A weight loss thread with no boring diet info

[AcornAutumn]

Hi all
I really need to lose a total of about 4 stone.

I'm not keen on the usual weight loss type chats with methods and foods etc discussed in detail.

So I was trying to think how it could be more interesting.

This might be a crap idea but I know I do better when I have interesting things to do. Today I've done my workout, some drawing and keyboard practice. I've also read a couple of chapters of Women Who Kill (!) and watched The Crown, I'm on Season 2.

It was those things that made snacking on a boiled egg less of a shock 😂

So I was thinking, what about a support thread where we don't talk about the details of our methods, but just check in for support, and tell each other something interesting we've done that day, even just a film we've watched.

Is it a bonkers idea?

We obviously have whopping great freight trains and the East coast mainline trundling by as well, which is less idyllic. But the owls are ace. Ugh I might just set fire to my house and start again. Would be less effort. Kids keep coming and rescuing things from the piles of shite and dh has vanished altogether.

Ooh, I'd love a owl. We have three buzzards that are regular visitors to the field opposite. I don't know where they live, but I love watching them, they're massive compared to the usual bird population of blackbirds etc.

Our owl is in a disused waterworks building down by the canal. Out in the countryside but far from a rural idyll! But lovely to see all the same.

This has made me determined to get out for a walk this evening in hopes of seeing him!

Pecky what kind of time would you see one? Do I need to start hanging around near the Tube tracks?!

@AcornAutumn
Dusk is a good time, and if it's barn owls you are after, they like abandoned buildings. But I'm not taking responsibility for where you choose to hang out at night .

[quote PeckyOwl]@AcornAutumn
Dusk is a good time, and if it's barn owls you are after, they like abandoned buildings. But I'm not taking responsibility for where you choose to hang out at night .[/quote]
Any owl will do!

But I'm often entering, exiting, walking by a station at that time. In summer I always have an evening stroll. It's probably too populated for them here.

I have three owl ornaments n my sitting room but am not fussed by the real thing, soulless bitch that I am 😂

This is a Whitefriars glass owl. I love nature but only translated into decorative items or as a fabric print!

Tawny owls are the more urban owl. They do the classic twit too woo call and response. Barn owls are more screechy, as you may recall from the Famous Five. Is gorgeous out there now. Just been for my run. Was heaving. Kept tripping over small dogs. Finally making visible progress with the tidying too, if you ignore the rest of the house. Still slightly unsure re colours. Is currently grey and it's kind of ideal except o fancy a subtle change. Suspect I'll regret changing it but you only live once!

Lol very nice Mrs Bob! I have no ornament owls but 2 hot water cover owls and a cuddly hedwig

Here's a pecky looking owl. Could put you off owls for life! If I were you @AcornAutumn I'd learn to love perigrine falcons instead

@MrsBobDylan

This is a Whitefriars glass owl. I love nature but only translated into decorative items or as a fabric print!

With all due respect Mrs that looks a bit like an alien.

I'm so impressed people can identify owls by their hoots!

It is lovely outside.

I am giving myself a break today, about to put music on and do the painting by numbers thing. I realise that I have now been irritable for at least three weeks. It could be the dreaded peri.

I still haven't done the experiment re working out earlier in case it makes more hungry, which has happened in the past. But maybe I should try it because I always feel better after my workout.

You have a point there @AcornAutumn which I'm choosing to ignore

DH and I have fallen out over his diet. We rarely row but his eating such a relentlessly healthy diet is pissing me off. I don't know if I'm being an intolerant cow or if others would find it irritating?

Tonight I made chilli con carne. He cooked brown rice to have instead of white and cooked and ate an entire wok of green cabbage stuff. In the olden days he would have just eaten more chilli. He doesn't eat any cake or biscuits or anything remotely like a treat, drinks gallons of this low sugar, low fat Kefir yoghurt and will only eat brown bread and limited amounts. He was slim to start with and is now slimmer.

