Old Style Weight Loss 2020 - Part 3

Brambling

Old Style Weight Loss Challenge 2020 - 3rd Quarter

01/07/20 - 30/09/20

Imperial (lbs) please let me know if you want me to add a kg list as well

Bargainhunterss -/7
Black_Saturn -/21
Blue Doggy -1/ 9   /   
Brambling 2/10   / 
Chloris 3/14 
Cranky40  1.5/ 9.  /  
Ditty1234 0/8  /   
Dumpling 2/14   
Gingerlily 3 /17    /   
Honeythewitch -/9
Izadora 2.5/14   / 
LittleVoice 1/ 10   
Molly41 - /10
Monnagran 3/7.  /   
Nananibbles 0.5/6  / STS
ouraggie 2/15  /   
Roundtuit - +4/7   
Sandyshores 1/6    
SIRENS - 1/8   
sonyarita /21
Tighteningthebelt 5.5/10  /   
Zippy 5/18  / 



Key 
    =  1lb loss  (or kg)
    =  1/2lb loss  (or kg)
    =  1lb gain (or kg)
    = 1/2lb gain (or kg)

Brambling

Well done on the loss Zippy   you must be exited about the new grandbaby   

Molly I hope today went ok   

Back to the laptop today, although we are waiting for our developers so it's not so busy as expected it's more of a catch up on outstanding tasks type of day and we should be finished at 5pm, which is good as I worked a few hours on Saturday.  

I caught the sun Saturday whilst gossiping to my neighbour and received a 'I should have known better' lecture from my sister yesterday, in my defence I hadn't planned on standing in the sun for a couple of hours talking .  My arms escaped but unfortunately not the V of my tee shirt and my face, it's just as well I'm not working in the office as I was standing a little in the shade so it's not a all over red       I do have an especially sore bit on my forehead where I partially pinned back my fringe back     the icing on the cake will be if it peels    

B - banana
L - Fish finger sandwich and crisps
D - Not sure yet - probably tuna with jacket potato as I haven't taken anything out of the freezer, but it should be something with courgettes
S - fresh pineapple, dark chocolate covered mini rice cakes 

Have a good week 

Izadora

Good Afternoon All,

Wow, what a lot to catch up on!! Apologies in advance if I forget anyone or manage to mix your posts up...

ditty I find that my weight fluctuates massively depending on a number of things, how much water I've drunk being a major one, so hopefully the gain's not a real one and that and more will have dropped off next week. I've never looked at the NHS plan but 1,400 does seem to be a bit of an arbitrary figure and what people need to eat to lose weight varies so much that it'll be massively out for so many people.

nananibbles I love home-grown food but, unfortunately, tend to kill everything I try to grow so will have to stick to buying my veggies. Enjoy your house-sitting and well done for planning ahead with meals, although it definitely sounds like you exercised your way out of going a bit off plan.

LittleVoice I love cauliflower but I'm not sure I'd want to use it as a pizza base!! It sounds like you did a lot of walking and it's good that you got to catch up with a friend as well. You know what suits you so if you're not comfortable then it doesn't matter whether your BMI is classed as healthy or not, as long as you don't take yourself into an unhealthily low range.

Blue Doggy Congratulations on the loss and very well done for yesterday's sticking entirely to plan. I hate gardening but I still think I'd take that over ironing, especially when it's as nice out there as it is today.

TTB Congratulations, that's an amazing loss. It's definitely deserved after managing to fast for 73 hours!! I love the comment about not going where it's slippery

roundtuit Commiserations for the gain but massive congratulations for deciding that you're going to stick with it and resisting the jaffa cakes and the bag of goodies. I hope your headache's easing up

monnagran Congratuations on the loss. I'd love to be able to agree with you about the drizzle of honey but, for me, it would render everything else inedible. Hmmm, maybe I should look at covering everything in honey or coriander, it could put me right off food

Cranky Congratulations on the loss and best of luck for the new job. 

