Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me
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wenchie
Silver Member
hey Elaine 
Caramel shortbread (and bread and butter pud) is EVIL (it's the only thing that explains the siren song, I think...).
I'm dead chuffed that this particular friend's decided to try SW; we shared a room a fair bit when we were away and ate out together a lot, so she saw exactly how I was eating and adapting to be SW friendly (and that I wasn't hungry or stinting myself, just making better choices) and I know she's not been happy with her weight recently. I'm all chuffed that anyone's seen enough difference in me to be impressed and think it's worth trying though. I've another couple of friends that I'd like to persuade over to the SW way of eating, but I don't think that's something one can do, you know? The want to change has to come from inside or it doesn't really take I think.
Okay, today's another Red day and WI to boot (I'd REALLY like to get my 3.5 today, really really, really, but as always any loss is a winner, right?)
breakfast
Jam 1 Syn
Scan Bran Part HexB
Porridge Part HexB made up with
350ml Skim Milk HExA (drank balance)
Blueberries SFree
Snack
Grapes SFree
Lunch
chicken Free
Salad S Free.
Dinner
Chilli Free (w/lots of SFree)
Brown Rice (28g raw) 5Syns
Cheese HExA
Supper
Fibre Plus HExB
And something lovely that hits about 9syns. I shall see the shops pre-class for inspiration. It'll probably be crisps or nuts or something.
Also I need to get something out of the freezer to make for dinner tommorrow... Hrm. I quite fancy a curry I think, so probably chicken... Must pick up an aubergine and mange tout etc.
Caramel shortbread (and bread and butter pud) is EVIL (it's the only thing that explains the siren song, I think...).I'm dead chuffed that this particular friend's decided to try SW; we shared a room a fair bit when we were away and ate out together a lot, so she saw exactly how I was eating and adapting to be SW friendly (and that I wasn't hungry or stinting myself, just making better choices) and I know she's not been happy with her weight recently. I'm all chuffed that anyone's seen enough difference in me to be impressed and think it's worth trying though
. I've another couple of friends that I'd like to persuade over to the SW way of eating, but I don't think that's something one can do, you know? The want to change has to come from inside or it doesn't really take I think.Okay, today's another Red day and WI to boot (I'd REALLY like to get my 3.5 today, really really, really, but as always any loss is a winner, right?)
breakfast
Jam 1 Syn
Scan Bran Part HexB
Porridge Part HexB made up with
350ml Skim Milk HExA (drank balance)
Blueberries SFree
Snack
Grapes SFree
Lunch
chicken Free
Salad S Free.
Dinner
Chilli Free (w/lots of SFree)
Brown Rice (28g raw) 5Syns
Cheese HExA
Supper
Fibre Plus HExB
And something lovely that hits about 9syns. I shall see the shops pre-class for inspiration. It'll probably be crisps or nuts or something.
Also I need to get something out of the freezer to make for dinner tommorrow... Hrm. I quite fancy a curry I think, so probably chicken... Must pick up an aubergine and mange tout etc.
Ela ine
Likes to post, and eat.
Hey hun!
Yes they are evil - both of them!
Luckily I only had one, but alas more than enough of it! GRRR! VERY BAD!!!!!!!
Food sounds great today
What time do you weigh in? I'm going to go tonight I think.. although I have eaten a HUGE lunch.
chicken salad
savory rice
strawberries
activia yogurt
apple
and three cups of tea... but I figure if I stop drinking (since I'm constantly on the go with the kettle) at about 4:30 -4:45 and then wait until WI (about 7:55pm) it should be 'okay' by then.
I don't know.. I know some people don't eat at all on weigh day.. I couldn't hack it
ANYWAY! GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!! xcxxxx
Yes they are evil - both of them!
Luckily I only had one, but alas more than enough of it! GRRR! VERY BAD!!!!!!!
Food sounds great today
What time do you weigh in? I'm going to go tonight I think.. although I have eaten a HUGE lunch.
chicken salad
savory rice
strawberries
activia yogurt
apple
and three cups of tea... but I figure if I stop drinking (since I'm constantly on the go with the kettle
) at about 4:30 -4:45 and then wait until WI (about 7:55pm) it should be 'okay' by then.I don't know.. I know some people don't eat at all on weigh day.. I couldn't hack it
ANYWAY! GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!! xcxxxx
wenchie
Silver Member
Heya My class starts at 6.30, and I'm usually there before it's really opened (we sit around and chat, it's good) so I tend to weigh between twenty past and quarter to seven - the I don't get home until 8ish because the class is enormous (by which point my stomach thinks my throat's been cut...).
I usually eat lunch sharpish on WI days, so I've eaten by one ish and then it's just drinks until dinner time (I stop drinking around 5, which is when I leave the office anyway, so it's not denial or anything); I think the thing is just to be consistent with it really? Any undigested dinner weight's hardly going to make a difference long-term, anyway so why starve! There are people in my class that don't eat on WI day either... I'd feel like death!
I suspect I'm going to get lots of body magic today, swimming home... It's not stopped raining since before I got up yesterday morning and apparently we had two inches of rain in two hours last night, which is a bit soggy! It just makes you want to curl up on the couch with a blanket and snooze, really, but given I didn't win the euromillions last night, I need to be at work. Ho hum.
