Weight loss the old style way part 3.

floyd

Hi all :hello:

I haven't posted in this thread for a while, partly because work has been hectic and partly because I have slipped a little (not too much though). I also have new incentive that my last blood pressure reading was high so I must work to get it down again.

Spent the weekend stocking up the freezer with pasta sauce and other healthy things and resisted the urge to bake cakes while there is still so much choccy around. I allow myself a little of one or the other not both!

Todays lovely eats:

Breakfast: Real porridge with a chopped apple (no sugar/syrup/salt) and a peppermint tea
Lunch: Wholemeal roll with light cream cheese and salad, a few grapes, a pear
Afternoon: Apple and my treat of a small skinny cappuccino
Tea: Not sure yet as OH is cooking, maybe pasta or roast chicken

Hope everyone is well and feeling fabulous

taplady

Morning all!

Seems like we are all starting with a fresh slate today!

Cheerfulness - dont be too hard on yourself - it could have been worse - it could have been chocolate! at least turkey is a low fat food!;)

Caterina - great to see you back!:hello:

toniwoty - good luck with the weigh in later!

Food plans for today are

B - muesli

piece of cake with mum at the WI:D

L - seeded roll with salad and small amount of cheese

D - not sure as we're going shopping later but probably something made from Quorn.

Hope you all have a good day!

rockie4

Morning folks :hello: I'm back after the foodfest
I did WI yesterday and had managed to stay the same but that was before I had another piggy day!
OH bought me a lovely dark chocolate egg, I've eaten the choccies and the egg is now broken into small pieces in a tupperware box in the fridge. It's such rich, dark chocolate that I'm sure I can have just a small piece each day.

Today I've had oatssosimple for brekkie and just had a banana (back at work today so might do a bit better) lunch is salad with 3bean salad and a few leftover spuds with fruit if I need it. Tea will be Cauldron enchiladas - whoopsed in JS and as I'm on my own tonight.... might have some extra veggies with them.
Got my pedometer on and have done 5000 steps so far:eek: Might go for a swim at lunchtime too:D

Have a good day folks :A

WelshWoofer

Hello!
I weighed in on Saturday morning and have managed to lose 1 lb but not sure how - however I think that will have been cancelled out by the Easter chocs (mum bought me a massive box of Thorntons and the OH got me a huge Flake egg) and a takeaway Indian last night.
I still have all of the Flake egg left (put in a cupboard so I can't see it) and about half of the Thorntons so will try to ignore them/ration them?

I'm joining the rest of you starting again today - no need to dwell on the past!

Breakfast - healthy eating breakfast bar
Lunch - have some grapes and satsumas with me but will have to go out to buy a sandwich
Dinner - cheese and onion quiche (not very low cal but has to be used up), small jacket potato and possibly baked beans.

Will also try to step up the walking - used my pedometer to measure a half hour brisk dog walk yesterday and it only turned out to be about 4000 steps - was quite disappointed by that, thought it may have been more

I walk about 60- 90 mins a day with the dog (not all in one go) but obviously either need to pick up the pace and be a bit more energetic or do it for longer? Poor doggy!

Anyway, good luck to everyone else......

M.E.

I knew this weight loss thing would be slow.... but gee-whizz... tis very slow.
Shuddered to a halt, not gained but maintained.
Eating healthily though.
With the M.E. physical exertion can set off a relapse, so can't rush headlong into physical jerks, but.. slow was always the way.
Anyone else on slow loss programme?
I am inspired by those who lose more quickly.
I am inspired by those who post here.
Thankyou

Rose_Wood

Hi All,

Congratulations to those with a weight loss. I keep sneaking onto my scales despite vowing to weigh in just once a week on a Friday and the needle has dropped slightly already since last week. Being in kg I need to lose quite a bit for it to move enough to be recordable though.

