Let's lose a bit of weight.....

[Greenfingerpaula]

Day 3 week 1

Breakfast - 2 slices kingsmill fruit and fibre, coffee with sweetener

Lunch - chicken breast, crispy salad, tomatoes, cucumber, pineapple cottage cheese, apple, black grapes, cherry muller light yoghurt

Dinner - tuna steak, carrots, broccoli, green beans, peppercorn sauce

Snacks - toffee popcorn (my new love, I can have loads for 50g!!!), 2 Cadbury chocolate fingers

Total calories - 1361

Exercise - 10 min walk bus stop to work, 10 mins tummy crunches, 30 mins circuit training

Net calories - 922

[Hazel at the Hill]

Week 2, day 3 (day 10)

Breakfast: bowl blackberries & raspberries, ww fromage frais
Lunch: third big tin beans, 1 x bread, sprinkling of grated cheese, ww fromage frais
Dinner: salmon fillet, courgette, french beans, salad, coleslaw
Snacks/treats: options hot choc made with milk - yum - so much better than made with water!

Calorie tot (logging on MFP): 1,024

Exercise: run 5km, toning exercises per RC

[Greenfingerpaula]

Let's lose a bit of weight.....

Day 4 week 1

Breakfast - Fruit and fibre loaf with low fat spread, coffee with sweetener

Lunch - Chicken breast, crispy salad, tomatoes, cucumber, pineapple cottage cheese, 1 plum, apple, muller light yoghurt

Dinner - Home made chilli, small jacket potato, cheese

Snacks - Cherry Bakewell tart

Total calories - 1293

[Hazel at the Hill]

Week 2, day 4 (day 11)

Breakfast: special k & blackberries & raspberries
Lunch: third big tin beans, 1 x bread, sprinkling of grated cheese
Dinner: lamb goulash, courgette, french beans, runner beans
Snacks/treats: 1 x biscuit, 1 x pt bitter

Calorie tot (logging on MFP): 1,170

Exercise: run 5km, cycle to the Hill and back - 8.75km

[Hazel at the Hill]

Week 2, day 5 (day 12)

Breakfast: special k & blackberries & raspberries
Lunch: at local pub - 2 x ham, 2 x eggs, salad (as a swap for chips)
Dinner: half a cheese and tomato toastie
Snacks/treats: small piece of fruit cake and miniscule slice cheese, 1/2 glass of wine, 1 x pt bitter

Calorie tot (logging on MFP): 1,248

Exercise: none

[Greenfingerpaula]

Day 5 week 1

Breakfast - fruit and fibre loaf, coffee

Lunch - half tin tuna, crispy salad, tomatoes, cucumber, red pepper, mayonnaise, watermelon

Dinner - pizza and chips

Snacks - chocolate cookie, wisps bites

Total calories 1652

No exercise

[Hazel at the Hill]

Week 2, day 6 (day 13)

Breakfast: bowl blackcurrants & ww fromage frais with fruit
Lunch: at local farm shop - 1 x hog roast pork bap
Dinner: turkey strips, french beans, courgette, salad, coleslaw
Snacks/treats: 1 x biscuit, 1 x pt bitter, 1 x piece fruit cake, miniscule slice cheese

Calorie tot (logging on MFP): 1,265

Exercise: none

[Hazel at the Hill]

Week 2, day 7 (day 14)

Breakfast: bowl blackcurrants & ww fromage frais with fruit
Lunch: beans on 2 x toast
Dinner: turkey strips, french beans, courgette, salad, coleslaw
Snacks/treats: options hot choc made with milk

Calorie tot (logging on MFP): 980

Exercise: run 8km, toning exercises per Rosemary Conley

[Hazel at the Hill]

Weights and Measures

start: 10st 1/4lb
week 1: 9st 10 1/2lb
week 2: 9st 10 1/4lb

av daily calories this week: 1148

lost this week: 1/4 lb
total lost: 4lb

Target weight: 9st 7lb before the end of Sep
Left to go: 3 lb in 2wks

[Hazel at the Hill]

Week 3, day 1 (day 15)

Breakfast: bowl raspberries & ww fromage frais with fruit
Lunch: poached egg on 1 x toast
Dinner: salmon, french beans, courgette, salad, coleslaw
Snacks/treats: 1 x bisc, nice piece of fruit cake and cheese

Calorie tot (logging on MFP): 1200

Exercise: 'up and running' training - 10min jogging, 10 x 100m skipping, 25min running - total about 7km

[Hazel at the Hill]

Week 3, day 2 (day 16)

Breakfast: special k, raspberries
Lunch: beans on 1 x toast, ww fromage frais
Dinner: sausage, ratatouille, french beans,
Snacks/treats: 2 x bisc, 1.5pt bitter

Calorie tot (logging on MFP): 1453

Exercise: none

[Hazel at the Hill]

Week 3, day 3 (day 17)

Breakfast: ww fromage frais
Lunch: beans on 2 x toast
Dinner: lamb goulash, french beans
Snacks/treats: 1 (large) glass wine, 1pt bitter

Calorie tot (logging on MFP): 1081

Exercise: 2 1/2km brisk walk

[Hazel at the Hill]

Week 3, day 4 (day 18)

Breakfast: special k
Lunch: beans on 1 x toast
Dinner: steak, salad, coleslaw, courgette, french beans
Snacks/treats: 2 biscuit, 1 x hot choc made with milk

Calorie tot (logging on MFP): 1181

Exercise: 'up and running' training - 15min jogging, 20min running - total about 5km

[Hazel at the Hill]

Week 3, day 5 (day 19)

Breakfast: ww fromage frais
Lunch: poached egg on 1 x toast
Dinner: at mums for her creamy chicken pie, veg; raspberrys and meringue - yum yum yum!
Snacks/treats: 1 x pt bitter, 1 x small glass wine, slice fruit cake and cheese, half a dozen pistachios

Calorie tot (logging on MFP): 1276

Exercise: none

[MrsCordial]

You put me to shame Hazel. I'm not huge but would certainly like to lose the baby weight and be back where I was before I got pg with DS (who has just started Reception...), which means losing about 1.5 stone. DH has several stone to lose. We started a low-carb thing in February of last year, but it's bloody hard when you're trying to feed the children 'normally' and so have bread and potatoes in the house. Also I really love cooking so sometimes just throw caution to the wind.

We were both doing well and were half a stone and a stone down respectively, then Christmas last year. Disaster. Both put on much of the weight we'd lost as we ate the treats , and drank them Neither of us has quite clawed back since, and to my horror I once slipped over the magic figure I was never *ever* going to see on the scales again. Since then I've hovered around a pound or two over or a pound or two under.

Over the summer holidays far too many glasses of wine slipped down and suddenly I was X stone FIVE pounds, erk!! That was really horrifying, to be the best part of half a stone OVER the weight I was never ever going to be again!! I've knocked the alcohol on the head (I'm not a big drinker usually - please shut your mind to the fact that I'm venturing into home brew! - but do like a glass of wine when I'm relaxing with friends or on holiday), tried very hard to eat only when I'm properly hungry, and this morning I'd dropped three pounds, which is a huge relief.