J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by karen72

Tony it is not the beef in the stew that is bad for you but there are a LOT of hidden calories in the gravy powder or granules/ I like my stewing steak quite thick so i use a lot of gravy powder (about 5 heaped spoonfulls for it which i know is very naughty). The mashed potato is also ok BUT it depends on your portion size. if you screw your hand to a fist, that is the type of portion of potato you should have and also it depends what you add to the mash....do you add butter or marg or milk?

the fruit juice....is it sweetened? maybe change to sugar free squash

lasagne is quite high on the calories and again the the pasta depends on the portion size you have. tuna pasta.... is the pasta mixed with mayonaisse? you may want to switch to a low fat mayoinaisse,

also with your soup, do you not have bread? and like Ally says do you not have any sneaky biscuits with your cuppa? oh and do you have sugar in your cuppa? you may want to try a granulated sweetner. you cant taste the difference.

hope this helps

karen

littleski it is possible for kids as young as 8 to wear contact lens, it all depends on the child. i have tried him with them but he just cant get away with them unfortunatley as they would solve a lot of problems. He does have a large head for a 9 year old though (56cm) lol

last year he just did the goggles over the glasses, but it wasnt ideal. not sure what to do for the best really.

well so far, no burning, so i am going to take the plunge and keep them. I suppose time will tell in a few wekks when i am on the slopes. any advice on what to do if they start hurting while i am on the slopes? if i take them to a hire shop to sort out for me what am i likely to be charged?

hi Ally and thanks.

like you I am tea total (well more or less anyway as i very rarely go out and dont see the point fo drinking in the house) so i am saved with those calories. I also take a vitamin summplement as during the week I dont eat much veg, only on Tuesday and sunday lol but i eat a lot of fruit. I am 38 this year and determined not to be fat and forty! lol there is only so long you can say its "baby weight" as my "babys" are 9 and 11 lol.

I am totally determined this time. usually when i am on a diet like if i go to ww, the weigh in night is "treat night" and it is the law to have a kebab or pizza on treat night as well as as many creme eggs you can eat before midnght and i also used to kid myself that i was counting the points in the biscuits i had with my tea, so i suppose it is no wonder previous diets werent that successful but this time........well just watch this space for my "after" photos in about 6 months time (well fingers crossed anyway)

Tony_H wrote:Well done Karen, thats serious weight loss. How did you diet in order to achieve that, especially without exercise?
Do you have much more to lose, if you dont mind me asking, because if I lost 18lbs I'd be underweight. I'd like to know what you ate, or more to the point what you didn't, in order to lose that much.

Tony i edited the post above to give an example.

my breakfast and dinnner doesnt change, but on a tuesday i go to the mother in laws for dinner which is usually stewing steak and mash and yorkshires and sunday is the usual sunday dinner. the other variant of my dinner is pasta n sauces cheese and broccoli. i know it is so boring lol

and thanks for the compliment. to get to my ideal weight i would need to lose another 3 stone, but to get to a realistic weight i need to lose 2 stone

I go in just under 4 weeks. i have been dieting since middle of November and so far I have lost 18lbs which i am quite chuffed about. i have been losing roughly just over a pound a week, which is ok for me, but i would like to have lost more. i think i eat too many carbs but i am such a fussy eater there is not a lot out there. an example of my diet is 2 weetabix with semiskimmed milk and sweetner for breakfast, a banana for snack, lunch is 2 slices white bread with ham and low fat spray oil (made into a toastie), a packet of quavers, an activia no fat yoghurt, a banana, an orange as an afternoon snack, a kiwi just before dinner which is half tin baked beans with 3 slices white bread, or i have 4 potato waffles and half tin beans and sometimes if i am peckish i allow myself a blue ribband. i know it is not ideal but it has worked so far. (if it aint broke dont fix it? but i am willing to try any alternatives but as i say i am soooo fussy, i usually find it really hard to diet)

perhaps this year i may not look quite like a teletubby on skis! and hopefully next year when i am down to my target weight i am going to treat myself to a lovely skiing outfit. i am just hiring again this year as it seems daft buying an outfit when i am trying to lose weight. i feel a bit guilty that i havent done any excercise so i am going to try go swimming a few times a week for the next 4 weeks. well thats the plan anyway. i always leave things to the last minute!

ooh i think i may have found something similar to what i was talking about.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Spectacle-Glasses-Lens-Cleaner-STOPS-MISTING-2yr-SUPPLY_W0QQitemZ280450011812QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Health_Beauty_VisionGlasses_Lenses_SM?hash=item414c1f92a4

at that price i think i might buy some and give it a try on sons glasses

i came across this cream for lens
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RayZor-Anti-Fog-Stick-for-Goggles-Visors-Sunglasses_W0QQitemZ200380479260QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_SportsLeisure_Skiing_GogglesSunglasses_JN?hash=item2ea79b771c

after the trouble we had last year with goggles fogging up, i wondered if it was worthy buying.
or are the sprays better? please dont tell me to buy expensive goggles as really the budget wont really stretch to more than £20 per pair as we have 4 to buy for and i am debating on whether to get prescription goggles for my 9 year old, after having said that we just bought him prescription footy goggles to protect his face when playing footy for £100 and he has packed it in!

this brought me back a few years when i used to wear glasses (i have had my eyes lasered), but i remember going to blackpool and buying this pink cream which worked brilliant for cleaning glasses and stopping them steaming up. i wonder if that would do the trick and whether you can still buy it? I only ever saw it for sale in blackpool. I am going back about 10 years or so.