Food without the angst - Vegan SW
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WasMicci
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Thanks 
Rather liking what I saw, I scale hopped again, it was 16.10 woo hoo, my version of sucess express seems to work. I'm keeping the syns to around 10 a day but otherwise am eating mainly fruit and veg.
Yesterday:
More peaches than I can remember, a banana and an apple. A few strawberries. Around 2 litres of soup made of chickpeas, tomato puree lots of water and seasoning, evening meal was the pseudo ricotto with tofu and coconut oil and salad. I had a lot again, almost a whole block of tofu to myself.
Synned snacks were half a pack of Pom crisps and a Nak'd bar which came to around 10 or 11, I'm not sure how much was left in the crisp bag.
I've also been working for the last couple of days which os nice and calorie burning. Woo hoo, 16.10. I hope my scales are not too different from the SW scales. If they are comparable I should be well on my way to my club 10 when I go back.
Rather liking what I saw, I scale hopped again, it was 16.10 woo hoo, my version of sucess express seems to work. I'm keeping the syns to around 10 a day but otherwise am eating mainly fruit and veg.
Yesterday:
More peaches than I can remember, a banana and an apple. A few strawberries. Around 2 litres of soup made of chickpeas, tomato puree lots of water and seasoning, evening meal was the pseudo ricotto with tofu and coconut oil and salad. I had a lot again, almost a whole block of tofu to myself.
Synned snacks were half a pack of Pom crisps and a Nak'd bar which came to around 10 or 11, I'm not sure how much was left in the crisp bag.
I've also been working for the last couple of days which os nice and calorie burning. Woo hoo, 16.10. I hope my scales are not too different from the SW scales. If they are comparable I should be well on my way to my club 10 when I go back.
WasMicci
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Breakfast, a banana, grapes and a peach. Proper breakfast at nearly midday was the rest of the pseudo ricotta with loads or raw tomatoes and a gherkin or two. Half a banana bread Nak'd bar.
Have been to the vet's with our own poorly Albert. An enormous cat with a bad limp. It turns out he has a knee problem and is on painkillers and anti inflammatories, if it doesn't improve he will have Xrays and investigations for ligament damage. This a lad with boldness in his heart. He has discovered how to get to the front of the house by way of back gardens and gaps between the houses. We live a fairly quiet cul de sac but there is a big A road at the end and I've seen him slipping through the fence onto the embankment with his feral chum. Outside he pretends not to know us. Or gives us one look and legs it before we can bring him in, indoors he's a big furry cuddly purry animal. I say big - he was weighed today and he is over 6 kilos. And not overweight, he is big and muscley.
Have been to the vet's with our own poorly Albert. An enormous cat with a bad limp. It turns out he has a knee problem and is on painkillers and anti inflammatories, if it doesn't improve he will have Xrays and investigations for ligament damage. This a lad with boldness in his heart. He has discovered how to get to the front of the house by way of back gardens and gaps between the houses. We live a fairly quiet cul de sac but there is a big A road at the end and I've seen him slipping through the fence onto the embankment with his feral chum. Outside he pretends not to know us. Or gives us one look and legs it before we can bring him in, indoors he's a big furry cuddly purry animal. I say big - he was weighed today and he is over 6 kilos. And not overweight, he is big and muscley.
WasMicci
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I loved this. Why shouldn't fat women wear bikinis? Although, tbh, I feel very uncomfortable at the idea of wearing one myself. I THINK though, it's to do with feeling exposed and even if I were half the size I am now I wouldn't be comfortable. Although, the idea of being completely naked in an appropriate setting, even a public naturist beach fazes me a lot less. Anyway, have a read and see what you think.
I Wore a Bikini and Nothing Happened | Jenny Trout
Lunch was a baked bean and carrot soup, a grapefruit and three little biscuits that came to 5 syns.
