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NOTHING TASTES AS GOOD AS BEING SLIM FEELS

952 replies

cyb · 30/03/2010 19:47

Here we are again

AND RELAX......

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fishie · 30/03/2010 21:54

i have been taken by boss for restaurant lunch so there was a bit of non-zone, mainly garlic butter related. but not too bad and had miniscule dinner to mitigate.

small bit of corn thin with tabasco nice but prone to sogginess.

dreadful last-min deadline has meant missed pilates class and 10 hour workday. knee hurting so no run. all a bit dire and no hope of work lightening this week.

CrossWords · 30/03/2010 21:56

Yy - in my family the way they got us to eat was to put everything in big bowls in the middle of the table and not on our plates individually and apparently everything disappeared really quickly that way.

LorraineSattell · 30/03/2010 21:57

we just have to fight that programming then. [easily said]

MmeLindt · 30/03/2010 21:59

I am on between 1200 and 1400 cals too, depending on whether I go running or not.

I do not believe in low fat food so am eating normally, just smaller portions, less carbs, more veg, more protein.

Also have cake as long as I am not going over my calories. Have app on iPhone.

CrossWords · 30/03/2010 21:59

I'm just going to forego the problematic stuff I love then, cos I can't just have a bit. I'll just not buy it. Thank god my DH doesn't crave the same stuff - i would find it really hard to cook something i really really wanted to eat

MmeLindt · 30/03/2010 22:02

Am trying not to think in terms of good food and bad food.

Food is not good or bad, it is eating one kind of food to excess that is not healthy.

If you allow yourself the things that you crave in small portions then you don't get to a stage where you would sell your granny to have some.

Haribo - could you buy the little packets of Haribo? Do you get them there. I find that if I have I small packets I do not eat so many. The pile of wrappers makes me feel bad and stop eating.

fishie · 30/03/2010 22:06

when i did serious dieting 2 years ago (and lost 20k which has not returned) i completely changed portion size and what i might expect to eat.

that is why it is now very tough for me to get much smaller, as there relaly isn't much left to get rid of without misery or risk of regaining.

but alas there is still at least 5k to go i think. would settle for 3k. it would be nice to be slim and i bloody deserve it for the effort i put in.

YoginiBikini · 30/03/2010 22:06

Putting my bag down to save a place

the cool link is very funny - is it meant to be or does that make me uncool?

Love the Old Spice ad

I am recognising the feeling of hunger. It never lasted long enough before, I would just eat when it arrived. I am now reveling in the feeling of being hungry before enjoying my carefully thought out meals < halo>

LorraineSattell · 30/03/2010 22:08

haribo is plain and simple bad food, though, it's utter shite, made from hooves. bleugh.

i've been eating a lot of ratatouille, it takes over from white carbs quite well i think. making a batch, freezing the portions, and sticking it in the micro when, as tonight, making mashed potato for everyone else. (of course i had a couple of spoonfuls to taste it...)

YoginiBikini · 30/03/2010 22:09

Book on the go is Still Alice by Lisa Genova. It keeps making me weep, and worry.

I lurve sarah waters books.

Must read the Rachel whatshername one. Next book on list

CrossWords · 30/03/2010 22:10

Have tried that. The little bags of Haribo I bought come in one big big bag, and I have no control after one little bag. I should have got to shame stage after the owners of my local shop had a non-english conversation about me after i came in where the word "haribo" featured at least five times. i am haribo woman to them

MmeLindt · 30/03/2010 22:12

Bad food and good food. Not what is in the food, but how we see it.

For me Bad Food is the highly processed food, the stuff that is perhaps for others Good Food because it is low in fat.

Good Food for me is homemade bread. Organic flour, water, yeast, salt. I know what is in it and if eaten in modest quantities it is fine.

HumphreyCobbler · 30/03/2010 22:13

New thread already massive I see

Today I have eaten
grapes
banana
rice cakes
biscuit

Have had lurgy so no appetite.

Still, last weighed in at 9.2. ALMOST worth the horrendous illness, but not really.

I use the fact that I am still breastfeeding as an excuse for doing no exercise.

fishie · 30/03/2010 22:13

i really liked the outlander by gil someone - got it from publisher friend a couple of yeras ago but i have just seen it in waitrose so must be in paperback.

i hardly ever like books, they are all mainly shit but yet i keep on going. is the commute, it eats novels.

just finished nick hornby, juliet naked. it was fine until the end which was DOUBLESHIT.

i think i am too tired and must go to bed. this dieting lark does make one a bit snippy don't we find?

LorraineSattell · 30/03/2010 22:14

haribo is boiled hooves and sugar. think on that, gutsy.

YoginiBikini · 30/03/2010 22:14

Hear hear mmeLindt. Although I've banned myself from making bread this week. it was getting out of hand

HumphreyCobbler · 30/03/2010 22:15

yy about good food

I tried to do that thing about not eating anything your great grandmother would not have recognised as food, so no processed food.

It is actually harder than you think, especially given my diet coke thing.

LorraineSattell · 30/03/2010 22:16

yes that's such good advice about the grandmother, i think. and was it the same guy who said 'eat food, not a lot, mostly plants' or something liek that.

ReshapeWhileDamp · 30/03/2010 22:16

Yummy hooves! Love Haribo. Damn supermarkets always seem to have Bogoffs on it, too.

HumphreyCobbler · 30/03/2010 22:16

Yes, In Defence of Food.

A great book, I think I'll read it again.

ReshapeWhileDamp · 30/03/2010 22:18

Yogini - I was on a making-bread-by-hand kick just before I started on this thread. I'd started buying stuff to go on the bread (v buttery lemon curd, a different type of Seville marmalade, etc) because good bread needs nice things to go on top, you know.

Sticking to bought, sliced loaves - nowhere near as tempting!

MmeLindt · 30/03/2010 22:19

Yes, In Defense Of Food. Just read it. Really changed the way I thought about food and nutrition.

Original poster
cyb · 30/03/2010 22:19

Lorraine I think my approach is like yours...I am THINKING before I eat (my bad habit was mindless eating of crap food)

Have dropped the white bread, and am not craving cakes, biscuits, chocolate at all.

Also portion size greatly dimished.

its nice to enjoy a meal feeling hungry when I sit down

But I can't really do 'oh a bag of Wotsits(!) is X% of my daily intake. Because then I would eat think Oh I'll eat 10 bags and nothing else . But would then have a massive tea on top

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LorraineSattell · 30/03/2010 22:19

i was thinking of buying it, just to sort my food brain out, iykwim? btw are you humphreycushion?

fishie · 30/03/2010 22:20

so sorry how dire that sounds about waitrose and publisher friend. there should be a claxon going off somewhere.

i meant i was give a pity parcel by mate. but now i see that really good book will be hopefully given a big push and be cheap and successful. ditto the rachel heath womanhood which i am hoping to find in teh library.