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to those who are taking part i the weight loss thing, just wonderd what are you eating per day

one of my main things is stay off the bread,and cut down portion sizes,mine mainly cosists of
breakfast

yogurt with fruit

dinner

soup

tea

prawn salad or chicken with salad ,sometime a jacket potatoe

im snacking on loads of fruit and not really feeling hungry,gonna try swopping my breakfast for oats so simple next week,starting to see some results as just got on scales ,only problem is its my weekend off and have a mates birthday on sat night
 
I was told to stock up on bread rolls to keep you happy at Machrihanish! I've got a freezer full of the dam things, get back on the bread tiger!
 
Breakfast: Cerial and low fat yogurt (the greek honey vitality ones are yum), two coffees
Lunch: Soup and 3 ryvitas with an individual portion of low fat philli cheese, diet coke
Dinner: Grilled chicken with pasta, spanish omlete, prawn stir fry, tuna steak with noodles and I try to make sure that there are at least twice as much fresh veg in the meal as there is carbs, diluting juice

I try to drink at least a litre of water between brekkie and lunch and another litre before I leave the office.

Brekkie and lunch have been easy to alter, but my love of olive oil is making dinner choices a little more difficult. I don't drink alcohol through the week anyway so i've not had to change there but this weekend will be the acid test because on Sunday I'm to be Godfather to my friend's son and the inevitable booze up that'll follow. My plan is to stick to whiskey and soda rather than the wine, beer or cider I'd normally drink.
 
thecraw said:
I was told to stock up on bread rolls to keep you happy at Machrihanish! I've got a freezer full of the dam things, get back on the bread tiger!
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its a new me craw,all these bloody clothes ive got in porn star size are even getting tight,march is along time off though could be back on the bread by then
 
It more of a case of what I not eating. I have cut out chocolate and crisps for a start. 15-20 bars and 10 bags of crisps a week...!!!! Cut down on the beer and only 2 wheetabix a day rather then 4.
 
StrangelyBrown said:
Breakfast: Cerial and low fat yogurt (the greek honey vitality ones are yum), two coffees
Lunch: Soup and 3 ryvitas with an individual portion of low fat philli cheese, diet coke
Dinner: Grilled chicken with pasta, spanish omlete, prawn stir fry, tuna steak with noodles and I try to make sure that there are at least twice as much fresh veg in the meal as there is carbs, diluting juice

I try to drink at least a litre of water between brekkie and lunch and another litre before I leave the office.

Brekkie and lunch have been easy to alter, but my love of olive oil is making dinner choices a little more difficult. I don't drink alcohol through the week anyway so i've not had to change there but this weekend will be the acid test because on Sunday I'm to be Godfather to my friend's son and the inevitable booze up that'll follow. My plan is to stick to whiskey and soda rather than the wine, beer or cider I'd normally drink.
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Using olive oil to cook etc would not be a bad thing with what you're currently eating, I wouldn't worry too much about using it, unless you normally pour it into a glass for an evening tipple.
 
Also, to anyone trying to eat healthily and who likes curry, the Patak's curry pastes are REALLY good for a low fat curry.

We cook veg curry by the bucket load using it but you can add meat/fish and just make sure you use boiled white or wholemeal rice. (wholemeal is better)

Heat some olive oil in a pan
add a chopped onion and garlic to sweat/brown
Add any veg you want (cauliflower and potato work well)
add in meat (if you wish, if using fish, add later)
add in curry paste to required taste (usually 2 table spoons does it) mix in and marinate meat etc..Cook for 3 or 4 mins to seal meat
Tin of chopped tomatoes. Simmer until veg is cooked.

Job done.

If you are adding prawns/fish, add this in right at the end before you serve, giving it just enough time to cook - so it doesn't go rubbery. The curry won't take on as much of the fish flavour, but unless you're a pretty good cook, it's difficult to cook the fish just right adding it sooner (but feel free to have a go!)

You can add curry/chilli powder to taste if you want, but the patak's pastes (NOT sauces, very important) are already very good.
 
Breakfast is usually 2 weetabix with a teaspoon of sugar on top.
Lunch is soup or a couple of wraps or a pasta pot or similar
Tea is basically the same but much smaller portions. (No more friday night takeaways)

I've cut out fizzy drinks, cut out the chocolate bars and crisps.
Drinking plenty of water (Which does have side affects... I'm p******g like a race horse)

I'm sat here and my colleagues have just had the normal friday butties.. I could eat a flip flop right now I'm that hungry.
 
Think it's great that a few of you are doing this collectively - Hats off to you :). A key thing is meal times. The Mediterraneans benefit from having their main meal of the day at lunchtime. If you are grazing during the day nuts, dried fruit and seeds are good ways to maintain energy levels but not pile on the pounds. Soup keeps you feeling full for longer.

Good luck fellas :)

Oh and turkey is an extremely lean meat!
 
