BigMoFos Week 23

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Nice shiny new thread ...

Hub - can't beleive that you didn't go back for the rabbit

Rabbit stewed in white wine is delicious.

hello everyone, welcome peewee....don't feel such a newbie myself now.it is definitely good to know there are others out there looking to lose stones rather than than pou nds.
lol at lemonaid-that is exactly the routune i have for weighing, am sure shower weight makes huge difference....(also tell myself that the embarrassing weight at doctors is bound to be my iron pants and nothing to do with cake..orchips..)
mums buying you clothes is a minefield isn't it. i don't like to be always telling mine that i am not a 16-more like a 20 as she seems to find this size to big to get her head round.as she only shops in bargain bin don't feel so bad passing all inapropriate items on

in reason for this threads existance news i read a magazine at dentists monday where a womman was explaining she needed to go to the gym because, shock horror she had put on 3lb in one year. what a shame if she ad an unfortunate treadmilling accident!!so cross barely aware of dental activity

Hub's a veggie; we're not big on road-kill.

Even if it is stewed in white wine.

Hi SueJonez

She basically gave me the British Heart Foundation booklet but I'm willing to give it a whirl. Don't know if you're aware of it but its 7 portions of fruit & veg a day, 7 of this, 3 of that etc.

I've never actually followed a "proper" diet before, I just tend to cut down and ignore the fact that it isn't really working

toadie - you've done something in the past with guns etc... when you come across badly injured animals do you prefer to leave fate to the Cosmos, or do you intervene to reduce suffering ?

Poor wabbit.

I weighed myself tonight and I have lost 3 or 4lb! can't remember exactly what I was last week but know I'm not as heavy as I was!!
I have also decided to ditch the mirena coil I have as I don't think that is helping too much with my battle so I am hoping that from next week things will really get going!
As for the job situation that is keeping me stressed as I have the 2 companies battling for me which is quite a boost!!
I even managed to drag myself out for a swim today too!

I only ever shot targets (and the occasional sandbag). I couldn't shoot a rabbit, even though I know it would be the kindest thing to do in the long run. I wasn't a very good soldier really

My grandad would have wrung its neck and put it in the pot ... I'm the misfit in the family!

Dh is pretty good at putting injured creatures out of their misery, he had to dispatch several baby birds a couple of years ago who had been taken out of their nest by next door's cat and were in a bad state. It was the kindest thing but I couldn't have done it, and it haunted me for ages afterwards.

I'm with you here. My view, however odd, naïve, or hypocritical is that it's not my life to take away IYSWIM. I suppose some of that mentality informs the vegetariansim too. LOL @ your grandad, and interesting about dh. I wonder if it would have been less haunting had you just left them to become fox's lunch ?

After my mammoth bike ride I'm hoping for another pound at Thursday's weigh in.

It's Wednesday so letting you know about my 2.5lb loss this week! Won't last - have not been as good this week - shall find out the damage tomorrow..!

Well done dottydot - how are you doing? Still waiting for results? Thinking of you .

Hi all,

I'm popping back in again with this weeks result. I still have no heating or hot water and it is bloody freezing here today, this has been going on for 2 weeks now. I have been assesed by the warm front people and they have agreed that I need the boiler replacing but on the contract I signed it does warn that it could take up to 6 months to get any heating work carried out. I just can not believe that is allowed when I have an 11 month old in the house Oh well that will teach DH and I for not having any savings.

Anyway this week I have stayed the same so after 2 weeks of gains I think I may be starting to get back on track.

Good luck everyone.

hi all, i was told to join you by Suesjonez. Am probably about 4st overweight, and have been considering reductil....but Sue put me off as she says you guys are a great support. would really like to try something new......done weightwatchers like a million times, and slimming world.....to no avail. Any advice anyone? I am a total carb freak by the way.....finding it hard to reduce lovely starchy bread/pasta/potatoes/rice....etc!!!

Hub, I'm not sure whether it's about it not being my life to take away - or whether it's more about me being a wuss! I hate to see anything suffer so my head knows that the right thing to do is to put a badly injured animal out of its misery ... I just can't bring myself to be the person that does it. Too squeamish, too much of a wuss, not wanting to do more harm than necessary, just hopeless - I don't know which one, really.

My grandad used to have an old farm gundog who would go rooting for rabbits, and the times we'd walk into his kitchen to find him skinning one - the sight was shocking to a small child and the smell never, ever goes away, I can still smell it now 35+ years later. The first time I ever saw him doing it I refused to eat rabbit again, and even when I did eat meat I wouldn't touch rabbit.

Anyway ... after veering so far off subject it takes an hour to come back again ... I've lost 5lb this week It's more to do with having such a sore throat that I can barely swallow though than it is about eating well ... can't eat = can't pig out!

Carbs are good though, bunny - they're not really the enemy. It's portion control that you need, rather than cutting out complete food groups. Have you looked at something like a GI-based diet?

Right, it is Wednesday, but am not posting weight gain or loss - I only started trying to cut down two days ago..

I have however weighed myself and will take that as my starting weight, so next week I will hopefully be able to report a loss... (fingers crossed, here is hoping...)

Also not going to weigh today but only for the reason that I'm not anywhere near a Boots to use their scales. if I make it to one I will weigh.

