Weight loss the old style way part 2.

squeaky

Morning everyone

First of all, I agree that you make some good points about "support" posts. Taplady in particluar. But...

..and there is a BUT

There's a line between "support" and "chat"... we all appreciate the sense of humour our members display in posts and, as long as a question has been asked and answered in a normal thread - we don't fuss about it if the thread later wanders a bit.

This thread - being a support one is different - because there's no "one question" and no "one answer".

So a post along the lines of "Well done you - I couldn't face that <shudder>" we regard as fine - it's not a recipe or a strategy - but it IS support. We don't have a problem.

But something like... "phew - ain't it boring today" is just chat. No recipe, no help, no support - and it's posts like these that we are asking you to limit.

Asking first, you note

So please by all means keep the support - but drop the erm... non weight loss chat.

By and large, if you look at the main forums page, where it says at the bottom how many people are on line - you'll find that there are often at least seven times as many guests (who cannot post but only read)... so lots more people read only than you might have realised.

Lots of quippy one liners make it difficult to pick out all your good stuff - and there IS lots of good stuff here.

Our requests to stay "reasonably" on topic are made to help the thread stay useful and easily readable - so please, help us out and try to stay within "help" "advice" and "support".

Gingham_Ribbon

Okay, back to it then!

My husband says it's a Scottish thing, but I like to put butter and cheese on just about everything. Anyway, I was brought up on cheese and banana sandwiches and it's time I stopped eating so much of the stuff. I've found something that works for me.

Virtually Fat free fromage frais! I have been spreading it instead of butter and cheese and still having it with banana. It works really well on rivitas.

Happy weight losing everyone!

MRSMCAWBER

Morning ladies n gents

Right before i forget....BiggmummaF... I can't vouch for this recipe..but if you are desperate enough for a piece of cheesecake-im sure you will try it :rotfl:

BAKED BLACKBERRY CHEESECAKE -SERVES 5
nutrition per portion:-
cals 103 :T
fat 2g
sat fat 0.8g
chol 41mg
fibre 1.6g
WW POINTS 1.5

1. 175g/ 6oz low fat cottage cheese
2. 150g/5oz low fat natural yoghurt
3. 1tbsp plain flour
4. 25g/ 1oz golden caster sugar
5. 1 egg
6. 1 egg white
7. finely grated rind and juice of 1/2 lemon
8. 200g/ 7oz fresh or frozen blackberries

• preheat oven 180c/ 350f/ gas 4
• lightly grease and base line a 7" sandwich tin
• place cottage cheese in a processor and blitz until smooth -or rub through a sieve
• add yoghurt, flour, sugar and egg and egg white and mix
• add lemon rind, juice and blackberries
• tip mixture into tin and bake for 30-35 mins or until just set
• turn off oven and leave for a further 30 mins
• run a knife around the edge and turn out
• remove lining paper and serve warm

you can also use tinned fruit -but drain well

Now looking at that i have all but the nat yog and fruit in the house -and i have to nip to pick up some potatoes this evening -so if you like i could give it a trial run tomorrow ...save folks getting stuff in and it not being woth it.. it will only cost me a few cents for the yog n fruit....
I imagine you could stick it on a thin biscuit base for that "real cheesecake" feel..for a few extra cals mind.. but nowhere near as much as in the shop ones
I might try bottled cherries as i love them and they are really cheap here

Hope that helps mumma

Right back to a quick update of my day so far...
Nipped for my walk so thats another 1 hr 20 mins done -and 4 days in a row :j .
Got some more whoopsed mozarella -low fat this time 90c for 250gs so i have shoved 4 in the freezer for HM pizza, pasta bakes etc and i have mixed the meat n herbs up for the sausages..just got to shove it through the machine when its chilled ...i weighed 2oz of meat as thats about what the sausages weigh when done and made with all minced pork..they work out at 1WW point each -i am gob smacked... i don't count points anymore -but have WW scales so thought i would look -no wonder im losing weight i only have 2 at a time maximum...sometimes just 1 :rotfl:if i use turkey mince they would go down to 0.5 each..so i may have to try them next time -using some of my whoopsed turkey mince from the freezer.

I think its such a shame that its all kicked off again... and we are losing 2 valued members of the team because of it... they are always there with something to make you smile..and loads of informative advice about healthy OS snacks etc... only the other day Kitty posted all the snack alternatives... and frogga all the calcium etc in loads of veggie and vegan foods.

Both were really helpfull and lets be honest how many of us wouldn't have got in a pickle trying to track down that information on the web ?

Well done on dodging the bacon sarni shop NIX... that stuff is the reason i gave in being vegan/veggie many moons ago :rotfl: -its the devils food stuff you know....the smell of bacon cooking is one thing guaranteed to make me hungry..so well done :T

Hope you are feeling better soon cheerfulness

Well done on staying the same Taplady, after that run in with a treacle sponge -i think thats good going.... that last 1lb is being a right b*gger isn't it.... i hope you do a conga with your sister around the meeting when you hit target

Right i had best get off and get something done... will endevour to dig out more recipes to post to keep us going and motivated..

