Diet

[stumpy]

Hi

Does anyone have any diet tips for each other that help them?

I think peanuts help with anxiety...

Stumpy xx

[jacksfullofaces]

Avoid junk food and stick to lean protein and low carbohydrate regime with plenty of dark green vegetables with a modest amount of decent chocolate.
I add to this by only buying decent tea. I like a Darjeeling first flush muscatel - it causes less jitteriness.
Jacks xx

[stumpy]

Hi

Know what you mean, I go all healthy and after a week or so feel really nice, calm etc. But then slip & have rubbish & suffer for it.

False sense of security.

I drink nice tea too Jacks, but i do like a pyramid first thing.

Stumpy xx

[susan]

Lean protein, fish, veg and fruit, and a few carbs as well.

I do limit tea and coffee, one skinny latte a day, and one or two earl greys. Apart from that it's water, fruit juice or somet imes squash added to water, I know the later is full of cr@p but I don't really like water on its own and so if I put a little bit of orange squash in it, it helps to keep up my fluid intake.

I have to remember to drink, and kind of force myself a bit. I do think it is important to keep hydrated, I think that can affect how you feel and how you look.

Can't think of anything earth shattering to say though Stumpy. Just the boring stuff above.

[stumpy]

[Gelis]

I'd certainly go along with the advice to keep hydrated. As I live in a hot country I'm probably more aware of this than some of you, but it makes a huge difference to general well being if you take in enough fluid. I've recently had a trip to the UK, which involved a lot of sitting around and only drinking the odd cup of tea or coffee, unlike the copious amounts of water I drink here. I ended up feeling sluggish & uncomfortable.

Keeping the carbs down is something I struggle with. The only way I've ever been able to lose weight is to eat normally, but just less of it!

Gxx

[stumpy]

I try to drink one of those 1.5L bottles of water a day along with my cups of tea.

Boring though the water.

Stumpy xx

[Gelis]

That ought to be plenty, Stumpy. I agree it is boring (unless you are really thirsty), but you can lace it with squash, as Susan does, or a bit of "proper" fruit juice to make it more interesting if you need to. Don't forget to include tea/coffee etc in your calculation of intake, as well as milk on your cereal (if you have that).

Gxx

[susan]

I buy a squash that is (allegedly) 50 % fruit juice. I also never buy anything with that aspartame in it which means no diet drinks like coke zero, diet pepsi, 7up lite and none of the 'sugar free' squashes. I think they should be re-lableled as 'aspartame full' squashes.

I do make the squash fairly weak a small amount of sugar seems like a lesser evil than aspartame.

xxxx

[Gelis]

"a small amount of sugar seems like a lesser evil than aspartame"

I'm inclined to agree, Susan. I think the same about "low fat" products, too. I'd much rather have a small amount of normal, natural food (of whatever kind) than fill my body with the rubbish that is in low fat and/or low calorie whatever.

In addition - I think low fat spreads/cheeses etc taste absolutely foul!

Gxx

[susan]

Yes I'm afraid I am a small amount of butter person, rather than a huge dollop of flora person nowdays as well Gelis. I spent about 20 years on low fat spreads as a younger woman as I was obssessed with keeping my weight under control, then one day I had a light bulb moment when I thought why on earth am I eating this it doesn't even taste nice.

hasn't affected my weight either way, no idea if it is furring up my arteries though, i guess it could be, but it's not like we are getting through lbs of it a day.

The one thing I have stuck with though for the last 30 odd years is skimmed milk.

xxxx

[Gelis]

We have semi-skimmed milk - the totally skimmed is a stage too far for me, but I certainly don't want full cream milk any more in tea or coffee. However, while in the UK I stayed at a farmhouse B&B where the milk for the cereal was of the full cream variety from the farm's own cows - it tasted fantastic!

More than anything else I try to cook with simple, straightforward ingredients, so I know what goes into our meals. The only oil I use is our own olive oil; I treat myself to toast (homemade bread) & butter at the weekends, and I use butter for making biscuits and in cooking. The key is moderation, I think.

Gxx

[gobe]

Yes I am the same. I eat a little butter, cook with olive oil and use semi skimmed milk. I think low fat products taste foul and I also avoid anything with glucose fructose (corn syrup). It is found in so many products nowadays especially cheap jams and biscuits and soft drinks. I do end up paying more for those items but I believe in quality or quantity when it comes to food. We are what we eat after all.