As mentioned: RSB on a diet

Good luck to you. Stick with it.

I would worry less about the tea and more about the sugar. I stopped the sugar a long time ago but a pale tea, not too much skimmed milk has very little impact on weight but a great effect on how full you feel. The real impact for me is the frequent times when I feel put down by all that goes wrong on every front, so come the evening when I can all too easily swap the tea for something stronger, then the urge to snack can be the real killer. The Christmas period saw several pound slide back on, well six to be accurate. This was not festive eating and entertaining, but being limited on what I could do and having a number of challenges on various family fronts. The evenings became a disturbing depressing and painful time. with the impact on my resolve. Maybe the effort of pushing them back into their boxes will help me.

Changing you life style’s relationship with food is the key to weight management and usually this is the hardest battle. It takes weeks of resolve and is best seen as a process rather than a sudden step change. Stick with a well thought out plan, identify the challenges and try to work round them.

I try to use skimmed milk 50/50 with water in my tea. I need a large volume of fluid to control other issues so use 400ml mugs of weak brew. Tea with breakfast probably sees me close to 1.5 litres already. Evenings are my nemesis. I avoided alcohol last night due to a possible conflict with tablets, but I nibbled more nuts than I wanted. I must do better tonight

I’m with Ed, been on green tea for a while, couldn’t go back to normal tea. Used to drink caffeine free tea straight, no milk or sugar ,but that was boring. Aldi green tea is superb, they even do flavoured ones sometimes, like jasmine, but they are to much for me.

The wife drinks “Ginger and Lemon” tea as a stabiliser, if she’s feeling a bit woozy with her Menieres.  She also uses the Green tea with either lemon or peppermint if her digestion is playing up at all. In summer she drinks one of the Berry Fruit varieties.

If ever I’m a bit croaky I drink her ginger tea, but liberally laced with honey or and/or a bit of cheap brandy or scotch. Works wonders on a sore throat/tickly cough or cold-like symptoms.

Other than that I’ve always drunk tea ( made strong ) with milk ( double portion ) so that it looks weak, but tastes strong, if that makes sense. Never been a coffee lover, except for the odd weak latte/cappuccino.

The nicest Green Tea I ever drank was in Thailand, they sold it bottled like a juice. That and fresh coconut water were worth the journey alone – so refreshing!!

Edit – Lee – try some with a squirt of runny honey!! It adds more flavour with only a few calories.

Lee, tomorrow my Gert is in for a new hip and I am so concerned that I made her the evening meal of her choice. ?? Turned out to be a fried egg on top of each half of a buttered muffin. Now I couldn’t let her eat alone, ?? so I had the same. It’s a long time since we had fried eggs at home and we really appreciated it.

Just a thought… Well, we had strong Ty Phoo with milk but no sugar, got to make sacrifices somewhere. And no biscuits afterwards, proper martyrs.

I cannot take alcohol, had to give up a regular drink due to internal issues after a diseased gall bladder a couple of years ago infected my liver. I can have the very occasional glass of white wine, so I pad it out by having a Spritzer. I look forward to family “do’s” and suggest them constantly.

The Duke wrote:

Good luck for tomorrow bob

Thanks Steve. Op was at 9 am, I was up at 5:15 this morning to get her there for 7:30. Just phoned hospital and she is said to be doing really well. Knowing my Gert with anaesthetics and strong pain killers, that means she is cooperating because she will be semi conscious for most of the day.

RSB wrote:

I am curious to what fellow forumites opinions are on these two questions. 1. How accurate are these pedometer apps for android. I installed one called pedometer step meter this morning and was just curious 2. This is an “How long is a piece of string question” what do you consider a daily healthy walking distance is?

Hi

The pedometers are all inaccurate. However, they are consistent. Whatever your pedometer reports, use that as a baseline for improvement. Improvement is improvement 🙂

I have an old click clack step counter that is attached on my belt. I have used it on and off for 40 plus years though it clocks out the distance in miles not steps, for that you have to back calculate. I very between less than a mile up to about 5 miles about 10,000 steps on a really active day, though I am not sure it really makes a hill of beans difference to me. It tends to be the other way round when problems grind me down I do less, when everything is going well I do more, achieve more, eat less and drink less. The last few weeks have not been so good one way and another, even though daughter has finally resumed volunteering at the food bank for six hours per week so it should be positive. Unfortunately, most of the time it has been like living with over age explosives of dubious stability, wondering when it will all explode again. She had a four or five month hiatus from summer onwards that was not pretty and my wife’s health issues only added to the difficulties.