Old Style Weight Loss Challenge - 1st Quarter 2025

cheerfulness4

Well done, Bella. 

Food today:

1x Boiled egg and fingers
HM Tuna and cheese pizza with salad and mayo & sweet chilli dip

Snacks - Pineapple and mandarins. 

Going to use the new bread maker for the pizza dough today. I've been thrilled with this new Tefal one so I hope it doesn't let me down with this. 

Gingerlily

Hello

Weighday -2.5lbs please Brambling. 

Day 17 and I’m having my first off meal tonight, an Indian take away and a glass of wine and chocolate for dessert. 

I’ll be increasing my calories going forward as I've moved into phase 3 of my plan so expect weight loss to slow down somewhat. I’ll also be adding in exercise just stretching and a couple shortish walks this week to ease back into it.

cheerfulness4

Great loss there, Gingerlily. Well done. 

Mollina_Girl

cheerfulness4 said:

Going to use the new bread maker for the pizza dough today. I've been thrilled with this new Tefal one so I hope it doesn't let me down with this. 

So pleased you love  the Tefal, I haven't made pizza dough in my bread maker, you'll have to let me know how it turned out.

katejo

cheerfulness4 said:

Well done, Bella. 

Food today:

1x Boiled egg and fingers
HM Tuna and cheese pizza with salad and mayo & sweet chilli dip

Snacks - Pineapple and mandarins. 

Going to use the new bread maker for the pizza dough today. I've been thrilled with this new Tefal one so I hope it doesn't let me down with this. 

On my walk last Saturday, 2 guys were enthusing about bread makers. I have never tried one because I thought it wouldn't be worth it for 1 person. It would go.stale too quickly.
 

cheerfulness4

Katejo, You can make small loaves or when it comes to wholemeal (I'm the only one who likes that) I  make a full sized loaf and then slice and freeze it so you just get out what you need daily.

Mollina, it was a really light and soft textured dough. DH and DS loved it but I like a crispy crust to mine. It was very nice, though. I'll pop the recipe up later when I've a bit more time. 

Gingerlily

Thank you cheerfulness4.
 

Amazingly I’ve only put on 0.2lb after last nights take away and I had 2 glasses of wine. From past experience I usually temporarily put on around 1-2lb after eating out/takeout. 

cheerfulness4

Morning! 

Wow, what a frosty day today. Its a complete white out here this morning.

Food today:

1x HM bread and butter with marmalade
Shepherds pie topped with cheesy mash, brussels and cauliflower.

Snacks - fruit

Mollina - here's the pizza dough recipe. 

2 and half tsp yeast
450g strong white flour
2 tsp sugar
2 tbsp olive oil ( I used rapeseed and was fine)
275ml of tepid water.

Load into the bread maker on leavened dough setting. 

It makes a really springy bread base. I squeezed it and it bounced right back up so I'm thinking this would make an excellent dough for soft baps.  Even for iced finger buns with a bit of spice added to the mix. (shhush, I didn't say that.  )

Mollina_Girl

cheerfulness4 said:

Mollina - here's the pizza dough recipe. 

2 and half tsp yeast
450g strong white flour
2 tsp sugar
2 tbsp olive oil ( I used rapeseed and was fine)
275ml of tepid water.

Load into the bread maker on leavened dough setting. 

It makes a really springy bread base. I squeezed it and it bounced right back up so I'm thinking this would make an excellent dough for soft baps.  Even for iced finger buns with a bit of spice added to the mix. (shhush, I didn't say that.  )

Thanks for that, I'll give it a try at the weekend when my grandson comes to stay x

katejo

cheerfulness4 said:

Morning! 

Wow, what a frosty day today. Its a complete white out here this morning.

Food today:

1x HM bread and butter with marmalade
Shepherds pie topped with cheesy mash, brussels and cauliflower.

Snacks - fruit

Mollina - here's the pizza dough recipe. 

2 and half tsp yeast
450g strong white flour
2 tsp sugar
2 tbsp olive oil ( I used rapeseed and was fine)
275ml of tepid water.

Load into the bread maker on leavened dough setting. 

It makes a really springy bread base. I squeezed it and it bounced right back up so I'm thinking this would make an excellent dough for soft baps.  Even for iced finger buns with a bit of spice added to the mix. (shhush, I didn't say that.  )

So with a bread maker you just put all the ingredients in and switch it on? No need to knead or wait for yeast to make it rise? I have never seen one in action.

Tonight I am making a veggie mix with several veg, tinned tomatoes or passata and chick peas or kidney beans. To have with lamb today  and something else tomorrow. I seem to have achieved a half lb loss today.