What did you eat yesterday?

[trophywench]

That's a thought - we sometimes can't get the panettone we really love, since it's the only one we've found with candied peel in it. Since the others have been disappointing I usually just pass and let Pete scoff the lot but I'm not encouraging him to do that any more. (Not that he needs encouraging, but there again, I don't need to eat puddings either! )

 

[goodybags]

Sat
B - 2 Slices of Toast buttered & spread with sugar free marmalade (homemade almond soda bread)
L - 1/2 Cold Cheese & Onion Quiche, with sweet pickle & Sliced Salad Sticks (Mini Cucumber, Carrot, Celery & Mayo) handful of macadamia nuts
D Homemade Chilli Con-Carne
served with half a spiralised sweet potato airfryed so nice & crispy & a courgette (spirally cut)

 

[Gwynn]

Well, i must admit that rather stupidly, having reached my weight goal after 8 months, I celebrated with a piece of flapjack and a small glass of red wine. And very nice it was too.

 

[Ditto]

Congratulations @Gwynn 🙂

 

[Gwynn]

Thank you. Now comes the really hard bit...weight maintenance.

I cannot believe that I have lost 38.6% of me. That's almost half of me gone. Makes me quite embarrassed to think how I was before!

 

[Eddy Edson]

Thank you. Now comes the really hard bit...weight maintenance.

I cannot believe that I have lost 38.6% of me. That's almost half of me gone. Makes me quite embarrassed to think how I was before!

I'm sure you will have absorbed a bunch of information re weight maintenance but I think it's really worth delving into the studies published by Kevin Hall's group at the US National Institutes for Health. He's a bit of a rockstar in the real metabolic research world (as against the Internet snakepit of quacks and grifters).

A long-term follow up study of contestants from the "Biggest Loser" TV travesty generated some noise a few years ago:

Increased physical activity was associated with less weight regain six years after “The Biggest Loser” competition

To explore how physical activity (PA) and energy intake (EI) changes were related to weight loss and regain following the Biggest Loser competition.At baseline, six weeks, 30 weeks, and six years after the competition we measured body composition via ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

The main takeaway: comparing weight-maintainers and weight-regainers, there was no significant difference in the amount they eat, but a very significant difference in the amount of exercise. On average, yr bod and brain want you to put the weight back on; they will afflict you with constant food craving to make that happen; and the only sure-fire strategy is to increase physical acitvity to burn off the excess calories you will probably eat, say ~90 min of exercise per day.

(Personally, I think I'm a bit more fortunate than "average" when it comes to cravings, but I certainly think that maintaining my weight loss for the past 2.5+ years has a lot to do with walking 100-120 min per day.)

This review paper looks at some of the mechanisms for what's going on and general strategies for maintenance:

Maintenance of lost weight and long-term management of obesity

Weight loss can be achieved through a variety of modalities, but long-term maintenance of lost weight is much more challenging. Obesity interventions typically result in early rapid weight loss followed by a weight plateau and progressive regain. This ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

A list of all Hall's publications, a really fascinating collection IMO: https://www.niddk.nih.gov/about-niddk/staff-directory/biography/hall-kevin/publications

 

[adrian1der]

This week's menus - weather looks better mid week so will fire up the BBQ:

Friday Toulouse Sausage Loaf with Fried Pickle Salad (Dopamine Diet)
Yesterday Chicken stuffed with Stilton
Sunday Roast Pork, Red Cabbage, Savoy Cabbage & Runner Beans
Monday Tex Mex Meatballs (Pinch of Nom Quick and Easy) & Cauli Rice
Tuesday BBQ – Steak, Herby Lemon Chicken, Shawarma Chicken Kebab, BBQ Green Beans & Asparagus (Outdoor Cooking)
Wednesday BBQ – Steak, Korean BBQ Beef, Lamb Koftas (all from Outdoor Cooking), Tomato, Ricotta and Basil Salad (Loose Weight for Good)
Thursday Sausage and Sage Omelette (Dopamine Diet) & Greek Salad
Friday Chicken Madras (Indian Restaurant Cookbook)

 

[Barfly]

Discovered tins of Marks and Spencer's Chunky Steak. The only suspect ingredient is a gelling agent Xanthan Gum (whatever that is). Not too much fats and no E ingredients.
Very tasty, add an oxo and veg and it's a tasty, nourishing, quick and very easy meal.
The lovely Jane did me 50gm new potatoes, asparagus, cauliflower, carrots, an onion and mushrooms.
Finished off with a dozen fresh strawberries and 7 fresh raspberries.

Tastiest meal since diagnosis other than that rather gorgeous fillet steak I had at the Bear Cross in July.

