Old Style Weight Loss 2020 - Part 2

monnagran

Molly and TTB, you both deserve medals.  If I were having to deal with your issues, losing weight would be the last thing on my mind.  I think you are wonderful.  We are here to hold your hands when ever you need it. x

Blue_Doggy

Good evening everyone
 
Molly, ttb   you are just two remarkable women. Wishing you all the strength, energy and courage you need to get through what lies ahead. I’m so glad you have caring and supportive family members with you.
 

Brambling  so good to have your first courgette, hopefully the rain will bring all its siblings on. I do hope you will run the thread again for the next quarter, we have all appreciated the work you put in on this while at the same time coping with family worries and your demanding job. Pretty please 💐
 

Ditty I hope today was better than you feared. Days like yesterday (I call them “no-days”) are horrid, and one ends up feeling frustrated at having done nothing, which makes it worse. I tend now just to go with the flow if it’s going to be like that, a book, or a film, and “something easy” to eat.
 

Dumpling well done on your new start, and all best wishes.
 

Roundtuit, ttb, congratulations on your losses, well done 👏
 
monnagran your not-quite-Michaelangelo is a very lucky man (although he’ll probably need a diet after working for you)😄  Commiserations on the gain, back to eating bread-and-water with relish and enjoyment 🤣

I lost the plot today, as you’ll see below. It poured with rain in the night, and most of the morning so there were Soggy Doggies to be dried, wet coats in the hall (why don’t British houses ever have a suitable place to hang rained-on clothes - even in Britain it rains...) and wet towels to be washed. (Here endeth the mini-rant.)
 

Weighing in day tomorrow - I don’t think it’ll be a pretty sight.
 
Where I lost the plot
B : bacon, scrambled eggs 😋, mushroom ✅ two squares of chocolate ❌
Elevenses : half a slice of lemon drizzle cake (it was a very large slice) ❌
L : watercress soup with half a bread roll ✅ the other half of the roll with honey ❌ and the other half slice of lemon drizzle cake ❌
AT : a slice of coffee & walnut cake ❌
D : ham & tongue salad (lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, yellow pepper); ✅ strawberries & yogurt ✅ two glasses of white wine ❌
 
Oh dear😱

greenbee

Don't worry @Blue_Doggy - you're just trying to keep up with me and @monnagran. I have my mum staying, which means I'm cooking and eating stuff I don't normally eat. Mind you, I also get a commentary on how much I eat (mostly veg/salad) from the person who says "I'm not really very hungry" at meals but is the reason I need to have bread and biscuits in the house... As well as being the food police, she's the alcohol police, but frankly it's either that or one of us will end up under the patio

I'm also finding it hard work having to produce 2 meals a day while working. When it's just me it isn't an issue - find some veg, add protein and fat up to whatever that day's allowance is. I'm only doing 2 meals - I don't eat breakfast so flatly refuse to be involved! (Also, I'm usually well into my working day by the time she gets round to it). ANd on that note, I'd better get the tray of roast veg out of the oven (I will eat 90% of it) and prod the fishcakes (lucky find in the freezer after a day of gardening). 

Brambling

TTB with you as a mum I'm sure you've raised a strong young man so don't forget to ask him for help and you know where we are if you need our support  

Yay  Roundtuit back to target 👏 

Blue unfortunately there are about 8 courgettes all the same size and nearly ready to pick, I'll have a glut as the rain we had today is making them grow even faster 😳

My sister is still in intensive care but had a little porridge this morning and spoke to my BIL and a granddaughter on the phone, more is coming out re her recent health issues, my BIL is spilling the beans on a couple of falls she had just previously to this one and she has been too frightened of CV19 to speak to a doctor.  My eldest sister is at that worried angry stage so there will be words (they are 76 & 79 🙂) and my eldest sister still tells us off if she thinks it's required she's shrunk to approx 4ft 8" but reminds us all including our 6ft brother that she's in charge now 😁 The hospital still isn't sure what's wrong with her

i may have gone overboard on fruit today 🙂 a local fruit farm was in the farmers market had an abundance of cherries and berries so I've a fridge full of cherries, blackberries, black currants, gooseberries, Tay berries, raspberries and strawberries 😳 I was good in M&S and avoided their spice iced buns which were YS I may have been caught talking to myself whilst glaring at the shelf.  I nearly persuaded myself to take a pack to my sister and have one each rather than my original thought of both for lunch 

B - banana 
L - large bowl of pineapple, mango, melon
D - steak, air fried chips, griddled asparagus, broccoli and French beans 
S - toffees

I'll organise the next quarter challenge in the next day or two 😁 I need it too 🥺

monnagran

Morning Losers.

