Healthy, Revolutionary and Gorgeous!

[SixPackWellies]

Good morning Fellow Revolutionaries. Welcome to Thread 2!

Me today:

coffee with soy milk
2 ryvitas with half an avocado
spicy tomato soup (homemade) with a green salad
Small portion of roast pork, with lost of veg, a tablespoon of gravy!

Onwards and Downwards!

Wow. Ice cream and flake. Yummy yum.
Making millionaires shortbread. On a fasting day. It's killing me.

Wish I could get to sleep earlier. I'm sure it would help the weight loss. Bah!

Good morning everyone.

Diet fail (again) last night. Takeaway Chinese was ordered.

Today

B- coffee with soy milk and leftover coronation chicken spread on crackers

L- nothing

D - have boiled rice leftover from last night, so will make veg fried rice, using light oil spray.

Hope everyone has a great day!

Hey.
Thinking of you all.

NFD. Ate too much homemade cake
Really tired.
Having to be hosty for dh's niece too. Feeling a bit worn down tbh.
I need another fast. Yesterday was good.
So, tomorrow? Or Friday? (have guests all week and w/e)
The suspense is too much isn't it? I'll keep you updated

Why can't you sleep earlier lego?

wellies great discipline today.

Morning all,

Lump has reduced in size and isn?t hurting anymore, so I think it might have been a cyst. Other than that, I?m full of cold at the moment with lovely mouth ulcers to cope with too. It?s one thing after another!

Usually mouth ulcers stop me from eating but I appear to be working through the pain quite well. Put on 3lbs last week, so far lost 2lbs this week (no idea how to be honest)

A quick run down of my food (what I can remember anyway)

Thursday ? dinner was actually lamb stew and mash. Bloody freezer surprise again!
Friday ? Watermelon, cheese and onion roll, S&V crisps, twix, buffet (2 slices cold beef, 6 new potatoes, pasta salad, rice salad and a piece of cheesecake), bottle of wine
Saturday ? so bloody hungover ? bacon, egg, hamburger & large fries (courtesy of McDonalds), twiglets, ice cream, lamb pie, wedges and loads of gravy, a small glass of red wine
Sunday ? vegetable pakora with chutney, churros & chocolate, Swedish meatballs, crisps, wine, chicken curry, potato wedges.
Monday ? ½ tuna and cucumber sandwich, mini cheddars, pizza, wedges and chicken strips (was a bad, bad day), 1 glass of wine
Tuesday ? cheese and egg salad, S&V crisps, chocolate, chorizo and pepper pasta, mini milk lolly, hot chocolate
Wednesday ? boiled egg, ravioli (tinned, for comfort), mini cheddars, aero, prawn stirfry, hot chocolate.

Today:
No breakfast, lunch is sweet chilli chicken with pasta and salad, no idea what I?ll have for dinner as desperately need to do a food shop, twiglets & chocolate because I have zero willpower.

No exercise since last Wednesday. Feeling really down actually. I have no idea where my willpower is. I have a month until a friends wedding and none of my weddingy clothes fit. Part of the issue is the fact that we?ve had such a bad week, we haven?t bothered to go food shopping. We?re definitely going tonight. I?m going to go back to making soups and avoiding the sandwich van at all costs as that?s my downfall to be honest. We?re going to start getting veg boxes again as well. I need to cut out the snacking and up the exercising. Thinking of getting a pedometer, actually, stuff thinking about it ? I?m buying one today.

I hate feeling so blue about it, I know I?m happier if I?m not eating crap so why can?t I stop eating all the rubbish things?!

Emily well done for fasting whilst hosting! x
Wellies don?t feel bad about the takeaway x
Lego well done on not gaining x

I will be a better revolutionary, promise xxx

Emily cake yummy. (drools). Don't know why I can't sleep earlier. It just doesn't happen. I lay there, awake, getting cross & end up with a headache.

Hazel glad your lump is getting a bit better. That all looks very yummy. I love chorizo. And curry. And prawns...

Wellies and Chinese!

