Weight loss the old style way part 2.

moonpixiewitch

hello again all
Sorry I have been "missing" for a week but I have been so busy with work and freecycle and taking daughter back to uni 250 miles away!
So , despite one "eat out" with hubby on the way back from lancashire (using the last of my tesco deals in true mse style!) last weekend , we have been sticking to eating smaller portions and trying to fit in more excercise.
Upshot of this is hubby has lost 6lb and I have lost.........wait for it 8lb since 2nd Jan :j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j
sorry got all over excited then , but we are both soooooo pleased. Neither of us feels deprived , we have both eaten the things we like , just in much smaller quantity .
We have started buying meat /cheese and bread from our local farmers market twice a month and the veg and eggs from local producers within a 20 mile radius of where we live. Cooking almost everything from scratch , the omissions at the moment are cream crackers and bread and tinned tomatoes , baked beans, but over the next few weeks I shall be aiming to try and replace them with homemade oatcakes and homemade bread and also found a recipe for homemade baked beans.Tomatoes will have to wait until summer this year for me to cook and freeze in batches.
Read an inspiring article in the guardian newspaper last week about how to get back to basics with food by imagining your great grandmother is next to you when you are shopping , don't buy anything she wouldn't recognize!
Stops me buying anything processed anyway .
Well done to all the mse'rs on this thread , even if your not a loser this week , at least you are trying
Thats quite enough waffle from me then :D:D:D

MRSMCAWBER

Moonpixiewitch

That's NOT over excited ....You deserve a whole page of :j and:T , :cheesy: :laugh: _party_ and not forgetting :dance: ..thats a great achievement for both of you :j
I bet that has set you both up with extra enthusiasm for the next week. Im so pleased for both of you.
Isn't it a revelation when it hits you that you don't have to go without to lose weight...its only taken me to the age of 36 to get there
keep up the good work

BigMummaF

Hey Folks.....A big :j to the losers, :T to the sts'ers &:shhh: to all others!!

Can't remember who asked about weigh-ins, but mine will be Sunday morning...I'm working on a new system:rolleyes: where I take the odd lbs tacked on the wrong side of the stone, & just concentrate on losing those. I know I'm only kidding meself, but it doesn't seem so over-powering that way:o

The four of us have been really good this week, & the offspring are tucking into their veg with a vengance:p We've had HM bol tonight, & I used to buy a french stick to have with it, but they had extra pasta instead. I've been concentrating on my portion sizing & amazed meself at how little I need to feel truly full....& it helps having a pup cuz I keep thinking "I'll leave that for his dinner tomorrow". Again....saving money on at least two fronts---the same amount of ingredients are stretching to more portions AND feeding the pets:D

As to the shredded wheat debate, I have to say I love'em! Basically anything you have with weet biscuits I]Mr T's healthy eating ones are just as good as the 'original' & that's from the offspring;)[/I.....& just like porridge when done with hot milk, or muesli if you add nuts & fruit:p Me muvva is a diabetic & only ever eats them, but we don't pay out for the minis

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bash'em up with your hands before you put them in the bowl:D

pigpen

I am actually looking forward to weighing myself in the morning.. how mad is that??

Dinner was.. a slice of pork (in past times I would have had twice as much), 7 potato fritters (I would have had 9 or 10 in ye olden days) and a large spoonful of peas.. they are my favoruite!

Shredded wheat are made of birds nests and I don't care what the Chinese say.. they are simply NOT edible!!

kittyscarlett

Well done MrsM, Keiss, meanmarie, alibow etc for your losses :T grats pigpen and janeryan for braving the scales ! welcome newbies :j and hello all the rest of you tryers ! :hello:

Well today has been a disaster. I think it might be the weather but have had major bread craving and have over done it, and also gave in to the bad snack demon. So now feel icky and bloated o well its my own fault. At least I didn't spend tons of money.

