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BREAKFAST
What we all had for brekki?
Smoothie, clementine and herbal tea.
LADYV18
Porridge made with skimmed milk. But it's usually yoghurt and
strawberries.
FOXY
I'm writing it down every day 'SAINT',
Fresh orange juice
50g Bran flakes
1/2 banana
just under 1/2 pint skimmed milk
Cuppa, skimmed milk,1tsp sugar.
Some say chop n change but I enjoy this brekkie, and if it
aint broke don't fix it.
"chop as in swop not pork or lamb"
ANNIE B
Two cups of coffee, one Danacol yoghurt drink and 8oz fresh
cherries. I love fruit for brekkie....
LOWLIFE
50g morrison's luxury muesli - it's scrummy!
quarter cup of organic semi skimmed milk
Then when I got to work
1 mug rosehip and hibiscus tea and I started on my "morning
graze pack" - a selection of dried apricots, dried figs, dried
prunes, dried pineapple and dried papaya. I think I've swopped
my previous chocolate addiction for one to dried fruit!
BEEBARF
Big glass of V8 Cinnamon and raisin bagel with olive spread
Tea with skimmed milk
PETE4PNE
orange/banana juice (100ml)
muesli with strawberries
small tin grapefruit
2 mugs coffee
2 toast and marmalade
But I get a lot of cals
STEVE62
Ready Brek Seriously Oaty Apple and Raspberry porridge stuff
with semi skimmed milk..........very tasty for about 200kcals
and takes 90 seconds in the microwave!! Used to have a muller
light yoghurt to save kcals but was starving by mid morning!
Much better now.
JACQUI99
Very naughty cooked breakfast from the works restaurant ...
mind you it only ended up 20 cals over my usual cereal and
banana.
Need to start listening to Paul McKenna again.
MOONLUSTIE
Porridge with rasins n honey mixed in and a glass of orange
juice x
TEDDYBEAR
Porridge!!!
WHISKAS
porridge and blueberries, delicious, filling and oh so good
for me, off to polish my halo
FLUFFY
Was in a hurry this morning so it was a Tesco's Orange and
Grapefruit cereal bar and 250ml of Innocent Strawberry and
Banana smoothie.
SHOTSFAN
Poached egg on thick slice of wholemeal organic granary with
scrape of Lurpak Light (5g). Very filling
RACHAEL REYNOLDS
It was bite size shredded wheat for me (30g) skimmed milk and
a small banana. I am off on holiday to a cottage in the Lake
district next week. I have just had the idea of weighing out 30g
lots of cereal and taking them in little poly bags as I like
Shreddies, All Bran apricot bites, porridge and fruit and fibre
on different days and I dont want to take all those packets of
cereal!!
JANE.V
I grazed (which is fine and suits me!)
Apple
Two slices of boiled ham last one of my sons excellent school
made muffins (hes going to be a briliant cook)
Glass of pure orange juice
Total cost upto 11am is 500cals (approx)
HAPPYHATTER
1 slice of my home made wholwheat bread with sunflower seeds,
and two teasoons of homemade plum jam. Very filling and tasty.
WENDYTHEWAIF
erm I had malties with semi skimmed milk instead:o)
god they were good.
HELEN9265
Alpen bar (fruit, nut choccie) and Nescafe Vanilla coffee.
Not the best to have for breakfast but the best I can do in
the week at work as I can't eat first thing.
MGILES
Half a red grapefruit, 1 slice of organic wholemeal rye bread
toasted, Roses orange marmalade.
The bread is from Holland & Barratt and is good cold although
it is harder than U.K. breads (it is German).
Heated in a toaster it is delicious and very filling.
ANTAN
I had my usual All Bran with semi-skimmed milk - just love
the stuff - wish I could have more than 40g!!
xx
SARAHWOO
1 slice toast with marmalade, cup of coffee, will do me fine
until lunch, oops just typed 'munch' instead of 'lunch', tee hee
:-)
DIATOMDEB
I had homemade fruit salad with melon, strawberries,
blueberries and grapes. Trouble is, I was still starving by 10
am, so had a lowfat yoghurt.
