Dairy Of a Lardy kid aged 43 and 3 quarters...

[Lisa-Lisa]

"happy first day of weight loss" ......I LOVED that - it made me smile out loud

send me ANY recipes you think I'll like. My sweet tooth has defiantly calmed down a lot although that may change now being back on the plan and back to eating lots of carbs again.

well I've planned today as much as I can food wise. I've had a banana and coffee for breakfast, going to have some homemade broccoli and pea soup for lunch (another freezer lurker I made from weeks ago from when I was on the plan) with some ryvitas. Tea is going to be vegetable stir fry with noodles and homemade sweet and sour sauce. Last time I made the sweet and sour sauce it was gorgeous but I typically read the recipe then threw in what I thought regardless of the quantities so doubt I will get it exactly like it tasted last time. I've got some wine left over from last night so for 9 syns for a huge glass I think I'll be having a couple of them tonight too .

Hubbs is still at work, Sally is out bowling with her friends and then is going into town to do lunch etc and Sam is still laying in his pit watching TV. I'm going to crack on with making lunch and while I consider whether I go to the cemetery today or not (6 months today my lovely wonderful Mum and bestest friend passed away) Ive always put flowers down every month but these last 3 months have had me struggling with the concept of it all and started to fill me with dread about going so last month Hubbs and my eldest son Oliver went, I'm thinking that I may not be visiting her 'place' again until my counselling has come through, it's just too hard to do and it breaks my heart into a trillion pieces and I end up feeling like that for days afterwards

But I think I will be nipping out to buy some tofu - might fry it up and put it in the sweet and sour I was considering a walk but its started snowing and is bitterly cold so that idea is sacked! Lol

Anyway .....whatever you're doing have a lovely Saturday xxx

 

[Lisa-Lisa]

Tea was absolutely wonderful..Home-made Sweet & Sour Quorn with extra pineapple and noodles


Now looking forward to a couple of glasses of wine

 

[skinnylegs]

Wow you're doing amazingly well. Well done for staying to group, I'm going back to group on Tuesday.
You have come so far, you should be so proud of yourself. X

 

[Lisa-Lisa]

Lovely lazy Sunday so far. Only ended up having 2 glasses of wine last night was yawning my head off by 9.30pm lol, was the same on Friday night was meant to be kicking it up and celebrating Tonys 50th from the week before but we just couldn't be arsed I had 3 glasses of wine and we were tucked up in bed by 10pm

So today I'm trying an EE day. I bought a big pack of thick cut pork loin steaks on Friday there's 8 of them and 6 for Sunday dinner and 2 of them will only be eating Quorn roast. I don't know how the day is going to fair because I do like my B choices and I'm not a big meat eater so from experience Im not really EE biggest fan.

Anyway Sunday lunch is hopefully going to be 2 pork loin steaks, Brussel sprouts, carrots and green beans, with potatoes mashed with fromage frais and spray-light roasted potatoes. No Yorkshire pudding for me, I got medium ones this time and although I'm not that fussed about them either way I'm not spending 5.5 syns on one. But I shall be having plenty of everything else topped off with gravy which is about 2 syns.

No homemade pudding today, it's too much for my will power to handle. If they want pudding, it's ice-cream or fruit salad and ice cream or custard. I'm having fruit salad and a yogurt on top.

Later on I'm planning a fry light egg on a slice of toast with some beans, I might have a few glasses of wine out of this never ending bottle of white think there's only one glass left anyway. So there's my day hope it all goes to plan.

whatever you're doing today hope your Sunday is lovely and restful xxx

 

[malamobile]

Lovely lazy Sunday so far. Only ended up having 2 glasses of wine last night was yawning my head off by 9.30pm lol, was the same on Friday night was meant to be kicking it up and celebrating Tonys 50th from the week before but we just couldn't be arsed I had 3 glasses of wine and we were tucked up in bed by 10pm

So today I'm trying an EE day. I bought a big pack of thick cut pork loin steaks on Friday there's 8 of them and 6 for Sunday dinner and 2 of them will only be eating Quorn roast. I don't know how the day is going to fair because I do like my B choices and I'm not a big meat eater so from experience Im not really EE biggest fan.