Like you Rachel, when I first got my pedometer I was disappointed with how many steps it showed, having been convinced I walked quite a lot. I did a bit of calculating with a normal walk and a stop watch and find I do between 130 and 140 steps per minute whilst my OH does about 100. So your 4,000 in half an hour sounds about right. We both walk quite quickly but I am only 5ft tall so take smaller steps than average.

I have had a very lazy morning and indeed have only just finished my breakfast (and remember we are an hour ahead in Spain). I did get up early to write and email an article but then went back to bed and didn't wake up till after 11. It's a lovely day too, such a shame to waste it stuck indoors.

I have been down to the communal rubbish bins and jogged back - I'm determined it will become a daily habit. It's only 500 steps but every little counts, especially as it involves about 3 dozen steps to jog up again. We shall go for a walk later but will wait until it's a bit cooler (sorry!). OH has just made me a coffee so I shall take it outside into the sun with a book.

B: Muesli, juice etc.
L: Probably just a banana as we've only just finished breakfast
Cauliflower cheese with toast triangles. Yoghurt.
Snack: Orange

Have a good day everyone.

Rose

recovering_spendaholic

Hello everyone - well done to all the losers and :T everyone because we all seem to have managed to get through Easter without any MAJOR blow-outs eating wise.

Yesterday I didn't get onto the computer as DD2 went out to a Wacky Warehouse place and fell off a slide and hurt her hand. She is a proper drama queen so we had much howling and general dying duck routine. I gave her calpol and was quite (but not very) sympathetic, because those Wacky Warehouse places make me lose the will to live, but in the end I took her up to A&E and they x-rayed it and turns out she has broken and dislocated her little finger. So now she has a temporary splint on until her appointment with the fracture clinic on Wednesday.

Food yesterday was very good because of all the running round, and today so far has been okay. Went to my cardiologists this morning and he has slightly increased my medication, so hopefully that will keep things in check, until I can lose enough weight to get it fixed surgically.

Today:
Breakfast: dry Sainsburys BGTY hot cross bun and cup of tea
Lunch: lettuce, tomato, cucumber, three bean salad, jacket potato and bit of leftover salmon, Aero mousse.
Dinner - don't know yet, plan to have omelette.

hope you are all having a good day!

bobbadog

Morning all! I had a little choc and a little wine over the weekend, but nothing to massive. Did have some cheesecake for dessert on Sunday though!
Monday:
Brunch (drove home first thing): HM quasadillas (ham, HM tom and red pepper salsa, cheese)
Snack: chocolate egg!, 2 x crackers w/ philadelphia light
Dinner: Quorn stir fry, sesame prawn toast (!)
Snack: handful of peanuts

Tuesday:
B: 2 x wholemeal w/ lime marmalade
L: leftover quorn / veg stirfry with frozen veggies instead of noodles, yoghurt
HM tomato and red pepper sauce over tortellini, harvester garlic bread

Im a lot less naughty when at work!!! x

saversarn

Hi all,

Jane I hope you daughter is not in too much pain, and the increase in meds means less stopovers in A&E.
I have started my Mayday challenge today with a vengance- up at 06.30 for a walk, B- porridge nuts and raisins, lunch time stroll (currently up to 8k as only half hour walks and at a leggy 5'10" my strides are huge)and a ham roll, Dinner will be something to do with mince- not sure what then a g &t or two at the pub tonight (a girls gotta live:p )
Have a good day all
x

newlywed

Hi all.
Had a few days off - sorry to have missed frogga

Foodwise have been very good - have no money left to buy anything nice to eat. Just spent my last £2 in aldi on nanas and milk. Everything else in the house just has to last till the end of the week. This month has been better though and I think it will (only just tho).

So today have been very good:-
porridge for breakfast (made with water with some frozen fruit added)
snack was a tiny piece of carrot cake from work colleague
lunch was a jacket with beans (no marge or cheese)
tea will be smoked pork sausage cassoulet

and roll on the clearing of the wages into my bank :rolleyes: