Weight loss the old style way part 3.

cheerfulness4

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

If i get below 4 pieces of fruit and 2 yoghurts in the fridge is a national emergancy :rotfl: ... hubby doesn't eat either... but i get through loads...

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I'm the only one that loves fruit in our house, the others only really eating bananas and DS2 the occasional apple.

Question - Has anyone seen any Blood Oranges around yet? I'm sure they are in season now but can't find any and I love them. They're lovely and sweet.. my dad always bought them for us as kids.
Jamie O said they may be called Ruby Oranges now as some thought the name icky.
Tescos had them last year but ours has had none yet. DS2 does love them but I could try the navels on him and see. :think:

purpleivy

Morning Losers!

Going to be round the house for a lot of today, so that is a challenge. Had porridge, so that is a good start. The rest of the day:

Snack : Dunno

Lunch : Salad I think, mackerel in fridge so might have some of that. DS will like the rest in his sandwiches, or might make some pate for the w/e.

Snack: Chocolate 25g of 85%. I broke the rules yesterday and had another 25g dose in the evening with half a banana chopped into bits. I ate it with a pastry fork and had the choc broken into little pieces, eaten one at a time. Was a good idea as I 'enjoyed' every mouthful and made it last. Nice cup of decaff coffee with it as well.

Dinner: Left over chana dal, brown rice and veg from yesterday. I felt really full after that which was good. Will make ds a pizza and put other 3 in the freezer, want to get a stash of bases in there.

Lots of jobs to do today, heaving furniture etc round as we're starting to put my treatment/craftroom/office back together

recovering_spendaholic

Hi Everyone - hope you are all having a good day. Today has not had a good start eating wise. Yesterday was fine but this morning I got up in a really bad grumpy mood because DD1 was out until the middle of the night and then came in in a taxi which she took £10 out of my purse to pay. Now she won't get up for college so what have I done? Had three scrambled eggs, three rashers of bacon, a tin of beans and 4 slices of toast with marg, followed by a penguin, an Echo biscuit and a Happy Hippo biscuit and now I am still in a bad mood but I feel sick too! Talk about self destruction :wall: I will have to try and put it behind me somehow and move on but other than starve for the rest of today I'm currently at a loss. I won't want any lunch (am too full) but my sister is coming for her tea so I will have to make a meal. The trouble with me is that it is almost an auto-response to reach for food when I am upset - it goes back to the stuff I had to deal with as a child and teenager, which I won't bore you with here.

Anyway any ideas how I can turn this around? I have loads of veg in so I might make a vegetable soup and serve that for tea with jacket potatoes and chilli (from freezer) for my sister as I don't really like chilli so that might be okay.

I will also try to get at least 4000 steps on the pedometer by going for a walk (once I feel less full:o )

Okay - I feel a bit more positive now - can hear DD1 getting up upstairs and she has the cheek to have shouted down that she is now beyond late so I will have to drive her to college as she has missed the bus (it's a 35 mile round trip):mad:

Hope you all have a good day. I hope I can post later that I have managed to achieve inner serenity and have only had v.v. small quantity of hm veg soup;)

recovering_spendaholic

cheerfulness4 wrote: »

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

I'm the only one that loves fruit in our house, the others only really eating bananas and DS2 the occasional apple.

Question - Has anyone seen any Blood Oranges around yet? I'm sure they are in season now but can't find any and I love them. They're lovely and sweet.. my dad always bought them for us as kids.
Jamie O said they may be called Ruby Oranges now as some thought the name icky.
Tescos had them last year but ours has had none yet. DS2 does love them but I could try the navels on him and see. :think:

Have you got a market near you? I saw some in the market last week, but I don't like them because I have always hated the name blood orange - it makes my teeth go on edge - daft I know but ......

Cheerfulness - have only just noticed your weight loss - that is brilliant!

pigpen

breakfast.. 1 banana, 2 shortbreads and 2 cuppas. I am trying extra sugar in the morning.. see if it stops the crashes I've been getting.. it might work the opposite way but I do everything wrong way round so it might just work!

