The Big Fat List and the Days of Doom (TM) Part VI - The thread in which we Spring Into Action

[grinningbee]

Sorry chaps, my thinking cap is busted. Best title I could manage tonight!

Loads of comfy chairs in here, bowls of fruit, and lots of superfree veggies to snack on

So, settle in, have a natter, and let's show the lard who's boss!

Bee
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Can anyone recommend a tried and tested recipe for pork chops? I'm just browsing online now for a SW friendly one but if someone has one they can recommend, then I'm happy to follow that.

Kid - you can't have rice or sw chips as a HE on a red day. How about having a baked potato (230g raw weight) instead? But I'd just have cauli rice really - it's v easy (grate cauli finely and cook in microwave!).
We make a lush chicken and spinach curry with chicken thighs. It's even 5 yo dd's fave!

Hmm, maybe I should save the chicken thighs until I get some spinach and opt for something else tomorrow instead?
Its only a small pack of the thighs, about 400g, so I didn't want to share it with anyone else
I wasn't sure if the rice or chips were a HEb so I was considering syn value too.
I'm hating SW at the moment, its not going as well as I want it to but I am trying. My extra HEb was much appreciated tonight so red/green days are a bit better for me. I just need more red day meals.

I've got loads of chicken in the freezer and I have onions, cucumber and tomatoes. I might even have some leeks. I've got frozed veg but no fresh veg. I only buy it if I need it for something in particular as I hate having to throw it out and waste it. Frozen is so much more convenient for me.

Meant to also say that I don't tend to use pork chops, so no recipes sorry.
I am going to try a 5 spiced pork recipe later in the week though (am cutting the pork from a big joint that was on offer in Tesco, despite recipe saying to use tenderloin).

Food for today:

B bacon, egg, mushrooms. banana
L herby quinoa salad (was suprisingly nice). Pear.
D homemade chicken goujons (part of HEb for breadcrumbs), chips (other part of HEb for small amount of oil in actifry) babycorn, green beans (both past their best so didn't have much veg). passionfruit. raspberries. apple. grapes.
Snackfest: graze box chutney + flatbread (3 syns), grazebox herby nibbles (4.5 syns), banana

x post. Do you have frozen spinach kid? The recipe says to use frozen, although we tend to use tinned. We did it once with fresh, and liked it, but it's very different from how it is with the tinned spinach puree.

I did have frozen spinach but had to throw it out when my freezer died on us recently. I've never bothered buying it since as its not something we eat often. I will buy some though as its always handy to have in the freezer.

would the jacket potato be a HEb?

yes it would be a heB :)

Has anyone told you that you are amazing CSWS?
I don't know hw I would survive without you constantly setting me in the right direction.

Curry is cooking now, jacket potato is done, pork chops are in the fridge which will be tomorrows dinner. I'll have a mushroom omelette for breakfast so I can save me HEb for the evening with my alpen light bars. Plenty of fruit here to snack on during the day so that will be another day done well (I think)

Not ever in the last few minutes kid .

Sorry chaps!

Dc only just gone to sleep, and only just swallowed my dinner.

List follows in a minute....

Well, the curry looks good, I just hope it tastes as good!
I don't want to taste it now as its a bit late. I do hope the yogurt I added doesn't spoil if I heat it up in the microwave tomorrow. I'm guessing that it will but will ignore that gut feeling and try it anyway.

Here we go - the list for the week:

Pixiestix has lost 4lb this week, Start weight 12st 12lb, Current weight 10st 2lb, Total loss so far 2st 10lb, Easter target 4lb of 15lb

Debka has lost 3.5lb this week, Total loss so far 3st 11.5lb

Midori1999 has lost 3.5lb this week, Total loss so far 11.5lb

Huffpot has lost 3lb this week, Total loss so far 1st 4.5lb

LakeFlyPie has lost 2lb this week, Start weight 12st 7lb, Current weight 11st 8lb, Total loss so far 13lb, Target weight 10st 7lb

CantSleepWontSleep has lost 1.5lb this week, Total loss so far 2st 8.5lb

Kid has lost 1lb this week, Total loss so far 3lb

Grinningbee has lost 1lb this week, Start weight 15st 11.5lb, Current weight 11st 7lb, Total loss so far 4st 4.5lb, Easter target 7.5lb of 21.5lb

Friendof Dorothy has lost 0.5lb this week, Start weight, 15st 6lb, Current weight 14st 13.5lb, Total loss so far 6.5lb

TheScarlettPimpernel has stayed the same this week (but will kick arse next week!), Total loss so far 7lb

Hedgepig has gained 1lb this week, Height 5ft 7?, Start weight 14st 11lb, Current weight 11st 1lb, Total loss so far 3st 10lb

Congrats to Pixiestix who gets a big sparkly 2.5st sticker

Congrats also to Friendofdorothy for going down into the next stone bracket

Now then. We need big Las Vegas style sparkly lights as we have a target member. Come on down SlinkyBrideToBe. A massive well done to you

Well done everyone!