Molly I hope all went/goes well with your appointment today and that your migraine's gone

ouraggie Congratulations on the loss and the idea of colour-coded stickers on your hangers is genius. I don't know if your OH is normally quite unobservant but I've found that when I've lost weight in the past it tends to be the people I don't see as often who are more likely to notice. 

Sirens Congratulations on the loss. I'm not sure which one sounds more irresistible, the cookie bars or the chocolate cake with strawberry buttercream. 

greenbee I don't think I'd manage a 24 hour fast either, I tend to start getting hangry by about lunchtime so my husband would probably end up lobbing chocolate from a safe distance and keeping back until I'd calmed down.

Brambling I know that you said not to talk about courgettes but these https://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/type-of-dish/vegetarian-food/courgette-and-potato-cakes-with-mint-and-feta-cheese are absolutely gorgeous. They're a bit of a faff but you can make a massive batch of them and they freeze really well. I hope your forehead's not too painful and that you manage to avoid peeling.

zippy Congratulations on the loss and being nearly back in your summer clothes. You must be so excited about the imminent arrival of your grandchild.

Gingerlily I'm glad things are feeling a bit better now and huge congratulations for not resorting to emotional eating. No matter how much I know it's not going to help it's something I still find myself doing.

I just about managed to scrape in with a loss this week, only -0.5lb down but at least it's going in the right direction and I was really worried that I'd completely wrecked everything with Thursday's binge. I seemed to spend most of Saturday rushing from one thing to another so didn't have time to eat all that much but it was a lovely weekend and, although things are obviously still strange at the moment, it felt a bit more like normal life. I worked for a couple of hours in the morning, met a friend for coffee, went to the hairdresser (maybe that's where the half pound went ) and then had a couple of friends over for drinks in the garden in the evening. I even managed to eat reasonably sensibly, if a bit bread heavy, yesterday rather than stuffing myself with rubbish so thank you all, not having to fess up to a massive gain here was about the only thing that kept me away from the biscuit tin.

Best of luck and stay safe everyone xx

Brambling

Well done on the loss Izadora  after 5 months I'm hoping for at least a half lb off when I have my hair cut    

Thanks for the recipe I do have the ingredients so I may give it a go before any more get big enough to pick. I was given some pumpkin seeds but I'm not sure that they were a good idea to plant as it's beginning to look a little like The Day of the Triffids at the bottom of the garden and I only put in two plants.  I snuck a couple in with my sisters courgette plants  and I'm not popular at the moment 

roundtuit

Izadora said:

greenbee I don't think I'd manage a 24 hour fast either, I tend to start getting hangry by about lunchtime so my husband would probably end up lobbing chocolate from a safe distance and keeping back until I'd calmed down.

This made me laugh. Same here - only it would be DS or my colleagues lobbing chocolate at me and exiting Stage left until it was safe to approach. 

Rxx

Chloris

Hi everyone. Congratulations to you losers and STS. Commiserations to the zigzagers.

I am reporting a 3lb loss. I should be happy about this but I know I have been comfort eating yesterday and today as home and work have been stressful. Is it just me, but my comfort eating generally isn't even things I particularly like it feel like a treat? . It's also the final week of the school year (yay!) so it's likely to get a bit messy food and drink wise on the weekend. In fact, we have an order of pizza due on Sunday, which I'm really looking forward to. We never get takeout! I guess I'll try to be good as I can until Friday and enjoy the weekend before I get back to it. At least I'm paying attention now 😂

ditty1234

Hi Just checking in to say hi and list my foods:
B Oats and musli and apple, w coffee
L1 1 rye w cheddar and onion chutney, grapes, cucumber and  tomato
L2 1 slice of seeded bread w humus and 2 wheat crackers, 4 slices of chorizo
D Black bean vegan chili w rice (and cheese- not so vegan)- nice
Exercise 25 k bike ride, my ds tells me that I'm slow - but then I'm on a mountain bike wit the fast gears missing and he's on a brand new road bike! And I'm (obviously) slightly older than him, so I'm happy.
Keep on trucking, substituting, moving and be kind to yourself like you are your best friend, honest but kind :-)