SHELLEYBELLY
This morning I had 2 slice weight watchers bread, laughing
cow light triangle and a slice of healthy living chicken.
DAYLE
I had fruit smoothie followed by toast and honey
JOJO51
I'm having a cinnamon n raisin bagel with flora proactiv...
Oh yeah, and a glass of apple and mango juice which is lovely
:0)
VILLINGWORTH
Large bowl of Cornflakes (50g) with semi skimmed milk and
spoonful of sugar and a glass or orange juice.
Running tonight so making the most of those extra cals!
LOU
A banana and a little bottle of strawberry actimel
(pro-biotic stuff). And might have an apple in a mo.
FRUITYLOOPS
The usual Porridge made with skimmed milk and water, still
have to eat it with sugar but it usually keeps me going until
lunchtime. Also had a glass of Sanguinello red orange juice.
Lovely.
STAFFITAXI
choccy weetabix with skimmed milk at 9
now hungry :o/
LINDA13
SNACKS
mid morning snacks
any ideas what i can have? I always find
myself eating a bag of potatoheads or a kitkat or something liek
that. need healthier ideas but don't like fruit and hate raw veg
(so don't suggest carrot sticks or celery - yuck!)
What does
everyone else have? If I have nothing, which is often the case,
when lunch comes i want to eat loads!
x
BECKASIMMONS
I have a bowl of fruit salad at 10am then two apple snack a
jacks at 3pm. Why dont you try ryvitas with low fat soft cheese
there nice.... love jo x
PINK LADY
thin M&S rice cakes with honey, scrape peanut butter, low fat
cheese spread, very filling if you drink lots of water too, Ali
THATBUZZZ
or babybel light cheese.
SEXYSUZIE
bowl of special K
PUSSYCAT
Carr's Melts Cheese Crackers are only 18.7 calories per
cracker.
KW221270
Merchant Gourmet mit cuit semi dried tomatoes
RACHAEL
REYNOLDS
I tend to have fruit as my snack so that's no use to you.
What about ryvita or something like that? You can get some quite
nice cereal bar type things but sometimes they have more
calories than a curly wurly and who would choose a cereal bar
over a curly wurly - makes no sense!
RUMPHALINA
Pack of turkey slices (bernard matthews).. only 100 cals for
a pack and being full of protein it fills you up for ages!
WHISKAS
teeny tiny pots of rice pudding
DAYBLUE
Good Snacks?
What are peoples favourite low calorie snacks or
foods that are really filling but low in calories?
I enjoy snack
a jacks and i have seen that wlr resources say that sainsburys
be good to you cup a soup is good on a diet, anyone else have
any recommendations?
BOB2SEA
I make sure that I leave enough calories for what I call my
'hungry snack'at night......cup of hi/lights hot chocolate and
one chocolate diet bar...162 calories and really DECADENT !!
Lynda
SAVANNAH
Jelly is pretty good too!
EELLISO0
I find small packets of Twiglets are handy to have about -
think they are about 100 calories per 25g pack, and are really
flavoursome, and just hit those crisp type urges for me.
Rest of
the time it's fruit.
WINKLEGIRL
For snacks I have:
cereal bars
low-fat yoghurt ryvita with
cottage cheese or houmous
big crunchy salads
raw veg (chunk of
cucumber is scrummy)
bananas (or any fruit)
half a sandwich (!)
skips or quavers or french fries
dried fruit (can be high in cals - be careful!)
Saying that, sometimes I can eat 2 or 3 snacks and realise
I'd have had less cals having a small meal like a jacket potato
with beans or soup and a roll. And my body would never believe
cup-a-soup was food, let alone filling!
You'll have to try some
out and see what works best for you.
LILY1
Like Cereal bars, all types of fruit and also Yogurt,
sometimes I enjoy the snack more than a main meal!
