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Healthy Eating/MFC. Monday 5 April
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Message 1.Ìý
Posted by Westsussexbird or Birdy aka Westie (U6316532) on Monday, 5th April 2010
A warm welcome to the new thread and a new week.
A thread where we help and encourage each other to enjoy eating well and whenever possible make wise choices. This, I realise, may sound dire and unexciting, but it needn't be, as, with the ideas and encouragement we get from this thread we have no need to feel isolated and alone as we are not, we have each other!
We are all trying to eat healthily, some of us are trying to maintain our weight, some are trying to lose a bit of weight, some are trying to lose a lot of weight and so the only rule we have is that we don't mention our actual weight/size, as one person may think XX is heavy, but another person may be wanting to get to that weight.
I am going to post this now and would be grateful if someone else would kindly do the links to GEm's cyber gym and Katy's cookbook and the Rota thread as I am using an old computer with a dodgy mouse/pad and it has a mind of its own.
I hope everyone has a tasty week :0) -
Message 2
Posted by Miftrefs Laura in Lothian bufily ftitching (U2587870) on Monday, 5th April 2010
Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:36 GMT, in reply to westie westsussexbird in message 1
Morning!
Easter is now over, so I'm trying to drop the sugar consumption down and down again, where possible.
I measured myself this morning for the first time in three weeks and it appears I have managed to lose half an inch here and there and stayed the same elsewhere - so it shows what a difference 7 or 8 months of MFC can do, that even when I think I've taken the brakes off re food, I am now no longer interested in the huge junk-food frenzies I used to have. I am still eating more sweets than I'd like but there is not the massively high-fat meals, nor the quantity of chocolate there used to be. I am even learning that I can buy a big packet of crisps and keep it bulldog-clipped on a nail in my larder and only think of them every few days, have a small handful and put the rest back in the larder. That could never ever have happened a year ago.
KOKO everyone. Even when we slip, there are ways to slip less badly!
laura -
Message 3
Posted by Westsussexbird or Birdy aka Westie (U6316532) on Monday, 5th April 2010
>Even when we slip, there are ways to slip less badly!<
Laura ... you've hit the nail that holds your bulldog clip on the head ... that's it.
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Message 4
Posted by LostInML (U13646691) on Monday, 5th April 2010
Good to have the new thread up; thanks, Westie!
Sigh. Easter was not easy food-wise. I am now off for my daily swim in the hope that I can get back to some kind of good routine soon. This weekend I have found it very hard not to eat too much... -
Message 5
Posted by archingmad (U8292055) on Monday, 5th April 2010
Procrastinator extraordinaire, here. Should be packing (departure tomorrow) but the job is daunting, so just popping in to say I didn't lose the weight I wanted to for the holiday. I am more or less (very inaccurate scales) on the stone Y still.
However, the eating has been seasonally mad this week, so hardly surprising. Back on track post tiger design fairy-cakes (see last thread) I hope.
KOKO, all. -
Message 6
Posted by Westsussexbird or Birdy aka Westie (U6316532) on Monday, 5th April 2010
Archi, a maintain is NOT to be sniffed at!
If you hadn't been taking care your weight would almost certainly have gone up .... so here, have a "Well done Girl Wonder" and enjoy your trip :0)))) -
Message 7
Posted by welshteddy (U3680635) on Monday, 5th April 2010
I just composed a long post and it has disappeared. Grr.
Anyway, trying my best with the meals out, refused pudding today, but did eat a big chocolate egg and choc bar yesterday. -
Message 8
Posted by Fire-Pig - proud to wave the protest banner (U12231213) on Monday, 5th April 2010
Just a bookmark for now, thanks for opening Westie.
I've not had the easiest of days at work and am feeling very tired at the moment. I will return!
F-P -
Message 9
Posted by archingmad (U8292055) on Tuesday, 6th April 2010
Just popping back to say goodbye for a few weeks. I hope that, as Spring kicks in, you all find the renewed energy to reach your next target with alacrity and aplomb.