I've made a massive pot of quorn bolognaise & threatened DH with death if he scoffs the lot in one meal - there is easily 8 generous portions in there. He is a pig hearty eater but he does take it to extreme sometimes, my attempt at batch cooking is interpreted by him as a challenge. He is trying to lose weight too, he had his hernia assessment today & his family had a bit of a shock recently, his mum is really quite unwell, partly lifestyle/food related & it seems to have made him & FIL really think about their health. So hopefully he is going to try & improve his weight too.

O&D FRs!

Morning all.

Don't be blue Hazel just get back to it today. I have to get back to things properly also. I am 10 stone 8, so 3 pounds up from two weeks ago. I am planning to track carefully and accurately what I eat today.

Lego hope your DH's mum gets better and it is the wake up call for your FIL also. It can be a wakeup call, I know.

Me today. Well. I am gping back to green juices in the morning, but cannot just have one meal a day as it was killing me. So the plan is;

B- green juice
L- big serve of vegetable soup with ryvitas and a boiled egg
D- pasta with salmon and yoghurt sauce. Small serve.

The pasta idea came from a blog called agirlcalledjack.com/ She blogs about very frugal eating. She uses salmon fish paste, but I have a single fillet of salmon that has been sitting around in the freezer for ages so will use that instead. Her blog has made me reassess how much food I waste, and I am consciously trying to cut down on portions and wastage. So, we will say. The rgeen juices are not frugal, for sure, as you go through so much of it, but I am going to cuit down in other ways.

O&D FRs!! Hope you all have good days.

Morning!

I?m reasonably cheery despite this bloody mouth ulcer.

Thursday:
B ? None
L - Sweet chilli chicken with pasta and salad
D ? vegetable samosas followed by Goan chicken (bloody delicious) with ¼ garlic naan and a small portion of rice
S ? twiglets, chocolate and ½ bottle of red wine.

Friday:
B ? none
L ? tomato soup with a wholemeal roll
D ? nachos, chilli with rice and billionaires tart with icecream
S ? ready salted crisps, mini milk lolly, 1/3 bottle of red wine

So not terribly brilliant. Today is potentially going to be even worse as we?re off to Prezzo for a late lunch. I?m having a look at their menu to work out what is low on calories but still yummy.

I?m stuck between the following:
Lobster and crab tortelli (622)
Chicken and asparagus risotto (576)
Field mushroom risotto (596)
Fiorentina pizza (light) (478)
Arrosto salad (512)
Steak and rocket salad (390)

I think I?m going to have one of the risottos or the fiorentina pizza and forego any dessert. Risotto would be easier to eat I guess.

I?m spending my morning at work planning next week, including meals. I shall be back to update you later!

Hey FRa.

sixpack I like the idea of a bit of frugal food. I'm appaled at the waste tbh. And food is so expensive.

hazel poor you with your mouth ulcer. Your alcohol free days should help to prevent them. Hmmmm. I would order the lobster and crab tortelli I think. Yum.

NFD. Trying not to snack. We still have guests (yes that's right) and have made a lot of cake this week.

sixpack I was thinking today about what initially attracted me to your thread. The mamet: "stop bingeing and start eating healthily". I think I've veered from the path a little. I love the fasting and the flexibility of NFDs but I'm not eating as healthily as I would like. This is partly DH's fault (i know, I shouldn't lay blame like that) because he cooks and so chooses, most of our meals. They're not unhealthy meals but we're having more meat and less fish/ salads/ soups etc than I would choose. So I'm going to kill him take a bit more control (easier said than done with him) and make a meal plan for next week whereby he gets to do a few meals and so do I. And I don't tell him what mine are.

O&D FRs.

Oh poor lego I find it hard to go off to sleep ATM. Which is ridiculous because I'm shattered and dd often wakes up in the night for a feed. Horrid.

Hey FRs.
Just been grocery shopping after planning a week of meals. Nothing too fancy or groundbreaking but quite pleased with nutritious/ budget elements.
Tonight DH and DS will have roast lamb (from yesterday's leftovers) fast day for me.
Tomorrow the rest of the lamb, plus some veg will be made into a curry for me and DH while DS has some meatballs that I froze last week.
Wed: lasagne
Thursday: scampi for DH and DS. Fasting for me.
Friday: Jamie Oliver sausage pasta and salad
Saturday: fish pie
Sunday: chicken and ham pie.
Quite chuffed with myself. Should have enough in for some healthy and inexpensive lunches too.