Dear Bloggy I laughed myself silly over your yesterday's 'let's see how much I can stuff down' diet.  You'd better join me in the bread and water (easy on the bread) diet.  I'll even give you a lend of my hair shirt if you like.

' greenbee, poor you.  In your place, I would be remarking primly that I always understood it to be bad manners and very low-class to comment on what other people were eating.  Perhaps maintain a discrete silence over the matter of alcohol.
Make sure that you pack up all the food that you only got for her and send it home with her, which sounds as though it had better be sooner rather than later.

Brambling.  You are a wonder!  I cannot imagine how you ever find the time or energy to manage this thread, but so, so grateful that you do.  All power to your elbow, and any other bit of your body that needs it.  Bless you.

greenbee

Should be Wednesday @monnagran - but I have to drive her back and it’s a 4 hour trip. 8 hate driving anyway, and with the post-viral fatigue (which has hit hard today, probably because having people staying, no matter how much gardening they do is hard work - especially when you work from home) I’m fairly apprehensive about it. I’ll have to stay at least one night, possibly two, before I can manage the trip home.

next weekend I will be eating pizza, ice cream and wine, and doing nothing!

Gingerlily

Hi
Well done losers and sts, commiserations on the gains. 

Ttb you’ve done really well with the diet with all your coping with xx. 

Bluedoggy the ticks and crosses made me smile (soz).
Brambling, I also appreciate you running the thread with all you’ve got going on.

I didn’t get chance to post yesterday, I was out all day and a little squiffy when I got back. I only took lunch as I expected to be back late afternoon, ended up eating out for dinner (I’m oversea’s at mo and eateries here have remained open throughout).
For yesterday

Breakfast: Greek yoghurt, strawberries, red currants, desiccated coconut, coffee with cream.
Lunch: hard boiled egg and an ounce of feta. Starbucks short americano with cream. 

Mid afternoon: Tall tea with milk Dinner out: 1/2 a steak, a spoon of peas, broccoli, cauliflower, 4 cooked grape tomatoes and 2 spoons of mashed potato. Glass of white wine which went straight to my head!

Supper: strawberries with lashings of cream. Milk chocolate. 

I was really ravenous when I finally got home, I don’t know if that was the endurance walking ( over 11 miles in flip flops, I’m in agony today lol) or the wine setting the hunger pangs off. In any case this diet isn’t suitable for endurance athletes so I must have needed the extra calories, I did feel better after eating supper. 

Today’s menu

Breakfast: fried egg, streaky bacon, tomato and mushrooms, coffee with cream. 

Lunch: the skinny burger I’d defrosted for last night with mustard, ketchup, gherkins and cheese in lettuce wraps. Blackberries and red currants with Greek yoghurt. 

Dinner: butter lettuce, toms, spring onion, avocado, feta and pine nuts with balsamic vinegar. 

Evening snack: milk chocolate.

Take care all. 

LittleVoice

Brambling said:

I'll organise the next quarter challenge in the next day or two 😁 I need it too 🥺

That's good.  I'll join all you lovely people for Q3.  This lockdown means I need to lose at least half a stone.

nananibbles

Hi All,
I'd love to join for the next quarter. I think it will be easier for me to lose weight if I do it as part of this group, I'm certainly not having much success on my own. Could you put me down for 6lbs please. I intend to go slowly as I have a tendency to binge eat if I restrict by more than a couple of hundred calories a day.
Many thanks Brambling
NN

tighteningthebelt

Hi littlevoice and nananibbles - welcome! 👋👋