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Message 1.Â
Posted by geepers (U6804393) on Thursday, 1st November 2012
A very warm and hearty welcome to the latest MFC/Healthy Eating Club: the thread for anyone and everyone who is interested in losing weight/staying at the weight they've reached/generally eating more healthily.
I'll confess from the start that I've pinched an old opener - I wanted to see what we said at the start of the weekly threads, as I think we may have agreed on the last thread to have a stab at getting back to being a weekly club. So here goes:
We are the club with one rule - no mention of real life weights or dress sizes. Do feel free to tell us you want to lose X pounds or Y inches (I know, I'm showing my age - kilogrammes and centimetres are equally welcome) but please don't tell us what you actually are/want to be, in case where you are now is where someone else is struggling to get to. Apart from that, please feel free to post what you will. We are a dead nice bunch and you will get nothing but encouragement for us. New posters are always welcome so anyone who's been lurking should jump on in - the more of us there are here, the more experiences we can learn from - all of us go through doldrums at time, but unless it's an exceptionally bad week, there's usually someone around to post something up-perking.
Some people post here frequently, others sporadically. Some people weigh regularly, some never. For most weighers, Tuesday is weigh-day, but you can weigh or not weigh whenever you want. Or you can measure if you prefer. Or you can do neither. Quite a few of us post our food diaries on a Wednesday just as a means of keeping a bit of an eye on what we're eating. Some people post diaries more often than that, some never post them. Again, it's entirely up to you.
You'll find people here who are following, or have followed, different diet regimes - Weightwatchers, Slimming World, Rosemary Conley, low GL etc - while others are just working out what works best for them. But for all of us the focus has really come to be on eating healthily. So while you'll find heaps of encouragement and support, if you confess that you're making one tomato last you for three days (and that's when you share it with a friend) you may well find someone having a word with you about things like protein, and variety, and making sure you don't let your body think it's being starved.
Given the focus on healthy eating, it's not surprising that a lot of us are fans of the cookbook thread, usually referred to as Katy's Cookbook, as Katy runs it. It hasn't been posted on too much recently (cue for us all to start adding to it?) but you'll still find it full of interesting recipes, cooking tips etc as well as lots of info about calories/points/syns to. You'll find it here:
And then there's exercise - not a dirty word at all, but a dead good way to shift the pounds just that bit quicker. You don't have to start running marathons, you just need to move about a bit more. And there is, of course, a fab exercise thread to use for more encouragement, called the Cybergym. Most of us refer to it as GEm's gym, though, as GEm runs it. You'll find it here:
And finally, there is a rota thread - just like we have no rules (that'll be apart from rule that we do have) we have no leader either. We each take it in turns to sign up for a week - all you really have to do is post the opening thread, with the three links included if you can do links. Not hard work at all. You'll find the rota thread here:
Again, it's not been used much for a good while but as soon as the flea lets me, I shall go and revive it - maybe it'd be a good idea to let this thread run for over a week, then get back to the routine of opening up on Tuesday mornings (or late Monday evenings)?
And now here's to a very good week for us all. -
Message 2
Posted by LoopyLobes (U14384399) on Thursday, 1st November 2012
Thanks for doing this, Geepers, it's good to have a fresh start. I've been having a bit of an off piste week this week, so back on track next week to get my ass in gear for Christmas.
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Message 3
Posted by geepers (U6804393) on Thursday, 1st November 2012
the rota thread now officially revived - please sign up!
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Message 4
Posted by Sister Primrose of the Red Tinsel Flag (U5405579) on Thursday, 1st November 2012
Yo Geepster, and thanks for opening up :0)
My name's Primrose and I sometimes make bad decisions about food...
In the two months after my diagnosis with type two diabetes I was very motivated and made some significant changes to my food intake. I found that if I reduced my carb intake to between 75 and 100g a day my blood sugar levels fell back to within normal limits. Plus the weight fell off me, 2-3 lb a week, even if I was eating fairly fatty stuff like cheese. I seemed to stabilise at a nicely within healthy range BMI and thought I'd solved my weight problem forever. But...