O&D FRs.

Afternoon,

Ugh what a day. Can?t wait to get home.

Saturday did not go well. My cheeriness faded fast and I decided not to go out for lunch. Of course, I immediately regretted my decision and turned into the bitch from hell. Ho hum.

L ? leftover Goan chicken curry with rice
D ? 4 mini vegetable samosas
S ? half a chargilled chicken and pepper wrap, 1 mini milk

Sunday we decided to take a last minute trip to London (for DH to go shoe shopping )

B ? 2 slices of bacon, 1 fried egg, mushrooms
L ? Roquefort, walnut and apple salad followed by chocolate mousse (courtesy of Harrods. Bloody yummy, bloody expensive)
D ? not quite so glam ? Szechuan chicken, egg friend rice and prawn crackers courtesy of our local Chinese takeaway
S ? none apart from one glass of wine.

Today
B ? none
L ? mugshot
D ? chicken fajitas
S ? S&V crisps (doh)

Feeling a bit better about my drinking ? I seem to have a good handle on it now. Last week I had a total of 16.8 units.

Haven?t really planned any meals this week as I actually felt so rubbish on Saturday, I just wandered around after DH and have no idea what food we have.

I?ll try to plan some tonight and will let you know. I also plan to exercise tonight to try to release some of my frustration at such a rubbish day. Off to meet friends in the pub later but will stick to lime and soda.

Sorry you had a bad Saturday hazel
Well done with the drinking.

Have eaten an apple and a few brazil nuts today.
Not bad for a fasting day.
The real trick now is to eat healthily and lightly tomorrow. There is no reason to binge. I really want to drop these extra few pounds and eat more veg.

I'm having a bad day, still at work, scoffing twiglets. SUCH an idiot.

Well done emily you're doing really well! x

I do like twiglets

Diet fail.

Eaten a whole bag of own brand 'maltesers'.

Bah. Think TOM is looming & I tend to obsess over chocolate. Annoying as I can generally resist it the rest of the month.

On the plus side, I weighed myself this morning, am 9st 13.5lb. Can also get into my size 10 work trousers (they are rather snug but I can do them up & sit down comfortably).

Oops pressed post too soon. Anyway. Am pleased re weight loss but cross about my lack of willpower today.

Emily am envious you are doing so well! Well done.

Hazel hope tomorrow goes better, and hope your mouth ulcer has gone/goes away soon.

O&D FRs

legocaltrops yum to maltesers. TOM is a fair reason to eat chocolate IMHO. It looks like your WI was good. Well done.

NFD here today. I had mocha/ coffee, a nectarine and about 1 and a half bagels. I will try to skip lunch as I'm having curry and sides tonight. Might have some fruit.
DD was up at 4 for a feed so I'm quite tired and have a ton of housework to do but at least all that milk is calories spent for me.

Shit!
Just ate a pack of s&v crisps.

Ok, as I'm talking to myself.....
My no snacking rule was broken today. By me. Oops.
Also, I appear to have caused a bit of a ruck on aibu.
So I think I'll stay quiet for a bit.

I'm here Emily! Manic day. No snack, no alcohol rule broken. Argh.

We can sit in the naughty corner together x

I'm here as well. Have also had a manic day. Spent the entire morning cleaning - inside the oven, hob, 2 loads of washing up, 1 load of laundry, cleaned kitchen counters, cleaned bathroom. Went to work. Came home & went straight to allotment to get the boundary inspection done, hopefully the council are going to help remove the mountain of rubbish that I discovered at the end when I killed off the jungle of weeds. They should also remove the 2 trees in the part of the plot that I didn't realise was mine. Got home at 7, realised I'd not had breakfast or lunch... we got takeaway for dinner. I had curry. very nice but calorific.

I am thinking of starting am AIBU - "AIBU to not relax ever when I have the morning to myself."