Anyway Sunday lunch is hopefully going to be 2 pork loin steaks, Brussel sprouts, carrots and green beans, with potatoes mashed with fromage frais and spray-light roasted potatoes. No Yorkshire pudding for me, I got medium ones this time and although I'm not that fussed about them either way I'm not spending 5.5 syns on one. But I shall be having plenty of everything else topped off with gravy which is about 2 syns.

No homemade pudding today, it's too much for my will power to handle. If they want pudding, it's ice-cream or fruit salad and ice cream or custard. I'm having fruit salad and a yogurt on top.

Later on I'm planning a fry light egg on a slice of toast with some beans, I might have a few glasses of wine out of this never ending bottle of white think there's only one glass left anyway. So there's my day hope it all goes to plan.

whatever you're doing today hope your Sunday is lovely and restful xxx

Looks like its going well & you're well into it. How are your bottles of wine endless while mine never have enough in them??!! Friend has gone & cold still here so am off to fill in my food for yesterday over on the foxy diary!! How you feeling about sw so far? Looking goooo- ooood so far! Like the new photo - you look so young. X

 

[Lisa-Lisa]

My Sunday roast! Yes I know it's with a massive Yorkshire pudding but my sons girlfriend didn't make it for lunch because she was unwell, so there was a spare yorkshire and it obviously had my name on it.

My profile picture is my most recent - took on New Years Eve by my daughter

I'm seeing SW with new eyes, so finding it ok. I'm actually relieved to be doing it again because getting those blood test results back really knocked the stuffing out of me. It also helps that I'm not on medication that is going to affect my appetite or sleeping pattern, and I don't miss my psycho-sugar monster head at all lol.

It was a large bottle of wine I think there's normally about 6 and a half larges glasses in there but not sure because in the past I was normally fissed as a part by the time I've got to the end of one and never manage to count how many glasses I'd had lol.

I can't actually believe I'm sitting here and all around me people are scoffing big slabs of carrot cake and custard. I refused to get pudding but Tony just went out and bought two big cakes and tins of custard because everyone was protesting, I feel totally virtuous because I'm still only going to have fruit salad and yogurt and actually it's not bothered me that they've all had cake and custard and I haven't!..

...whatever you've done with the real Lisa can you please return her and take you're cloned alien away

xxx

 

[malamobile]

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My Sunday roast! Yes I know it's with a massive Yorkshire pudding but my sons girlfriend didn't make it for lunch because she was unwell, so there was a spare yorkshire and it obviously had my name on it.

My profile picture is my most recent - took on New Years Eve by my daughter

I'm seeing SW with new eyes, so finding it ok. I'm actually relieved to be doing it again because getting those blood test results back really knocked the stuffing out of me. It also helps that I'm not on medication that is going to affect my appetite or sleeping pattern, and I don't miss my psycho-sugar monster head at all lol.

It was a large bottle of wine I think there's normally about 6 and a half larges glasses in there but not sure because in the past I was normally fissed as a part by the time I've got to the end of one and never manage to count how many glasses I'd had lol.

I can't actually believe I'm sitting here and all around me people are scoffing big slabs of carrot cake and custard. I refused to get pudding but Tony just went out and bought two big cakes and tins of custard because everyone was protesting, I feel totally virtuous because I'm still only going to have fruit salad and yogurt and actually it's not bothered me that they've all had cake and custard and I haven't!..

