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Izbiz

I thought today had been a REALLY lean day, apart from the icecream mishap, what with my tiny lunch and all - I thought maybe I'd gone a bit too restrictive. Imagine my shock to find that when I added up all the calories, it came to 1450 - which is almost exactly what I should be eating to lose ...

Izbiz

OK, where were we.

Tuesday:
Breakfast: muesli, apricots, apple, grapefruit juice, milk
Lunch: homemade roll, butter, 1oz cheese, cucumber, lettuce, banana
Dinner: leek and goats cheese tart, roast asparagus, 4 prunes, 1tbsp greek yog 2%, 1tsp sugar

Wednesday:
Breakfast: as before
Lunch: 4 cheese ...

Izbiz

Thank you Wosnes! I do find "good enough" very very difficult...

And re. the wartime diet - I even have the "ration book diet" book, picked up in the Imperial War Museum! But I find it frustrating, since they have "modernised" the recipes...so not as realistic as it could be. My Gran cooked like it ...

Izbiz

Hi! Good to hear from someone else in the UK!

Izbiz

Wow! Thanks for all the comments - yup, I know that the media hype things too much, but l'm a bit of a perfectionist and want to get it right...

My grandmother, parents (now all deceased) and my step-mother were/are nutritionists (proper research scientists, my Dad had a paper published in Nature ...

Izbiz

I had a suspicion that was the case.

I do try my absolute best to eat real food (just read Michael Pollan as well) - I bake my own bread, cook from scratch not with scissors, get a weekly organic veg box, buy fresh meat not processed direct from the farm butcher and not very much of it anyway ...

Izbiz

So, I'm about to hit 40 and I want to sort out my excess weight out once and for all, and I'm scared that as I get older everything is slowing down and this is getting hard. I don't have a lot to lose, only 9 or 10 pounds, and I want to lose fat and not muscle. I don't even mind not losing weight if ...

Izbiz

Well seeing as it's nearly a month since I last posted, you can probably guess what I've been doing. STUFFING MY FACE! Am I being too hard on myself? I just haven't been able to do this at all, and I'm cross.

I've been exercising diligently - I schedule it into my filofax, and I do my hour three ...

Izbiz

Welllll, according to the scales at Boots I have a slightly higher fat% than a couple of weeks ago when I had that dramatic loss from T-Tapp, but this week was lower than last week - despite the chocolate.

Monday: SUCCESS on no-S; SUCCESS on exercise; SUCCESS on cleaning chores. Ditto for Tuesday ...

Izbiz

HO HO. The week just got better and better. Can't really believe just how I crashed and burned..

After that post on Wednesday, we were given a box of chocolates as a thank you for looking after our daughter's friend after school for a couple of afternoons...guess what, the chocs didn't make it to ...

Izbiz

Still on self-destruct mode at beginning of week; think it's finally back under control today, Wednesday.

Whilst prepping fresh pineapple on Monday, suddenly found myself gnawing and slurping on the pieces of discarded core . Then ate three dried apricots at 10pm, something I hadn't done for a ...

Izbiz

Having a slightly more moderate day. Didn't go overboard with bread at lunchtime, didn't have a snack this morning - saved the date flapjacks for after the dog walk. Did all my exercises this morning, and discovered I can do press-ups. Only about three, starting from plank and pushing down about ...

Izbiz

Hmmm....falling off the wagon, big time.

Wednesday: FAILURE Ate a snack-pack of cheddars and three dried apricots...

Thursday: FAILURE Had a slice of chocolate tiffin before lunch, then a biscuit at a training meeting, then another snack-pack of cheddars AND three oatcakes AND butter when I got ...

Izbiz

Thank you! Whilst no S has been brilliant for highlighting excess and giving slow sustainable weight loss, the quick and significant results from the exercise is something that I have never experienced before - and it feels amazing. I'm hitting the big 4-0 in June and want to feel and look young and ...

Izbiz

Blimey, according to the machine I've lost 2.2kg of fat. In one week. My BMI and weight is exactly the same, but my body fat % has seriously reduced (as has my waist). Is this a fluke? Back to the exercises this week, we'll see if it continues/if next week it's all back again...maybe it was an ...

Izbiz

Had good food days on Thursday and Friday but gone completely overboard these past two S days - made myself (nobody else was going to do it) a cherry bakewell mothers' day cake, which we proceeded to scoff in all it's sweet almondy jammy cakeyness over the weekend. Maybe not as good as a date ...

Izbiz

Thanks for the parsnip recipe - I'll give it a go, sounds easy! Tomorrow we're trying them roasted with butternut sq and red onions, with pesto and baby spinach.

Izbiz

I'm intrigued by the parsnip/scallion pancakes. How do you make them?

I've got three parsnips lurking in the bottom of my veg box, again. Last week I made parsnip bread which was absolutely foul, so a good recipe for using up the little devils would be very much appreciated!

Izbiz

Blimey, Thursday already.

Had a good week food-wise, including a very strange dinner on Monday...it was a rice/lentil dish, that smelt fine and tasted fine but just seemed to be missing something...like a chicken tikka masala topping or something. Very nearly went to the takeaway to get some, it's ...

Izbiz

Weds: 9st 9 and very depressed because still can't fit into any of my jeans. I put on 5 pounds before and during Christmas, it all started with doing jury service and sitting around all day eating biscuits and doing no exercise. I've lost at least 3 pounds for sure, but the weight fluctuates around ...

Izbiz

Forgot to mention that I walk the dog for up to an hour every day - 40 minutes and upwards. Today was an hour - what a beautiful day! Ended up walking in a T shirt with my fleece tied around my waist.