SandyShores

Cooking dinner tonight I found myself alone in the kitchen with a french stick and before I knew it the butter knife was in the lurpak!!  Couldn't resist it.  I was making a healthy meal of filled pasta with a tomato sauce too!  It was delicious but its becoming a habit of nibbling while I am cooking - must do better

nananibbles

Good morning all, 

Brambles WI alert - STS please and thank you

As I mentioned the other day I’m putting myself down as sts as Im weighing in somewhere else, it should balance itself out in 3 weeks when I get back to DDs, hopefully it won’t have been a gain!

Blue-doggy I’m the same if I weigh food as I become very obsessive. Although I would no doubt lose weight faster I find it negative on my mental health. I also have to be very careful around my dd who is trying to bulk.  She suffered with anorexia for 5 years so anything diet related is a no no, which is one of the reasons why I am as blazé as I am able to be about the amount of food and chocolate I eat. 

I hope your headache has gone roundtuit - I may need to join you guys on this sugarless journey as I suspect it may be my stumbling block at the moment. Perhaps I should give it a go whilst I’m away housesitting.

Thanks Zippy it was either that or Lockdown Lardy  I became a grandma for the first time last year (a few years earlier than anticipated!) she is an absolute blessing and I’m lucky to be able to spend so much time with her. Well done on that weight loss, nailing it.

Little Voice - that’s a massive reduction in your BMI - fantastic, you should be very proud to be so close to the end of your weight loss journey.

I’m glad youre feeling a little more upbeat Gingerlily - emotional eating is a big trap for many of us. I find myself reaching for food at the slightest emotional upset.

Ouch! Brambling rub some aftersun into those pink bits, aloe vera is very good too and should prevent a peeling forehead. Ive been wearing leggings mostly this summer with trainers and those tiny sports socks as I’ve been digging out weeds for most of the summer - the tan line on my legs is a 3 inch strip from my ankle to the bottom of my leggings!

Visualising 1/2lb as a block of butter Izadora will hopefully make you feel a bit more positive about the loss - its all in the right direction  and every bit of a loss is a fantastic celebration - well done you.

Well done Chloris great weight loss. Paying attention is an important step, without that we would never get in the headspace to lose the weight.

I had a pretty good day yesterday. I changed things around a little and had a bigger lunch and less for dinner. I added red cabbage slaw and a small green lentil salad to my sarnie and reduced the portion size of my Dahl and greens in the evening, I also had dinner a little earlier than I would to stop me from nibbling. Managed a 800 calorie burn though I’m getting some aches and pains so may need to rest up somewhat. Todays food will be a repeat of yesterdays

Meal Plan:

B - porridge and bits

S - plum/orange

L - hummus and salad sarnie, red cabbage slaw and lentil salad

S - melon

D - Dahl, butternut squash and greens

P - chocolate - will be attempting to reduce the amount!

Have a great day 

NN

roundtuit

Morning xx

Headache has gone this morning. I'm not going sugarless nannanibbles - it was just a reaction from eating wayyyy tooo much sugar (hence the weight gain) and then cutting right down overnight as I hopped back on to the wagon. 

Learning how to eat so that I lose weight but don't affect my mental health is a balancing act. I once went on an extremely low fat diet - after 4 days I was spiralling down so quickly that DS's Dad begged me to 'just eat what you like'. It was actually quite frightening as I view that black hole of depression with horror! I bumble along with my anxiety but I don't want to go back down there. Luckily Prozac works for me and I have an understanding GP.

B - 2 Weetabix with skimmed milk and half a teaspoon of sugar
L - packed up and ready - 4 ryvita, no spread, 2 sl cheese, S&V crisps. banana, apple

I've not decided what to have for tea - maybe fish and chips baked in the oven?

Have a good day
Rxx