Gillian Mckeith diet woes

beachbeth

Thanks, Thriftlady! Ive just bought a book at the weekend which is probably similar to what you recommend. Its called The Diet Doctors (apparently its been on channel 5 but I haven't seen it) It covers all sorts of ailments and weaknesses that we all suffer from, including PMT and looks really helpful. It tells you to look at the colour of your tongue, work out your BMI and gives ideas about what might cause your constipation/diarrhoea/headaches etc!

My DD2 was quite interested in reading it too and laughed and said "basically if you eat more fruit and veg it should just about sort all your ailments out!" which is what we all know!!! Of course, there is more to it than that and it tells you what supplements will help different conditions. I havent read it all yet but its very helpful and sensible. It is also written by a doctor and nutritionist.

mikeywills

I don't agree with supplements, if there is not enough of something that we need in or diet find a food that will give it.
My OH takes Evening primrose buy the bucket I'm sure she must rattle, but there must be other ways of getting the benefit without taking supplements?
I grew up in a farming community, and still live a relatively rural life, but I do miss the necessity to carry out some chores, like looking after animals, and the tiredness you felt after baleing hay or dipping sheep all day long. Tales from a green valley defo made me home sick.

lynzpower

i only suggested that she may well have anorexia as I used to have it too years ago and she looks about as good as I did then. The other angle is the over-control, I agree with catowen, why not have a curry? We all know that a curry can be made with tomatoes, veg lentils and spices what I dont get is whats wrong with that? I think she likes the deprivation to be honest, I recognise that- again I used to do it myself, before turning into a grade A scoffer :beer:

I agree with freda this isnt about "beauty" in the cover girl stakes, but what its about is you are what you eat What she eats is extreme, and/ or what she tells the contestants to eat is extreme, and she is extreme herself.

You can imagine what her moods are like, she berates contestants for having mood swings associated with her diet, but shes hardly a picturee of calm and inner peace herself is she

beachbeth

I do agree, Mikeywills. But I do think if you are badly affected by something then taking the right supplements can be a relief. The book I mentioned is more about eating healthily and taking more natural supplements such as Omega 3 fish oils and milk thistle. It lists different foods and tells you what vitamins and minerals they contain and also what these do to you, as well as listing some 'E' numbers that are safe additives.

Debt_Free_Chick

mikeywills wrote:

I have to be very careful what I bring home though as the other day I got some organic broccoli, and the missus was appalled when she saw how many caterpillars came out.

Excellent :T It's a sign that no pesticides were used Which would your wife prefer,a fresh, tasty cauli with no pesticides and baby butterflies or one that's a week old, has little, if any taste, has travelled the country (and possibly originated outside the UK), with no free wildlife?

The big head was reduced considerably before it got cooked.

Just soak the whole thing in cold water - add a little salt if you want to - and they'll all float off to the surface

Thriftylady

lynzpower wrote:

I agree with freda this isnt about "beauty" in the cover girl stakes, but what its about is you are what you eat What she eats is extreme, and/ or what she tells the contestants to eat is extreme, and she is extreme herself.

You can imagine what her moods are like, she berates contestants for having mood swings associated with her diet, but shes hardly a picturee of calm and inner peace herself is she

my OH always says that if she marched into our kitchen and told him he wasn't allowed cheese or whatever that he would just snap her in two. No violence involved - he reckons he would only have to flick her with his fingertip and she would just collapse in a heap....

lynzpower

Nix143 wrote:

No, but I think Lynzpower might have!

I use tinned beans

kidney beans
Haricot
Aduki I think
Flageolet
and something else ( Honestly, when Im gonna make it I go to the beans aisle and pick up 5 tins of assorted beans!)
Chilli powder
Tin of chopped tomoatoes ( but ofg course you can use fresh tomatoes, particularly if you can get a box - it dfoes happen of cherry toms from a market, where they are lovely instead)
large Bottle of passata
2 onions ( i use large as im such a fan!)
Mushrooms sliced
Peppers if you have in chopped

Slice mushrooms
Chop onions finely
saute onions in drop of olive oil - (med heat on hob)
Add mushrooms & peppers & cover
Wait till they soften down, you vcan add drop of water at this stage to help things go along)
Add toms & passata & pinch dried herbs
Add chilli powder to taste. Personally Id go for 2 heaped teaspoons ( VERY HOT! but then i have sour cream with, which im sure isnt allowed with Auntie Gillian!) but one rounded should do nicely
Simmer for about 25mins

Serve with rice and if you allow yourself it soured cream, or even plain yoghurt. Its really nice as well in jacket potatoes, and also in tortilla wraps.

Voila

mikeywills

Unfortunately debt free chick my OH would rather have little taste, and no hassle cleaning, than organic covered in insects.

My father a few years ago brought us some purple sprouting which I adore, but it stayed on the kitchen shelf for a couple of days and when it was picked up by OH she screamed because there where loads of little flies coming off it. She has not eaten it since.

culpepper

Its interesting that the link earlier in the thread is drgillianmckeith ...etc
I noticed after the first series that the narrators no longer referred to her as 'doctor' .My DD told me that G.M. was actually not a doctor but had just dome some sort of course in America.
I bought one of her paperbacks and read it through. It is the only book I have ever thrown in the dustbin. I usually would give them to charity if I dont like them .
If you really want to lose weight using books, there are plenty of weight watcher recipe books in charity shops. I must see one every time I am in one.
They have excellent recipes for ordinary food using low fat alternatives.

Beachbeth ,I discovered my PMT was down to too much caffeine. I cut down from about 9 cups of tea a day to 4 and rarely get the nasty bad tempers and depression that used to be a regular occurance.

ftbworried

...'there were allegations' (i'm trying to avoid slander here) made iirc by a BBC journalist that Gillian McKeith is not a real Dr and has 'bought' her PhD on the net. Indeed her CV blurb said that she has done research into child nutrition but I'll be damned if I can find any of her research published in any of the medical journals....

Nothing more than hocus pocus if you ask me. Nothing she does is really that novel anyway.