Breakky - Cereal (or toast), somtimes pinapple and natural yogurt after cereal, with a Cuppa T and a glass of fruit joose + Glucosamine&Chondritin joint tablet.

mid morning apple/nana (if i bring one) and around 3 cuppa's

Lunch - Sarnie/scramble egg on toast/cheese on toast, sometimes a 6"Subway(used to be 12")

mid afternoon 2-3cuppas (1 might be hot chock) and about a pint of water.

Tea - ALL HOME MADE, Lasagne, Chilli+rice, Jacket spud with tuna/chilli/cheese n beenz +salad, salad with new spuds, chinese, curry, fajita's (just 2), enchilada's. All of them with glass of red wine. Sometimes a real ale at our local.

night time, sometimes a glayva/southern comfort/hot chock/juice/diluty juice/water.

Saturday breakky is fryup if family here other wise as weekdays
Sunday breakky is croissants with loads of butter melted into them.

Our trick is slightly smaller portions, and 2 hyper active border collies that need 2hours walking on weekday (due to daylight and work, 3 hours in summertime, if we go out for picnic tea while walking) and 3-5 hours walks on Saturday/Sunday depending on Scuba diving/Golf/Camping (5-9 hours walks a day)


Just lower the amount you eat, bread is good if you have big appetite as it fills you up, as do JP's. And exercise. I walk to work most days, Mrs is on her feet most of the day at work. Stairs instead of lifts, walk to shops if only picking up a few bits. We both put on about 1/2 - 1 stone over xmas, this will have dropped off by March.
 
Aztecs27 said:
Using olive oil to cook etc would not be a bad thing with what you're currently eating, I wouldn't worry too much about using it, unless you normally pour it into a glass for an evening tipple.
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There's 114 calories in a tablespoon of olive oil. Even though it's a 'good' fat, it's still fat none-the-less, and it'll still make you fat.
 
That's the KEY isn't it.... Exercise and carb's not fats. Fats get stored until carbs have gone. Lower the whole lot and exercise more till you've reached your goal, then keep fats low and increase carbs. The thing is never to completely cut out carbs, particularly if you exercise, as this will drain your body and do more harm than good.
 
I have always been told you need to eat fat to lose fat. If you body has no fat coming in then it tries to conserve the fat stores it has and will use your muscle for energy.
Body builders when they are cutting for a competition will still have some amount of good fat in their diet, very very low carbs and loads of protein.
 
Have the Jaffa Cake diet then. Eat six and you've only consumed six grams of fat. Which I believe is only 54 calories!

Does the Jaffa bit count as one of your 5 a day? :mmm:
 
Phil2511 said:
eat fat to lose fat
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I can see where you're coming from but that's like trying to put out a fire by pouring petrol on it. When weight lifters 'cut' they go on a low carb high protein diet which means lots of meat, eggs and fish, which could be confused with being on a high fat diet.

You can't (and shouldn't) eliminate fat entirely from your diet, but foods that are high fat are high calorie (generally, the calorific content being a measure of energy. You can run a diesel car on vegetable oil, so think about how many calories are stored in it) so by cutting down on fat you are naturally cutting down on calories. As the intention of dieting is to create a calorie defecit I know what I need to do, and that is to avoid high fat foods such cooking oils, butter, cheese etc etc :)

Sadly, these things are pretty much my favourite foods.
 
Eating the same stuff as before, just less of it. The biggest thing I've cut down is bread and pasta. Smaller portions.

As for the fat debate, there's such a thing as essential fats. As you can guess by the name you need them.

Recipe tips: My favourite lunch to take to work is tuna pasta kinda stuff. Get a tin of tuna (in sunflower oil is best but others do work if you add oil), brown it in a shallow frying pan on a low heat, chop and add an onion, garlic and some chopped peeled tomatoes (plum for me), season with salt and pepper,. Once cooked stir it into the pasta you were also cooking but have left for a minute or two to rest. If you want add some of your favourite cheese. The tin of tune can be split 2 or 3 times so lunch for a few days (or for the kids).
 
Not advocating for 1 second to eat alot of fat in your diet. But you do need it for certain bodily functions and if you deprive yourself of too much then your body will try to conserve what fat you do have.

But you need to consume good fats, which olive oil is.

Body builders do eat high protein and low carb and eat very clean but they consume flax oil daily to get the fat they lose from their main food sources.
 
So my dry bread with ham and cheese (microwaved to melt the cheese) is no good for me :(

and what about the gammon i've just put in the slow cooker with chicken stock, cider, apples, onion, mushrooms, leeks, and a selection of freshly snipped (had to run upstairs to the herb garden in the spare room window) herbs..... there's got to be everything needed in the daily diet in that (considering its getting treacle and a knob of butter at 4.30. Should be ready for about 7.30 when we get back from the real ale house.
 
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