Old Style Weight Loss 2020 - Part 3

LittleVoice

Day 15 

WI:
a 1 lb loss (had to breathe in really hard!)

Exercise:
two hours of walking (interrupted by just 10 minutes sitting waiting to collect new reading glasses)

Food:  
calories - 1622
fruit & veg - =6 portions (including pineapple, baked beans, celery, satsumas, almonds, raisins)

nananibbles

Good Morning All,
MIA again yesterday but back strong this morning (well back). I had a very distressful email from my solicitor just before I went to bed the night before last which may mean I will have to sell my home. This in turn led to a sleepless night (and another last night) and a desperate need to hit the chocolate. Luckily for me I'm sleeping on the top floor, I had a dog to step over and the chocolate was locked two floors down in the garage. It did not however stop me from making lemon curd at 5 o'clock in the morning and adding that along with clotted cream to my morning porridge  I did not feel up to going for a run but I was able to rein myself in by going for a couple of long walks with the dog and actually had a fairly ok day, mainly because my dinner was already prepared and I knew exactly what I had planned to eat (aside from the lemon curd - which was delish and the clotted cream). I am going to head out in a bit to make sure I get my run in and then try and put my worries to one side as there is little I can do about the situation - it is in the hands of my solicitor and the courts. 
cranky40 this is the link to the recipe for the Dahl. If I don't have green/brown lentils to hand I chuck in any bean - (though not baked!) chickpeas are pretty good in it too or sometimes I just make it with red lentils. I've never used gusto but my boss does and some of the recipes are lovely. Let me know what you think of it if you do get to make it.
https://www.gousto.co.uk/cookbook/vegan-recipes/butternut-squash-lentil-coconut-dal

TTB Good luck with the chemo, you sound very positive which is such a good thing. Stress and state of mind play such an important role in how our body deals with illness. I read your posts this morning and it put my own issues back into perspective.

Meal Plan:
B- porridge with bits (possibly a little lemon curd )
S- Fruit salad - made some up yesterday.
L - Light scraping of cream cheese and salad sarnie. I try not to eat dairy but as I eaten all the hummus and there is some cream cheese in the fridge here that needs eating up (and I am now officially broke) then needs must. Making up the final batch of red cabbage slaw. There is always a lot to get through as I have a whole head of cabbage to eat up.
S- fruit salad
D - Cauliflower and green bean biryani with greens
P - chocolate of some derivative 

The coffee pot is calling ...
NN

tighteningthebelt

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Have a good day everyone☀️

monnagran

Morning Losers.

ttb, thinking of you, and don't forget what I said, we've got your back.

nananibbles.  I don't know where to start.  It seems that you have arrived at that famous resting place Rock Bottom. I'm not going to tell you that the only way is up or any other annoying platitudes, because although that maybe true, it takes a lot of courage and energy to start the climb, and I guess that neither of those things are available just now.
Do what you have to.  Scream, sob, kick the doors, but know that we are all here when you want to vent.  We will hold your hand while you sort out a Plan B.
There's not much more to say, except that some of us know how you are feeling. Honestly we do.  If it helps, 5 years ago I was penniless, on pension credit, living in one room in my son and DIL's home and 76 years old.  All because I put my trust in the wrong person.  Today I am waking up in my own dear little bungalow, happy and at peace with the world.  You can do this. 
Oh, and lay off the chocolate.  When my world was destroyed overnight I lost 2 stones in 6 weeks.  The only bright side.

x 

Izadora

Morning All,

Brambling Congratulations for the loss. Going to the shops when hungry is definitely dangerous, the amount of rubbish I end up with if I've not eaten first is shocking. I hope the face masks/pipe cleaners work and you find a way of not steaming up your glasses. I went for an eye test yesterday and had to remember not to breathe when I was trying them on as they fogged up instantly.

roundtuit It's definitely a difficult balancing act to figure out. Despite having been on diets for the majority of my life I still find that I either lose weight but end up obsessive and crazy or bumble about reasonably happily and end up putting weight on. How was the spaghetti on toast? I haven't had it for ages either, I stopped having it for lunch when colleagues kept commenting on the fact that I was having a kid's dinner - I wouldn't mind but I'd even resisted the temptation to have the alphabetty stuff

Chloris Well done, that's a great loss. Sorry things are stressful and it's not just you, when I'm stress eating I'll end up having things that I'm not even that keen on and wouldn't consider eating normally, let alone as a treat.

ditty Well done on the bike ride, especially on something clunky and without fast gears

SandyShores Crusty bread is a definite weakness of mine (although I'd be hard pushed to find something which isn't a weakness...) so it's entirely understandable

nananibbles I'm so sorry about your bad news and I hope that it all works out for you and best of luck with pushing the worries aside. No matter how much you know that worrying about things you can't influence isn't going to help it's hard not to do.

greenbee I might have to try radishes again. I always used to hate them but hopefully they'll be one of those things where tastes change and I generally love peppery things so I'll try monna's  French breakfast ones.

