Onwards And Downwards Continues In May 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.

I Hope everyone has been enjoying the small amount of warmer weather we had in the last couple of weeks, I think we are now into the April showers though!

In May good things to eat include new potatoes, asparagus and gooseberries, yum.

Here are a couple of healthy recipe ideas:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/grilled_lamb_chops_wild_41287

Lamb is also good to eat now.

http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/vegetable-pasta-salad

and here is some great info on a somewhat forgotten native friut:

http://www.healthy-eating-made-easy.com/gooseberry-recipes.html

Enjoy!


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

Here is last months thread

[Old_Geezer]

Thanks for the encouragement Wend, I'm unsure it'll help, but I'll give it some thought.

Oh wow Jomlett. If I were on that regime I'd be crawling up the walls trying to take my mind of food all day; unable to do much else. Congrats for being able to stick with it. Mind you; you didn't state quantities. Maybe they are all 5 lb meals :-) What does a lb of chicken and 4 lbs of lentils do to you overnight ?

[Jomlett]

OG - small plate and small portions! 1 leak, 1 onion, 1 carrot, 1 or 2 chestnut mushrooms and with a dollop of mustard and 125 grams of lentils (I prefer red lentils but Puy lentils was the recommended choice) and 1/2 litre of chicken stock...1 slice of breast of chicken and simmered for 45 minutes makes a great evening meal for 1... if a visitor doesn't call!

[DTCwordfan]

Guinea fowl is good and low in fat, M&S are selling them for a fiver or so at the moment....

[wendilla]

I find it is not the amount of meats or chicken I eat that is the problem it is what I have with it . Same with salad I have to have it covered with dressing but I do use the lowest now . Florida salad I think I had a share in the business but now make my .

[wendilla]

Own . Why did I miss that out .

[DTCwordfan]

I make my own too, one luxury being a splash of maple syrup in it, makes for a great taste.....basalmic/Dijon mustard/herbs of choice, maybe garlic or shallot, the syrup and a good mix and then add a decent oil.

[Old_Geezer]

I went on a very rare visit to a Harvester about a week or two ago. (Well I'm not as keen on them as I was when they first started.) Not only was spit roast chicken off the menu (the lower calorie meal I had already made up my mind to go with) I went for the inclusive "salad" first and found that none of the dressings were labelled any more; so I could not be sure I'd gone for the low cal one. Yes it would have been partially responsible for last Wednesday's result... I know.

[tiggerblue10]

I've nearly done it! Just one more lb to go before I reach a 2st loss. I'm already back in my size 12s and some of those are starting to feel loose. Just 7lb more and I'll start the maintenance program.

The only problem I have is a flabby tummy which needs toning. However much weight I lose a can never get my waist down to less than 34ins. So annoying!

[xstitcher]

Good for you tigger. It's a super feeling isn't it!

[Xeronema]

I've decided I need to lose weight. I think the only safe way for me to go is on a protein diet. I eat a lot of meat and very little else.

Has anyone got any suggestions? In the past I've been on ketogenic diets that have worked however were very dangerous. I need to stick to something long term.

[tiggerblue10]

Its fantastic, Xstitcher :o)

I was feeling horrible last Xmas and I was struggling to fit into my size 14s. I then decided that from January I would sort myself out as I had a bit of a bad year, and now, 5 months later I'm a lot happier with my weight and lots of other things.

[tiggerblue10]

I've been doing the Diet Chef diet, Xeronema. For me its worked better than any other diet I've tried in the past. It suits me as a full-time working, single parent.

[Jomlett]

No bread, biscuits and booze along with no pies, pastries, potatoes and pasta (durum wheat) has lost me 27 kilos in 14 months on the low carb diet.

[xstitcher]

We try to plug sensible eating here xeronema not diets as we think that by going on to healthy eating it will become a life style. Along with healthy eating we advocate smaller portions. We focus on lots of vegetables and much smaller portions of carbs, meat only once or twice a week and fish and chicken or just plain vegetarian for the other days.

Watch your sugar intake...you can always google that or ask us. Use lo fat products, fry with small amounts of olive oil and use sweeteners in your tea or coffee. These are all small tricks but they aid up.

Do get some type of exercise done daily of possible...a 15 min. Walk will get the cogs going and more is even better.

Don't set yourself impossible goals and don't try and loose a lot of weight each week. You will loose more in the beginning but as you go on, loosing a pound a week is very satisfactory. Loosing a lot each week means you aren't eating sensibly and will put it all back on.

We will give you back up and cheer you on. We have a weigh in every Wednesday but don't have to say how much we weigh, just how much we lost or gained, that happens too and there is nothing to be ashamed of. We don't judge.

[xstitcher]

Good morning all
Another Wednesday another weigh in which I hope gives happy results.
I've still got mega vertical problems so will pass on the scales bit.
Good luck to one and all. Onwards and downwards!

[Jomlett]

Morning, xs, Im glad to say I'm down another 1k to 67.5 and that 10 1/2 stone was my ideal weight 40 years ago! My BMI is 21.8 so I hope to lose another kilo to stay within the parameters of Normal.

[xstitcher]

Good for you Jomlett. I hope that you will stick around and not leave us when you have reached your goal. We need our success stories to help the others.

[wendilla]

Morning Jomlette and xstitcher another stay the same week good for you Jomlette yes as Xstitcher says stay with us even when you get to your goal as I know if I didn't come on here each week I would def gain and have to start all over again which I don't want to do all over again .

[DTCwordfan]

Just to warn folk, asparagus is full of purines and therefore is a quite potent source of gout......I discovered this last December when I was on a dry period from wine and had been for 2 months - and then got an attack, the owner of a restaurant I used asked me, "Eaten asparagus recently?" "Yep, love it." "Well there's your problem source."

[wendilla]

Not to keen on asparagus but I have just googled it and quite interesting reading .