Frugal February

I also ate a chunk of cheese tonight [have been craving some for ages]. But it's still better than usual; what happens is I break my diet by eating something I shouldn't and then devour everything in sight for the next day or so.

Hi Cherrytree good to read you’re back on track. I’m fast coming to the conclusion after reading yours and everyone else’s posts that we have to expect these ‘wobbles’ as someone put it. It’s how we cope with them that’s important. So Tegan don’t beat yourself up, but don’t go on a three-day binge either. Get back on the horse.

Also your idea of an M&S dinner but with added veg sounds ideal. Go for it., they do fill you up. WW your veg was very similar to mine.

I’m planning at least 5 portions again to day. No fruit though, unless it’s a few berries.

I made a Sunday dinner yesterday as I have the DGC for a few days (it’s half term) and they love their proper dinners. Heaps of veg which is good but also 2 Yorkshire puds, a mountain of mash (with butter of course) and lashings of gravy which is not I missed my usual long walk on the beach too (too wild for the little ones) and after eating I felt like a beached whale.

That’s a good point Gilly makes - not counting potatoes as veg as far as 5-a-day.

Hey Frugaleers I’ve just seen this. Apt or what?

Today is porridge, a thin flat seeded bread square gluten free from M&S with ham and salad and Sour and hot mackerel with a spoonful of noodles.

Total calories about 1100 I think.

Is Thursday the last day of week 2? Only I’ve only seemed to have lost 1/2 lb so far and that is a bit up and down.
If I can manage lb that will be lb a week so far.

Three extras for Sunday roast chicken yesterday, I didn’t eat the stuffing nor any bread sauce.
However! I thought I might treat them and so made a fresh cream and jam sponge...... and guess who got to be left with most of it and couldn’t leave it alone when they had left.....

Thursday is the first day of Week 3 WW so you’ve still go three full days to shift 1/2lb, which is just about doable.

IMO porridge should count as 1 of your 5-a-day as it’s plant based. I count a portion of nuts as 1 - when I can eat them. Roll on Thursday.

Oh dogs ? you’d better go on the naughty step too.

Was woken up at the crack of dawn by a nuisance sales phone call, but because of that, when I got back to sleep I slept till 12 and the weight I put on over the weekend has gone., so I'm back on track. I've even got a box of Celebration chocolates in the living room that I haven't been tempted to eat. This is the sort of thing that, if I start eating, I'll just carry on 'to get rid of them'. I did ask the S.O. to take them to his house, but he forgot, so I'm now using them as a means of testing my resolve.

??? brilliant Tegan - the New Revolutionary Diet aka The Rip Van Winkle Diet.

Yep; almost beats 'The Mars Bar Diet' that I did a few years ago. And definitely beats 'The Brown Rice Diet' that me and a friend did over 40 years ago [and we still talk about to this day; I cheated and put Worcester sauce on mine but she ate hers 'straight' #respect!].

Right. I'm off the naughty step, and hoping to do much better this week.

I'm reminded of the dreadful Cabbage Soup diet of the 70's.
Why was it cabbage? Why not tomato or any other vegetable?
This weather is making me hungry. Don't eskimos eat whale fat for insulation or is that what they smother themselves with?
Lack of food has addled my brain!
Actually I've probably eaten better these past 2 weeks than I have in years.
Roll on spring.

Just coming up for 7.00pm so that’s me done eating until 10.00am tomorrow morning.

Today, tomatoes, broccoli, peas, cauliflower rice, pepper plus other plant based foods, quinoa, soy, lime and ginger.
Not forgetting some fermented grape juice ?

Do Eskimos still exist cavewoman I thought they’d be renamed ...or was that Jordan ?

Eskimo is a North American term for
eater of raw meat
The Arctic people are now officially known as Inuit

So fellow Frugeleers today....

Breakfast 10am
Oats, yoghurt, mixed berries, orange juice and coffee.

Snack
Banana

Midday
Mocha choc (1/2sachet of low cal drinking chocolate and 1/2 teaspoon coffee)
Rice biscuit.

Evening meal 6pm
Salmon cooked in oven with tomato, courgette, onion, celery and ginger (finely chopped) garlic.
Baked potato.
Coffee

Hopefully I can stick to just a lemon and ginger tea late evening
And then my breakfast will be 10am.?

Thanks to all for your inspiration.
Not too worried about my weight as BMI is in the normal range. However my waist to height ratio is too high at 50% so I want to lose 1 1/2" off waist to get in the healthy range. Maybe that goal is unrealistic but I will battle on. Trying to shrink some belly fat. I have a lovely size 14 Monsoon dress which would look great if my tum didn't protrude so much. Have hung dress up on bedroom door for motivation. Finding 16:8 diet manageable. Have cut out refined sugar and had to stop buying cheese!

Pancake day today, anyone indulging?

Thought I might have one at lunch time instead of lunch if you know what I mean?

Yesterday I ate one too many sandwiches. So that was two flat bread thingies and should have had just one as gone up 1/2 lb. one didnt look much of it. But our evening meal was simply a fish - mackerel with chilli and lime dressing and a tiny amount of rice noodles, so really that should have compensated.

Isn’t it hard?

Yes, it is hard WW luckily (?) for me I don’t have much choice with this blasted tooth issue, so I’m looking on that as a blessing! Get it fixed (IF the dentist can actually get the crown on and it stays on) on Thursday. Just hoping I don’t go bananas.

Though I do feel better for what’s become a pescatarian diet. Fish and vegetables only.

Speaking of fish I must thank WW for sharing her fish curry recipe.
We had tandoori cod with (half fat) coconut milk and jasmine rice. Delicious.
For tonight OH has requested chicken pie from Sundays leftover roast. He needs a MANS meal. To be fair I have inflicted my frugal ways upon him and he really doesn't need to lose weight.
So I will make said pie and try to keep my portion tiny.

Not long until Thursday OldMeg Every cloud......

Oh is it Thursday? meg what a relief that will be

Glad you enjoyed it cave and hope you enjoy your pie? I love pastry but it gives me indigestion these days, which is probably a blessing in disguise.

We have Mary Berries lamb shanks which are probably a bit heavy on the carbs but my butcher had an offer - so being frugal!!

Felt really bloated yesterday as I made lots of miso soup with vegetables and then forgot to add a few noodles which make it more filling. Did the gym and sauna, though [kept trying to find an excuse not to go but couldn't]. Going to have my turmeric drink and then a M&S ready meal before we go to the cinema. Weight on nasty scales is bang on 10st and not shifting; will feel really happy if the dial just goes down below that. Need some nice weather to motivate me to go for a walk....

Ooh, Tegan ten stone, that would be my goal! Just back from 3weeks hols in the sun, hotel life not really conducive to frugality though we did plenty of walking. Back now to 16:8 or when I can manage it, 18:6 with the aim of getting to the magic ten stone

Tegan keep going, just think how you will feel when you can say casually ‘oh I’m 9 stone something!’ ?

WW can you please direct me to your fish curry recipe, I must have missed it and there 19 pages to sift through on this thread? I think I’m developing gills ???

I have a cold so I'm feeling a bit miserable, probably soup for lunch if I cbb to make it.
Then I would be quite happy with a couple (or three) pancakes for dinner tonight but no doubt DH will want something else first. He can make himself something!
The lemon on the pancakes will be full of vitamin C anyway.