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I weighed 6st 8 for years++ - 7st 2 on my wedding day, remained around that for many years. We walked a lot, swam, played sports ….. gardening is my main exercise these days. For 12 years we had an active dog and although I ate a lot of chocolate all our meals are from scratch and many of our veg./fruit home grown. When the dog aged my weight rose to under 9st by a few pounds. She then died
(as they do).
I borrowed a puppy and walked again, miles each day with him. It took 14 months to get back to 8 and a half stones, weighed on Sunday strangely - down to 7 and a half.
We are 2 home alone. DH does all the cookery. He makes meals from scratch and we rarely have left overs. So don't tend to munch from the fridge between meals. He eats way more fruit than I do, I find it bloats me. Also eating is hard work
Typical week: breakfast always the same: porridge for Himself, granola for me. Full fat milk, NEVER anything else. Cups of tea are black with 2 sugars, he drinks coffee, black without.
Lunch varies: usually a cheese with biscuits/pork pie with salad, soup in the Winter with bread. If out and about we may have a cooked lunch.
Evening meal varies: DH will cook freshly caught trout with home grown veg.; or on a bed of boiled rice. He uses ginger and garlic in lots of the meals he prepares. We de-frost Naan bread which goes under the grill; added a layer of tomato purred, grilled; adds tomatoes, chopped peppers, mushrooms, grill topped with cheese, melted. Really filling. He occasionally makes beef burgers from scratch adding ginger and garlic to the mix, grilling until done. Spag. bol is a similar recipe served with pasta or spaghetti. Occasoinally we go to the chippy. 2-night it's home smoked filleted trout with pasta: pasta stir fried in tomato sauce with salt/black pepper, ginger/garlic, yellow peppers, trout thrown in - ready to serve.
Roast meals are done in the oven - meat, veg., potatoes …….. the only way to eat parsnips is roasted
I can't eat onions so he cooks those separately. Very Good Gravey when necessary.
Don't buy 2 4 1 meals 'cos there's a pressure then to eat them ! On mainland Europe the housewife shops daily and has a store cupboard of fillers i.e. dried herbs for soups. We have lots of pickles, mustards, sauces to add and frozen veg. usually peas and sweetcorn. Don't buy what you think puts weight onto you but allow yourself a treat daily.
As we age the muscles become lax so although I have a droopy belly my weight is fine. Can't do much about the droop but it's all paid for