My problem is that, despite knowing how to eat so as to feel healthier and be a better weight I find it very hard to go without stuff that I know to be bad for me. Part of it is that the stuff I can't eat is stuff other people are recommended to eat, like wholemeal bread and brown rice and wholemeal pasta and the like which I enjoy and associate with healthy and virtuous. I manage to be sensible with my breakfast and lunch, I usually manage not to eat the cakes and sweeties that are pretty much an inevitable feature of a patient centred environment in the NHS (it's how folk say thankyou, with sweeties. Even at the diabetic ante natal clinic) It's the evening that get me.
If it were just me there wouldn't be potatoes and bread and pasta in the house and I wouldn't be tempted. A couple of weekends ago I had the house to myself and ate nothing untoward, was never hungry and lost 3lb in two days - my bod shouting hurrah. However, it's not just me in the house, and the other three have nicely functioning pancreases and active lives and need a good amount of carbs and when I cook for them, I crumble.
So I need geeing up to make better choices about the food I choose to put in my mouth.
I plan to resume regular post prandial blood testing (because that focuses my mind on what I'm putting in my mouth), better decisions about carbs, maintaining my 10k steps a day and regular weigh ins (at least once, maybe twice a week), accompanied by keeping a record of my weight and some body measurements like bust, under bust and waist. All of the above have previously proved very helpful in maintaining my resolve.
Fingers Xed, I've got a blood test called a HbA1c coming up just before Xmas, I'd like it to be as good as the early ones I managed after diagnosis were.
PP -
Message 5
Posted by geepers (U6804393) on Thursday, 1st November 2012
Hi Loopy - sorry to hear about the off-pisteness of your week. This probably is the kind of time we ought to be thinking about any pre-Christmas shrinkage that is necessary. Just short of eight weeks till the big day, so at a pound a week, there's a decent amount that could be shifted between now and then. Whether I'll manage that with four of those weeks (well three and a half) having the boyf here is another matter.
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Message 6
Posted by geepers (U6804393) on Thursday, 1st November 2012
Hey Primmers - food that isn't there is so much easier to resist, isn't it... At the moment I have no bread or pasta or rice in the house. And since starting to use myfitnesspal, I've stayed away from the couscous and the quinoa that are in the cupboard. This isn't going to be a permanent thing, but it's really helping me with the emergency shrinkage that's been needed since the Distressing Ballooning that occured post-Afghanistan.
My big test, though, is coming up - that's going to be resisting what IS there. I know the boyf will be looking forward to red wine, after eight weeks on a dry contract, and to decent food, after eight weeks of Afghan cooking. At the very least, I need to remember he is a chap, and so is expected to eat/drink more than I do. I don't have to match him plate for plate, or glass for glass. We'll see how well that goes... -
Message 7
Posted by Sister Primrose of the Red Tinsel Flag (U5405579) on Thursday, 1st November 2012
But on the other hand he is a bit Action Man-ish so if you're going for yomps in the countryside you'll be able to relax a wee bit afterwards. Doesn't myfitnesspal factor in exercise?
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Message 8
Posted by geepers (U6804393) on Thursday, 1st November 2012
yes, it does. We tend to have slightly better intentions than actual doings though, on previous experience. But I shall try to encourage him to get out and about.
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Message 9
Posted by Sister Primrose of the Red Tinsel Flag (U5405579) on Thursday, 1st November 2012
A casual remark about how frisky a bracing walk up a hill makes you feel might do the trick...
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Message 10
Posted by geepers (U6804393) on Thursday, 1st November 2012
Do I actually have to deliver on the frisking though?
