Onwards And Downwards Continues In December 2013

[AB Editor]

Hello all,

Welcome to this month's Onwards & Downwards. We welcome anyone serious about losing weight and we offer support and kind thoughts - not magic fixes, just sensible help.

Ok so we had to get them in eventually, warming winter soups. Such a great way to have a filling meal with fewer calories.

Let's have your best recipes.

Plus the debate on whether it is OK to have some tasty bready item to go with or does this push the calories too high?


Don't forget your weekly weigh on Wednesday and remember we don't judge!

Here is last months thread

[xstitcher]

Thanks ed. We seem to have shrunk in numbers but we faithful few really appreciate you keep us going.

[xstitcher]

typo....meant to be "keeping us going"

[wendilla]

Thanks ed. Soup recipes will be welcome as just bought one of those soup makers. Instead of bread I have French toast with soup . Most supermarkets stock it especially Tescos.

[AB Editor]

you are most welcome :-)

Have noticed a slight lessening of activity here, luckily we have you faithful few.

I will keep the thread going as long as you want me too.

[woofgang]

a favourite soup. Filling and nourishing and easy

Sweet Potato and lime soup

Per person
one small to medium sweet potato
a pot of jellied vegetable stock or your preferred option.
juice of a quarter (ish) of a lime

make up the stock as instructed and cook the peeled and cubed sweet potato in it. When the sweet potato is soft, blitz or sieve to a smooth consistency and stir in the lime to taste just before serving.

[wendilla]

Thanks for that woof gang would it be ok to use veg stock cube

[woofgang]

whatever you like for the stock.

[xstitcher]

It sounds like a very posh soup woofgang. I shall try it too.

[Old_Geezer]

A couple of months ago I tried a recipe for Sweet Potato soup; Butternut Squash & Sweet Potato as it happened. Didn't get the number of bowls out of it as I'd hoped, but my biggest problem was that I added the butter the recipe listed, and the result wasn't very diet friendly ! Nice though. I had intended to try it again without the butter, but my liquidiser burnt out and was refunded under warranty, and I didn't get around to buying another.

[wendilla]

Yes this is the problem when you have to add butter or cream to the soups

[Mamyalynne]

I am fortunate in not needing to lose any weight, but do love soups of all kinds.

If you like a creamy edge to your bowlful then a swirl of a low fat cream cheese like Philly is a good alternative and you don't need much at all.

[Hypognosis]

Light Cream Cheese (Philadelphia)
per 100g - Calories: 156kcal | Fat: 11.50g | Carbs: 4.00g | Prot: 8.30g

11.5 + 4.0 + 8.3 = 23.8g

What is the other 76.2g made out of?

Lightest Cream Cheese (Philadelphia)
per 1 serving (35g) - Calories: 34kcal | Fat: 1.10g | Carbs: 1.90g | Prot: 4.00g

Likewise, 28g unaccounted for.

Another case of selling people very expensive water? (Remember the water-injected joints of meat?)

Don't get me wrong, I like Philly cheese, except I buy the full fat version. Although, even then, I treat it as an indulgence so it's only once or twice a year.

[Mamyalynne]

I mentioned the low fat option due to the category we are in.

[xstitcher]

Good Morning All, 2 lbs down, now if only I can keep this up until Christmas. I shall do my best.
If you are doing a soup that calls for cream use a bit of yogurt and milk. You can use a thickner if needed. I know it's not the same as cream...but we don't have cream in our fridges do we! If you absolutly must (having guests etc) use the one with the lowest fat content.

[wendilla]

Morning . 1lb loss it must be all that home made soup at lunch time instead of cheese and biscuits or sandwiches. Well done Xstitcher.

[xstitcher]

Good for you Wendilla. Let's hope the downward trend keeps up today.

[Old_Geezer]

Well done both.

Allegedly up ¼lb here : but that is an improvement over the blatant lies I've refused to record that the scales have been claiming over the last few days. I was doing well, and then they suddenly started claiming I was up every day for no valid reason. The last 24 hours has seen a partial admission of error, back to Friday's recording. (But I still believe Thursday's.)

[wendilla]

Hi OG I was just thinking of all your fractions of a lb gain and fraction losses you must pretty well stay around the same weight .Am I right ?

[Old_Geezer]

Depends on what you mean by much the same. For the past 12 months it has come down 3 lbs, but like to bobble up and down between, x st 2 lb and x st 6 lb and I've been to both extremes over the last week, allegedly.

[xstitcher]

ha ha OG. You make your scales sound like a naughty little person who is doing bad pranks all the time on you.