2010 Weight Loss Club : The Wannabe Winter Waifs

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Piste is busily plumping up the cushions and making a space for Blondes to dump the naughty step.

Here we go! Let's see 2010 out in style my fellow Slinkies!

Just a bit worried that I'm gonna end up putting it all back on, can feel myself sliding down the slippery slope of old habits!

Had to have a hot chocolate for medicinal purposes :o And also coz it's bloody freezing!! Trouble is it was accompanied by a choc chip cookie & some 'celebrations' from the Halloween stash

Blondes - I'm sure you won't have a stone to lose, it'll be fine. Sometimes you need to have a break in order to stop you going completely bonkers!

throw away your fat/larger clothes and then you have no choice (like me)

I've just done that. Got rid of a load of my biggest (imported from America ) clothes.

It's really good psychologically. To move on. To tell yourself that you are never going to let yourself get back into those things again.

I did do that with most of them! Kept the biggest pair of jeans to do the posing pictures! Can't throw out most of the tops coz I'm still wearing most of them! They were quite stretchy and I still need them to get my boobs in! Do need to have a proper sort out again though!

Pumpkin is very similar to bns? I've always fancied pumpkin pie.

Bebe - My mum is on anti-inflammatories atm they have sorted out her swollen joints, hope they go alright for you.

I went shopping today and bought - leggins! I think they look alright (thanks to the running) but with a long top to hide my tummy bits. I feel like I've stepped back into the 1980s [hhmm] I used to wear them with those pixie boots that were in fashion, I notice they've come back now. It'll be corkscrew perms next...

blondes - don't forget your body will use energy to heal, sure you wouldn't have put on that much.

Oooh yes, pumpkin pie, I wonder how easy that might be...

Pumpkin pie recipe (Prob wouldn't be too good for the diet )
Ingredients
800g pumpkin, peeled, cubed
1/2 tsp each ground ginger, nutmeg and cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 tbs rum or Amaretto
1/2 cup cream, plus extra to serve
1 egg
1 egg yolk
200g (1 cup) tightly packed brown sugar
Pastry
225g (1 1/2) cups plain flour, sifted
100g unsalted butter, cubed
1 tbs icing sugar
A little milk, to brush
Method
Preheat oven to 200°C.
To make the pastry, place the flour, butter and icing sugar in a food processor and process until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Add enough chilled water (about 4-5 tablespoons) for the mixture to come together to form a smooth ball. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes to chill.
Meanwhile, wrap the pumpkin in foil, place on a baking tray and roast in the oven for 40 minutes or until tender. Set aside to cool slightly, then place pumpkin in a food processor with the spices, vanilla extract, rum and cream and process to combine.
Beat together the eggs and sugar in a small bowl, then stir into the pumpkin mixture.
Roll out the pastry and use to line a 23cm pie dish. Trim the pie and reserve excess pastry. Line with non-stick baking paper, then fill with pastry weights or rice and blind bake for 10 minutes. Remove the paper and weights, then pour in the pumpkin mixture. Roll out reserved pastry and use a leaf-shaped pastry cutter to cut out leaves to decorate edge of pie. Brush the leaves with milk. Reduce the oven temperature to 170°C and bake for a further hour until the filling is set. Set aside to cool. Serve with the extra cream.

4 and a half this week! yay!

Disenchanted3:start wt: 13 st 7,target wt 10st 5lbs,current wt 12st 4lbs - wt loss 1stone 3 lbs.
Blondeshavemorefun;Start wt 13st 5 lb,target wt 11st,Current Wt 11 st 10 lb - Wt loss 23 lbs
Bebejones: Start Wt 15st 1lb, Target Wt 10st 7lbs, Current Wt 10st 6lb, Wt loss 4st 9lbs
Murtette: Start Wt 13st 6, Target Wt 10 st 6, Current Wt 12st 3 lbs, Wt loss 17 lb
RatherBeOnThePiste: start wt 14st 2 current weight 11.8 target wt 11st wt loss 2 stone 8lb
Trimmer:Start wt 12st 12.5; current weight 12st target wt 10stone 10lb; wt loss 14.5lb
Jodie - Start wt 11st7 Target wt 10st,current weight 10st 10.5lbs Wt loss 10.5lbs
Poohbearsmom: Start Wt: 15st 4lb, Target Wt: 10st, Wt Loss 1st 9lb
Laughalot: start wt 13st 4lbs; Traget wt 10st 5lbs ; Wt loss 16lbs
Prettybird: start wt 13st 5 lbs; Target wt 9st 13 lbs; current wt 13st 2 lbs; wt lost 3 lbs;
Liz Abbott: Start wt 15st: Target weight 11st
Huffythethreadslayer: start wt 14st 9lbs: Target wt, 13st
Hecate - start weight 36 stone . current weight 22st 9.5 lb weight lost: 4.5 lbs.
DespicableMe - start weight 14st10lbs. Target 11st6lbs; wt loss 2st10lbs
Shivermetimbers - start weight 27st3lb. current weight 22st5lb. wt lost 4lb

Never had pumpkin. What's it like? well, I suppose it's like pumpkin. nice? sweet?