Sorry for the long post. Please talk some sense into me because I don't know what to think. It screams eating disorder to me but maybe that's because I'm shit at healthy stuff?

As a bit of background, he has always been a bit of a food weirdo. Our eldest son is 13 and very like dh - I have done two rounds of Cahms engagement with ds because he was restricting his food.

I usually am quite instinctive and balanced on this stuff but dh is cross with me and I don't know now.

MrsBob I think adults should eat as they please

My late father was a low carber from his 50s. Mum was a high carb person always. (Never overweight). Also like me, she isn't a huge fan of meat.

I was veggie as a teen. As long as everyone did their share of cooking, we had no comments about how the others ate.

Mum did occasionally ask dad if he'd lunch but the answer was always no - hospital doc, too big an interruption to eat lunch. His choice.

There are lots of ways of eating and unless someone was really drastically damaging themselves, I wouldn't dream of commenting. I am single but if a partner commented on my eating habits or my weight, I'd be raging, and I say that at 3 and half stone over the max weight for my height!

I've already had a friend of mum's comment and she rang up and gave them what for. He basically told me I'm a walking heart attack and I'm aware of that, but ...it's my body and choice.

PS My sister only eats brown rice at home. She eats loads of green veg too.

Her health is much better than mine.

I was going to say something similar to Acorn. It's a pita if your partner's on a diet. Mine has all sorts of intolerances and health issues and with that and the kids' fussiness I lose the will to live, but I'm not sure there's a lot you can do about it, it doesn't sound like he's going to do himself any harm with that diet. If he's being rude and ungrateful about your cooking or making comments about what you eat then that's a different matter and you can pull him up on that. As an aside I quite like brown rice but when I tested my blood sugars it sent them through the roof compared to my normal basmati, which is also a whole grain rice. Ditto brown pasta was worse than posh durum wheat stuff. Think because it was cheapo economy brown pasta which uses shit flour. Maybe there's a compromise to be found?

Agh sorry that's boring diet info! Was meant to give you ammunition for dh. But please forgive me! School 8s back. Excitement is going to my head.

Morning everyone. A drizzly run for me this morning.

I'm going to get a bit tougher on myself, spurred on by seeing that DD is getting chubby. I need to set a better example.

My experience of brown rice was when I did low GI about 20 years ago. I lost weight and quite liked eating that way. I get The Rage when my partner decides to lose weight, he can do half a stone in a week, bastard.

Is so tricky keeping them active in lockdown isn't it?

Morning! Harmony has been restored in the Dylan household.

DH listened long enough for me to explain that I am worried he is continuing to loose weight and looking a bit too thin. He was also grumpy over the weekend and I think together with daily 15k+ runs and eating low carb, low fat and zero sugar, his life is too gruelling and restricted to make him happy.

I have always supported him in how he wants to eat but enjoying life and having fun is important too!

Two kids back to school, one to go, am giddy with excitement here!

@longestlurkerever

Agh sorry that's boring diet info! Was meant to give you ammunition for dh. But please forgive me! School 8s back. Excitement is going to my head.

That's okay, it's more the competitive under eating that's the issue. I didn't even know you could test sugars in such specific ways.

MrsDylan your DH has actually made me think a lot about my situation, I really need to address my terrible diet.

Gwen so I am upping my efforts too. Do you mind if I ask though - half a stone in a week - is that from a point of being very overweight initially?

I had to track blood sugars when I had gestational diabetes. I wouldn't recommend it though, you have to draw blood several times a day!

DP is probably 16.5 stone, so he's most certainly overweight but not Channel 5 documentary sort of scale. He's tall and broad so it's not as noticeable as it would be on a more delicate framed man. He is apple shaped, so as soon as he has a period of being really strict (which for him is v little wheat and reduced carbs) the weight loss round his belly is really noticeable. As I say, bastard.

Glad you made up Mrs Bob. Hope he cheers up.