Not sure what Tiddles will want for lunch but I'm doing spaggy bol for dinner tonight followed by neapolitan ice cream for the children (I don't like it which is why I bought it)

cheerfulness4

REC- Thanks for the advice on oranges, I do have a market and never thought to have a look there. Dippy me!
And thanks for the encouraging words too. I'm really enjoying myself this time round. This thread has kept me on the straight and narrow.

I'm not sure what others would suggest about how to cope with this mornings blip (and lets face it, don't teenagers know how to try us! ) but if it was me I'd just try to wait till I was hungry till I ate again. That way I'd feel confident that I hadn't overeaten even if I'd had all my quota early in the day.
Everyone is going to have different ways they handle it, some drawing a line and saying eat normal from now, or eat light for rest of the day. For me it has to be listen to my body and wait till it tells me I need food again. :rolleyes:

Oh and don't forget the all important walking around the house talking to yourself, planning the conversation you're going to have to set right the particular person that caused the blip in the first place.

bobbadog

I eat a navel orange most days at work - as they take me so long to peel that I don't have time to be naughty and eat anything I shouldn't (or go wondering around the shops!) OH isn't a fruit fiend unless it's prepared for him, so am trying to make more of an effort to prepare fruit salads in the evenings.

Yesterday kept to plan -
prawn / ginger stirfry for dinner, noodles
Snack: 4 x tiny animal biscuits (the 0.2g fat and 10 calorie ones!)
cup of tea (1/2 sugar, milk).

Today! A new day!
B: 2 x wholemeal w/ low fat cream cheese, tea
L: salad, chicken breast w/ cajun spices on, beetroot, yoghurt (yeo valley rhubarb one - not entirely sure i'll like it?) orange
mushroom / pepper ommelette. Fruit for desert. And a diet coke (craving it today!)

Oooh - talking of constipation - I take the Aloe Vera Colon Cleanse tablets every now and then (£2.99 Holland and Barratt for 80 I think) - good for a flush!! x

queenpig

cheerfulness4 wrote: »

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

I'm the only one that loves fruit in our house, the others only really eating bananas and DS2 the occasional apple.

Question - Has anyone seen any Blood Oranges around yet? I'm sure they are in season now but can't find any and I love them. They're lovely and sweet.. my dad always bought them for us as kids.
Jamie O said they may be called Ruby Oranges now as some thought the name icky.
Tescos had them last year but ours has had none yet. DS2 does love them but I could try the navels on him and see. :think:

Idon't think i have seen one since i was kid, i remeber a child having one at junior school(lovely little girl she was:rolleyes: ) she said it was a blood orange thinking it was that i was mortified came running home to tell mother who explined what they were and bought me some lol

bobbadog

Loads of blood oranges down here (London) - saw some on Berwick St Market this morning - £2 for 8 I think, or was it £1 for 8... one of the other. Smaller than I remember them being though x

recovering_spendaholic

I like Navel oranges - I haven't bought any for ages though and this thread has spurred me on to go the greengrocers around the corner and get some. I only like them chopped up and sprinkled with Splenda (I used to have sugar but now use Splenda) and served with a drizzle of light evap - It is sooooo nice - in fact I think that is what I will make for after tea tonight when my sister is here - She won't be pleased as she will be expecting ice cream, cake or similar but it won't do her any harm.

I took DD1 to college and drove there and back in about an hour or so, as traffic wasn't too bad. Had to give her £5 because she had no lunch money and she had eaten the packed lunch I had made her on the way in the car (I swear she has hollow legs). Have come back and made an energetic start on spring cleaning the kitchen, which will burn off a few cals hopefully - obviously just taking a little break to go on computer but will resume soon.

I bought some pears reduced in Tesco on Saturday and they are still like bullets so have just put them on to poach in some light grape juice - have any of you tried that Welch's Light Grape juice drink? 27 cals a glass and it is yummy plus added advantage of being half price in both Tescos and Morrisons (68p a litre) so v. moneysaving also;) .