Old Style Weight Loss 2020 - Part 3

ditty1234

SandyShores said:

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

Good morning everybody. 
Sandy shores If I must snack whilst cooking - and this is a real problem - I try to do fruit or carrots! sounds boring, but it's nice a crunchy and it fills you up. My problem snacks are peanut butter - straight, tortilla chips, raisins or just tasting. Cucumber is a great deflection snack as well, it's cheap, full of water and it's super crunchy. Mint tea also seems to quieten some of those snacking demands sometime. 
That said a bit of high quality is definitely a celebration though :-)

greenbee

Just dropping back in briefly to say that at this time of year in particular radishes makes a great snack. I keep a bowl of prepped radishes in water in the fridge at all times for snack emergencies. In fact I need to go and get some more from the garden this morning ...

tighteningthebelt

Hi everyone 🙂

Soup and an apple for lunch 25g cheese
Celeriac Spanish omelette for dinner, with spring greens and mushrooms. An orange for pudding. 

I should find out my chemo start day today ... hope so as i hate marching time.

We are all doing so well, slaying our demons and supporting each other 😊💛

CRANKY40

Hello all, I hope you're all well. 

I'm still sugar free. I had a craving for sweets last night about 10:30pm but I wasn't hungry. As it was just a sensory thing I went to bed (my bedroom has always been a food free zone) and I've woken up without the craving this morning. 

Nannanibbles please could I have your dahl recipe? I've never made it but I really want to. Every time I look online for a recipe there are so many different ones that I don't know which to choose. As a fellow porridge lover I reckon that our tastes would be similar enough for me to like whatever you make. The red slaw sounds lovely too. We used to make it in the cafe that I worked in and it's so much prettier than ordinary slaw. 

Take care all of you 

LittleVoice

Day 14 

Exercise:
walking to tube station (25 mins), to and from other station (20 mins) to deliver 100th birthday card, gardening

Food:  
calories - 1671
fruit & veg - =5 portions (including grapefruit, banana, rhubarb, baked beans, hazelnuts, raisins)

Brambling

Well done a great first week Chloris  and on your STS nana 

I'm another one who can be led astray by fresh french stick and butter, just as well i rarely have crusty bread in the house. 

I hope you got your treatment plan sorted TTB 

B - banana
L - two small wraps with cheese, parma ham and mushrooms (fried) I'm sure there is a fancy name for it with a rocket salad
D - the plan is for lamb steak, new potatoes, french beans, asparagus and probably something done with a courgette 
S - 2 packs dark chocolate mini rice cakes, grapes

monnagran

I'm dropping in briefly  in the midst of sitting on one end of the phone chatting up various customer service bods, complaints departments, BT engineers et al.

Greenbee, I'm another advocate of radishes as emergency snacks.  French Breakfast is my favourite.  So hot and peppery.

Cranky,  every time I eat mustard and/or cress I think of you.

Molly41

Sorry been on sick days with my steroids so not doing too well atm. Will catch up with thread in a minute x
Love and hugs xxx

Molly41

So thank you for all your concern and comments x
My appointment went ok no concerns as such but Ive been really under the weather ever since and have only just summoned up the energy to log in x
Ive had a pj day today and soup for lunch. Ive had to double my steroids as keep fainting. Had such a bad night.
Well done to those who have lost xxx

SandyShores

Thanks for all the snack tips.  I'm going to try the crunchy watery veggie things.  I love cucumber and chunks of carrot and all stuff like that but I need to have it prepped ready for my defence.  Celery stays really fresh in tin foil - although I don't like to use foil if I can help it, and I always forget its there when its covered by the foil.  It would be great to prep a few crisp size packs of chunky mixed veg ready in the fridge.