Onwards and Downwards April 2012

[AB Editor]

Onwards and Downwards Continues in April

Sorry we are a bit late this month busy, busy, busy!

I have noticed quite a few new members over the last couple of months so welcome to you all and we are glad to have you here to help and be helped:

JimJools, maggibee, notafish, daffy654, lillymoon, jules001, spotit3 and maidup

if I have missed anyone I apologise.

As the days are getting longer and warmer does anyone find it a bit easier to be good and eat more fruit and veg and not pile up on the stodgy food that is so tempting in the winter months?

Here is last months thread

[Maydup]

^^ Thanks TOH and sorry for calling you TOF!

[wendilla]

Well done again Jan. Top of the class.

Theotherhalf that is like me 2 years to lose 2 stone slowly but it is easier to maintain your weight the slower you take to get it off. I put a couple on stay the same lose it again but I would like to lose another stone.

[Old_Geezer]

LMAO at TOF, and coming up with amusing ideas what the F might stand for. :-)

Ummm ah yes, well done.

[Jan1957]

Thanks wendilla, much appreciated, and well done TOH. Keep up the good work. I have so much more to lose than others which is why I can have really good results now and again! Decided I still want to lose another 5 stone yet so going to take a long time.

[Marijn]

Well done to all who have lost. OG you seem to try so hard and follow your diet to the letter, but you say you don't get any weight loss. I'm wondering if you might have an under active thyroid. It's just an idea. I was diagnosed with under active thyroid a few years ago and I'm on tablets now.

[Old_Geezer]

I'd not know notafish, but if my thyroid is as under active as the rest of me it probably is. Thanks for the suggestion though. Come the warmer weather I may become more active, perhaps it'll all pick up then.

[tiggerblue10]

Morning all,

I've lost another 1lb this week :o)

[wendilla]

Well done Tigger a step in the right direction.

[wendilla]

http://i43.tinypic.com/p6l1v.jpg

[Old_Geezer]

Wish the work PC wasn't barred from that site, especially as the home one is on a 2 day hard drive check (at least that was what it claimed when I came downstairs this morning expecting to see just 7 hours left to go - I think it's found problems).

Isn't eating out ridiculously ruinous for us lot ? Discovered a new local Harvester and opted to try it out. No idea what the scald calories were but I don't eat rabbit food so it'd be higher than most salads. Then the chicken was 310kC on its own, the eggcupful of garlic sauce was a whopping 190kC mainly from the 10.6 grams of saturated fat (luckily I only had half) the jacket spud another 260, and the corn cob 120 too. And that's before we consider the 275 for the pear cider. Well I think I've messed up my chance of getting off the naughty step Wednesday then; I have to see, but I think I need to write Sunday off.

[Old_Geezer]

I swear on a stack of holy books I wrote "salad". But apparently reality has chosen to change it to "scald". How come other sites have no problem with post edit facilities ?

[wendilla]

And I bet you had that lovely crusty rolls and butter and all the bits that we get at our Harvester off the help yourself bar. and that's before you get your meal.

[xstitcher]

Here here, eating out is killing all healthy eating, but oh how enjoyable, until Wed when it is time to get on those scales.

[Old_Geezer]

Well I had one small roll, no butter, with the "salad" and the low calorie vinaigrette on that. I did try to be good. And I opted for the chicken which I'd hoped would be lower than other options. I reckon it was the extra corn on the cob that did for me. (couldn't eat half the spud at the end) it was all too much really, I was foolish to finish the chicken as I was already full, but I have qualms about an animal being killed for my food and me not actually eating it (silly me feels guilty enough at leaving the plantlife).

[Marijn]

OG, did it tell you on the menu, the calorie content for everything? It does on the Wetherspoons pubs menu.

[Old_Geezer]

It does, at least it says the calories, but no other nutritional info. But I double checked on the website where they have this annoying webpage ap where you select what you had. One disagreement. But I had to guess the salad part though as it can be any selection of stuff.

So now you are going to say I was forewarned, true, but I went mainly for the lowest option, apart from the garlic sauce, as I'd had the eggcupful of gravy the last time I was at a Harvester, quite a while ago I might add. Pleasant though it was it wasn't enough gravy.

It is only when you get back and total it all up that it hits you how you bust the day's allowance even though you were well under beforehand.

[Marijn]

Oh well, you deserve a treat now and again :-)

[Old_Geezer]

Clawed about half the excess back yesterday, it wasn't planned, just happened to be slightly under target for the day. (Although the only healthy veg I had was the lentil soup for lunch.) It'll be interesting tomorrow as to whether the scales claim I've gone up or down. Checking today's readingS it could go either way.

[Marijn]

Good luck for tomorrow OG and everyone. I have a feeling I'll be the same again. It would be a nice surprise to have lost some though.

[spotit3]

Can I Creep Back?

I have had a couple of rough weeks and have been comfort eating. Things now seem to be on the mend so can I creep back here back start agin please??