Keep up the good work everyone... weigh day for me in the morning..lets all prey :rotfl: ....
hello to anyone i have missed -as i have been typing for yonks

queenpig

Morning

Been busy, busy, cleaned the hall way why lookds better, going to work out in a minute so thats done.

B- Small bowl crunchie nut.

L- cheese lettuce cucmber and a slice of bread

t -mexican chicken and boiled rice.

snacks banana orange and small yogurt, cups of tea, if I want to snack on sweeites like i did last night:mad: this time I will get a drink of water and glup that down.

I must not give in to snacks lol

kraftykat

Morning all,

Dinner last night was very nice, but I had frozen garlic bread slices; when they came out of the freezer they were all stuck together and everytime I tried to wedge them apart (even with a knife) they kept breaking up. So we ended up having about 2 broken slices each instead of 1.

No walk today EITHER as it's hailstoning here.

Food today.....

BREAKFAST: Bowl porridge with semi-skimmed milk, raisins & cinnamon. Large tea & glass of orange juice.

LUNCH: Beans on toast.

DINNER: Sweet & sour chicken (with extra peppers & mushrooms added), beansprouts and noodles.

As usual few snacks, water & lots of tea.

Trousers feel a wee bit looser.

Hang in there everyone. :T

Nix143

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

Well done on dodging the bacon sarni shop NIX... that stuff is the reason i gave in being vegan/veggie many moons ago :rotfl: -its the devils food stuff you know....the smell of bacon cooking is one thing guaranteed to make me hungry..so well done :T

It gets better MrsMc - when I got into the office and told how I had resisted the bacon butties everyone else decided they wanted one!!! So they sent out for sarnies - and I was REALLY good and sat there eating my porridge. That's like double temptation I managed to resist and really I deserve a gold star or something

iamstacie

Well done on resisting the bacon roll Nix :T I've managed to resist so far at work and have stuck with my porridge and raisins, but we've always gone to a local sandwich shop (who make THE BEST breakfast rolls with bacon, sausage, tomatos and mushrooms) on a Saturday, I managed to resist last Saturday in exchange for allowing myself one this coming Saturday Everything in moderation! On the plus side, I have resisted takeaways on my night shifts about 4 times in the past two weeks, saving myself countless calories and about £20, not to mention all the biscuits I haven't had - I think I deserve a breakfast roll just for that

Anyways, stuck to my plan yesterday, I enjoyed my pasta carbonara & garlic bread, not the healthiest but I wanted it so I had it, and its got to be better than the pie & chips I used to have after weigh-in days at Slimming World :rolleyes:.

Today looks like this....

B - Porridge with honey, raisins and cinnamon
L - Tomato and bacon 'Red Soup' with a crusty roll
D - Pasta bake using the 'pre-whizz'd' red soup I made yesterday so its all lovely and chunky.

Exercise - None planned, I'm a lazy bum. Got to make bread by hand though, eventually that should give me muscle definition in my arms!

Tomorrow...
B - Porridge, maybe with raisins, maybe with mashed 'nana.
L - More Red Soup
D - Roast beef dinner with plenty of veg.

Kittyscarlet, if you're reading this, I hope you start posting again soon, your posts have been really helpful to me, especially the one re snacks, in fact, I will attribute 3lbs of my 8lb weightloss to you cos if you hadn't posted a snacking list I'd have been raiding the vending machine :rotfl:

Hope everyone has a good day

Rose_Wood

Hi All,

Another warm sunny day again today. We're not having our customary walk on the beach but going to visit friends (on foot) instead. It is quite steep uphill all the way so should be good for the muscles.

I've had another lazy afternoon sitting in the sun with a book. I've finished my library books for the week so will be paying the library in Gibraltar another visit tomorrow. I shall have a second weigh in for the week as it's the first of the month. Hopefully as I was only 2oz over the lbs reading I will have dropped another pound. I am sure my stomach looked a little flatter today.

Had the usual museli for breakfast and crackers and cheese for lunch. I shall probably have a mushroom omelette for tea but need to find something else for OH as eggs give him a migraine.

I really enjoy reading everyone's posts and hope that Frogga and Kitty start posting again, along with everyone else.

Rose

pigpen

breakfast was my cocopops..
lunch Tiddles wanted pasta so we shared a pasta n sauce and ate the last 2 slices of cake
dinner tonight we are having mash with chicken pieces.. which I must get out of the freezer..

see you on flylady thread then frogga?? nothing like a good scrubbing for getting rid of those frustrations..

saversarn

pigpen wrote: »

Well.. I got my cocopops.. tipped my usual amount in the bowl.. and just for fun decided to weigh it.. a 'serving' is 30g... I have 3 times that.. and half a pint of SS milk.. which isn't so bad because I simply do not drink milk or have dairy products other than a slop in my tea. So I ate them anyway.. 90g ish is about 390 calories so not overly catastrophic.. providing I don't stuff myself sensless at lunch and dinner.

In view of the fact I have very little for lunch it probably balances out fairly even.

Off to do my HHE.. anyone care to join in??

Lol Thats not a bowl it's a trough!!
Too scared to weigh mine now :rolleyes: