Old Style Weight Loss 2020 - Part 2

ditty1234

Well it's a busy workweek in front of the screen. Monday night i was out doing stuff, but last night I just fell into the couch and binged all of the Salisbury drama. Watch out you will never be able to switch the light off after you've seen it!
Any how today was a bit better long day on the screen, and the rain made me want to snack so a lot of grazing going on:
B half apple, oats, flakes, and milk
L one roll w cheese and liverpate (not on top of each other) some grapes, a tomato, some tortilla chips, and some green peas.
S Banana bread (the rain) (probably an exact match to the 400cal run!)
refried beans w rice and tortilla
Exercise was a 6M run!
 Will try to keep posting food everyday - makes me think harder before I eat anything. 
Hope everybody is keeping well.

ouraggie

Hi all. Just posting today's "menu". I reckon it's true what several people have said, that writing it down kind of makes you stick to your good intentions.
Br - porridge 
Snack - ginger nut
Lu - beans on toast, biscuit bar
Di - katsu curry (emergency ready meal) + Greek yogurt/raspberries
I narrowly averted going off-piste this pm. Went food shopping and when I came out, hungry,  the car battery was flat. Had to wait ages for the breakdown fella to come and almost succumbed to opening a tube of Pringles I'd bought for the OH. Then i remembered just in time that I had also bought some ham and a loaf of Danish bread! Made myself a nice 110-calorie butty and enjoyed this with a few cherry tomatoes. Phew! 

supersaver1000

I haven't caught up for a little while so am several pages behind postings, hope everyone is well though and I will catch up later on.  My WI is tomorrow but I can't help weighing virtually every day and I am excited to be nearing 12 stone 7 lbs.  Which is a loss for the quarter so far of 7lbs.  It also means I am well and truly into the 70kgs.  My long term aim is to be in the 60s (69.9kg is fine for me ) - but I've now learned that looking at the small target losses works better for me.  Getting into the 70kgs has been really satisfying and so is getting to the half-stone mark.  Its the hump of the hill - so now I will be focussed on getting down to 12 st.  It just seems less daunting to have a smaller target and, as you all know by now,  I celebrate the pound or two here and there by trying on my 'too smalls' which are now turning in to my 'not too smalls'  

General_Grant

@ouraggie       Just remember that you are the kind of person who much prefers to have cherry tomatoes than Pringles.

I kept to yesterday's plan.  Here's today's:
B - coffee, seeded white bread, crunchy peanut butter, banana
M - coffee, 1 cookie
L - mushroom omelette, sweetcorn
A - coffee, pineapple
D - chicken curry, pilau rice
(1634 calories)

ouraggie

Lol, you are right, General Grant. Tomatoes are much better! Your menu sounds really tasty. Enjoy!
My plan for today:
7am breakfast = 60g cereal (300 cal)
Mid-morning breakfast = 2 slices Danish bread toasted (120)
Lunch - 6" pizza, side salad and home made potato wedges in air fryer, apple (270+25+120 + 50)
Dinner - spagbol using turkey mince, followed by an oat pancake with some frozen cherries and Greek yogurt (375+125+60+55)
Total 1,500 calories. 
Hmm, might have to go for a walk if it ever stops raining,to create a bit of "capacity" for an afternoon snack!

My hot tip today is for anyone who enjoys a burger or meatballs and has access to Aldi.. I have discovered that they do "skinny" beef 1/4 lb-ers which are only 119 calories each AND very tasty, also packs of 12 skinny beef meatballs which are 120 calories or thereabouts per 3 meatballs. 

I have worked out that OH has consumed 860 calories today so far just on breakfast. He weighs 12 stone! Life is so unfair 😥

Gingerlily

Hi
My oh can also eat whatever and lots of it and not gain weight, mind he does exercise excessively. 

Yesterday I had a cup of tea with almond milk mid afternoon I hadn’t planned on. It was much nicer than the first attempt the other day so I had another cup and a square of Swiss chocolate also not planned for. 

Today’s menu
breakfast: baked bacon and egg muffin with a bit of cheese sprinkled on. Very large coffee with cream. 

Lunch: tuna mayo in lettuce wraps and a couple slices wafer thin ham.
afternoon snack: nuts
dinner: piri piri chicken and vegetable kebabs, lemon yoghurt dip and salad. Raspberries with cream. 

Evening snack: milk chocolate. 

Take care all. 

monnagran

I've been absent for most of this week and with good reason.  I've finally worked out why, for the last 2 weeks, I have pushed anything even vaguely edible into my unprotesting mouth.  It's because I have someone else here, the man painting my fences.  Bless him, he is working in exchange for being fed, so I feel obliged to produce an interesting snack lunch every day plus something for him to take home for his evening meal.
Hence, me and the kitchen cooking up a storm every day, which doesn't sit well with any weight losing efforts.  The cake tin being filled with home-made scrumptiousness and the biscuit barrel likewise, not to mention the fridge groaning with tempting morsels is death to good intentions.
Verily, the road to Hell is paved with home made chocolate chip cookies.

So I think for the remainder of this challenge I will concentrate on damage limitation.  Hopefully by that time I will be able to  return to my previous austere cupboards and my mindful eating.
All of you living with families, partners, parents, Old Uncle Tom Cobbley and all, I salute you.  How you are losing weight I can't imagine.  x

Brambling

Monna I also think there is the disadvantage of living alone in that If you just want one you have the rest of the pack or batch if you've baked your own sitting in the tin calling your name.  

I've been busy filling wheelie bins today and have grabbed food, luckily healthy food 🙂 I spent a hour lunch time breaking up three very large boxes to cram into my recycling bin, the neighbour took the fourth for me. I grabbed a slice of crustless quiche to eat at 2pm whilst on a call.  

I had planned to cook dinner but having finished work after 6 decided to prune a large shrub in the back garden to fill my garden bin and ended up cutting it down 😳 seemed a good idea at the time 🥺 it was time consuming cutting it up and getting it all in the bin, my arms will testify that it fought back and I was caught by a neighbour half way through and we spent over a hour putting the world to rights, by the time I got in it was 9pm so another slice of quiche and a cold drink was dinner

tighteningthebelt

Molly41 
Good luck with your appt tomorrow, I'm thinking of you. 💛

Molly41

Thank you tighteningthebelt - I must admit im a bit frightened - but what will be will be.
We have had some good news - our new little puppy was born on Monday and is doing well so in 8 weeks i will be chasing over after her - rather wobbly but never mind ! Something ti look forward to !
Will let you know how I get on tomorrow xxx