to wonder how the hell she stays so slim??

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My BIL is engaged to a spanish woman, and we spent the weekend at MIL's, all of us together.

She is very slim, I'd guess a size 6/8. Her skin is glowing and she is stunning, yet her diet perplexes me?

On the first morning, we were all having breakfast, MIL made a fry up for everyone, but I am on a diet so I had special K and some toast. SIL prepared her own breakfast (they are currently staying at MILs while they have some work done on their house), and she had some kind of cheese, can't remember what she said it was, about 10 olives and a slice of ham! Yet she said that my breakfast of Special K and toast was stodgy and apparently English women have 'very strange ideas about nutrition'.

For lunch, she had a chicken salad, but it involved lots of extra virgin olive oil, all over the peppers and a big dollop of salsa. And then for dinner she had chicken smeared in pesto, with green beans in salt, more salsa and a slice of cheese.

How is she so slim??

I didn't have a particuarly healthy weekend in the end, we ended up having a takeaway on the Saturday evening, and SIL wouldn't eat any of it, she wasn't rude, she politely declined but I just find it hypocrytical that she eats all this fatty stuff and made the comment about England having strange ideas about nutrition when I was eating Special K and toast!!

But how do you say it in your head?

on lion

When did carbs become the devil incarnate? Well a great deal earlier than fats. Reducing sugar and starch to lose weight has been around as a concept for a long time- as I said earlier anyone remember Nimble? but it got overtaken by the passion for eradicating fat at all costs.

Re lentils onlion- I have followed a lc diet on and off for years and unless on the strictest phase of the diet, I have eaten pulses and brown rice.

Low carb diets have been around since Taube 1816, Lawrence and banting in the 19C...probably earlier :)

I have rad the whole thread as I am quite interested in getting rid of some weight and becoming healthier.
I just binned my last package of special K. I do however have muesli without added sugar or salt. Is that ok to eat or not?

strange I always think of you in my head as "Onion"

Onion is cool

and low GI

Do you know I doubt I have ever seen the words - I have read the whole thread ever before

I would eat it, but not all the time, I have half a kipper for breakfast with a poached egg, cos it is 50p to buy two kippers so cheapy breakfast with an egg. or I have mushrooms on toast with a tomato. Sometimes I eat porridge, but I don't like cooked porridge so I eat it raw - I always have done and I add soem sultanas, I measure it out in a ramekin so not a large portion and add milk and soak overnight. I chop up a kiwi and add to it. Or poached eggs on toast, I make my bread and get my flour from a mill as its cheap

these are the foods I like for breakfast and I don't eat large amounts at breakfast - but what I do eat keeps me going until 12.30 ish

I think online and thought it was a thing of onlion onlion and see a lovely regal lion at your home typing away

So has anyone else on here eaten ham, cheese and olices for breakfast? tuna salad and pesto chicken for dinner?.... and feels great tonight as result?

This thread has really made me think about what i've been eating recently and what I am feeding the DC's.

Not had one craving for cream eggs today which is very unlike me

Maybe I will shift this winter erm padding afterall then before summer

*olives even...

• tuna salad for lunch...

(think my cheeky half glass of red has gone to my head afterall...that or it's def bedtime for me here)

hic

Well I read some this morning and the rest now. I at least believe I read it all, maybe I missed something.
Thanks about the muesli advise. I try to spice it up. I actually had an omelette today, sometimes have eggs,porridge etc. But sometimes I just feel like muesli. I guess I should try a bit harder to not be that lazy in the morning and actually make the effort.

It is only because so often on a thread I see

well I haven't read the thread but this is my tuppence worth

I had olives and pineapple for breakfast, a salad of rocket and cottage cheese for lunch with a boiled egg then roasted zucchini and peppers plus something involving chicken, black olives, onion, tomatoes, pancetta, wine and balsamic vinegar that DP created. (halo) and a bottle of red wine

love you for saying zucchini happiest

PLease can pople add these to the other thread? It'll help boost ideas

I find it all very confusing.

I have had excellent results in the past on the Slimming World plan which advocates eating as much pasta, rice and potatoes as you want, with plenty of veg and fruit (no bread though), eggs and muller lites!

How does that square with carbs being the work of the devil?

I tend to think that most diets work if you stick to them - although some are much healthier than others.

happiestblonde that sounds yum and not too dissimilar to what we had

In fact...this is how I used to eat pre kids before pandering to the odd demands of DS2 and creating carb heavy dinner for DH ...

ivykaty your porridge sounds a bit like bircher muesli.

It is only oats, sultanas (probably 10 thrown in) really and soaked so its nicer. The fruit is fresh if I add soem like the kiwi or melon balls if I have done balls for packups

DP is just wonderful. He deals with me running off to the gym for 2 hours and then cooks carb-free food. I love him. He is great. Yay.

Everything that is food is ok to eat. Don't let a bunch of internet sprites stop you. It's not poison.

Food rocks basically