Nobody likes diets! Everyone would like to be able to eat whatever they want. But you certainly need to pick one that is as easy as possible and doesn't require unrealistic restrictions, difficult ingedients or inconvenient food requirements.
Seconded, as in I agree^
However, as my doctor doubled the dose of my blood pressure medication yesterday I've agreed to lose weight (again). I also agreed to use MFP (again) and I'll be starting Couch to 5km on Friday. Yes you guess it (again). Can't start exercise any earlier, as that same doctor told me to rest my injured knee for a month on 18th December. However, I digress:
What I am about to data entry into MFP is:
B - wholegrain toast, 25g lightest Philadelphia Cheese, 1g Marmite, 5g St Dalfour Marmalade. One cup of tea made with Semi Skimmed milk.
L - Heinz Big Soup Chicken and Veg flavour, 2 slices wholegrain toast, low fat margarine. 1 slice wholegrain bread, 2g low fat margarine and marmite. One banana. 1 standard size bag of peanut M&M's. Tea with semi skimmed milk
D - I have made Tikka Chicken for two. That's two chicken breasts covered in: one chopped red onion, chopped chilli pepper, zest and juice of one lime, one crushed garlic clove, grated fresh ginger root, one squirt of tomato puree, 1 teaspoon of cumin, 1 teaspoon of garam masala. Mix the marinade ingredients, smother over the chicken and bake it for 40 minutes. If you can make it the night before, so much better. I serve mine with basmati rice, onion salad, mango chutney and plain natural yoghurt.
I'll have that with diet coke.
I'll probably have more chocolate this evening even though I had those M&M's at lunchtime.