WENDYTHEWAIF
If you want savoury, pickled onions, mini gherkins, sun dried
toms (no oil) are good.
RACHAEL REYNOLDS
Like Anna says fruit is great. Raw veg can be nice too, I
particularly like peppers and broccoli. Quakers seasons are a
nice crisp alternative (the chicken ones are my fave). Ryvita
are low in calories and there are loads of things you could put
on them to liven them up a bit. Umm, what else? I've recently
been pointed in the direction of chicken slices which make a
nice snack when you want something savoury and are realtively
low cal, also ups your protein which I want to do. Can't think
of anything else I don't think.
RUMPHALINA
fruit fruit and more fruit lol I'm mad on the stuff!
I eat
cereal bars too they are quite filling.
But you can have enough
fruit to make you feel totally stuffed for about 250 cals. And
think of all the nutrients!
You can't beat it!!
ANNA5479
LUNCH
Need help! Starting to get bored with Healthy Living Ready
Meals and salad/vegetables for lunch. Besides I want to try to
cut out as much processed food as I can.
Anyone got any good
suggestions for what else to have?
I go home for lunch, get
about 15 minutes to cook & 15 minutes to eat. It needs to be
something that doesn't involve me going to the supermarket
everyday to have fresh ingredients!
Also, just to make it
harder....I don't eat any meat except chicken, only fish I eat
is tuna & I hate tomatoes!
VICKYH
Have a look at nigel slater's "fast real food" - not always
lowfat etc but lots of ideas & adaptable.
CRAZYBEAN
I often cook a large pot of veg soup (what ever veg I have
goes in, following a basic recipe from my ancient Veggie Student
Cookbook!) that lasts me and DB a few days. Or I do a batch of
homemade bean pate/hoummous to go in sandwiches. Or like today I
had egg mayo made with one boiled egg and Hellman's very low
calorie mayo. In my sandwiches I always put as much lettuce or
grated carrot as I can fit in! I always bring a ton of fruit
with me to work to nibble on when I need it too, and if I have a
big pot of yoghurt in the fridge (like Rachel's low fat ones)
I'll do a little pot of fresh raspberries/strawbs with yog on
top - important to get some good plastic pots with clippy seals
to do this in - I had one leak the other day - not pleasant!
WINKLEGIRL
I seem to be the only person in the world who does this but
I'm an avid batch cooker! I have an evening or day at the
weekend once a fortnight when I make about four dishes, then
freeze them in individual portions. I then have 16 home-made,
additive-free 'ready meals' that I can get out of the freezer
the night before and zap in the microwave at work for my lunch.
My favourites are lentil, cheese onion bake; stuffed aubergines;
spicy cashew nut casserole and mushroom stroganoff, but anything
cooked from fresh ingredients that are safe to be frozen and
re-heated would be fine.
DHD
Tuna mixed with low fat hellmans mayo on crackers - you can
have the whole tin for 113 cals and it is really filling! Takes
only 1 min to prepare!
STARTREK
I've started getting the weight watchers tuna in mago chutnet
cans - bliss and loads in them for 79 cals so you can put it
with anything! WHISKAS
Simple stuff like beans on toast? Spaghetti on toast etc.
RACHAEL REYNOLDS
Tuna in pitta bread with salad...
VILLINGWORTH
How about soups?
DUCKI
I find wraps and pittas make good lunch time meals, filled
with humous, skinless chicken and lettuce, or for even lower
calories, wieght watchers tomato and herb tuna (Only 80 calories
a tin).
RACHELYEX
I had a salad from Boots the other day, had lettuce, peppers,
homous, 2 small pitta breads, couple of olives and I think some
cucumber and cherry tomatoes. Was lovely and only costs a couple
of pound.
I normally have ryvita minis and vff cream cheese with
fruit. Hope this helps.