So, last night's WI gave me a drop of two and a half pounds
which gave me my 3.5stone shineyarty0011:arty0011:arty0011:and put me over HALF WAY TO MY COMPLETELY ARBRITRARY CURRENT TARGET
I've NEVER lost over 50lbs before, it was a total mental sticking point for me the last time I lost a bunch of weight, but now I feel like I'm just sailing on down the river with the wind behind me
Today is (oddly enough...) a red day (because I picked up a GORGEOUS lamb chop @ the butcher's yesterday and they took the fat off for me). I did take the chicken out of the freezer though, so I can assemble a curry and it can mature overnight
breakfast
Jam 1 Syn
Scan Bran Part HexB
Porridge Part HexB made up with
350ml Skim Milk HExA (drank balance)
Blueberries SFree
Snack
Grapes SFree
Costa wee skinny latte w/syrup 8syns
Lunch
Chilli Free (w/lots of SFree)
Snack
Tomatos S Free
Feta HexA
Dinner
Soy marinaded chop Free
Salad SFree
Baby corn Sfree
Mange Tout SFree
Supper
Fibre Plus HExB
I may also have a decaff coffee @ supper time (I've people coming over) so I'll need to work out the skim milk syns (how much is a splash, both in volume and syns..?)
My class starts at 6.30, and I'm usually there before it's really opened (we sit around and chat, it's good) so I tend to weigh between twenty past and quarter to seven - the I don't get home until 8ish because the class is enormous (by which point my stomach thinks my throat's been cut...). I usually eat lunch sharpish on WI days, so I've eaten by one ish and then it's just drinks until dinner time (I stop drinking around 5, which is when I leave the office anyway, so it's not denial or anything); I think the thing is just to be consistent with it really? Any undigested dinner weight's hardly going to make a difference long-term, anyway so why starve! There are people in my class that don't eat on WI day either... I'd feel like death!
I suspect I'm going to get lots of body magic today, swimming home... It's not stopped raining since before I got up yesterday morning and apparently we had two inches of rain in two hours last night, which is a bit soggy! It just makes you want to curl up on the couch with a blanket and snooze, really, but given I didn't win the euromillions last night, I need to be at work. Ho hum.
So, last night's WI gave me a drop of two and a half pounds
which gave me my 3.5stone shineyarty0011:arty0011:arty0011:and put me over HALF WAY TO MY COMPLETELY ARBRITRARY CURRENT TARGETI've NEVER lost over 50lbs before, it was a total mental sticking point for me the last time I lost a bunch of weight, but now I feel like I'm just sailing on down the river with the wind behind me
Today is (oddly enough...) a red day (because I picked up a GORGEOUS lamb chop @ the butcher's yesterday and they took the fat off for me
). I did take the chicken out of the freezer though, so I can assemble a curry and it can mature overnight breakfast
Jam 1 Syn
Scan Bran Part HexB
Porridge Part HexB made up with
350ml Skim Milk HExA (drank balance)
Blueberries SFree
Snack
Grapes SFree
Costa wee skinny latte w/syrup 8syns
Lunch
Chilli Free (w/lots of SFree)
Snack
Tomatos S Free
Feta HexA
Dinner
Soy marinaded chop Free
Salad SFree
Baby corn Sfree
Mange Tout SFree
Supper
Fibre Plus HExB
I may also have a decaff coffee @ supper time (I've people coming over) so I'll need to work out the skim milk syns (how much is a splash, both in volume and syns..?)
CAPRICORN
Gold Member
:talk017::talk017:
Well done on your super loss -ANNNND breaking through that 50lb barrier :happy096: ...oooooooh isn't it exciting to be ticking off the goals :clap:
ooooh LAMB nomnomnom -that is one thing Im looking forward to when we gt back home ...being able to buy lamb -out here its as rare as rocking horse droppings although I did manage to get some lovely lamb steaks when the naffi ordered the wrong thing :sign0151: .... there are a couple in the freezer *which I WILL be doing an inventory of later "gulp"* -so I may have to have them one day soon :bliss: -THEN I will meal plan to use everything up *wish me luck*
Its soooooo nice that you have inspired a friend to join SW -what a compliment that is :happy036:
Right -off to do my diary and then into the basement to do the freezers stock check :cry:
Have a lovely day and keep up teh great work!!!
Well done on your super loss -ANNNND breaking through that 50lb barrier :happy096: ...oooooooh isn't it exciting to be ticking off the goals :clap:
ooooh LAMB nomnomnom -that is one thing Im looking forward to when we gt back home ...being able to buy lamb -out here its as rare as rocking horse droppings
although I did manage to get some lovely lamb steaks when the naffi ordered the wrong thing :sign0151: .... there are a couple in the freezer *which I WILL be doing an inventory of later "gulp"* -so I may have to have them one day soon :bliss: -THEN I will meal plan to use everything up *wish me luck* Its soooooo nice that you have inspired a friend to join SW -what a compliment that is :happy036:
Right -off to do my diary and then into the basement to do the freezers stock check :cry:
Have a lovely day and keep up teh great work!!!
wenchie
Silver Member
Cheers Capricorn - I really need to come up with some new further off goals I think, probably more exercisy ones as that's rather gone by the way-side recently (apparently I can be put off that when my routine's disrupted, but given I stayed on plan I'm not going to start beating myself up about that... unless that counts as body magic... hrm ).