Do you know, That's 20lb off between us this week. Fantastic!

Sorry it was a bit late

And (and you know I love to do this from time to time) all those in the list tonight - we have lost a whopping 19 stone 4lb beteen us!

How's that for motivation?

Permission to collapse in a small heap now?

Well done for doing the list and for working out all those fascinating figures bee
and well done to everyone on the list for still sticking with it.

Wow - lots of fab results there! Well done everybody .

I really think I should correct my start weight to what it was at the start of last year when I started doing SW - it was 16stone 7lbs. I feel I havd achieved more if I say that then just going from what I was at the start of this year!

I completely understand that FriendofDorothy, I was pretty much having the same conversation with bee about my own weight loss.
I had lost a stone by the time I stopped following SW just before xmas.
Admittedly, I put some of it back on over xmas, (but not all). When I went back to SW 2 weeks after xmas, I started my weight loss record from 0 again so it looks like I've only lost 3lb to date but I now regret that.

So, I'm going to be adding my previous weight loss to future DoD stats. It will make me feel better as I have lost 1st on SW rather than the 3lb I declared.
Just wanted to clear that up just incase someone notices and things I've lost a huge amount in just 1 week (if I do lose a huge amount in one week, I won't complain at all)

I'm going to bed now, think I've contributed far too much to this thread for tonight Back for more tomorrow!

Wow that's a great week of losses - well done all and I'm not even saying it through gritted teeth

It's absolutely astounding how much y'all have lost between you. That's like the weight of two fairly short human beings

Right off to MFP to work out today's foodz. . . back L8R.

Good morning everyone!

Great losses yesterday

Yep, if anyone wants to put different stats next week for starting weight etc, just Pm it to Cheese or myself, whichever of us is doing the list.

We've got snow here today! Dd has developed what I shall be calling from now on the "sonic squeak". That pitch of voice where they're so excited that it becomes only understandable to mice, probably. "It's snowing, it's snowing, it's snowing" getting more and more high pitched and quicker as she went... bless .

Not sure I can be bothered to food shop today, but if I don't that means I have to tomorrow. We'll see.

Food for the day. Hmm. Not quite sure yet, but something like:

Ready brek with 1 x ryvita dark and 1 tsp jam (1/2 syn) 1 banana
Beans on hobbit toast, fruit and a yogurt
Quorn sausages (1/2 syn each x 4) and a big pile of mashed potato with veggies (1 syn for horseradish sauce in the mash)

Um so, I have done some Research. Sorry if this is really boring and irrelevant but I'd welcome views....

I was on 1200 cals a day, and very rarely eating my exercise cals (which on 7 mile days would be an additional 700 cals!). 1200 cals seems to be considered (ie on reputable sites like the NHS ones) the absolute lowest you can eat without being effectively on a starvation diet. In fact, I read an article in the New York Times about a weird cult that thinks they can live to about 150 by just about keeping themselves this side of starving to death, and was horrified to see their calorie allowance was 1800 cals (granted he was a bloke, but still!) - and they call it 'ultra-extreme calorie restriction' and he had started to get euphoric with hunger

So anyway, I am beginning to have my suspicions that I'm just not eating enough. I'm often quite light-headed and quite honestly sometimes I struggle to make a proper meal out of the calories I have available by the end of the day.

just out of interest I filled in MFP for a day's food that I would have eaten on a Green Day on SW and it came to easily 1500 cals, and more if I had eaten tons of fruit as snacks (which I def. would!) it would be more like 1700. But it's still enough of a calorie restriction to lose weight.

So - long story not-that-short - I have changed the settings on MFP so that instead of giving the calorie allowance for sedentary it's lightly active, which gives me 1330 a day. It's not loads more but might be the difference between struggling/starving and not...

Um. A big to anyone that read that far

TSP That was interesting. I just tried MFP and my food for today comes out at roughly 1250, but it would probably be a bit more, with extra fruit.

I think that's waaaaaay too low. On the Embarassing Bodies website they have a similar thing to work out how many calories you need. For me at 5ft 3, weighing 161lb, and being sedentry it reckons I use 1470 just existing, and that I need around 1750 per day. It goes down the lighter you get. Might be worth having a look at that and seeing what it comes out with for you!

Right. Going to attempt to wash my hair, and then get a cuppa without my dc badgering me. No chance there then .

Thanks for humouring me Bee - it's a bit of a mare really, trying to work out what I'm doing wrong....

I couldn't find the EB calculator, but I found a similar one and for someone my height (5 foot 8) and weight (213lb) I apparently burn about 2100 sedentary, and 2300 doing light exercise 3 x a week (which is less than what I actually do). So that does lead me to think 1200 is a touch on the low side!

Hmph. We'll see.

Good luck with the peaceful washing of hair/drinking of tea....I always remember there's a poster on here with the nickname 'can'tpooinpeace'