"Plump Polly".....golden oldie..........Newbie

Pollywotsit

Pollywotsit

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:wavey: Hi, well I'm still trawling round this site...which is brilliant, after joining a few days ago, replying here and there trying to find my way around. I joined SW 4 weeks ago and am really enjoying it. I'm beginning to realise I'm just about the oldest one of my group, being "clickety click", hope I'm not the oldest one on here just starting! Everyone tells me being older, the weight will take longer to come off, and hope I can be really patient. I don't think me writing a diary would be very interesting, I'm a plain old fashioned type cook, and TBH, I haven't even heard of some of the ingredients I've seen mentioned on here (I must have lead a very sheltered life!lol) I'm really eating everything I normally eat, but have cut out all the naughties! I've got told off for not using my syns, but I'm having SO much to eat that I would just have to stuff myself at the end of the day to fit them in. The most I've had in 4 weeks is 10.5...and that was the day I bought the HiFi Mint Choc bars (something I could get addicted to, VERY easily.)
I live on my own and started another thread about cooking for one, I've already made too much of everything and my fridge and freezer are groaning with the weight.
I've dieted on and off all my adult life, but this is the first time I've joined a group, and then a friend pointed me to this forum...and I've spent hours just reading.

I'll try and do a bit of a diary, but any hints or tips OR suggestions will be very gratefully accepted. I got the official SW diary muddled for the first 3 weeks...everything in the wrong columns, and hope I've sorted it out this week. If I'm going wrong, someone PLEASE tell me.xx

Breakfast:- black coffee, 2 slices WM toast (HE>B)1extra light cheese triangle spread with marmite and cucumber on the top.

Dinner:- diced pork, roasted first with 1Cal then added to a casserole, mushrooms, onions carrots, 1/2 tin toms, celery, 1 cup Bisto gravy.

Tea:- salad.....chinese leaves, toms, cucumber, beetroot, celery, and pilchards.......salad dressing extra light. 2 crispbreads with 1 cheese triangle.
(I've added the crispbreads because wasn't having enough fibre, and my syns were almost nil.)

Mullerlite orange with choc sprinkles.
Pickings, fruit...fruit...and more fruit!

I use my milk allowance for HE.A, and my WM Bread for HE B. I like good gravy, and then salad cream or dressing on my salads. I can use about 4 syns on those 2.
I've joined the Christmas challenge, that's on another thread, and hoping to achieve that goal.

I've GOT to lose the weight, have started having probs with my knees, and suffer with tachycardia, and I should have lost it years ago, I'm now the biggest I've ever been, and it's bought me down in the dumps, a feeling I'm sure most of you are familiar with.
Well I've written half a book, so looking forward to hearing from anyone xx
 
Hey Polly! Well done for taking the plunge on the diary. Your food looks fine to me - just the syns on the crisp reads and cheese triangles yeah? I don't know the syn vals for those, but I'd guess it can't be more than 8 at the outside?

Are eating your syns - horses for courses. To me, you get all your nutrition with the basic diet. The syns allow you to 'have a bit of what you fancy' and not go off the rails. If you're getting stuffed without them and still losing, then that would be OK I'd have thought. The main thing are the healthy extras and you're having them.

I hit rock bottom too, and I think whilst I may initially manage an average of 2lbs loss per week, it certainly isn't going to suddenly drop off or anything. So a long journey for me too. I'll be keeping an eye out for your diary though. Good luck!

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Start weight: 17st 7lbs
Week 1 -4lbs
Week 2 -2lbs
Week 3 -1.5lbs
Week 4 -2lbs
Current weight: 16st 11.5lb
Total loss: 9.5lbs
74.5/84 to go.....
 
Hi there, well crispbreads are 1.5 syns each, and extra light cheese triangles are 1. they're not very tasty and as I'm a marmite lover, I have it on the cheese topped off by slices of cucumber. That's a refreshing sandwich I used to have anyway, just swapped bread for crispbreads.
I've read some of the other diaries and food content is SO much more interesting than mine.
A bit of what you fancy...yes definitely, but I wouldn't enjoy a salad without salad cream, I'm trying the other dressings I've bought, but not enjoying it as much. I've bought extra light Mayo, so will see how that tastes. I daren't have chocolate.....it's too tempting, but can avoid cakes quite easily. Not something I normally buy, except if my Grandies are coming to stay!!
My 4th weigh in tomorrow, and then I shall do my own diary at home without having to hand one in, don't know about anyone else but I think they can be a huge help! have a good day xx
 
