Gillian Mckeith diet woes

lynzpower

she has scoliosis from what I can see, maybe that the congenital condition that you reported Nicki? Cant see anything else on the inteweb?

comping_cat

Did think the other day, with the chap who said he missed spicy currys, why she didnt let him have one. In previous shows, she has made a point of saying you should season foods with herbs and spices, not salt, so why she was being so awkward with his currys i dont know!!!!

mikeywills

lynzpower wrote:

Everything in moderation is my advice- not that i take it myself, I think i might have a cake for lunch

:rotfl: :rotfl: I love a good rant, you go girl. Nothing like letting off a bit of steam. The tofu cheesecake sounds nice.

I had steamed salmon with ginger and lemon on leeks and spinach, which was very nice. She does do some thing that are tasty, but I draw the line at something I have to hold my nose to keep down.

thriftlady_2

I've been having a think about this, and have devised a menu which includes many foods that are considered really good for you - 'superfoods'.

I've tried to pick only fruit and veg that are homegrown ('cos I'm a bit obsessive about this:D ) and foods that are cheap and 'ordinary' ie; not from Nepalese monastery in the Himalayas :rolleyes:

I am certainly not a dietician, just someone fairly well informed about healthy eating, but who also needs to stop eating all the home baking I do for the kids:o

Breakfast - Porridge made with milk or water with dried apricots
Value orange juice

Lunch - Wholemeal bread or ryvitas
Autumn soup - beans, cabbage, pumpkin/squash, barley, tomatoes
Apples

Dinner - Herrings in oatmeal
Baked potatoes
Braised red cabbage and apples
Pears

Snacks - toasted sunflower seeds or plain popcorn (whole grain;) )

I think there's at least 6 servings of fruit and veg there, plus wholegrains, oily fish, pulses and seeds.:)

thriftlady_2

lynzpower :rotfl: are you me ?:D I agree with everything you said:T

annie-c

I don't know what all the fuss is about really. I think her recipes are like anyone else's - there to take what you like from them and leave what you don't.

Just because Gillian Mckeith isn't conventionally 'beautiful' doesn't mean her diet is necessarily rubbish. Personally I choose to eat red meats, milk and dairy, but I find her recipes give a lovely balance to my diet.

And I do think that her diets are nutritionally balanced - there are of course other ways to get a balanced diet and I prefer my own, but it's perfectly healthy to eat as she does. The protein from pulses (when completed with rice or something equivalent) are as good as, and often lower in fat than, the protein in meat and dairy.

It's a bit mean and extreme to imagine her away with anorexia just because we don't like all of her food choices!!!!

mikeywills

Thriftlady,

That porridge is yummy, also like it made with sultanas and bananas natural sweetness.

freda

<i>Just because Gillian Mckeith isn't conventionally 'beautiful' doesn't mean her diet is necessarily rubbish. </i>

It wasn't her beauty that I was referring to. It was the fact that she always appears tired, gaunt, strained and unhealthily underweight that made me doubt her diet tips. Wlthough you are quite right in the 'don't judge a book by its cover' approach, someone who sets themselves up as a diet guru is not the best advertisement for their product when they appear undernourished themselves.

culpepper

The problem for me is that some of the foods she recommends are not easily available or affordable.
We have lived on earth for thousands of years without having to eat algae and other strange foods in this country so why should that suddenly be the only healthy way to eat?
I think the program targets very over-weight low-disciplined people who really feel their own actions are not under their control and so need to be told what to buy ,when to eat and how.
They are now locked in to buying Mckeiths recommendations because all the evidence points at the ingredients being the magic elixur whilst in reality it is the fact they are now eating fruit and veg,not smoking and not eating huge mounds of chocolate and takeaways.
Thrift lady has the right idea I think.

Nix143

I understand the philosophy behind GMcK's diet

However I can't help thinking it's so tied into providing something 'new' for consumers of TV

How successful would she have been if she went into houses and said right you have to increase your veg and pulse intake so here's a lovely 5 bean chili that looks and tastes nice? No, it's far better TV to go in and say see this exotic sounding, vile looking gunk? That can make you healthy that can.

The TV consumers go ewwwwwww how can anyone eat that, we watch avidly as the pounds drop off and we marvel at how anyone can maintain that kind of diet.

There are a million dieticians out there promoting healthy, tasty diets that will have the same effect as the one she promotes, however, because most of us know what to eat, we just chose not to, those diets don't have the wow/shock factor and they don't bring viewers in, which is ultimately what her program is about. Who would want to watch a program about homemade veg soup unless it was made more 'exciting' by including ingredients most of us have never encountered?

Bless the public, we want a quick fix diet, we have a never ending appetite for voyeurism of other peoples' follies (so we can feel better about our own lives I guess) and of course, we wanna new faddy book to buy.

*shrugging* Maybe someone *pokes Martin in the ribs* should pitch a series whereby someone lives an OS lifestyle - from cooking to cleaning to bargain hunting.......I'm sure you lot could teach everyone a thing or two. Although, because most of the stuff on here is built on moderation and common sense there probably wouldn't be enough viewers to make it worthwhile - OS TV would most absolutely NOT be car crash TV and car crash TV seems to be what makes the ratings!