Old Style Weight Loss 2020 - Part 2

Molly41

Welcome monnagran x

tighteningthebelt

Hi Monnagran and welcome
You have a lovely way of making words come to life! 
I managed 'no butter no cream' at tea time! Every little counts, for good or for ill! 

Brambling

Welcome monnagran 👋 this lot can talk as well so you should fit in 😁 

Roundtuit if you find your will power and it has a friend it's mine so please tell it to come home, it's missed.  Well done on a STS at a difficult time 👏

i tried not to bring temptations into the house so baked yesterday lunchtime instead 🙄 I'm blaming Jamie Oliver 😉. It was something to do when the pasta cooked I even had to de-crystallise the golden syrup as I was so determined to cook it !!  It was a  oaty fruit biscuit type thing, which five minutes into the cooking I realised the fruit and nuts were still sitting on the side, it was then a quick throw in and stir which is my excuse for not giving some to my neighbour as a thank you for mowing the lawn 🙂

I used my walk to try and pick up my prescription and pick a few bits up in town,  unfortunately it seems my preventative inhaler is impossible to get at the moment and for the near future so I'll have to call the surgery Monday for an alternative, I've only just started my spare so there's time.  I picked up a few bits for my sister and dropped them in her porch on the way back, we had a long distance chat for a hour, I wasn't even offered a cuppa 😕 about five miles walked in a big loop round 😁

my big sister (at 4ft 8 eldest not size 🙂) woke me up from a afternoon nap, I had fallen asleep watching catch up tv after lunch.  They've been on lock down for about a month now, both are nearly 80 with health issues and my BIL has a permanent tracheotomy.  Lovely to catch-up and as I'm the same age as her kids she was checking up on me 🙄

B-
L - small portion of LO bolognese sauce 
D - 'lightly dusted' plaice fillet (YS in M&S) new potatoes, broccoli and French beans - NB check condiment jars before dolloping on fish as hot horseradish doesn't go with a delicate fish 🙀
S - several bits of the above oat bar
 

Blue_Doggy

Good evening everyone 
 
Welcome monnagran,  let’s hope we can help you lose that Christmas “bonus” (I can put on half a stone over Christmas without even trying, so you have my commiserations on that score).
 

roundtuit well done on STS 👍
 
tighteningthebelt  excellent will-power 🏅
 
Brambling talk? Who, us? At the very least it’s exercise  Good save with your oaty fruity biscuity bar.  at the horseradish plaice, easily done though   .
 

In the Doggy bowl today:
B : bacon & eggs
L : sardine salad (red chicory, beetroot); tangerine 
D : sausages, peas, Swiss chard; yogurt with blueberries 
S : one and a half hot cross buns; 2 squares chocolate. Blue_Doggy’s kennel is now a bun- biscuit- and cake-free zone!

roundtuit

Brambling - I think tighteningthebelt has our will power. Hopefully mine is picking up some good habits  

B - porridge
D - scrambled eggs on toast, 2 Jaffa cakes
T - 2 cheese & onion crispbakes, yogurt
S - banana, apple

Rxx

tighteningthebelt

Hi everybody 
I've lost 1lb Since the start of this challenge. If you dont count the first week Brambling then just leave it, I can add it to next week's to look very impressive!!!

Today will go like this;
B/L porridge
D chicken and leek pie with new potatoes and spring greens. Jelly. 
S apple 
(Amendments from yesterday - ditched banana toast, added half bag mangetous instead)

Hope everyone has a little space to enjoy the sunshine safely. 

tighteningthebelt

roundtuit
I am ok when I get going. The rest of the time - not so good. I have gained and lost weight 2 times in a decade, this is my 3rd effort. Each time going from around 100kg to 70 kg. I am disabled now with nerve problems resulting in muscle weakness, so it's very difficult for me to do sufficient exercise to burn off even a custard cream, so I have to be fierce with the intake side of the equation. Previously I have swam, walked, biked and run it off, in combination with dieting.

I have some strategies to bypass my willpower that work for me. I'd love to hear other people's.

I live on my own so I dont bring sweet stuff into the house. My willpower is much better upstream. I eat with various family members most evenings. We cook from scratch. 

Even though I do my shopping online I still do my order when I'm full. I don't go out to the shops.

I pretend my rumbling tummy is a sign of hope rather than something I have to respond to.

I commit to meals for the day on here (I know I could lie because you dont know me from Adam, but it still works to feel accountable) and always post amendments so I work the shame angle! (Even though its prob very boring for you all)

If I fancy something I put a half hour alarm on my phone to see if it passes, it usually does! 

I'm allowed to break my rules once a week, but never on impulse. 

I'm not doing it this time, but one meal a day (OMAD) has worked very well for me when I tried it last year. I was posting on oct‐dec thread. 

What are other peoples top strategies?

CRANKY40

Good morning all, 

I haven't had a very promising start to the week - there's chocolate missing from the Easter stash...anyhow, I think I'll draw the proverbial line now (               see there it is) and try to behave from here onwards. I'm not struggling with staying in, I'm struggling because the damage that I've done to my knee is making it hard to exercise. We've had a week off from running to see if that helps. Oddly it doesn't hurt when running, only when walking, doing stairs (either direction) or when I'm lying in bed at night with my leg straight. Stupid hypermobile joints....It will fix itself eventually. 

Hello Monna, lovely to see you here. 

ttb my strategies usually involve only making cake that I don't like for my son (he likes brownies, I don't). He's 15 and not overweight at all. The other thing that helped was trying to understand why I eat what I do. I have ADHD and other autistic traits and I discovered that chewing is an oft used  form of self calming. I don't like gum, so I looked for something else and discovered that holding a pen or something similar between my teeth works just as well as eating as long as I'm not actually hungry. 

Take care all of you 
 

monnagran

Oh dear me tighteningthebelt, twice in a decade???  I must have gained and lost weight 2,749 times in the last 8 decades.  OK that's  just a rough guess but I bet it's not far out.  In my defence, I am fighting nature every inch of the way.

Cranky, I admire anyone who can face the torture of running or going to the gym or any form of physical exercise.  Please don't tell me that it is really enjoyable once you get going, I'm sure some people find it so.  It's just beyond my comprehension.

As for strategies, I don't think there can be one that I haven't tried.  It does help if I can stop myself long enough to ask myself if this is just mouth hunger or true stomach hunger.  Unfortunately the titbit is usually on its way before I remember to question my motives for eating.
This time I am being very kind to myself. 6lbs in 12 weeks means half a pound a week.  Surely even I can manage that.
I am trying to eat twice a day in two sessions within a 5 hour period.  No particular food limitations.  As soon as I try to cut out any particular food it becomes the one thing I crave.  We will see how this pans out.

I day down.  6 days to go to WI day.

zafiro1984

I had good intentions when I rejoined in the middle of 'Part One' but I was total rubbish. Anyway, I've decided to have another go. DH had his birthday yesterday so with no other celebrations until the end of May I feel ready to start again.
Can you please put me down for 20lb. That's 10lb for this month and then 2 x 5lb for the following two months. The knees may feel better with less to carry around. 
I used to find posting most days helped so I'll be boring you with my food diary, thoughts and failures but hopefully also successes