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Message 11
Posted by LoopyLobes (U14384399) on Thursday, 1st November 2012
Thanks Geepers, but it's ok, I've allowed myself a "loose" week because I've got a house full of people and we're eating out and having quite a few takeaways and although it's easy enough for me to stay focussed and on track, I think that sometimes it does a body good to shock it and shake things up a bit. By the end of the week I'll be desperate to get back to my proper routine.
PP, I remember reading your posts when I was just starting out on my low-carb path. Do you find that once you're eating the right things you no longer crave the "wrong" things? I can happily live without potatoes and pasta, but bread is my downfall. I have 2 slices a day, but some evenings I will have a couple of slices of toast and from there on it's all downhill. The key for me is not to start. Chocolate, ditto. I don't miss it at all if I don't have it, but once I start, I'm buggered!
Once I'm properly in the zone I can have rice, pasta and potato without worrying. It's just the bread. -
Message 12
Posted by mistle_thrush (U3279940) on Thursday, 1st November 2012
Haha great idea..
Hello everyone and thanks for opening the new thread geepers. I'm not sure how good I will be about regular visits but let's see!
Over the past few days I seem to be in a state of "perma-hunger" (term coined by a friend), which is very annoying and quite hard to manage. Possibly the effect of the hour change and consequent darkness? Ah well - KOKOing like mad and hoping the effect settles soon.
Just had a yummy baked potato with tuna and sweetcorn, plus veg done in the griddle pan (courgette and red pepper). Was going to have cottage cheese on the jacket but couldn't face it.
Might manage a bit of gentle exercise once the food settles - I like doing a cardio warmup and a Pilates routine in the evening sometimes as it helps me sleep.
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Message 13
Posted by geepers (U6804393) on Thursday, 1st November 2012
Loopy, we have three days at the boyfs' mum's next week, and they get through bread like you wouldn't believe. And not just bread, WHITE bread. She makes it at least every other day, sometimes more frequently than that. All there is for breakfast is toast, and lunch is almost always sandwiches. And like I said - I can resist what's not there, but freshly made white bread, sitting in front of me, smelling all bread like? I'm dreading it, because I know that as soon as start in on even one slice a) I'll just want to keep going and b) my tummy will start to bloat and feel horrible.
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Message 14
Posted by GEm (U4356909) on Thursday, 1st November 2012
You probably don't have to walk to deliver on the frisking after he's been away from you for that long geepers........
I eat quite slowly so my strapping lads get through their dinner in the same time as me but I eat about half what they do. Eat consciously and make sure you savour flavours and chew thoroughly and you'll find yourself full really quickly
Running and lifting weights will raise the metabolism - but you'll find yourself getting fussy about food as you'll be working out when the next run is and what you need to eat to fuel for it rather than what you fancy. OCD lives here ( I married it and it is rubbing off!)
I like the weekly thread too. Thanks Primrose and Geepers -
Message 15
Posted by GEm (U4356909) on Thursday, 1st November 2012
You may have a wheat intolerance then geepers. Why not take a chopped up fruit salad and some yoghurt with you and explain to MIL that while you can drool at the bread smell you mustn't eat it as it makes you feel grotty. I am sure she'll understand. She's feeding big lads so bread is useful but last time I looked you weren't a "big lad". Eat dainty - keep reminding yourself about the bloating and enjoy the smell without eating it.
G -
Message 16
Posted by Sister Primrose of the Red Tinsel Flag (U5405579) on Thursday, 1st November 2012
PP, I remember reading your posts when I was just starting out on my low-carb path. Do you find that once you're eating the right things you no longer crave the "wrong" things? I can happily live without potatoes and pasta, but bread is my downfall. I have 2 slices a day, but some evenings I will have a couple of slices of toast and from there on it's all downhill. The key for me is not to start. Chocolate, ditto. I don't miss it at all if I don't have it, but once I start, I'm buggered!Â
After a couple of weeks of not eating them it's easier to resist them, but I don't know that I will ever look at a pile of simple carbs without lust in my stomach. Bread is the hardest, when I'm organised I can substitute stuff like mashed celeriac or cauliflower for the potatoes, and although it's not the same it is ok. In fact boiled cauliflower put through a food processor with a bit of milk and some grated cheese makes a really nice fluffy 'mash' to go with stuff like sausages.
