Angel Delight as a 'diet' food? Any thoughts?

[justfortoday2012]

My Dad is very very overweight. He has struggled for a long time with his weight but has never managed to loose much.

I think that, for him, the willpower is just not there (apologies if that sound unkind but I think that really is the core of the problem- plus a very very sweet tooth).

I hope one day he will manage to get to a more healthy weight and wish I could help him achieve this. I have tried to talk to him without being pushy. I persuaded him to join weightwatchers but it didn't help and he no longer attends.

I realise that there is only a limited amount that I can do because loosing weight has to come from him. However, I love him to bits and just don't want him to shorten his life or reduce his quality of life.

Anyway, his latest approach is to have a chocolate Angel Delight for lunch with a chopped banana. He insists that it is a low calorie way to get his sugar hit and fill himself up.

Can anyone with more knowledge on this kind of thing tell me what they think of this?

I am a regular who has namechanged- as I might show Dad this thread!!

yuk to angel delight. It isnt really addressing wHY he wants to eat crap food, and AD is full of rubbish.

Has he ever tried low carbing? It is a good way to eat, cutting out down on processed carbs, basically if you cant catch it and eat it or grow it you dont put it in your mouth!

A banana is full of sugar so not particularly 'healthy'

I don't think it's much good. It's not nutritional, and if it's low sugar one they will contain a lot of other crap to make it sweet. I was on ww and a no added sugar angel delight is 8 points per pack. Quite high for essentially nothing. He would be better eating a big old salad and a kitcat(2 points) or similar. Lots of good recipes out there where he can get a decent meal and a sweet craving at the same time.

Has he had his blood sugar checked lately? Very overweight with a sweet tooth is a recipe for diabetes.

Hi is a 'borderline' diabetic. I'm not sure of the full details but I do know that after some tests a few years back his doctor thought he might be diabetic but ended up diagnosing him as borderline.

He has had a few health scares recently, cancer that is thankfully now in remission and a heart problem for which he had a pacemaker fitted. He was understandably petrified during both of these episodes.

The terribly sad irony is that he doesn't see is is probably as likely to die from being overweight than the other things that scare him so much. Eating is in his control yet he just buries his head in the sand........

Apologies if I sound harsh. I do understand that loosing weight is tough. I feel guilty that I can't help him, despite knowing deep down that there is probably nothing that I can do.

just Yr dad sounds a lot like my Dh who has actually listened to his doc. and eats dates or figs and nuts instead of sweet milky choc. (very dark choc is much better than angel del. which as the others say is total crxx). It has to come from them; that 's the problem!!!

Oh dear I tried Angel Delight just last week and nearly boaked :( It is truly disgusting stuff. Hope your Dad realises he just has to cut out the crap and get on with losing the weight. A little scare of what may happen to him very soon might be a wake up call. Sometimes you have to use no-nonsense tactics!