...whatever you've done with the real Lisa can you please return her and take you're cloned alien away

xxx

hooray you have what I have caught from I don't know where - diet virtuosity!! I see people eating cake/drinking wine/having sweets, pies, chips and it doesn't touch me. I am totally unaffected and while I've had that or a couple of weeks before its never lasted 2 months! Even when I was 100% for 3 months and lost all my weight before, I found it harder and I was eating much more - this smallness of portions and hardly any pasta/rice etc. it's weird as its so unlike me too. When I'm bad I have no control and when good I can have will of steel but its like I'm in a bubble & nothing touches me! I think the counselling has made me realise I need to do this to help stop the health fears- like your tests, sometimes you suddenly think uhoh I've GOT to do this and you actually really want to, which is the difference. 1 night I was driving home from my 'session' idly ( or so I thought) thinking about the biggest loser and how big those people are & how they are self harming to the point they are endangering their life - & I suddenly realised that was me & I was damaging myself - & that was when I started the diet!! An epiphany!

 

[Lisa-Lisa]

That epiphany made my hair stand up on the back of my neck!!....

Being told your body cant handle what you're doing to it any more certainly give me the kick up the arse I needed...I never thought at 43 I would be sitting there being told by the nurse that if I didn't change my lifestyle and quick that within a year I would most certainly be being treated for type 2 diabetes and on blood pressure medication.

I've never had high blood pressure or high cholesterol, or high blood glucose but I think I comfort ate massively after my mum died but hearing that I wasn't immortal and not getting any younger was a serious 'moment' of surreality!.

xxx

 

[malamobile]

That epiphany made my hair stand up on the back of my neck!!....

Being told your body cant handle what you're doing to it any more certainly give me the kick up the arse I needed...I never thought at 43 I would be sitting there being told by the nurse that if I didn't change my lifestyle and quick that within a year I would most certainly be being treated for type 2 diabetes and on blood pressure medication.

I've never had high blood pressure or high cholesterol, or high blood glucose but I think I comfort ate massively after my mum died but hearing that I wasn't immortal and not getting any younger was a serious 'moment' of surreality!.

xxx

Too true but don't be hard on yourself you've been through a really difficult time - one of the most difficult, and really recently. sometimes we need that jolt of fear to make us drop the iced bun though!! As a hypochondriac I spend so much time mulling on health stuff so wouldn't you think I'd be healthy? Just like people will say 'think what your mum would want for you...' But even though you know that it just doesn't work that way - its our comfort blanket and displacement activity!! i have been lucky so far healthwise (apart from a tumour in my eye 6 years ago but not weight related and discharged last year hooray) and I could feel things starting to creak, cholesterol ok but increasing, anxiety about heart health turning to panic ( ended up at cardiologist??!!!), logic flying far away. I was really beginning to lose my grip & for the first time ever thought I might have to take time away from work ( I didn't in the end). That made me think no no no you need to sort out the body & the head will follow. Sick of gauging everything by how I feel about being a porker ... Actually just sick of being a porker!!

 

[Lisa-Lisa]

Too true but don't be hard on yourself you've been through a really difficult time - one of the most difficult, and really recently. sometimes we need that jolt of fear to make us drop the iced bun though!! As a hypochondriac I spend so much time mulling on health stuff so wouldn't you think I'd be healthy? Just like people will say 'think what your mum would want for you...' But even though you know that it just doesn't work that way - its our comfort blanket and displacement activity!! i have been lucky so far healthwise (apart from a tumour in my eye 6 years ago but not weight related and discharged last year hooray) and I could feel things starting to creak, cholesterol ok but increasing, anxiety about heart health turning to panic ( ended up at cardiologist??!!!), logic flying far away. I was really beginning to lose my grip & for the first time ever thought I might have to take time away from work ( I didn't in the end). That made me think no no no you need to sort out the body & the head will follow. Sick of gauging everything by how I feel about being a porker ... Actually just sick of being a porker!!