Hi Polly, I'm in my first week of SW and am doing it online so this forum is great for me. I reach the big 60 at the end of the year and over the last 10 years have gradually put on weight so that now I'm at my heaviest ever. I might be fat and frumpy in my 50's but aim to be slim and sexy at 60. Have broken my goal down so it's not too daunting; will readjust once I hit that first target. My first weigh in is tomorrow, although I know I've lost 4lbs this week as I weighted myself on joining the site a couple of days ago.
Your 8.5lb weight loss is brilliant. I also love salad cream and mayonnaise and buy the lowest fat ones. I also like balsamic vinegar sprayed on my salad (prefer it to other dressings). Will let you know how I get on with my weigh in and look forward to hearing about yours.
 
Good luck Christine. I think talking to other people and keeping a food diary are 2 of the biggest helps. When you're chatting to other people who have the same goal as yourself, and hearing how they do, it's such an incentive to keep going yourself, that's what I'm finding anyway. My friend (we're on another forum, but Craft not slimming) she lost 5 stones doing it at home on her own and no group, now THAT'S what I call willpower. She's the same weight as me now, and we're doing it together and we chat every day about what we have etc. It's just so nice knowing everyone on here is doing the same thing, no matter what diet you're on. xx:)
 
Wow 5 stone - that is impressive. Also gives people like me the encouragement to know that we can do this as well. I'll post my food diary here each day if it will help; may help us to swap diaries and see what each other eats and give us ideas etc.
 
I started a diary, but I'm really boring. Have just done plain old fashioned cooking all my life, and I don't even know what some of the ingredients are the other ladies use...I have to keep googling! lolol! I started a thread about cooking for one (I'm a widow) and live on my own, because I've cooked like I always do, hot pots, casseroles etc etc,. and my freezer is full because I keep cooking too much!
Today I've had:
B. 1 slice medium WM toast(largeslice), spread with extra light cheesy triangle, then marmite and topped with cucumber. drink was lemon squeezed into boiled water
L. W/M toast, beans and bacon.........plum and nectarine and a brew
D. prawn salad, perhaps have a couple of ryvita with that with a cheesy triangle...........otherwise I won't get hardly any syns in today. 4 counted for the second slice of toast.
Usually have my full milk allowance with my tea, for HE A, and my WM bread for HE B .
Looking forward to seeing yours x

Oh my post is at the top, sorry I repeated myself...duh!!
 
Hi Polly, here is my food diary for today:-

Breakfast - strawberries and banana

Lunch - 2 slices wholemeal bread (HEB), 1/2 tin tomatoes, 1 poached egg

Pre-dinner drink - small Pineau (2.5 syns); peanut nibbles (7 syns)

Dinner - large salad, small beef burger (3.5 syns), small potato, salad cream (70% less fat) (1 syn)

Total syns 14. Still have my HEA to use. I don't take milk in coffee or tea so tend to use it on cheese. Ah well can have 2 baby bonbel later
 
Polly/Christine- both your food look good, lots of balance between free and superfree. I must start keeping mine too as I've now finished the 4 weeks of sheets.

I've got a big birthday at the end of this year too - rather hoping to just scrape into the 13s by then, but will have to be super good to do it.
Anyway, good luck girls, keep at it and the results will come rolling in.

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Start weight: 17st 7lbs
Week 1 -4lbs
Week 2 -2lbs
Week 3 -1.5lbs
Week 4 -2lbs
Current weight: 16st 11.5lb
Total loss: 9.5lbs
74.5/84 to go.....
 
I like Weetabix, but I like it milky, am wondering what it would be like with fruit and yoghurt? I always had 1/2 pink grapefruit and black coffee for breakfast before I started SW. I wouldn't give my tea up for Weetabix. I tried black tea once before and it dries my mouth up, yet I can drink black coffee, doesn't really make sense. I don't mind herbal teas, but wouldn't want to drink them all day. I like to have a decent breakfast now, not huge but filling, if I just have fruit, I feel as if I'm starving a couple of hours later! :sigh:
I like toms on toast if I put a tiny bit of curry powder in, and shouldn't but like to add salt too. x
 
How about having skimmed milk and synning it for the weetabix then? Or try some of the other milks? E.g. I gave almond milk a try, its very thin like skimmed, but you can have 900ml a day.....

