Like weight loss before and after photos but of your new diet !

I'm especially interested in before and after meal photos (take a pic at the point you feel restriction) but it can be of recipe substitutions, your refrigerator/pantry/shopping cart/etc

VSG2017 HW 249 SW 238 CW 167

@Arabesque Your outfit is very special and I agree that it was waiting for you. Fate. You are looking head to toe 'fire'

I had to look up Tarator as it looked interesting. I now know I have eaten this in very different recipes on my Turkish travels. My fav has tahini in.

Enjoy your 60's they are quite fabulous years

@Arabesque Happy Birthday!!! ?

You look fantastic! 60 schmixty! ? Welcome to the club ? you're looking smoking!

Food looks very yummy too! ?

Thank you @DaisyChainOz & @summerseeker. Told my sister-in-law she’s going to be my official photographer from now on.

On 7/19/2025 at 11:25 PM, Arabesque said:

Simply Gorgeous! Happy Birthday ?

Teriyaki salmon over jasmine rice (no rice for me)

Tofu and broccoli! I recently saw a recommendation to boil the tofu in salty water first to get firmer texture and it worked.

So the birthday celebrations continued with my BF taking me to a Tea room for English Tea Service. 🥰

My menu for tea service was: Chickpea Salad Tea Sandwich, Garden Vegetable Tea Sandwich, Strawberry, Orzo, & Basil Salad, Summery Island Scone, Blueberry Cheesecake Petit Fours, Miniature Pavlovas and Pignoli Cookie. My tea selections were Victorian Earl Grey (A floral blend of Rose Congou black tea, rose petals, lavender, rosemary, and bergamot oil) and China Rose Petal (Congou black-leaf tea is layered with pink rose petals)

My BF chose a lunch of Croissant Parisienne Sandwich (melted brie, Granny Smith apples, and fig preserves) and corn chowder. His tea selection was Almond Sugar Cookie (Black teas, almonds, almond sugar cookie flavoring, and safflower blossoms)

Edited July 26, 20251 yr by GreenTealael

Rotisserie chicken with couscous 🤤

On 7/20/2025 at 4:25 AM, Arabesque said:

Made lamb shanks in my slow cooker last week for my mum. Have to say it tasted damn good. No red wine. So added some brandy. Threw it a small handful of barley which gave it an even more rustic taste.

My birthday tomorrow (so I’m still 59 today ?) and had a lunch with girlfriends at one of my favourite restaurants yesterday. It’s a wood fired restaurant and the plates come out to share. Lots of champagne was drunk. There were several appetiser plates which disappeared before I had a chance to take pxts but here are a couple I did get.

Smoked lamb neck with green tomato pickles & roast king Edward potatoes with onion cream & sesame praline as the main.

Salted zucchini with peanut tarator & burnt leek oil. These were amazing. Would have eaten the whole bowl myself blow my tiny tummy.

Judging by the empty plates I think the food went down well ?

My little birthday dessert of dark chocolate names aka (biscuit crumbs) with cardamom ice cream & almond coffee. I did eat all of this but it was only like three spoons.

All looks absolutely amazing. Happy happy birthday to you xxx

On 7/26/2025 at 6:18 PM, GreenTealael said:

So the birthday celebrations continued with my BF taking me to a Tea room for English Tea Service. 🥰

My menu for tea service was: Chickpea Salad Tea Sandwich, Garden Vegetable Tea Sandwich, Strawberry, Orzo, & Basil Salad, Summery Island Scone, Blueberry Cheesecake Petit Fours, Miniature Pavlovas and Pignoli Cookie. My tea selections were Victorian Earl Grey (A floral blend of Rose Congou black tea, rose petals, lavender, rosemary, and bergamot oil) and China Rose Petal (Congou black-leaf tea is layered with pink rose petals)

My BF chose a lunch of Croissant Parisienne Sandwich (melted brie, Granny Smith apples, and fig preserves) and corn chowder. His tea selection was Almond Sugar Cookie (Black teas, almonds, almond sugar cookie flavoring, and safflower blossoms)

OMG this looks goooood too!

Chicken sausage! I have been to zero BBQ’s this summer but this makes me feel like I haven’t missed anything 😝

15 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

Chicken sausage! I have been to zero BBQ’s this summer but this makes me feel like I haven’t missed anything 😝

I like a good sausage all year round. My butcher has been making some super yummy ones lately: duck & Cabernet, pork with apple & sage, & this week I bought lamb & rosemary. The duck and Cabernet ones were fantastic but they haven’t had any since 😩. Haven’t noticed a chicken one but you’ve got me thinking I need to have one next.

On 4/16/2025 at 10:16 PM, ms.sss said:

p.s. tracking my calories is proving to be extra challenging with the amount of eating out im doing. i need to take the ridiculous amount of time to input all my food at these restaurants, or stop eating so much at said restaurants.

neither if which i am willing to do.

arg.

Have you searched for an app or Website that has nutrition info for various chain restaurants? It seems like I stumbled on something like that at one point. If it’s not a chain I doubt you will find it and it’s still a challenge because it depends on who is making the plate what serving you actually get regardless of what the serving is on the nutrition facts. It’s could be a starting point though. 🤷‍♀️

16 minutes ago, ShoppGirl said:

Have you searched for an app or Website that has nutrition info for various chain restaurants? It seems like I stumbled on something like that at one point. If it’s not a chain I doubt you will find it and it’s still a challenge because it depends on who is making the plate what serving you actually get regardless of what the serving is on the nutrition facts. It’s could be a starting point though. 🤷‍♀️

Does Dr Matthew Weiner’s new app do this? I may be dreaming but I sort of remember him or his nutritionalist saying it did. Maybe through the take a pxt if your meal & it calculates calories and nutrition?? Would be handy if it did.

https://poundofcureweightloss.com/#app

PS it says download for free but then there’s a subscription option so … 🤷🏻‍♀️

Edited July 31, 20251 yr by Arabesque

7 hours ago, Arabesque said:

Does Dr Matthew Weiner’s new app do this? I may be dreaming but I sort of remember him or his nutritionalist saying it did. Maybe through the take a pxt if your meal & it calculates calories and nutrition?? Would be handy if it did.

https://poundofcureweightloss.com/#app

PS it says download for free but then there’s a subscription option so … 🤷🏻‍♀️

I don’t know about whether it has that app but I get the emails periodically and it does say some content is free but some is subscription based so that part makes sense. I have a lady in my crochet group looking into the glp-1’s and I told her about his site and she said she was going to look into it. I will see her tomorrow and update if she has had a chance and knows anything helpful.