On the way to losing a stone with Codswallop: progress to date

[JanZ]

Here's anew thread for Coddy's recruits.

The old thread is here

For the record, I started out (May 19) at 11 stone 2 and am now 10 and a half stone A total loss of 9 pounds

Coddy's potential wrath has been inspirational! Plus of course the support of the rest of you (although the thread does go quiet at times).

I'll hold your hand Sonnet!

You are ONLY allowed 4 suppers and 4 lunches and 4 GOOD breakfasts between Thursday and Sunday. DO YOU HEAR ME!

Just think how good you will feel when you break through 9 stone!

If you go out running tonight, I'll go out running and keep you company (well virtually!)! I'm needing motivation to add exercise to my weight loss programme (and fitness programme!), as it seems to be stalling (although my week off last week seemed to help!). I manage a run at the weekend (although not last weekend [bush]) and then, despite good intentions, nothing during the week.

Thanks for posting Janz...
Can't manage the run tonight as family staying BUT should be able to pursuade my dad to go for a 4to 5 mile walk - so' I'll do that and you GO for your run - we'll compare notes tomorrow!

For breakfast I'll stick with a Coddy Special (branflakes and bananna.
It's the rest I struggle with!!
I hate salad without a dressing...just ahd a large grren salad with peppers and cucumbers plus a hard boiled egg and a slice of ham BUT I had to have a tablespoon of coleslaw with it .
Do you have dressing? -

my fitness has also dropped off - started out so well in may BUT a bad bout of hayfever stopped me running ( I live in country and have to run down lanes and across fields!)and I havn't go back "into" it yet - would love to though....
3 weeks on Friday I go on hols - Can I loose 9lbs by then do you think????

I make my own wee dressing with a TINY bit of EV olive oil, a good slurp of balsamic vinegar (I must get a cheaper bottle - I'm using the Gran reserva I bought last year in Tuscany) and a slosh of lemon juice, and then mix it up with a wee bit of grain mustard. It's pretty strong, so a little goes a long way.

9 pounds in 3 weeks - mmmmmm, tough but do-able. I want to lose 7 pounds in the same period - and given that I'm only managing 1-2 pounds a week, VERY tough for me! (But I console myself by saying at least it should be more "keep-off-able"! ) But I HAVE lost 11 pounds since I started 2 months ago (OK I put a pound back on over the weekend )- only a few more to go until I've got to the STOOOONE! So slow and steady does it.

So, if you DON'T lose 9 pounds, then don't binge in compensation. DO YOU HEAR ME! Just think of what you HAVE lost. I think you're younger than me, so it should be easier.

I WILL go for my run tonight. Probably only about 20 minutes but that's better than nothing! I HATE getting fit again, as I always hate the first 2 miles of a run - and that's all I'm doing at the moment! (For once, being sensible - my 40+ body doesn't take as kindly to the abuses that I gave it in my late 20s/early 30s!)

Ideas for other meals: griddled chicken breasts with LOADS of veg.

A nice tuna steak ditto with the veg.

Or even a nice steak steak! (be sure to cut off the fat)

Cauliflower cheese with the cheese sauce made with cornflour rather than butter and flour, and use extra strong cheddar so you lose less.

Or simply SMALLER portions of what you usually have (provided they are not loaded with cream etc!)

For lunch I have a tub of rocket salad, with radishes, cherry tomatoes and a boiled egg (if I've remembered to cook one). Plus some fruit.

If you're at home, why not have an omelette? (I take the veiw that eggs are good for you, unless you are binging elsewhere). Put some peas in it to make it extra healthy.

I make sure to have a minimum of 5 items of fruit or veg a day. That helps fill me up.

I also have a few nuts when I get in in the evening - that seems to take the craving for a snack away - although if I really want it, I allow mu=yslef one square of 70% chocolate a day (actually NOT that calorific, and solves my chocolate craving!)

None of this is weightwatchers stuff - I'm just trying to eat sensibly and healthily and stop myself from snacking.

Oh Janz - thankyou so much for taking the time to reply..
I have all the ingredients for that dressing so will try it tomorrow.
I alos think 9lbs in under three weeks is not doable for sustainable weight loss - if you know what I mean - I am going to S.W France so apart from wine, frois grais (spelling!!!)and bread we do eat pretty healthily - salads etc for lunch and BBQ meat and salad agian for supper. Will also be swimming and biking. I have a dream of getting up in the morning and going for a run through the french countryside!!
Will definatly walk tonight and will try a run tomorrow!
Thanks for the supper tips. My problem is I get the munchies - must try the nuts.
Find it hard also to give up the wine BUT I will do it.
Good luck for your run tonight. I'll log on inthe morning to see how you've done!

...now I'll HAVE to go for a run!

Don't OD on the nuts - maybe 5 almonds and/or 2 brazil nuts. (and that's ALL night!)

Also make yourself drink a glass of water every time you get the munchies.

I've also cut back seriously on the wine (but NOT last weekend, hence my wee blip - but I feel OK about that, as I was "resting" from the diet). It IS difficult, but I am still allowing myslef a glass (or two) on a Friday (bubbly night) and Saturday night, and then I volunteer to drive on a SUnday night when we go to my parents for dinner - so that keeps me down to one glass of wine.

yes you will JanZ - run run run ( jusat think of the fat melting away!)

Oh wish i'd joined in now. A stone is exactly what i need to lose.
I have brought my dads walker machine thingy off him, and am determined to use it but as for food I just cannot do it.

I am starving all the time

Oops - didn't go for a run I'd forgotten that I had promised ds that I would make biscuits with him when I got home.

