Weight is so frustrating to manage, and this weather really is not helping.
I have a suggestion re the wine based on what you’ve said above — it’s what I would do in this circumstance:
1. only have a glass of wine every second day.
2. decide each time whether it is to be an apero or with the meal, based on what the meal for that day is, or your mood.
3. if with the apero, have pringles, but put a known and moderate quantity in a bowl and stick to that (and I would ring in the changes, with some interesting vegetable crisps or corn chips, or seeds and nuts some days instead of the pringles).
Rosemary Kneipp
May 21st, 2013 at 11:09 pm
Thank you, Susan, for all your suggestions. For the moment, I’m keeping off the pringles, but after I lose the 5 kilos, I’ll use your method.
Femme Francophile
May 20th, 2013 at 10:31 pm
I hear your pain. I have been trying to lose weight prior to returning to France in a couple of months. In spite of health concerns I keep piling it on. In desperation I have contacted a friend and we are going to weekly compare percentage weightloss. I don’t know yet if it will be effective or not but I really felt I needed some accountability in my weightloss journey.
Rosemary Kneipp
May 21st, 2013 at 11:10 pm
I must say it’s very frustrating. I’m glad to hear you’re going to contact a friend. It definitely helps to have some kind of accountability. Rendez-vous next week!
Jane’s cousin
May 21st, 2013 at 3:18 am
thanks for your post and Jean Michel’s comments. They show how easy it is to slip and slide away from what we think are well established good habits when circumstances change. But awareness can help us get back on track.
Rosemary Kneipp
May 21st, 2013 at 11:11 pm
Yes, it’s amazing how quickly the old habits creep up again!
I have a constant battle with my weight. Unless on holiday, a very special occasion or at the weekend, we don’t have wine or aperos. i can’t say lose a lot of weight but I probably put on less than I otherwise might.
Bonne chance!
Rosemary Kneipp
May 21st, 2013 at 11:12 pm
We’re wine buffs – we used to go on one-week wine tasting holidays for many years. We’ve cut that out and considerably reduced our wine intake. We don’t have an apero every day. It usually depends on what’s going on but we do on holidays. We’re away for a few days at the moment so we’ll see how things work out.
Jane’s cousins friend
May 21st, 2013 at 11:41 am
Sigh, I know how you feel.
I have joined a Women’s Wellness program at work. I think the support network might help. I am also participating in a team in the Global Challenge. We all have to try and do 10,000 steps a day. We have all been given nifty Pedometers to count our steps.
Rosemary Kneipp
May 21st, 2013 at 11:13 pm
10,000 steps a day! About how long does that take?
Jane’s cousins friend
May 24th, 2013 at 12:48 pm
It takes for ever, I went for a walk at lunch time today and it is 8.30pm and I have done nearly 8000 steps. So I’m obviously going to have to do a longer walk each day. Still it can’t hurt.
Rosemary Kneipp
May 24th, 2013 at 1:51 pm
If the rain ever lets up, I’ll go for a powerwalk and count my steps!
I’m starting Weight Watchers next week for the first time ever. I’m doing at work for 13 weeks. I hope it helps. I think it will give me some accountability and a way to quantify how much I truly eat. I’m a sweet tooth and get very bad sugar cravings since living in Australia (not sure why, maybe I don’t get enough bread carbs, haha?!)
Rosemary Kneipp
May 26th, 2013 at 6:14 pm
Maybe the fact that you have been out of France for so long. Even if you’re not homesick, maybe your body is! Sweet foods may remind you of childhood. I used to get vegemite cravings when I first lived here (with butter on toast) but they disappeared a log time ago now. Good luck with your WW diet.
These days I have one day every three to four weeks where I incorporate it into one or two meals.
Same with bacon … one meal per month … usually a Sunday breakfast/brunch.
I don’t buy bread, bacon, ice-cream, sugar or processed ‘factory’ foods any more. By not taking them home, I can focus on eating fresh foods.
Rosemary Kneipp
August 31st, 2015 at 10:08 am
Did you find the posts about the 5:2 fast diet that I wrote?
After my initial weight loss, I found it very hard to constantly deprive myself of the things I love – not processed foods, but rib steak, foie gras, wine, etc.
We’ve now been on the 5:2 fast diet (intermittent might be a better word) for over two years and find it works perfectly with our lifestyle. We have a balanced diet with the little extras every day (square of chocolate with coffee, wine at night, nibbles for aperitif, biscuits with our tea in the afternoon, etc.) and then two days where we have two light meals totalling 500 calories for me, 600 calories for Jean Michel. And we are feeling very fit. The fasting also lowers the cancer factor and improves cholesterol.
