Weight Watchers

[havingascreen]

Menu of the day:
Porridge and black coffee (300 calories)
Small wholemeal bread ham salad sandwich, a Greek yoghurt and an apple (350 calories)
Vegetable chilli a la havingascreen style its the one with celery and carrots- I made loads last month so out of the freezer (350 calories-large portion no rice as in a rush going to cinema)
2 kiwi and a slice of malt loaf with butter (200 calories)
Today's my exercise free day - MrG says we have to have a rest day.

What's everyone else's plans for the day?

Hey Diane, very healthy and i love how you've calorified it all, brilliant

I,ve had special K and a banana for breakfast and a Pearl Di Lait for a mid morning snack. Having a trout salad for lunch and either chicken stirfry or chilli (meaty kind) for dinner then 30 minute badminton session later.

my muscle tone has improved but no big wieght loss yet as i'm still eating pretty much what i fancy. Can be healthier during the week easily enough but i want to treat myself at the weekend.

hope everyone else has had more luck!

[Diane65]

Hey Diane, very healthy and i love how you've calorified it all, brilliant

Thank you so much I count calories so I know where I'm up to and then can copy meals from week to week without having to look it up.
You are doing the exercise part of it so half way there and your menu today sounds very good.
We will all get there together

[TheyCallMeMrGlass]

You're all doing great everyone, I am so very busy, I'm sorry I dont come on here...its not that I dont have the time to at least read the posts but I do get hooked This thread will always be my first visit though!

Quick update, I am deciding to do the Half Marathon in Edinburgh. I feel insufficiently prepared for a full one I'm afraid. Good thing there is the half marathon option which starts 1 hour earlier. A lot of time needs to be devoted for marathon training and I just cant fit it. But no excuses, just because I cant do the marathon doesnt mean I cant do anything, so in the half marathon, I will aim to run it under 1hr 50mins which will be a personal best for me. That's my target. My training will be on speed and losing more body fat. I have finally chosen my charity. I wanted a charity that helps children but not just to help them live but give them ambitions and a healthy outlook and future, no matter what their conditions are, not just for disabled but for any youth and child. Get children and youths thinking healthy from early on, we will have healthier future generations. As I am a sportsman, this one is sports orientated to boot and they are called Getting Kids Going. I like their aims. I've got a lot of work on today and evening so will set up my sponsor page tonight.

Really happy to see everyone so active in their fat loss/fitness endeavour in both exercises and healthy eating! Drink lots of water to squash those sweet cravings. Mix up those exercises every few weeks to shock the system, the body must not see a pattern for too long, otherwise it will have adjusted and fat loss rate will drop, keep surprising the body to burn the fat quicker :)

[havingascreen]

Nice to see you back Glassy, i've not been on much recently either. I think i shocked my body on Sunday when i broke into a run but my lungs nearly burst!! Found it much more exhilarating than just walking, short sharp bursts the best way to go i think.

[Diane65]

Menu of the day:
Porridge and black coffee (300 calories)
Banana sandwich, strawberries and grapes (300 calories)
Jacket potato with cottage cheese (chilli and red pepper), rocket, Weight Watchers fromage frais and an apple (400 calories)
I know that it is lacking in vegetables today but going to the dentist (yet again for the same tooth- how long can you take on one tooth ) so not sure re chewing so will make it up tomorrow.
Will have 200calories of healthy snacks throughout the day.

Exercise DVD today, hopefully my rubbish arms and stomach (abs just sounds wrong when I look at mine) will have improved

Good luck everyone else today; looking forward to seeing all your menu's and exercise plans so that I can copy your ideas

[Preston1990]

Oh no, where's all the Weetabix and Muller Vitality probiotic toffee drinking yoghurts gone?

Ah well that's kids for you, and I flatly refuse refuse to eat "their" coco-pops or any of the other thinly disguised sugar laden rubbish cereals that we have to get for them!


Today's Meals:

Lashings of tasty, metabolism boosting, fat burning water - Diluted to taste where necessary

Copious amounts of invigorating freshly brewed black coffee.

1) Preston's Austerity Breakfast - 75gm of those soggy Special K that we've had for ages in the back of the cupboard soaking up moisture from the air, meagre amount of skimmed-milk, 55gm blueberries (seemed criminal to waste them in here). Yuk - don't try this at home, unless of course you are based in one of the debt defaulting EC nations.

2) Soy glazed Tuna steak, grilled pak choi in a lime, sesame seed and spring onion dressing with a courgette salad. Sounds impressive doesn't it? but it's reasonably quick and quite easy to make.

3) Apple, celery sticks, carrot batons.

4) Bowl of crunchy stir fried vegetables with soy based stir fry sauce.

5) 2 Toast thins with pate. Earl grey tea with lemon slice.

Back doing the daily LEM and row(v)er training regimes now. Tomorrow is weigh day and walk day. It's going to be at least 6 miles and perhaps a bit further depending on how it goes. Though, it certainly won't be anything like the distance rawr-xoxo did the other day! How do people manage to do that?

......going to the dentist (yet again for the same tooth- how long can you take on one tooth )....

I heard that when he asked "What sort of filling do you want?" you replied "Oooh, chocolate please! - but that's a horrible top that you are wearing"

I bet your arms are looking fab now Diane with all that exercise. How is everyone else doing? Hope you are all keeping on track and off the Slippery Slip!

Good luck with your training MrG .....did you mention something about putting up a sponsorship link? .................

[Diane65]

I got in so late from work - 8pm but still wanted to do my DVD after my dinner so started it at 9.30pm and now I'm wide awake For some reason my arms were much better than in the morning even though I'm a morning person (they were still rubbish but there's real hope now )

[Preston1990]

I got weighed this morning and I've lost another pound this week. I'm happy enough with that but it's obvious that the initial easy weight loss phase has come to an end, and it's becoming harder to shift now. Never mind, I'm going to redouble my efforts to increase my exercise regime.

Walk day today - weather fine - what's not to like!

Have a lovely day at work everyone!!

Never give in, Never give up!

[jojojoanne]

don't forget, Preston, with all your walking and exercise, you're probably building muscle which 'weighs'

well done on your weight loss - better off than on!!!

[Diane65]

Well done Preston1990 that is brilliant and enjoy your walk.
I've lost 3lbs this week so I'm happy I'm happy if I lose a lb a week now.

Remind me never to do exercise so late at night I overslept for the first time ever I wasn't late for work but had to shovel my cereal down which isn't ideal as I've been hungry since 11am.
Menu of the day:
Special K with milk (300 calories as large portion)
4 Ryvita's with banana(I've weighed it), a weight watchers yoghurt and an apple (350 calories)
ASDA Thai Chicken Curry (356 calories) I know its microwaved but I won't get in from work until 6 and then on a course/lecture at 7.30pm and I want to fit in a 2 mile brisk walk. A weight watchers fromage frais. (60 calories)
Grapes and strawberries on my return at about 9.30pm