Hi Bunny - I didn't TELL you to come I'm not that bossy am I? .

Like you I'm a carb addict but can lose weight quite happily eating loads of carbs. I eat huge plates of pasta with either tomato or bolognese (heavy on the tomato light on the meat) without any cheese - the trick is to make the sauce very tasty then you don't notice the cheese. In the winter mashed potato is a staple mashed with other veg to bulk it out if I'm really hungry - particularly good mashed with sweet potato or butternut squash.

I avoid bread as much as possible becuase of what I put on it rather than anything else - I LOVE sandwiches (could live on them) but like them with proper butter, mayonaise and other fattening fillings.

Carbs to avoid (or cut down on ) are sugary carbs (choc sweets, cake), white bread, white rice (though basmati rice isn't too bad), pastry.

Don't believe what you read in some places about avoiding tomatoes, carrots and sweet corn. Utter bollocks. There isn't enough carbs in a tomato to make a mouse fat. Those "facts" were based on 100g of carbs from each of those foods being absorbed very fast into the blood stream - but didn't take account of the fact that there is hardly any free carbs in those foods so you would have to eat bushel's of them to get to 100g!

The people who lose weight for life do it slowly and steadily. They are the ones like to energiser bunny (good analogy for you) who just keep going, regardless of whether you put on weight, lose weight or stay the same, just keep talking about it and keep going.

If it helps I will say publically that I am 20st 9(?) having lost nearly a stone now and I now accept that this is it for life for me - I will always be addicted to food so need to find a way of living my life whilst very slowly chipping away both at the fat AND the attitude.

good luck and welcome aboard.

hi bigwambam, i haven't looked at the GI one, but have heard of it. I shop in Tesco, and have noticed on some packaging it tells you low med or high GI index...is this what its for?....is it any good? where can i find best info....web or books?

Oh and Bunny - I notice from your other thread that you don't feel that your losing wieght despite going to the gym. Are you doing the right/enough exercise?

Endocrinologist told me that if you have a weight problem you need to be doing long slow exercise - ie one hour reasonable paced walks rather than 30 session down the gym where you get all sweaty. You body doesn't start chaging your metabolism rate (he said) until 20 mins into exercise, so better to do something more manageable for longer.

Also some muscle toning work does help, although it doesn't burn calories it does make your muscles toned which means they are more effective when you do cardio vascular stuff.

Better to walk for at least 45 mins everyday than get down the gym three times a week.

I find the key to getting exercise right is to think thin - what do thin people do? They pace up and down the station platform when waiting for a train instead of diving for the nearest seat - that kind of approach will up your metabolism in no time at all!

Oh Suejonez.....I didnt mean it in that way!....of course you arent bossy!.....just glad to have someone talk some sense into me......have taken on what you said about the carbs....i love sarnies too, and toast. will def look at this GI thing

True....must admit, I feel like I'm doing the right thing at the gym when i do hard fast workout......have no real stamina!!! maybe walking/swimming for like an hour a day would be better for me....I actually detest the gym anyway with all the fit healthy people in there!!!

and GI that WWB referred to is pretty much what I said - you want slow release carbs - so lots of fruit and veg, low fat and those carbs you do eat should be low to medium. Just think that the more carbs have been processed before you eat them, the less your body has to do so they hit your blood stream quicker which should be avoided. So things like white bread and white rice have had all the natural roughage stripped out which means from your body's point of view its almost like digesting pure sugar. Very sedy bread whcih has the wholegrian and lots of seeds means your bodyhas to get into the grain before it can digest the carbs which makes for slower increas and decrease in blood sugar and also makes you fuller for longer.

unusally whote pasta isnlt so bad because its made from Durum wheat which is a much tougher wheat than is used for bread so is lower in GI. Some books say you should avoid old potatoes and stick to new but I must admit I dont find potaotoes too much of a problem.

Must go have work to do, will ctahc up later.

Well have weighed, and I think (old-style scales) that I've lost half a pound. Which is good, as I haven't lost anything for ages it feels like. Nothing in comparison to WWB's 5 lb though.

I'm sitting here with a huge swollen bottom lip, as I went to the dentist for a filling this morning. She numbed it, and warned me to be careful not to bite my lip by mistake, as it was all numb and I wouldn't notice, so of course that was the first thing I did. Blood all over the place, and then my lip swelled up. Finding it very difficult to eat, and tend to dribble my drink (such a good look, don't you think). I do seem to have got the feeling back though, which I think is a good thing...

I usually weigh myself in the morning but was a bit zombiefied this morning and forgot. After a couple of days of eating only food from the hospital's vending machines I've either lost a bit or put on a lot.

Good luck to everyone else.

Oh no Coppertop - have missed this - who's in hospital?

Sorry, Jackieno - but I LOLed.

sj - next time we come across a partridge or rabbit I will give you a shout. Do you have a nice squirrel recipe too ?

WWB - vom @ the rabbit skinning smell and wow at the 5lbs. FABBO.

Unfortunately I just had a dreadful accident in a buffet restaurant with copious quantities of seriousl lovely food. (And toadie, you;ll like this: Having sampled all the deserts I asked the pastry chef which had animal gelatine in... yep, all of them. Oh well).