But bread? Ah, bread... I love bread, and once I've put one slice in my mouth another will follow, as sure as eggs is eggs. And at about 20g of carbs a slice that very quickly spells trouble. I am fortunate that I like brown Ryvita, so can usually substitute a couple of pieces of that, and the crunchiness is satisfying in it's own right. But if I fall it's mighty hard to stop
Do I actually have to deliver on the frisking though? Â
yes, it's good cardio vascular exercise frisking is. Can you check myfitnesspal for the extra calories a good frisk lets you indulge in and let us know... -
Message 17
Posted by geepers (U6804393) on Thursday, 1st November 2012
Do I actually have to deliver on the frisking though?
yes, it's good cardio vascular exercise frisking is. Can you check myfitnesspal for the extra calories a good frisk lets you indulge in and let us know...Â
Ha ha! I'll check. It was more the thought of it being November, and the Dreaded North, and all that...
I'm planning on taking oats to the not-quite-mother-in-law's and making porridge. I don't think I have a wheat intolerance (bit sceptical about such things, to be honest), but all the starchy carbs tend to make the tummy just that bit bigger. -
Message 18
Posted by Sister Primrose of the Red Tinsel Flag (U5405579) on Thursday, 1st November 2012
No one said you had to frisk al fresco...
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Message 19
Posted by geepers (U6804393) on Thursday, 1st November 2012
I'm nesh, woman, nesh.
And there's no frisking calories counted on myfitnesspal I'm afraid. -
Message 20
Posted by Miftrefs Laura in Lothian bufily ftitching (U2587870) on Thursday, 1st November 2012
Hullo
I've spent the summer walking tons and trying to eat sensibly, and the pay-off is that my waist is now x-5 inches from what it was in early May when I walked away from what had become a very unhealthy relationship. Interestingly, I am now several months into a spectacularly healthy, equal relationship and I find I am far less bothered about eating after supper, having some treat to nibble in bed, etc. (I also stopped biting my nails after 40 years of routinely having bleeding fingers...).
I'm not all about relationships - I am also far more settled in other aspects of my life, having really worked out who my friends are and just how lovely they are
It isn't rocket-science, for me - I just need to put less in and use more up... energy in: energy out. My problem is being lazy, and greedy, and easily-bored with a tendency to eat when bored... sound familiar, anyone?! :D
KOKO all
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Message 21
Posted by geepers (U6804393) on Thursday, 1st November 2012
Blimey - it's Laura - long time no see, old girl.
V glad to hear about the better relationship - and the coincidental-or-not knock on effect on the walking and eating.
I was out for my regular brisk walk at lunchtime and managed (albeit only briefly) to see a glimmer of silver lining to not getting the second interview - where I work is really quite beautiful, and I am very lucky to be able to walk two brisk miles every lunchtime through formal and informal gardens and parkland. I'd not be getting that in central Manchester... -
Message 22
Posted by Sister Primrose of the Red Tinsel Flag (U5405579) on Thursday, 1st November 2012
Yo Lozza, lovely to see you here
My problem is being lazy, and greedy, and easily-bored with a tendency to eat when bored... sound familiar, anyone?! :DÂ
Can we spin that into
I have the bad habit of eating food when I'm bored, whether or not I'm hungry
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Primrose 'Malcolm Tucker' Path -
Message 23
Posted by countrypug (U9227943) on Thursday, 1st November 2012
Huzzah and woohoo! I am a huge fan of the weekly thread and am another one who was away when it changed so didn't like to suggest a change.
And I now not only find a new weekly thread but also the return of Primrose and Laura, both of whom I have missed for their advice and wit. So a great well done to Geepers and I will sign up ASAP.