**********************************
Start weight: 17st 7lbs
Week 1 -4lbs
Week 2 -2lbs
Week 3 -1.5lbs
Week 4 -2lbs
Current weight: 16st 11.5lb
Total loss: 9.5lbs
74.5/84 to go.....
 
Oh I saw that on another post....somewhere. No I didn't duh! it was coconut milk! I was on Slimfast for months....(didn't lose anything, just got addicted to milk shakes) but made it all with skimmed. I DID think of doing that actually, it's nice to have another string to your bow for one meal at least. x
I wrote down all my food on one sheet (not a proper SW one) then every day transferred it to the right one. You have to write SO small, well I did, my group leader wanted everything detailed, so you couldn't write salad, you have to itemise everything. I wrote all my free foods for 3 weeks, then found out that the majority were Superfree, our group is so big around 70 now, she doesn't really have time for each individual person. It was one of the other members that put me right. i'm just going to use a note book, with free and superfree columns, and then on the back HE and Syns. I WAS going to do B>D>L etc but I'd be going back and forth all day. Because I hadn't got it right in the first place, I had a job to get my head around it...hopefully am ok now xx
 
ooops! that posted twice!
 
Having looked at the HexA milk list online I've tried a few different options. I've gotten quite used to the almond milk now, though dedicated cow's milk fans may not find it so palatable. Works great for me though on the days that I have my tea guzzling head on.

As for writing food up - I'd just say do whatever suits you. Overtime you'll intrinsically know what constitutes free, superfree etc, so it'll get much easier.

**********************************
Start weight: 17st 7lbs
Week 1 -4lbs
Week 2 -2lbs
Week 3 -1.5lbs
Week 4 -2lbs
Current weight: 16st 11.5lb
Total loss: 9.5lbs
74.5/84 to go.....
 
4.5lbs off at my first weigh in - wow feel so motivated now :):)
 
I've just congratulated you on the other thread, so now I'll do it again!! WELL DONE. Bit gutted as I stayed exactly the same, but not going to let it put me off. Am just thinking my body is settling into the diet....at least that's what I'm telling myself as I've been 100% since day 1.
My friend who I told you about, doing it at home like you, is 5lbs down this week! I'm not envious.......well maybe just a bit!! :grumble: lolol!
 
Sorry, forgot to say, I might be able to have different milk on something else, but definitely not in my tea. That's me being bought up with my Nan who always had sterilised milk........yuk!!:eek:
 
Hiya Polly - just popping by to subsctibe to your diary. Well done for starting one - they really can help.
Mine is mostly chatty stuff as I no longer write things down. After 6 years I no longer need to as it's just instinctive.

You said you were the oldest at your group and wondered whether you were the oldest on here.
I doubt it. I have one friend on here who is now 68. And another, who doesn't post much now is almost 79!
I'm a lot nearer 60 now than I would like to be - in fact celebrating Mr Poms 60th in September!

I'll keep popping by to see how you are doing. Come and join the chat on my diary if you'd like.
It's mostly pretty boring though there! Usually me moaning about being too hot and everyone else telling me to shut up! :8855:
 
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lololol!! and I would be saying that too! I shall only put something on if I get adventurous...I'm an old stick in the mud when it comes to cooking...hence I'm still doing the meals that I'm used to......but cutting out the naughty bits...like DUMPLINGS!! OMG, my mouth waters just thinking about them!:sigh: I've been stocking my cupboards with all sorts of things that I've picked up on here 50% I've never even heard of, and 100% don't know how to use! BUT,for every journey you have to make a first step, so......
Thank you for the invite, will go look.
actually, there were 2 ladies there yesterday that I hadn't seen before, they've both been on holiday, so now I feel positively quite young! (well inside my head is, it's just the body and odd wrinkle that gives the rest of me away!!) xx
 
Hi Polly; here is my food diary for today. Not very exciting I'm afraid so don't think it will give you much inspiration.

Breakfast - fat free/sugar free yogurt, banana

Lunch - wholemeal bread (HEB), 2 baby bonbel (HEA), tomatoes, cucumber

Snack - small pineau (local drink similar to brandy) 2.5 syns; peanut nibbles 7 syns

Dinner - ham, boiled egg, lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, onions, carrots, sweetcorn, salad cream 1 syn

Total syns 10.5
 
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