zippis mood enhancing and balancing shopping list

[zippitippitoes]

I hope you see this Mother Peculiar!...I am interested in a diet which helps to keep mood even ie helping depression and stress and have put myself on a 100 day plan with the aim of improving my mental well being and also losing weight. It's fairly much a gi diet.

I've found that counting down from 100 days is helping with motivation and I've also cut alcohol right down to once a week or this is the plan a fortnight.

Once I've got going I will be swimming too

Here is my basic shopping list..then just eat using these foods. I've cut out bread and potatoes too.

spinach
peppers
frozen mixed veg
tomatoes
celery
mushrooms
avocados
spring onions
garlic
onions
cucumber
root ginger
chillies
lettuce
bananas
frozen peas, green beans, spinach
sweet potato
watercress
lemons
melon
kiwi fruit
frozen forest fruits and blueberries
tinned grapefruit
tinned pineapple
mango
apples
courgettes
tinned sweetcorn
tins borlotti,cannelini,flageolet, chickpeas, tomatoes
tom puree
orange lentils
puy lentils
brown rice
spaghetti

almonds
walnuts
brazilnuts
pumpkin seeds
sunflower seeds
bulgar wheat

tuna.tin
sardines ..tins
prawns
chicken breast
turkey breast

oat cakes
oats
ryvita

quark
cottage cheese
cheddar cheese in moderation
eggs
natural yogurt

honey
olive oil
nut oil
mayonnaise
tom ketchup
herbs
black pepper

tea
milk

pellegrino water
tap water

eat breakfast, lunch and dinner and snacks between eg fruit or ryvita

I'm also taking magnesium ok

Much to my shock I ate well and didn't feel hungry and I'm now on Day 90 and have lost 10 lbs

I don't expect that rate to continue but I'm also feeling less stressed and more optimistic..partly down to feeling I'm doing something positive

errr

might as well bump this again for motherpeculiar

feeling a bit silly to have written it otherwise

Congratulations, Zippi!

This is brill zippi - I've cut out bread (well apart from the bacon and cheese butty I had on Wed ) but I'm going to have a look at the rest of your list.

Well done on the weight loss too

thanks ..I hope you find it useful..it's not particualrly original but now I've more or less got a shopping list which more than covers the week it makes it much easier. I just do a kind of ready steady cook thing with deciding how to use the stuff!

I have no problem not eating sweet stuff but no alcohol is my stumbling block. Also no eating cheese and biscuits randomly.

I have lost another 3lbs too I think now.

Looks really good to me, too. My diet has been rather crap with this pregnancy and I have felt depression raising its ugly head. Think I'll give your list a try zippi!

Cheese is a bit of a downfall with me too zippi - cut a slice for the meal and a slice for mouth!

I've cut down hugely on the booze - used to be a couple of glasses min. in the evening - now I only have a bottle a week maybe, sometimes less. I'm sleeping better now although I didn't at first.

I am interested

post what meals you make