Can I join in??

Firstly, can I say well done all of you who have lost weight - and ruddy hell Hecate, go you!!!!!

I was 13st 9. I went down to 11st 10 last summer but piled 1st back on through over eating. I have since lost 7lb and this morning was 12st 3. My target is 10st 2, which is the highest I should be for my BMI.Ideally I'd like 7lb under that - but 10st 2 is my target for now. Would like to be 11st for Christmas, but not sure whether thats a bit much?

I am just following a sensible diet - lots of fruit, no snacking, no evening eating, lots of fluid. And using ready meals to try and limit my main meal intake as my portion control is so shite.

Need some moral support to stay on the straight an narrow though so can I join??

hiya.

I haven't been posting on this thread long but it's really nice.

Welcome Smokin I talked to you on your other thread about portion control

You can get Rosemary's portion pots from the internet, I suppose try on EBay, I seem to remember you can buy them for £4.99 on rosemary's official site, I suppose just google rosemary conley.

Add yourself to the list.

If you're very motivated I think a stone could be doable by christmas, but we've been going since January and are planning on sticking with it for the long haul.

Hecate well done you!!!!

Hecate :o Well done!!!

Pumpkin is very similar to BNS. Is probably a little sweeter and I personally think is moister. I've never made pie, but it makes very good soup! :)

Smokinpumpkins, welcome aboard!

Add yourself to the list! 17lbs in 8 weeks might be pushing it a bit! But you never know! Don't beat yourself up too much if you don't make it! I'd love to be 10st by Christmas but the way I'm going right now I'll prob end up putting weight back on between now and then!! At least I am just down to the upper limit of my BMI, but that did take 9months of starvation hard work!

bebe thanks for that recipe it sounds scrummy, just one bit for us dieters!

What is it Nigella says about 'hint of a wobble'?! (That'll be my thighs rather than the pie!! )

Disenchanted3:start wt: 13 st 7,target wt 10st 5lbs,current wt 12st 4lbs - wt loss 1stone 3 lbs.
Blondeshavemorefun;Start wt 13st 5 lb,target wt 11st,Current Wt 11 st 10 lb - Wt loss 23 lbs
Bebejones: Start Wt 15st 1lb, Target Wt 10st 7lbs, Current Wt 10st 6lb, Wt loss 4st 9lbs
Murtette: Start Wt 13st 6, Target Wt 10 st 6, Current Wt 12st 3 lbs, Wt loss 17 lb
RatherBeOnThePiste: start wt 14st 2 current weight 11.8 target wt 11st wt loss 2 stone 8lb
Trimmer:Start wt 12st 12.5; current weight 12st target wt 10stone 10lb; wt loss 14.5lb
Jodie - Start wt 11st7 Target wt 10st,current weight 10st 10.5lbs Wt loss 10.5lbs
Poohbearsmom: Start Wt: 15st 4lb, Target Wt: 10st, Wt Loss 1st 9lb
Laughalot: start wt 13st 4lbs; Traget wt 10st 5lbs ; Wt loss 16lbs
Prettybird: start wt 13st 5 lbs; Target wt 9st 13 lbs; current wt 13st 2 lbs; wt lost 3 lbs;
Liz Abbott: Start wt 15st: Target weight 11st
Huffythethreadslayer: start wt 14st 9lbs: Target wt, 13st
Hecate - start weight 36 stone . current weight 22st 9.5 lb weight lost: 4.5 lbs.
DespicableMe - start weight 14st10lbs. Target 11st6lbs; wt loss 2st10lbs
Shivermetimbers - start weight 27st3lb. current weight 22st5lb. wt lost 4lb
Smokinpumpkins - start weight 13st 9. Current weight 12st 3.

Bebe, now you come to mention it, 17lb in 7 weeks may be a bit much. But as long as it starts with an 11 I will be happy.

Ghoulish, I tried tonight and managed a good potion control I think. I did bolognese, but instead of pasta we had small jacket potatoes - and I could only put 2 spoonfuls of bolognese ontop, with lots of veg. I froze half the mix, which is a major thing in this house - normally its cleared between the 3 of us! I think I need to be sure in my mind how much looks too much, and find alternatives that fill me up more. I think I will look into those portion cups as well though.

oh, and anyone got a Pumpkin soup recipe, with carrots and potatoes? DS1 did one at school and is begging me to do it at home but I have no idea!!

