When I was pregnant with my youngest, I looked into slimming world to lose the baby weight (from my first pregnancy!). I like a lot of the principles: lots of fresh vegetables, fruit, lean protein, just generally cooking from scratch and so forth.
However, when I looked at some Instagram accounts, one thing that struck me was people eating copious amounts of "syn free" desserts/pancakes/mug cakes etc. Now obviously its entirely their prerogative, and I'm not slating SW at all because it works for some people. However it's got me thinking about low fat and diet foods in general.
I've recently reduced added/refined sugar and I've noticed my cravings have naturally decreased. I'm enjoying Greek yoghurt, real butter, peanut butter, dark chocolate. I'm also having smaller portions and snacking less.
Just wondering, would you prefer to have more of low fat/diet products or less of 'real/proper' food?
So for example, given the choice, would you rather eat larger quantities of diet drinks, low fat yoghurt, sweetener-based puddings, or smaller portions of regular drinks, full fat yoghurt and a sugar-based pudding?
Hope this makes sense as just having my first proper glass of wine in over a year 