Weight loss the old style way part 3.

annie123

right, I'm going to make smaller potions then, and stop making twinks hobnobs,puddings, and cakes . Never used to eat them:o

sillyvixen

now you have improved your cooking skills you can begin to refine them by looking at your os recipies and working out how to reduce fat in them. i hardly ever add fat or oil to my cooking these days and bake for the freezer so as i always have a cake to defrost when i am expecting visitors.

ifonlyitwaseasier

it's the hob nobs.

i made more this evening for work after bowing into the begging, and oh ate almost half the batch!! (i only make half the recipe amount at a time tho)

VickyA_2

Yes, and it's all your fault. Nothing to do with me eating too much at all. :whistle: :whistle: :rotfl:

safesound

I just wanted to say a massive WELL DONE on your weight loss. :T :j:T:j
I know how hard it is having lost nearly 5 stone myself in the last 9 months.
Keep going, you know you can do it!

taplady

evening! just popped on after work to catch up!

Caterina - I've been spreading the word at work about aspartame, one colleague has a teenager suffering from migraines terribly and who drinks a lot of sugarfree squash so they are going to try and not have any to see if it helps - worth a try!

I've had a sugar in my coffee instead of 2 sweetners and not had any yoghurt today. I will be interested to see how I feel when its out of my system.

Frogga:hello:

MRSM - I know how you feel, I hate throwing food away thats why I've given mine away at work!:D

off for a long soak now before bed to wind down - I've been disco dancign with work all evening at a special needs disco - great fun!:D but am shattered now (and hungry:rolleyes: )

Sunnyday

Caterina - thankyou for the link to the article about splenda, i`ve sent it to my dad.
SD

toniwoty2009

morning all :wave:
feeling a bit under the weather today but sun is shining to hopefully will cheer me up and get me moving :j

food for today:
b- cornflakes
l- roll, yoghurt and fruit
d- HM pitta bread pizzas
s - toast

my thing to change this week is putting veggies or fruit with every dinner. tonight i'm putting peppers on the pizzas. DS will have his pizza for lunch as he as dinner at nursery, he loves making pizzas so its a bit of a treat really. might have a walk to our local petsmart too if hes good, have a look at the fish, rabbits, etc. he always likes that and its free!

sounds like everyone has cheered up now. kept at it, we will get there
i'm using my wedding dress to keep me going, everytime i go to grab a naughty snack i think of it!

have a good day all :A


just noticed i pinched froggas spot!!! oops!

kunekune

Can I join in? I am piggy in more than just user name ... Went past the 14st mark, and I'm only just over 5ft.

My plan is to cut out simple carbohydrates - potato, white flour, pasta, white rice, sugar. It's a modified South Beach diet - I will not be as low fat as SB, am not doing the gimmicky phase 1, and allow myself the occasional thing that is 'forbidden'. I don't like diets with too many rules, they lead to obsession. The tricky thing isn't OH - he knows that it works, it's worked before for both of us but we slipped when we moved here and faced the higher food prices. The tricky thing is the children (one of them is not much of a veggie eater and the other is intermittently fussy) and the cost of lean, fast-cooking protein. I do have enough fridge space for masses of veg.

Have been doing this 2 days (and weight down a couple of pounds already, despite the huge quantity of food - that's what happened last time too). What I've eaten:

Day 1

Breakfast: egg, bacon, mushroom, tomato
Lunch: didn't take packed lunch, so had the sausage and carrot casserole with broccoli
Dinner: 1 burger, sweetcorn, purple sprouting broccoli

Day 2:

Breakfast: scrambled egg with feta, bacon, tomato, skimmed milk
Morning snack: hummus with carrot and capsicum sticks
Lunch: salad of kidney beans, peppers, orange with a little feta, ham, a handful of nuts
Afternoon snack: two cheese strings
Dinner: sausages braised with puy lentils, onions and new potatoes (lower gi, only had 3/4 of a small potato), roasted courgettes & tomatoes

And now I'm onto day 3. So far I have had my cooked breakfast (this time with courgettes as no mushrooms left) and a big mug of skimmed milk. For lunch I'll take the rest of the salad from yesterday with some added walnuts and some cooked chicken breast. Snacks will be hummous and celery (am) and miso soup (pm). Dinner is roast chicken with vegetable stir fry and cauliflower (the children will eat that but not the stir fry).

The challenge now is to plan next week's menu and do the shopping.

cheerfulness4

Morning all,

Welcome Kunekune.

Hope you feel a bit better as the day goes on Toniwoty and all others that are feeling off it.

I've noticed MRSMC that my shoes have become flappy. Nothing as noticable as going down a size, more half a size I'd say, but I need to get some heel guards to make my shoes stay on.
I went from a 5.5 to an 8 when I put my weight on, in fact when I was at my highest of 25 1/2st I was venturing towards a 9. :rolleyes: One of the joys of losing weight will be when I can buy my shoes in any shop instead of having to go for the wide fitting ones.

Food today:
Readybrek
Duck & white wine pate on HM bread toast
Chilli/lime chicken in tortilla wrap with o/r peppers, onions & salad.

Snacks - red grapefruit, apples and raspberry frozen yogurt.

I've not done the oven roasted peppers and onion thing before but I'll give it a go...:D

OH MY GOODNESS the sun has come out! :eek: Isn't it amazing how it instantly lifts your mood. I'm going stir crazy indoors for so long. I just can't wait till its warmer and I can feel the sun on my face while slurping my morning coffee.

After I've got DS2's work done I'm going to nip to see mum and dad as dads been poorly since coming home from holidays. I'm expecting to take mum shopping as dads not up to it. That should be plenty of exercise. (of my patience if not my body :rolleyes: ) I enjoy food shopping but mum treats a supermarket as a day out, we can be there hours.:cool:

If I get back at a decent time I plan to work out a shopping list for next month as I want to try making some lentil pate and chicken liver pate recipes that I've got off another thread. Determined to keep in budget and have the family eating well.

Had better toodle off and get DS2 organised. He's walking aimlessly round trying to find a chunky jumper as I've refused to turn up the heating..cruel mother that I am.