I think I'm probably more neurotic about my health now since my Mum passed away. From diagnosis to her passing away it was 4 months and she didn't stand a chance but she fought as good as anyone, but she ignored significant symptoms for many years putting them down to anxiety and just getting wound up, which in hindsight some of her symptoms definitely could be seen has anxiety and I think she was afraid of going to the docs and being sent away like a neurotic worrier. She finally went to the docs in May after I insisted and stood over her and made the appointment and then went with her the next day to make sure she went. I've never seen anyone fight so hard and yet get desperately ravaged. So every little twinge ache or pain I think is cancer - I suppose its to be expected that I feel like this after what I witnessed

I'm slowly rising from the bottom - I'm having more good days than bad, but I do know that I'm dampening it all down and when the counselling starts the flood gates will be blown open. But at least I've got the mentality now to look to the future which I've not had until recently because I couldn't fathom a future without my Mum, and the future is me like you not being a porker of any description, for the sake of my children, so I'm around for a good few years yet healthy and active and my impending grandchild and my lovely hubbs.

The reason why I KNOW we are going to fully succeed this time is because we aren't dieting for vanity reasons. xxx

 

[Lisa-Lisa]

I survived the weekend!!! and my syns are still totally intact !!!!

Breakfast was a yummy piece of seed sensations bread sprayed with fry-light and lightly toasted the finished off with some Marmite (Ive got the limited edition sparkly Marmite infused with edible gold leaf!!!!). I then had a chopped up kiwi fruit and a tangerine it was all very nicely washed down with a coffee.

Lunch is planned to be some homemade carrot and sweet potato soup, which needs to be made yet


Dinner is going to be Quorn curry with rice and SW wedges, well this is the plan anyway. Today is clean the house from top to bottom day usually but I've done loads of cleaning over the weekend so there's nothing much to do, so I gonna potter about and do some batch cooking and freezing xxx

 

[malamobile]

I think I'm probably more neurotic about my health now since my Mum passed away. From diagnosis to her passing away it was 4 months and she didn't stand a chance but she fought as good as anyone, but she ignored significant symptoms for many years putting them down to anxiety and just getting wound up, which in hindsight some of her symptoms definitely could be seen has anxiety and I think she was afraid of going to the docs and being sent away like a neurotic worrier. She finally went to the docs in May after I insisted and stood over her and made the appointment and then went with her the next day to make sure she went. I've never seen anyone fight so hard and yet get desperately ravaged. So every little twinge ache or pain I think is cancer - I suppose its to be expected that I feel like this after what I witnessed

I'm slowly rising from the bottom - I'm having more good days than bad, but I do know that I'm dampening it all down and when the counselling starts the flood gates will be blown open. But at least I've got the mentality now to look to the future which I've not had until recently because I couldn't fathom a future without my Mum, and the future is me like you not being a porker of any description, for the sake of my children, so I'm around for a good few years yet healthy and active and my impending grandchild and my lovely hubbs.

The reason why I KNOW we are going to fully succeed this time is because we aren't dieting for vanity reasons. xxx

It's totally understandable that you'd worry about health after what you went through and experienced. Thats really really sad & i am so sorry you lost your mum. Counselling may open the floodgates but it'll help a lot.

We are doing it for us and that is so important. You've had a fab angelic weekend - you should get a great loss. Definitely started as you mean to go on for a fab future as slimcea girls!

 

[Lisa-Lisa]

Well today is going as planned! not only did I make my soup, but I also made a wonderful Quorn and sweet potato curry and I made a tex mex marinade which I've got some Quorn fillets swimming in at the moment ready to cook for tea tomorrow night with some pasta and green salad.

Here's my scrummy soup with a lovely blob of fat free Greek yogurt - made enough for lunch tomorrow too - it was gorgeous even if I say so myself




Happy Monday folks x

 

[Lisa-Lisa]

Good morning! It's Tuesday and all is well

Breakfast was a boiled egg on a lovely toasted slice of seed sensation bread, if you haven't tried it you're missing out! It's absolutely yummy it's by Hovis.

Busy day today Ruby my little black ball of loveliness is at the vets as I type getting prepared for her 'lady-op' 5 cats are enough for anyone, don't need no little cutie kittens in this house, and of course Ruby will get other health benefits from being spayed.

