Weight Watchers

[TheyCallMeMrGlass]

All these menus sound great

Well done on weight loss Valda

Rawr_oxo, great to see you finding alternatives to keeping fit despite setbacks, brilliant. There is always a way around everything

Keep it positive Clarebare, all our journeys have obstacles and they're just there to overcome and to feel even better once you've overcome it :) You doing the right thing by resting and making use of those jacuzzi Eating the right food will still keep you on track while you physically recover. Just dont lose sight of your goals.

So awesome to see everyone progressing so much !

[Preston1990]

Morning everyone. Apologies for getting rather lax on the old posting front of late.
I definitley have some catching up to do with the forum, and my exercise and healthy eating regimes have been a little compromised recently.

First off I want to wish Valda a cheery:

WOOHOO! - WELL DONE FOR THAT AWESOME 3LB LOSS!!

It sounds like your new food regime has some really appetising meal choices too!


Also:

Sorry to hear about your pain ClareBarr. Try not to let it overwhelm you, and don't resume your exercises until you feel fully ready to. In the meantime, just try and keep with your healthy eating and remember don't over snack - fill yourself up with water.


Rawr I hope that the Doc managed to check you out and assure you that there was nothing to worry about.

What a shame that you don't seem to like salad very much. I love the taste of crunchy salad vegetables, but for me the real beauty about them is you can have loads more than when you are eating a sandwich, without all those calories that are tied up in the bread. And.... they are really cheap (compared to shop b*ght sandwiches) and are dead easy to make. You can add as much, or as little, dressing as you want with them too!

Diane65 If you are reading this sat in the sun having a drink round a pool in Crete I hope that you are having a lovely time but continuing to be good! Remember the scales will not lie when you get back

It's weighday for me today and I'm both pleased and surprised to be able to tell you that I've lost another pound. Surprised, because of my recent lack of exercise - although I did have the bike out for a couple of hours in the countryside yesterday. It's just one pound but Hey they all count, so it's a result in my book!

There's no doubt about it - I'm going to have to redouble my effort to lose those last two stones - maybe I can go swimming as an alternative, or additional, exercise to get my waning enthusiasm back for it. Something tells me that the last two stones won't be as "easy" to shift as the first two.

That takes me to just over the half way mark in my journey with "just" another 29 pounds to go.

Good luck everyone!

[jojojoanne]

Morning everyone. Apologies for getting rather lax on the old posting front of late.
I definitley have some catching up to do with the forum, and my exercise and healthy eating regimes have been a little compromised recently.

First off I want to wish Valda a cheery:

WOOHOO! - WELL DONE FOR THAT AWESOME 3LB LOSS!!

It sounds like your new food regime has some really appetising meal choices too!


Also:

Sorry to hear about your pain ClareBarr. Try not to let it overwhelm you, and don't resume your exercises until you feel fully ready to. In the meantime, just try and keep with your healthy eating and remember don't over snack - fill yourself up with water.


Rawr I hope that the Doc managed to check you out and assure you that there was nothing to worry about.

What a shame that you don't seem to like salad very much. I love the taste of crunchy salad vegetables, but for me the real beauty about them is you can have loads more than when you are eating a sandwich, without all those calories that are tied up in the bread. And.... they are really cheap (compared to shop b*ght sandwiches) and are dead easy to make. You can add as much, or as little, dressing as you want with them too!

Diane65 If you are reading this sat in the sun having a drink round a pool in Crete hope you are having a lovely time but continuing to be good! Remember the scales will not lie when you get back

It's weighday for me today and I'm both pleased and surprised to be able to tell you that I've lost another pound. Surprised, because of my recent lack of exercise - although I did have the bike out for a couple of hours in the countryside yesterday. It's just one pound but Hey they all count, so it's a result in my book!

There's no doubt about it - I'm going to have to redouble my effort to lose those last two stones - maybe I can go swimming as an alternative, or additional, exercise to get my waning enthusiasm back for it. Something tells me that the last two stones won't be as "easy" to shift as the first two.

That takes me to just over the half way mark in my journey with "just" another 29 pounds to go.

Good luck everyone!

WELL DONE, PRESTON!!!

[biggins]

Well done Preston -another lb in the right direction Wondered what had happened to you - were you missing Diane?

Went swimming this morning but wish I hadn't bothered to be honest as the world and his wife were there with all their little darlings and couldn't get swimming for them jumping in and thrashing around. The outdoor pool was mobbed so had no choice but to try to get a few lengths of swimming done in the indoor but the noise with all that shouting didn't make me want to linger. The weather is bad so they have to find somewhere to amuse their kids.

Having chicken salad for lunch today but haven't thought about tonight yet.

Sorry you are not so good Clarebarr but hopefully the pain will pass and you can start your new regime again.

[anakin]

Well done Preston -another lb in the right direction Wondered what had happened to you - were you missing Diane?

I echo everyone else - well done on that pound Preston! A pound is a pound is a pound! And over half way now! Woo!!!

I thought Preston had missed DIane so much that he'd gone off to join her...

[Preston1990]

Thanks for the congrats jojo, biggins and anakin!

Wondered what had happened to you - were you missing Diane?

I thought Preston had missed DIane so much that he'd gone off to join her...

Haha, très amusant ladies!