Quite a risqué first page what with talk of frisking, and loopy managing to get away with boogered (not putting the proper word in as I surely will be modded).
So to follow on from PP, I'm Pug and a long term member. Lost loads of weight here a few years ago but took my eye off the ball and backslid in a big way. I came back here recently and am trying to regain control. That "greedy and lazy" quote above struck a cord with me, although not lazy in the physical sense, I work long hours and am happy to get out walking etc, I am lazy at organising my food. I also think I drink a few too many calories, mainly as Sauvignon blanc, and must address that too. (Not a drink problem, just a calorie one!). I am most definitely a "live to eat" person, not an "eat to live" one.
I will be really interested to hear some food diaries again. PP, I wonder about your method and think it might suit me although I have no evidence to suggest I have type II diabetes. Again strapping teenage sons in the house makes for a lot of unsuitable food around. But I have done it before and can do it again. So here we go folks. KOKO all.
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Message 24
Posted by geepers (U6804393) on Thursday, 1st November 2012
It's nice to see so many faces popping up - hopefully Sausages will make her way over soon too.
I didn't do an 'intro', and maybe I should, if it's new starts all round! I'm geepers, posted here regularly for a long time, and did a reasonable job of shedding a few pounds and keeping them off. Then I went to Afghanistan, posting wasn't quite so easy, other things distracted me, and one thing led to another... Despite having a free gym, open 24/7, and only three minutes walk away from my room, I'm afraid I didn't quite adhere to the kind of lifestyle that should be expected of a dedicated MFCer. Although overall I managed to stay in roughly the same shape I was when I went out.
But then I had six months off, and went off visiting friends I'd not seen for ages, and there was one evening of 'geepers is here, let's go out/get a takeaway/open a bottle of wine' after another, and somehow all of a sudden I was a stone heavier than I was in March. So, that stone has to go, as does, ideally, the one that was already sitting where it shouldn't have been. With the combination of cutting out the drink, counting calories very carefully on myfitnesspal.com and doing the 5:2 thing (five days of ordinary eating, two of 500 calories), I've got about nine pounds off, so there's been a good start made, but there's still a good way to go...
Inwards and downwards! -
Message 25
Posted by anagramladysin (U14258840) on Thursday, 1st November 2012
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Message 26
Posted by Penstemon (U4429639) on Thursday, 1st November 2012
Ooh hello everyone, sorry I'm late but I've been out.. Yes ladies I have been on a train at night, met a friend, had a few drinks and a chat. Lovely and a very rare occurrence these days!
Anyway I am a long term dieter.. A few years ago I lost tons of weight on the low carb regime, but found it almost impossible to sustain when cooking for the family. The kids need carbs, so I just started eating them again, and well you can guess the rest.
Back at the end of the summer I was very over weight, for me, and depressed about it, so I decided , for the first time ever, to join a slimming club. I went to Slimming World and its brilliant. Very easy to do, no counting anything much, except Syns if you want them.
I have lost 14lbs, yes a stone without too much difficulty as its a very easy diet, but now I am struggling a bit. I get to a certain weight, and I know I'm not allowed to say it, but its always the same weight and I can't shift off it.
However, I am determined I will lose another 21lbs by next Summer as we hope to have a short holiday family holiday for the chipolatas and I for the first time in years and I want to be slim and healthy for it.
I go to my slimming class every Tuesday so I shall report back on weight loss each week
Thanks for being here guys xxx -
Message 27
Posted by geepers (U6804393) on Friday, 2nd November 2012
Glad you made it, Sausages. It's not officially weigh day for me, but as it's the Last Day Before Temptation, I'll report a maintain, which is annoying me. I knocked off the 3/4lb that I put on over the weekend (and took another 1/4lb off - you have to love digital scales, don't you) but despite getting back to good behaviour, nothing else has shifted. So I'm still on 9lbs off overall - I know that's a good amount, but I shall be honest and admit I'd been hoping for more. Glass half empty, anyone?