Then it's off to my eldest sons for a visit for a few hours - but that's not a 100% yet. Nevertheless have put some left over carrot and sweet potato soup in a container to take.

Parents evening tonight for my youngest son - hmmmm...it's his Mock GCSE year and he's defo going through a cant be arsed stage. I don't do can't be arsed where education is concerned so we've had our clashes and to be honest I'm not looking forward to any of it tonight at all, feel frustrated and exasperated with him at times - put it this way if I spoke to my mum they way he does us I would've been seeing stars on the other side of the room after being bounced off all the walls first! lol

Tea is Quorn fillets that have been marinating in passata and tex-mex spices since yesterday, I'm going to bake them and serve them up with some reduced fat cheese on top and some pasta and some mixed salad, but after getting Ruby from the vets and then going to parents evening I think tea is going to be more like a large bed time snack...

Have a lovely Tuesday y'all! x

 

[malamobile]

Good morning! It's Tuesday and all is well

Breakfast was a boiled egg on a lovely toasted slice of seed sensation bread, if you haven't tried it you're missing out! It's absolutely yummy it's by Hovis.

Busy day today Ruby my little black ball of loveliness is at the vets as I type getting prepared for her 'lady-op' 5 cats are enough for anyone, don't need no little cutie kittens in this house, and of course Ruby will get other health benefits from being spayed.

Then it's off to my eldest sons for a visit for a few hours - but that's not a 100% yet. Nevertheless have put some left over carrot and sweet potato soup in a container to take.

Parents evening tonight for my youngest son - hmmmm...it's his Mock GCSE year and he's defo going through a cant be arsed stage. I don't do can't be arsed where education is concerned so we've had our clashes and to be honest I'm not looking forward to any of it tonight at all, feel frustrated and exasperated with him at times - put it this way if I spoke to my mum they way he does us I would've been seeing stars on the other side of the room after being bounced off all the walls first! lol

Tea is Quorn fillets that have been marinating in passata and tex-mex spices since yesterday, I'm going to bake them and serve them up with some reduced fat cheese on top and some pasta and some mixed salad, but after getting Ruby from the vets and then going to parents evening I think tea is going to be more like a large bed time snack...

Have a lovely Tuesday y'all! x

Today was good but obviously I was in a good mood! Hope you've had a good day. Weirdly I'm looking onward to your weigh in!!

 

[Lisa-Lisa]

Ended up getting home so late last night that they all had take-away and I had a cheese and onion omelette with baked beans thrown on top - I've NEVER said no to a take-away and I sat there and watched them finish their food and it didn't bother me in the slightest!...I wasn't prepared to waste my syns on it to be honest.

Anyway what I had planned for last nights tea is now on the menu for tonight. Not done breakfast this morning went back to bed for an extra snooze so will now be having an early lunch.

Meeting my eldest Oliver at Starbucks for a large cafe Americano with sugar free syrup which according to the SW website is free you just have to count the syrup so I will find out the cals and let you know

Cinema tonight with my GBFF Jordan. I'm taking a berry and grape fruit salad to pick at and a packet of Pom-bear crisps which are only 5 syns - not falling into that trap again of using syns unbeknownst thinking I'm being virtuous but then discovering 6 pieces of pick and mix cost 30 syns!!!.....IM PREPARED!

Also I've discovered a little cafe in town that our consultant give us a heads up to last Friday - it will basically cook anything on the menu SW or WW friendly! It even as the various bread for your B choices etc....I've heard they do a gorgeous SW green day breakfast that only comes to 2 syns and they do syn free omelettes too, so I will be treating myself to lunch there on Friday after class because I'm there from 9.15am to 12.30pm because I have to do the exercise class plus stay for the SW class too and this class is HUGE 50+ members and most of them stay for body magic too so the consultant must be doing something right, lets hope she works her magic on me anyway will report back later.