TTB I hope this fast goes as well as your trial run and very best of luck for tomorrow

Cranky Well done for not giving in to the sugar craving. I'm not sure that going to bed every time I wanted sugar would work for me, I'd never get anything done

LittleVoice Congratulations for the loss. All the walking and healthy eating is paying off.

monnagran I can't believe that you can still manage to find a bright side when trusting the wrong person cost you that much!! You really are a great example of being able to come through anything with a smile.

Molly Sorry things have been a bit rough for you but I'm glad the appointment went okay and enjoy your hair appointment today.

Sorry for the absence but I was being a raging misery (there's nothing actually wrong, just that TOTM) and thought I'd spare you all my grumps - you've got more than enough to deal with without me whingeing about nothing. I seem to be near enough normal again now but have spent the past two days eating pretty much anything and everything in sight and am now really craving vegetables so will hopefully get back to sensible eating and try to undo some of the damage.

Best of luck and stay safe xx

LittleVoice

Day 16 

Exercise:
very little outdoor walking today but housework involving a lot of stairs                  

Food:  
calories - 1715
fruit & veg - =5 portions (including celery, satsumas, almonds, seeds, hazelnuts, cashews, tomato)
Had chicken biryani ready-meal for lunch - made me realise how much I wanted the real deal in a restaurant.
My first post lockdown venture into a commercial establishment will be tomorrow morning - to meet a friend in a Pret.  May have just a drink but could be tempted to stray from that (not very firm) resolve.

Molly41

@tighteningthebelt - Absolute positive vibes and lots of hugs for you chemo today  - how did do you do with fasting?
@nananibbles - hugs to you - i love lemon curd  - hope thing look a bit more positive for you today x

Ive had a bad week eating wise, health wise, meds wise and lack of activity!! 
Despite that Im pleased to report a loss of -1lb for me which Im more than happy with
Hope you all have a good day
Lots of love xxx

nananibbles

Good morning all,

Thank you so much for all the kind words of support and love, what a wonderful community this is. My solicitor has now drafted a letter to the court so it is out of my hands.
Foodwise things did not pan out so well yesterday., mainly due to tiredness as well as some emotional eating. I made all-butter flap jacks for me son and vegan gf cranberry pecan and white choc chip flapjacks for me my daughter. I truly lived up to my name and nibbled away 5 or 6 pieces on top of what appears to be half a jar of lemon curd and clotted cream. I also ended the day with chocolate! I did counterbalance this by going for a long run in the morning and ending the day having completed over 12.5 miles according to my step app. I also had mainly salad for lunch and the tiniest portion of biriyani for dinner. I'm hoping that despite my nutritionally poor day I managed to balance my calorie input and out put. Thick black line drawn.
I slept in this morning, so feeling much better but I'm giving my early morning exercise a break and will take the dog for a couple of long walks later.
Meal Plan:
B- porridge and bits
S - fruit salad
L - sarnie (probably cream cheese marmite and salad) and slaw
S - fruit salad
D - Chickpea and squash tagine with quinoa, pomegranate and fresh herbs
P - chocolate of some sort
Blue skies this morning.
NN

tighteningthebelt

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The fasting seems quite easy to do molly41
 I am wondering whether a 5:2 might be better for me than calorie  restriction. Anyway, bigger fish to fry today. Ive just taken an anti sickness pill that lasts 5 days, wonders!! Thank you to everyone for being kind. 💛🌼

roundtuit

Morning xx

Thinking about you ttb xx

Hugs to nannanibbles xx My rock bottom was 15th March 2008 - I was unemployed, had £10 in the bank and wrote my car off that day. Some dates just stick in your head. Hope things work out for you xx

Izadora - I enjoyed my spaghetti on toast, thank you. You need to tell your colleagues to mind their own knitting!!! I also like fish fingers and smiley faces!!! You eat what you like, my love, and yahboo sucks to the naysayers. (Auntie D has spoken. Although I suppose on here I am Auntie R)

My eating was going swimmingly....until yesterday. Oooops. I think a cumulative of not enough eaten over 5 days led to 'ram it down before you starve' mode. I bought a bag of crisps and a chocolate bar at work. Then called at chippy for fish, chips and peas, on my way home from work. Then (and this was not my fault) I arrived home to find that DS's GF had baked me a cake. A whole cake just for me! (they have gone back to GF's house until Sunday.) So I had to eat some of it - it would have been rude not to.

There's always next week. (Shut your eyes I'm going to swear) Fuxake.

Rxx