Old Style Weight Loss 2020 - Part 2

Brambling

Evening all and well done on all the STS and 👏👏👏 on the loss Blue 🙂. Aimeemum can you let me know how many lbs you've lost so I can log 🙂

i drink less less water now I'm working from home, I think it's the air conditioning which causes me to drink a lot of water at work.  No lemon in my water but I do drink the occasional  white tea which I drink black with s slice of lemon 😁. 

We finished work on time tonight so I was able to spend a couple of hours in the garden, I finally managed to dig up an old dead rhododendron which was in a awkward position in the front garden there was a moment when the branch I was tugging broke and left me suddenly sitting, luckily I'm well padded where I landed and only my pride hurt.  However having just tried to get off the sofa I think it could be having the last laugh, definitely some twinges in my back as well as scratched arms but I won (I think) 🙂

nothing was going well at work today and I reached for too many snacks and too much bread was ate which I'm now regretting 😐 . To use up the last couple of slices of bacon lunch was bacon, egg and toast.  Dinner was late as I had a catch up with a neighbour before I came in ( it's good to talk face to face to someone even through we were about 3 meters apart) the cat ensure he was a safe distance from her dog, just far enough away from the length of its lead to wind him up 🙀 I was hungry when I got in so dinner was cheese on toast with piccalilli 

Brambling

Old Style Weight Loss Challenge 2020 - 2nd Quarter

01/04/20 - 30/06/20

Imperial (lbs) please let me know if you want me to add a kg list as well

Aimeemum 12/17   /   
Black_Saturn 4/14  /  /  /STS 
Blue Doggy   3/14. STS.  /  /  / STS /STS / 
Brambling. 2/10  STS /  /    /   / /STS / STS 
Cranky 1.5/7. STS /  /STS / STS
ditty1234  -3/5.  /  /  /    /STS / STS 
Dumpling 0/14  /  
Frith -/21
Honeythewitch - /5
Izadora +4/14.  /  / STS / /   / 
Jules81 6/20.  /   
Molly41 10/14   /   /    /  /   
Mistergazpacho -/7
monnagran 4/6.  /  /  /  / STS 
Roundtuit -/9
SIRENS  3.5/14  STS /  /   /  /  / 
Short_bird  +0.5/6   
Snowbird20 12/30  /   
Supersaver1000  2/10  /   /  /   
tigheningthebelt 4/10.  /  /STS / /  /STS /STS
Zafiro1984   5/20. /   
 

roundtuit

Morning all xx
Brambling - I hope your back doesn't give you any problems today xx
Blue_Doggy - I thoroughly enjoyed my Monday off thank you xx

Work today and straightaway a little voice said 'oh I won't write down what I eat today because I'm at work'. 'Oh yes you will m'Lady!!!!' says I. By gum, you have to watch out for those perishing 'little voices' they'll lead you straight to the fridge and beyond    

Have a good day. Stay safe.
Rxx

monnagran

Morning Losers,

Brambling, Ah!  The war wounds of those who choose to battle nature. It's an unequal fight. I once knew a very finicky gardener....honestly, he used a ruler to make sure his plants were the right distance apart.  A year after he died the garden was a forest of weeds nettles, brambles etc.  It was nature having the last laugh. Just saying.

roundtuit,  will you stop talking about discipline?  It's a horrid word that sets you for struggles and failure.  Think pleasure, and delicious, and relishing, and yummy!  When you start concentrating on the food you are putting in your mouth and getting the maximum enjoyment from it and stopping when you feel you have had enough, even if there is still some left on your plate, it stops being discipline and starts being you enjoying yourself.  I am only at the beginning of this experiment, but it has been a real eye opener to this veteran dieter.

Black Saturn, I am intrigued by your menus.  I am very much a traditional eater and your posts could be in a foreign language.  Let's face it, much of it IS in a foreign language.  Respect!

Izadora

Afternoon All,

Sorry for the lack of posts, a combination of work being crazy busy and me being just plain crazy meant that I've been pretty much hiding in the corner with all the snacks that I know are doing me no favours but seem like a good idea at the time. 

Congratulations for the losses and STSs and commiserations for the gains. roundtuit - very well done for hitting the reset button.

I couldn't face weighing in yesterday and wish I hadn't bothered this morning either. I've put on another 2lb. I can't say it was exactly unexpected but I'm still annoyed with myself, so annoyed that pretty much all I've done today is stuff myself full of utter rubbish  

I'm guessing this mood is the fact that I thought I was coping relatively well with the current situation coming back to bite me on my ever-expanding ar5e and I'm sure I'll snap out of it soon enough but, for now, I'm going to carry on eating stuff I don't particularly want and hating myself for it. At least it's comfortingly familiar

Best of luck and stay safe everyone xx

Blue_Doggy

Good evening everyone   
 
SIRENS sounds like a good day all round yesterday   

roundtuit you’re getting a good grip on it, but I have to agree with monnagran enjoy your food.   
Well done on not listening to the “little voices”.
 