Have a good Wednesday you lot xxx

 

[malamobile]

Ended up getting home so late last night that they all had take-away and I had a cheese and onion omelette with baked beans thrown on top - I've NEVER said no to a take-away and I sat there and watched them finish their food and it didn't bother me in the slightest!...I wasn't prepared to waste my syns on it to be honest.

Anyway what I had planned for last nights tea is now on the menu for tonight. Not done breakfast this morning went back to bed for an extra snooze so will now be having an early lunch.

Meeting my eldest Oliver at Starbucks for a large cafe Americano with sugar free syrup which according to the SW website is free you just have to count the syrup so I will find out the cals and let you know

Cinema tonight with my GBFF Jordan. I'm taking a berry and grape fruit salad to pick at and a packet of Pom-bear crisps which are only 5 syns - not falling into that trap again of using syns unbeknownst thinking I'm being virtuous but then discovering 6 pieces of pick and mix cost 30 syns!!!.....IM PREPARED!

Also I've discovered a little cafe in town that our consultant give us a heads up to last Friday - it will basically cook anything on the menu SW or WW friendly! It even as the various bread for your B choices etc....I've heard they do a gorgeous SW green day breakfast that only comes to 2 syns and they do syn free omelettes too, so I will be treating myself to lunch there on Friday after class because I'm there from 9.15am to 12.30pm because I have to do the exercise class plus stay for the SW class too and this class is HUGE 50+ members and most of them stay for body magic too so the consultant must be doing something right, lets hope she works her magic on me anyway will report back later.

Have a good Wednesday you lot xxx

The willpower is fab! Isn't it like you are just on a different plane from everyone else in your little bubble? It's great I love the control.

CAfe sounds brilliant. Yummy. Have a great night. I am desperate to see die hard so may be making a trip at the weekend after footie. Good plan with fruit - I LOVE pic n mix so I have to totally avoid it! I get a huge water and a low syn snack or 2 alpen lights and I'm happy enough!

 

[Squeakie]

That epiphany made my hair stand up on the back of my neck!!....

Being told your body cant handle what you're doing to it any more certainly give me the kick up the arse I needed...I never thought at 43 I would be sitting there being told by the nurse that if I didn't change my lifestyle and quick that within a year I would most certainly be being treated for type 2 diabetes and on blood pressure medication.

I've never had high blood pressure or high cholesterol, or high blood glucose but I think I comfort ate massively after my mum died but hearing that I wasn't immortal and not getting any younger was a serious 'moment' of surreality!.

xxx

Hi Lisa,

Just popping in to subscribe to your diary...
I was told last week that my blood sugars are high and could end up being treated for my existing high blood pressure along with Type 2 diabetes .
Best of luck with your journey and look forward to following your diary.

 

[Lisa-Lisa]

Hiya Squeakie

It's the boot up the arse I needed if I'm honest couldn't of come at a better time for me. Thanks for following me - need all the encouragement and support I can get, have you got a diary? Post me the link we can support each other xxx

 

[Lisa-Lisa]

Well back from the cinema. Watched "Mama" another good movie completely spoiled by a ridiculously cringe-worthy far fetched ending. What is it with movie script writers these days? They seem to lose their marbles half way through writing the script!...

Anyway...(kicks soap box back under the bed)...

For my cinema treats I had a bottle of diet coke and a pack of blueberries, and a lunchbox full of chopped up strawberries and grapes no popcorn, no pick and mix and no share bags of sweets!!! I go to the cinema at least twice a month - I have NEVER EVER!! been known to resist cinema snacks, even if it is only a handful of popcorn or a few pick and mix sweets, me taking fruit to the cinema...!!!!!

Oh and a large cafe Americano without milk but with a shot of sugar free hazelnut or vanilla syrup is SYN FREE!!!!!. This is a revelation for me I go to Starbucks at least once a week and always meet up with my eldest or his gf there...no more stressing about syns at Starbucks!...YAY!

xxx