Just wondering if we can find 101 ways to cook cauliflower!

I will start with
1. boiled/steamed and mashed with salt and pepper.

No: 2 ??

Hi Karenv good luck!

Hi LACali21
the silica cat litter is supposed to be good for drying out phones, other electrical stuff – but it could be an urban myth!
Cookery club tonight, but its usually mostly healthy-ish food – fingers crossed!

Hi

I use the fatsecret app and that allows you calculate carbs etc in cups, grams, ounces etc and is really good. Lots of people use myfitnesspal but I just couldn’t get to grips with it!

Think you may just have to watch the calories with nuts. Very good for you but only in small portions!

Good luck

Hmm forgot about the pink curry incident. Was it the cashews that made it that colour???

I’m considering walking round the playing field near my house. Just to get some steps in!! This Jawbone is my exercise conscience!

This is my second day and I am trying to get my carbs from nuts and beans and lentils, but I am uncertain how much you get from like 2 tbsps of nuts or 1/2 lentils. I am a type 2 diabetic and I want to make sure that I get enough. thanks for any help!

I am just getting started myself. am 20 kg overweight and blood sugars and pressure slightly above normal. Read the books, combed through the website, and am starting with 2/5 for a few weeks to get my body used to it. 2 days in my numbers are already getting better and have decreased insulin slightly. You can do it too. Go for the hope, not the fear and you will have made a choice in your own favor.

Frog count it as a win that you got back on plan after only 2 days off plan. That’s better than I’ve done in the past of letting it go for a few weeks, or just not getting back on plan. LOL I had to laugh about putting it in kitty litter, I have not heard that one before. 🙂 RIP pedometer. 🙂

The only alert I have on is the one when I reach my 10,000 steps, so that goes off like… never. Oh, and one to tell me to go to bed at 10 every night. I just laugh. I think you can set it to buzz to wake you up gently. Not as harsh as an alarm clock.

Oh that sounds divine Janey. I need the peanut curry recipe remember. Can’t even think about cashew curry after the pink one. I haven’t had a curry night for months. If I’ve had one this year. I don’t think I have. But I do stupid things like have 19 for curry. I’m usually too drunk to remember eating mine by the time I’ve sat down (last) with it.

Yep, it’s completely alien and bizarre but I’ll take it. They’re probably all after something 😀 I do actually call them the minions lol.

Challenged to a duel AND winning it currently… 🙂

Foogath is a type of dry curry.. although it does sound like something Paltrow would promote…

Lucky is happy.. her house is clean! And she has challenged me to a duel 🙁

Thank you all.
Well, here I am again having fallen into the ditch big time and put on weight.
Blame it entirely on being in Holland for a week and just not being able to resist their wonderful, but dear me, so fattening food. Chips with mayonnaise, glorious ice creams etc. TUT.
I was fine whilst in Prague etc as did so much walking weight stayed steady, but now. Woe is me.
Anyway, back to the drawing board and to eating healthily and cutting bread, Brie etc.
Excuse not to do much exercise, temps pushing 40, so trifle warm. Doggies disgruntled as have curtailed their walks to 15/20 mins max. Please don’t say Go swimming. If you saw me in my bathing costume you would shudder, as I do.
Off we go again. X

Is foogath a typo or am I missing something great??? Yippeee on the Up Janey, now I get to nag you AND lucky :-)))))

Yayyy Lucky is back and her house is spotless and her minions have been tamed 😉

I want a ‘LIKE’ button! Laughter is a great way to burn calories and stop feeling hungry!

Nice pic on your ‘Up’ Lucky. I figured you were the girl as a man in lipstick is not right (wait for Timmy’s input!)

My Jawbone just buzzed to nag me to get up off my fat a***. That’s endearing today. Could be annoying tomorrow and beyond!

Off home shortly to fight my way through the slow cooked funk of vindaloo that is permeating the entire downstairs. Cats have probably decamped outside… I’m considering side dishes. Lentil dahl most definitely. Maybe a cashew curry (pimping the peanut one seeing as I bought the European cashew surplus for some reason). OR a courgette foogath seeing as my fridge is full of the little green blighters…

And Lucky wraps. Of course.

I couldn’t resist, I had to step on the scale this morning, I just felt smaller. 🙂 I’m at 8.6 lbs lost since my start last week – not bad for 8 days. I’ve been eating a lot of salads the last few days, I don’t know if that’s the help or if I’m just getting into the groove. Energy is increasing too.

I made beef barley soup with it, but we just need to watch the carbs. It is not very low since it is a grain.

I am constantly tittering too, it’s a mad one, for sure! You’ve got to laugh haven’t you, especially when doing something like this for health or weightloss. Imagine how miserable we’d be otherwise? Who else would empathise with us, unless we were very lucky and had many friends doing it with us? 😀

Is there a like or a thanks button anywhere on the forum!
I’ m being informed,entertained and using up a heap of calories just laughing on here! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Moi? 😮

You were closer with the coal, methinks 😉

By the way Janey, I managed to put a picture on my UP profile. I’m the female…

You and Janey, minds in the gutter both of you! You’re a bad influence on me, I’ve got a mind as clean and pure as the driven coal. Snow, clean and pure as the driven snow.

Sorry, I see it is “”RPN”” not “RPM”!!