Breakfast : two slices of toast, reduced fat butter and jam
Lunch : apple, handful of raisins and pumpkin seeds, small piece of cheese yes, matchbox sized ! ) glass of milk.
Mid afternoon - pkt walkers cheese and onion, pkt maltesers, can diet coke.
teatime - reduced fat hot cross bun ( I know, but they were on yellow sticker for 20p ! ) and jam, 1 slice of toast and bovril, glass of milk.

So, now I feel like I never want to eat anything again but I have my beautiful hand made faggots to eat and I am determined not to waste them even though I feel very much like binning them. I cannot put them back in the freezer and I don't feel comfortable leaving them in the fridge for tomorrow. So they're in the oven cooking s l o w l y after an initial 10 minute hot blast. Hopefully this will give me some time to work up an appetite and it will also cook off the fat nicely. Because of my bloated lethargy I am going to cheat and cook peas to go with them and then use the pea water to make up some of my emergency packet of Smash mash.

I would rather eat Shredded Wheat than horrible carpet backing Wheatabix _pale_
but really prefer porridge !

kika

:rotfl: Please stop posting so much I can't keep up:rotfl: Congratulations to all you losers,I'm afraid I put it on:mad: Love using these icons:j

frogga

Morning Peeps,

Mr Frog has taken the car to work instead of his M Bike as it's pouring with rain here, so I am grounded for the day. Tha's a good thing as I would prob only go and spend money in Sainsbugs

Have a glut of milk to use up, but it's my own fault. We seemed to be getting through so much as the Tadpoles were drinking it like it was going out of fashion. I told them to have only one glass a day and as they are having it on cereal too that is more than enough ~ so , doing as they are told meant I now have lots of milk nearly out of date That'll teach me ~ going to try and make the y puds MrsM posted for me, but mine NEVER work and I don't know why I do everything you said but always end up with heavy soggy bottoms. Oh , how familiar :rolleyes:

taplady

Morning to you all! am off for 3 days now!:j

have just had a smal bowl of porridge and a little slice of nimble wholemeal toast for beakfast.

I am going to have a go at Caterina's veggie lentil soup for lunch and tea is veggie curry (had it yesterday at work so may change my mind)
I am going to try and only snack on fruit or yoghurt today as I craved choccie yesterday and ate a Frog chocolate bar:eek: (sorry frogga:D )

Have a good weekend all!

bacl later xxx

CRANKY40

I had a poached egg on toast this morning. Todays challenge is to keep my hands off the home made shortbread that I made yesterday with ds. I didn't actually manage not to eat any yesterday......

iamstacie

Morning all :cool: Had quite a good day yesterday, plenty of snacking, but good snacks so I stayed away from the vending machine :T I did nearly crack around 5pm, but just as I was thinking I was gonna do it, I got my email from my subcription to this thread so I took that as a sign not to. Didn't stray too far from my meal plan, except my HM brocolli soup was so good I had it for dinner as well as lunch. Yesterday looked a little like this...

B- Weetabix with chopped apricots & raisins, also had toast (Mr T's HE wheat biscuits, and I really cant tell the difference between those and the 'proper' ones)
Lunch - Big bowl of broccoli soup, 2 slices of HM bread
Dinner - as above, but the bread had a bit of melted cheese on. I was thinking of the calcium. Honest.
Snacks - Blueberrys, chopped apricots, raisins, grapes, a plum, an orange. Think I got my 5 a day.

Even did a little tiny bit of exercise.

Today so far I've had porridge with honey, cinnamon & raisins, and a banana. Lunch will probably be more broccoli soup with tomato bread and I might take some to work with me tonight. Either that or leftover chicken & veg curry. Gonna make some lemon & corriander houmous in a bit and take a pitta bread or two and some chopped cucumber/carrots/celery with me, and plenty of snacking stuff like fruit and nuts and some snackajacks (on offer at Sainsburys).

Good luck to everyone today, weekends always seem like a challenge when you're trying to lose weight. :rolleyes:

Finally, a massive thanks to the poster who put up that list of snack foods, gave me loads of great ideas to stop me reaching for the biscuits!!:A (sorry for forgetting your name)

Stacie xx