Weight loss the old style way part 3.

Nix143

Morning everyone! Quick one before I start my hideous w**k day - I've been really good this weekend! Yay me! LOL. Seriously, I think I've turned a corner, I just keep visualising myself on the beach and it has really started to motivate me. Think I'm going to keep Wednesday as my weigh in day though.
B = porridge
L = HM parsnip soup
D = don't know yet, think I might make me and the DS some pasta type thing - I've got some pancetta in the fridge which DS loves.

One thing to report - chewing, oh my word, its like a miracle. Yesterday I had no breakfast and then for lunch had a small bowl of HM dahl and 1 wholemeal pitta (normally I would have had a vat of the stuff with 2 pittas). I sat down and I chewed it properly and gave myself time. Anyway come 6 o'clock I still wasn't hungry!!!! So I made chicken breast with steamed carrots, sugar snaps and new potatoes - and I chewed again. And I wasn't hungry for the entire evening and didn't snack! Mental. I am deffo keeping this up as it really seems to be doing the trick in stopping me snacking. G'wan, give it a go ladies, what have you got to lose?!?!!!! :T And cross fingers that come weigh day there is some effect to be seen - or else I'll be straight down the pie shop chewing my way through their entire stock

Have a good one, well done you losers! Look at us go, aren't we super brilliant!

purpleivy

Good morning all. I'm almost back in the real world. Hoping to be fit to go back to work tomorrow. Will have had a week off. Must pace myself today in all senses...making cake for tea as it's dh's birthday.

Breakfast has been porridge, I was hungry so must be getting better.

I need to move the rest of the Ben & Jerry's down to to the other freezer so I can forget about it. EIther that or make sure it gets eaten tomorrow!

Lunch. Will make hummus if I have the energy, otherwise a pot of soup from the freezer.

Dinner: Pasta Surprise Bake ( I think you'll all be familiar with this recipe... in title, if not in detail!) Birthday Cake (Choc & Ginger from the Green & Black's book. Got this from SIL a couple of years ago on my request and ashamed to say it's unused as yet)

Girl_least_likely_to

Morning :wave:

Not a good start to the week. OH left 2 cooked sausages in the fridge. He has leftover curry for tea tonight and DD didn't want them for brekkie. So I've just had them inbetween 2 slices of white and tom sauce :eek: . I'm thinking it can only get better, I really enjoyed my buttie, but have got a portion of HM soup to take up to MIL's for lunch and have taken a salmon steak out of the freezer for tea to have along with salad and peppers. Have got to be good for the rest of the day.........and week :rolleyes:

I'm feeling slightly less sluggish today (went yesterday ), I'll try to drink loads of water again although sometimes it doesn't matter what I do, my system has always been very lazy . I used to suffer from IBS a few years ago, went when I got pregnant, and hasn't returned almost 3 years later but I have to be really carefull.

Anyway, hope everyone has a great day and lets all have a fab losing week

rockie4

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

Hi rockie...nearly missed your post... hope OH gets to keep his dinner on a plate does sound like a devil of a job he has... but it puts money on the table doesn't it !!
I know 1 of my brothers works his n*ts off for not very good money but he is a serious grafter and realises that providing for his family is the only thing that matters... an if that means doing cr*ppy then he does it ...
Hope your OH finds something better soon.. its much easier to get a new job if you are in work isn't it ...

We wouldn't mind if it put decent money on the table but it's cr*p, just above minimum wage per hour then by the time he's taken out for petrol there's not a lot left :mad:
He's in for a couple of other jobs and is ringing another this morning.
I keep telling him it's easier to find work if you're already working but he's soooooo hot headed sometimes, :rolleyes: I've lost count of the number of times he's walked out of a job with nothing to go to...........

MEN!!!!!!!

HelenYorkshire

Nix143 wrote: »

One thing to report - chewing, oh my word, its like a miracle..........

...... G'wan, give it a go ladies, what have you got to lose?!?!!!! :T And cross fingers that come weigh day there is some effect to be seen - or else I'll be straight down the pie shop chewing my way through their entire stock

Have a good one, well done you losers! Look at us go, aren't we super brilliant!

Um, I have probably missed the vital post, but by "chewing" do you mean you used to gulp food down, or do you mean you're doing the chew-every-mouthful-a-gazillion-times thing?

Just curious I used to eat dead slow, then started "gulping" to keep up with everyone :rolleyes:

(Shame I can't really chew all my soup :rotfl: )

Caterina

HelenYorkshire wrote: »

Caterina - isn't there a "mostly music" option on the Davina dvd?

Thank you Helen, I saw the option but did not pay attention as i was in a hurry to start the workout, but now I am going to have to try it (or will have to sell the dvd on ebay because it really grates my nerves!). Will let you know!

