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NOTHING TASTES AS GOOD AS BEING SLIM FEELS

946 replies

NumberOneEnemy · 08/03/2010 10:16

OH YES
who wants to join a rahter strict dieting thread?
no sympathy
no excuses.
i have lost 6lbs in three weeks. am feeling smug

OP posts:
BariatricObama · 19/03/2010 20:12

soup is key for me. i make a huge vat at the start of the week and take it to work. i do add pulses or else i might start gnawing the table

largeginandtonic · 19/03/2010 20:26

How calorific are pulses?

Those knorr stock jelly things? They are great. Not as good as the Waitrose own stock tubs but a whole lot cheaper and good store ingredient.

Am eating my ww curry. Nothing on the side. Can't be arsed.

LeSingeEstDansLarbre · 19/03/2010 20:41

i am quite rubbish at this competitive dieting thing, having forgotten to take a note of first weight. must memorise tomorrow for next friday.

i think i've lost a few pounds, although funeral today (aged rellie, fear not, good life lived and all that so rather celebratory) meant traditional bowl of carbtastic lentil soup scoffed. kept away from shortbread, sausage rolls and sandwiches, and left the carrots in the bowl, so not as bad as it might have been.

on a more negative note, drank three cups of super-strong funeral coffee and felt like i was going to join deceased in a heart attack. (then visited glasjam, who is looking vv foxylicious thanks to her love of ww pittas and salad, and drank further two cups and gabbled at her long-suffering dh for half an hour about television ). i haven't drunk anything but decaf for five year.

am going to do zoe harcombe five day thing next week, just for the brown rice. the book is v 'all diets are MADNESS', as it she's not spotted that it's called The Harcombe Diet.

PS after such a long post you lot had better answer with lots of pos affirmation.

cyb · 19/03/2010 20:51

Lesinge you write in a veh entertaining way

I've just been for another meal (thats 3 in a fortnight) but dh won rather splendidly at Cheltenham so has money to burn

Ususally after a usual days eating for me (pig portions) I nfeel quite ill after a meal out. With my new frugal intake I feel positively perky after a lovely Italian meal

This is how normal, SLIM people must feel all the time!

largeginandtonic · 19/03/2010 20:53

Erm... lentils are healthy? I suppose not if you are supposed to be avoiding carbs Very well done on not eating the sandwiches and sausage rolls though.

You sound focused, that is good. Keep a check of weight, it does spur you on.

I want to buy a good diet recipie book. Partic for one as dh is away so much. Anyone know a good one?

Don't say eat with the kids. Is hell. They all require too much 'work' atm to actually eat anything myself.

largeginandtonic · 19/03/2010 20:58

What did you eat Cyb? I love eating out.

Oh lord i am losing ability to type. Am on second double martini. Olives in this one. The children have snaffled the rest of the caper berries.

Amwatching that 'Place in the Sun'.That woman looks curvy on screen. I met her last year at a picnic and she is tiny. Her children are beautiful.

LeSingeEstDansLarbre · 19/03/2010 21:02

merci buckoo, cyb.

yyy lentils healthy, i love them but technically am low carbing so i don't have to buy new dress for the Shortest Notice Wedding Du Monde. although the lentils are one of the reasons that i'm after the harcombe thing, because after your five days of weird eating, you seem to be able to eat either a carb meal with no fat (so veggie curry, chili, ratatat with brown rice etc which i LOVE and olive oil seems not to count as a fat because it's not animal) or a veg and meat meal. not quite understanding it yet but she seems obsessed with candida and hypoglycaemia and something else. she's pro the GI diet, but i think that's a longer term thing. i do wish she wouldn't keep shouting at me about the foul pestilence that is candida, though.

BariatricObama · 19/03/2010 21:04

god singe i can't be doing with books. all i need is su shouting 'eat less you fatty' tbh

LeSingeEstDansLarbre · 19/03/2010 21:10

yes i know what you mean but i feel the need to do something rather outre or i will join the family for dinner and that is deadly. i am terrible at controlling portions.

tbh i think this low carb thing is a bit of a honk, though. my breath is rotten and i bet it's secretly low cal because i am now thinking 'i will kill myself if i eat another piece of cheese'.

LeSingeEstDansLarbre · 19/03/2010 21:11

(portionn control thing i put down to coming from large family and competition for MORE at dinner table).

BariatricObama · 19/03/2010 21:14

yes i am from a large family and am incapable of stopping eating until there is nothing left. i have to curb this behaviour when deflating

LeSingeEstDansLarbre · 19/03/2010 21:19

it makes me think that when the girls get older i'm going to be one of those 'big bowls on the table and serve yourself'-type households.

cyb · 19/03/2010 21:20

large g and t I had gnocchi in tomato sauce, a beer and a couple of spoonfuls of ds's ice cream when he fell asleep at the table.

I now LOVE black tea. Our fridge is overflowing with pints of milk because old milky guts here has given it up.

LeSingeEstDansLarbre · 19/03/2010 21:22

i think milky tea is disgusting, always have. all that fat swilling about on the top. coffee, for some reason, i have no problem with.

i am addicted to fennel and nettle, it's lush.

cyb · 19/03/2010 21:24

BO and LE Singe sounds daft I know but I eat off a side plate.

CoupleofKooks · 19/03/2010 21:29

god can i come back it is all nice and peaceful here

largeginandtonic · 19/03/2010 21:30

Am getting that fennela and nettle tea. I too hate milky tea. Am an earl grey strong girl.

Gnocci mmmmmmmmm. Tried to make that once. It did not go well.

I am form a large family too. It is eat quick or starve. Not a good way to be.I feel the need to clean my plate at every meal.

I have found the quickly chucking the leftovers in the bin stops me eating moe than i need.

Going to bed early helps too. A good book is the way to go.

largeginandtonic · 19/03/2010 21:33

Good grief. Ignore typing. Am slightly tipsy

cyb · 19/03/2010 21:34

coupleofkooks of course you can come back, are you getting a headache on another thread? We are just gently chewing the metaphorical fat here.

I am perusing the tinterweb for potential partay frocks too

cyb · 19/03/2010 21:35

I've just started a Sarah Waters actuallement, it seems really good

cyb · 19/03/2010 21:37

oh my , I think I've seen something similar to this stuffed under a bush down an alley

LeSingeEstDansLarbre · 19/03/2010 21:46

vile.

sarah waters has more good descriptive lines on one page than i could come up with in a lifetime. she's awesome, imo.

am a weak lady grey. we should get married. i also like a large gin and tonic. re the fennel and nettle, i got it cos i like it but have since looked it up and it says it's good for digestive stuff (low carbing and still regular suggests some truth ) and DIETING.

LeSingeEstDansLarbre · 19/03/2010 21:47

what other thread, kooks? have the wankers gone all existential on yo' ass? btw what happened to rhubarb, i missed it all?

SuSylvester · 19/03/2010 21:53

come back kooks

was so tired today i bought marks north indian curry emal thing
have eatsn some and left some for dh
Ate one regular portion not hog portions ?

CoupleofKooks · 19/03/2010 21:56

thanks chaps
i shall just sit here quietly letting the banter wash over me
it;s a jungle out there

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