I am not taking this week's chocolate with me. I think that is my statement of intent. (I'll probably start clawing at the door of the airplane by about 9 tonight!) -
Message 10
Posted by Westsussexbird or Birdy aka Westie (U6316532) on Tuesday, 6th April 2010
We'll miss you archi :0))
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Message 11
Posted by LostInML (U13646691) on Tuesday, 6th April 2010
Have a great trip, archi. Several weeks of bliss away from home sound good.
I'm glad to be back in some kind of work routine today. I find it helps me regulate the eating routines as well. -
Message 12
Posted by eriskay (U2846175) on Tuesday, 6th April 2010
This is day 23 of the new organised, healthy eating me. Gosh it is hard work. I do like fruit, vegetables and lean meat. I actually do. I do not like butter, chocolate, cakes, biscuits and roast lamb. Well, I do like them of course but will not succumb. I hope.
I am hoping to go to Paris for a few weeks soon. That is the motivation. That and health of course.
Just off to have vegetable soup -home-made, no fat- and an apple and a pear. I will enjoy them. Yes I will.
Help....
But I get to have a baked potato tonight. Yippee. -
Message 13
Posted by Isabel Archer (U13716168) on Tuesday, 6th April 2010
Horribly busy few weeks during which my weight went up by a small amount and then back down again. With holidays and the start of a less stressful time, I'm hoping I will be able to stay on a steady downward trajectory.
I did eat a bit of chocolate at Easter but I found it horribly sweet, suggesting my tastebuds have evolved. I'm away on holiday next week and daughter (who has lost 1 stone plus) and I hope to have a good week in preparation for alittle indulgence next week. -
Message 14
Posted by Miftrefs Laura in Lothian bufily ftitching (U2587870) on Tuesday, 6th April 2010
Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:25 GMT, in reply to Isabel Archer in message 13
I did eat a bit of chocolate at Easter but I found it horribly sweet, suggesting my tastebuds have evolved.Ìý
Oh I can't /wait/ til that happens to me!
It is starting to happen... M&S's sausage-and-mash in their low-cal foods now tastes horribly sweet to me - I think it's the tomato puree in the onion gravy... but I can still guzzle Dairy Milk... slowly and steadily, slowly and steadily...
Eriskay, my opinion is that bannign anything is not a great idea, if it's a natural unprocessed food. So have your roast lamb occasionally but perhaps fill up first with a big bowl of vegetable soup and only have a small portion of lamb?
I believe that we need a varied diet, and that cutting anything right out can lead to bigger problems. You do /need/ fats in order to function! It's just getting the balance correct...
laura -
Message 15
Posted by eriskay (U2846175) on Tuesday, 6th April 2010
Thank you Laura-I do know what you mean. It is just that roast lamb is a weakness of mine and it would be very hard to have a small portion- I do not believe I have that self-discipline yet! Maybe never will. I find it easier not to have things at all than to have little portions.
So tonight was vegetable soup, baked potato, broccoli and carrots with lean chicken. Lean chicken is very worthy and does not tempt me to overindulge.
This diet does seem to be working, although I have still not had the courage to weigh myself. Clothes are a wee bit looser and I feel better.
Good luck everybody in making the right choices. -
Message 16
Posted by Fire-Pig - proud to wave the protest banner (U12231213) on Tuesday, 6th April 2010
Eriskay, I'm with Laura on not banning anything completely. My personal aim is to eat more healthily and also lose weight. The healthy aspect is at least as important to me as the weight loss.
Some of our Easter chocolate was too sweet for me - but sadly I have not reached a stage when I can say that I am not eating it at all! For some unaccountable reason there really was rather a lot of chocolate in the house this Easter. Still there hasn't been much since Christmas.
More distressing phone calls from EP, he agrees that things must come to a conclusion but he can't see how. As he tells it, DiL is not prepared to compromise at all, she has laid down her demands for child maintenance etc that belong in cloud cuckoo land. There is no possibility that we can see for mediation, so we are recommending both get lawyers and let them sort something out. It is all so tiring, and I will admit to eating chocolate this week - but in my defence it was Easter chocolate already in the house - I haven't succumbed to any of the bars I used to buy regularly.