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Message 28
Posted by geepers (U6804393) on Friday, 2nd November 2012
I've just realised my opener links to the 2011 Cookbook thread, rather than the 2012 one - here's the correct link
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Message 29
Posted by Sixties Relic SAVE ML (U13777237) on Friday, 2nd November 2012
Hi everyone, I'm STUCK.
I've got one of those mental blocks.
Last week I reported that I'm only half a pound awy form losing 3 stones....and I've had a dreadful week since. The rot set in at the Chester mini-meet....I not only had a delicious lunch with some very companionable and funny people but then promply walked into Chester and bought a coffee eclair from the posh cake shop.
I then had a totally messy not-in-control week, coupled with having a bit of a cold. (pathetic excuse, I know).
So the upshot is that I've put ON one and a half pounds this week. So I'm now 2 lbs from that magic 3 stones.
Once I get over that 3-stone hump I think I'll be fine. It's just getting there.
So I'm going to try really hard this week.
Have a good week, all. xx -
Message 30
Posted by geepers (U6804393) on Friday, 2nd November 2012
Come on Sixties - you CAN get over that hump, and we are all waiting to see you do it. Think what an inspiration you're going to be to us all once you're a three stone loser!
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Message 31
Posted by GEm (U4356909) on Friday, 2nd November 2012
Ok Sixties - you've had your wobble and your fun. Followed by the crashing shock and disappointment of a gain.
Now get out your list of why you wanted to lose the weight in the first place and remind yourself. Draw the line and step over it. You are a healthy and normal eater - you've just had a piggy week. Now back to normal.
I'm GEm and I try and gently help people to move a bit more and get fit (with a bit of weight loss as an added bonus). I've never had to diet - when my jeans get a bit tight I just run for a bit longer or add an extra run in the week. I eat based on the exercise I am going to do - I am definitely an eat to live person but I am also a good cook and love making stuff and baking (but we burn it off and have small portions of most things except veg). I am 95% vegetarian but as I am anaemic under protest I eat a small amount of red meat when nagged into it by OH.
I try not to preach on the exercise but in the cybergym you'll find some gentle encouragement to try and find something that fits your lifestyle and works for you and to stick with it. After 21 days do you know that healthy eating and exercise both become a habit!
G -
Message 32
Posted by Fire-Pig - proud to wave the protest banner (U12231213) on Friday, 2nd November 2012
Hi, I'm Fire-Pig, a one time stalwart of this thread but lately very much lapsed. Seeing a new thread title tempted me back.
I don't know why I have lost the will to lose weight but I have. I know I have put back some of the weight I lost before - I can't get into one of my pairs of trousers.
Chocolate and cheese are my main downfalls.
If anyone has seen my mojo please will they return it?
Thanks
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Message 33
Posted by geepers (U6804393) on Friday, 2nd November 2012
Hey FP - fab to see you back!
Maybe read GEm's advice to Sixties about reevaluating why you'd like to be a bit less than you are? It's good to have you back though and I'm sure we'll all help you hunt your mojo. -
Message 34
Posted by geepers (U6804393) on Friday, 2nd November 2012
Right, y'all - I am off to catch my ferry (leaving a tad earlier than planned, what with having realised today it sails an hour earlier than I'd had in my head - oops!). I shall do my best to pop in and see how things are going while I'm away, and hope everyone has a good weekend and a good week ahead. Pip pip!
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Message 35
Posted by Penstemon (U4429639) on Friday, 2nd November 2012
Have a good weekend Geepers.
Hi to Fp, and sixties, nice to see you again.
Sixties, from memory you are doing SW too? Maybe go back to your group I am sure they motivate you, and I really really want to see you achieve that 3stone mark..and you'll get another sticker too!
I have had the most delicious sweet and sour chicken tonight, no Syns and made with Fanta zero. Believe me it really works..yum!
