Old Style Weight Loss 2020 - Part 2

jimali

Have had a v good day food wise:
B: porridge and raspberries
L: toast with philli and tomatoes
S: peach
T: lentil, squash and kale salad with miso dressing - new recipe, was divine!

Also feeling v proud that I’ve made a meal plan for the week, for lunches and teas. Here it is in case anyone interested (we are veggie so it’s a bit fancy!)
Tues:
L: smoked salmon, scr egg, toast
T: fish tacos, salad

Weds:
L: leftover lentil and kale salad
T: tomato and onion tart, potatoes, veg

Thurs:
L: pasta pot
T: risotto and ratatouille 

Fri:
L: halloumi and veg wraps 
T: courgette and goats cheese pasta

Sat:
L: protein shake , berries, banana
T: spinach and feta tart, potatoes, veg

monnagran

jimali, Gosh you are organised!  Your menus look interesting.  I can relate to anything on toast, after that you have lost me.

I have spent a wretched afternoon sorting through my summer clothes.  How can anyone have so many tops?  And still find nothing suitable to wear.  And what can you do with numerous old Tshirts?  The charity shops won't be interested.

greenbee

I use my old t-shirts as rags @monnagran. I'm being very profligate with them at the moment! I've even polished a brass cotton-reel holder and my dad's old office name plate (I have no clue what I'm doing to do with it, but my mum gave it to me so I thought I should at least clean it up!). I haven't sorted through my summer clothes - I do it as I wear and wash them. If too big they go in a pile in the spare room, if they have holes they go for rags (I cut them up immediately so I don't get ideas about 'one more time' - I can look scruffy without my clothes having holes in!), if they are too small they go back into the drawer so that I have a reminder about what I should be aiming to fit back into. 

I do need to put my winter clothes away, and move a few things around, but I'm always worried that if I pack up all my nice warm stuff the weather will notice

jimali

monnagran said:

jimali, Gosh you are organised!  Your menus look interesting.  I can relate to anything on toast, after that you have lost me.

Not normally this organised, believe me! Hopefully it will help make a difference

Blue_Doggy

Good evening everyone 
 
Welcome jimali and greenbee 👋
 
black_saturn congratulations on your loss 👏
 
Er, Brambling the chart shows I’ve lost an extra two pounds - I wish, but they may really be someone else’s. (Or can you see into the future...  ) 
 
jimali your meal plan looks interesting, I’m glad to “meet” someone else who writes out the plan for the week. I find it helps with compiling my shopping list, and avoiding waste. I list the main ingredient, and the method and accompaniments depend what’s in or how I feel.
 
monnagran I feel your pain - zillions of tops, hardly any bottoms (and some of those still too tight).

I’ve an old t-shirt doing duty as a pyjama top (I refuse to buy new clothes to fit a size I don’t want to be  ) 
 
Today’s food was
B : bacon & eggs
L : cold roast beef and salad (celery, tomatoes, cucumber)
D : steamed salmon, peas, carrots; cinnamon yogurt 
S : plain yogurt 

ditty1234

Gosh what healthy food habits
I had scrambled eggs and a roll and melon for brunch, home made fish and chips w salad for dinner - but no seconds, and strawberries with a splash of cream, and a glass of wine and a beer!
Actually no snacks, except half a banana before 10 k AM run, ...and the alcohol. Did I say that I had one of those pancake w choc snacks. 
A bit excessive but it was a bank holl day and have lots of activities planned for tomorrow and a healthier dinner!

supersaver1000

Thanks Cranky makes perfect sense 😘.  Someone said you have to face your emotions sooner or later so it might as well be sooner - I wish I'd known about that 15 years ago.  Better late than never I guess and I am feeling a lot more balanced and a bit braver today after listening to everyone's advice.

