just look at the photos.

Days 91-95

Went shopping to ASDA, and managed to stock up on all the basics for A Weight Loss For Winners Special Diet (c) 2007

Branflakes
tinned fruit cocktail
cranberry juice
bananas
broken rice
onion
courgette
mushrooms
apples
carrots
chopped tomatos
mushy peas
(god, this is interesting)
tinned tuna
cottage cheese
pitta breads
reduced fat spread
potatos
peas
four pack of beer (ok, probably my only bad thing, everyones gotta have their vices!)


Here is a photo of my fave breakfast in the whole world, bananas, strawberries, rasins, blueberries, and branflakes, yummy!


Here is the photo of the meal at the indian ceremony i went to, I imagine it's not all that healthy, but when your meal is served in a heart shape box, who can refuse!


And this one, a picture of the queen in a indian temple made me chuckle.

Went to a BBQ on Saturday, night, lovely it was. We played a game of questions based on 50 questions in a Newspaper magazine interview. Mostly, who was your first kiss / biggest achievement type questions, a question for me was, 'what's your vice?' other people said Pizza, Drugs, I said cornbeef toasties, but it probably should have been Beer. I can't get enough, especially when it is free.
Much like free love and sunshine, burn me, burn me!

day 97 is week number 14 for Weightloss For Winners, so I am over half way through and by the guide I wrote down for myself I should be 85kg. I haven't been swimming for a few days because I am a bit low on the dough, and so haven't managed to weigh myself, I would be surprised if I was as low as 85 kg.

I have included some of my mum's best recipes below, if like me, losing weight seems like a bit too much like an inconvenience, then follow these simple steps for some of the best English cake recipes in the world ever....


LEMON CAKE

6ozs (170 g) caster sugar 6ozs (170 g) margarine 10ozs (275g) self raising flour 3 large eggs 2 lemons a little milk 3 dessertspoons of granulated sugar for topping 8inch round cake tin with loose bottom – well oiled

Cream sugar marg and grated rind of one lemon together

Add eggs and beat really well

Fold in flour and milk to make very soft mixture

Put into cake tin and cook Elec160C gas 5 for 40 mins or until skewer comes out of centre clean

While cake is cooking grate remaining lemon rind and juice of both lemons into small bowl and reserve

Immediately cake is cooked remove form tin and put into centre of a piece of kitchen foil. Bring foil up around the cake sides

Put granulated sugar into lemon juice and rind, just a couple of quick stirs and spoon over hot cake.

Leave to cool (but hot lemon cake is scrummy)

Keeps very well in an airtight tin for a couple of days, stored in a cool place. If too warm the cake turns mouldy very quickly. It never lasts that long!!!!!


ROCK CAKES

8ozs (225g) self raising flour 3 ozs (75g) demarara sugar 3ozs (75g) marg 1 tespoon mixed spice all into a bowl rub in fat to all dry ingredients. Add 1 egg and about 3-4 tablespoons of milk. Stir in 3 ozs (75g) sultanas

Fork into lumps on a greased baking sheet cook about 15 to 20 mins 160C. Eat while warm.


FLAP JACK

8ozs (225g) oats 4ozs (100g) marg 2 heaped tablespoons of golden syrup 2 ozs (50g) demarara sugar

Melt syrup, sugar and marg in saucepan. Stir in oats. Press into a grease flat tin. Cook 20mins Ele 160c

Can add nuts and raisins.to that. Or grated apple


ELDERFLOWER CORDIAL

One big bowl full of white elderflower heads. Add Three quarters pound - 12ozs (325g) granulated sugar. 30g of citric acid.( you can get it at a chemist) 3 lemons juiced and put rinds in bowl too.

Boil a big kettle of water 2Ltrs and pour over the top. Stir until sugar is melted, leave until cold. Strain and bottle in a lemonade bottle. Use as much as required at a time diluted with water , tonic water or lemonade.

Food weight crazy time!

