Onwards And Downwards Continues In July 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.

This month we would love your low calorie breakfast ideas, thanks to OG. After watching a couple of semi-scary TV programmes this week about how bad our diet is in general some fresh ideas would be welcomed :-).

One programme even suggested that going back to a traditional FUll English is a good idea, less sugar and processed carbs etc!! Not sure if I have time for that every morning.

This sounds yum though:

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1507665/skinny-pepper-tomato-and-ham-omelette

or

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1507664/cinnamon-porridge-with-banana-and-berries

Let us know how you start your day a low-calorie way.

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

Here is last months thread

[wendilla]

Got a bit mixed up with the glass lol if you read back

[jennyjoan]

Thanks guys for those wee tips. Am doing ok but as Maydup says - the sweet tooth rears her ugly head at night. I am not too fond of rice cakes but
bought some wafers (you know those ones for icecream) no icecream of course.

[xstitcher]

For that sweet tooth....check out thediabetic sweet things in your larger supermarkets. I have just made a diabetic pistachio cake which can be eaten with a good conscience.

[AB Editor]

Welcome jennyjoan and good luck.

Just to let everyone know i will be doing the new thread on Thursday this week (where has July gone?!) and am open to ideas for the theme.

See you in a couple of days x

[whirlyhurly]

Amazing to find out some people can face eating 3 meals a day. Even as a child and still today I could not get up any appetite to eat breakfast. A couple of slices of toast mid morning, and one meal per day at 5pm ish. So my low-cal start for the day is (after dog walkies) just a cup of tea.

[xstitcher]

Yes it certainly is lo cal whirlyhurly but definitely not recommended as a healthy way of starting the day. One of your pieces of toast with that cuppa would help.

[xstitcher]

Hi Ed....
How about ideas with fish that would fit in with our lo fat standards???

[wendilla]

Welcome whirlyhurly . As xstitcher says breakfast is the most important meal,of the day . I would not think you would have a weight problem if that is all you eat in a day . Do you need to lose weight?

Although I have 3 meals a day it is not 3 large meals . Breakfast varies with treat of bacon on Sundays .lunch would be small salad or in colder weather soup and dinner would be chicken meat or fish with plenty veg . We don't call it diet we call it healthy eating .

[nannybooby]

omg -couldn't be doing with all the faff of that omelette Ab Editor not tetion the cost (5 eggs !!!) two poached eggs slice of granary bread and marmite - no butter or spread is quicker and tastier and cheaper.

[xstitcher]

Sounds good nanny

[Old_Geezer]

I think one's mind/body get used to a routine. Regardless whether it is best for it or not. But if one is visiting this thread and yet eats but one meal a day, it either doesn't work too well as a diet, or that is one heck of a daily meal ! Or perhaps more likely, there is a lot of compensatory snacking that goes on through the day. Worth considering what the issue might be, I think.

[Old_Geezer]

No spread, on toast ? :-(
Probably a failing of mine but I'd feel deprived swallowing all that dry stuff.

[xstitcher]

She might be eating it with the poached on top??

[xstitcher]

Well waif OG

[xstitcher]

Whoops...will try again

Well said OG.

[Old_Geezer]

Ah, I see, I should re-read before answering. A couple of eggs are not low cal though are they ? About 63 plus a gram of sat fat. Actually they are less than I have been thinking they are: maybe I need to eat them at times other than Sunday breakfast.

My toast tends to be either just the spread, or if I'm feeling naughty maybe a little Gentleman's Relish. Although Coleman's English Mustard isn't that uncommon :-) I'm unsure it'd be moist enough with just the relish though.

[xstitcher]

You are kidding OG......relish and mustard on your toast....oh well why not, I used to love a gooey mess of peanut butter on mine.....ah those were the days.
Although I didn't put on weight from it I'm sure my arteries went from a lovely 4 lane highway to a single lane country road.
I have been told that one egg yolk is 12% fat and the limit for us should be no higher than 10% and even that is pushing it.

[wendilla]

Whoops must stop having the double Yokers from the farm .

[xstitcher]

Ah poor you Wendilla, but double yokers aren't such a good idea....sorry to have to say that.

[Old_Geezer]

Is yoker a slang term for a farm hand ?