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!

Zero fast just means I don't eat all day.
Usually on a Monday. Although I do have milk in tea and coffee.
I started with doing 2 fasting days a week but it's too much for me now. I like to eat with family at dinner time.

[twirl] SixPack here with another namechange. :)

Amanda that made me laugh at the thought of a meetup at mine and you all overstaying!

I am very chipper this morning. Great night out with some good friends. :) Have cooked up a storm- cheese and onion bread (packet mix) madeira cake (packet mix) and am currently cooking a roast chicken with veg for no other reason but that I felt like it.

Clearly i am not dieting today!

I could definitely avoid food until 1 pm each day. I have to push myself to eat breakfast as it is.

Yes, a shame about not being near Lego. That would have been fun!

O&D FRs!!

Hi All,

Baking Sorry to hear your mood is up and down. I hope things level out soon – it sounds like you have exciting times ahead though!

Lego Oh how disappointing that you and wellies aren’t neighbours! That would have been fab!

Rules 14:10 – so eat over a period of 10hrs and fast for 14? I pretty much do that now. I generally eat dinner around 6pm and don’t eat again until 8am if I have breakfast (rare) and 10/11am if I don’t have breakfast. I can definitely continue with that

Amanda How did you manage to only have 2 crisps?! I’m in awe! I’d have had 2 packets.

Wellies I am nodding along with your post. I’ve also noticed my self esteem/eating habits/toxic effing people are all linked. You sound really determined, here’s to a stronger, more empowered you! x

Yesterday:
B – none
L – beef and tomato soup with a buttered roll
D – chicken curry (out of a jar, natch) with a garlic naan
S – low fat crisps, TWO cereal bars, 2 almond and cherry cookies, a square of milk chocolate
No exercise and I finished the bottle of cava. Whoops.

1lb on this week. DOH. Will have to try the dress on again tonight.

Chocolate mousse tart was made last night so I haven’t got to worry about that tonight (I guess I should add “licked out the bowl” to my snacks for yesterday) so I might have time to fit in some exercise. Oh! I haven’t done any decorations for the tart. Damn.

I’ve got to get serious about the weight loss now. DH and I are discussing going on a proper holiday in January. 10 days in the Caribbean. The last time I went to the Caribbean I was close to being at my heaviest and spent the entire 2 weeks hiding in a kaftan. We also have no photos as I felt so crap about myself. Not this time. I want a bikini bod I’m proud of.

OFF TOPIC MUSINGS: Ideally I wanted to be off the pill by then – I think it’s having a negative effect on my moods and I want to see how (and indeed who) I am after 12years of continuously taking it, but I haven’t had to cope with the whole “Am I due on whilst we’re away?” thing since I was a teenager and I don’t know if I want to cope with it now. I suppose if I came off it now my periods might have sorted themselves out by then but I don’t know if I want to take the risk (plus I’m going to St. Tropez next month and then Amsterdam in November and I don’t want to deal with it over those trips either). This might all end up being a moot point if we don’t go away in January anyway

Baking I am so sorry, I missed your post. I hope you are okay and that everything goes smoothly now. How exciting and brave to change careers!! I understand about a demanding job that nearly drives you to the edge. i was like that also which is why I quit and decided to go freelance. Life is definitely better now.

Good luck on the house sale. :) How exciting a new house!

Hazel that would be great a trip away!

I also dislike taking the pill. It has a terrible effect on my libido, even the mini-pill. I was discussing the Mirena coil with my doctor, but do not fancy that either. DH is not averse to the idea of a vasectomy, but I am hesitating to go the permanent route.

Time what do you freelance in if you don't mind me asking. Im not working at the moment. Would love to start my own business but am studying with the OU so will wait and see when that's out of the way.

Hi Rules. I help charities and small community groups write project proposals. Currently I am editing a proposal for my former office. It mainly requires an attention to detail and the ability to follow donor guidelines pretty closely.

Only problem is that there are hundreds of people like me around! I also have been doing a heap of unpaid work hoping to get my name out there, but am determined to stop that. :)

I was thinking of doing an OU course myself- are you pleased with what you are doing?

Doing unpaid work can pay off in the end though, did it for you? I am enjoying the OU course. Its a level one in Business Management. It was interesting and made me realise that I can do a degree (whether I pass or not is another matter lol). Not sure what to choose as my next module though. What are you thinking of doing ?

I'd quite like to do Business management also! My husband also runs his own consultancy, and I help him out. I would like to be more professional at it.

Sounds like the degree for you. You can do a level one course in Business Management as a stand alone course and if you don't like it when you have finished then you can not do anything else or you can change to another module that might be better suited. Here in Wales though the degree course fees are heavily subsidised by the Welsh Government so I am very lucky as the costs to do the same module in England are double.

So my eating for today is up and here is what I have had:-

2 slices of toast with welsh salty butter and marmalade

a sandwich on seeded brown bread with grated cheese, pear and fig chutney, real helmanns mayo, grated carrot and some walkers cheesey crisps with an vegetable oxo cube as a drink in a cup. (yum)

a orange club with cup of tea

tea and two oatie biscuits when kids and hubby came home

haddock in breadcrumbs, oven chips and peas.
small piece of chocolate fudge cake heated in the poppty ping and then added cream which soaked into all the nooks and crevices....mmmmm!!!

now fasting till 10 or 11 or 12 tomorrow.

