Hi AliH61

Thanks for the recipes; please keep them coming as you can see they are appreciated by the folk on here.

But much more importantly; I have just read about your news in the ‘getting into clothes that haven’t fit for donkey’s years’ category!

I have now decided we will have to have multiple STAR LOACA of the week awards because there are so many of you doing so well!

So without further ado; I proudly present you with ONE of this week’s

STAR LOACA OF THE WEEK AWARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is proudly given for getting into a frock that you wore for going away on your honeymoon 19 YEARS AGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But also for buying FIVE NEW DRESSES IN A ROW!!! That is my kind of shopping spree!

We totally agree with you; what a great feeling and what a great achievement!!

Now we need an acceptance speech from you Ali; make it as over the top as you like!

(I hope I won’t upset you by saying; I know your husband is sadly no longer with us BUT I bet he is as pleased as punch for you and rightly PROUD that you have regained your wedding day figure……)

ONwards and Sideways for you!
BooBooxx

Hello All Ladies Of A Certain Age!

How are you all doing? You will have read about AliH61 and BlueOcean being awarded STAR LOACA OF THE WEEK AWARDS for fitting into clothes that haven’t fit for many years.
Please let us know if you are having lovely surprises in that department! It seriously motivates the rest of us!

Hi Wilbersnanna – You seem to have taken to 5:2 like a duck to water! How much have you lost now? It must help having your husband and daughter on the FD too?

Hi NickyF – I’ve still not got round to trying the Miracle Noodles. If there are no calories in them; what are they made of? The mind boggles. Anyways , duly noted NOT to freeze them.

Going cross-country skiing sounds wonderful; not to mention all the energy/calories you will use up whilst doing it! We love winter; it is by far our favourite season.

Have a lovely time Nicky; ‘see you’ when you get back (you’ll probably have lost more weight than usual! If not, you will be more toned, so it’s all good!).

Must be off; as with last night dinner is served……
Thank goodness, it’s not a fast day; I am absolutely starving.
ONwards and Downwards Ladies!
BooBooxx

Hey Ladies!

I’ve just been reading your suggestions for putting all the recipes submitted to this thread in one location. I had a look at what JJ had done and he has listed all the obvious threads that specifically mention a recipe into the ‘food’ section.

But note, only those posted as a thread; not the ‘posts’ we get on here as part of this thread.

But it means they are on separate threads; what do you prefer? Do you want to see each and every recipe separately? or would you prefer ours lumped together in a LOACA RECIPE THREAD?

Either way; they would need to be transferred from this thread to the other section.

Let me know what you think
BooBooxx

Hi BlueOcean and AliH61

Thank you for your acceptance speeches! Loved them!

Polish those well deserved awards with pride!

BooBooxx

Hi Cheeseplease

I think it is just a case of semantics here which is confusing things.

As you know JJ has put all the threads with a ‘recipe’ as the title in the Food Section I.e there are about 18 different ‘threads’ at the moment.

What we are now posting on is a ‘thread’- the entire 3,000 posts plus on ‘Help All Ladies etc’. One message on here is a ‘post’.

What I was asking above is; do you want ONE thread ONLY where we can put all OUR recipes on it. I.e if we set it up now it would be no. 19 in that section – there would not be a separate ‘section’ for us.
For example; there is a ‘thread’ named January meals or some such – there are 16o odd posts on it; so there is obviously a host of recipes on it grouped together.

So it would be like this thread but full of recipes BUT IN THE FOOD SECTION; so you could click the notify button and you would receive an email when a new post is posted.

Or as I also suggested; having every single recipe as a separate thread as in the 18 that are in the Food Section now……

LOACA’s could still and I hope would still, post them directly onto here (this thread!) but also put them either into the LOACA RECIPE THREAD or start a new thread for that single recipe.

I don’t know about how to ‘copy’ from the thread. I always now type my message in something like WORD in case it gets chewed up; so again someone wanting to copy it into both could do this.

Hope this helps; it seemed such a simple suggestion! And not mine!
BooBooxx

(I’m going for a lie down now; I’m fasting too!)

Hi Purple

Is it the 23rd in Oz already then? HeHee One Whole Year!

BooBooxx

Hello All Ladies Of A Certain Age!

I have been wanting to tell you about this article I read ages ago but have never found the time! There is nothing on the telly tonight; so I thought I would eventually get on with it.

I did state at the time; this may be really old hat to you LOACA’s who are more clued up on carbohydrates etc but I have assiduously ignored all talk/suggestions of giving up bread/pasta/rice etc because frankly, I don’t want to!
To ram that point home; we just recently bought ourselves a bread maker!

