Weight loss the old style way part 2.

Keiss_21

Have been lurking for a few days as our modem is on its last legs, so everything is sooooooo sloooow...another one is on the way...soon I hope!

Food for today:

B: Special K, soya ,milk + OJ
S: Go Ahead cereal bar
L: HM soup & HM bread
S: Apple
T: HM Spag bol., pasta and HM Bread pudding (using up left-over heels of HM bread!!)

Taking DS2 to chiropractor after school with DH picking him up as I should be going to College. However my back is really sore today, so I will probably take DS2 home rather than go to college.

DH talked about going to chip shop on way home, but I said that we had spag bol in freezer, so that is at least £15 saved today!

I had an all-over beauty massage yesterday which seems to have knackered my back completely...perhaps I should see the chiropractor too! As I am in a lot of pain, my body seems to want me to eat loads of carp...luckily all HM cakes and flapjacks are finished (must make more!) and there is little else to eat except carrots and bread...must keep the bread for the pudding tonight though...can I make it in the sc perhaps???

Must go and have another lie down...need to get feet up and have more ibuprofen...can I find my TENS machine I wonder....?

Sorry to have gone on a bit...this is a great thread, and we all need it. The fact that there are loads of viewings with much fewer postings, surely keeps the thread relatively short, than if everyone viewing made a post! There is loads of help and chat here to help everyone lose ponds as well as saving £s, so keep it up!

That's all I have to say today...weigh in tomorrow, surely I will have lost the 2 pounds I put on last week....I'll keep you posted.

M

M.E.

I've been laid low with a persistent cough, so I have been taking cough medicine and resting. Not lost any weight on this regime though :rolleyes:
Watched the extreme dieting programme the other evening "Size Zero". Two female journalists crash dieted for six weeks to go from size 12 to "size zero". Absolute hell AND definitely NOT OS. They put the weight back within a couple of weeks of stopping their diet PLUS more. Yo-Yo dieting and definitely harmful to their health and pocket.
Eating healthily the OS way, with the great support from this board does help.
Saves us £££££ by losing lbs and saves electricity! Uh.... We don't open the fridge as much to snack:D:D:D

russetred

Week 2 and I've only lost a lb.Funny really as my jeans are loose round the waist and my boobs arn't trying to escape from my bra.Never mind hopefully a bit more weight off by next week.

Psykicpup

I wasnt sure if this should be part of the 'lose weight old style' thread so mods please move/edit as you see fit...

Having watched Jamie Oliver's Eat to stay alive :eek: (or whatever) last night, it really brought home to me how we (DH & I) have slacked off on the 'healthy eating' we started in the summer - it seems much harder in the cold somehow, think it's trying to face a salad when you want steak & kidney pud lol!
I have been toying about with trying to diet to lose some weight - I'm a 16 but want to be a 12 or 10 as I'm 5ft nowt

Thing is I dont know how to calorie count 'cook from scratch' meals or even if it is necessary if I try to eat really well

so is there a way to calculate the calories (even roughly) in a home cooked meal ? or is there just a 'way' of eating that will help in a really kinda quickish way -iyswim
I used to drink a pint of water before a main meal (back whenI was a teen:rolleyes: ) to stop from eating too much when I NEEDED to fit in those new jeans but not sure if it really worked or if my body was much better at metabolism back then :rotfl:
any ideas .......?

AliBow

Just a quick one as I'm off to make bread in a minute before the grusome twosome (sis and her bf) get in from work moaning how hungry they are :rolleyes:

Shell - Try topping your crumble with oats instead of normal crumble mix. Much healthier and very yummy. I usually mix oats with a bit of brown sugar, cinamon and marg/butter to bind it. Makes it much more filling as well so smaller portions go further

Right will be back later, must go bake! :wave:

purpleivy

http://www.weightlossresources.co.uk/

I used this for a couple of months last year, I loved tweaking dishes and menus so that I knew I was doing my best when eating home cooked food.

I think there is a free trial of a few days.

Meanymoo

Hi everyone :hello:. I've not posted on this thread since before Christmas. Good idea to start a new thread when the old one's a bit long. I probably don't need to say what I think about limiting the 'chat' element of the thread...needless to say, I am one of those who will post for a while and then drift off for a while because I'm distracted by other things in my life , BUT it's great to browse through the thread from time to time and I have never once found the chatty style of it offputting. Quite the opposite.

Anyhoo, weightwise I am pretty much where I was before Christmas. Although last week I miraculously lost three pounds. I did a LOT of walking and didn't snack between meals. Interestingly I didn't deprive myself though. I had wine a couple of evenings and I had some choccies (leftover from Christmas) after dinner most nights. I am now aiming to lose 2 pounds per week. I don't have too much to lose, about 1 stone would be great. I'd love to drop a dress size, which means getting rid of the stubborn tummy flab. More than anything, I don't want to gain weight. I was chatting to my mum the other day, and she said she felt sorry for me and my sister as we might have inherited her obesity genes...I just thought, well I'm not obese yet and I'm d*mn well not going to let 'genes' give me the excuse to give up. My mum was a few years older than I am now when her weight really piled on, but it doesn't mean it'll necessarily happen to me, and to be honest she eats really badly - skipping meals and eating lots of high fat snacks. It's Old Style all the way for me .

Today I've had cereal for breakfast (naughty but nice crunchy nut cornflakes - Sainsbury's own brand off course:money::rotfl:). Lunch, leftover homemade dhal with rice. Dinner will be HM macaroni cheese with broccoli and peas. No snacks so far, but my DH bought me a jumbo pack of dried fruit and nuts for Christmas so I will have a handful of those if I get peckish.

pigpen

right.. my 'soup' is inedible..

IT needs a whizz in the blender.. but even so.. it is boring!

I added.. mixed herbs (tesco value of course!) white pepper.. I prefer black but can't find it in my cupboard.. and a splash of soy sauce.. it was the only other thing I had.. it has helped.. as did a jug of water.. but it is so.. bodyless... that makes no sense.. onions, pearl barley, lentils and split peas are chucked in too.. anything else that might help???

newlywed

pigpen wrote: »

but it is so.. bodyless... that makes no sense.. onions, pearl barley, lentils and split peas are chucked in too.. anything else that might help???

if my soup tastes a bit bleurg I usually add either cumin or paprika, as well as a splash of soy and worcs sauce

cheerfulness4

pigpen wrote: »

right.. my 'soup' is inedible..

IT needs a whizz in the blender.. but even so.. it is boring!

.. anything else that might help???

I usually like mine but today it had no umpphh when I was testing it. Sounds like we are using similar ingredients, too. In desperation I popped in 3 tsps on ground ginger and a tin of crush pineapple. Just tested it and I have to say, its delish.

It goes without saying that I'm awaiting my tea and anything tastes good in those circumstances, even the cats Whiskers.