Her peanut butter chocolate cheesecake has just a "hint of inner thigh wibble." I love Nigella but imo she was at her best a couple of years ago with her christmas series. I am doing chocolate xmas cake this year.

Smokin - yes, I habitually got into the habit of piles of pasta and great big jacket spuds so you're doing alright.

Smokin - I have got into the habit of freezing leftovers. I always cook too much! Portion control is an issue for me too. I used to just 'guess' at pasta and rice but if you actually weigh out the suggested portion sizes it really isn't that much!

Pumpkin soup, I've never made with carrots & potatoes, but probably all you'd need to do is cook everything with some onion & stock til soft then put in a blender. Maybe? (That's what I tend to do with all soups!)

GG - I think you're probably right about Nigella!

welcome smoking!! agree 17lbs before xmas is pushing it- a healthy weight loss is 1/2lbs a week

pumpkin is yummy,soooooooooooo sweet and veeeeeeeeeeeeeery bad!!!

Blondes - Is pumpkin lots worse than BNS then? Even in soup?

Welcome Smokinpumpkins :)

Your weight "history" sounds very similar to mine. I put on 3 stone last year after I stopped work (got made reudnany and am now working from home) - hopefully we can reach target together. I am finding as I apporach 50 that it is more and more of an effort to lose weight. Recently, I have found that strict calorie counting (using FoodFoucs) is helping.

On portion control, I remember reading somewhere that using smaller plates helps trick the brain into thinking you have had more food ('cos the plate looks fuller). The toher thing I read was that we eat less off a blue plate (ingrained fear of blue food - tends to be poisonous!). However, I haven't gone as far as going out and buying a blue dinner service!

I've realised that I didn't update my weight followwing last week, so I will do so now:

Disenchanted3:start wt: 13 st 7,target wt 10st 5lbs,current wt 12st 4lbs - wt loss 1stone 3 lbs.
Blondeshavemorefun;Start wt 13st 5 lb,target wt 11st,Current Wt 11 st 10 lb - Wt loss 23 lbs
Bebejones: Start Wt 15st 1lb, Target Wt 10st 7lbs, Current Wt 10st 6lb, Wt loss 4st 9lbs
Murtette: Start Wt 13st 6, Target Wt 10 st 6, Current Wt 12st 3 lbs, Wt loss 17 lb
RatherBeOnThePiste: start wt 14st 2 current weight 11.8 target wt 11st wt loss 2 stone 8lb
Trimmer:Start wt 12st 12.5; current weight 12st target wt 10stone 10lb; wt loss 14.5lb
Jodie - Start wt 11st7 Target wt 10st,current weight 10st 10.5lbs Wt loss 10.5lbs
Poohbearsmom: Start Wt: 15st 4lb, Target Wt: 10st, Wt Loss 1st 9lb
Laughalot: start wt 13st 4lbs; Traget wt 10st 5lbs ; Wt loss 16lbs
Prettybird: start wt 13st 5 lbs; Target wt 9st 13 lbs; current wt 13st 0 lbs; wt lost 5 lbs;
Liz Abbott: Start wt 15st: Target weight 11st
Huffythethreadslayer: start wt 14st 9lbs: Target wt, 13st
Hecate - start weight 36 stone . current weight 22st 9.5 lb weight lost: 4.5 lbs.
DespicableMe - start weight 14st10lbs. Target 11st6lbs; wt loss 2st10lbs
Shivermetimbers - start weight 27st3lb. current weight 22st5lb. wt lost 4lb
Smokinpumpkins - start weight 13st 9. Current weight 12st 3.

Am hoping that it tomorrow's weigh-in, I will formally break the 13stone barrier (again: I achieved it just before I went on holiday back in July - it's taken me this long to get back there :()

sorry meant pumpkin pie is veeeeeeeeery bad, coz of all the sugar [hgrin]

pumpkin soup would be o points

Hehe, might be very bad, but bet it's very yummy! :o

Will be making soup I think coz DH is adamant he doesn't like pumpkin pie!

Tip for cooking BNS/other squashes and sweet potatoes so you don't have to peel them (or more accurately, it is easy to pull the skin off): use the microwave.

For BNS, halve, de-seed and then eeither put the two halves into a container in which they fit neatly and cling film it tightly, or cling film each of the halves. Blast them for about 8 minutes. (I tend to do it in 4 minutes balsts and then check them). You can then just scoop out the soft middle.

For sweet potato, prick it a couple of times with a fork and then put it on a paper towel in the microwave and balst it uncovered for about 8 minutes or so. The skin should just slip off once it is cooked.