Some Veggers Are Bigger Than Others - 10/10 porkers thread

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General healthy eating and exercise thread with aim of losing weight / shaping up. Aim to eat 10 portions of fruit and veg a day, and do more exercise. No bizarre diets please. Weigh in day is Monday (you don't have to weigh in but we will punish you by with-holding stickers). Diet coke will be frowned upon.

Just been for a run! My friend is getting better so quickly! It's great. And I run ahead more so I get a bit more exercise.

I'm probably not going to have lost weight in the morning. I do my midweek sneaky weigh, which is always good, then I think I maybe get cocky Ah well. Fingers crossed for 1lb which'd be better than nothing!

My mum didn't work til we went to school (or possibly she didn't properly til we were about 7/8) so she did all the housewife stuff. But she worked when we were older. I guess some of it went in and I figured the rest out as I went along! I don't work though and it is time consuming to meal plan, list, go to more that one place to get the better deals/products.

I said to a friend recently about the cake baking thing Lemur. Like you say it's just practice. I was going to a friend's house one morning and it was easier for me to make biscuits to take rather than get everyone up and ready and to the shop before we went but my friend was terribly impressed by homemade biscuits, being something that they just don't do!

I have to say I don't set a strict budget but I think I shop well now. I never let stuff go to waste. The statistic that we throw away 1/3 of all the food we buy makes me I reckon my figure would be 5% which means a lot of people must really bin loads. I did have a bit of a thing for months though where I'd buy broccoli every week and bin it when it was yellow.

I try and use the market for my f&v which means going into town, £1 for the car park blah blah, and just the fact that it's a whole nother job! And I intend to give farm foods a try cause apparently thier milk/bread/cheese are really cheap. I'm afraid organics and ethics are not too high on my list atm

Gosh this is getting long!! Sorry.

Just a thought Franny, there was a thread about how much people actually spend the other day. Families of 4 were saying they spend £100, £120 per week. I think my average (including cleaning/household stuff, and packed lunch for an extra adult) is about £70. It just is expensive to feed a family at the minute. (Hope you're not in the £150 p/w category and I've just given you a heart attack!)

Still can't think of a new name. It's bugging me now :-|

thanks for ideas on budgeting
will write more later
i have not lost anything, i think you are right pink, i lose some midweek and then think 'what the hell' at the weekend

oh well

franny zero, total 12 lb

so, yesterday ended up with
croissant
o juice
lots melon
greek salad
lots melon
home made chicken goujons with anchovy and caper dressing (completely delicious)
green beans
loads of strawberries and raspberries
home-made chewy mneringues (completely delicious)

a comfortable 10 for probably only the fourth time ever

The coffee thread made me think poncey, avi, although I am not, of course .

I know eaxctly what you mean about boring weekends, moveit. I get so cross with myself and everyone else if they drift past.

I have already started making lists so that I don't waste too much leisure time.

Your african dancers were sounding most interesting and enjoyable until you got to the bit about the mime, fran, and the whole picture was shattered.

re food budgeting. You need to really concentrate, I find. It's too easy to be carried away by loads of strawberries and raspberries and blueberries in teh summer when these are expensive. I have a sort of list of the cheap fruit and veg in my head as a I shop so that I limit how much of the expensive stuff I pop in teh trolley.

Didn't know you were working in a supermarket, fran.

Avi, we told you to weigh at your heaviest didn't we, so you'd truly be able to bask in a warm glow as you started to lose weight .

Also, I weighed 10st 8 this morning which means I have only put on 1lb, I think, since the last time I weighed in.

argghhh am STILL the same

argghhhhh

food budgeting - I get some veg for nowt via dh's work less now than a few months ago, they are stuggling a bit financially so there is less available for staff to take home.

We eat a lot of carrots as they are cheap(er) and everyone likes them. Ditto apples and bananas. I buy stuff at end of life when it's cheap. If I am in town on market day then I get it from there (but don't make a special trip).

We aren't veggie so an easy way to save was to cut down on meat and substitute with pulses and stealth veg. I think dh has failed to notice that there is less mince and more beans in his chilli and dd1 has failed to notice that there is grated carrot and finely chopped mushrooms (which allegedly she hates) in her bolognese.

I ought to be losing weight. DD2 is turning out to be a proper little live wire and I am constantly chasing after her. I turned my back for a second yesterday afternoon and she had crawled out of the back door (over a step in the process) and was half way down the garden . She isn't like limpet dd1 at all.

It just led to lots of talk about different kinds of coffee, that all seemed to be italian to me, as if brits should know all the ins and outs of coffee culture. It was kind of interesting for a while, you know how it is

Got one. Not delighted but better than Pink.

I didn't lose any either and I'm really pissed off with myself cause it's been nearly 2 months!! But at least I haven't put any on.

@ double cream avi! We only have it at like, Christmas! DH's family used to have a lot of it. He always had cream over his cereal (milk first then a huge glug of cream) and Christmas sees an entire shelf of their fridge filled with pints of the stuff.

what would you do with the double cream avi? i like it to cook with, but dp and ds1 would just drink it out of the pot
i hardly ever buy it

really interesting to read how other people manage budgeting (or not) and appreciate all advice
i do cook from scratch where possible but don't have time atm to devote fully to bulk cooking as i used to
i remember this stage with ds1 and it did get easier once he was about 3 or so and you could cook safely with him pottering about
but as has been pointed out, we do eat a vast amount of f+v and it is just darn expensive
i do buy luxuries though that i think are staples eg mangoes
i bloody love fruit though and the thought of skimping on it is slightly depressing
ah well

so has anyone lost any weight at all?

where is the FOCUS???

and has anyone seen ellie around? is she ok?

cereal fruit raisins seeds milk = 4
hot cross bun and butter
toasted bagel with philadelphia
fairy cakes my friend makes to nigella recipe, v nice indeed
2 crackers with peanut butter and banana = .5
roasted veg as at weekend, tofu, new potatoes = 3
coffee ice cream
chocolate

7.5

pointy the dancing WAS absolutely fab and impressive and all that until it got to the miming
then it was just funny, but in a good way

pink i am confused
does it mean what a gray day
or ....
no i am just confused
(is it something from popular culture?)

It's a bit of both I'm feeling a bit grey at the minute so it suits my mood but DH said someone was a 'grade A tw*t' once and I had to clarify whether it was grade a or grey day! And I always thought it was quite funny!

i am not sure it is quite you
but i am always a bit of a moaner about change

It'll do for now! I'll change again if inspiration hits. But I quite like it

your bum definitely does not look big in it

My bum now fits into a size 8 (admitedly with a muffin top!!) but still seems to look enormous!