KOKO one and all
F-P -
Message 17
Posted by Tolkny (U710741) on Wednesday, 7th April 2010
<quote>not banning anything completely,<quote> I have pretty much cut out sugar and sweeteners in tea and usually coffee but I do have a mug of sugar sweetened cocoa in my daily food plan.
I am fortunate not to apparently have any trigger foods in the way that any alcohol or nicotine is a trigger for such addicts as some foods (Perhaps, refined flour sugar, chocolate, fat) is for some food addicts.
By "trigger" I mean once eaten sets up irresistible craving for more. -
Message 18
Posted by Katy Tulip (U2239809) on Wednesday, 7th April 2010
Wed, 07 Apr 2010 06:42 GMT, in reply to westie westsussexbird in message 1
Bookmarking waves, am on my way to WW club as soon as I type & post this!
Koko one and all,
Katy -
Message 19
Posted by Tolkny (U710741) on Wednesday, 7th April 2010
Am prompted to write about weight having just had monthly weigh in and gained 4kg, previously I was 1 kg up in the 2 months before and back end of last year another 2kg less that is a whole stone, in about 5 or 6 months after having maintained eleven stone weight loss, gradually since about April/May 2005.
It is so easy, I continue to eat much less than when I was eating addictively but at this rate, I could get back to where I was.
Mrs T says metabolism slows with age, but I have to be really strict about food plan now.
It is very easy to be strict immediately after a weigh in but that needs to be maintained.
I guess I have been less active as well, but still a whole stone and not eating compulsively. Right now, I feel as if as well as identifying with addict eaters (I was with a friend yesterday in a desperate state - that too was good for me) I can also identify with those who just keep eating about the same and yet get older and fatter. This is SERIOUS stuff.
My aim is to die at normal body weight for size but now that is 33 kg off from what I was told by health professional who consulted a chart several years ago. I am still 65 kg from my top weight as calculated, it could even have been a bit more and my calculation says I am nonetheless today carrying 10 stone 3 pounds less which is 143 pounds, and something positive to recall.
I also have the experience of having survived on the food needed to get me to that lower weight without feeling hungry, having more than occasional food cravings which have never resulted in me eating outside of my three meals, nothing in between, food plan since April 2006.
So if I can have that success, after 50 years overeating there must be hope for almost everyone else to be able to change their pattern of eating.
Well done to those who are giving encouragement to me by their example and don't despair if one you have still to find a way to manage that change. For me change was literally miraculous and achieved by surrendering control, rather than applying a ferocious control in the face of the overpowering irresistible cravings I used to get to eat, even though I had already eaten more than enough for two or three people in a day. -
Message 20
Posted by Fire-Pig - proud to wave the protest banner (U12231213) on Wednesday, 7th April 2010
I am hoping that as the weather warms, I will get out and walk more. I know, I know I have said it before but ... If I have managed to cut chocolate almost completely why can't I add walking? It should be possible!
My recent problem has been that I have slowed down at work, so am making the mistake of lunching over my desk trying to complete - some of it is time sensitive and has to be completed by certain times. As I am still not driving, I am constrained by bus times or times I can get a lift. I hope to try driving later this week, when some of the Easter tourists have left - the ones who drive in fear that stone walls will jump out and hit their cars so they must hog the white line down the middle of the road as a place of sanctuary!
KOKO one and all!
F-P -
Message 21
Posted by LostInML (U13646691) on Wednesday, 7th April 2010
Just back from my cholesterol blood test. Results from that next week (along with my tri-annual smear... another joyful visit to the doctor's beckons. I do enjoy my time off work and pack it with such thrilling events... Ironic smiley thing needed here.)
The drear, bleak April weather here is not conducive to positive thoughts. I am still shivering at home, waiting for warm weather. Still, the exercising continues on a regular basis and I just hope I can eat less and lose the weight I gained last week. I'm trying hard, but feel a bit disconsolate about it all right now. Sometimes it just feels like the hard work it really is! -
Message 22
Posted by Auntie Prue (U1481323) on Wednesday, 7th April 2010
Agree about comments re not banning anything completely.
Roast lamb is fine if it is roasted on a trivet, and you cut off any fat before it goes into your mouth. Portion control is the key to these kinds of foods that are OK in limited amounts.
