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Hi everyone, I’m looking for some diet advice. Can anyone recommend a book of healthy recipes (or maybe has some of their own)?
I’ve been eating all the wrong things for years. I’ve had a very sweet tooth and scoffed choccie bars, cakes, buns, doughnuts, chips & burgers. Luckily for me, I'm quite keen on mountain biking so I've sort of got away with the bad diet and bad habits up til now. However, I’m trying to turn over a new leaf and I've been dieting since the beginning of the year
So far I’ve just made a few changes which I can sustain:
Cake now at weekends only (no longer every day when I get home from work!)
Tinned grapefruit segments have replaced buttered toast after my breakfast porridge.
Fresh fruit salad has replaced the sweet puddings at work.
To monitor my progress, I’ve bought a fancy bathroom scale that measures not only your weight but your body mass Index , fat & muscle percentage etc. The results for January 4th to Feb 4th have been very encouraging. My weight has fallen from 191.8 lbs to 183.2 lbs and my BMI has fallen from 27.5 to 26.5%, but I still have some work to do before I leave the the ‘overweight’ category. I’m thinking that, as well as just cutting things out, I should actually start replacing at least some of those supermarket tv dinners with healthier food maybe 2 or 3 times a week.
Any thoughts appreciated, Tim
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Hiya
Lynn1963 has a thread on diet food i am sure if not PM her sure she wont mind
Good luck
FSx
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Go to the library and borrow the fatfield diet by sally ann voak, or see if you can find it on Amazon
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http://gidiet.com/ba/recipes/
this is more of a loifestyle than a diet...and it works...I lost more than four stone following the concept...and it's got a scientific background...and was originally developed for diabetics.
To be honest, ye really should learn about the basics science of food and how it works to keep us fuelled and enegised, if yer to change yer eating habits long term.
Also it's very important to isolate what is a food issue and what is an emotional hunger issue...when you can isolate the two, yer part way there.
best of luck to ye
Shammy
:)
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you could also try here:
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/content/recipes/healthy/low-gi/
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Timmee, I admire your decision. Two very simple things which might help are:
Steam your vegetables.
keeps more vitamins in and so easy to do. I don't use a fancy electric one, too much hassle, I bought a stainless steel pan with 2 steamers on top.
Grill your meat or fish.
I use a pastry brush to apply a tiny amount of olive oil , then sprinkle with mixed herbs and a little garlic powder before grilling. I've even brushed meat or fish with a little tomato ketchup and herbs before grilling.
I try to have one salad meal most days, usually evening, it's lighter. I mix watercress, and two other types of salad greenery together, along with 4 or 5 cherry tomatoes and a chopped spring onion. I make my own salad dressing but you could buy a low fat dressing that suits you. Then I add a very small amount of lean chopped cooked meat or tinned mackerel (in brine).
Using a smaller plate works quite well too...lol
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If you like roast potatoes.. try this.
Part boil potatoes and then put on tray. Spray lightly with 'One Cal' oil. Put into oven and roast as normal. They are lovely but, far less calories.
Jo
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Sometimes tinned grapefruit contains a lot of sugar. You also have to be very careful eating it with certain medications... diazepam.amitryptaline etc.
I think you would be better off having a selection of fruit - try this
2 spoonfuls of Meusli ( Lilds best is good @ £1.69) the green bag
Half a chopped pear, apple, few grapes, half banana, and whatever else is in season.(peaches, strawbs,kiwi etc)
Buy your fruit once a week and keep in fridge, make up 2 days at a time.
Top it with a dollop of plain yogourt and then Soya milk.
It's quite delicious and I have had it for last 5 years, and altho I dont need to lose weight, I am sure it keeps me very trim and fit.
Good luck
V x
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Thank you ladies - you're are great! I've put the BBC link on my favourites and I'll be googling the Fat Field book. The recipies are just the sort of thing I was hoping for, and I'll be trying them when I get back from my long weekend in Wigan.
On the subject of grapefruit segments, I have noticed that some brands are much sweet than others. My faves are the Asda in the green tin for 58p and their grapefruit salad (includes pink bits) for 64p.
Now it's confession time:
It's Friday and I've had a large slice of Sainsbury's Columbian Coffee & Walnut Cake. (£2.25 - Highly Reccommended!)
PS. Hope to run into some of you some time at meets.
Tim X
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Take it you missed the news this week then Timmee?
Sounds like you were eating your cake at the wrong end of the day - choccy cake for breakfast is apparently the way to go!
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Blimey, I LURVE choccy cake! Off to Wigan now - have a good weekend!
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