Onwards And Downwards Continues In May 2014

[AB Editor]

Onwards and Downwards Continues in May 2014

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.

Rice - is a really healthy but sometimes forgotten ingredient? Apart from alongside a curry or chilli what is it good for? Have done a quick search and come up with these tasty looking recipes:

I know its risotto and that can be seen as boring but it can be a really handy thing to have a few portions of in the freezer as a quick lunch or accompaniment with your evening meal:

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/725649/mushroom-and-thyme-risotto

Or egg fried rice is always a great way to use up left over ingredients you can pretty much add anything:

http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/1156/chicken-and-mushroom-fried-rice.aspx?o_is=Hub_TopRecipe_1

Maybe a good way to jazz things up is to use more interesting rice like brown, wild or quinoa?

Over to you how do you make rice more interesting?

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

Here is last months thread

[xstitcher]

Good for you Wendilla....go to the top of the class!

[Old_Geezer]

Had forgotten it was Wednesday. Have just been gobsmacked to see the scales dropped amazingly over the last 24 hours (have been rather 'cheesed off' about the situation recently) to show it is the same as last Wednesday today.

[Old_Geezer]

Well done Wend. Sorry to hear of your diagnosis x.

[xstitcher]

Thanks OG.....I'll be fine, it will be easier for me than some because I've been eating properly all along...just got to get better at the exercise to get the weight and blood sugar down.

[wendilla]

OG it is xstitcher that has been diagnosis with diabetis but I am noting her eating plan which should be a great help.

[Old_Geezer]

I gave up on exercise about a decade and a half ago.
Just keep lifting that carrot and that should cover it.

[Old_Geezer]

:-D I really must stop shortening names.

[Old_Geezer]

Oh and xxxs to all ;-)

[xstitcher]

You are being generous today OG!

[wendilla]

Always a gentleman xstitcher

[xstitcher]

Strawberries are a good snack and I have been told I can eat them as much I want to, but otherwise have to limit my fruit to one portion a day. A tip I got was if you want a filling snack, take a handful of almonds and soak them in water for about an hour before you eat them. You are feeling that you are really full.

[xstitcher]

Good Morning All,
Down by one pound so it's going slowly but surely. I have cut out homemade soups. Mine were VERY chunky, my soup bowl too big and my will power too small.

[xstitcher]

Here is a healthy sprinkle for your salads : you need one piece of toasted brown bread and one crispy rasher of bacon. Grind them up to "sprinkle" size and store in a little plastic bowl. You can add your own tweaks to this basic idea.

[wendilla]

Well done xstitcher and what a nice idea for sprinkler for salads. I have stayed the same despite being good but that is ok as it should show next week .That is how I go .

[xstitcher]

Next week will be a loss week for you Wendilla, we know that for sure.
Yesterday I bought a broccoli salad at the supermarket. In it was a little package of some mayo looking dressing..bin it..and these sprinkles. I substituted the dressing with balsamic vinegar which is so good and then the sprinkles. There were also different bean sprouts and red onion in this salad. I shall give it a go with cauliflower next time. It's good to think outside the box, but hard to get there!

[wendilla]

I think this is half my problem I use too much dressings. So will cut down on them and use your ideas.

[Maydup]

Morning all, I've stayed the same for another week despite trying hard. I think I need a change of menu - bit stuck in a rut now.

I tend to have sugar free cereal and fruit for breakfast, salad or soup for lunch, during the day an odd piece of fruit, handful of nuts, skimmed milk in coffee, then a medium sized low fat vegetarian meal in the evening followed by some Total 0% yoghurt with a squirt of sweet freedom honey. If I have a weakness its a cappuccino during the day but I try to have a skimmed, or maybe at 10pm when I am occasionally tempted to look for a snack. Again I try to have fruit, but have eaten the occasional biscuit at that time. Although I'm lucky enough to be able to stop at one if I break it in half!!

I'm pleased the strawberries are in season now, that will ring the changes. Its promising to be a bumper sweet season I hear. I'll try the soaked almonds - sounds interesting, thanks for the tip xstitcher.

[Old_Geezer]

Hi. All. Once again I seem to have bucked the trend here. Despite staying the same over the last 24 hours (unfortunately) but over the week I went up ⅛lb.

But that hides a ridiculous rise and fall. At one point the mobile app I've been using for the last few months started saying what my average weight gain per day was rather than weight loss per day !

[Old_Geezer]

Ah Strawberries. Yes. Had an unexpected dessert of them after a large dinner Sunday (thus the lack of control when staying at someone else's). I don't normally have desserts. And I expect that massive white blob on top must have been low fat/calorie clotted cream.

[xstitcher]

Maydup I have found that since varying my meals I have been loosing weight since Feb. May I suggest that you have a look at cookbooks for diabetics. What we advocate eating is all in there..you will really be surprised....even desserts!
Like you I MUST have my cappuccino once a day. I can get what we call mini milk (1.5% fat) I make my cappuccino from instant coffee