I didn't use to eat lamb at all, but I'm a Nigel Slater addict (I love his "please ignore the recipe and do what tastes good angle) and he suggested marinading it in soy sauce and griddling. OMG, so GOOD. HUGE whack of umami, which seems to mean I notice I'm full sooner .
GOOD LUCK with the inventorying - I need to do mine simply so I have a clue what kind of meals I should be planning (and what I need to start giving people when they're over at my house, mooching I know I've some bread in there and toast and jam sounds like a fair exchange for taking my rubbish out! ).
I must text my friend today to give her a bit of encouragement - the class she's starting is tonight, and it's scary walking through the doors for the first time.
Right, given I'm prone to waffling and this is the place for me to waffle (and for anyone else who feels like it) I thought I'd copy this over from a thread about whether people don't lose as much on EE - I CAN lose on EE, but I definitely started doing better when I went onto red (and it feels like a more sustainable eating pattern for me, I feel healthier).
I find I lose easier on Red day but thinking about it, I feel that's far more to do with the fact that I overeat if I'm allowed free reign over carbs than the way the different plans work if they're done properly - I've not yet worked out how to limit myself to stopping when I'm full and I'm FAR more prone to mooching round the kitchen looking for a "little something" on either green or EE (in fact, an EE dinner is much the same as a red day dinner but with added carbs, so - falling into evil calorie counting for a moment - I'm eating the extra calories from the carbs with out any net gain in apparent saiety).
I wonder if other people who lose better on red are also carby junkies (or ex-carby junkies ) and I really wonder how it would go if I made a real focus on not eating processed carbs in a green/EE week - so no pasta, only brown rice, lots of beans, potatoes only with their skins, that kind of thing. I might have an experimental day or two and see how it goes.
I CAN still lose well on EE - but I tend to have to be very very focussed on eating my 1/3 (by making it 2/3s!) and ensuring there're lots of veggies in there, not just fruit.
Green days I balance with 3-6 Red days, because they make me feel quite sluggish... I love beany things though and veggie food in general so I do think I need to look into it more, rather than defaulting to green when I need an easy, convenient munching day.
I don't know. Red days suit me, but I knowI might need to switch stuff up to keep it interesting further down the line, so looking into more "back to basics" on green might be the way to do it - because of the way the plan works, red is already pretty "back to basics" but Green is full of pit-fally pasta and noodles and things and they don't really work for my innards.
- I really need to come up with some new further off goals I think, probably more exercisy ones as that's rather gone by the way-side recently (apparently I can be put off that when my routine's disrupted, but given I stayed on plan I'm not going to start beating myself up about that... unless that counts as body magic... hrm ).I didn't use to eat lamb at all, but I'm a Nigel Slater addict (I love his "please ignore the recipe and do what tastes good angle
) and he suggested marinading it in soy sauce and griddling. OMG, so GOOD. HUGE whack of umami, which seems to mean I notice I'm full sooner .GOOD LUCK with the inventorying - I need to do mine simply so I have a clue what kind of meals I should be planning (and what I need to start giving people when they're over at my house, mooching
I know I've some bread in there and toast and jam sounds like a fair exchange for taking my rubbish out! ).I must text my friend today to give her a bit of encouragement - the class she's starting is tonight, and it's scary walking through the doors for the first time.
Right, given I'm prone to waffling and this is the place for me to waffle (and for anyone else who feels like it
) I thought I'd copy this over from a thread about whether people don't lose as much on EE - I CAN lose on EE, but I definitely started doing better when I went onto red (and it feels like a more sustainable eating pattern for me, I feel healthier).I find I lose easier on Red day but thinking about it, I feel that's far more to do with the fact that I overeat if I'm allowed free reign over carbs than the way the different plans work if they're done properly - I've not yet worked out how to limit myself to stopping when I'm full and I'm FAR more prone to mooching round the kitchen looking for a "little something" on either green or EE (in fact, an EE dinner is much the same as a red day dinner but with added carbs, so - falling into evil calorie counting for a moment - I'm eating the extra calories from the carbs with out any net gain in apparent saiety).
I wonder if other people who lose better on red are also carby junkies (or ex-carby junkies ) and I really wonder how it would go if I made a real focus on not eating processed carbs in a green/EE week - so no pasta, only brown rice, lots of beans, potatoes only with their skins, that kind of thing. I might have an experimental day or two and see how it goes.
I CAN still lose well on EE - but I tend to have to be very very focussed on eating my 1/3 (by making it 2/3s!) and ensuring there're lots of veggies in there, not just fruit.
Green days I balance with 3-6 Red days, because they make me feel quite sluggish... I love beany things though and veggie food in general so I do think I need to look into it more, rather than defaulting to green when I need an easy, convenient munching day.
I don't know. Red days suit me, but I knowI might need to switch stuff up to keep it interesting further down the line, so looking into more "back to basics" on green might be the way to do it - because of the way the plan works, red is already pretty "back to basics" but Green is full of pit-fally pasta and noodles and things and they don't really work for my innards.
Ela ine
Likes to post, and eat.
Heya
hahaha I know what you mean, oh I do! Was at class until 9 last night (eeeek!!)
I usually eat lunch sharpish on WI days, so I've eaten by one ish and then it's just drinks until dinner time (I stop drinking around 5, which is when I leave the office anyway, so it's not denial or anything); I think the thing is just to be consistent with it really? Any undigested dinner weight's hardly going to make a difference long-term, anyway so why starve! There are people in my class that don't eat on WI day either... I'd feel like death!