I did a knicker cull yesterday, ready for the bin men today. I told myself that I had too many pairs - and I should only keep the smaller sizes as I would never need the bigger ones again.
Hope that's how it turns out.
Have also been going through wardrobe and have a pile of clothes for charity shop. -
Message 23
Posted by Fire-Pig - proud to wave the protest banner (U12231213) on Wednesday, 7th April 2010
I must join you in the culling, Auntie Prue!
This morning I tried on a scarlet trench coat mac that I had in the 80s, don't laugh at the back - remember I was out of the country much of the time after that so it hasn't had much wear. I will very soon be a lady in scarlet* again. I'll think about removing the shoulder pads but other than that I love it. It also has a pop in lining for colder weather and cost me a bomb at the time, it will be a joy to resurrect it and definitely a new look from the navy anorak!
I must have a proper cull, there are a few things where I really love the fabric but are so over size now I'll have to think hard about what to do. My inner miser hates spending money when I have something already!
F-P
*I originally typed scarlet w*m*n but it wouldn't accept that! -
Message 24
Posted by Tolkny (U710741) on Thursday, 8th April 2010
Changing my food plan.
Aim to cut out that which I don't need and to maintain the cut until my weight is "right"
I continue to have a problem with addiction to left overs being used/not having leftovers.
Yesterday Mrs T and I both did different bits of shopping as a consequence of the routes our respective day's took us and we ended up with two bags of mushrooms (incidentally the better condition ones coming from the specialist Green Grocer, not The Supermarket).
So Breakfast: "bubble and squeak" (veg left from yesterday's main meal and larger than usual portion of Mushrooms but no little frankfurter sausage, fried egg. Preceded by glass of fruit juice, but not succeeded by my customary Ryvitta spread thickly with Sugar free marmalade. Two mugs of coffee. (I aim in coming weeks to reduce amount of milk which means I will probably also put less coffee in, so I might save some dosh as well.) I am not giving up on the Ryvitta and marmalade altogether (that is a cut I can save, if the current regime does not have the scales going down but I can spread them more thinly when I have them.
My existing food plan is to know my next meal arrangements as I finish my current meal, that means if I "feel" hungry in between there is no need for panic eating in between, which in my case as an addict may mean I continue to "graze" and it become a "binge".
So my lunch plan is to eat out, two courses with family, I know not yet exactly where, but around 12.30 to 1 pm ish. I will pay special attention to the dessert and may not eat it all and will avoid potato. Better leftovers go into the recycling, than I kill myself, by putting them in me, today!
Thanks for giving me the opportunity to write my partial food plan/diary so far.
Comments invited, but only if it is of help to YOU. It helps me just to have an outlet for this stuff in the absence of an OA food sponsor. This is more anonymous, which I like. -
Message 25
Posted by LostInML (U13646691) on Thursday, 8th April 2010
About to have a coffee and start work from home for the day. Checking in to make sure I don't snack between meals.
(The cheese breadcake is still in the freezer... Mind you, I ate garlic bread for dinner, so I exceeded my bread quota yesterday, even without the freezer breadcake. That was frustrating. We had one less guest to dinner than anticipated, so I ended up eating more bread than I'd planned...) -
Message 26
Posted by Miftrefs Laura in Lothian bufily ftitching (U2587870) on Thursday, 8th April 2010
Thu, 08 Apr 2010 07:29 GMT, in reply to Tolkny in message 24
Tolkny,
glad it helps!
If you were female, I'd be a little concerned about reducing dairy intake, just because women do have to be careful about bone density; men much less so (hormones, I believe...?). Dark green leafy vegetables, and some beans iirc, can provide calcium of course.
I do find it useful, as well as interesting, to read your food diary, because it's so different from what mine would be (will be in May!), which is again different from other people's!
It confirms my strong belief that no one plan fits everyone and that they aim is for moderate portions of healthy varied food which we can enjoy eating knowing that the moderate portion of healthy food is all we will want - still in the future for me as far as just now is concerned (for next 2-3 weeks I'm under enormous work-pressure, so just don't have any spare energy for food-thinking!)