Welcome r

Welcome rules :)

Soz I haven't been around, had a busy couple of days.

Yesterday's menu:

Cereal
Skimmed milk

Lunch was at gourmet burger kitchen. I had a small burger and a green salad. Picked at a couple of OHs onion rings and fries

Dinner was a fish finger wrap

Snacked on a couple of crackers, apple, 2 satsuma

Today's menu:

Muesli
Sprinkles
SS milk

Houmous wrap and popcorn for lunch

Dinner was chicken and rice Mexican style in a wrap with homemade avocado salsa.

Snacked on fruit and a bag of quavers and had a sliver of cake at work.

Struggled today. First wobble in 2 weeks. I ended on over 1400 cals instead of my usual 1200 cals. Also succumbed to a couple of glasses of wine and I didn't go to the gym. It looks really bad when I write it down! However I did run 5k on weds and will go again tomorrow - promise.

Have a wedding at the end of the month so might cut carbs from Monday till then.

Hi Twinkle love your name and thanks for the welcome.

Hi all.
I'm dreading today. Am going on a family day out, with picnic, as a family member is coming up from down south. I know I will get lots of comments re my weight loss which, at just over 3st loss so far this year, is fairly obvious, especially given that I'm only 5ft 2inch tall. You'd think this would be a good thing & most people are lovely about it, and most people are lovely which is very nice, but my mum & sister can be very negative. (are you eating enough, don't you think that's enough now, etc. My sister actually said I had looked "scrawny" before I got pregnant. Not helpful. I wasn't that thin, & was right in the middle of my ideal weight range for my height.) Maybe she is just jealous because she has struggled with her baby weight? (clutching at straws) Anyway. Feel stressed & this morning. I'll let you know how it goes.

Good luck Lego. When they make comments, smile serenely and say calmly 'I feel well and healthy, thank you'. Repeat as necessary.

I understand you though......

But remember- it is their issue, not yours.

Have a lovely picnic!

Me today:

B- slice of toast with a slice of cheese and a pear
L- veg soup with a crusty roll (after a walk in the forest with the dogs)
D- Out to a 50th Birthday party. We have never been out so often in the past year as we have this week! The babysitting costs are bankrupting me!

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend.

lego have a good day out. Picnics are wonderful IMHO.
When ppl make comments about wl it is either because it's an habitual way of demonstrating concern and nurturing (mothers often do it) or a bit on envy.
So either way, no real harm meant or done.
A friend recently said something to me (with tongue firmly edged in her cheek) when someone else said "Ams, don't lose any more weight" she piped up "yes, or we won't like you any more"
Good point I thought.
So when you hear those words take them simply as recognition that you are succeeding. It is noticeable that you are slimmer.

I think it's terrible when people comment on your weight loss as if its a negative thing! My friend started the year over 17 stone and wants to lose 5 stone this year. She is halfway to her goal and I have been motivating her every step of the way! Why wouldn't you want your loved ones to be fit and healthy?

Have a good day Lego and well done you for losing that weight. I shall have to have a good catch up of the thread to see how you achieved your goal.

Nought so queer as folk Twinkle

Suddenly really tired. Will read back before posting my menu.

TimeAgainForWellies good name. So pleased you had a fun night. You sound so bubbly and industrious in your post. And what an interesting job. You must be very clever.

Hazel I hope you had a good evening with your friends and are recovering nicely today

Lego oh I hope today went well. It's raining here (all day!) so the idea of a picnic is pretty scary, no matter who it's with

Hello Twinkle that's so good that you are so positive with your friend. So encouraging.

Rules how was your day? I confess mine was more 15:9

B: toast and mochaccino. Apple.
L: French bread (seeing a carb theme?) with tomato and avocado
D: home made sweet and sour chicken stir fry, egg fried rice, ice cream (not my fault. dH brought home some Haagen Dazs Crete brûlée

I also ate a couple of malted milk biscuits today
Must not eat biscuits. They are frightfully bad.
Oh, and no bloody exercise. But I have brushed my teeth
O&DFRs

Hi Ladies....TheReal ...what can I say. I decided to not do the fast at all as it was bringing on the "binge mentality". So I'm sticking to my PM mindful eating

b.........one slice toast welsh salty butter and marmalade
l.......half a cheese and pineapple toastie
two oatie biscuits
one magnum
d.......soon of rice,one popadom, spoon tikka ( takeaway)
3 strips choc
banana sandwich.

Sorry Real

Saturday menu was:

Bacon bagel
Latte and a gregge sausage roll
Dinner was half tandoori chicken and half a naan
5k run in 33.22secs

Wow Rules you did well. Great portion control there.
Toast with butter and marmalade. Oh what bliss.
And I spy a fellow magnum lover.
As it's Sunday I am giving myself over to the flow of he day. I will eat mindfully.
Making a steak pie for lunch/ dinner (with some of he leftover beef stew I made in the new crockpot). I will also have wine today.

Twinkle Tidy menu. (should we call you "rocket girl" now? Wow, fab run!)