Izbiz

Tuesday: 9st8. Usual breakfast; lunch - bread roll, butter, sort of strange scrambled egg thing with red pepper, red chilli, coriander and a few wafer thin pieces cheese, clementine....dinner - green lentils and chorizo with red wine and added curly kale, bread rolls (two par-baked ones from a ...

Izbiz

Monday: usual breakfast; bread roll, butter, chunk of cheese, apple & parsnip soup, clementine, banana for lunch; nut roast, swedey mash, peas, yoghurt, prunes, banana, tsp sugar, tsp grapenuts for dinner. Cleaned and did exercises. 9st 9.

Izbiz

Saturday: usual breakfast, homemade roll and vegetarian pate for lunch, cucumber, clementine, banana, yumyum from Waitrose. Slice horrid chocolate cake for snack, dinner was fishfingers, veg mash, cabbage/pea/broc melange...apple crumble, custard, wine...

Sunday: usual breakfast, slice GINGER CAKE ...

Izbiz

Fishfingers (not cheap nasty yellow ones, posh ones from Waitrose!); mashed swede (rutabaga?) and carrot, lightly cooked cabbage. Apple crumble (already made and in the freezer) and custard (Birds).

Yesterday was vegetarian bolognese (chop onion, carrot, red pepper in food processor, sautee in ...

Izbiz

Tried the recipe for low fat chocolate mocha cake, from February BBC Good Food magazine - the April issue arrived, with two letters from readers saying that their 10 year old children had made the cake and everyone found it "delicious", "yummy" etc.

So I roped in the Girl before breakfast, still ...

Izbiz

Much better day. Weighed myself, a pound less than Thursday. Will have to weigh myself every day now, until feel that I'm making progress again.

Usual breakfast.
Egg, low-fat mayo, cress (and butter - naughty with the mayo, but i like the salt...) with homemade bread roll, kiwi, clementine ...

Izbiz

What a dreadful day.

First mistake was to weigh myself. I was deliberately NOT weighing myself since returning from 5 days with my step-mother, the retired nutritionist, who fed us lasagne and crumpets and cake and wine and G&Ts and fruit tart....I was going to give myself until Monday 1 March ...

Izbiz

Usual breakfast.

Dusted and hoovered downstairs, cleaned bathroom, did T-Tapp exercises again instead of Pilates.

Gas man came to service the boiler and filled the kitchen counters with tools, so didn't have time to prep lunch before going out, so grabbed couple of kiwis, banana, 5 oatcakes and a ...

Izbiz

Usual breakfast.

Lunch was butternut soup with leftover brown rice thrown in and a handful of prawns - seriously good. Was late taking the dog for a walk though, as I was eating at the computer....not good, not usual.... so didn't have time for fruit, which was a bit stupid.

Had an incredibly near ...

Izbiz

Need to start doing this so I can see at a glance how well I'm doing (or not), and justify all those red days lately...and coz I like to see the sort of things I'm eating and spot if I'm getting stuck in a rut.

Breakfast: muesli, dried apricots, milk, grated apple, tiny glass grapefruit juice, two ...

Izbiz

I am pretty certain that it is a physiological thing - your body is hard-wired to store fat, and when you go on a crash/very low calorie diet your body thinks it is starving, your metabolism slows and your body holds onto as much fat as it can - the weight loss experienced on these diets is ...

Izbiz

I've been trying to do no S, properly for two weeks, not very well since January (didn't have the book at first). Before last weekend I had lost 5 pounds, so about a pound a week - pretty good going. Have just stayed with mother for a long weekend and been pretty well fattened up, so I daren't go on ...

Izbiz

We make our own muesli: 1500g rolled oats (porridge oats, not jumbo), 12 big weetabix crumbled up c, 200g toasted flaked almonds, 200g roast chopped hazelnuts. Lasts about 3 weeks between two of us. Default breakfast = 3 tablespoons muesli, 3 or 4 dried apricots, chopped small, 1/2 cup of ...

Izbiz

I love this. I ended up having a good week last week, so had my first true S days...didn't go mad, but was able to pick at plate of Doritos at a school music concert without feeling guilty, and had a biscuit at Embroiderers Guild with nary a second thought. Then today we had the best tea ever ...

Izbiz

Feb 1 :?: do 4 dried apricots count as a snack? If that's the case, I've stuffed up already!

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12 Failed really cross about it, too. Had silly little chinese snack food at ...

Izbiz

Thank you all, very helpful. I think I will get the book.

My main problem with yoghurt pud is that dinner+fruit&yoghurt is too filling...and I sort of know that....so I think the idea of assessing it as a "whole" lot of food feels right. It may be fruit, it may be yoghurt, but if you then add sugar ...

Izbiz

Thank you for the welcome!

I am unsure whether to get the book or not - the system seems to simple, and I'm wary of getting yet another book about food....I am a compulsive recipe collector anyway, and always have too much reading material lying around to be able to deal with it all in the hours ...

Izbiz

A bit more background: what drew me to this way of eating was remembering how my Gran ate: breakfast (porridge/toast), lunch (meat, potatoes, veg, pud) and supper (eggs or something on toast, or leftovers). Occasionally (for a treat) she would have ONE biscuit with her afternoon cup of tea. She was ...

Izbiz

I'll give it a go!

Izbiz

Been lurking for a while, trying to do this more or less successfully for a coupla weeks, feel I need the discipline and accountability of actually posting on here...
Have found it extraordinary that eating less frequently and getting really hungry has actually moderated my appetite, ie I get full ...

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