Onwards And Downwards Continues In August 2014

[AB Editor]

Onwards and Downwards Continues in August 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.

Not sure if we have done fish already but it is worth taking another look. Thanks xstitcher :-).

I like the look of these healthy and low calorie fish recipes:

these fish tacos look yummy

http://www.health.com/health/recipe/0,,10000001208189,00.html

fish curry, you could substitute brown rice or quinoa for his fluffy white rice to make it even better

http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/fish-recipes/fantastic-fish-tikka-curry

101 things to do with a tin of tuna :-)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/linguinewithtunafish_70041

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

Here is last months thread

[xstitcher]

Good morning all.
I'm down 1 kilo (2 pounds) this week and very happy about it. Hope to hear from all of you today. Now that the heat waves are over I hope there is more energy left in you to drop us a line and thanks to the faithful who never left us!

[wendilla]

Good morning Mary I completely forgot . Scales not in usual place with all the upheavel with electrics. And that's not an excuse . I don't feel I have put on . But well done in your loss again you are doing really well.

[Maydup]

Still here, still no change....but congratulations xstitcher, you're a winner!

[Old_Geezer]

Glad other folk are doing well. My scales have started showing ridiculously high values again, which I deny can be right, as otherwise I simply don't know why I'm bothering; so I've stopped noting again until the morning reading is more believable.

[xstitcher]

Thank you all for your kind words, they mean a lot. Poor you OG. You really are a glutten for punishment with those horrible scales. If it were possible I'm sure we'd all love to pass the hat around and buy you new ones.

[Old_Geezer]

I'm unsure it is just the scales. It may be but I think someone is changing reality around me :-( Probably some quantum effect in play, I'll have to ask on the Science Forum. There was no justification for the jump, I was already discouraged by the continuous plateau I seemed to be on let alone going in the wrong direction. Then eventually it gradually works it's way almost back, but then up again ?!? If reality doesn't play fair soon I swear I'm going on a Pizza & Curry week ! (Too often denying myself those things.)

[xstitcher]

Oh dear OG not a curry and pizza binge! Horrors, how do we save you from yourself?

[Old_Geezer]

Well a £10,000 liposuction voucher might help ;-)

[xstitcher]

.......instead of a new scales???????? Now you really on your own planet ha ha.

[Marijn]

Well done Xstitcher. I've stayed the same. OG, don't give up.

[xstitcher]

I was just looking at Ed's imput of things to do with a can of tuna and remembered this: in Spain tuna is standard in any green salad...about half a tin, along with half a boiled egg, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, cucumbers. This is a meal in itself. You can accompany it with a slice of bakers whole meal cruncy bread. Dress the salad with lo salt and balsamic vinegar.

[wendilla]

Not too happy I need to get organised again . This staying the same is not good as I know I can do it . Now I feel better after giving myself a telling off.

[xstitcher]

This is just a suggestion and I think that we all are pretty good at what is healthy and what is not. Perhaps it is time to look at the portion size. That was where I was really going wrong, and cutting that down has made such a difference.

[Maydup]

Or what about an extra 15 minutes on a walk or a swim OG and Wendilla?

I'm stuck too at the moment and can't honestly think what more I can do with my menus, but I CAN be more active. Yesterday I walked up a hill and back again at lunchtime. Today i will make myself go out again and not just run to the local shop and eat my salad lunch in the staff room.

[xstitcher]

Maydup why don't you give this a try. It has been the key to success for me.....Google some diabetic recipes and give them a try for a week and see if it helps....just a thought....the exercise is also good and as you say even a 15 min is better than anything or just a walk around the block.

[Old_Geezer]

Thanks for the encouragement. For what it is worth, today I am 0.25 lbs down on 5 days ago (the last time I opted to record what it read) and back to where I was 8 days ago. But these are still the low readings in a period that usually claims I'm lbs more.

Mmm... bread & tuna :-)

i do recall in the past (decades ago when I actually achieved the loss I wanted) a brisk daily walk did seem to work. But older and lazier now I get back from work and have no enthusiasm to do the chores I should let alone make time for a walk. But whilst it's still not too cold maybe I should consider it.

The weird thing is that I know one has to do a lot of exercise to burn off the equivalent of a small amount of food. So I don't really understand why it seemed to work well before. Maybe it was wishful thinking on my part.

[xstitcher]

Like you OG I'm older and lazier now but an OAP however I find my (dare I say ..hated walk) seems to give me more energy. I know it's good for me BUT .....

[wendilla]

Hi Maydup would love to swim but one of the things I never learned .panick as soon as water over face . I think it must be smaller portions and have a serious look at the diabetic recipes . It doesn't help much at the moment with grandson here most days but schools go back next week . He will have to stop having bacon sandwiches lol because I have to have one at lunchtime as other times when on my own I would not have that .

[Maydup]

Just back from my walk which managed to talk in a shoe shop with a sale on!

[Maydup]

Wendilla - same as you, Myself I can't do any more than paddle on the very fringes of the shoreline once a year!