Monday 6th August weigh in.

Sounds good! Can get Italian saussage on wed at farmers market!
Cream cheese? Philly, goats?
Romano. No can do
Only got bell peppers but can put chillies into mix!

Stuffed hot peppers

1/3 cup ground Italian sausage
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
3/4 tablespoon garlic salt
3 tablespoons grated Romano cheese
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1 teaspoon dried basil
1/3 cup Italian-style dry bread crumbs
1 tablespoon olive oil
6 Hungarian hot peppers, cored and seeded
Directions

Place sausage in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Drain, crumble and set aside.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
In a medium bowl, mix together the sausage, cream cheese, garlic salt, Romano cheese, oregano, basil, bread crumbs and olive oil.
Stuff the peppers with the sausage mixture. Place on a baking sheet, and bake in the preheated oven 20 to 25 minutes, until the stuffing is lightly brown and bubbly.
Nutritional Information

Amount Per Serving Calories: 243 | Total Fat: 20.6g | Cholesterol: 54mg

Think I'll donate them all to Gary and Kate's chickens as I can't think of any thing to do with them!
Unless, has anybody an interesting ie tasty, spicy recipe for peppers (no egg)?

I've found cauliflower peppers cheese milk and an iffy avocado. Oh, and the potato salad I've just made!

I have just cleared out the fridge and found the usual debris of leftover bits of unidentifiable stuff. Nothing worth hunting and nothing worth gathering.

What the 'hunt in the fridge, gather what's there and eat it 'one?

jeni I've done that diet years ago when I was tested for intolerances. You feel incredibly well on it

Hmmm baking, sorry for typo. Such a pain this site does not have an 'edit' option!

I've just found the most incredibly easy diet! It's called the hunter gatherer diet!

So OH gets a bee in his bonnet about backing! What? Stem ginger biscuits, full of butter, sugar and golden syrup. And here I am trying to lose weight - sadist.

Just sitting in the lounge at Vancouver airport with a glass of pinot and nibbles waiting for our flight home. I am sure the scales will shriek with terror when I get home but it will have been worth it! Have done lots of walking but also eaten a lot especially the last couple of days when I knew that going home meant behaving myself.

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Confession I have had fish and chips at lunch time when out with DD and DGC.

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Forgot to check in this week. must be because I had a fish and chip lunch when I met Annobel and Greatnan on Monday

I am the same weight as last week

Does anyone else feel really bloated when the weather is hot? I've noticed it a lot, is it just fluid retention?

grannyK get weighed you cant deal with an imaginary amount,you could get on the scales and surprise yourself and its not as bad as you expect. On the other hand once you have fallen off the wagon you might just carry it on and then its a viscous circle and that 1lb becomes 2lb and maybe more.
No panic if you want to wait till next week.

Am, refusing to weigh myself this week . Call me chicken !

I just know that the combination of becoming an Olympic tv junkie and singing in a Prom ( very exhilarating , but not calorie-burning sadly ,with lots of very static rehearsals and weird eating patterns !) means that I am at the very top of the range that I allow myself to reach while maintaining somewhere near my ideal weight. ( 2 kilos above it , in fact!)

Hoping that I will manage to lose a bit of it this week , and I really will weigh myself on Tuesday as normal , and not panic ........

Aaah glass if only it were that easy! I can go round Waitrose maybe once and the next time..... there they are in my basket!!

ella I always wondered why I was never a waste away in times of trouble and not the double your size type. I hope things are easier for you this week. Other option is don't buy any of the things you nibble on when you are feeling down, if you don't have it in you cant eat it.

I've had a bad week so far, eating biscuits and cake. DiL and children are away,and ds has been ringing and chatting to me a lot. I'm upset about other family which I can't tell him about, so having to put on brave face!

I can only do that with the help of sweet stuff!
Why can't I be one of those who waste away quietly?

Thanks glass - it's weird, whenever we eat out I eat 'normal' sized portions whereas a lot of my friends have the 'small plate' versions.
I have always been a healthy eater, piling my plate up with veg. I drink at least 4/5 of the six glasses of water you are supposed to drink each day and when I began my quest to lose weight (when I was nearing 14 stone) I did it by cutting out the 'in-between eating' such as biscuits, choc bars etc and stuck to three meals a day.
Where I did used to fall down was at breakfast - I find it hard to eat first thing and admit I used to skip breakfast However I have started taking Belvita breakfast biscuits with me to work and have them with my coffee at about 10am when I can stomach food! At the weekends when I am not at work I substitute the Belvitas with a bowl of cereal such as Weetabix minis with fruit, a fruit and fibre cereal, or porridge, again about 10am.
I usually have a light lunch such as crispbread and cheese, and a piece of fruit, as our work commitments etc mean we have our main meal around 6.30/7.30pm. We never or very rarely have a pudding/sweet and I maybe have a glass of wine at Sunday lunchtime, or if out for an evening meal, if at all.
Perhaps I should make lunch a bit more substantial?
I am also seriously considering cutting out my gym sessions as I feel I am building muscle which weighs and now that I walk a mile each way to and from work most days, and am generally active I feel I get enough exercise?
Will try and weigh most things but I find MFP a bit of a bind as they seem to have odd ways of measuring - it doesn't help that grams etc mean nothing to me! I am not too far short of my daily allowance so perhaps bumping up lunchtime a bit may work?
Watch this space ..... and good luck everyone else!

sba as MFP said you need to eat enough to loose weight, I would be weighing everything next week just to be sure that you are eating enough, it will be a chew for you but it may pay off for you and have a loss next week.

Sorry that of course should have been for Bez!

Hi fellow losers!
Having lost 4lbs last week (which I didn't really believe, but the scales insisted!) I have put one of them back on ! I think I am just well and truly stick around 163/164lbs!
I have religiously recorded everything on MFP and it keeps telling me that I am not eating enough! I am planning to weigh out portions of various things as it is very difficult to 'guess' how much various parts of a meal weigh when I get in from work and DH has a meal in the oven. Perhaps I am underestimating although I honestly wouldn't say my portion sizes are large?
Will persevere though and perhaps next week my theory that the 4lbs last week was a fluke will be proven?
sew I, too, am so glad you finally have a 'reason' for all your pain and that at least help is on the horizon - good luck, if any one can get through this, you will as you have inspirational staying power
[flowers} too for Bez - hope it goes well as it's soooo painful xxx

Well done you!wanted to give you flowers but they seem to have gone the same way as the flag