Old Style Weight Loss 2020 - Part 1

Brambling

roundtuit said:

So WI No 4 and I can report - 2lbs 
I'm new to you - do I set a new target on 1st April for the next quarter? 

Target smashed Roundtuit well done 👏👏 I hope you're feeling better 🤒. I'll set up a new challenge before the 1st and you can post your new target on there 🙂 

I thought about washing the inside of my windows today but it got no further than just a thought 🙂 I combined my daily exercise walk with picking up a few bits and walked into town and back today as they were still going to have a few food stores at the farmers market on condition that the stalls offered contactless card payment and were all well spaced out and had 2 metre boundaries around them.  I did look at the queue to get into M&S and decided I wasn't queuing just for milk and didn't need anything else, I'll queue at Tesco exp tomorrow.  

Being a kind sister i did pick up some mince and 'posh' sausages for my sister and nephew and left in her porch as her house is between mine and town, I rang the doorbell and stepped back about three meters and we had a quick catch up on family gossip as well 🙂  it about a four mile round trip so I got in some exercise 

B -
L - 2 slices of walnut and raisin bread with butter I froze half of it 
D - fillet pork and vegetable stir fry with noodles 
S - hot cross bun (I froze the rest) raspberries, apple 

Frith

B - berries and yoghurt
L - nettle soup
T - Spanish chicken and PSB

all BSD - then a piece of sponge cooked by my son!

roundtuit

Morning xx

The Lemsip and paracetamol diet being no longer needed, touch wood, I will now be on the hotch potch diet until further notice  I've told DS that we need smaller portions as we are doing less - I didn't call it rationing   We are not short of food but as it's hit and miss what you can and cannot buy we will be trying new food combinations. As I said earlier we have very little sweet stuff in the house - a frozen apple pie and two chocolate wafers being the sum total of goodies. But we do have apples and bananas in the fruit bowl. 

I'm so happy to be ending the month 11 lbs lighter than I started it - and ready to carry on losing, whilst getting to know you all better as the months go by. 

Stay safe
Rxx

ETA: what is / are PSB and BSD please? I worked out STS but those two have me stumped.

Molly41

Well done Roundtuit xx I thought you would do well on this thread as its very supportive and kind xx
Brambling will you update the totals on the last day of the challenge as I would like to make my target  - many thanks for keeping us on track and administering the thread xxx

Brambling

Molly I'll check this thread for a few days after the 1st April and will make any updates accordingly
Roundtuit - i think BSD is Blood Sugar Diet? not sure PSD

Blue_Doggy

Good evening everyone 
 
Weighing in : a well-deserved STS (after all the cake and chocolate I think I’ve got off lightly - er, see what I did there  ).
 

Brambling well done on tucking the sweet and tempting goodies safely into the freezer 👍

Frith a nice piece of sponge cake gets us all in the end 
 
roundtuit I think PSB is purple sprouting broccoli. Well done on your loss, and looking forward to seeing you on the new challenge.  
 

Eaten today:
B : cake, porridge, cake - no cake left now unless I make it myself
D : steamed salmon with fennel, carrot and spring greens; yogurt with blueberries 
T : apple, tangerine, fat-free yogurt 
S : 3 squares of chocolate 
 
 Stay safe and well, people.

Frith

B - yoghurt and berries
T - curry plus plums cooked with a bit of honey and yoghurt

Izadora

Morning All,

Brambling Thank you so much for all you've done with keeping track of us. I may not have hit my target this time but I've done a lot better than I would've done without this thread. Your farmer's market sounds lovely and so much better than queuing in a busy supermarket to stare at empty shelves.

Frith Home-cooked cake, especially when made by your offspring, is worth not being BSD

roundtuit Very well done on your loss, that's amazing in a month

Blue Doggy Well done for your STS and your successful, if somewhat longer than intended, shopping trip

Even though I haven't managed to reach my target I can report a -2lb loss for the last week of this challenge. Even though I have eaten quite a bit of rubbish this week I think I was saved by not really eating for a couple of days when IzHe was ill and then spending most of the weekend cleaning the kitchen. I ache from head to toe but, other than the wallpaper, I don't think there's a single cm that hasn't been scrubbed and that makes me very happy

Best of luck everyone. Stay safe and see you for the next challenge xx

Brambling

You still lost over a stone Izadora 👏👏. So well done you 😁. I hope IzHe is fully recovered now

I'll create the new quarter thread tomorrow, I've been really busy work wise so will fit it in using the work laptop which is easier than my tablet.  Yesterday we worked 1 - 11pm they lied when they said it would be 2 or 3 hours work, unfortunately I couldn't stop and switch off enough to go straight to bed and ended up still awake at 2am and we were back at work by 8.30am.  I may swing for the next person who asks me what I'm doing with all my lockdown time 🙄 I'm not grumbling about working as I realise how lucky I am to have a job I can do from home but ... 

food wise was a bit grab when I had a minute and involving too many sweets

B - cooked apple and strawberries 
L - walnut and raisin bread toasted with marmalade 
D - LO stir pork with noodles
S - sweets, pack of crisps, fibre one bars d I forget what else 😣

Blue_Doggy

Good evening everyone 
 
Brambling I can only echo Molly’s and Izadora’s thanks. You’re busy working from home, repelling invading kittens 🙀 and preventing cat wars 😺 and you still manage to keep us updated. Well done and thank you 💐
 

Izadora congratulations on your loss, very well done 👏👏 Enjoy your sparkly clean kitchen, that was a good job done. 👍
 
Yesterday I drew up a daily plan to try to spread the daily tasks out (the latest of many attempts to organise myself  ) and I actually managed to more or less stick to it  today Tomorrow I have an eye appointment at the hospital, I rang them today and it seems it’s still on.
 

Today’s food:
B : bacon & eggs  
L : jacket potato with fat-free cottage cheese and cress; apple
D : cauliflower bolognaise; yogurt with blueberries 
S : 2 squares of chocolate