However, reading this article has made me think whether I might try an experiment for a few weeks/months……Anyways see what you think…..
I’m not going to type it out in it’s entirety; just the salient bits that might arrest your interest.

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find your path back to Health by William Davis MD (published by Harper Collins June 2014)

‘TWO SLICES OF BREAD ARE AS BAD FOR OUR BLOOD SUGAR AS EATING A MARS BAR….’

(Now that is the highlighted comment that made me sit up and read on)

‘Can’t face baring your midriff on the beach this summer? Try this ultra-fast diet devised by a top cardiologist that targets your tum – just by cutting out wheat…..’

Put simply; it’s the fastest bikini diet ever. And unlike detoxes or faddy eating plans; this diet is good for you too. Devised by cardiologist Dr William Davis; it kickstarts rapid weight loss – up to a pound per day with a total loss of up to 10lbs in 2 weeks.

Better still the 2 week Tummy Shrinking Diet (Daily Mail 31.05.14) is specifically targeted to attack your tummy fat, swiftly slimming your waist in record time.

Easy to stick to, without any boring calorie counting or puritanical portion control, it works by acting on the hormone insulin. Insulin doesn’t just cause you to pile on weight around your middle, it also increases your appetite, at the same time as your spare tyre.

By eliminating just one key element from your daily eating habits you can stop piling on the pounds, reduce cravings and boost your energy.
Not only this but your health will rapidly improve too, cutting your risk of breast cancer, arthritis, diabetes, dementia, heart disease and signs of premature ageing.
All this whilst still enjoying red wine (hoorahhhhhh!).

And that key ingredient you need to cut out? It’s not fat. It’s not even sugar….it’s wheat – and here’s why eliminating it can get you back into your bikini.

(I’m going to paraphrase this now or I’ll be here all night!)

Back in the 50’s and 60’s our grandmothers didn’t join gyms or juice entire vegetable patches for breakfast; yet they were still noticeably skinnier than we are today, with smaller waists and flatter tummies.
So what changed?

According to Dr Davis: it is down to a fateful shift in ‘official’ nutritional advice. This ’advice’ moved away from the idea of ’meat and two veg’ to a diet low in animal fats and high in supposedly heart healthy wholegrains.
Of those wholegrains; wheat is the one we consume the most. Today it accounts for 20% of the calories consumed across the world.

But as our consumption of wheat has increased; so too have our waistlines. But the wheat we consume today bears no resemblance to the wheat of the past. In order to keep up with world demand; for the past 50 years it has been cross-bred and genetically manipulated to create a fast growing, high yield crop that is resistant to drought and disease.

Modern day wheat has been turned into what Dr Davis calls a ‘super-carbohydrate’ – this means that it is turned into blood sugar by your body faster than almost any other food, making it wildly addictive and triggering spikes of insulin, the hormone that converts excess blood sugar into fat, stored primarily around your stomach…….

In fact few foods rate higher on the Glycaemic Index or GI – the nutritional measure of how much specific foods raise blood sugar levels – than those made from wheat.
This is not just white bread from the supermarket but ‘healthy’ wholemeal bread too!

……what you might not realise that is that while plain table sugar has a GI of 59, wholemeal bread is much worse at 72 (!). Which means that, shockingly two slices of wholemeal bread will send your blood sugar levels soaring higher than a MARS BAR! Which has a GI of 68!

He agrees that wholemeal versions of bread/pasta/rice are still better than the ‘white’ denuded versions however, but says that ‘doesn’t mean that lots of the “less bad” things is good for you’.

………Dr Davis describes it as ‘the formula for creating a nation of fat people…..‘

He suggests that folk fill the gap in their diets with vegetables, nuts, meats, eggs, avocados, olives, cheese etc – that is real food that doesn’t come with a label – then not only will you not develop a dietary deficiency but you will enjoy a flatter stomach, weight loss, more energy, better sleep (?!) and all round better health!

I have read posts on here alluding to what and how our grandmothers etc prepared meals and I’ve noticed insulin mentioned a great deal on other threads; so I fully accept that this is not BREAKING NEWS.

However with me, it was the Mars Bar example which brought me up sharply; I eat two slices of wholemeal bread with filling on top, pretty much every day for lunch because I really enjoy it……

Makes you think doesn’t it?
BooBooxx

Well I did pay your country that compliment just a few posts back!

And yes, Rome does spring to mind with that style of car; lots of young girls over here favour them. I think that is because they are so cute but quirky and full of character too……

Now who could I be describing there?……… 🙂

BooBooxx