 

[PattiEvans]

4 after my OH, 1 before. born in Rhodesia as was.

Gosh, lots of B&B puds then!

 

[Molly M]

yesterday

brunch - takeaway carvery dinner - braised steak, cabbage and turnip - didn't have any mashed or roasted spuds (it's criminal not to have a ton of spuds here in Ireland - you normally get 4 or 5 scoops of mash and 4 roasties). Turnip wasn't good for my bg reading wise but it's my favourite veg - but my amazing other half had already said he didn't want the spuds, carrots and peas - I did know in advance that turnip was quite high/not a great choice.

dinner - homemade doner with rocket, 3 cherry tomatoes, a spoonful of homemade salsa, spoonful of homemade spicy guacamole

today

brunch - homemade Indian chicken with raw spinach and salad (looks like a ton of it but that's actually a side plate)

dinner - the other half of yesterdays homemade doner with rocket, 3 cherry tomatoes, a spoonful of homemade salsa, spoonful of homemade spicy guacamole, drizzle of garlic salad dressing

 

[PattiEvans]

Saturday:
Brunch: Corned beef hash (made with new potatoes, mushrooms and red onion) with a fried egg.
Dinner: Stir fried prawns and veg with a hoi-sin type sauce cooked from scratch, small portion egg noodles. White wine.

Sunday:
Breakfast: 2 thin slices of toast cut from a Morrison's Spelt, wheat and rye loaf. Butter and Marmite.

Late Lunch: We were entertained by friends - 6 of us had nibbles on the terrace were some sardine thingies on little flatbreads (I didn't have any) plus puff pastry whirls filled with peanut butter. I had 2.
Indoors (it started to rain) Scallops with bacon, followed by crab tart, asparagus, roast carrot, Cheesy potatoes (similar to dauphinoise). Pudding was a lemon tart with raspberries and clotted cream. I had a little portion of everything.
Followed by cheese and port, then coffee and chocolate mints. Whatever I did with my insulin (3 separate doses) I managed not to go higher than 7.9 so I guess it was a success, it was certainly all a lovely treat!

Got home at 8pm. No more food for me tonight!

 

[PattiEvans]

dinner - the other half of yesterdays homemade donner with rocket, 3 cherry tomatoes, a spoonful of homemade salsa, spoonful of homemade spicy guacamole, drizzle of garlic salad dressing

Sounds amazing but what is donner?

 

[Molly M]

Sounds amazing but what is donner?

@Pattidevans Donner kebab meat - like you get in a takeaway (the thing that spins round on the pole) - it's so simple to make - just get mince (lamb or whatever type you like) just punch it until it goes soft rather than stringy bits, add Tongmaster donner seasoning and shape it into a ball or rectangle, cook in the oven for about 30 mins and slice it. I don't have it with any bread now but used to have the slices in a pita bread with salad and chilli sauce or sriracha sauce and some raita - yum

 

[PattiEvans]

WOW! I had never heard of that! I haven't had a take away in years. It's a bit like Gyros in Greece then!

 

[Molly M]

WOW! I had never heard of that! I haven't had a take away in years. It's a bit like Gyros in Greece then!

if gyro looks like this then yeah 😛 - you can also have them made with chicken

 

[PattiEvans]

Yes, that's more or less what a gyro looks like.

 

[adrian1der]

@Pattidevans Donner kebab meat - like you get in a takeaway (the thing that spins round on the pole) - it's so simple to make - just get mince (lamb or whatever type you like) just punch it until it goes soft rather than stringy bits, add Tongmaster donner seasoning and shape it into a ball or rectangle, cook in the oven for about 30 mins and slice it. I don't have it with any bread now but used to have the slices in a pita bread with salad and chilli sauce or sriracha sauce and some raita - yum

I bung mine into a loaf tin and cook for about 1.5 hours covered and then a final 10 or so minutes uncovered. I love it with sriracha mayo - mayo and chilli sauce mixed together

 

[PattiEvans]

I bung mine into a loaf tin and cook for about 1.5 hours covered and then a final 10 or so minutes uncovered. I love it with sriracha mayo - mayo and chilli sauce mixed together

Hi @adrian1der Isn't that meatloaf?

 

[adrian1der]

Yes - but spiced like doner kebab. I made Toulose Sausage Loaf the other day which is much the same but wrapped in foil

 

[Leadinglights]

B: bacon, scrambled egg, tomato, thin slice toast
L: cooked meat, cheese, tomato, beetroot, ryvita, pickled cucumber (getting addicted so need to make more), half apple.
D: trout fillet, courgette, green beans. half roll, berries and cream