Originally Posted By amazedncal2 Whoo Hoo!!!! mele, you are my hero too It must have been awesome to see that loss on the sale I was up a couple of lbs. today but I know it's still vacation weight along with not being 100% perfect. I've been "good" but not smedley good Now tomorrow is Halloween and I do plan to have a treat. Luckily I'm not tempted by all the candy, weird for me, I'm craving some cookies or cupcakes and FROSTING. Maybe some pumpkin pie. I haven't decided yet, whatever it is will be worth the calories and then Sunday I'll be smedley good What do you all plan to do to beat the Halloween treats? Avoid the treats completely, chew the candy and spit out like my mom does (at least she does it in private)indulge and then move on, keep to the low cal treats? Any inspiring ideas?
Originally Posted By mele Thanks! I feel like my own hero today which is something I haven't really felt before. ;-) I don't have any tips to avoid sweets. I'm just not that much into sweets anymore. Now, if someone put some deep fried potatoes in front of me, I'd have a tough time resisting those. Or nachos or something gooey and fat laden. We're going out to a club tonight. My friend's band is playing so we're going to go out to dinner and have some drinks. It's the drinks that I'm worried about. ;-) I bought a Bettie Page wig and will be wearing huge false eyelashes and red lipstick. Oh, and some red, glittery devil horns. That's the extent of my costume. Oh, and a top that looks kinda "pin-up" like. Meaning boobies. LOL. Tomorrow I'm going to shove a witch hat over the wig. Tada. Costume. (Kinda digging the black hair look, tho. Wish the wig was nicer...$13 hair doesn't really look or feel all that awesome. LOL)
Originally Posted By smedley Funny that on the $13 wig Love the sound of the costume No dressing up here, but I will be handing candy out to the village kids and hoping to avoid eating it. Will carve my pumpkin tomorrow morning, so pumpkin soup for lunch lol!
Originally Posted By mele smedley eats pumpkin guts! I bought a bag of plain M&Ms to give out. Unless they are in cookies, they do not tempt me at all. I've gotten really weird about sweet beverages in the past few weeks. I can drink diet sodas but I'm starting to prefer unsweetened drinks. Even the soy milk in my latte is too sweet. Now I'm having 4 shots of espresso with tablespoon or so of half and half. No peppermint mochas for me this Xmas. We're going to a Halloween party tomorrow afternoon. It's at my friend's pizza/pasta restaurant. They have these amazing garlic and butter rolls. Those will be hard to resist.
Originally Posted By smedley Yup I eat pumpkin guts, and they taste good ;D I add a little curry powder to the soup, so it's curried pumpkin soup, trust me it's good
Originally Posted By mele I have a hard time with savory pumpkin food. I made two different pumpkin soups and thought they tasted really...gross. My son loved them but I think I'll stick to pie and bread. :-D Not that I get to eat any pies or breads. LOL
Originally Posted By smedley Yeah pies and bread would be ace, but maybe not I like pumpkin soup, but it is all about the flavouring
Originally Posted By smedley LMAO see I totally don't get the whole sweet pumpkin thing, in fairness I've never tried it, but still...
Originally Posted By Pixie Glitter Excuse me for a moment. . . Mele rocks. Totally and completely rocks in a most awesome and amazing fashion. Okay, you can carry on with the discussion of all things pumpkiny now. I just had to say that.
Originally Posted By smedley No problem Pixie Glitter, you butt on in Well I hopped on the scales this morning, and I've lost the lb that I gained and another 2 since Thursday morning, bizarre but I'm not complaining.. Haven't done any measurements though, do them next week on Thursday. Anyhoo! That means I have now lost 48lb and 26 inches (inches might be off) it's fair to say I am pretty happy, the elusive 50lb loss is not too far away now
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 YAY!!! smedley!!! Isn't it weird how that can happen? I wish I had kept track of my inches. I think that would make me feel better. I've been continuing with my "strength" exercises and I can tell it's working in how some of my t shirts hang Not quite so much blob showing I don't think I've had pumpkin soup in any form. I've had squash soup and I liked that. Hmm, care to share your recipe smeds? We used to have 100 or so trick or treaters, now not so many now that the neighborhood kids are grown and gone AND we live on a hill. I bought full sized candy bars which are VERY hard for DH or I to "sneak just one because they are so small" I cracked up when I noticed that one of the candy bars had "4 GRAMS of PROTEIN" on the front of the wrapper. I think it had nuts in it Happy Halloween to all the losers, the really trying to be good but not quite there, the thinking about it but waiting until Monday and everyone muddling around in between
Originally Posted By smedley Amazed, I would guess it's similar to your squash recipe. I take a small pumpkin and an onion and chop them in a pan, add about a litre of stock (I guess lol) I add salt and pepper and a couple of teaspoons of curry powder. Cook for about 20 mins and then blitz down. Yummy To be honest I don't use hard and set measures, so just judge by eye how much stock you need for the amount of pumpkin, if you use a larger pumpkin you might want to add more onion too
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 Hmm, that sounds easy enough My kind of cooking for sure. I never thought to add curry, I LOVE curry. Well I ate my treats yesterday and you know what? They weren't all that great. DH and I did go for a drive and out to lunch and that sandwich was YUMMY but the pizza and cookies in the evening were just OK. Note to self. Don't bother with it next Halloween. Happy November first everyone It's a new month and it's time for me to get cracking to get some more weight off before the holidays. How about you all?
Originally Posted By smedley You're welcome honey, it's my kind of recipe too, I do the same thing to make parsnip soup too, but I grate a small apple into that. Also cauliflower cheese soup, follow same principles but add low fat soft cream cheese before you whizz it up, in fact I might just have that for dinner tonight. I slipped some last night (read couldn't resist the candy) and I felt hideous, my body totally can't take refined sugar any more. Back on the straight and narrow today though
Originally Posted By smedley to clear something up, I don't put curry powder in the parsnip soup, but I do sometimes in the cauliflower soup, depends how I feel at the time
Originally Posted By smedley Still going well here How's everybody else doing? Hoping to post a reasonable loss this Thursday, not sure it will be enough to make it to the 50lb lost point though, but it will be close
