The Red Veggie

[Ophelia105]

First week - full 100% I lost 1lb - then 1lb - 1.5lb and then nothing at all the following week so all in all I lost 3 1/2 lbs in 4 weeks and was most disappointed.
Then week 5 I lost 2lbs and feel this weeks is going to be ok.
So not everybody loses masses of lbs each week even if they are 100%.

Thnx Systema. At least I'm not gaining...

 

[Ophelia105]

A good day..

Breakfast

Quorn sausage x2 1 syn, beans 100g HEB mushrooms egg

Lunch

Quorn beef strips with pickled onion, pickled beet root and salad

Fruit and yoghurt

Dinner

Baked pot HEB plus 2 syns baby bel X 2 HEA Courgette, onion and tomato ratatouille butter bud 0.5

Caramel option and quark with strawberries 2 syns

SnaX

Banana, melon.

I ate half a honey dew melon today - is that a bad thing?

 

[systema]

No - carry on with the melon.

What is a baked pot?

Have you tried the WW Chocolate Sachets - they are very good - get them from £1 shop, 6 in the pack.

 

[Ophelia105]

Hi Systema.

Baked pot = baked potato.

Another good day. I've been at home all day and that often makes me want to pick. Although I think having a big breakfast helps. That and having plenty to keep me busy!

Breakfast

Quorn sausages 1 syn. Baked beans 142g HEB Mushrooms and egg

Lunch

Baked potato 2 syns + HEB. Blue chees HEA X 2

Yoghurt and melon

Dinner

Stir fry fish free prawns 1 syn with cabbage, onion and broccoli and red Thai curry past 1 syn

Green and Blacks chocolate and quark with cherries - not quite black forest... 2 Syns I think

SnaX - banana, nectarine and lots more melon..

Total 6 syns

Already cooked tomorrows breakfast omelette and with left over stir fry for dinner that's me sorted!

I'm feeling thinner - I hope that counts!

 

[Ophelia105]

No - carry on with the melon.

What is a baked pot?

Have you tried the WW Chocolate Sachets - they are very good - get them from £1 shop, 6 in the pack.

I've got some Aldi equivalent in my cupboard but will deffo pick some up next time I'm in pound land ta v much

 

[systema]

Sorry about "Baked Pot" :d'oh: - it was the HEX B that threw me as I don't have to count them on Green Days - thought it was something from the Supermarket.

 

[Ophelia105]

Sorry about "Baked Pot" :d'oh: - it was the HEX B that threw me as I don't have to count them on Green Days - thought it was something from the Supermarket.

Lol was mortified to find out that it is 227g raw weight = HEB. That is one small potato. So I have to syn the extra.

I wish I could do green but I just could not lose weight on it. So I'm hoping red will kickstart it as I suspect it was the lovely, lovely carbs on green which didn't help.

I just wish chickpeas, kidney beans and other pulses were free on red in the same way meat is then I wouldn't miss my carbs so much and spend so much money on quorn !

 

[systema]

Lol was mortified to find out that it is 227g raw weight = HEB. That is one small potato. So I have to syn the extra.

I wish I could do green but I just could not lose weight on it. So I'm hoping red will kickstart it as I suspect it was the lovely, lovely carbs on green which didn't help.

I just wish chickpeas, kidney beans and other pulses were free on red in the same way meat is then I wouldn't miss my carbs so much and spend so much money on quorn !

This is where I suspect I went wrong to begin with - portions too big so cut them down now but could not live without my carbs and I love chickpeas and lentils etc. Quorn does not agree with me but I do use Savoury TVP from Holland and Barrett but could not do Red days, think I would be hungry all the time.

 

[Amelie24]

Hello,

Reading about some of your meals is making me hungry! Any weight loss is still weight loss and you might well lose more next week. I don't think you're consuming very many calories each day. Do you do a lot of exercise? I guess it could be muscle weight?

xx

 

[Ophelia105]

Hi Amelie,

Nooooo - I don't do the 'E' word! I used but at the moment I don't.

I'm not sure if I'm eating enough. I suspect my cal intake is about 1200 - 1500

My problem is that I lost 5 stone a couple of years ago. Since then I have put over a stone back on.

And now my body won't give it up easily!

Breakfast

Cheese, tomato omelette HEA

Lunch

Fish free prawns plus stir fry veggies and quorn

Yoghurt

Dinner

Feta salad HEA aldi crisps 5 syns

Alpen HEB

SNAX

Lots and lots of fruit

1 banana

1 apple

1 apricot

1/2 Gallia melon

1 peach

Grapes

2 x white chocolate covered strawberries 4 syns

9 syns in total

 

[Amelie24]

Hi Amelie,

Nooooo - I don't do the 'E' word! I used but at the moment I don't.

I'm not sure if I'm eating enough. I suspect my cal intake is about 1200 - 1500

My problem is that I lost 5 stone a couple of years ago. Since then I have put over a stone back on.

