Lean for Life/Eating beautifully

[Katrinawaves]

Any Louise Parker fans up for a 6 week support thread to eat beautifully and stay in the inner circle to get ready for Christmas? I’m about 10lbs over my my comfortable weight at the moment so could do with cutting back and this has been the most enjoyable way I’ve ever lost weight in the past.

So calling fellow wanna-be Leanies to form a tribe and share ideas over the next few weeks and encourage me to pay my rent on the days I don’t want to!

Have been for a top up food shop today to tide me over until the grocery delivery next week and am ready to start in earnest tomorrow morning.

Hello! 👋

I'm the old starter of a few threads so was delighted to see this!

I'm still here and up for a run up to Christmas for sure! I will confess though - I've used mounjaro to lose weight and managed to shed 4 and a half stone since May. I'm now 10 stone and would like to lose about 10 lbs - I do love the LP method and will be using her principles

So count me in!

Count me in, thx

Count me in! I would like to lose around the same amount. I was doing really well and then had a lot of travel for work and it fell apart, so keen to start tomorrow as well.

Me too - I am in!

Fabulous to have a little group already!

Weighred in this morning and I was a little heavier than I thought I was ☺️. So my new goal is to lose a stone before Christmas 😂.

Off to a good start this morning with the Sophie’s super fluffy pancakes for breakfast. This wasn’t a recipe I’d tried before but they were very nice even though I had to use whole meal bread flour as I had no wholemeal plain flour in. Still tasted almost identical to an American diner though and my husband also tucked in happily.

How do you eat " beautifully"? Can someone summarise the principles of the method please?

Every meal is supposed to be an occasion @Wittow. So you always set the table, don’t eat on the go or with TV or whilst reading a book. And the recipes in her book would all hold their own in a hotel or restaurant menu though they aren’t all that difficult to make.

There are four pillars of which eating is only one and the eating principles are good quality ingredients, plenty of fruit and veg, proteins with every meal and complex carbs allowed.

The other three pillars are Think Successfully, live well and work out intelligently.

Kitchen is now closed but I’ve been happy with the food today mostly except for lunch.

Breakfast - pancakes with strawberries (rest of the family had theirs with maple syrup too)
Lunch - Chicken Saigon salad (the savoy cabbage they suggested as a base was too bitter raw so I didn’t love this!
Dinner - Gan Gan beef stew - this took ages to make but was delicious and there is enough left over for another meal later in the week. The rest of the family had it with baked potatoes.

Snacks were the cinnamon orange yoghurt from the original book and oatcakes with peanut butter and pumpkin seeds which is my favourite snack even when not doing this plan.

I roasted an elderly aubergine with the stew and have the aubergine and ricotta dip in the fridge for tomorrow’s snacks. I’m working from the office tomorrow so will need to take meals in with men - am thinking maybe a mackerel salad for lunch if not too smelly for communal eating!

I haven’t been good at paying rent today as my back has been playing up but am going to try and at least do some stretching before bed and to honour the digital switch off from 9pm tonight.

So far so good. I’ve had that initial whoosh of weight off so 4lb down from Sunday (to be fair I think my Sunday weight was artificially high after an indulgent few days)

I’ve stayed in inner circle every day - even at a drinks do last night where I foreswore the canapes and opted for sparkling mineral water.

Today I had

Breakfast: smoked salmon and cream cheese on homemade wholemeal bread

Lunch: left over pizza chicken from last night with a green salad

Snack 1: apple and a dozen smoked almonds

Dinner: broccoli and paneer curry (one of my faves from her first book)

Have one more snack should I fancy it which will probably be the aubergine dip with oat crackers as I only have a couple of days to eat this up.

“rent” is proving difficult to fit in and I did have to pick up some work emails last night around 10pm but there was no TV yesterday evening

Has anyone else taken the plunge and started? It’s been a bit quiet in here after Day 1 😀

I’ve been in the inner circle all week despite a few challenges - attending a conference all day yesterday and two work lunches and after 6 days I’m delighted the scales are down by a whopping 6lbs!

I know that some of this will be water weight but some of it I think will be genuine fat. I am fitting into my clothes better already.

A few challenges next week as I’m meeting friends for pizza tomorrow and there is nothing else on the menu in that restaurant, I have two all day work meetings and it’s also my birthday and I know my husband has booked a restaurant. But I will do my best not to completely step out of the circle even if I end up at the outer edge from time to time