I know what to do when May arrives and the pressure is off, because I know what I did last July and August and I know IT WORKED.... so it will be meal-planning, moderate portions, varied healthy balance of foods, and lots and lots of walking!
KOKO everyone, whatever angle you're coming from!
laura -
Message 27
Posted by Tolkny (U710741) on Thursday, 8th April 2010
If you were female, I'd be a little concerned about reducing dairy intake, just because women do have to be careful about bone density; men much less so (hormones, I believe...?).Ìý
Uhmm, I do not consider such things but just look for changes I can apply and maintain without being totally rigid, because I am after not behaving addictively about anything, because then "my life is unmanageable".
I am fortunate that I receive regular medical monitoring, annual blood tests for cholesterol and such like and I presume something like too low bone density would be found out, plus I believe in trusting to nature.
I was told by counsellor when I was about 6 or 7 stone heavier than I am now, that just to keep doing what I was doing and my weight would adjust naturally.
That was not so because I have reduced my food intake since then and having plateaued, my weight reduction has reversed.
What has not changed is that when that happened previously I changed my food plan and decrease continued, so I need some changes that gets the decrease going again. A good thing is that having done it before, I am fairly confident I can do it again, though it is irritating to have the increase of as much as I have had which means a repeat action is needed.
I do not aim to become a yo yo reducing dieter, in fact I want to avoid a reducing diet at all but want oo find a food plan that takes me towards a weight that is recommended and gives me the best quality of life possible.
What is very surprising is how much less food I consume now. I compare myself to my 88 yo MIL who although she eats less than me and with dementia needs some encouragement to eat but still tucks away very hefty meals at times, is far less physically active than me (she worries constantly) but does not put on any weight at all, and never has in the 45 years I have known her. Such people are fortunate to seem to have a natural adjustment system, they feel as hungry as they need to eat just what they need. With me My hunger feeling is of very little help to guaginging what I need. -
Message 28
Posted by Tolkny (U710741) on Thursday, 8th April 2010
If you were female, I'd be a little concerned about reducing dairy intake, just because women do have to be careful about bone density; men much less so (hormones, I believe...?).Ìý
Uhmm, I do not consider such things but just look for changes I can apply and maintain without being totally rigid, because I am after not behaving addictively about anything, because then "my life is unmanageable".
I am fortunate that I receive regular medical monitoring, annual blood tests for cholesterol and such like and I presume something like too low bone density would be found out, plus I believe in trusting to nature.
I was told by counsellor when I was about 6 or 7 stone heavier than I am now, that just to keep doing what I was doing and my weight would adjust naturally.
That was not so because I have reduced my food intake since then and having plateaued, my weight reduction has reversed.
What has not changed is that when that happened previously I changed my food plan and decrease continued, so I need some changes that gets the decrease going again. A good thing is that having done it before, I am fairly confident I can do it again, though it is irritating to have the increase of as much as I have had which means a repeat action is needed.
I do not aim to become a yo yo reducing dieter, in fact I want to avoid a reducing diet at all but want oo find a food plan that takes me towards a weight that is recommended and gives me the best quality of life possible.
What is very surprising is how much less food I consume now. I compare myself to my 88 yo MIL who although she eats less than me and with dementia needs some encouragement to eat but still tucks away very hefty meals at times, is far less physically active than me (she worries constantly) but does not put on any weight at all, and never has in the 45 years I have known her. Such people are fortunate to seem to have a natural adjustment system, they feel as hungry as they need to eat just what they need. With me My hunger feeling is of very little help to gauging what I need.
She does eat very slowly and I eat very fast, that is another change I can strive for.
Thank you Laura in Lothian, your response may make all the difference, because as I answered your post my thinking was being challenged and only at the last did the new thought come in about MIL and our different speeds of eating.
Another thing that counsellor encouraged was to make an event of every meal, never standing up or in the car or on the go, always with table laid and decorated and enjoy the experience of eating. I do enjoy eating but am always racing in my mind about what I need/want to be doing next, maybe that is a quality of addiction.
