Onwards And Downwards Continues In April 2014

[AB Editor]

Onwards and Downwards Continues in April 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.

Continuing with the seasonal food theme, and also skillfully avoiding the whole how to make Easter boring with no chocolate :-), in April we should be eating these sorts of things:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/seasons/april

It seems now is a good time for seafood like crab, cockles and sardines.

Here is something which looks lovely:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/pastaconsarde_91609

Has anyone got any other ideas for April's seasonal food?

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

Here is last months thread

[xstitcher]

Hope your "bad days" were good tasting OG

[wendilla]

Good Morning Mary and well done you are certainly on the downwards lately .Og off to the naughty step I completely forgot but I am not too worried not had any chocolate and feel I have stayed the same . Will weigh tomorrow.

[Old_Geezer]

Well, as noted weight change doesn't always seem to be in the same 24 hours as the high intakes. But there were a few decent meals (2 from pubs) there, which I only do sometimes when it's not a work week.

The first saw a steak & ale pie with peas & chips & the best tasting gravy ever. That was on the Friday. I had to guess the nutrition values but that day was way up.

Then on the Monday the half chicken (at a different pub) actually looked almost half chicken size ! I wasn't expecting that. The only issue was it was a "special" marinated in piri piri. I thought I was ordering a medium hot, thought being a pub it might be mild ... it wasn't, and I felt it at the time (and I awoke with my 'stomach' complaining next morning !)

Ah well back to the diet :-)

[Old_Geezer]

Well done Wend.

[wendilla]

Og it was xstitcher that has lost not me . I forgot to weigh . Will do it tomorrow,

[Old_Geezer]

Oh, it's my mind getting old, it was the, "stayed the same", that stuck with me. when I'd finished reading.

[wendilla]

OG when my son takes me out for dinner we go to a place where they cook everything from fresh and I have the steak and stilton pie . wow it is to die for .

[Maydup]

Morning all, no change for me this week.

I have had some time off work this week and that always calls for a few lunches out with OH plus we had chips last night! I have balanced the treats with healthy days and all in all I'm quite pleased to have maintained to be honest.

[wendilla]

Hi Maydup I seem to,stay the same for a few weeks if I have had a few meals out . But well,done to have stayed the same

[xstitcher]

Hi Maydup ...you really know the art of balancing the good and not so good and I think that is what it is all about. Can you imagine anything more boring than lunching with a calorie counter or lettuce lover?

[penelope2]

Finally back on track ( I think/hope ). Recent rib injury resulted in a pneumothorax so a couple of days of hospital food resulted in a 2lb loss. Back on original diet regime and limited exercise routine so hope to report a consistant fall over next few weeks.

[xstitcher]

Gosh you really have been in the wars. It's good to have you back and even though no one wants to be in hospital at least you lost 2 lbs.
This reminds me of giving birth to my last baby in a hospital way up in northern Norway and one day having some rather delicious deep fried somethings. Well they were delicious until I asked what they were and was told they were cod tongues!

[penelope2]

Cod tongues !!! Sounds interesting.

[wendilla]

Sorry to hear about your injury Penelope hope you will soon be ok.

Xstitcher I have never heard of cod tongue so I googled it and found it was the muscle from the back of neck .I had visions of a real tongue lol.

[xstitcher]

I always thought it was the real tongue because the have tongues or at leaset something that looks like a tongues.

[xstitcher]

Good morning all. I don't believe it. I'm down two pounds again after totally pigging out at a hotel breakfast buffet on Sun. This makes a loss of six kilos since I started going down with five to go to get me on the BMI that I want.

[wendilla]

Morning Xstitcher and well done . 2 weeks since I weighed and a loss of 1 lb . Since I have not been writing and planning my next weeks lists out for shop I don't seem to be doing so well so I have done this yesterday when I went asda so hopefully I am going to have a good loss next week ,

[xstitcher]

You will get a better result Wendilla. Planning your menus is a big help.

[Old_Geezer]

Well done both.

Seems all are doing well save me. Well it was not a good weekend foodwise. What with Saturday evening at the pub, where I treated myself to my first bag of pork scratchings for 1 1/3rd years (they put nutrition on the bag these days, one bag is almost half a day's allowance !) and the three course meal given me Sunday evening.

Weight has been dropping since then but at this stage it is still up 1¼ lbs since last Wednesday. I really must be good this weekend.... oh hang on one minute there, it's another BH one isn't it, probably a cold wet one again too. Hmmmmm.

[wendilla]

Scratches her head