Koko everyone, lets focus!! -
Message 36
Posted by Miftrefs Laura in Lothian bufily ftitching (U2587870) on Friday, 2nd November 2012
F-P, I haven't seen your mojo anywhere just yet, but perhaps if the two of us went for a nice walk from your office at lunchtimes, we might spot it somewhere - two pairs of eyes being better than one pair for mojo-searching?
It's nice to be back, isn't it?
laura -
Message 37
Posted by Miftrefs Laura in Lothian bufily ftitching (U2587870) on Friday, 2nd November 2012
If we're doing quick introductions from those of us who haven't posted in a while... I was around when MFC was founded, and over the years I've managed successfully to overcome a lot of very bad habits - at one point I was scoffing a 200g bar of Dairy Milk most evenings, and that hasn't happened for a very long time!
I use an online free nutrition-aid called Cron-o-meter which is wonderful for me, as you enter in your foods, can create recipes and quantities from the FDA foods database, Canadian and French equivalents all there to use, and also you can enter exercise of different kinds and it calculates everything nicely for you, from calories to nutrients, and you can set your aims and see easily at a glance how you're doing. I use it for nutrition as much as for calories. It really helps me.
I walk lots, and have also been doing lots of heavy-duty housework, tackling the years of clutter. And coincidentally stopped biting my nails after a lifetime. And lots of other personal improvement - thanks to a rather supportive set of friends and a rather supportive new partner.
I'm glad MFC is back in full swing!
laura -
Message 38
Posted by GEm (U4356909) on Saturday, 3rd November 2012
Sausages - was it you cooking chicken with diet coke as well?
Any chance of some rough ideas of recipies?
G -
Message 39
Posted by Penstemon (U4429639) on Saturday, 3rd November 2012
Hi yes it was Gem
Ill cut and paste some recipes later. Ham cooked in diet coke is gorgeous too.
Remind me if I forget lol -
Message 40
Posted by countrypug (U9227943) on Saturday, 3rd November 2012
Yes Sausages, ham in diet coke is a long term favourite here, in fact I never bake ham any other way. Mine is adapted from a nigella recipe, although she insists it only works with the full fat stuff. But I think it is just as good with diet coke.
It certainly always surprises guests when you tell them! -
Message 41
Posted by Penstemon (U4429639) on Saturday, 3rd November 2012
I'm having problems cut and pasting the recipe, and I have to go out in a minute so ill try and type it out later..
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Message 42
Posted by GEm (U4356909) on Saturday, 3rd November 2012
No rush - I just thought it'd be a fun couple of dishes to do when the youngsters are round with partners/friends. I've had the eldest here today just left with OH to meet up with his girlfriend as they are going to the pictures!
G -
Message 43
Posted by Penstemon (U4429639) on Saturday, 3rd November 2012
Chicken in diet coke (tried and tested!) a SW recipe
2 chicken breasts
1 can diet coke
1 chopped onion
I-2 garlic crushed ( I like loads of garlic)
6 tbsp passata
Splash of Worcester sauce
Splash of soy sauce
1tsp Chinese 5 spice
Chicken stock cube
Fry chicken, onion and garlic in fry light. Add all other ingredients and simmer for 30 mins or until sauce is a bit sticky..
Serve with noodles and roasted veg
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Message 44
Posted by geepers (U6804393) on Sunday, 4th November 2012
Quick check in from me. Survived the ferry - good. No exercise - bad. Lot of nervous energy consumed driving out of Liverpool with useless satnav - good. Breakfast at friend's (eggs and mushrooms) - good. Lunch from station (sandwich with fewest calories and highest salad content) - reasonable. Dinner - not sure... Had steak (no sauce), chips (ate half, and they were fat not thin), onion rings (oh dear) and peas (hurrah!). And half a bottle of red. So, could have been worse, but could have been a lot better.
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Message 45
Posted by geepers (U6804393) on Sunday, 4th November 2012
Okay, having just been in myfitnesspal.com it really could have been a LOT better. We need to get out and yomp today. Cross with myself...