Anyway, I encourage you to write about your feelings about your eating experiences but not to feel bound to read every word of every post, and certainly not mine, we are aiming here to find a way of living that works for each of us not to become carbon copies of each other because as has been written elsewhere( whole thread but my comment at message 14) we will never be that. -
Message 29
Posted by Westsussexbird or Birdy aka Westie (U6316532) on Thursday, 8th April 2010
I have a very very slim male friend who feels very uncomfortable if he puts on any weight. When discussing our eating habits once we decided the main difference is he spreads ingredients thinly on the smooth side of the Ryvitta, and I spread ingredients on the other side of the Ryvitta with holes/indentations, as then I can get more on.
Of course this is a joke, but it highlights his way of thinking and mine! So Tolkyn, just flip the Ryvitta over! -
Message 30
Posted by Fire-Pig - proud to wave the protest banner (U12231213) on Thursday, 8th April 2010
I do not aim to become a yo yo reducing dieter, in fact I want to avoid a reducing diet at all but want to find a food plan that takes me towards a weight that is recommended and gives me the best quality of life possible.Ìý
Tolkny, I think you have stated the aims of MFC here. I am sure it is what we all want - for some it is the more rigid three meals a day, never anything in between, for others it is a series of smaller meals/snacks. As Laura says, there is no one plan for all of us. We each of us have to find our own way through the maze - and that includes allowing for other members of the household with other needs in certain cases.
Personally, I think it would be wonderful if such healthy eating became totally automatic for me and that I did not have to seriously think about each and every meal. I am working on the eating more slowly and trying to savour every mouthful, but I am not very good at it yet.
Westie, I love your Ryvita analogy - I spread on the flat side - but of course there is not that choice with our preferred oatcakes!
KOKO one and all
F-P -
Message 31
Posted by Tolkny (U710741) on Thursday, 8th April 2010
I spread on the flat sideÌý I recently started doing the opposite, but will revert!
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Message 32
Posted by LostInML (U13646691) on Thursday, 8th April 2010
/What has not changed is that when that happened previously I changed my food plan and decrease continued, so I need some changes that gets the decrease going again./
Yes, I think this is often the thing. When we plateau (or start putting weight back on), we need to change something in order to get back on the right path or on an even keel. It gets harder to think of ways to change things, but it always comes back to the basic equation of increased output and decreased input! -
Message 33
Posted by Tolkny (U710741) on Thursday, 8th April 2010
feels very uncomfortable if he puts on any weightÌý the feelings behind that can also be damaging and unless we continue to eat moderately the physical consequences as dangerous.
In the last month a sober alcoholic I know who continued smoking and was restricting food to a point where he was underweight contracted TB, did not have the constitution to resist what is now a recoverable illness and died in his fifties! -
Message 34
Posted by Tolkny (U710741) on Thursday, 8th April 2010
guaginging what I needÌý Sorry, for the duplication, what I need is a delete button, to remove postings of un proof read, accidentally clicked, messages.
Had I realised the message .. down to "guaginging" had already appeared, I would not have inflicted the whole lot on YOU again! -
Message 35
Posted by LostInML (U13646691) on Thursday, 8th April 2010
Just had lunch: chicken breast and salad, followed by a plum, some grapes and three slices of melon. So far, so good. Nothing unplanned as yet!
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Message 36
Posted by Aunt Dahlia (U14279739) on Thursday, 8th April 2010
What oh peops!
I've come for a bit of bragging and a pat on the back. Wanted to get back to my summer weight (one size down from winter weight) and have been eating sensibly and exercising to the extent that I have lost 2 1/2 inches off my hip measurement!
So so pleased.
I hate it when my clothes don't fit properly
Key goal now is not to put it all back on again next winter. -
Message 37
Posted by Fire-Pig - proud to wave the protest banner (U12231213) on Thursday, 8th April 2010
By all means have a pat on the back Aunt Dahlia! Pat pat Pat!!
I hope you can keep it off all summer and all next winter too!
I have never thought about having a summer and a winter weight - what do you do in Spring and Autumn?
F-P -
Message 38
Posted by Westsussexbird or Birdy aka Westie (U6316532) on Thursday, 8th April 2010
Nice to have a bit of a laugh before bedtime!