I suspect I'm going to get lots of body magic today, swimming home... It's not stopped raining since before I got up yesterday morning and apparently we had two inches of rain in two hours last night, which is a bit soggy! It just makes you want to curl up on the couch with a blanket and snooze, really, but given I didn't win the euromillions last night, I need to be at work. Ho hum.
We've had lots and lots and LOTS of rain here too! EEEK! It's crazy.. June is a total washout
ho hoSo, last night's WI gave me a drop of two and a half pounds
arty0011: omfg omfg omfg aaaaah!!!! WHOOOOO! arty0011:WOW! I am SO impressed! SO PROUD OF YOU!!!! WELL DONE HUN !!!! xxxxxx EEEEEEE you're such an inspiration. How does it makes you feel :flirt2:
I've NEVER lost over 50lbs before, it was a total mental sticking point for me the last time I lost a bunch of weight, but now I feel like I'm just sailing on down the river with the wind behind me
*wipes tear from eye*
Today is (oddly enough...) a red day (because I picked up a GORGEOUS lamb chop @ the butcher's yesterday and they took the fat off for me
plan, plan plan and more plan *hi 5*
super skinny fantastic!!!!!! xxxxxxxx
Going to have an amazing week now.. I know I will after reading this post, because I can't wait to be where you are now! I can't, I can't, I can't!
wenchie
Silver Member
Hey Elaine - wow, a 9 o'clock finish... and you couldn't even eat something quick after weighing and before image therapy, you must have been RAVENOUS.
This whole year's been a bit rubbish weather wise - I'm glad it was lovely the few days I was in Germany, because I think that's likely going to be it for us for summer. Uhrg.
I'm... Basically I can't really believe I've lost as much as I have! I mean, I'm still big - I'm still obese (although class I not class III and no longer morbidly so) - and I'm not quite comfortably into the "normal" sizes in "normal people" shops yet (it still depends on the cut and the fabric - I definitely won't have to shop in Evans again but I can't guarantee I'll be able to fit things). Mostly I'm proud of myself in a kind of intellectual way, but I know my body image is a bit off reality (but then it was when I was at my biggest, too, so it probably evens out a wee bit). I'm still very happy with how I'm eating, and very focussed on continuing it - it's very much my usual habit, not a diet and I don't miss anything (why would I? There's all this lovely yummy food I'm eating all the time and anyway I feel rubbish if I eat crappy food). I need to get my head around exercising again though, that's what tightens things up better and I need to do that!
There's one of those vibro-plate machine things in a place just up from my house - it's cheap and I thought I might give it a try just as an additional wee thing, it's supposed to be good at tightening things up in difficult to target areas and your core, so...ever little helps, right? Anyone reading ever used one?
Right, Red day as usual (I'm planning a green on Sunday, so I can hexB some houmous, but I think that's it b/c it's the Farmer's Market on Saturday and the meat's too good not to nom up!)
breakfast
Jam 1 Syn
Scan Bran Part HexB
Porridge Part HexB made up with
350ml Skim Milk HExA (drank balance)
Blueberries SFree
Snack
Strawberries SFree (lovely wee ones from a local farm - they're like the ones we had as kids)
Lunch
Chicken Free
Baby Spinach SFree
with lovely smoked salt
Snack
Tuna Free
Bean HExB
Salad SFree (onions and peppers w/lemon juice)
Dinner
Chicken Curry Free (80% SFree)
Supper
3 Mini Babybel lights HExA
Nighttime Tea Free
S&V Ryvita bite things 5syns
Fibre Plus Bar 6Syns
Must get some more baby corn to whack into my curry
I'm also inventorying my freezers tonight, as per Capricorn, and I should do my dry store too, so I can sit down to some proper meal planning and some inspired recipes to boot. I know I've got some turkey mince kicking around in my freezer, so I'm going to do some investigating for it and come up with a plan (given the pork mince investigating and cooking was such a lovely success!!)
- wow, a 9 o'clock finish... and you couldn't even eat something quick after weighing and before image therapy, you must have been RAVENOUS.This whole year's been a bit rubbish weather wise - I'm glad it was lovely the few days I was in Germany, because I think that's likely going to be it for us for summer. Uhrg.
I'm... Basically I can't really believe I've lost as much as I have! I mean, I'm still big - I'm still obese (although class I not class III and no longer morbidly so) - and I'm not quite comfortably into the "normal" sizes in "normal people" shops yet (it still depends on the cut and the fabric - I definitely won't have to shop in Evans again
but I can't guarantee I'll be able to fit things). Mostly I'm proud of myself in a kind of intellectual way, but I know my body image is a bit off reality (but then it was when I was at my biggest, too, so it probably evens out a wee bit). I'm still very happy with how I'm eating, and very focussed on continuing it - it's very much my usual habit, not a diet and I don't miss anything (why would I? There's all this lovely yummy food I'm eating all the time and anyway I feel rubbish if I eat crappy food). I need to get my head around exercising again though, that's what tightens things up better and I need to do that! There's one of those vibro-plate machine things in a place just up from my house - it's cheap and I thought I might give it a try just as an additional wee thing, it's supposed to be good at tightening things up in difficult to target areas and your core, so...ever little helps, right? Anyone reading ever used one?
Right, Red day as usual (I'm planning a green on Sunday, so I can hexB some houmous, but I think that's it b/c it's the Farmer's Market on Saturday and the meat's too good not to nom up!
