Old Style Weight Loss 2020 - Part 2

greenbee

@monnagran - how about freezing your sliced bread so you have to plan to use it and make the effort to get it out of the freezer? I rarely ea bread, but find that by having a sliced loaf in the freezer and knowing I could have a piece of toast, I don’t feel so deprived. Mostly I CBA to get it out. It’s a bit like telling myself that if I feel like cake/biscuits I can make them, usually the urge isn’t strong enough for me to actually make the effort!

Bit of a blip yesterday - was hit by a massive episode of fatigue yesterday afternoon and had a workman here so didn’t feel I could just give up and go to bed (I should have done). Ended up eating chocolate and being so exhausted I could barely get myself to bed. I finally managed to clean my teeth when I woke at 2.30am. Apparently post-COVID fatigue is a thing, but I was hoping it had gone away, as I’ve had a couple of good weeks. Dragged myself out of bed this morning for HIIT Pilates followed by yoga, and feel ok - currently resting with coffee before have by a shower... I don’t want to overdo it 😂

Blue_Doggy

Good evening everyone 
 
Congratulations to roundtuit, and  monnagran, on your losses👏👏
 
greenbee so sorry you were feeling so exhausted yesterday, I hope you’ve been a bit better today   
 
It’s been cold, damp and windy here today. There’s some ironing that needs doing but I can’t be bothered. I went to the shop for my paper and some cream, and to the hardware shop for dog biscuits, where I spotted they had hand-bag sized hand sanitizers and face masks they were selling singly (neither of them at rip-off prices) so I bought one of each. 

 

Saturday nosh was
B : bacon & eggs
L : sardine salad (hm coleslaw, tomato); strawberries and yogurt ( the cream is for tomorrow)
AT : 2 shortbread biscuits 
D : aubergine, fennel and tomato microwave “bake” with new potatoes; banana
With coffee: 2 squares 85% chocolate 

Brambling

👏👏 Monna and Roundtuit you have both gone over your targets 😁 

Ditty well done for facing the scales today 🙂

I hope you're feeling better now Greenbee and less fatigue 

Monna I love a good bread but it doesn't like me I can get away with a very little but it has its revenge and I'm not just talking adding a couple of lb after eating it.  I have two young relatives with coeliacs and two sisters with a wheat intolerance 😐

Roundtuit a couple of years ago I almost mooned a elderly neighbour whilst gardening I stood up and he was standing behind me, he was 85 and too much of a gentleman to ever mention it 😳 I find gardening in baggy tee shirts can be dangerous too when bending over 🙄

I now need to go rescue three balls of wool and my crochet from the cat who has stolen them and is sleeping in them 🙀 unfortunately it looks like the hook was not required and has been removed 

roundtuit

I have a confession to make  - I celebrated my loss with pizza and chips! On the plus side I ate less than 500 calories through the day so only anything over 1200 calories was OTT and I went for walk with DS afterwards. I deliberately walked faster too - I can walk faster, maintain a conversation with DS, and need less recovery time when I arrive home and collapse sit down. DS said 'well you will do, you're carrying less weight than you were when you started'. No darling DS - it's because I am FITTER. That is why! Probably a bit of both   I'm making DS sound bad - he's not: he's a lovely, well mannered, sociable, and old fashioned 'nice', young man who is happy to walk round the short block with me before he sets off round his long block - which is my target. In fact considering that he is now unemployed and hasn't seen his GF since lockdown began he's doing really well.

Oh Brambling - you reminded me of the last trousers that I 'grew' out of (sounds like the wrong word, but I can't think what the right word is. Shrunk out of?) I do like to get my money's worth out of clothes so I wore the trousers long after they started flapping round my legs - until the day in the Co-op car park, when with two hands full of shopping the trousers started to head south   I clenched my elbows in to hold 'em up as long as possible - but I had to let go to get my keys out and open my car!!!! There were no pedestrians in the car park but I do wonder if there was anyone sat in one of the parked cars or strategically placed CCTV that saw more than they / it should. (PS My knockers went down with the trousers  ) (PPS I did catch them both before they reached my knees!!)

Right I'll leave you with that image while I go and make my breakfast.
Have a good day y'all.
Rxx

tighteningthebelt

Hi everyone 
I've been off radar recovering from my op last friday. Still sticking with the just home made soup and a piece of fruit at lunch / full evening meal with the family just watching the carbs / fruit at supper / no snacking regime. I've also cut out the sugar I was having in tea and coffee - every little helps right?! 
Brambling, please can you put me down for 1lb this week and another 1lb from last week that I didnt declare. 
I'm happy with that, especially considering how many box sets I've watched post op!!! 
Looks like I've got 3 more pounds and 3 more sundays to meet my quarter target. Pretty much on track then, which feels nice. 
Take care everyone. 🌸

monnagran

Dear sister, I do hope that your predictive wotsit  is responsible for 'knockers'.  Though on reflection I don't know what is worse, descending knockers or descending knickers.
Back later.

Gingerlily

Hi

😂Monnagran and Roundtuit, well done on exceeding your targets. 

Well done on your losses tightening the belt.

Commiserations Ditty1234 on the tiny gain. I’m trying logging food everyday to see if it helps me stay on track, last time I did this challenge I didn’t log daily. 

I developed a wheat/gluten intolerance a couple of years ago. I thought I’d be able to slowly reintroduce after a break like I was able to many years ago after becoming sensitive  but my reactions have got worse when I try. Gluten-free stuff just isn’t the same, I have found some favourites but typically me it’s the most expensive things. I love potatoes though and will reintroduce those eventually and rice.

Today’s menu is/ will be

Breakfast: peanut butter overnight oats, Greek yoghurt, strawberries and desiccated coconut sprinkles. Coffee with cream x 2.

Sunday lunch: 2 chipolata sausages, cauli cheese and sweetheart cabbage, pickles.

Supper: salmon and cottage cheese lettuce wraps. Choc chia pudding.

Evening snack: milk chocolate.

Take care all. 

roundtuit

Oh monna - I blame whoever decided to put the 'i' and the 'o' next to each other on the keyboard   I must be having one of those mornings (or should that be mirnongs?) - spatial awareness malfunction or somesuch! I've just returned from the Co-op where I knocked over the charity tin and then tried to demolish the protective screen by banging it with my bananas.  

At least I was buying bananas, and yogurt (only 90 calories in the peach ones), and cheese - mild cheddar has less calories per slice than Edam!, and skimmed milk. I did buy chocolate - but as a treat for DS and none for me  

I don't think any of my 10 lbs has gone from my belly or boobs unfortunately. My best guess is that it has dropped off the bottom of my back - the ledge which used to hold up my jeans - which would explain why I have to keep pulling them up or risk Co-opgate 2.
Well done to those who have lost xx And hugs to all whether they have lost, STS or gained. You are more than the number or the scales, you are amazing  

Rxx

Molly41

Hello x
Really difficult day today was supposed to be on holiday and visiting DD in Scotland - obviously cancelled  -so missing her and holiday blues. 
I also want to eat everything in sight, my body is starving, not really, but thinks it is due to steroids  - its horrid.
Ive just had a look at the chart for encouragement and feel better  - might have to take myself off to bed early! Sorry to bring the thread down just needed to vent x
Sending you love but not much positivity tonight  - my apologies xxx

monnagran

Molly, just caught your post.  Hang on in there my pet, it will get better sometimes and worse sometimes, just keep grimly putting one foot in front of the other.  Talk to yourself out loud, it really helps.  We are all rooting for you.  x