Welcome back RPM — sounds like you have been trying to get going for a couple of months — well NOW would be a good time to really commit — just ease into it slowly, you don’t need to do 800 calories at first and low carb, you can work your numbers down over a week or two. I think our brains get on board the train before our bodies even catch a cab to the station — be gentle to yourself but start now and just keep going. You might have hard days (I can recall a nasty few!) but don’t quit because it will get easier and easier and you will find yourself in a new head-space in just a few weeks. If cooking is hard, stick with easy foods, simple meals worked best for me anyway (oven roasted chicken, steamed veg, that kind of thing). Eat fat, whole fat yogurt, cream, cheese, nuts, butter (all in tiny amounts of course!) and that will help immensely — you are moving from carbs to fat in your metabolism — get a copy of Gary Taubes book “Why we get Fat” — great primer on carbs/fat/new research. Keep us posted. We are rooting for you!

And oh. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I am not on a downer! Has the curse been broken??? Everyone, and I mean from the large bone idle student to the baby has pitched in and cleaned, hoovered, polished, wiped, decluttered from top to bottom today. Without complaint. So, that’s left me feeling rather jolly.

Oh I see Timmy, duh, of course. Didn’t put two and two together. Heard hot wax, thought immediately of something filthy. So unlike me. My bad.

That’s Janey’s filthy mind getting the better of her. It’s because I make candles!

WHAT HOT WAX??? What have I missed???

Hi Leeanne, on the good news front, I found that my hair started to grow like crazy around the 8 week mark — in fact, there was so many new baby hairs that I looked fuzzy for a bit! My hairdresser noticed too — it was sort of funny. I have continued on the diet for 24 weeks — definitely not as strictly as I have moved forward but still more or less on track (I got to a good weight around the end of week 16). My hair loss has slowed and all those little baby hairs have now gotten long enough to lay down properly on my head, thank goodness no longer look like a fuzzy creature. I definitely credit the diet for the hair growth — I am 60 so there can’t be much hormonal reasons 😜. I think the high quality diet, extra protein were the drivers. Anyway, I hope your hair does something similar!

Timmy, with your speedos, hot wax and yoghurt, I think you’ve done enough damage!

So ….. tempted…. to say something….. massively inappropriate….

Must stop myself!

Stop it…

**further stifled giggling**

*gag*

Get back to your yoghurt production Timmy…. 😉

Wow, hadn’t heard that! Pretty sure MM recommends pearl barley in the book as one that is ok. I bought a packet, then saw that it takes bloomin ages to cook so haven’t bothered!

I saw a TV chef make a pearl barley risotto this morning and thought it sounded like a good alternative to rice. However, my research has thrown up so many different views. It is supposed to be the lowest GI grain ever at 22, but someone said when it is cooked it goes up to 66. Should I treat it like oats and only have it occasionally or should I avoid it all together.

Any experts out there.

Think a ban would definitely be on the cards, then…

I have been on this diet for 4 weeks and worked my way through the menu plans in the book and have only had salad twice and that was because I had a lettuce in the fridge that needed eating. There are so many other good things to eat. I think I have had something different every day for 4 weeks except where there was something I particularly loved.

and I forgot something else, – I was in a TK Maxx yesterday, so bought some smaller clothes in their sale – Large pants instead of XL!!

I also got some trousers (£7 instead of £55) that I thought would nearly fit when I held them up against me, but when I tried them on at home, they’re actually a lot smaller than I thought – the waist is cut lower than I’d anticipated, so goes around a wider bit than I held them against, but I will get there!
– and I do have a waist now, as well as cheek bones – well I always had cheek bones, but my face has changed quite a lot in terms of visible cheek bone shape rather than a fully inflated balloon look.

Can we change the name of this thread to Lucky’s dirty double entendre thread?

😮

Gaaah, now I’ll be walking the streets at night. No.. wait.. that sounds wrong!

Yes, I’ve got more energy too – even recently when I wasn’t sleeping brilliantly because of the heat (was that summer been & gone?)
I’ve noticed that regular walks are generally faster than they used to be too – I used to allow 25 minutes to walk to the cinema, it now takes less than 20.
That must be partially down to not trying to do everything lugging an extra 10kg around with me – and awareness that if I move more, it will help with weight loss.
I did a longish (8-9 mile) walk at the weekend, and was very stiff that evening, but generally I find that I get stiff less often.

I feel much more upbeat – but that might just be function of the weight loss. My OH says he has noticed I’m a bit less bolshy – which I think is a good thing?!

Timmy, still sniggering about your yoghurt. Very naughty!

The clock is ticking as soon as you accept… 😛

Hmm, that didn’t go so well. UPS depot too far to walk to with a big box! Can I sneak in a stroll this evening???? Tomorrow will be the proper kick off!

Biggest one that I’ve noticed is my energy. I just want to do stuff now instead of vegging infront of the sofa in the evening.

I’m training harder than I ever have before, and it’s mainly because I just feel like exercising more. Yesterday I went for a swim in the morning and the gym later in the afternoon. I can’t remember ever doubling up in one day before. If I see a set of stairs/incline I just want to run up it. It’s a bit weird really! Lol.

The wife and the kids were away on Thursday night, and previously that would have meant getting the lads around for a few beers and playstation, but I blew them out so I could go to the gym instead!

Hi karenv

Both OH and I have noticed an improvement in what we might call ‘aliveness’.

He’s Type 2, hasn’t been very well with liver and other issues, and always felt tired in the morning, so dozy and unwilling to get up and start the day.

As we discuss the BSD and many other things in the sunshine in the garden with our coffee at 7am, I can say that we have both noticed a significant change. He says he feels better than he has in many years.

And there’s so much more time to get things done! 😉

Let battle commence 🙂 This is going to be one way to motivate myself. I’ll be a size 6 by next Saturday 🙂

I just have.. I’ll be running myself ragged.. its the competitive streak!

I challenge you, fair maiden… accept before you go…!

I am going out now, to walk around a bit!!

Ah, it says 7 days total steps. Good job I haven’t been lying to you all on here about my step count then! Not as bad as I thought it would be!