I wish I had gone off to join her. I'd kill for a week or two sitting around a pool in the sun with the most difficult decision being which fabulous restaurant to go to eat at next.

I'm fed up with all the rubbish weather we've been getting here. It is supposed to be summer for heavens sake. What's with all this rain, with even more severe stuff on the way again apparently? We have fog here this morning! Lovely - it's what Scottish folk would call dreich. Blooming grey, damp and miserable.

Today's Meals:

A litre and a half of chilled tap water throughout the day from my refilled Vitel bottle in the fridge.

1) Porridge and skimmed milk with a handful of strawberries. Pot of Earl Grey tea with lemon slice.

2) Salad leaves, sweetcorn, red and green peppers, grated carrot and celariac, sliced jersey royal potatoes, broad beans, pesto.

3) Curried vegetables with plain boiled rice.

4) Seared salmon steak with balsamic glaze on a pile of rocket.

5) Toast and spicy humous.


Exercise:

1) 30 min Bike ride - 5.75 miles round the doors.

2) 30 mins on the rowing machine whilst watching the next episode from my Prisoner DVD boxed set.

3) I'm planning to tidy up and declutter my study today. It will entail pulling out furniture, vacumming and cleaning etc. Hopefully should burn up a few cals.


Whatever you are doing today, have fun with it!

[biggins]

I'm fed up with all the rubbish weather we've been getting here. It is supposed to be summer for heavens sake. What's with all this rain, with even more severe stuff on the way again apparently? We have fog here this morning! Lovely - it's what Scottish folk would call dreich. Blooming grey, damp and miserable.

Yes it's fair dreich up here too this morning - can hardly see along the street for the mist. Outlook is not much better for the next week either.

Trouble is when it is so miserable outside you can't be bothered going out for a long walk and end up staying in and eating to cheer yourself up !! Well I do anyway!

Yes Preston it would be nice to be lying beside the pool somewhere in the sun - but then we would eat all the food in the fabulous restaurant at night and put back all the weight we have lost.

Had a small bowl of nut granola with semi skimmed milk and 6 strawberries this morning, a cup of tea.

Going out for lunch to an indian restaurant for a curry - so will have to watch what I choose there.

Will have a yogurt and a banana later on this evening to try and counteract the meal at lunch time.

Be good everyone.

[anakin]

Biggins, although Indian restaurants are notorious for adding heaps of oil and butter to their dishes, you can avoid that by going for a dry dish (eg chicken tikka, rather than chicken tikka masala) and having things like yoghurt (raita) nd salad with it to add to the flavour and avoid it being dry. Obviously I'm sure they can guide you if you ask them - perhaps tell them it makes you ill if it's too heavy in cream / butter / oil. Coconut milk is another one to watch. Avoid things like aubergine which absorb the oil very quickly.

Otherwise, if a dish comes out quite oily, tilt it with a spoon so all the oil drips to one side and you can scoop from the other side to avoid the worst of it .... or it could always be your splurge day!

[TheyCallMeMrGlass]

Brilliant landmark Preston! That ticker is now tipping the other way. Wooo!

Eating out is a challenge, there is no doubt about it. Anakin's tip is sound as usual but the best thing to do when you know you are going to a particular restaurant, look at their menu first on the internet and PLAN ahead what you will have. Diane used to tell us where she is going (being the outgoing lassie she is), and we'd recommend her which dishes to go for from the restaurant website. We should try keep that up.

Pass on the starters, especially those complementary breads, poppadoms, etc and get a jug of water on the table for everyone, take initiative and get the others thinking healthy too, I say Chat about heathly eating to your friends all the time so they will think twice about having you around for a dinner bash next time...worked for me, I feel lonely now...actually ignore that tip...

This website is a great reference site for all things healthy which I have as primary bookmark and recommend you have this too. Go to this page in particular for everytime you will eat out, to remind yourself and drill in what's good to eat out and what to avoid there in the fatty world. This one categorises the different type of restaurants. (Biggins, you can jump straight to the Indian page then starters and deserts and Drinks pages, though try skip starters and deserts and drink water). This eating out guidance is very nicely bullet pointed, I recommending printing these pages and taking it with you on those eating out days, or have it readily accessible on your smartphone.

There are 9 pages: Intro, traditional British, Chinese, Indian, Thai, Mexican, Italian, Starters and Deserts, DRINKS.

The drinks page should encourage to just have water all the way as the first preference rather than giving the healthier alcoholic drinks and also include herbal tea (though admittedly not many restaurants have that option). But drill this knowledge in, so overtime you just know instinctly what to go for when eating out.

http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/interactive/ ... temId=1178

[Ms Thrifty]

I am stuck for an exercise/activity whilst supposedly resting (grr, the very word makes me spit!) the stress fracture in my foot.

I have been out and about with it anyway as it took me 4 months to find out what it was and that it needed rest, so I know I can walk on it, though it's painful and won't help it heal. However, I can't stand doing nothing yet can't think of any other options. I have already had to give up swimming, gym and running on medical advice and though cycling used to be OK occasionally, it really screwed my back up when I did some last month and I'm still having treatment for that. Zumba would be something but it would hardly be resting my foot, so have I really drawn a blank or can anyone else suggest something, please?

NB: OH claims to have invented a new activity called "Extreme Ironing" but whatever that means, I don't like the sound of it!