Onwards And Downwards Continues In March 2015

[ABAuntie]

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.

So Spring is officially here with March and hopefully we can all spend a bit more time out of doors :-).

So what is good to eat in Spring? Apparently, seafood like sardines, mackerel, salmon and oysters. Here are a couple of simple easy and above all healthy fish recipes:

http://www.food.com/recipe/very-healthy-smoked-mackerel-with-tomato-and-mixed-beans-235757
This looks yummy and easy I might try it :-)

http://uktv.co.uk/food/recipe/aid/517003

Also good this months are purple sprouting broccoli, cabbage, celeriac and chicory.

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1415667/veggie-rice-pot
You could add whatever veg you liked to this one!

http://www.besthealthmag.ca/best-eats/recipes/polenta-and-mushroom-grills#rQ1QRFjteErVRbMr.97

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

Here is last months thread

[Marijn]

Well done to all the losers! At last I am down to my pre-Christmas weight, now I can concentrate again :-)

[xstitcher]

Good for you Marijn. You are a study in determination!

[Marijn]

Thank you :-)

[xstitcher]

OG....what would we do without you little witticisms! Congrats on the loss, I think that maybe you just wore out your old scales trying to get it to follow your will. I hope this one keeps up behaving in a pleasing manner!

[wendilla]

Well done marijm . Nice to get back on track again

[Hypognosis]

Understood, Wendilla. :)

@xstitcher

I don't know why I didn't get OG's joke until you pointed it out. That would have been a "cannot un-see" moment, at the airport lounge.

[xstitcher]

That's the secret of OG's humour hypo. It has a timer on it :-))

[janbee]

Best wishes to all taking part in this. Got to get into those Daisy Duke skimpy shorts this year !! Well, that's not true, I'm WAAAAYYYY too old for that look now.
Good luck to everyone xx

[waterboatman]

I'll have a look at a couple of those recipes. not the fish though, I'm allergic to it.

[xstitcher]

LUNCH SALAD 2 pers

ingredients:

200 grams brocolli
1/2 courgette
230 grams red or yellow bell peppers
2 teaspoons oil
1/2 can chick peas or kidney beans...60 grams
1 avacado

[xstitcher]

Whoops...here is the rest of the recipe

1 tablespoon lime juice
2hardboiled eggs
50 grams any type of lettuce
(the weights are just guide lines)

Divide the broccolli into small bouquets. Pour boiling water over them and let them be in it for 5 min.
Cut the courgettes into 2 long pieces and then cut across into 6 or 8 pieces.
Roll the courgettes and peppers in the oil with salt and pepper and turn them out onto a baking paper lined pan. Mix the chick peas with half of the marinade and bake with the peppers etc. Bake in oven at 225 for about 15 min.
This can be done the night before if you are taking the salad to work Maydup.

Press the juice from the lime and mix it with the rest of the ingredients.
Slice the avacado into small pieces and mix with lime juice.
Cut the eggs into boats.
Mix everything together. Eat with brown bread or a grainery bread roll.

[xstitcher]

Just as I thought... I've forgotten to include the dressing:

1/2 lime juice
2 teaspoons hoisin sauce
1 teaspoon oil
Salt pepper .......lemon pepper

[lardhelmet]

My friend was miffed when she weighed herself on my scales at the weekend. They are correct (according to SW) and previouly she had taken great delight in telling me how much slimmer she is than me (at least a stone lighter).. However, when she got on my scales, she weighed 7lbs more than she thought she did and I now only weigh 4lbs more than her. You should have seen the look on her face!

[wendilla]

Lardhelmet lose that other 4lbs and watch her face then lol. Keep up the good work.

[lardhelmet]

Thank you wendi. That's the plan!

[LyndaB]

I also bought new scales a few weeks ago and was horrified by how much more I weighed on them - even though I knew I hadn't put any weight on overnight it was very demoralising to find that I was about 2 stones heavier than I was on my old scales (they were the lean one way and you've lost half a stone,lean the other you've gained kind). However, I'm back on the straight and narrow after my Christmas blip (which lasted way longer than it should have done). Unfortunately I haven't a clue how heavy I was when I first started, so I'm making a rough guess about how much weight I've lost in total. This week I have lost another 1lb making about 45lbs in total. I'm down three dress sizes - that's the main thing!

[xstitcher]

Gosh Lynda that must have been quite a bad shock to see that the old scales were so far out. Never mind girl...down three dress sizes doesn't lie so you focus on that instead of that stupid number. Let the dress sizes motivate you and keep up the good work!!!

[wendilla]

Have a look at the Mail on line there are a few interesting and low recipes there today .

[Old_Geezer]

I wonder if scales gradually weigh under, more and more (as it were) as they age ?

[xstitcher]

Good morning all,
I'm down almost a kilo and best of all down to the next number.