)breakfast
Jam 1 Syn
Scan Bran Part HexB
Porridge Part HexB made up with
350ml Skim Milk HExA (drank balance)
Blueberries SFree
Snack
Strawberries SFree (lovely wee ones from a local farm - they're like the ones we had as kids)
Lunch
Chicken Free
Baby Spinach SFree
with lovely smoked salt
Snack
Tuna Free
Bean HExB
Salad SFree (onions and peppers w/lemon juice)
Dinner
Chicken Curry Free (80% SFree)
Supper
3 Mini Babybel lights HExA
Nighttime Tea Free
S&V Ryvita bite things 5syns
Fibre Plus Bar 6Syns
Must get some more baby corn to whack into my curry
I'm also inventorying my freezers tonight, as per Capricorn, and I should do my dry store too, so I can sit down to some proper meal planning and some inspired recipes to boot. I know I've got some turkey mince kicking around in my freezer, so I'm going to do some investigating for it and come up with a plan (given the pork mince investigating and cooking was such a lovely success!!)
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Ela ine
Likes to post, and eat.
I did have something quick – 11 haribo :O
Haha but yes I was hungry by the time I got home, I can tell you! I’m with you on the weather – total washout!
I can’t express how pleased I feel for you, and how proud I am of you. I know I don’t *know* you, so to speak… but following with journey’s and things, well I think it really helps. You have done SO well, amazingly so…and you are a complete inspiration to me! It feels like I am the slowest loser here, and also such a drifter, and I know that I were it not for the likes of you & some others, that I would definitely have given up by now. But I haven’t. I’m going to keep going. I am going to lose 5 stone
We have these in the gym. They have a (huge) poster next to them displays the types of movements (and so on) they can be used for.
I sometimes, and by that I mean very rarely use them after a class or before swimming etc when I’m in the gym.
The weirdest thing is, if I had these, say in a tanning shop near where I live. I would pay to go and go (much like toning tables) and use them.. yet they’re there in the gym for free and I don’t (AGH!!)
In fact I am going to find some toning tables (as old fashioned as they are) and go… TONIGHT! Well, may have to start tomorrow night (since I’m in a skirt) but I’m going to go to the blinkin’ tonning tables on my way home from work a few days a week.
THANKS WENCHIE YOU BEAUT!!!!
Edit: LOL just googled and the tt place I was thinking of – well now they’re only available to experienced users.. BUT… I will find another! I will!
hmm inventorying you two say… eh? Hmmm …x
wenchie
Silver Member
Wheeeeee, it's friday!
Well, I went and wobbled for 10minutes last night, which was...interesting! They're absolutely not a case of stand there and it happens for you, are they? I could totally feel it, especially when I managed to tense up my stomach and things... the shop was offering a starting offer of £4 for a week's worth (max once a day, as many days as you want - usually £10 and it's £4 for one session anyway!) so I reckon I'll go on the way home tonight as well. If nothing else I get the exercise walking there and back and I think (going by the muscle twinges today) that it has actually done something for my lower stomach (which needs it) and bum (which doesn't, so much, but everything is useful, right?).
I've never done the toning table thing Elaine what're they like? There's another place near me that does them but they cost a bit more than £4...
And thank you - I know we've not met face to face but there are things I share here that I don't share elsewhere (mostly because the people I talk to IRL about this are skinny malinks and wouldn't get it, or are my mother and that's a whole other thing...) so you do know more about "the journey" (ahrg. I refuse to say that again unless I can be interviewed by Dermot O'Leary) than most. I'm delighted to inspire you (it works both ways, btw, you spur me on, too) cos you're right, you WILL lose it and be even more fabulous than you are now.
Right, Red day again, and probably an over-keenness on chicken curry but it's SO GOOD. Om nom nom.
breakfast
Jam 1 Syn
Scan Bran Part HexB
Porridge Part HexB made up with
350ml Skim Milk HExA (drank balance)
Frozen fruit mix SFree
Snack
Had ginormous brekkie, so not terribly hungry.
Lunch
Chicken Curry Free (80% SFree)
Snack
Cherries SFree
Might also have a wee Costas for the syns (and the nom. Dangerous, having a costas in your work...)
Dinner
Chicken Curry Free (80% SFree)
Supper
??? I am now out of fibre plus and hifi bars and I think I'm going to keep it that way. I need to get a HExA and HExB in so I might just have breakfast again.
Tommorrow will be red again - I've got turkey mince defrosting for some kind of hotpot with new potato HExB sliced up and used as topping and vastly reduced chicken barbecue kebabs doing the same so I can have them before I leave to go to the farmer's market (they lack nutrional info, so I need to work out some kind of synnage for them, but I don't think they'll be hideous given they're just marinaded) and then Sunday will be green - I've got pasta in sauce to use up and then Houmous for a Hex B (or two) and potatoes for SW Chips and cheese and pickled onions OM NOM NOM.
Well, I went and wobbled for 10minutes last night, which was...interesting!
They're absolutely not a case of stand there and it happens for you, are they? I could totally feel it, especially when I managed to tense up my stomach and things... the shop was offering a starting offer of £4 for a week's worth (max once a day, as many days as you want - usually £10 and it's £4 for one session anyway!) so I reckon I'll go on the way home tonight as well. If nothing else I get the exercise walking there and back and I think (going by the muscle twinges today) that it has actually done something for my lower stomach (which needs it) and bum (which doesn't, so much, but everything is useful, right?).I've never done the toning table thing Elaine what're they like? There's another place near me that does them but they cost a bit more than £4...
