Weigh in – January 31

Heaviest weight 345 lbs Starting weight 299 lbs (Oct 01, 2011) Current weight 257 lbs (Jan 31, 2012) Weight loss 42 lbs in 4 months Woo hoo! I’m still losing. This morning on my home scales I was 257 lbs (2 lb off this week) I’ve looked back and there was only one blip (5lb [...]

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1940s weight-loss video diary

I’ve succumbed…. I’m always stalking other YouTube weight-loss diaries with morbid fascination and don’t feel quite so alone listening to how other people cope with losing large amounts of weight so I’ve decided to do a weekly diary of my own. It will help keep me focused… It will also be quite fun to start [...]

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1940s Google Searches

And now for something completely different…. in my day job I’m rather a stats geek. It’s not surprising that this carries over to my WordPress Blog…. Google seems to love the 1940s Experiment and around 300-500 of the 2 to 4 thousand daily visits comes from search engines. It seems the 1940s and wartime recipes [...]

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Dig for Victory

If governments really cared for their people they would be using their resources to put together a modern day “Dig for Victory” campaign… During WWII public information films encouraged individuals and communities to be ingenious, creative and to take responsibility in growing extra food for the table to balance food shortages. The “Dig for Victory” [...]

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Will eating a diet based on wartime rations save you money?

I took a look at my pre-1940s diet… I was not only shocked to see how many calories I was consuming as well as the high fat content but also the amount of processed foods too. As if that wasn’t enough I couldn’t believe that I was spending over $15 a day on food JUST [...]

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My favourite wartime recipes revisited- pt 1

I’ve had lots of recent comments left or sent regarding the wartime recipes so far re-created during the 1940s Experiment. Many people have expressed delight in finding out that wartime food was actually rather yummy! Here are some of my favourite ones I have re-created to date   Wartime Vegetable Turnovers: I am not sure whether [...]

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1940s Experiment on Facebook

Are you on Facebook? Are you interested in the home front during WWII especially the recipes and living frugally? Are you trying to lose weight or are you trying out some of the recipes? If so, please sign up on the 1940s Experiment Facebook page for a good old fashioned gossip! Look forward to chatting [...]

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See this smile…

Monday has been such a good day that I may just need pinching.. My weekly weigh-in showed a 4 lb weight-loss which means on my home scales I now weigh 259 lbs (18 st 5 lbs). Hell thats 40 lbs in the last 3.5 months, 56 lbs from the weight I started this blog at [...]

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Eggless Pancakes

Being vegan and immersing myself in the 1940s Experiment (to live on wartime rations for 1 year, recreate 100 authentic recipes and lose 100 lbs) is not without it’s challenges. Tonight I will recreate a 1940s recipe with meat in for my youngest daughter (Em) but I won’t be able to taste it… instead I [...]

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A message that will keep me going..

I went out last night. It was the first proper sit down meal and dance I’d been to for many, many years… to mark the occasion I wore a skirt (apart from when I’ve dressed as a pirate I haven’t worn a skirt for 15 years). The Best Western Plus served an awesome meal. My [...]

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