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Message 39
Posted by Aunt Dahlia (U14279739) on Friday, 9th April 2010
what do you do in Spring and Autumn?Ìý
Snork! Fire -Pig in Spring I preen at my sylph like silhouette and in Autumn when it gets dark and gloomy again, I stuff my face and then regret it.
After posting this I went to the gym and worked off 600 calories. My boss had really upset me so more about working off emotion than being good. Still, every little helps, or something. -
Message 40
Posted by Fire-Pig - proud to wave the protest banner (U12231213) on Friday, 9th April 2010
How many calories in a snork? Does it help to lose weight if you are a habitual snorker? Or does that imply too much sitting on one's backside and not exercising, or even fidgeting?
F-P -
Message 41
Posted by Westsussexbird or Birdy aka Westie (U6316532) on Friday, 9th April 2010
I'm still in bed lifting a cup of tea to my lips ... and typing so exercising my fingers!
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Message 42
Posted by Aunt Dahlia (U14279739) on Friday, 9th April 2010
Parking at the far side of the stupidmarket carpark will, over the course of a year, loose you two pounds (depending on the size of the carpark)
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Message 43
Posted by Loopy_ Lou (U10913539) on Friday, 9th April 2010
Parking at the far side of the stupidmarket carpark will, over the course of a year, loose you two pounds (depending on the size of the carpark)
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No chance, I'm afraid.
To lose 2lb you need to burn up 7000 calories, ie about 140 each week.
Walking burns up about 5 per minute, so unless your walk in the carpark is 28 minutes, it ain't gonna happen. -
Message 44
Posted by Aunt Dahlia (U14279739) on Friday, 9th April 2010
Ah, but regular exercise raises your metabolism so burns cals quicker after the event. I go to my super
arket maybe five times a week, 28 cals so 14 each way. It's possible? Maybe?
Of course you need to do other stuff as wl, just supermarket walking will not be enough -
Message 45
Posted by Westsussexbird or Birdy aka Westie (U6316532) on Friday, 9th April 2010
.... Dahlia did say depending on the size of the carpark!! I believe Tesbury buy up spare land for expansion in the future ... maybe they use it for carparkiing meanwhile!
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Message 46
Posted by Loopy_ Lou (U10913539) on Friday, 9th April 2010
I go to my super
market maybe five times a weekÌý
may I politely suggest instead of visiting the suermarket quite so often you go once a week and use all the time you will save to go on a longer power walk.
You only succeed in incresing your metabolism if your heart rate has been raised for about 30 minutes. -
Message 47
Posted by Aunt Dahlia (U14279739) on Friday, 9th April 2010
No it's ok. I go to the gym two to three times a week and burn 600 cals each visit. SM is on way home from work so use it as a corner shop. But thanks for the thought. Much appreciated.
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Message 48
Posted by Loopy_ Lou (U10913539) on Friday, 9th April 2010
No it's ok. I go to the gym two to three times a week and burn 600 cals each visit.Ìý
Very impressive. I'm sure you're toned and gorgeous! -
Message 49
Posted by Aunt Dahlia (U14279739) on Friday, 9th April 2010
It's helpful working for a control freak boss who p me off on a regular basis. I'm not sure if the stress is outweighed by the additional urge to fling myself around the gym though.
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Message 50
Posted by Auntie Prue (U1481323) on Friday, 9th April 2010
Any regular exercise is good, and will aid the loss of fat for the reasons which I have bored you all with several times before! This I learned when I attended an NHS Xpert Patient course in the autumn.
Re dairy products. In that programme about weight loss, you may remember the research that showed that if some low fat dairy product is eaten as part of a meal, eg skimmed milk, yoghurt, less fat from the rest of the meal will be absorbed by the gut.
OH has been given custody of the scales again, as I had started to weigh myself twice a day, which I know is pointless! I know perfectly well that the few pounds I put on around Easter will disappear over the next few weeks with sensible eating - but rational part of brain isn't communicating with emotional part of brain!
I will ask for the scales back towards the end of the month.
Going to *very* posh restaurant tonight (going along as a guest at a club dinner). I intend to have a couple of drinks, no bread roll, but I will have a pudding and a small amount of cheese with the cheese course - but probably no biscuit - but some celery instead.
Hope I can report back that this is what I did!
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