Diet Club

I went on a diet last year because I was diagnosed with Diabetes 2. I cut out sweets, chocolate & biscuits but ate everything else as normal & lost 2st 6lbs in just over 6 months. Over Christmas I had sweets & mince pies etc & put back on 5lbs so I was pretty lucky. If you like a curry the fresh ones in Lidl are very good & they have a deal on if you buy 2. They have the rice with them & are lower in sugar & fat that most others. I try to avoid weight watchers meals because they tench to leave me feeling hungry then I'll want to snack out on something else. If I have a snack it's usually about 6 cream crackers with some Philly Light Cheese on (no butter etc). I have a salad for one meal a day & just have pretty much the same as what my piggies have with a little chicken or ham. I also have a takeaway once a week. Could be fish & chips or our local favourite, a parmo & chips. Overall I feel a lot better for it & don't feel hungry all the time like on some diets. My wife just checks the labels on everything & gets the ones with first the lowest sugar content then lowest fat content. It's surprising the different just between 2 different yoghurts that both taste nice.
 
... I lurrrrrrrrrrrrrve parmo ... its just not the same without actual chicken or actual cheese lol :D
 
Bekki2308 said:
... I lurrrrrrrrrrrrrve parmo ... its just not the same without actual chicken or actual cheese lol :D
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I forgot, you're on that veganjanuary thingy aren't you. I suppose sticking to that for a month with help you drop pounds though. You could always eat a carrot & make believe it's a parmo. haha
 
Stewybus said:
I forgot, you're on that veganjanuary thingy aren't you. I suppose sticking to that for a month with help you drop pounds though. You could always eat a carrot & make believe it's a parmo. haha
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Whats a Parmo?x
 
I had a parmo once - MrS said I had to because he grew up on them - I'm pleased that I didn't!

Well I haven't eaten anything different so far today and yet I am STARVING! I think it must all be in my head!
 
@Stewybus nope I'm not on the veganuary thing thats my normal eating :-) I actually gained 4 stone when I went vege/vegan due to trying so many foods and wanting to try literally everything out of every cook book and making my own cakes :D its all that weight id like to lose now lol. I have found a dairy free cheese I like though and perhaps with some seitan I may be able to make an acceptable parmo! :D

Now its pie time :D vege chilli in wholemeal flour pastry hope its nice!
 
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Carol Voderman does a 14 day detox diet. It is really painful at the time but it totally worked. I couldn't do it now though because there is no way MrS could deal with it and I'm not cooking 2 different meals!

Enjoy your pie Bekki. Poached egg on toast for me!
 
Food so far today is a green smoothie for breakfast (2 bananas, spinach, kale, chia seeds and a mixture of spirulina, barley grass, wheatgrass and chorella) plus my daily vitamins and probitoics. Lunch is a Vegusto cheese sandwich on wholemeal bread with a packet of Skips. Dinner tonight is carrot and coriander soup.
 
It is, just hope my IBS can take it, I think am ok as long as I don't put any fruit other than bananas in it.
 
My clives pie was nommy, I had put it on the hottest radiator in the building to warm it for 2 hours before eating spot on temperature :D I dont like microwaving pastry it goes rank haha ... a pie sat on a radiator does look kinda odd though. I dont do traiditional diet food salads are the most revolting thing I have ever eaten!
 
I had a cup of soup for lunch - it was a heinz squeeze and stir one in a plastic tube. Cut the end off, squeeze the paste into a cup, add hot water and stir very well indeed (I used a fork). It is pretty thick soup, so feels like eating a full lunch without eating too many calories. It was also delicious! I'm telling you this because it was hot food without needing a microwave and also dietary.
 
Slight change to my diary for today, I went to asda only to get a small plate and came out with 3 carrier bags full of peppered beef steaks, fish cakes, Bernard Matthews Turkey steaks, veggies wholemeal bread rolls, salad and fruit and a weight watchers spag bowl which needed to be eaten today, so I had that instead, on my little plate, but I could have fitted it on a desert spoon to be fair! Teeny portion, so I had a bread roll with it too to bulk it out a little.
 
I did Malaysian for tea tonight. Just have to add the calories together now. I might get a knife in the back if MrS hasn't got enough left for a slice of cake!
 
I stuck to mine apart from eating the skin off the OH potato and some sweet corn on my potato that needed eating :D

Tomorrow will be a Clive's Arabian chickpea pie for lunch, mexican bean burger for tea and maybe toast for breakfast. Wont be able to cope with fibre after the potato etc from today lol
 
I'm doing veganuary, and I'm doing ok! I'm also doing weight watchers, and the two are complementing each other quite well!

Breakfast: Beans on toast
Lunch: vegan cheese wrap (with houmous in it for a bit of moisture, lettuce and red pepper), mini oreos, 25g peanuts, houmous with carrot sticks and cucumber
Dinner: Quinoa, sun dried tomato and melty vegan cheese stuffed mushrooms, roasted veg (sweet potato, red pepper, courgette, red onion) and linda McCartney sausages. Fresh Pineapple for dessert
Drinks: Robinsons sugar free squash, and a "Mock-a" (200ml chocolate oat milk heatd with a shot of espresso)

I still have 11 points (approx. 440 calories) left... I may have a toasted cinnamon and raisin bagel later...shhh!
 
Well I have just added up my days calories and I have totalled 896 which means I HAVE to have 300 calories to reach my minimum but could have 600 if I wanted. It just feels so wrong but am about to head for the remains of my Christmas selection box! :drool:
 
:box:Well done everyone, sounds like most of you are on the right side of your plans.

Today, was 4 slices of ham, 2 yoghurts, fish and a boiled egg oh and plenty of water...I don't like the volume of all the water but hey ho...needs must! Even worse when I openly admit to stress incontinence due to lost of operations but am undergoing physio to deal with that...bit of a double edged sword....:oops: How embarrassing:fog::vom:
 
Wow! That's amazing! Well done. I am in awe....

Now I have to go and put on my work trousers for the first time this year.....breathing may by tricky today!
 
Just avoid the work trousers :-P I did I'm wearing jeans lol!

Acid is horrendous today and I have a bad tummy hooorah. Cant eat until after 10 ish and cant eat after 6pm all due to acid, idiot here had a glass of cola and boom acid! Rather tired after no sleep but I will eat my toast at 10 and my pie at 1 and I'm having gnocchi in tomato sauce for tea (yeah more acid but it needs eating) ..... I want my bed ... :-( lol!
 
Toffeewoffee said:
Oh Bekki poor you, must be awful, hope you are feeling better soon!
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Thanks :-) didnt have a look for your ear wire last night nudge me about 6pm :-P the medication for the acid makes me super thirsty drank 1.5 litres already and feel parched .... really need to stop eating foods I know will set me off ...grrrrr

Edit: 12.00: Pie warmed on radiator and being munched on now om nom nom
 
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Guiltily looking at the lunch I've just eaten . . . I'll start my diet again tomorrow! :)

~ Amy
 
I've got my uncle coming for dinner tonight, so I've managed to make mine vegan and weight watchers friendly, before adding all the bad stuff to the rest of the meal...spaghetti with a tomato, red pepper olive and mushroom sauce for me, and spaghetti with a sun dried tomato and pepper sauce for them, with meatballs and grated cheese for the top.

One thing this veganuary thing has made me realise is that you don't need a mountain of cheddar on a pasta dish!
 
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