Buy yourself a funky notebook and a Slimming Magazines Greatest Guide to Calories and you are on your way, most foods these days are calorie counted, you can do it J you really can. you soon remember most basic foods and once you write em in your book you dont have to keep flicking through the cal guide,
all the best to you on this fresh start.
you can have wine you just have to work out how much you can have according to how many cals you have left.
GO FOR IT !!
Do you have Hot pocket's there? in the freezer section, well Lean pockets are less fat hence the name, sort of a pastry pocket filled with different pizza like stuff, today's was chicken, peper's and onions with cheese.
Rest of today's food in my tum,
Lunch/Dinner Roast Pork, Roast Potatoes, Leeks, Cauliflower, roast Parsnips and loads of THICK gravy. 2 tablespoons Apple sauce and 3 glasses of white wine to wash it all down.!!
Not very healthy i know but i will start afresh tomorrow
I have just posted this but it seems to have gone missing so here goes again
we went out for a thai meal last night so my calories went into thousands very nice though www.jimthompsons.co.uk
Plenty of wine to wash it all down, i feel a bit guilty but as our son is with his nanny and grandad for a few days we thought we would go for it. I feel slightly hungover this morning and all that has passed my lips so far is iced water
I have to get organised and get back to it cos we went out for lunch on saturday too, i chose wisely but you know how it is!!
Hope we all have a great week this week, that sun is shining outside so it wont be long before we have to cast off our cardi's !!
Hi Veggie,
I am no one to give ANYONE diet advice, AND I'm NOT a calorie slave BUT having said that, one of the things I have been doing is buying a load of fruit (I believe Tesco's stock it) including some I think of as 'treats' like strawberries, Sharon fruit, fresh pineapple etc, making a fruit salad using a tin of fruit in juice (mandarins are best) too which makes it a bit more swishy. I put it in a big plastic box in the fridge, and have it with a low fat Ski yoghurt (tropical selection from Tesco once again) over the top. It's more interesting than a banana and the addition of the goodies makes me feel like I'm eating it because I want it.
I would happily cook for a veggie, it's the only kind of cooking I'm good at. Was one myself for years and years until I got knocked up and developed a craving for ham sandwiches. DH and kids are carnivores, the cat is nervous.
Avoiding cheese is SOOOOO hard for a veggie, and the low fat stuff is no good for cooking (or so i think anyway). I use a teaspoon of red pesto sauce in veg sauces to cheer them up a bit, OR skin some fresh tomatoes in boliling water, chop up and cook with some fresh basil (gently until mushy) pour over pasta.
The other thing you can do to make a creamy but low cal sauce which is hugely good for you is use tofu. I loathe the slimy stuff, but if you have a blender of any kind, you can whizz it up into instant sauce which tastes of very little on it's own but is very creamy and picks up on the flavours of your veg. i give it to my family and they don't have aclue what they are eating! It's nice like this...cook some pasta in a wok or similar, not too much water, but put a veg stock cube in. When the water had evaporated a bit, put in some purple sprouting broccoli, the whizzed up tofu and some chopped red onion, OR some spinach, tofu and nutmeg. Cook until edible then as my 4 year old would say 'yum it up'
Good luck. I'm going to do this, eventually. Don't see why you shouldn't BUT don't be a slave to it. Food is supposed to be a pleasure, not a crime. Cheese pasties are vile, all that saturated fat in the pastry and contents, plus the additives and preservatives, not only fattening but probably carcenogenic...in years to come people will be sueing Pork Farms and their ilk the way they sue fag companies now.
Better than counting calories, try to eat food which hasn't been processed in a factory. A differnet slant on food may help you.
Good luck anyway,
geneve
I find it hard to think of cheese pastys as vile I get mine from the bakers and they are lovely...but I got this plan now haven't started it yet but I'll give it a bash it is from real slimmers I don't know what possessed me but I have done it now I get an emailed plan every monday for 12 weeks!
9.15.... Just before bed: half pint hot skimmed milk - 100
TOTAL CALORIES EATEN: 1744
So,
Total calories I ate: 1744
Calories I burned off exercising: 551
Walking: 455
Yoga (about 30 mins) 96
Balance left to live on 1193
Stef says that I should be aiming to leave 1500 cals to live on, but I ate as much as I wanted yesterday. I think I am happy on around 1750 - on the days I ate 2000 I felt a bit uncomfortable but 2000 is OK for weekends or days I exercise a lot.
Our planned swimming for last evening got cancelled cos Kevin had to start work at 5 this morning!
so here goes again
I don't know what possessed me but I have done it now I get an emailed plan every monday for 12 weeks!