DELILAH1966
I eat Ryvita with extra light Philly and lots of fruit and
raw veg. Wholemeal pitta with salad/cold meats/soft
cheese/tuna/salmon?
SARAHWOO
i'm into salads too at the mo...lettuce, cucumber, cherry
tomatoes and carrot with cottage cheese and tin of sainsburys
BGTY tuna with mayo and sweetcorn, or you can use crabsticks if
you like them - they're pretty low in cals or chicken if you're
not into fish. I also had a M&S chicken caesar wrap the other
day for under 300 cals which was v nice.
THEGAIL
I'm afraid I am a salad girl through and through. I am always
hungry and I can eat loads of salad with a chance of lasting
until hometime. I usually bulk up on beansprouts and add wafer
thin ham or prawns. Sometimes use tinned mackerel fillets in
sauce, but they are a bit high in calories. Weight watchers
bread rolls are good too for sandwiches. Lots of fruit to snack
on.
Mmm. Got me going now!
WJD
I love Batchelors Pasta and Sauce - they are quite high in
cals, but low in fat - and really really filling! All good for a
greedy bird like me!
TENERIFE
I've recently dicovered about 4 Krisprolls with about 50g of
mushroom yeast pate spread over them. Keeps me going til dinner!
CHRISHTA
DINNER
What’s everyone having for dinner tonight?
We're having roasted vegs with olive oil & lots garlic with
mozzerella cheese melted over them and a side salad, plus
strawberries and cream for pud. (reduced carb diet!)
Whats everyone else planning?
JEWELS
I'm having crab and mango salsd to start then, fresh mullets
steaks, roasted tomatoes, spinach, brocolli and runner beans and
boiled new potatoes. Don't have a starter usually but got some
fabulous fish this morning off our fish man in a van who come
here on Tuesdays, his fish is brilliant and soooo cheap against
the supermarkets
FLUFFY
Standing in corner hanging head in shame - haven't a clue
what's for dinner until I open the fridge/freezer/cupboard -
vaguely think there's some asparagus in the fridge if it hasn't
gone off - frozen salmon (thank Goodness for micro/de-freeze!!)
probly spuds for himself (diabetic and HAS to eat plenty of
carbs, including choc/crisps etc cos also skinny B) probly some
more frozen veggies and a Special K bar and cuppa later watching
telly/crocheting buon appetito!
BIKERBABE
Going spinning tonight so will be having jacket spud (as can
cook whilst out) with lettuce, big juicy beef tomatoes, avocado,
mozzarella and olives. Blokey will have some kind of meat too as
he is a carnivore, whereas I am a veg-u-like!
ADELESTEER
Barbecued rainbow trout stuffed with lemon and ginger. Salad
with it. mmmmmmmm!
SWLONDON
We're having thai vegetable curry (from the Gillian McKeith
cookbook) with brown rice. For pud, I've made a low fat
blackcurrant cheesecake at 192 cals a slice (it's my day off
today and I've spent it in the kitchen!)
TROUGH9000
A Tomato and Herb Pasta Sauce cause I cant be bothered to
cook tonight:-)
HBROOKES
Chicken breast stuffed with garlic, mushrooms and cheese.
Served with broccoli and cauliflower for me and himself will
have chips or Curly fries(!) with his as well.
Making me hungry!
CHRISSIE78
Cauldron organic mushroom burgers
boiled beetroot
boiled
potatoes
Hairdresser is coming so can be boiling betroot whilst she
does her stuff and can quick grill/boil pots when she has gone!
WJD
I'm having fritata - with potato, mushroom, onion and cheese
served with carrots I would normally have dessert but still
working off calories from the weekend!
AVDH
Im going to a friends and she's making me Garlic Bread to
start followed by Lean Pork Stir Fry :0)
Yum yum yum
DAYLE
count on us lasagne with veg followed by a Skinny Cow
cookies and cream lolly! I'm hungry already!!
