Frugal February

Blinko; as I said, I'm very small boned so 10st isn't as good as it sounds. Also I'm totally flat chested so all of my weight is from the waist down.

Happy Shrove Tuesday Frugeleers.

Fingers crossed I'm not the only Frugeleer to have fallen off the wagon enjoyed
Pancake Day.

Scoffed not 1 but 2_pancakes with granular sweetener, and lemon?

Delicious

Frugal pancakes [grin} are delicious.

Really delicious

I had two, well I had no choice as I bought some gluten free mixture and that’s what it made. Waste not want not.

For supper

Lamb shank cooked in onion and garlic gravy, mixture of carrot, parsnip and turnip, and also mixture of green stuff like beans, peas tender stem etc. So no potatoes. But still a bit heavy on calories I think.

Bad, bad day for me. Not having a very good time, food wise or any other wise either.

misadventure the good thing is that there is always tomorrow

Missadventure

Ah, thank you. I'm such a comfort eater, I'm embarrassed and rather cross with myself for being so weak. But being cross will only make me eat more.
As you say, tomorrow is another day. thanks again.

Just think one day at a time MissA - see if you can report back this time tomorrow on a ‘good’ day ?

WW that must have filled you up - all that veg. Bet you didn’t feel hungry after that. Sounds yummy.

Low veg count today as I forgot to have lunch. Sadly that meant I got a fit of the munchies this evening so am writing today off.

Roll on tomorrow and a new start.

I'm a comfort eater, I guess, but it doesn't comfort me; I sometimes think I do it to make myself miserable [if that makes sense?].

Three, yes 3, pancakes (very thin) with lots of lemon juice and proper sugar.
And very nice they were too.

I never forget to eat.

Jalima I reckon if I lived alone I’d not be fussed about eating at fixed times. DH’s family have a history of type 2 diabetes (his mother and both brothers). If I don’t regulate his meals and cook them he’ll go foraging and inevitably goes for bad options (for him) such as a sandwich.

I managed to avoid the pancakes, had a very virtuous dinner with lots of veg and tested my blood glucose after 2hours. It was 5.4 so went out the freezer and polished off half a tub of Hagen Daz Salted Caramel ice cream! Weight this morning was 67.7 kg as it has been all week. Sigh!

Bad day yesterday. American blueberry pancake plus we went out for a meal with friends in the evening.... Must try harder to eat salads when out. Somehow I get waylaid by all the other options on the menu.

Was a bit put out yesterday when my jeans seemed a tad tight and harder to zip up even though they have a bit of stretch in them. Decided they’re clean enough to wear for a second day today but when putting them on noticed they were size 12.

I had a couple of pairs left over from a few years ago and must have grabbed one of those. Thank you Mr Dentist ?

blink I’m just the same. Lunch tomorrow with friend and I have huge temptation to eat chips because we never have them at home.

Today is if I’m really good a very low carb day.
Porridge
Salad
Fish stew which is only 143 calories, and so quick to cook.

Now if I could keep to that I will have lost weight when I weigh in in the morning.

Morning Frugeleers
Well good news for DH
who eats more than me & had 4
pancakes!
Lost 8 pounds!!

Weighing myself tomorrow
But don't feel I have lost anything,
clothes don't feel any looser

The only difference between us, is that DH doesn't eat breakfast.
He has lunch 1pm or later.
I love my breakfast and try and keep to 18:6 plan.
Which means eating evening meal before 6pm.

I feel whoozy if I get to 10am without eating.

However if the scales are not kind tomorrow then I will try and eat after midday for the 3rd week of frugal February.

I think, if anyone goes out socially, it's best to eat what you like and enjoy it, and then just get back on track the following day. Read an interesting article in the Time Weekend last night; it's from a book called SECRETS FROM THE EATINGLAB; THE SCIENCE OF WEIGHT LOSS, THE MYTH OF WILLPOWER AND WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER DIET AGAIN [phew...]. In a nutshell, it affirms what I said about always having one weight that I returned to that was more than I wanted to be but always found it difficult to lose weight from; says that our body recognises our ideal weight, which might not be a fashionable weight but, to weigh less than that means you are constantly fighting with your body. To eat the veggies first in a meal, and always have something healthy to snack on ready and waiting if we've been out and get home tired and hungry [which, to me means the M&S ready meals]. I wish I could do a link to it; it was a very interesting article.

Yes, there’s something called a ‘set point’ which is the weight your body wants to defend. The science behind it is to do with fat cells (which your body has created to store your excess fat) and how they want to keep topped up. This in turn had to do with evolution and us being programmed to store fats in times of plenty to use up in times of famine.

If you take a race like the Maori, as just one example.

They were a travelling and warrior race and genetically programmed to survive long periods on very little. Consequently, now the majority of Maori live as we do, in a land of plenty, they accumulate fat very easily and are very prone to type 2 diabetes.

There’s a plethora of diet books out there cashing in on the diet industry. Each contain a grain of truth, but when push comes to shove they are all after your money.

I do agree with having plenty of veg, and eating it first might help fill you up. I also think it’s a great idea to plan that healthy snack, or even a not too healthy snack if it keeps you on track for the rest of the day.

But it’s all about finding out what suits you, what you can stick to (most of the time) and gradually reducing our ‘set points’. And ? not thinking that being on a ‘diet’ means there’s an end to it. It’s for life.

That wasn’t meant to be a lecture but an inspirational and motivational post. But it did sound a bit like a lecture so sorry ???

I think we all must try to remember that diet is about what we eat, not losing weight. Better to be over what we think of as the weight we want to be and eating a good, healthy diet than being stick thin and eating badly. I noticed, yet again that the models in the Times this week looked half starved; I thought there was a move towards healthier, more rounded looking models.

Totally agree Tegan