I Wore a Bikini and Nothing Happened | Jenny Trout
Lunch was a baked bean and carrot soup, a grapefruit and three little biscuits that came to 5 syns.
kami2112
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That article is hilarious, I think I burned calories laughing at it! Beautiful in a bikini and a great writer, what more could a woman want?
WasMicci
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Hi Kami, thanks for dropping by and the feedback. It is a good read isn't it. The dangers of spandex LOL. Yet at the same time she makes a very good point.
malamobile
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Great article. I too, feel exposed though and the discomfort I feel about my body is why I'd be reluctant, saying that, I wear have worn one when with Dunc on holiday at a private pool so it's about feeling comfortable I guess
WasMicci
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Yet, the illogic of choices, I'll wear a swimming costume in a public pool and the only difference is that with a bikini the tummy skin is exposed. It's pretty damm obvious that there is a fat tummy behind the thin layer of fabric!
Perhaps partly to do with the fat prejudice we have internalised there is the idea that bikinis are for the young and sexy so it is the feeling of wearing something with an image that does not suit the body wearing it? But heck, I'll be loud and proud and say I'm old and fat and sexy LOL.
This is a great song about older women but it doesn't address fat issues - the singer is a very gorgeous older woman. Older Ladies by Donnalou Stevens - YouTube
Perhaps partly to do with the fat prejudice we have internalised there is the idea that bikinis are for the young and sexy so it is the feeling of wearing something with an image that does not suit the body wearing it? But heck, I'll be loud and proud and say I'm old and fat and sexy LOL.
This is a great song about older women but it doesn't address fat issues - the singer is a very gorgeous older woman. Older Ladies by Donnalou Stevens - YouTube
WasMicci
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Today's food, loads of fruit until about 3.30 when I had 2 ryvitas and 10g of Tesco free from cheddar style free from spread. So, I've 20g of that left to use and another couple of ryvitas if I want. There's some cabbage and leak cooking away to become bubble and squeek done with frylight. Today is going to be minimal on the syn front, I think I must have made it up to 15 yesterday as I couldn't sleep and got the munchies. Sainsbury's veggie spagghetti bolognaise is only 3.5 syns a tin but all the little bits mount up and I didn't eat all my late night carbs with SF.
malamobile
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So impressed with how you're going.
WasMicci
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Thanks Mal. I'll admit to feeling a tad peed off and unsreuctured this morning. I went to weigh myself, was horrified at what I saw so jumped off and did it again. And got a number much more to my likeing a few kilos lighter. So being rather doubtful by this stage I did it another couple of times and got another number each time. One of the suppport rods has come loose with the wires showing and it displays 8888.88 for a long time before zeroing itself - sometimes it switches off before zeroing and I have to knock them to turn them on and start all over again.
None of this looks like a battery failure so I think it's new scales time. So I haven't got the faintest idea of how much I weigh and I don't like that feeling at all. I'm going back to the group next week and just hope I can stay on track till then.
Getting that nice low figure really spurred me on and tbh, I do feel like I'm losing again but I've lost the feeling of certainity I had before.
None of this looks like a battery failure so I think it's new scales time. So I haven't got the faintest idea of how much I weigh and I don't like that feeling at all. I'm going back to the group next week and just hope I can stay on track till then.
Getting that nice low figure really spurred me on and tbh, I do feel like I'm losing again but I've lost the feeling of certainity I had before.
malamobile
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Scales are evil! Mine have had a foot fall off so every time I take a reading I have to balance the foot in place. Sadly the results are always similar (boo). New scales for me too.
WasMicci
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Our VEGAN heroine:
'Fiona Oakes, who looks after 400 rescues at Tower Hill Stables Animal Sanctuary, is now recognised by the Guinness World Records Organisation as the fastest woman ever to run a marathon on every continent - aggregate time, as well as the fastest woman ever to run a marathon on every continent PLUS the North Pole in aggregate time as well as elapsed time.
It is truly outstanding for the same person to hold all three of these records - something never before achieved.'