KAZ1
We're having mackerel with gooseberry sauce (gooseberries in
garden need picking) and salad. Husband will also eat tons of
bread and cheese 'cos he can, being a skinny B who can eat
anything he wants.
ROSIE
yummy ......im having chicken ,salad and new
potatoes.....followed by fruit salad!
BOOMER
ALCOHOL
Hi everyone, Just wondered what you would drink on a night
out when calorie counting? Big night tonight and Ive been so
good all week I dont want to blow it by having too many high
calorie drinks!
KIRSTYMARTELL
If you're not a vodka fan then you can have any other spirit;
bacardi, JD, rum etc also for 50 calories a shot.
KATIE123
Either Vodka and Diet coke or Low C (Resolution) depnding on
if I fancy a beer taste or a spirit taste:-)
HBROOKES
Red wine for me. I usually have one wine then one diet coke
and so on. helps with cals and wine goes straight to my head
whilst dieting!!
SHOE_GAL
Vodka and diet coke every time for me. I usually estimate 50
cals per single measure. Just make sure if someone else goes to
the bar it IS diet, as having real coke can really bump up the
calories and you can't measure how much there is in the glass
very easily either.
LILY1
Hi, from what i can see of it we are better off with the
shorts and a diet coke or tonic. I am having to meke the same
choices for a wedding tommorow.
LEIGH1974
Gin and slimline tonic, with a dash of lime cordial.. that is
lush!
SCATTYNATTY
Gin and low cal tonic, or white wine.
WJD
Tips for avoiding a tipple anyone?
I take the car everytime I go out in the evening. Not very
green I know but it really means you have to stop at one and its
usually easier to have none. My other tip is an excellent drink
which tastes like it might have alcohol but doesn't. Slimline
tonic with a squeeze of fresh lemon and (and this is the
critical bit) a dash on angostura bitters which also makes it go
pinkish!
AMANDA S
White wine spritzers that you make yourself with 1/2 glass of
wine and lots of fizzy water. If you order it in a pub you
usually get a whole large glass of wine and a tiny splash of
soda- I have tried asking for it to be made in a pint glass
topped up to the top with soda (lasts loads longer for same
calories and alcohol but you get funny looks... best to actually
drink it out of a half pint glass)
alternating soft drinks with alcohol (halves your intake!)
and always starting with water (so you aren't necking the beer
or wine too fast just because you are thirsty)
JANEWOL
What about chosing a drink u can put loads of ice in to
a)
water it down
b) make it look like more
c) make it too cold to
drink fast????
Sorry not that helpful am i?
Good luck
ROSIEGUEZALA
Make the decision to stop drinking any alcohol at all for
now, it's easier to do that than it is to cut down. To replace
wine at home, try Ame or Aqua Libra in a wine glass instead?
When out, try sparkling water with ice and lemon (looks like G &
T)?
HELS
I have recently discovered Westons low alcohol cider - it's
delish!
PUSSYCAT
Same here! I save cals through the week as I know I'm going
to indulge at the weekend. It's still a massive dent in my
otherwise healthy eating though. In the summer I find drinking
white wine and soda instead of just white wine helps. Also, try
alternating alcoholic drinks with soft drinks when you're out.
Have extra tonic in your G&Ts. It's not easy though as after a
couple of drinks you're never quite as dedicated! I try to avoid
beer altogether but I'm not always terribly successful :(
LOU-LOU
I have the same problem. The only way I can keep it down is
not to drink at all in the week. At the weekend I have tried to
drink gin and slimline rather than wine. I have no will power
and always end up drinking too much, but at least at the weekend
I can do lots of running around, gardening, housework etc, which
earns a lot of calories. By the end of the week I am back in
line with my allowance. (Hint: in food section, calories history
at bottom, change start of week to Friday!)
Good Luck!
WJD
Try drinking that fizzy grape drink thats meant to be like
drinking wine in the week,not sure what its called! Then indulge
at week ends. I save some cals in the week for the week end.
That way you look forward to it more!
LAURAK
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