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Weight loss ups and downs - 800 Calorie - Newcastle

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I have coffee (decaf with a dash of almond milk) and ride this through to the morning - so that should end up at least 36hrs. I'll break the fast with a tsp of Whole Earth peanut butter and follow up with a shake. Seems a shame to break the fast now as I'm not even peckish.
 
I do so admire you all, I just can't do it. I use a SlimFast plastic shaker beaker £8 from Tesco and it's fine for the SlimFasts but the Exante's don't seem to mix so well. I also have another two shaker beakers which were only a pound from PoundLand.

Anyways I officially give up with the liquid diet and will just have to put up with nasty liver symptoms because I'm an idiot. I will try and do low carb like I've been trying to do for the last twenty years!

I lasted till 7 and then the smell of Mum's fish pie heating up in the oven did for me. She then left it so I had it. If I was still living on my own I'd no doubt have been okay because I wouldn't have had tempting stuff in the house. I'm never tempted to buy junky stuff when I'm out, I shop healthy. It's when I'm in the house that I lose it.

Those old time monks and mystics used to know all about fasting, makes you feel good and saintly. :D
 
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I do so admire you all, I just can't do it. I use a SlimFast plastic shaker beaker £8 from Tesco and it's fine for the SlimFasts but the Exante's don't seem to mix so well. I also have another two shaker beakers which were only a pound from PoundLand.

Anyways I officially give up with the liquid diet and will just have to put up with nasty liver symptoms because I'm an idiot. I will try and do low carb like I've been trying to do for the last twenty years! Good grief, I'm a saddo.

I lasted till 7 and then the smell of Mum's fish pie heating up in the oven did for me. She then left it so I had it. If I was still living on my own I'd no doubt have been okay because I wouldn't have had tempting stuff in the house. I'm never tempted to buy junky stuff when I'm out, I shop healthy. It's when I'm in the house that I lose it.

Those old time monks and mystics used to know all about fasting, makes you feel good and saintly. :D
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I feel your pain. I adore my mum’s fish pie.
 
And the weight loss this week.... 6.9lbs

20th May 2020 16st 03 1/2lbs
7th August 2020 13st 13 1/2lbs

In kilos that puts me at 88.8kg.
Can’t remember the last time my weight was below 90kg and it means there’s about another 7lbs to go to my initial goal.

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Just gone back through my records and Nov 2020 I topped out at 16st 10lbs 😳

It’s no wonder I’m feeling different these days
 
Excellent. Interesting graph!
 
To hold myself accountable I’m posting this here.
Please beware me something rotten if I break this early!

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Brilliant news about smashing the 90kg barrier @ColinUK

How did the fast go?
 
ColinUK said:
I’ll let you know when it’s finished on Tuesday!
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Oh my goodness! I didn't read the screenshot closely. That’s a long one!!
 
Lol. :D

If I was talking to a member of my family and being bossy as usual and all pot/kettle I would say the piggy/fast isn't the way to go. That's what I've been doing my entire life and have doomed myself! Seeing as you're not a member of my family you can go tell me to take a walk off a short pier. :D
 
ColinUK said:
I have coffee (decaf with a dash of almond milk) and ride this through to the morning - so that should end up at least 36hrs. I'll break the fast with a tsp of Whole Earth peanut butter and follow up with a shake. Seems a shame to break the fast now as I'm not even peckish.
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Hi, just read in an earlier post that you use the zero everything pretend pasta
Do you still eat it? .If so what do you put on it? I had some tonight, the pretend penne and put a home made tomato and basil sauce. It was yum. But wonder what else I could try. Cooking isn't really my thing, so it has to be simple. I tried a little without anything it was horrible. BTW congrats on the weight loss.
 
Sharron1 said:
Hi, just read in an earlier post that you use the zero everything pretend pasta
Do you still eat it? .If so what do you put on it? I had some tonight, the pretend penne and put a home made tomato and basil sauce. It was yum. But wonder what else I could try. Cooking isn't really my thing, so it has to be simple. I tried a little without anything it was horrible. BTW congrats on the weight loss.
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Whatever you’d normally have with pasta or noodles!
Tomorrow I’m having the fettuccini version with broccoli and mushroom stir fry which will have a little bit of olive oil and chilli with it. Nothing complex but a punch of flavour.
They do a rice version and again you just sub it in where you’d normally have rice.
The spaghetti I cut into smaller strands to have as vermicelli in soup.
 
ColinUK said:
Whatever you’d normally have with pasta or noodles!
Tomorrow I’m having the fettuccini version with broccoli and mushroom stir fry which will have a little bit of olive oil and chilli with it. Nothing complex but a punch of flavour.
They do a rice version and again you just sub it in where you’d normally have rice.
The spaghetti I cut into smaller strands to have as vermicelli in soup.
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Thanks. That stuff wonderful. The rice is my favourite. Good idea about cutting the spaghetti and putting in soup.
 
I've recently started a diet, and have been using a couple of recipes from Roy Taylor's book, including cauliflower rice

The recommended method for making cauliflower rice is to zap raw cauli in a food processor
I haven't got one, so I tried the alternative method of using a coarse grater. That works, but it's fairly tedious
So I just chop it fine with a chef's knife on a chopping board
Then put it in a covered bowl with a sprinkling of water and microwave it for a few minutes

If you haven't got a microwave I suppose you could cook it briefly in boiling water, then drain it well
 
So just popped to the GP about my ear and she examined both. Said both were in fact blocked pretty totally. Expressed shock that I could hear at all. Advised me to stuff an olive in each four times a day or something like that. Presumably not the ones stuffed with almonds or chilli!

Mentioned BG levels and weight loss etc. Also mentioned my dizziness with metformin. Sure looked at my BG monitoring and said cut the metformin to one tablet add and when indicated by either the food I’ve had or a spike in BG levels.

Also booked in for an HbA1C check in September.
 
Anitram said:
I used to suffer regularly from a blocked ear and always had it irrigated (previously known as syringed) at my Surgery. Last time they told me they didn't do syringing or irrigating any more. Instead I would have to go to hospital and have a procedure called microsuction. The nurse requested an appointment for me but after 3 weeks had gone by, and no news, in desperation I went to a Pharmacy and they recommended a product called Waxsol. Two weeks later my ear was clear.

I eventually got my appointment, 11 months after the nurse had requested it. How are you expected to suffer a blocked ear for 11 months before getting it sorted? The hospital at least had the good grace to apologise when I rang to cancel.

I later discovered that Surgeries are still able to perform irrigation but that it's no longer on the list of procedures that they are reimbursed for, so they've stopped doing it. This means, of course, that whereas sufferers were spread across multiple surgeries they are all now sent to the local hospital, thus immediately creating a long waiting list.

There are places that will carry out the procedure for a fee, usually £40 - £60, for anyone happy to go private. Some Specsavers branches do it.

Martin
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Last time I got badly blocked ears I just used something like Waxsol and I also got an ear syringe thing from the chemist. Combination worked fine.

Colin: I'm guessing she said olive *oil* ??
 
Eddy Edson said:
Last time I got badly blocked ears I just used something like Waxsol and I also got an ear syringe thing from the chemist. Combination worked fine.

Colin: I'm guessing she said olive *oil* ??
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I’m sure I just heard “tapenade”
 
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