Onwards And Downwards Continues In January 2014

[AB Editor]

Onwards and Downwards Continues in January 2014

Happy New Year,

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.

I hope you all had the Christmas and New Year you wished for, don't know about you but I over-indulged (and it was yummy).

Let's get back to basics what are you favourite and most helpful diet tips? Things that have worked for you.

Don't forget your weekly weigh on Wednesday and remember we don't judge! Here is last months thread

[Old_Geezer]

When I have toast in the morning the "damage" is about 33% greater than when I have "oat so simple" and ss milk. But one needs to be flexible to continue eating being a pleasure; ring the changes and so forth.

[xstitcher]

Hmmmmmm I have both and now I feel guilty but not guilty enough to do anything about it.....

[Maydup]

I'd eat neither, but i would have oats made with water occasionally. Although they are a bit too hot and heavy for me.

I'm finding breakfasts really tiresome at the moment. Off to search for a few new ideas. Roll on summer when they are more refreshing.

[xstitcher]

How about lo fat yogurt with muesli sprinkles maydup?

[Maydup]

Thanks xstitcher, With a cereal topping is a good idea.

[xstitcher]

Good Morning All, I'm starting the day in a nice way....2 lb down so jumping up and down for joy.

[wendilla]

Morning xstitcher and well done .I don't deserve it but also down 2lbs must be the porridge in the mornings but Sundays big family dinner might just catch up with me so got to be careful,

[Maydup]

Well done you two, i've managed to lose half a pound. Slowly but surely does it!

Lets hope its a breezy old step this week and we're all on the move together.

[wendilla]

Maydup that is a half in the right direction . Keep up the good work we will get there again.

[Old_Geezer]

My weight has been so ridiculously up and down recently (or at least according to the scales) that it's difficult to judge what it has done. But comparing to last Tuesday's reading, it seems to have dropped about ⅜ lbs over the week.

Congrats to you three for keeping off the naughty step too.

[Old_Geezer]

I should add that although I've tried to be good over the week, most days I've managed to be above goal intake without any real understanding how. I seemed to be being good during the day, but when all totalled up, not so. :-(

[wendilla]

Og the only thing I can suggest is do you plan your meals for the week, I know it is difficult for people having to cook for others that are not trying to lose weight . I find if do not plan my meals for the week that is when I stray and pick up the phone and order that take a way and regret it afterwards. Also do you write everything down that you eat to compare the weeks you lose or gain.

[boxtops]

I had to go to work at 630 yesterday morning, so had time to weigh but not to report in ... another pound lost, despite some digressions in the week.

O_G - with WW on line, which I'm on, I can tally up my points for the day as yI go along, which helps me to realise just how much I've eaten in value terms during the day, and how mean I have to be with myself at dinner time (or be mean during the day so I can plan a more-points dinner). We have a daily allocation of points, plus a bucket of weekly points, so if I overflow one day, I can pinch some from the weekly extras. Horrified the other day to find a Morrisons egg and ham sarnie was 22 points, that's nearly a whole day's-worth!

[xstitcher]

We'll done to you all. I can back up Wendilla's meal planning 100%. It really is a good help so please give it a try if you haven't already.

[Old_Geezer]

Ah, thanks for the advice, it's following good practice I’m finding so hard at the moment. To be honest if I had to plan life (meals even) to that extent I'd soon drop trying at all. It’d be too much of a downer. That said lunchtimes do not vary too much. Tin of soup, the odd whatever to help fill me up. But I do try to monitor the day as I go. But being busy I seem to suddenly realise I've not noted the last half day and have to quickly catch up.

Looking back on the last week it seems the usual pattern of being out of control at weekends and doing better in the week still applies. Partly because I'm not home most weekends, and once a fortnight is the one time I can meet old friends at the pub and socialise, so a few bevvies tend to push the intake way up those Saturdays.

But it's the weekdays that are disappointing at the moment. Maybe it's down to not being away from the Xmas influence yet. Unsure. True, I am having toast more often in the morning, because I consider porridge and twice as often think, "No", rather than thinking, "Yes". So not the best of starts. But the figures show that most "damage" is done on the evening. I really need to get that under control. I snack because I come in hungry and can't/won't wait for food. Then I seem to prepare more calories than I'm expecting it to be. And not noting down immediately but finishing the evening meal and then checking what leeway I have left for a drink, I'm tending to find I’m already over the top.

Ho hum, I'm sure it'll be sorted soon.

[wendilla]

OG That is where most of your problems are is eating before your evening meal . three to four times in the week I don't get back till about 5 and I feel hungry before my meal but before I go out I try and prepare mostly what to have or either have the slow cooker on so as I don't have to wait too long to eat,

[Maydup]

If i need a snack i try to keep to either a rice cake or a piece of fruit. Although biscuits and/or cheese are the devil in disguise and often catch me in a weak moment.

[Old_Geezer]

:-)
I must invest in a slow cooker and some rice cakes then.

[boxtops]

You might find if you had something more substantial at lunchtime, including some fruit, you are less ravenous when you get in..... Doesn't have to be a meal, I know how difficult that is when you are working, but a healthy sandwich with salad, and a banana, would be good. I can eat as much fruit and veg as I like on WW (apart from peas and currants, which are sugary) so if I feel a gap coming on, I eat a banana.

[ferlew]

Can I join you?
I started the gym today, and I need to lose at least 38 pounds.