Days 66-90

Up down big small, good breakfast, bad breakfasts, swimming loads, not swimming at all. Wobble Wobble, no Wobble Wobble. Where is it all going/coming from, where is it all going to? Has Fatman Lost his way? Can you lose weight with no money? Does going to the market to buy cheap veg and then being short changed when you give someone a 20 pound note some sort of CRAZY OUT OF THIS WORLD Karma?

Ying Yang Flib Flab.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans, and a belly is what you get when you forget to blog, and diet.

God it's so difficult to keep on track, the actual details, swimming, eating well, easy peasy, its all those other bits, trying to find a healthy snack in a shark infested menu at the posh restaurant. Avoiding eating a pizza that someone has lovingly cooked for you when you arrive at their house. Avoiding all you can eat (Free) breakfast buffets, when your skint (I can't). Forcing yourself to drink white wine spritzers instead of devouring a lovely hand crafted pint of blacker than you heart Beer.

It reminds me of a scene in the Rock (1996)

Stanley Goodspeed: I'll do my best
John Mason: Your "best"! Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen.

So the question is am I fucking the prom queen or am I doing my best?

If your not a winner (weightloss or otherwise), or have to entertain the idea of winning or losing, then you have most certainly lost.

“PMA The philosophy of having a positive mental attitude is the belief that one can increase achievement through optimistic thought processes. Having a vision of good natured change in the mind.”

I know of a friend that plans her meals two weeks in advance on an excel spread sheet - mental attitude? Is that really what it takes? Making little / no room for manoeuvre. What ever happened to the darling of last minute dot com, Spontaneity? Or variation? What happened to Mr and Miss, lets go crazy! Did they get fat and poor?

Am I a monkey for corporate spin? Am I the ultimate consumer (£+food), caught between I want and I need. Bouncing between scraping by and scraping the ice cream bowl?

Ergh, I give up.

(p.s on a slightly less self involved melodramatic note at sometime this month i was 89.5kg (= good), hang on that's still self involved, argh!)

WLFW not WLTF or WLTM or MILF

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FAT SPOT SUN SPOTS DOT TO SPOT

42-48

Another week flies by in the Weightloss for winners office, and we have not been pigging out on chocci biscuits, we have swapped beer for wine, we have steered clear of brothels, gambling dens, warewolves, mad drunks, and large cakes. However due to illness going the office, we didn't make it too the pool, instead we were snorting paracetamol, and downing glasses of orange juice.

So team sprit was low and we didn't make it to the scales in the pool, thus as we speak the team are weight-less, floating through a vortex of the unknown, until tomorrow morning, when we throw on our matching red speedos and head for the last great cornerstone of british society, the baths, where there is the holy scales.

In total, we have probably loss half a stone. which ain't bad going. Hopefully we should be about 89.5 kg, but that might be wishful thinking, considering the weekend was yet another booze fest. [maybe ya'll should cut down on the beer, E.d)

We cooked a curry picking off the caterpillars and the bits of rotting veg in the cupboards, and made a nice "healthy" coconut curry. After our tuckker one of the gang notices that the coconut milk, is 28.5 grammes of fat per 100ml the pot was 400ml so 114 grammes of fat per pot, blergh!

You Win Some, You Lose Some, You Give Some Away

Day 35 - 41

The Stag Weekend

We tried the local cuisine, KFC for breakfast, true Stagg doo class. I haven't had a KFC for ages, and it wasn't very satisfying, just a really fluffy sort of feeling, like they had pumped air into it, AERO style. Absolutely no healthy options there, not sure they even had any veggie options, but then what does one expect from a restaurant, which has both, 'fried' and 'chicken in it's title. I don't think fast food outlets have the same pressure on them to 'go 'el-feey' as they do in the UK. but then with a stagg sized head ache, salad would not suffice. When ever I see people eat KFC it always looks like a vultures eating their prey, I really like it for that reason, no pretense, just straight forward, mastication. salad nicoise anyone?

