Old Style Weight Loss Challenge 2021 - 4th Quarter

jennystarpepper

honeythewitch said:

jennystarpepper said:

@PurpleJay - Hello  I'm sure Brambling will shove you on the list.

Lol, you have listed all of the things (or most) of what I have to avoid to keep my weight down... toast, marg. and cereal, especially the cereal as I'm always starving within an hour of eating it.....  

Same here. I think I need to ditch the butter. It is a massive proportion of fat for someone attempting to lower blood pressure. 
Perhaps quark will work? 

Never had Quark, I am not a lover of 'milk' type products.

I try to avoid anything that needs butter, (oh I do love me a big fat blob of Lurpak).  I try to avoid all bread as I do not lose if I eat it, I have a love hate relationship with it.     I try and have an Alpen light bar and fruit for breakfast (which is cereal, but does not make me as hungry).  I usually have a packet of Melba toast as a bread alternative. 

Flaxseed helps with blood pressure or so i am told.

Frith

I'll be joining you shortly...

I've been binging like nothing on earth. Today I did get the Blood Sugar Diet books out (hereafter BSD) and made a list of meals and a shopping list.

I ate a whole tray of brownies I cooked yesterday (complete with dried dates and glace cherries) plus toad in the hole and roast veg. I just cannot get to grips with it.

Brie

I appear to be down a pound!  Not quite sure how other than trying to have rye flakes for breakfast most days. 

For those not familiar it's like oatmeal except made from rye seeds rather than oat ones.  There's a LOT of fibre on it which is supposed to be good for one plus gives it a nuttier taste.  I've had it cooked like porridge (rye and milk in a travel pot the night before ready to take to work to nuke) or also as birchler muesli (rye, milk, yoghurt, fruit in travel pot the night before but not nuked in the morning).  For those that don't like/eat milk you could of course use water or apple juice.

My biggest problem with it is that it's "rye".  And to me "rye" is a type of whiskey and the thought of whiskey for breakfast is a bit bleugh!

LilacPotato

Morning all, I'm checking in with a 1lb loss this week, despite a few wobbly days.

I'm now heading into a fortnight of having something happening every day that would usually make me justify snacks and drinks so if you don't hear from me again I've skulked off in shame! I'll keep up with the water drinking and getting a decent amount of steps done each day and try not to go too off the rails. We'll see how it goes. 

I bought some popcorn kernels after the recommendation about making them in the microwave and then adding your own things rather than buying big bags of over sugared things, but as yet I've been too scared to try cooking them - I'm convinced I'll blow up the microwave somehow!

Have a good week everyone!

short_bird

An STS for me, my eating was positively shambolic this week.

Brambling

Frith from quarter 2 we know once you get focus o. The BDS diet you are a women on a mission, good luck with this challenge 

Brie I'm not sure how your brain works with link from rye to whiskey 😁 I haven't had rye flakes before I may look them up as a change from oats.

Lilac I haven't set fire to the kitchen yet making popcorn 😁 not killed the microwave.  I will way don't think cling is a good alternative to a lid   i use a lidded Pyrex casserole dish ( not too big) and add a single layer to the bottom, not too many to start, put the lid on and ping in stages I usually do 2 minutes and then shake then repeat.  I find I rarely need to go to 6 minutes but some kernels won't pop but you don't want them to burn.  My casserole dish is a old glass one so I can see what is happening as well as near it

Short_bird I'm also having a shambolic week, far too much food / rubbish is being eaten 😐. Have a good week 

CCW007

Reporting in with a 0.6lb loss this week.  So total this quarter = 1.4lb.  Slow going but only because I'm sabotaging myself at weekends.  Something to work on.

Brie

@Brambling

Brie I'm not sure how your brain works with link from rye to whiskey 😁 I haven't had rye flakes before I may look them up as a change from oats.

It's because I'm Canadian and Canadian whiskey is made in part with rye and has always been referred to as "rye" when you order a drink.   As in "I'll have a rye and soda".

Also it occurred to me that the porridge made with rye flakes isn't that dissimilar to really brown rice.  Hope that doesn't put you off!!

not killed the microwave.

And I have killed my microwave this week but it has nothing to do with popcorn!  I've an air popper for that!!!

leftatthetrafficlights

1/2lb loss this week- another very poor showing from me, I really need to make more effort 🙈

saving_is_good

I’ve put on 1.5lbs this week.   

I’ve had a bad cold and I’ve been eating comfort food like the U.K. is going to run out of chocolate, apples, persimmon, and bags of popcorn. (I love fruit)

My internal voice tells me it’s just fluid as all my glands in my face and neck are huge, but I know I’ve not stuck to any diet this week, and I’ve been sucking full sugar sweets at work to stop me coughing. (Can’t eat full sugar free ones as They give me wind and the running trots). 

 Hopefully I can regain some self control.
You are all doing so well..

Brie, rice porridge isn’t too bad. I add a small spoon of sultanas to mine when making it, then no other sweetener. I also make quinoa porridge at times. Boiled buckwheat is also quite nice. Before I discovered that I can’t have gluten or oats in any form or quantity I experimented with rye and barley flakes… they’re nice but worse (and more instant) than sugar free sweets.