need some to see me through - I don't recommend bowel surgery for weight loss!
That soup - pumpkin and sweetcorn sound delicious think i will make it with butternut squash though. Darling husband carved the pumpkin this weekend and threw the innards away - never mind he did a good job.
Keep positive with the weight loss journey x
Kind Regards x

FrugalLina

Thank you BlueDoggy - shame the marzipan diet isn't going to be the answer, I would enjoy that. Your doggy bowl sounds very good today

Molly41, how lovely that you will get to buy some new clothes to fit the new you - you deserve it.

I made the pumpkin and sweetcorn soup (fat free version) and it is delicious. I only used half the pulp and it made 6 portions of soup!

Molly, I think the butternut squash will be just as good.

I also made the green tomato and mung bean curry and have enough there for several meals also.

The freezer is now full of various soups and other meals, so I probably won't need to shop or cook for more than a week! :T

Brambling

:T:T FrugalLina you're going really well

All these soup recipes are giving me some great ideas, I like soup for lunches this time of year

Molly sounds like it should be a fun shopping trip . I assuming you are in that stage where you need new clothes but don't want to spend too much as you plan to lose more.

I was meant to sort out the house before my sister arrives on Wednesday (she almost does the white glove dust test) but got sidetracked sorting stuff so currently have piles of stuff on the landing which I must confess I've walked away from . I will have to finish around shopping for her birthday present tomorrow or she'd be sleeping downstairs with the cat.

B - banana
L - sardines on toast
D - lentils and vegetables stew try thing, with a lamb steak
S - curly wurly, crackers

FrugalLina

Thanks Brambling, the support here is making it a lot easier.

My sister practically does the glove test, too, argh. I hope you manage to get everything done before yours arrives!

tighteningthebelt

Thank you everyone!

Frugalina you're doing brilliantly, I am so pleased. :j I am glad you liked the soup.

sirens curry recipe looks great. Parents evening... that is annoying. Could you go in fancy dress, as a sort of protest? (Or would your daughter never forgive you?)

molly41 nice new clothes! I bought one pair of jeans the other day, a size smaller. Feels so good. Your surgery sounds very drastic. Your hubby sounds lovely, but the pumpkin thing... sigh, tut, and slight shake of the head for that.

bluedoggy you are quite right about the beer symbol, I shall use the jumping smiley from now on!!!

brambling good luck getting sorted for your sister. You can always shove everything under the bed if you run out of time.

honey isadora cranky :hello: hope you're all ok

Today my friend is coming for lunch.
Carrot and coriander soup with brie and bread rolls
Strawberries and grapes
Realistically I'm going to have the rest of the bread rolls and brie later!!! At least it gets them done in the one day. (Red meat is on hold for stroganoff for Dads birthday)
C'est la vie

Yesterday I went to buy petrol. I was so distracted by the reduced price bread at the till that the lady asked me if I was ok "Dieting....bread" I said, in the sort of voice usually used by people struggling to swim. "Ahhh" she said, nodding sympathetically. I vanquished my visions of marmite toast and poddled off, victorious.

Izadora

Tighteningthebelt, Blue Doggy & Frugalina Well done for your losses, you're all doing so well :j :j :j

Tighteningthebelt Well done on the new jeans, shopping for smaller clothes is always so satisfying. Enjoy the brie, funnily enough that's what I've got for lunch today too.

Brambling I hope that you've managed to get everything ready for your sister. I stressed enough this weekend about getting everything done for friends who wouldn't care if the house was covered in cobwebs so I hate to think what I'd be like for someone who'd do the white glove test!!

Sirens I'm glad you enjoyed Comicon and the takeaway. It's not something I've ever been to but it looks really interesting.

Molly Well done for going to the dentist. It's never going to be a fun trip but at least it's over and done with now.

Sorry if I've missed anyone, I'm no good at trying to catch up with a whole weekend's posts in one go

I'd like to say I ate well over the weekend but it would be a complete and utter lie

I was so busy that I'd barely eaten on Saturday (I had a couple of toasted muffins at around 3pm) but then stuffed myself full of beer and crisps when friends arrived and have pretty much not stopped eating since...

I really want to lose weight and I know that I'm happier when I'm not this fat but I just don't seem to be able to get to grips with dieting at the moment. I start with really good intentions and then it's like the head gremlins take over and it's a vicious circle where the more fed up I am with my inability to stick to a diet the more I eat :mad:

Oh well, I'll try to do as much damage limitation as I can for the rest of the week and then try again next week.

FrugalLina

Thanks tighteningthebelt and I too sympathise about the bread. I miss it too, but really can't have it in the house at all or I just eat and eat it. :eek:

I had replaced it with ryvita, but now every time I eat ryvita my stomach blows up like a balloon and I suffer from terrible digestive issues and indigestion. I am quite annoyed about that because ryvitas were satisfying my urge for something crunchy.

Enjoy the brie and rolls - yum!

Thanks too Izadora!

Sometimes the mind just won't get into dieting mode, I totally understand what you mean. I had been like that for over a year and kept on starting and starting diets, but just couldn't stick with it.

There are certain foods that spark a binge and then I just can't stop for days, weeks, months on end.

I think the reason why I am coping this time is because I am doing this obesity diet which bans snacking (sob, sob) and got me into fasting (which got rid of the cravings). I also don't have any of my binge trigger foods in the house at all and in fact, steer clear of them completely. Living alone helps because I don't have to buy them for others.

Binge triggers for me are: crisps, sweets, cakes, biscuits, bread and nuts. I now don't go anywhere near those isles at the supermarket. :mad:

Well done for drawing a line under it and carrying on for the rest of the week. You will get there, the brain will switch into diet mode and then it will be a lot easier.

Izadora

FrugalLina wrote: »

I think the reason why I am coping this time is because I am doing this obesity diet which bans snacking (sob, sob) and got me into fasting (which got rid of the cravings)

I keep thinking that maybe I should try fasting but I'm not sure how well I'd get on with it. I'm someone who definitely suffers from "hangry" and I fear that I'd end up unemployed and divorced

I think my biggest trigger is alcohol, it completely and utterly wipes out my (already nearly non-existent) willpower and definitely leaves the door open for the gremlins, but my social life seems to revolve largely around pubs and parties and I'm very bad at saying no when other people are drinking. Quite apart from anything else, drunk people are pretty boring when you're sober :rotfl:

Did you follow a particular plan for your fasting or just find out what works best for you?

tighteningthebelt

izadora frugalina started me off on it, and I'm sure she knows much more than me. Theres quite a lot on YouTube about it in including a couple of very useful lectures by Jason fung who wrote the obesity code.
I went from 4 meals a day to 1 meal a day over about 3 weeks. I haven't got hangry yet, which is interesting because I used to. I like the system because its binary which suits my nature, theres no iffing and butting just the one question of whether its 6pm. I break it once a week, but never on impulse. Binary works for me - simple!!