And I'm not going to commit to a run tonight, as Thursday is weekly shop night - and dh is going to be out tomorrow evening, so that's out too. The run will now have to wait until the weekend. But I AM still cycling to work - so that's half an hour exercise a day, plus a half hour brisk walk at lunch times up into town.

But the good news is that I was back to 10 st 5 this morning That means I only need to lose SIX pounds by three weeks on Saturday, to break through the 10 stone barrier. Or, to give myself an even smaller target - once I've lost another THREE pounds, I'll have lost a stone since I started.

Nutcracker - it's never too late to join in.

Why are you starving all the time? What is it you want to eat? Try drinking a glass of water every time you feel like eating something and wait 10 minutes to see if you are STILL hungry. Use a timer if that helps . Tell yourself, you CAN eat something at the end of that 10 minutes if you ARE genuinely still hungry. If nothing else, it'll delay your munchies by 10 minutes every time - so cut back a little that way!

Do you drink at all? Cutting back on alcohol can really help. As they say, alcohol is full of "empty" calories - they'll "feed" your fat, but not fill you up.

Hi Sonnet and nutty!! Sonnet, I'll help you when I'm around if you like but I have a confession to make first;

"Forgive me Cod-father for have I sinned. It has been 30 minutes since my last weigh-in. Due to going out last night and caving in to a buffet and a chocolate eclair I have suddenly put on 2lbs and am now 10st4!!!"

Back to eating jelly and remembering what a lardy arse I am!!!

If anyone wants some help just ask - but do as I tell you, not as I do!!!

you sounds a bit like me WK!!!......just think "thin" today ( and bullying me will make you feel guilty if you stray off the straight and narrow )
I did go for a walk last night but also had a glass of wine .(thats another thread which might appear under behaviour/development if I have time this morning!)
weighed in at 9st 1lb this morning - just 2lbs to go and then I can say I'm under 9st.....
I so want to go for a run tonight - so fingers crossed I make it (oh the pain I'll have to go through .
I am starving this morning - had a large balck coffee, 35g of specialK, a toasted teacake (minus any butter or spread!)and a bananna.
Thats it until Lunch - I'll just have to keep busy!
Speak to oyu all soon.

Ok Sonnet - will bully you A LOT to stave off the guilt, and while I'm bullying you I can't be eating!!! Sounds like you're doing ok today though, just keep yourself VERY busy until lunch, even if you have to DUST (pah!)

Hope everyone's still on the straight and noarrow. And if you're not, GET BACK ON IT!!!!

Still at 10 st 5 - this mid 10 stone bracket definitely seems to be a plateau for me. But I WILL get off it. - that's meant to be a "gritted teeth" icon!

I'm not on the straight and narrow today but I don't care!!! Have just been made pancakes for brekkie and am going out for a Chinese tonight. I'll be good and starve tomorrow but today I'm going to enjoy myself!!!

....mmmm, if I were Coddy, I'D START SHOUTING!

but I'm a softy, so I'll just say, "as long as you don't give up and binge because you've slipped off the straight and narrow, then enjoy yourslef"!

Make sure to drink plenty of water with your Chinese - to help fill you up so you don't eat so much (but still enjoy it!)

I'll be making pancakes myself over the weekend - ds loves to "help" and I want him to learn to enjoy cooking.

How's everyone else doing?

even coddy couldn't be hard enough to shout at me on my birthday, could she?

I'm not going to binge, just have a bit of chicken or something and some fried (oops) rice!!!

Sorry wobblyknicks - didn't realise it was your birthday. Happy belated birthday! Hope you had a great day and that you DID treat yourself.

I'm 10 st 7 this morning but my period has just started, which normally adds a few pounds. So hopefully in a few days times, I'll be back on track with renewed vigour!

No probs Janz - and she didn't shout at me after all!!!

Am definitely back on track now!! Went shopping yesterday and saw my fave ice-cream (Ben and Jerrys Phish Food) for the first time in ages (they hardly ever stock it here) - and I DIDN'T buy it!!! How good am I!!!!

JanZ - don't worry, gives you a nice boost at the end of your period when you suddenly drop a few lbs!!!

DRAT - posted on here and then lost my connection...
Happy belated birthday WK - and welldone for avoiding that ice cream!
I am still 9st 1lb - why can't Iloose that 1lb??? I owuld feel so much better.
have had a good weekend - lots of walking and biking with the DD's.
DD's are at their grandparents tonight so a long walk is planned with DH
(confession: Have been having wine, choc and biscuits - have been eating healthily otherwise though - which is possibly why I can't loose any !!)
All feel free to SHOUT

Won't shout at all sonnet, well done for not putting loads on!!!

We're far too nice here :0 Not very good at shouting.............................

SONNET - STOP EATING BISCUITS AND CHOCOLATE. DO YOU HEAR ME!!!!!

Did that work? (Noitce I didn't mentionanything abut the iwne - we do need SOME pleasures! )

janZ - we are too nice - where's coddy??? (and I would have said lay off wine and biscuits but eat the choc!!)

I must start previewing again - my fingers get ahead of me and I jumble up letters!

Yes, Coddy has been conspicuous by her absence. WE'RE MISSING HER SHOUTING!!!!!

I've learnt a new trick regarding chocolate: a square of 75% dark chocolate (only 39p at the moment in Lidl for a 100g bar - 8 or 10 squares) is enough to give me my chocolate fix and stop my craving and is a) good for you (iron etc) and b) not high in calories.

yes Janz - I read that from you earlier on this thread - so went ahead and bought a bar - BUT I end up eating the whole bar over the course of 2 days!!!!! - no will power thats me!!