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Message 46
Posted by Penstemon (U4429639) on Sunday, 4th November 2012
I had a good day yesterday and even organised myself well enough to take a salad to eat on the train. Sweet and sour chicken with veg and noodles last night which was yummy.
I did have a couple of drinks last night which isn't good but all in all quite pleased with myself so far this weekend. -
Message 47
Posted by Sister Primrose of the Red Tinsel Flag (U5405579) on Sunday, 4th November 2012
Well, you're both doing better than me, there was LIDL marzipan and an enormous jacket potato with cheese and egg from a take out shop.
Today feels like a fresh start sort of day, I'm doing my menu plan for the week and it's going to have lots of sensible options for me, plus if the weather keeps up I'm going for a nice long walk, and if it doesn't I'm going for a brisk shorter walk...
PP -
Message 48
Posted by GEm (U4356909) on Sunday, 4th November 2012
Thanks Sausages - the sweet and sour one is the same but with Fanta?
Gx -
Message 49
Posted by Penstemon (U4429639) on Sunday, 4th November 2012
No the fanta one is different, more of a sweet and sour. I put a bit too much chilli in the one I did, but it's to taste. Ill post that recipe later
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Message 50
Posted by LoopyLobes (U14384399) on Sunday, 4th November 2012
I suppose as this is looking like a new, revived MFC, I should tell my story.
In February 2011 I was in the middle of a very stressful time during which my father (super-fit lifelong sportsman and one time Olympian, never smoked, never drank) had a quadruple bypass, my nephew was in Afghanistan, my mother was ill (also super-fit, lifelong non-smoker, non drinker), husband was away, children were going through important exams and I was addicted to sweets, chocolate, caffeine and BREAD! I'd been slim all my life (athlete and gymnast), but in recent years had found the pounds stacking up and I'd got myself quite a pot belly.
I'd lurked occasionally on the MFC threads, but being totally honest I felt that it was such a well established club I'd never fit in. Still I lurked, but I was hovering up and down the same 4 pounds and not making much headway with the "eat less, move more" way.
My Eureka moment was reading posts by people who were low-carbing, I can remember some of the names - Westie, Anagramlady, PrimrosePath (though she might have been on a different thread) - and then someone mentioned the Pig to Twig diet and I bought the book.
Well, that was it. Within a week I'd lost 7 pounds, within about a month I'd lost a stone, which was really all I needed to lose, though I wanted to get down to my old "normal" weight, which was about 7 pounds less. More important even than the weight loss was the instant cure for my awful acid heartburn, an end to my nasty caffeine related headaches/migraines and an end to the carb-cravings that used to rule my life. I found I could last more than 3 hours without wanting to kill people if I didn't eat, my moods levelled out and I was just so much happier!
All this without having to count calories or count points or anything like that. I could eat as much as I liked of *real* food, no low-fat "Frankenfoods", just good old fashioned meat, loads of veg, cream, berries and loads of water. I found myself eating more veg than I'd eaten before in my life.
Exercise-wise I do brisk walking for about an hour 3 times a week, plus the walking I do from my car to work (15 mins each way) and my own version of a Rosemary Conley style workout in front of the telly about 5 times a week. I like Rosemary's mix of stretching, toning and aerobics that you can tailor to suit your own abilities. I will only do things that I find enjoyable and that fit in easily with my life. My gym days are over, I'm not a competitive athlete or gymnast any more, but I sometimes join in with my niece's trampoline classes (she's the coach).
I've always said that you have to find the way that suits you and I'm so, SO grateful to those people in MFC who sowed that low-carb seed in my brain. Funnily enough, once I'd got myself sorted out my cousin's husband, who is a Nutritionist and Sports Coach put my Aunt and Uncle on a similar regime, but theirs is low fat as well as low-carb and it just doesn't work as well. They get hungry. I don't. I am crap when I'm hungry!
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