And now my body won't give it up easily!

Breakfast

Cheese, tomato omelette HEA

Lunch

Fish free prawns plus stir fry veggies and quorn

Yoghurt

Dinner

Feta salad HEA aldi crisps 5 syns

Alpen HEB

SNAX

Lots and lots of fruit

1 banana

1 apple

1 apricot

1/2 Gallia melon

1 peach

Grapes

2 x white chocolate covered strawberries 4 syns

9 syns in total

Hmmm that's interesting- they say your body can reach a 'Set Point' weight, a weight which it works well with and from which it is harder to deviate- maybe that's what's going on? Also do you make sure to weigh at the same time of day each time? You could maybe incorporate a bit of walking or jogging and see if that helps at all? xx

 

[Ophelia105]

Hi Amelie,

My currant weight is over my recommended weight for my height. 70kg @ 5' 4" with a BMI of over 25

My previous low weight 59kg just tucked me nicely into the top end of the recommended weight range an BMI of 24.6

So by those standards I am overweight although I am not convinced my body thinks so! I have managed 59kg by calorie counting but became a littles obsessive and I little unhealthy and I was eating 1200. - 1300 and still not losing.

I have loads of size 12 trousers I want to get back into!

And I know you are right about the jogging - I was just hoping SW could manage without......

I have just got a new job o hopefully my life will simplify in the very near future..

 

[Ophelia105]

Breakfast

Melon, quorn sausage omelette 1 1/2 syns

Lunch

Quorn steak strips & salad with salad cream 2 syns

Blueberries & yoghurt

Dinner

Quorn beef style burgers with broccoli and low low spread HEA X 2

Quark lime cheesecake

SnaX

Banana, apple, peach, orange

Hmmm a little low on HEB. Will need to be Alpen!

In fact I might put some almond essence in the quark with sweetener and crumble the alpen instead of the lime..


Mmmm good idea batman...

 

[Ophelia105]

Oooooh forgot the Gillette I had and the quorn snack pack thingy...

So total syns

10

 

[Ophelia105]

Oooooh forgot the Gillette I had and the quorn snack pack thingy...

So total syns

10

Gallette....

 

[Ophelia105]

Had a really busy day so missed lunch. Tomorrow I will need wine so had no syns today.
WEnt to the big Asda and bought 3 boxes of LC rosemary and red onion sausages - so excited!


Brekkie

Cheese omelette 2 x HEA (very cheesy - lol!)

Banana

Lunch

Mango (£2 from Sainsbury - so expensive!)

Dinner

sausage casserole made with passata, onion and courgette.
227g potato (HEB)

Yoghurt

SnaX

Peach, Alpen x 2 HEB

Looking forward to WI as I feel thinner!

 

[Amelie24]

Hi Amelie,

My currant weight is over my recommended weight for my height. 70kg @ 5' 4" with a BMI of over 25

My previous low weight 59kg just tucked me nicely into the top end of the recommended weight range an BMI of 24.6

So by those standards I am overweight although I am not convinced my body thinks so! I have managed 59kg by calorie counting but became a littles obsessive and I little unhealthy and I was eating 1200. - 1300 and still not losing.

I have loads of size 12 trousers I want to get back into!

And I know you are right about the jogging - I was just hoping SW could manage without......

I have just got a new job o hopefully my life will simplify in the very near future..

Good luck for your new job!

Maybe your body thinks you're fine at your weight! When I had a BMI of 25/26 and was in the 11s my body seemed to not want to shift weight very much too! But that's great you're feeling thinner. Did you follow a recipe for the sausage casserole? xx

 

[Ophelia105]

Nooo I don do recipes. I make it up..


But here's how I did it.

Fry lite half chopped onion.

Add a sliced courgette

Add chopped and defrosted LC rosemary & red onion sausages (I used 3 because I'd had no dinner and was starving)

Fry a little bit.

Add 1/2 carton passata ( would have used chopped tomatoes but didn't have any)

Add flavourings (jerk black pepper from Costco)

Turn down and simmer for 5 minutes.

I then added some warm boiled potatoes and mixed in.

Serve

 

[Ophelia105]

Ooops

4 large glasses of wine 33 syns

Brekkie

2 x boiled eggs 3 x LC Rosemary and red onion sausage

Lunch

2 x alpen HEB X 1

Dinner

SW chips + SW PIZZA 3 x HEA cheese + mushy peas

Banana

Missed lunch cos of work again.

And had a green day today

Which feels so off plan!

 

[Ophelia105]

Sooooo enjoyed my green day yesterday. It seemed like a cheat day eating all those carbs.

WI - good news - finally lost weight!

WHOOP WHOOP !

1kg / 2lb

At last I'm back to below 70kg at 69kg.

Going to try and cut the cost a little as I have bought some soya chunks from holland and Barrett (buy 1 get 1 half price)

And instead of quorn mince going o get asda dried mince.

All this quorn is a little expensive!