Caterina

Nix143

HelenYorkshire wrote: »

Um, I have probably missed the vital post, but by "chewing" do you mean you used to gulp food down, or do you mean you're doing the chew-every-mouthful-a-gazillion-times thing?

Just curious I used to eat dead slow, then started "gulping" to keep up with everyone :rolleyes:

(Shame I can't really chew all my soup :rotfl: )

Yeah its from a post someone made about the Diets that Time Forgot - apparently the people losing the most are those who have to chew everything 32 times. They can eat what they want as long as they chew the sucker to death . Seems to be working for me at the minute, I feel fuller for longer - I used to inhale my food and then still be hungry as soon as I'd finished a meal. I've slowed right down, make sure I chew everything (was chewing porridge this morning and left half of it!) and I am definitely not snacking as much. I figure it can't hurt to try it and even if it is all in my head right now I'll take anything that's on offer. It really helps though if you are watching your portion sizes - your food seems to go a lot further. maybe it's just being mindful of what you are eating, I don't know. But I'm going to stick with it for a couple of weeks and see how it pans out

purpleivy

How am I supposed to control what I eat AND cope with the rigours of OS cooking? Just reflecting.

So far this morning...

• coped with making and eating own porridge* see 'milk' later on. No agave nectar, so used honey.
• Made chocolate ginger cake for birthday tea. Tried not to leave anything (much?) in the bowl. crystallised Ginger tempting. (OK so I had a couple of bits!)
• Sliced yesterday's loaf and made a tin of superior pork pate into sandwiches for ds lunches, in freezer. Pate is not at all tempting to me. I will eat it if given it, but it represents far too many cals. If I'm gonna eat that much fat it will be in the form of chocolate etc.
• Cooked haricot beans. Tested a couple to see if they were done, Pressure cooked for 5 mins, so they were.
• Cooked pasta for tonight's bake. Tested a squiggle, not done, tested another later, then decided to run a bit of tomato pesto through it for extra interest, so ate another one!
• Moved some stuff from the little freezer to downstairs where there is more room, also the extra from last night's dinner. Also took my 2 best friends Ben and Jerry down there!

* Milk. Well, milk is milk you would think. I don't drink it, other than the odd bedtime hot choc, then only a half mug made with skimmed. I only use skimmed,

As I sloshed some milk into my beaker to froth for my coffee, I wondered how much there was. I measured out 50 ml in the little jug and it was about right, Frothed to over 100ml. I've been having several a day. Decaf.

I measured how much I put on my porridge. 50ml. That was fine. I make it with water, so good.

If I'm not drinking coffee, I'll have tea. So I thought that when I made myself a cuppa, I would see how much I use. 20ml is about the least I can use... used a medicine cup to see. Given a free hand I would prefer more. I put some more water in to weaken a little and compensate for lack of milk! Given the number of cuppas in a day that I have...this adds up quite rapidly.

My feeling was always that I shouldn't ration myself with milk, as it's important for calcium, but I think I might have to step over to Weezl's thread and see what she's doing about it. ALso work out what I AM getting each day.

THey say that Fat (for want of a better word) People underestimate what they eat and in fact eat more than they say and more than Skinnies. There may be other things that I consume regularly that are 'invisible' as far as counting cals is concerned.

Has anyone ideas about where I should be looking?

purpleivy

Nix143 wrote: »

Yeah its from a post someone made about the Diets that Time Forgot - apparently the people losing the most are those who have to chew everything 32 times. They can eat what they want as long as they chew the sucker to death . Seems to be working for me at the minute, I feel fuller for longer - I used to inhale my food and then still be hungry as soon as I'd finished a meal. I've slowed right down, make sure I chew everything (was chewing porridge this morning and left half of it!) and I am definitely not snacking as much. I figure it can't hurt to try it and even if it is all in my head right now I'll take anything that's on offer. It really helps though if you are watching your portion sizes - your food seems to go a lot further. maybe it's just being mindful of what you are eating, I don't know. But I'm going to stick with it for a couple of weeks and see how it pans out

On the first week they started out by 'spitting' the residue after 32 chews. That was abandoned VERY quickly! Deemed unladylike!

BigMummaF

Morning!
Not been too bad really..I've had a piece of hm bread with a scrape of marmite for brekkie. I've been using the 'lite' MrT version of CBINB stuff but next time I'll have a look-see into ingredients. We lurve butter but get thru so much that I fear the pennies will have to take presidence:mad:

Two weeks today is the first Bank Holiday of May, the 5th.
Five weeks today is the second BH of May, the 26th.
Nine weeks + five days is the Longest Day, June 21st.
17 weeks today is August Bank Holiday, 25th.
26 weeks + four days is Halloween, Oct 31st.
34 weeks today is December 22nd:eek: with crimbo exactly 8wks after Halloween.


Looking at these dates, they could have been designed for our mini challenges:p There's a minimum of seven & maximum of nine weeks twix any of them. So wuddiya fink?