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joedenise

Morning all, back to normal with another wet day and very grey. Oh for some sunshine and warmth!

It must be so hard for you @Longwalker but as @Coxy11 says feel free to vent on here whenever you need to. Hope the op goes well for your mother and it will be easy enough for you to visit.

It's good that you're not disappointed with a gain - sometimes we know that we deserve it as you did this week. Enjoy your sausage & mash tonight.

Today's plan:

B - porridge, mixed frozen berries
L - LO pizza, chips - P; S; F; 10
D - braised steak and veg, mash (from freezer) - P; S; F

HEA - milk
HEB - porridge
Swips - pizza 10

Have a good day everyone.

beanielou

@Longwalker That's tough. As you say she obviously has no clue how serious things are. Big red flad that 3 hospitals have refused to operate. Keep plodding.

Jellybaby

Afternoon all,

I’d expect her doctor to talk to her about it all @Longwalker and not leaving it all to you. Take care x

Boo to the gain @Coxy11 but you’ll get it off again in no time.
Sounds like you had a lovely time out @milann

I had a day partly off plan yesterday! My best friend who lives in London was home for a family funeral this week but decided to come early and surprise me and she did that alright 😁

Back on track today with toast HEXB, bacon medallions, mushrooms and tomatoes for breakfast, lentil soup for lunch and dinner it’s fish and chips with salad for dinner. I think it’s 5 syns for the fish.

Coxy11

Hello,

Run was good and when I got home I packaged up a V!nted parcel and walked it down to the in-post lockers at the not so local station, so I'd done 11k steps before 10.30am. Well why not, as I have a free day??!!

Breakfast was a toasted protein bagel thin, poached egg and 2 satsumas.

Lunch was a JP with baked beans, cheese, salad and pickles, plus a banana.

Have just eaten a skinny bar with my coffee.

The thing that sent me over the edge last week was contact from a TV casting agent about appearing on a TV show. Have just had a call with her and was sooooo nervous. Won't hear anything for a couple of months she said. We shall see 😊🤞🙏

Matron_Midge

@Longwalker sorry to hear about your troubles with Mum. I feel for you.

@Coxy11 gains are dreadful but wow, you might be on the telly - how exciting xx

I weighed in with a STS this morning. Think I dodged a bullet actuall asi had a bit of a snaccident with a large box of malteasrs over the weekend was going to portion a few out and swip them but, I’m ashamed to say, scoffed the flipping lot 😳

Next week will be better (cos there’s none left)

usual yog/fruit for breakfast, cheese/tomato sandwich for lunch - HEa and B and jacket potato with tuna crunch (tuna/yog/onion and cucumber) and beans for tea will have a side of salad and pickled beetroot with it.

Coxy11

Good on you getting a STS despite the snaccident (love that word btw) with the maltesers @Matron_Midge x

If there was ever a reason to lose weight it's the thought of "the camera adds 10lbs" - so hoping the chance it might happen will give me a reason to stick to plan!!

maman

Well done on the STS @Matron_Midge. It's often a relief to get that when we know we haven't been 100%.

Sorry about the gain @Coxy11. Another chance to improve this week provided life doesn't get in the way. 🤞 Would you post the recipe for the chicken and leek pasta please. 😊

Lovely surprise seeing your friend unexpectedly @Jellybaby and you taking DS out for treats @milann. That's exactly what I mean about life getting in the way. It's getting back on plan that makes the difference. 👍

Hope you have had a better day today @Longwalker. Feel free to offload on here if it helps. 🤗

Raining AGAIN here @joedenise. ☹️

Those pancakes look mouth watering @bubbs. I could eat them right now. 😋

Today's plan -

B-HEB toast, scrambled eggs and ham (P), tomatoes (S), HEA milk for drinks

L- LO chicken casserole and pickles (P, S, F)

D salmon (P), SW chips (F), roast veg (S)

Swips - 0

joedenise

Afternoon all, been a bit of a funny day today with the weather - this morning it was just grey and cloudy, a bit of rain around lunchtime, then bright sunshine for an hour or so and now it's back to grey and clouding again!

Well done on your STS @Matron_Midge even if you don't think you deserved it. I'd just take and it run. Just try to stick to plan this week and hopefully the extras from this week won't catch up with you!

Great to catch up with friends @Jellybaby especially as it was unexpected. A nice surprise.

I've not long been back from a hospital appointment with a consultant orthopaedic surgeon for my painful thumb joint. He was surprised that I'd had 3 injections in the joint over the last 6-7 months! I'm now on the waiting list for an operation to have the joint at the base of my thumb replaced! Not what I was expecting at all as the guy who done the injections said it would be an op to scrape the bones so that they don't rub against each other but apparently that was the old option. They prefer to do a joint replacement these days if they can but if once they go in and that's not possible then it will be a case of removing some bone. I asked how long it was likely to be and he said about 3 months so not as long as I was expecting.

I'm seeing a private consultant next week so see what they suggest and see if it's the same.

Today's plan:

B - ham and mushroom omelette - P; S
L - chicken fajitas - HEB; P; S
D - butternut squash and bean curry, rice, naan, mango chutney - HEB; P; S; F; 3

HEA - milk
HEB1 - wrap
HEB2 - naan
Swips - mango chutney 3

Have a good day everyone.

milann

Joe Denise they’re so clever with what they can do now. Who’d have thought they could replace a thumb joint. Hope you’re not waiting too long. Will be interesting to hear what the private consultant says.
Coxy…..tv sounds interesting. Fingers and toes crossed for you 🤞

That sounds tough Longwalker. I speak from experience when I say stoma surgery isn’t a picnic at any age. Sending positive vibes for you and your mum.

I’ve stayed on plan. I made a big pan of tomato, pepper and butter bean soup yesterday. I couldn’t get it right, as I’d tried to do it from memory but with a bit af jiggers-pokey and adding various herbs and spices it turned out very nice in the end. Don’t know if I could replicate it.

Breakfast - 1/2 heb toast, bacon, mushrooms and tomato with a fried egg 1 syn for 1/2 teaspoon butter.

Dinner - soup, 1/2 heb toast 1/2 Bea cheese

Tea - to be decided from the freezer with rice. It will be 1 syn at most from hm ready meals and that’s for cornflour.

maman

That sounds very painful @joedenise but if it sorts out your thumb then it has to be worth it. 3 months waiting isn't too bad at all and while it may take a while to heal it's not as inconvenient as mobility issues, you'll just have to let Joe do all the food prep and cooking.🤣

We've had a similar day here. It's been mostly dry and grey with the odd peep of sun and now some fine rain. I think Noah got it right!😁

I was reading a newspaper article at the weekend about maintaining after weightloss. Briefly, the author had written a book about it a few years ago but was revisiting for the new market. Apparently people who do the usual diets tend to regain at 0.2lbs a month whereas those on the jabs regain 1.7lbs a month when they stop them.

Most of her ideas were old hat to us but I thought she was still very strict with herself when maintaining. She'd lost her original weight by calorie control and loads of exercise which wouldn't be for me. I'm so pleased that SW is about just maintaining healthy eating and any exercise is a bonus.👍🏼

One thing which I thought she made sound too easy was eating out. She just said go for 'clean' foods as much as possible, that's proteins without loads of sauces and plainly cooked carbs. I just wish it was that simple! In today's paper they describe a Gail's bakery chicken club sandwich which is 1000 calories!😲

Today's plan-

B- HEB porridge, blueberries (S), banana (F), HEA1 milk
L- Spanish omelette (P,S,F), salad (S)
D- Meatballs with spaghetti in tomato sauce (P,S,F), HEA2 Parmesan
Swips-0