On weight loss, the diet hasn't quite gone to hell in a handcart this weekend, but there has been a lot of garlic eaten and a tarte tatin!  Surprisingly little spent for the quality of food, but I had better not WI for a couple of days.  For some reason where there is garlic, there is always a whole load of butter, french bread and wine.  Oh well, at least there aren't any vampires about.

I seem to be the opposite with clothes, in that I have lots of bottoms but no tops.  Well I have a lot of tops but they are all long sleeve flowy numbers, so I ended up with one of my 3/4 sleeve cotton work blouses on today.   The extra 2lbs I've lost means that I could start looking to buy some new tops, but my wardrobe is jam packed.  Time for another clear out to make room but it was too sunny to be inside today. ☀️ 

Brambling

Whoops sorry Blue 😬 everyone else had better check I haven't stolen your 2lb and given it to Blue 😐 it could have been worst Blue I could have given you 

well done Black_Saturn 👏

Roundtuit I've been told by my lovely nephews that only only old folk still call them discos  😁 I also have a varied collection of CDs.  Monna I reckon you could shake your stuff to Chuck Berry 😁

Jamali I do lose more weight when I get organised and menu plan, even if it's a bit vague eg salmon on Tuesday but not necessarily what I'm going to do with it

Supersaver the advantage of social distancing, you can eat as much garlic as you want, which is why I brought wild garlic pesto on Saturday 😁

You could spend the winter making a rag rug with your old tee shirts Monna 🙂 🧵 I was speaking to one of my sisters earlier and she spent time yesterday sorting her wardrobes and anything that didn't fit asking herself if I lose weight will I want to wear it again I believe there is a wardrobe worth of clothes in the garage waiting for charity shops to open.

I'm still trying get my gardening done, I spent an hour gossiping talking to my neighbour, they are shielding because she has had a kidney transplant, it was nearly 1.30pm when we realised the time and her husband was complaining lunch had burnt (he was indoors 🙄).  And this afternoon my sister came round for distanced cup of tea in the garden and 'acquired' two of my tomato plants some patty pan plants and some of my containers to plant them in.  I did get given two small donuts my nephew made and sent round, it would have been rude not to eat them 😁

I had the urge to bake today so I've made a bara brith and a Parkin (I don't do things by half) I'm hoping that as the bara brith needs two days to mature and the Parkin a week I'll go pass the need to eat and can off load them share them I owe my neighbour a thank you for mowing my lawn and my nephews never say no to cake

 B - overnight oats with banana 
L - gammon and cheese flat bread
D - cold gammon with French beans and cauliflower cheese
S - finger of fudge, grapes

roundtuit

Good morning xx

Brambling - I know   I could feel my son roll his eyes even as I typed in the word! Or I get the snickled up nose and 'What's that?' It doesn't help that he now knows posh words (since Uni) and says things like 'moreover'   and I use dialect words culled from my Dad - who was raised by his grandparents who both spoke in the local dialect. I love language / linguistics. (I'm an anorak really  )

Yesterday's intake:
B - 2 Weetabix, skimmed milk, banana
L - 2 sl bread, 2 teasp spread, cheese. cucumber
T - pizza, ice cream
S - slice of birthday cake
D - tea, coffee, water, diet coke
Calories - 1644 + whatever the cake was. 

Back to the paid stuff today. Hi - ho and all that jazz.
Have a good day my lovelies
Rxx

Brambling

Roundtuit you're also not meant to say you are going to the pictures 

I was raised by older parents, my dad was born in 1913 he used to say that when he was growing up you could tell which of the surrounding villages a person came from from their accent and the villages were next to each other   I left Dorset at 18 but I still get the puzzled look if I use a Dorset word or expression.  When visiting my family down there I love to hear the pattern of speech and the words and phases which are typically country folk 

Not sure what today will be food wise, i have LO gammon, turkey breast and cauliflower cheese as well as some cooked kale which needs using up so there may be some bubble and squeak for dinner and lunch will probably be the cauliflower cheese.  Breakfast was the last of the hot cross buns from the freezer toasted with black currant jam

Have a good day