Onwards And Downwards Continues In June 2015

[ABAuntie]

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.

I hope everyone has been enjoying the small amount of warmer weather we had in the last couple of weeks, I think we are now into the April showers though!

Hopefully, the weather will start to really pick up and the traditional summer barbecues can really get going.

I think this is a great way to eat healthy, lots of salad (without dressing or with low fat if necessary) and plenty of protein, as long as it is cooked all the way through :-)

Here are a couple of bbq recipes which are healthy and remember if it rains you can always just go indoors and cook on the grill:

http://www.diabeticlivingonline.com/recipe/bbq-chicken-bites/

This looks yummy and you could always chuck in something different if you didn't like the ingredients.

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Homemade-Black-Bean-Veggie-Burgers/

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Grilled-Fish-Tacos-with-Chipotle-Lime-Dressing/

Sometimes no matter how great your meal is if you slather it with a full fat, high salt and sugar sauce you can be in trouble but making your own sauces can be really easy and you don't have to have bbqed the dinner to enjoy extra flavour

http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-detail.asp?recipe=64989

This is a healthy version of a basic bbq sauce, it is from an american site so obviously molasses means syrup :-)

and something a little different:

http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-detail.asp?recipe=104745

Enjoy!

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

Here is last months thread

[wendilla]

WOOPS OG it has all caught up with you .You seriously need to plan your meals now before it creeps up any more . Good luck for WED .

[maggiebee]

Thanks for your welcome to this thread. Pleased to report I'm down another pound this week. Only another one to go for my first stone. Wish it was my last but..............

[wendilla]

well done maggiebee. Keep up the good work .

[xstitcher]

Reaching your first goal post is a really important event and gives you the impetus to keep going. Now you know "it" works !

[Old_Geezer]

:-)
Keep up the good progress ;-)

[DTCwordfan]

2 stone 8 gone now, pushing 9, just 1 stone 10 to go, targeting end Sep!

[xstitcher]

That sound like a good sensible target word fan. We're rooting for you! Marvellous feeling isn't it.

[maggiebee]

Well done DTC - it's folk like you that keep me motivated. Thanks.

[wendilla]

Well done DT . You should be well on your way by sept if you carry on how you are doing .

Yes Maggi same here xstitcher and I started these posts about 3 years ago then ed took us over giving us a new monthly post . We gain some people and lose some but the majority come back to get back on the straight and narrow . x stitcher and I do our best to keep this posts going . She is doing very well and will pop in later . I know if I didn't check in each week My weight would not be easy to control.
This week I have lost 2 lbs so on my way again to that stone off .

[Old_Geezer]

Yes well done DTC, and wend.

As for me; 1 lb down this week allegedly. Which is weird as I've not had exactly a light week. Evening out at pub & pizzeria one night on a work's social, and a pub meal Sunday lunchtime. Plus more milk than usual for reasons too complex to state. And yet down ? Shows the previous rise seemed inexplicable.

[xstitcher]

Good morning all and big pats on the backs to our downers this week.

Since were really into summer salad season any homemade LO fat dressings would be really appreciated. The store bought Cal let arent very good as they are usually high in other no no things.

[wendilla]

Well done OG . Maybe your loss is due to eating enough and the weeks you gain you might not be eating the right amount if you understand what I am trying to say . Some weeks I go all out and eat a lot less and I don't lose . Other weeks I eat as normal within reason I don't mean eating crap and I can lose .

[ABAuntie]

Hi All,

Sorry have not forgotten about you, just having a busy week.

Little gnomes everywhere :-)

Will get to you this afternoon if thats ok xxx

auntie xxx

[wendilla]

No problem ab auntie .you never forget us .

[Old_Geezer]

If only that were that true wend. Most days I am over the set limit (which I know to be a good one as as few decades ago I joined WW and got a lot of general info at the time). I can not comprehend now how I used to manage to stay within limits. Maybe I was more enthusiastic then and more willing to put up with wanting more yet denying myself it.

[Old_Geezer]

I'm confused. Did I miss the July link ? If I look in "Weight Loss & Dieting" I don't even see this thread. Just two other threads.

[wendilla]

Just had a look OG and same here .maybe it is because ab auntie is in the process of the July thread as we have not got that yet . Have you had a good weekend nice and cool here tonight at last .

[Old_Geezer]

Pleasant weekend, but hardly "lite". And yourself ?

[ABAuntie]

hi all sorry its so late just doing the new thread now

[ABAuntie]

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