And thank you - I know we've not met face to face but there are things I share here that I don't share elsewhere (mostly because the people I talk to IRL about this are skinny malinks and wouldn't get it, or are my mother and that's a whole other thing...) so you do know more about "the journey" (ahrg. I refuse to say that again unless I can be interviewed by Dermot O'Leary) than most
. I'm delighted to inspire you (it works both ways, btw, you spur me on, too) cos you're right, you WILL lose it and be even more fabulous than you are now.Right, Red day again, and probably an over-keenness on chicken curry but it's SO GOOD. Om nom nom.
breakfast
Jam 1 Syn
Scan Bran Part HexB
Porridge Part HexB made up with
350ml Skim Milk HExA (drank balance)
Frozen fruit mix SFree
Snack
Had ginormous brekkie, so not terribly hungry.
Lunch
Chicken Curry Free (80% SFree)
Snack
Cherries SFree
Might also have a wee Costas for the syns (and the nom
. Dangerous, having a costas in your work...)Dinner
Chicken Curry Free (80% SFree)
Supper
??? I am now out of fibre plus and hifi bars and I think I'm going to keep it that way. I need to get a HExA and HExB in so I might just have breakfast again.
Tommorrow will be red again - I've got turkey mince defrosting for some kind of hotpot with new potato HExB sliced up and used as topping and vastly reduced chicken barbecue kebabs doing the same so I can have them before I leave to go to the farmer's market (they lack nutrional info, so I need to work out some kind of synnage for them, but I don't think they'll be hideous given they're just marinaded) and then Sunday will be green - I've got pasta in sauce to use up and then Houmous for a Hex B (or two) and potatoes for SW Chips and cheese and pickled onions OM NOM NOM.
Ela ine
Likes to post, and eat.
Wheeeeee, it's friday!
Well, I went and wobbled for 10minutes last night, which was...interesting!
I've never done the toning table thing Elaine what're they like? There's another place near me that does them but they cost a bit more than £4...
And thank you - I know we've not met face to face but there are things I share here that I don't share elsewhere (mostly because the people I talk to IRL about this are skinny malinks and wouldn't get it, or are my mother and that's a whole other thing...) so you do know more about "the journey" (ahrg. I refuse to say that again unless I can be interviewed by Dermot O'Leary) than most
Right, Red day again, and probably an over-keenness on chicken curry but it's SO GOOD. Om nom nom.
breakfast
Jam 1 Syn
Scan Bran Part HexB
Porridge Part HexB made up with
350ml Skim Milk HExA (drank balance)
Frozen fruit mix SFree
Snack
Had ginormous brekkie, so not terribly hungry.
Lunch
Chicken Curry Free (80% SFree)
Snack
Cherries SFree
Might also have a wee Costas for the syns (and the nom
Dinner
Chicken Curry Free (80% SFree)
Supper
??? I am now out of fibre plus and hifi bars and I think I'm going to keep it that way. I need to get a HExA and HExB in so I might just have breakfast again.
Tommorrow will be red again - I've got turkey mince defrosting for some kind of hotpot with new potato HExB sliced up and used as topping and vastly reduced chicken barbecue kebabs doing the same so I can have them before I leave to go to the farmer's market (they lack nutrional info, so I need to work out some kind of synnage for them, but I don't think they'll be hideous given they're just marinaded) and then Sunday will be green - I've got pasta in sauce to use up and then Houmous for a Hex B (or two) and potatoes for SW Chips and cheese and pickled onions OM NOM NOM.
what do you actually do on the wobble machine? Tell me and I'll attempt it at the gym when I've finished my class! hahah x
wenchie
Silver Member
You mostly just stand and brace so you're using your muscles to not wobble and fall off, basically - there are various positions you can hold to target specific bits here: http://www.exerciseexpressltd.com/FlabeLos Workout Info.pdf but I've not tried any and neither did any of the people who were in at the same time as me.
I'm mighty tempted to try the arm one though - my arms are rubbish weak and horridly flabby.
I'm mighty tempted to try the arm one though - my arms are rubbish weak and horridly flabby.
wenchie
Silver Member
Happy Monday , so, whilst the rest of the country's been having a ludicrous heatwave this weekend, we've been wet and cold... Hrm. Less dangerous free radicals for me?
I've had a very busy weekend - Friday night I gutted my desk in the hall and my dressing table (2 black bags worth of just gubbins and I need some kind of mascara-based intervention as I have 27 of them), now I know where all my jewelry, makeup, hairstuff and scarves are and can lay hand to them quickly, Saturday was the farmer's market in the morning (got some lovely local bacon and eggs and gorgeous organic veggies) then lunch out with a friend (a very complicated kind of occasion to try and get a turkey salad without any dressing or BITS and I still had to pick out the sweetcorn, because it was a red day, but they replaced the coleslaw with a plain boiled egg, which worked rather nicely.) and then we repaired to the pub for diet cokes and putting the world to rights. It was lovely. Then another friend came up home with me for tea (turkey hotpot, YUMMY) and Game of Thrones and when he left at nine ish I started the laundry and gutted my office (it's been a tip due to the 3 events in 4 weeks thing, so it's great to have that sorted) and then on sunday I cleaned all of the things (including getting down on hands and knees to scrub the floor) and sorted out pictures and things that I hadn't hung up for years which is gratifying to have done. My house is spangly and I'm exhausted
So, anyway, I've also listed out my freezer and store cupboard things (although I haven't got the list with me to type in) and I'm working up a plan for eating different things from there (although I've a friend coming to stay for 3 nights this week, so I'm not totally able to plan all that out as much as I'd like). I'm feeling all very organised and go-get-y, so I'm going to be doing some lists and try and take advantage of the mood!
