Weight loss the old style way part 3.

skintbutsmiling01

nicki wrote: »

Another alternative to butter/margarine - ketchup, spread thinly on sandwiches with cheese or meat is delicious and just about the only thing I remember being told by a dietician when I was a teenager LOL

That does not sound nice to me! I hate ketchup, mayo etc. Was just wondering, if you have 1 sandwich a day -2 pieces of bread- will it make any difference calorie wise?

I too sit on my !!! all day... I will start walking to work when it warms up a bit, thats about 3 miles, jsut thinking of ways I can up my exercise, without actually exercising!!!;)

purpleivy

I was on 'hold' on the phone this morning, I walked up and down the kitchen, dining living area for a few mins!

pigpen

Dancing while in the house or doing the housework will help burn the calories and can be classed as exercise.

Turn up the suction on the vacuum and the extra pressure needed will burn a few more!

Ive probably incinerated most of todays calories cleaning the kitchen.. it is mopped and swept and wiped and dusted and cleaned and looks lovely now.. I am quite proud of myself!

Having the wash basket on the floor so you have to bend to pick up an item to hang on the line counts!

I do circuits of the house.. I fold some washing.. take it upstairs to out away bring some more down to go in the washing machine take another pile upstairs bring another pile down vacuum cleaner up duster down.. etc etc .. all day long.. No wonder I am shattered by lunch time!! It makes the house cleaner and tidier and means I get some exercise done rather than sitting all day.

when I have a bad day with my legs I go front room to kitchen.. my house is 56ft front to back.

I'm sure not having marg/butter in a sarnie would make a difference calorie wise but it would be negligible. I have so little in mine it wouldn't make any difference.

Rose_Wood

Hi All,

Another warm sunny day here. We went for a walk on the beach earlier and I was walking along barefoot on the warm sand thinking how lucky we are to be able to spend every winter out here. We called in at the village bar for a coke (me) and a coffee (OH) on the way back.

Before our walk we booked our tickets home. It's not till the end of April that we come back to the UK but early booking saves money. We have managed to find flights home to Gatwick and train fares from Gatwick to Grantham all in for £60 for the two of us. Now all we need to do is get home from Grantham - current taxi quotes are more than the airfares and nearly as much as the rest of the journey put together!!

I've been fairly good foodwise today. It helps not having any snacky type food in the house. We try to manage on 50euros a week (food, fuel and treats) whilst we're out there (except for visitor weeks) so don't have a lot of spending money anyway.

B: Muesli etc. Pineapple juice
L: HM tomato and basil soup, 1/4 home baked baguette. Melon
Cauliflower cheese with toast triangles. Raspberry yoghurt.
Snacks: Banana, orange.

I bought a pedometer a couple of weeks ago but even though I spent £19.90 on it, it doesn't seem that reliable. We did various experiments timing and counting steps ourselves and found that OH did 1,000 steps every 10 minutes whilst I did 1,400 (I'm only 5ft). So it would take between 70 and 100 minutes brisk walking to do the daily 10,000. My pedometer won't register walking round the apartment or dawdling type of steps. Hope that helps.

Rose

AliBow

Hello all. I've been pretty useless recently so I'm coming back for a good kick up the backside! I was on a shoot last weekend/begining of the week and was doing really long days so picked a lot, mostly at chocolate rather than 'good' stuff like fruit.

Employed some serious will power this morning. Had a horrible meeting at the job centre about 'new deal' (biggest load of b******* ever if you ask me) and the woman really peed me off. Had to pop into wilkos after to get a bday card for my stepmum and they had big bars of aero for 99p, stared at it for a while and then walked away. :A Then went to the cash point which is opposite hotel chocolate, fortuently I can't afford to go in there. Finally had to walk back to the bus stop past woolies and tescos, lickily I spotted my bus coming so didn't have time to go in either. Disaster narrowly adverted me thinks!

Anyway, I've done lots of walking recently but also lots of stuffing so I need kicking back on the wagon before I get to far behind it and my elastic well and truly snaps :rotfl:

purpleivy

I've found something that I can have for dinner. A HM spicy pork burger from the freezer and a bag of some cauliflower and chickpea sort of spicy thing that I made a while ago. Thank heavens for the freezer inventory, I wouldn't have thought of that on my own!

Mrs_Cupier

Hello everyone, what a lovely thread. Please may I (and, by default, the rest of the Cupier Household) join in?

We're just getting back to proper OSing after a break, and this has coincided with DH being diagnosed with a haitus hernia and told to give up coffee and alcohol and lose two and a half stone. So easy!

This is a bit of a challenge - we were mostly cooking from scratch, but I was getting very good at turning leftovers into pies, which are not so good for the waistline. I might still feed them to the children, but that means providing 4 not 3 meals a day :eek: , which might be too much even for me.

So, today's meals are:
B - branflakes with: milk (DH), Yoghurt & fruit (me), yoghurt & honey & separate fruit (children)
L - Mackerel and salad
D - baked gammon with apricots, boiled pots, spring greens, carrots & sweetcorn.
Snacks - clementines, high bran/low fat (i.e. knitted from hessian) muffin.

DH has been working really hard at this and has shifted 8lbs in the last 10 days. I've lost 4.5lbs. Hoping it continues!

newlywed

Mrs_Cupier wrote: »

This is a bit of a challenge - we were mostly cooking from scratch, but I was getting very good at turning leftovers into pies, which are not so good for the waistline.

Hi Mrs Cupier - welcome

I still use leftovers and make chicken and leek but instead of turning into a pie, I turn it into a cobbler, or top with mash, or use as savoury pancake filling or something like that - less fat than a pie - and less hassle than making separate meals

Mrs_Cupier

newlywed wrote: »

Hi Mrs Cupier - welcome

I still use leftovers and make chicken and leek but instead of turning into a pie, I turn it into a cobbler, or top with mash, or use as savoury pancake filling or something like that - less fat than a pie - and less hassle than making separate meals

Brilliant idea, thanks! I'm just not completely in the right mindset yet, and I'm getting fed up with finding diets online etc that call for 4oz of fillet steak per person, or four finely diced chicken breasts. Although I suppose we could lose weight by only eating four nights in seven due to cost?:rolleyes:

That's why I thought the OS not quite diet might work!

MRSMCAWBER

ohhhhhh Newlywed.... what's with the funky stars???? Not seen them before

Hello Mrs Cupier and welcome on board :T
I still make pies sometimes... but do swaps -so if i have pie..i don't do potatoes as i have my carbs in the pastry-I just plenty of veggies... I do the same for hubby and he is always fine with it...
Well done on the great start :j

I have had my tea and it was stunning.... lettuce, cumber, tomato,onion, peppers, beetroot, avocado and feta nom nom nom... i could live on feta and avocado

Alibow... i read you post and was just about to ask what birds/game you had got..then realised you meant film not gun :rotfl:

Skintbutsmiling... I use butter ..can't beat fresh baked bread n butter I have cut down the amount of bread i have...so any that i do have im going to enjoy .. though quite often i will just have cream cheese -so no need for any butter then....but toast and such -HAS to be butter:D

right off i go again..still on the great recipe hunt