Onwards And Downwards Continues In February 2014

[AB Editor]

Onwards and Downwards Continues in February 2014

Hello all,

Welcome to this month's Onwards & Downwards. We welcome anyone serious about losing weight and we offer support and kind thoughts - not magic fixes, just sensible help.

Welcome to the month of love everyone, February is here. So how do you combat all the chocolates and cakes due around the 14th? Could you gently suggest to your sweetheart a low sugar, non fat alternative?

Are there any and what do they taste like? I like the look of these:

http://www.hanielas.com/2012/01/delicious-roasted-potatoes.html#.UuuAatJ_uAg

And these heart shaped tomatoes with a healthy dip:

http://eyecandy.nanakaze.net/?p=128

Please do give us your ideas about a healthy Valentine's Treat.

Don't forget your weekly weigh on Wednesday and remember we don't judge!

Here is last months thread

[xstitcher]

Well done Marijn but pls don't ignore us. Your input is so valuable bad much appreciated.

[Marijn]

Thanks Xstitcher, I will keep coming to the Onwards and Downwards Club. :-)

[boxtops]

I am very pleased to report (albeit rather late in the day) that I had lost another 2 lbs this week (after being static for 3 weeks) - so I have a star for losing half a stone since Jan 1!

[Maydup]

Congratulations Boxie and marijn. Stick around won't you.

[wendilla]

Well done Boxtops it pays off to persevere as I have a habit of staying the same for a few weeks then a loss but not easy at this time of the year.

[Old_Geezer]

So far it seems good news all round so far then.

Aye Wend, it's been a couple of decent weeks, but still only at around the mid December weight, and it does seem to go up and down over the week so it's sheer luck what it reads on Wednesday. Still, maybe I've got over Xmas at last.

[xstitcher]

Good morning all,
I have stayed the same so must be due for a drop soon. My daughter is coming for a few days next week so that might be harmful weight wise hmmmmm.
we'll done to the rest of you. There doesn't seem to be much in the gaining department.

[Old_Geezer]

Excellent. I'm sure your daughter will keep you on the "straight & narrow".

[Old_Geezer]

Up ½ lb :-(

Well it was a high intake weekend (and Tuesday) yet the rise was when I had been good Monday, at the Tuesday weighing. Ho hum.....

[wendilla]

Completely forgot it was Wednesday weigh day . I feel as if I am the same but will weigh tomorrow. Be careful OG in case you put back what you lost last week.

[xstitcher]

Have had a visit from darling daughter who lives in the UK. She left early this morning and all thoughts of weighing in were far, far away because of the upheaval...will get weighed tomorrow.

[ferlew]

Can't get weighed :(
I was weighing obsessively and it was getting silly, so I asked OH to hide the scales.

[wendilla]

Yes ferlew not a good thing to weigh more than once a week .

[Old_Geezer]

:-p Folk should be more curious than that. Obsessively is more than once a day.

[xstitcher]

I think that weighing yourself more than once a day is like stuffing mushrooms...life is too short for it....

PS: I can now be heard OG!

[Old_Geezer]

Who said that ?!?

[xstitcher]

A dead mushroom stuffer OG

[xstitcher]

By the way OG I have just given as best an answer as I could about how I fixed it

[boxtops]

Hi all, I am pleased to report another 2 lbs off yesterday, that's 10 lbs since I started on 1 January :-)

[wendilla]

Well done Boxtops top of the class .