For tonight: I am going for a wobble (with integrated yomp up the hill to get there) then making a tuna bean salad for lunch tommorrow and sorting out my CDs into something less rubbish than the piles they're in at the moment.
Today is a red day (unsurprisingly) and will consist of:
breakfast
Jam 1 Syn
Scan Bran Part HexB
Porridge Part HexB made up with
350ml Skim Milk HExA (drank balance)
Frozen fruit mix SFree
Snack
Mango SFree
Lunch
Turkey Hotpot 2Syns & 1/2HexB (80% SFree)
Snack
Carrots SFree
Dinner
Turkey Hotpot 2Syns & 1/2HexB (80% SFree)
Supper
Nairn's Snackbites 5syns
Skim Milk HexA
Right, I'm finished waffling and I'm off to do my diary tour now
, so, whilst the rest of the country's been having a ludicrous heatwave this weekend, we've been wet and cold... Hrm. Less dangerous free radicals for me? I've had a very busy weekend - Friday night I gutted my desk in the hall and my dressing table (2 black bags worth of just gubbins and I need some kind of mascara-based intervention as I have 27 of them), now I know where all my jewelry, makeup, hairstuff and scarves are and can lay hand to them quickly, Saturday was the farmer's market in the morning (got some lovely local bacon and eggs and gorgeous organic veggies) then lunch out with a friend (a very complicated kind of occasion to try and get a turkey salad without any dressing or BITS and I still had to pick out the sweetcorn, because it was a red day, but they replaced the coleslaw with a plain boiled egg, which worked rather nicely.) and then we repaired to the pub for diet cokes and putting the world to rights. It was lovely. Then another friend came up home with me for tea (turkey hotpot, YUMMY) and Game of Thrones and when he left at nine ish I started the laundry and gutted my office (it's been a tip due to the 3 events in 4 weeks thing, so it's great to have that sorted) and then on sunday I cleaned all of the things (including getting down on hands and knees to scrub the floor) and sorted out pictures and things that I hadn't hung up for years which is gratifying to have done. My house is spangly and I'm exhausted
So, anyway, I've also listed out my freezer and store cupboard things (although I haven't got the list with me to type in) and I'm working up a plan for eating different things from there (although I've a friend coming to stay for 3 nights this week, so I'm not totally able to plan all that out as much as I'd like). I'm feeling all very organised and go-get-y, so I'm going to be doing some lists and try and take advantage of the mood!
For tonight: I am going for a wobble (with integrated yomp up the hill to get there) then making a tuna bean salad for lunch tommorrow and sorting out my CDs into something less rubbish than the piles they're in at the moment.
Today is a red day (unsurprisingly) and will consist of:
breakfast
Jam 1 Syn
Scan Bran Part HexB
Porridge Part HexB made up with
350ml Skim Milk HExA (drank balance)
Frozen fruit mix SFree
Snack
Mango SFree
Lunch
Turkey Hotpot 2Syns & 1/2HexB (80% SFree)
Snack
Carrots SFree
Dinner
Turkey Hotpot 2Syns & 1/2HexB (80% SFree)
Supper
Nairn's Snackbites 5syns
Skim Milk HexA
Right, I'm finished waffling and I'm off to do my diary tour now
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wenchie
Silver Member
Rarr! I'm having a hungry day today, and ended up eating the whole bag of carrot sticks (425g...) which is a little ludicrous.
Ah well, it's only about 132 calories, I wouldn't have felt eating a bag of crisps was excessive, and I am full now, so hopefully they've done the "I could eat my own arm off" trick... I suspect this to be a sign of impending grumpy cramps (I've been a bit randomly emotional, too, so.. yeah.)
Is anyone else a bit more irregular since they started losing weight? I used to be bang on every 5 weeks, but I'm not any more (I'm not far enough off to be worrying, but I can't quite predict any more other than "soonish")
Ah well, it's only about 132 calories, I wouldn't have felt eating a bag of crisps was excessive, and I am full now, so hopefully they've done the "I could eat my own arm off" trick... I suspect this to be a sign of impending grumpy cramps (I've been a bit randomly emotional, too, so.. yeah.)
Is anyone else a bit more irregular since they started losing weight? I used to be bang on every 5 weeks, but I'm not any more (I'm not far enough off to be worrying, but I can't quite predict any more other than "soonish")
wenchie
Silver Member
I'm wearing my tight jeans today (they're an older M&S 18, so they're cut a bit smaller and they've not got any stretch in them so they have that slight corset thing going on. They're not uncomfortable or anything though so yay) and it is bizarre to me to have to undo my trousers before I can take them off (years of a big belly and jeans with quantities of lyrca in them). Not complaining, just weird to be normal .
