Thanksgiving Challenge - 08/17-11/23 // (CLOSED GROUP)

I am having dinner guests tonight - old friends I haven't seen since I moved away. The wife is vegetarian, so dinner is easy - spaghetti squash (with chicken breasts on the side for anyone else), and salad, with homemade banana bread for "dessert". The banana bread is out of the oven and the spaghetti squash is in the fridge ready to go in the oven. When I was putting that together, it smelled soooo good.

Great job, Shauna! You really made some changes!! Seagazer, how was dinner at Jamie Oliver's place?

I hope the dinner went well! Sounded delicious

Yay Shauna, what great results

Dinner at Jamie Olivers - I am a glutton. I went Thursday evening and had


VEGETABLE ANTIPASTI PLANK
£6.85 A HEAD

Seasonal vegetables, sliced vegetables, chargrilled, marinated and chilled

Italian cheeses, buffalo mozzarella and pecorino with amazing chilli jam

Pickles, curly green chillies, green and Gaeta olives and aubergine caponata

Crunchy salad shaved root veg with chilli, lemon and mint


As a starter - it was divine, and the cheese was a tiny slither of pecorino - 10g at the most, the buffalo mozarella was about the size of a golf ball. So not too bad as far as fat.......of course then I wasn't hungry enough for the fish in a bag I had decided on, so I had

MARINATED SARDINES
£3.75
Pickled fillets of sardines with garlic, lemon, parsley and chilli to follow - delicious !!

Of course (understandably, I had to go back the next day for lunch, to have the

FISH BAKED IN A BAG
£15.95
West Country fish of the day with clams, mussels, fennel, chilli, anchovies and Sicilian cracked wheat - which was a palm sized piece of Coley .... all great. I did have the

SWEET MINI CHILLI PEPPERS
£4.45
Red chillies stuffed with tuna, capers and anchovies - which were so wonderful I tried to recreate it myself last night.....


I made sure that I did plenty of walking whilst I was there, and despite TOM I've managed to drop a bit of weight this week. The best NSV was going to a shop there,that I was last in in July, and buying a pair of jeans two sizes smaller, and they are roomy! Slow and steady, it is coming off, and I don't feel I am denying myself anything really - just more aware about what I am eating, and not mindless stuffing.

How is everyone doing today with their weigh-ins? After a 3 week plateau and a very bad September I'm down 2.6 lbs this week!

Those meals sound awesome!!!!

It is sad really, how much I enjoyed that food, and that I have to still talk about it nearly a week later .... yum yum yum. I can only recommend it to you!!

Those meals sound awesome!!!!

It is sad really, how much I enjoyed that food, and that I have to still talk about it nearly a week later .... yum yum yum. I can only recommend it to you!!

Don't be ridiculous! I think it is totally okay to be excited about food! As long as you're not splurging often, it is surely okay to get off track on occasion. We're only human, right?! I absolutely love food and wine and I get extremely excited about it and I don't think it's sad! I love watching cooking shows because I find the culinary arts so impressive and exciting! It has definitely turned me into a wanna-bee chef from an easy mac & spaghetti maker!

Ash - Great job hun! I'm sure during that plateau you were still losing inches! You are doing great and are sooo motivational!

Haven't had a chance to weigh in yet - but will be hitting the gym first thing tomorrow to step on the scale! (I don't have a scale at home for a couple reasons: I want accuracy and I don't think I would want to spend that much to ensure an accurate scale, I don't want to weigh myself every single day and the temptation is taken away if I only weigh in mornings at the gym)

Hi everyone

i havent been on the private group in a whil I am always on MFP but never remember to say hi to everyone on here. I was looking at the totals from yesterday has most of the group left or stopped weighing in? Not many recoreded. Anyways I was sick the last few days ago and I lost 8 pounds in that few days thank the lord now I am trying to loose more I feel so much better now that I have lost so much weight hope to keep on going. take care everyone.

Awesome weight loss this week! It does look like we lost quite a few, which is quite unfortunate! My weigh in for this week hasn't been updated because I was a bit late - I'm still here though! Hopefully they'll hop back on and get their weights in soon!

I think the 30 Day Shred did wonders for me! I'll be starting Ripped in 30 next week if anyone would like to join me: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/359962-ripped-in-30-challenge-starting-october-17th

:happy: Keep up the great work people!

Awesome! I've just started the 30 Day Shred tonight and will finish up around the 2nd week of November. I'm excited to see what kind of results I'll have!

I swear the first 3 days were the hardest!! Good luck!

Ohhh! I just realized our next weigh in is also a measure-up! Exciting!!!!!!!!

Mine isn't going to be pretty. Sigh. It's been rough for the first half of this cycle for me.

Neck: 15
Chest (men, & women-beneath breasts): 40
Bust (women across breasts): 43.5
Waist: 39.5
Hips: 48.5
Upper arm: 17
Forearm: 10.5
Thighs: 29
Calves: 16

no weight change

Wow - I forget all about doing the weigh in.:ohwell:

I sent this through a private message but just want to make sure you got it because it hasn't been updated!

MEASUREMENTS:
Neck: 13.5
Chest (men, & women-beneath breasts): 32.5
Bust (women across breasts): 37
Waist: 31.5
Hips: 38.75
Upper arm: 12.25
Forearm: 10
Thighs: 23.75
Calves: 15


Weight:166.2

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I'm helping jrnygirl out since she has been feeling sick.
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I hope she is feeling better soon:flowerforyou:




edited to add the quotes, but they are there, so not sure why it isn't showing like a quote!!