Went into a restaurant, and one of the party says in english and I quote,"oi, mate, have you got any real food, like a full english?", the poor waiter had no idea what he was on about, needless to say, our mate orders lamb chops and chips. I thought I would go for the healthy option, a veggie paella, but when it came it was it was swimming in oil, blergh. It was like the time I was round a friends house and his mum cooked me some burgers (mum's gone to Iceland!), and they were so full of fat that when i bit into it the shock of all this hot grease hitting my lower lip, nearly made me puke, so i through it over the next door neighbors garden and got a right telling off, naughty me.

Went to a great kebab house simply called 'Pitta' a very nice kebab house, not as greasy as a proper english kebab.

For some very strange reason it was decided that to get to the bar quicker (a few of us got off at the wrong stop) we would jog, 'soccer training' style to the bar, "one is touch the floor with your left hand, two is touch the floor with your right, three is do a header" all whilst running along. still not sure quite why, it just felt right.

Manage to avoid the general stick from the guys about being on a 'diet' whist consuming pints, there were far more interesting things happening like people getting pick pocketed by prostitutes, or people puking on the tube. fank gawd. I imagine if it was a slightly more serene holiday, my non-dieting activities would have come more under the spot light.

I had a dream of going swimming during the weekend to burn off some of the booze, I didn't manage to much swimming as the water was bloody freezing! I lasted about 2 minutes, in there.

anyway, back to normal now, fruit, 'lite' drinking, branflakes, etc etc.

my original aim for the end of week 5 (next saturday) is 89.5kg, according to my plan in my first post all those many days ago, I am not sure how likely that is, due to the stagg weekend, but will see how the excercise and (the belly) goes.

Went swimming and weighed in at 90kg on wednesday before the stagg, awesome!

Weighed myself Friday before the Stag weekend as I was about 90 - 91kg, (was using a friends scales, and they weren't very accurate they are, lean one way and your 12 stone the other way 14 stone, you get idea).

After the weekend I felt a little bloated, but I think it will be quite easy to lose the weight as it is primarily booze belly, rather than hardened fat.

DAY 34 in the big blubber house

day 34

Cornflakes bananananananan and rasins for brekkie

lunch - whole meal rye bread salad + small amount of feta

dinner - pasta - yogurt (low low low fat stuff) strawberries, raspberries and tangerines.

going swimming tomorrow, well excited! I will be interested if I am still 92kg, ok, I will actually be annoyed...lets see.

You don't have to say you love me.

17-33

Summer is here, the soft kiss of the sun on your face the passing of sheep shaped clouds, bergh!

Went for a 10 mile hike in the Derby dales, it was great! lovely air.
Went swimming Wed/Sat still 92kg in weight both times.

At the moment I am doing lots of exercise and eating loads of fruit. Breakfast and lunch are well easy to do, skimmed milk with fruit and bran flakes, easy! Lunch, low fat stuff and salad, easy peasy. Even making evening meals at home is easy enough, but eating out and drinking the right things are a right ass, I think I can do the healthy lunch and breakfast on a permanent basis. But dinner and booze, thats another question. Went out for dinner and it all the menu had lots of fat in it. Salad with deep fried rubbish, salmon with cheesy fried dirt, grrrr

Its going to be a lot more difficult than I had hoped, not like I thought it was going to be easy, just that I have acquired the feared 'office worker' syndrome, diet starts tomorrow/ its only one / just this once / its naughty etc etc. I guess its about will power. Its just so bloody difficult to keep on track, with people bringing you stroop waffles ( syrup biscuit type things) from the netherlands, because you liked them before the 'regime'.

Its also the main reason I post less now, because its embarrassing! ah, well thats what I wanted I suppose.

I got 'caught' eating a bread, cottage cheese and pickle sandwich, I was hungry! I had a
shed load of fruit at lunch but it just don't fill you up like a good hunk of baked dough.

Went to the lovely ALDI and bought german whole-meal rye bread which should be a nice replacement for bread.

See how I do this week. (yes I know, only losers 'do there best', winners go home and **** the prom queen)

ah well, such is life.