My son-in-law has been fasting two non-consecutive weekdays for about 30 months now. He has a real handle on it. My wife is considering it. If she does decide “to give it a whirl”, I may join her for, say, a two to three month trial … longer if it works without ‘pain’.
Rosemary Kneipp
September 2nd, 2015 at 10:53 pm
I hope both of you do give it a whirl. It’s always easier when both members of a couple follow the same way of eating.
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Weight is so frustrating to manage, and this weather really is not helping.
I have a suggestion re the wine based on what you’ve said above — it’s what I would do in this circumstance:
1. only have a glass of wine every second day.
2. decide each time whether it is to be an apero or with the meal, based on what the meal for that day is, or your mood.
3. if with the apero, have pringles, but put a known and moderate quantity in a bowl and stick to that (and I would ring in the changes, with some interesting vegetable crisps or corn chips, or seeds and nuts some days instead of the pringles).
Thank you, Susan, for all your suggestions. For the moment, I’m keeping off the pringles, but after I lose the 5 kilos, I’ll use your method.
I hear your pain. I have been trying to lose weight prior to returning to France in a couple of months. In spite of health concerns I keep piling it on. In desperation I have contacted a friend and we are going to weekly compare percentage weightloss. I don’t know yet if it will be effective or not but I really felt I needed some accountability in my weightloss journey.
I must say it’s very frustrating. I’m glad to hear you’re going to contact a friend. It definitely helps to have some kind of accountability. Rendez-vous next week!
thanks for your post and Jean Michel’s comments. They show how easy it is to slip and slide away from what we think are well established good habits when circumstances change. But awareness can help us get back on track.
Yes, it’s amazing how quickly the old habits creep up again!
I have a constant battle with my weight. Unless on holiday, a very special occasion or at the weekend, we don’t have wine or aperos. i can’t say lose a lot of weight but I probably put on less than I otherwise might.
Bonne chance!
We’re wine buffs – we used to go on one-week wine tasting holidays for many years. We’ve cut that out and considerably reduced our wine intake. We don’t have an apero every day. It usually depends on what’s going on but we do on holidays. We’re away for a few days at the moment so we’ll see how things work out.
Sigh, I know how you feel.
I have joined a Women’s Wellness program at work. I think the support network might help. I am also participating in a team in the Global Challenge. We all have to try and do 10,000 steps a day. We have all been given nifty Pedometers to count our steps.
10,000 steps a day! About how long does that take?
It takes for ever, I went for a walk at lunch time today and it is 8.30pm and I have done nearly 8000 steps. So I’m obviously going to have to do a longer walk each day. Still it can’t hurt.
If the rain ever lets up, I’ll go for a powerwalk and count my steps!
I’m starting Weight Watchers next week for the first time ever. I’m doing at work for 13 weeks. I hope it helps. I think it will give me some accountability and a way to quantify how much I truly eat. I’m a sweet tooth and get very bad sugar cravings since living in Australia (not sure why, maybe I don’t get enough bread carbs, haha?!)
Maybe the fact that you have been out of France for so long. Even if you’re not homesick, maybe your body is! Sweet foods may remind you of childhood. I used to get vegemite cravings when I first lived here (with butter on toast) but they disappeared a log time ago now. Good luck with your WW diet.
Have never lost my salt-loaded Vegemite craving.
These days I have one day every three to four weeks where I incorporate it into one or two meals.
Same with bacon … one meal per month … usually a Sunday breakfast/brunch.
I don’t buy bread, bacon, ice-cream, sugar or processed ‘factory’ foods any more. By not taking them home, I can focus on eating fresh foods.
Did you find the posts about the 5:2 fast diet that I wrote?
After my initial weight loss, I found it very hard to constantly deprive myself of the things I love – not processed foods, but rib steak, foie gras, wine, etc.
We’ve now been on the 5:2 fast diet (intermittent might be a better word) for over two years and find it works perfectly with our lifestyle. We have a balanced diet with the little extras every day (square of chocolate with coffee, wine at night, nibbles for aperitif, biscuits with our tea in the afternoon, etc.) and then two days where we have two light meals totalling 500 calories for me, 600 calories for Jean Michel. And we are feeling very fit. The fasting also lowers the cancer factor and improves cholesterol.
I did find them and read them.
My son-in-law has been fasting two non-consecutive weekdays for about 30 months now. He has a real handle on it. My wife is considering it. If she does decide “to give it a whirl”, I may join her for, say, a two to three month trial … longer if it works without ‘pain’.
I hope both of you do give it a whirl. It’s always easier when both members of a couple follow the same way of eating.
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