Onwards And Downwards Continues In June 2014

[AB Editor]

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.

Have not got a theme this month so how about your favourite go to healthy recipe.

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

Here is last months thread

[Old_Geezer]

Is there no way you could find a "saving" earlier in the day to allow you to not worry so much about eating more at 10 ?

Or you could go to bed and read while he had tea & bickies downstairs.

I don;t have a lot of suggestions re recommended snacks, but I do look at the 'go ahead' brand when I want something around for mid afternoon. Some snacks are less calorific than others, probably just need to compare labels at the next supermarket shop.

[xstitcher]

I have an idea for you Maydup...if you can find a supermarket that has a good range of diabetic foods you will find lovely biscuits, snack bars, ice creams and even cake mixes plus more. They will tick off the boxes for you. As far as fruits go..any that have the end word ....berry...are lowest in calories.

[wendilla]

OG I Have bought the G0 ahead brand biscuits but I am not content with just one so it's a losing battle .

[Old_Geezer]

So long as it's just one packet at a time ;-)

[Old_Geezer]

Maybe if you nibbled at it instead ?

I tend to think if you have reached the stage where you need to indulge to quell hunger, you've probably not had enough veg at the last meal, or something.

[xstitcher]

I like to have something that tastes sweet to r ound off my last meal of the day and then that's it until breakfast.
About eating the go whole package of biscuits could you not say to yourself. I'll have two and no more. That usually works for me. It does become a habit in time.

[wendilla]

Got the battery for my scales . I tell myself just one more . I pick up a cake in asda then I say to myself what you picking that up for as that's a few more ounces on your weight on Wednesday so I put it back . I try to stick to if I don't buy it I can't eat it .

[xstitcher]

I can see your halo glowing from here Wendilla. Well done.

[Maydup]

Thanks all for your thoughts. This evening I'd had my meal of low fat cannelloni with a sizeable salad followed by strawberries and total 0% yoghurt with a squirt of diabetic friendly Sweet Freedom. Now, lets see if I can leave it at that!

In the meantime I will look for the diabetic friendly biscuits in the supermarket as you suggest - excellent idea. To be honest this is all left over from the days when I was a smoker and replaced one 10o'clock habit with another.

I've been OK for a while but am struggling again now with this retched sweet tooth. It only ever emerges in the evening.

Berries at the ready!

[xstitcher]

[xstitcher]

Good morning all,
Down almost two pounds so have a smilie face this morning.
Did you find the diabetic biscuits Maydup? Hope it goes well for the rest of you.

[janbee]

Well done to all "losers". You're all winners . !!

[wendilla]

Morning all I am still the same as usual. MAYDUP that was the same as me I did not have too much of a problem when I smoked but stopped 16 years ago when my first grandson was born. Well done Xstitcher you are well on track now.

[xstitcher]

Thanks Janbee, how's it going with you?

[Old_Geezer]

Apologies but I'm not noting weights at the moment. I'll do so again once the week long period of 24 hour a day feasting and such like, that the scales are consistently claiming occurred, actually does.

[xstitcher]

Please don't leave us OG. Your sharp wit would be a terrible loss for us.

[AB Editor]

//Well done to all "losers". You're all winners . !! //

seconded :-)

morning all, just a quick note to let you know that I know its then end of the month next week! Where the hefalump did June go???

Any ideas for a theme would be gratefully received, please don't make me talk about "salads" :-)

Cheers and see you all next week.

[Old_Geezer]

Well, that's kind. Often folk add a letter to the start of that description, but maybe they're from oop north ?

To be honest they don't always get the vowel right either.

Hmmm... it's not so much a case of going, it's a case of needing to eat like a horse for a whole week to justify the readings I'm getting. I didn't resist ordering pizza, and the like, just to be informed that, as a reward for my restraint, I'm back at the start of the year.

[xstitcher]

Oh dear OG those scales are giving you a hard time. Maybe we should pass the hat around and buy you new ones ha ha . Mine for instance are being very good at the moment. They are just ordinary run of the mill middle priced digital ones.

[xstitcher]

Hi Ed.,
What about ideas for lo cal desserts? That's about as far away from salads as you can get!