'Fiona Oakes, who looks after 400 rescues at Tower Hill Stables Animal Sanctuary, is now recognised by the Guinness World Records Organisation as the fastest woman ever to run a marathon on every continent - aggregate time, as well as the fastest woman ever to run a marathon on every continent PLUS the North Pole in aggregate time as well as elapsed time.
It is truly outstanding for the same person to hold all three of these records - something never before achieved.'
BeeBeeSee
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First of all, baked bean soup! Sounds great! What else do you put in it other than baked beans and carrots?
And secondly, that article was so good! It made me laugh but it is that kind of humour that actually conveys a deep truth, not for comical effect but to show things up for what they really are. I am going on holiday next week with some friends all of whom are slim people. And we are meeting friends out there...more slim people. And I was quite set on not going swimming because of the embarrassment. Reading this has helped me so much! I don't go swimming in order to show off my body but in order to go swimming (duuuh as the Americans would say!). So why is it a problem?
When I spent a few months in Africa a couple of years back, I was determined not to be inhibited by all the prejudices and negative things that had been living in my own head for so long that I naturally assumed that other people would feel like that. Which in itself is actually a great injustice to them, assuming they are that shallow. Isn't that awful. So when in Africa, I decided that being half way around the world made a great platform for leaving my negativity at home. And I went swimming with all my newly made friends and guess what. Nothing happened.
We had a great time. So I will pack my swim suit once again
Wouldn't I be the odd one out? Punishing myself for not being the norm? And by extension accusing my friends of being prejudiced against my size?
WasMicci
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YAY!!!!! I'm so happy. BeeBee is going swimming with her skinny friends. I'm glad that the article reached you. It made me think about my own comfort levels to be sure.
The baked bean soup is apparantly very like Heinz Cream of tomato when made properly: 1 tin baked beans, 1 tin tomatoes 1 tin carrots. A large pickled onion, 1 stock cube or equivalent all liquidised together with water at your discretion. It's quite a fast weight loss boost too.
I'm having a breather from mumming atm. The boy had a bad night and is struggling to get out of bed. He's got negative consequences happening and a reward packet of liked sweeties waiting for him in his study. He understands that I am expending all this energy NOT to give him a hard time but because I love him and want good things for him. I'm here and have told him I'll be back with a wooden spoon and a saucepan and make his bedroom unliveable in.
The trouble is I have to pitch it just right. Too emotional / cross / aggressive and he gets angry or just withdraws even more. If this doesn't deserve DLA I don't know why. I've chosen to stay upstairs as it frustrates me even more trying to get on with something downstairs and having to keep going up. So I've had quite a profitable time looking at old clothes and sorting out the 'I'm nearly back into that' section. I've got SO MUCH I'd forgotten about. Bought for peanuts at a charity shop and worn once or twice then grown out of and put away.
Anyway, here I go to wave noisy things at him. Wish me luck.
The baked bean soup is apparantly very like Heinz Cream of tomato when made properly: 1 tin baked beans, 1 tin tomatoes 1 tin carrots. A large pickled onion, 1 stock cube or equivalent all liquidised together with water at your discretion. It's quite a fast weight loss boost too.
I'm having a breather from mumming atm. The boy had a bad night and is struggling to get out of bed. He's got negative consequences happening and a reward packet of liked sweeties waiting for him in his study. He understands that I am expending all this energy NOT to give him a hard time but because I love him and want good things for him. I'm here and have told him I'll be back with a wooden spoon and a saucepan and make his bedroom unliveable in.
The trouble is I have to pitch it just right. Too emotional / cross / aggressive and he gets angry or just withdraws even more. If this doesn't deserve DLA I don't know why. I've chosen to stay upstairs as it frustrates me even more trying to get on with something downstairs and having to keep going up. So I've had quite a profitable time looking at old clothes and sorting out the 'I'm nearly back into that' section. I've got SO MUCH I'd forgotten about. Bought for peanuts at a charity shop and worn once or twice then grown out of and put away.
Anyway, here I go to wave noisy things at him. Wish me luck.
