Weight loss the old style way part 2.

cheerfulness4

Some very interesting points being mentioned here by the likes of Kitty, Orpheus and MrsM, to name but a few. Saying no more, as dandas up again, but to me this thread deals with the holistic way of losing weight.

I have scaled the internet, often in tears of desperation, and never found a thread that shows me how to deal with my weight issues, while coping on the tiny budget I have to manage on until my debts are paid off. It is unique.

I would have to go to a dozen or more boards on this forum (if I even knew where they existed) to get the info this one has given me in condensed form.

Okay thats the last I'll say on the topic as its clouding the happier atmosphere that used to be on this thread, I think.

MrsM - have only just realised the truth of the 'serves 4' means precisely that. I used to shrug and say 'yeah right!' but now I realise they were right. Am amazed how far food is going at the moment, which is a huge bonus at present. :rolleyes:

Congrats on losses this week! Well done :T to Taplady, no wonder you were one of the 'slimmers of the year'.

angie_loves_veg

Good morning all :hello:

Had a good day yesterday - kept to sensible portions for a change That said, I am *starving* at the moment - shall have to go and have a reviving cup of tea....

Last nights Thai chicken curry was yummmmmmmy. Turned out there was quite a bit more meat on the chicken legs than I imagined, so after bulking it out with butternut squash and sugar snap peas I even got to freeze a portion for another time :T

Today is as follows, trying to make my portions smaller and keep to at least 5 F&V:

B: 1 slice hm toast with hm jam (greengage and almond....... well the gages were free from up the lane :rolleyes: ), tea
L: wholemeal pitta with chicken tikka and loadsa salad, juice
a clear-the-fridge vegi risotto - looks like it will be sugar snap peas, squash and maybe pepper....

Off to the market now (my thursday routine), (does that count as exercise?) to stock up on F&V and treating ourselves to a lovely bit of meat or fish for the weekend. Shall have to try to avoid the snickers bar (that also seems to be a thursday routine )

Yoga and Tai Chi tonight, weigh in tomorrow...... see you later :wave:

mamof4

Hi i am another lurker..i also feel i dont have much to contribute to the thread but has felt that it has help me greatly...please dont let it change as i really look forward to reading daily(i do read all posts) sad aint i lol

pigpen

Right help me...

I have pork juice in the SC.. I want to turn it into an edible soup.. what shall I fling in it?

I have tonnes of veggies, veg oxos, loads of different pulses.. I probably have enough to make about 6 portions

Breakfast has just been a tin of chicken & veg soup with a bread bomb..

newlywed

Sorry pigpen - not much of an idea on that one

Where's frogga?
Where's all the fun and banter gone?

Gingham_Ribbon

Parsnip, potato and onion?

I haven't snacked in the evening for a few days. The baby is learning to sleep in his cot rather than in bed with me so I'm getting time to plod about and do stuff and that's stopping my fingers twitching for chocolate.

We're making chocolate crispies later and last time I ate too many of them but I'm intending to take half of them to a neighbour. That's the trouble with home baking - it's too tasty and it just sits there tweeting at me to eat it.

rockie4

Morning ladies:hello:
Whew, what a lot of posts! I don't usually join in debates but just to add my 2pennorth I get MUCH MORE SUPPORT FROM YOU GUYS THAN I EVER HAVE FROM SLIMMING CLUBS AND [EMAIL="IT@S"]IT'S[/EMAIL] SAVED ME A FORTUNE :grouphug:

I had a really good day yesterday, no extra eating during the evening, just had a horlicks light with a drop of brandy for medicinal purposes HIC!

Today has been muesli with soya milk, just had a banana, lunch is Dr Kargs and hummus and I'll get another salad from the refectory as I think it really helped yesterday - I'll be more organised next week after shopping and bring my own.

Not sure about tea yet, lots of stuff in the freezer or I might have an omlette and SW chips depending on how wet/cold I am when I get home.
Exercise today will be belly dancing as my class starts up again today YAY!!:j
plus my usual load of walking.
Taplady - a pound to go!!!! Brilliant:beer:

Kittyscarlet - brilliant tips, I've printed them off, :T

Everyone else -:A See you later!

angie_loves_veg

Gingham_Ribbon wrote: »

We're making chocolate crispies later and last time I ate too many of them but I'm intending to take half of them to a neighbour. That's the trouble with home baking - it's too tasty and it just sits there tweeting at me to eat it.

That is the problem with homebaking........ you get loads, it didn't cost much, there is no unhealthy trans fats in it, it tastes deeeeelicious BUT there are only three of us (and dd is diabetic - so, everything in moderation for her) and it would be wasteful to let it go mouldy....

what does everyone else do..... (or what good ideas do you have for me not eating it all....?)

I took a tray of bread pudding to the mummies at my daughters gym club last thurs - they were all on diets, so it came back again :mad: Before christmas they wolfed it down so I know it's not my cooking lol :rotfl: :rotfl:

jjef

Morning all,

i would like to join everyone here, Isteped on the scales this morning as I have been aware for the last couple of months that waist bands were tighter and wedding ring doesn't move about as much as it used to. Any way I am now heavier than the day before I had my first daughter so ideally I would like to loose a stone and a half. I joined WW for a while after my second daughter but stopped as I could not keep up paying for the classes and this time round its not an option.

Kitty thanks for posting the list of snack options I have printed this off snacks are my downfall, snacking with all the cuppas during the day. Any way I have just re started working and it involves climbing up and down three flights of stairs regulary so I am hoping that this could be my exercise for three days a week and with healthy snacks to take with me then temptation to go to the canteen shouldn't arise.

Okay meals for today -
B - bran flakes with a handful of raisins
2 clemintines
L - HM butternut squash & sweet potato soup & 3 oatcakes, apple
apple
T - veg stirfry with brown rice, strawberries (without the cream)

Almo

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

Hi Almo

Thanks for that :T .... feel free to join in if ever you feel like it .... if not I hope you get lots more hints n tips off here and some laughs too, and good luck on you weight loss journey :T

Well you see I would join in more but I'm far too worried about accidentally getting the top spot, and being unceremoniously booted off the thread by a certain green amphibian...;)