I achieved lovely organised CDs last night (and now I'm kind of itching to organise something else...THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO ORGANISE. Hrm. Oh! I know, I can put the clean laundry away and do some more. That'll work) after my wee wobble (I'm fairly sure that the yomp up to the place and back is as useful as the wobble itself tbh, but I've got the week so I shall see if there're any results at WI tonight and see where I am inches wise tommorrow).
I've definitely decided my current "pep" is due to listening to Jillan Michael's podcasts on my way into and home from work - I don't agree with everything she says (some independent research on some of the science she's citing proves it's not as clear cut as she makes out) but on the whole it's positive advice, none of the stuff I'm questioning is damaging and it's all very affirming and fun so yay. That'll be a new, good habit. Amusingly I was listening to one about the importance of sleep yesterday and I completely failed to get enough last night and am now KNACKERED - I think I need to put a sleep meditation on the IPod for unsleepy nights.
Today is a Red Day (try not to fall over with surprise...)
breakfast
Jam 1 Syn
Scan Bran Part HexB
Porridge Part HexB made up with
350ml Skim Milk HExA (drank balance)
Frozen fruit mix SFree
Snack
Feta Fritatta 1/2HExA, Free (w/SFree)
Lunch
Tuna Free
Bean HExB
Salad SFree
Dinner
Probably fish, but I'll see how I feel after WI, I've a couple of options.
I would be nervous about weigh in tonight, but I'm so tired and all that body magicing housework has to have helped a bit!
.I achieved lovely organised CDs last night (and now I'm kind of itching to organise something else...THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO ORGANISE. Hrm. Oh! I know, I can put the clean laundry away and do some more. That'll work
) after my wee wobble (I'm fairly sure that the yomp up to the place and back is as useful as the wobble itself tbh, but I've got the week so I shall see if there're any results at WI tonight and see where I am inches wise tommorrow).I've definitely decided my current "pep" is due to listening to Jillan Michael's podcasts on my way into and home from work - I don't agree with everything she says (some independent research on some of the science she's citing proves it's not as clear cut as she makes out) but on the whole it's positive advice, none of the stuff I'm questioning is damaging and it's all very affirming and fun so yay. That'll be a new, good habit. Amusingly I was listening to one about the importance of sleep yesterday and I completely failed to get enough last night and am now KNACKERED
- I think I need to put a sleep meditation on the IPod for unsleepy nights.Today is a Red Day (try not to fall over with surprise...)
breakfast
Jam 1 Syn
Scan Bran Part HexB
Porridge Part HexB made up with
350ml Skim Milk HExA (drank balance)
Frozen fruit mix SFree
Snack
Feta Fritatta 1/2HExA, Free (w/SFree)
Lunch
Tuna Free
Bean HExB
Salad SFree
Dinner
Probably fish, but I'll see how I feel after WI, I've a couple of options.
I would be nervous about weigh in tonight, but I'm so tired and all that body magicing housework has to have helped a bit!
Ela ine
Likes to post, and eat.
Hey hun,
Seriously, SERIOUSLY if the thing you have to feel bad about is eating an entire bag of carrots you are on to a good thing
I know what you mean about the jeans *shame!*
I only wish I was in solid 18's and not 18's - 20's. GRR! Soon.. soon my love.
Well, I say that.. I hope, *hope* that will be the case.
I only lost half a pound. Yep I weighed in early, and only lost half a pound.... ugh.
If I'd had weighed tonight it would have been a sts or a gain for sure.
Eww. Feel so bad. In fact I feel awful. I don't know what I am doing wrong (apart from of course my bad days, which obviously must.be.very.very.bad.)
when I am good I am good.. just need to be MORE good!
Seriously, SERIOUSLY if the thing you have to feel bad about is eating an entire bag of carrots you are on to a good thing
I know what you mean about the jeans *shame!*
I only wish I was in solid 18's and not 18's - 20's. GRR! Soon.. soon my love.
Well, I say that.. I hope, *hope* that will be the case.
I only lost half a pound. Yep I weighed in early, and only lost half a pound.... ugh.
If I'd had weighed tonight it would have been a sts or a gain for sure.
Eww. Feel so bad. In fact I feel awful. I don't know what I am doing wrong (apart from of course my bad days, which obviously must.be.very.very.bad.)
when I am good I am good.. just need to be MORE good!
wenchie
Silver Member
Well, it's a bit peculiar, you must admit! But I'm definitely going to bear in mind that carrots=useful for hungry days (and they're cheap, which is handy!).
I'm 18s on the bottom but 18-20s on the top, which is a bit annoying - SOON though, for both of us
Tsk tsk - weighing in early and on different scales... I'm pretty sure that means the WI police will be after you! Are you going to go to class tonight anyway? Your C might have some ideas for you and it's a good line to start the new week from
And, fwiw, I had a couple of weeks where I only lost a half pound and one where I gained a half completely undeservedly (I spent those classes being secretly irate at the people who'd had curries and all sorts and still lost well) so it happens, but it doesn't stay happening, you know?
I'm 18s on the bottom but 18-20s on the top, which is a bit annoying - SOON though, for both of us
Tsk tsk - weighing in early and on different scales... I'm pretty sure that means the WI police will be after you! Are you going to go to class tonight anyway? Your C might have some ideas for you and it's a good line to start the new week from
And, fwiw, I had a couple of weeks where I only lost a half pound and one where I gained a half completely undeservedly (I spent those classes being secretly irate at the people who'd had curries and all sorts and still lost well) so it happens, but it doesn't stay happening, you know?