Brambling I hope your back has been ok today, be careful, gardens have a way of fighting back   And I hope you’ve had no ill effects from the bread. Frustrating work can cause an awful lot of stress-relieving snacking - I think it’s black_saturn who keeps a bowl of sliced fruit or veg in their fridge for snacks: any use for you to do so too? (Sorry, must take my bossy-boots 🥾off.)   
 

Izadora I am so sorry that you’re having a tough time. Sending you a big hug 🤗. I’m very sorry about your gain, that’s hard, but - you do know where it came from.  And you were very brave to face the scales and tell us about it 🎖
Izadora said:

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I couldn't face weighing in yesterday and wish I hadn't bothered this morning either. I've put on another 2lb. I can't say it was exactly unexpected but I'm still annoyed with myself, so annoyed that pretty much all I've done today is stuff myself full of utter rubbish.

(Look out, bossy-boots on again 🥾.) We all do this, have a slip with eating and then beat ourselves up mercilessly by eating all the wrong stuff. Last time I did it, I suddenly had a picture of walking beside a stream, my foot slips and I get my shoe wet. Do I then jump into the stream, get wet all over, and end up completely soggy? Or do I tip the water out of my shoe and decide to watch where I step? 

Did you enjoy the “utter rubbish”? If not, please be nice to yourself and don’t punish yourself. Just have a look at some of monnagran’s recent posts re enjoying her food ...
(Here endeth the wearing of bossy-boots for today!)
 
Although it’s been a lovely day here, I couldn’t even sit in the garden, because the blue tit fledglings have been joined by baby robins  . 

 

Today’s grub was
B : porridge, tangerine 
L : ham and egg salad (lettuce, tomato, cucumber); yogurt with a teaspoonful of honey
D : grilled chicken, green beans, carrots and cabbage; cinnamon yogurt 
S : 1 square of chocolate 

roundtuit

Blue_Doggy - firstly serious baby bird envy here   secondly '1 square of chocolate'? 1 square! And then you agree with monna that I should enjoy my food with less talk about discipline. Blue-Doggy - you obviously have a black belt in discipline. Respect  
B- 2 Weetabix, skimmed milk, half teasp sugar
L - tuna mayo sandwich, biscuit bar
T - margherita pizza, yoghurt
S- banana
D - tea, coffee, diet coke, water
Calories - 1546 and I enjoyed every mouth full  

Rxx

Blue_Doggy

roundtuit the baby birds are so sweet when they bumble about, and their mums put them under a plant, then while she’s seeing to another, the first naughty baby pops out again.
 It’s one of the benefits of an untidy garden, there are lots of spaces for the wildlife.
 🦔🐝🐌🐞🐣🦋🐛🐭
You’re very kind, but I have to confess, the chocolate I eat is 85% cocoa, it’s really quite bitter, and difficult to eat a lot of, even my one square is nibbled rather than gobbled. Plus I have a rule that I’m only allowed it with black coffee (the coffee’s bitter too, but the two together I find go well). Give me a p-p-p-penguin or kitkat or any milk chocolate and, well, where’d it go? The whole 2-4-1? 

 

I’m glad you enjoyed your food today, it really makes a big difference 

Brambling

Izadora I know only too well the pain of stress eating, putting on weight and then eating because you're depressed because you've put on weight and around and around you go 

Blue feel free to nag, I've it was allowed I would come visit so you could kick me up the bum ( which is already slightly bruised 🥺) after I had stiffed my face today without thinking what I was eating I remembered too late Monnas wise words   there were some blueberries in the snacking 😐 which I realised I had eaten whilst on a call without tasting them 

My back is still a little sore today not helped by working all day sat at the dining room table, my dining room chairs aren't made to be sat on for so many hours, I was glad of the excuse to finish at 6pm to walk off the kinks.  I decided to not garden tonight other than a little watering and had a catch up zoom call with friends, I hated seeing my face on the screen😳 where's the fat face emoji?

I wouldn't discuss food other than my healthy HM turkey soup which I had with more bread 🙄, and falafel salad it's not been a good day.  

That care all

roundtuit

Morning xx
I couldn't resist a mid-week sneak peek at the scales this morning to see if it's working. It is.  
Day 5 rolling on the river wagon.
Take care.
Rxx