Old Style Weight Loss 2020 - Part 2

Blue_Doggy

Good evening everyone 
 
Congratulations to molly, supersaver and gingerlily on your losses 👏👏👏
 
I hope everyone who was feeling a bit low yesterday and earlier today is feeling a bit better, hugs still available at Blue_Doggy’s Hugs For All Buffet, help yourselves when you need a hug 🤗  

ditty fingers crossed for you making your magic number 
 
CRANKY commiserations on your gain, I hope your run cheered you up, you are very brave even making the effort when you feel down 🎖
 
Izadora I’m with you 100% on the essentialness of olives! Have a good weekend 
 
Blue_Doggy World has been a news-free zone today, blackbirds are teaching their babies how to dig up my garden. I sang “Sing a song of sixpence” to them, but they weren’t bothered (and there weren’t quite the four-and-twenty needed for the recipe). 
 

Today I ate
B : porridge 
S : 2 oatcakes with Marmite 
L : ham salad (lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber); satsuma 

AT : 2 oatcakes with the last of the jam
D : grilled plaice topped with cheese, peas, carrots, fennel; strawberries with yogurt 
S : 3 pieces of 85% chocolate  
 
Have a good weekend, people, stay safe 

roundtuit

B - porridge with bits in
L - bread and spread - no cheese left   , crisps, Rocky bar
T - fish, cauliflower cheese grills, Rocky bar 
S - none
D - tea, coffee, diet coke and WATER woot woot (four mugs so far!)
Calories = 1448

My new kitchen scales have arrived so now I can weigh out loose stuff (like cereals) and count the calories. A whole new world just opened up lol.
Enjoy your evening.
Rxx

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 5/14  /  /  /STS  /  /   
Blue Doggy   5/14. STS.  /  /  / STS /STS /    / / STS
Brambling. 5/10  STS /  /    /   / /STS / STS /  /   
Cranky 1/7. STS /  /STS / STS /
ditty1234  1/5.  /  /  /    /STS / STS / / 
Dumpling 11/14  / /   
Frith -/21 
General_Grant /7 
Gingerlily 5.5/6  
Honeythewitch 2/5   
Izadora +3/14.  /  / STS / /   /  /   
Jimali -/10
Jules81 6/20.  /   
Molly41 13/14   /   /    /  /  /  /  / 
Mistergazpacho -/7
monnagran 7/6.  /  /  /  / STS /  /  / 
Roundtuit 10/9 / / 
SIRENS  3.5/14  STS /  /   /  /  /   
Short_bird  +0.5/6   
Snowbird20 12/30  /   
Supersaver1000  4.5/10  /   /  /  /  /  /
tigheningthebelt 7/10.  /  /STS / /  /STS /STS /  /  / 
Zafiro1984   5/20. /   
Zippy -/8

Brambling

Well done to all the losers 👏👏  

Cranky I can put weight on looking at bread, it doesn't like me and yet I still eat it until my body objects in various ways and I stop.  Trouble is it's such a convenient food to eat especially when out.  At least it wasn't the +2lb 

 I agree Izadora one day blends into another at the moment, at least as it's Friday we finished on time today 😁 

I did use lunch to dash into town and M&S to avoid going in tomorrow it's quieter and I don't need anything from the farmers market.  

B - fruit
L - LO pasta with vegetable and tomato sauce
D - roast beef, cabbage, runner beans, carrots and roast parsnips 

General_Grant

Brambling said:

Welcome General_Grant 👋 do you want me to add you to the chart with a 7lb target?

Yes please, @Brambling

Brambling

General_Grant said:

Brambling said:

Welcome General_Grant 👋 do you want me to add you to the chart with a 7lb target?

Yes please, @Brambling

Done 

roundtuit

Morning xx

It's tipping down here maybe the grass will turn green again   I can hear the garden taking great slurps of the wet stuff - and I'm sure my dahlias have shot up since yesterday. Probably lost the petals on my big blousy orange poppies, but the cornflowers should be ok. 

Weigh day and I'm happy (and somewhat relieved) to report - 3 lbs   I did say that I hoped all the stress hormones (adrenaline, cortisol - are they hormones?) would feed on the extra fat floating in my blood. Going for walks and twitchin' in the kitchen will have helped too. And breathe.

I should have known really - my jeans will now come down without me unfastening the zip  I must check that the button is fastened at all times - don't want to cause chaos in the Co-op   (singing 'Oh yes they call her The Streak'  ) 

I still have a 'heavy' head despite the fact that I drank 5 mugs of water yesterday AND the courier brought my 'Android Phones for Dummies' book = less stress. I'd turned off fingerprint recognition (it was a pain) and activated smartlock within five minutes of the book arriving. The Beast is now sitting in its cage - it will be tamed!!!

Have a good day my lovelies
Rxx

Gingerlily

Well done Molly41 and Roundtuit on your losses and commiserations to Cranky on the teensy gain. 

That made me laugh Roundtuit hope you can find a way to keep them up! 

Nothing to add to yesterday’s menu. 

Today is/ will be

Breakfast: roasted red pepper, spinach and feta frittata with a side of cherry toms. Coffee with cream x2.

Lunch: salad with chopped chicken and pesto mayo. Choc chia pudding. 

Dinner: 3% fat beef burger with ketchup, mustard and gherkins  in an iceberg lettuce wrap, salsa and a side of garlic mushrooms. Frozen raspberry swirl Greek yoghurt. 

Evening snack: milk chocolate

Take care all

monnagran

Morning Losers,

WI for me today and I can incredulously report a  -1lb loss yet again.  I have just dipped below the 13stone mark for the first time for months.  This is a real break through.  Like you Roundtuit, I can only put it down to all those glasses of water and a bit of twitchin' in the kitchen.

Roundtuit there is nothing more satisfying than feeling your trousers sliding down!  I still have the belt I used to keep mine up the last time I lost weight.  That would be the trousers that won't now do up round me now then. 

Cranky, I get what you said about bread.  I love the stuff.  I find it quite unsustainable to ban it from my diet completely.  I think I've said before, that I would eat rubberbands if they were in a sandwich.  I've decided that while I'm trying to lose weight I will give up making my own bread as it is harder to resist.  Instead I buy a Wholemeal Nimble loaf and it is not so appealing and much lighter on the carb/calorie front.  I couldn't exist without bread at all.

I may be a bit heavy on the fruit this week.  The strawberries are gorgeous at the moment and the season is so short.  Also peaches and nectarines are making an appearance.  I intend to enjoy all these things.

Another tip I remember reading about years ago, is never to put anything into your mouth without consciously relaxing first.  It only takes seconds to breath and let all your muscles go slack so I'm adding that to my 'eat slowly and mind fully, relish every mouthful and stop when my body signals that it is satisfied' regime.  It's working so far.

ditty1234

Hi everybody finally got the guts to step up. And it's +1LB after last weeks STS. I guess I'm doing a classic some exercise and no weight loss, I'm getting better fitness though! Anyways think I will try and log my food this week!
SO breakfast was oats, musli and half an apple w milk and coffee w milk.