Half term, then a week at home with ill child, and I have become a bloater, addicted to bread and shortbread biscuits, not only that I have put on 4lbs--help me!!

[Piratechnic]

I am already craving starch. What can I do, I truly feel rough(apart form getting my dd's cold).

What can I eat to get me off the carbs, without feeling horrible. Stuff thats satisfying, and and will help gyide me back to more normal eating.

I cant belive how much i have put on, what a twit.

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help iam veering towards a pizza

What healthy food do you like, Piratechnic? how about veg and fruit, turkey, unsalted organic nuts? There are so many varieties and you can cook vegies with herbs and spices, can chopped tomatoes. i had stuffed peppers with the rest of my chilli con carne yesterday mixed with muchrooms, fish with avocado salad with toms, cucumber, red pepper, crashed garlic, lemon juice and grapes. you can experiment and find some amazingly nice foods without feeling guilty. If you aim to eat 5 to 10 fresh fruit and veg you'll feel up on some good stuff and there will be little room for anything else. Good luck. Please let me know how you are doing.

i am a veggie, who isnt keen on fruit. i do lke veg tho.

How about courgettes stuffed with carrots, beans and mushrooms and poored over a can of tomatoes? Any vegetable soup is very good for slimming, not just cabbage soup. You could have a soup a day for lunch, just don't have bread with it and try to fill up on lot's of vegetables in the soup. Leeks are very good, so is beetroot and tomato based soups. Stuffed peppers, courgettes, cabbage leaves for dinner. Personally I'd try to have minimum of pasta and rice, try to keep away from buiscuits and pizza but i don't know how you'd feel about it. May be the easiest way is having a very strict diet of soups for a couple of days with snacking on stuff like carrots, tomatoes, cucumber and then starting on a healthy diet not restricting yourself too much. The problem with strict diets long term is that I personally get fed up and start going another way- eating rubbish foods. no carbs after 5 is a good and sound diet if you can stick to it. It's basicaly no potatoes, pasta, rice, cereal or bread after 5PM. you also need to limit sugar and tea and cofee having just 2 cups a day (I can't do that though but I'm trying hard to go for no carbs listed earlier. Carrots are carbs and so are beans but they are okay.

thanks for this advice. I started off fairly wel today, but kind of lost the plot in the day. Tiredness, and an ill kiddy, I just need to start looking after myself better, and that means by not succumbing to the carbs, but planning and eating better food.

I just know if i don't stay 'mindful' then by jan I will have put on another 6 lbs, and will be really down about my size.

mmm, I just made a really yummy Quorn chilli - saute onion, carrot, peppers, celery etc for a bit, add Quorn, add tins tomato, kidney beans and chilli powder and simmer for 20 mins. mmmm, really satisfying.

You're very welcome, Piratechnic. Loosing weight isn#t easy for me. I'm afraid both my parents and grand parents were fat. My mum isn't fat now but she is in her 70-s when people generally don't eat as much. My nature is being overweight which I was from the age of 7 so I need to be in control non stop but not being stressed as i'm mum. So my choice is healthy diet with as many vegies and fruit (luckily i love fruit and berries) as i can have 9the problem I have is i can't digest so much of them as i immidiately start problems with bloating and having a really big tummy the size of 8 month pregnancy! Sometimes I feel my situation is worse then anybodies but then i watch some people who have weight problems on TV and I realize that I shouldn't complain, I just need to try my best. Since joining MN I get so much support, it really helps having the opportunity to discuss something that bothers me. i hope you'll achieve what you want.