you are what you eat

lizzyb1812

Yes you can

Juicers extract the juice from fruit - smoothies are blended fruit. I have a 13 year old nephew who "hates" fruit but loves my smoothies - they are a very good way of increasing your fruit intake

Liquidisers do the same job as blenders, which do the same job as the smoothie makers now being advertised but without the fiddly little pouring tap at the bottom.

You can use fresh fruit, frozen fruit, tinned fruit. And you will need juice to thin the blended fruit down to a drinkable consistency

If you like melon try a smoothie of just melon. You'll have to stop and start it a bit to get the melon pushed down onto the blades but it's worth it - the drink you get has a lovely creamy taste/texture and you'd swear there was cream in there!

lizzyb

guineapig

Only a saint ( or a person being filmed for said program) can sustain the huge change that GM advises.

First of all don't stop eating the chocs but cut down.

Ration yourself, & introduce your tastebuds to real food s-l-ow-l-y.

You didn't get overweight overnight, so you won't become thin overnight, these are the facts that no one likes to be told.

I would suggest that you brain-storm all your favourite meals, & then see where you can cut the calories ( ie.leave out the butter/pastry etc.)

Loosing weight successfully is like creating a budget, you need to see where you can cutback the "spending" ( only this way we are "spending calories")

When you do have chocolate and or crisps decide which would satisfy your sweet/savoury "urge" the most, then when you eat it, do not do anything else, concentrate on savouring the chocolate & trust me you will be satisfied with much less.
When you feel the urge to overeat, imagine tipping the contents of the dustbin all over your living room floor!
You wouldn't do that would you? but we all fill our bodies with junk!!

So, do you want anymore "body junk"? or do you want to clear out the clutter( excess weight?)

I strongly believe that in order to be successful and sustain a long term achievable weight loss, we must first adjust our attitude and perception of food.

We use to eat crisps every night just out of habit and by cutting back to just eating them on 2 nights ( at weekends) I lost about 3 or 4 lbs in a couple of months & I didn't make any other changes to my diet!
So you can see what little changes in "calorie budgeting" can add up to in the long term.

I wouldn't go to the expense of buying a juicer just yet, maybe use that as a reward for your first weight loss milestone?

Wishing you good luck!

strawbsuk76

Can I just say please make any changes with caution and slowly add different things as other people have suggested. I was the same as you eating all the "wrong" things. I went from your diet to veg soupevery lunch and leafy salads every night for my dinner. 2 months down the line and i was in severe pain. June 2006 diagnosed with a kidney stone its the most excruciating pain i have ever had. Here we are in Jan 2007 and still no closer to having it sorted. Doctor told me he believed it was caused by my sudden change in diet. My advice to anyone would be do it with caution and always seek doctors advice please.

But good luck with the weight loss

Strawbs x

victory

I have seen the GM shows on the tele and she seems to be very determined and strong willed on what she believes in to be life long changes to the dieters, the loss of weight at the end of each show is prove it works but there is also a lot of emphasize on extras not just the food.
GM will work for some and not others like all diets, all healthy eating plans have to include less food, less junk, more activity, more good and less bad things really!!
Like the OP says consult your doc first xxx

Ivana_B_Rich

I tried the plan, took some but not all of the supplements and I really did feel amazing. I consistently lost 1 to 2lbs a week, which for me is very good.

Unfortunately I fell off the wagon and haven't been able to get back on. I would certainly do it again just to feel that good again. However, when you look at it in it's most simple form it is little more than cutting out processed foods and eating as much freshly prepared, addative free food as possible. Obviouse really :-)

p1an0player

TKP wrote:

Just adding 5 portions of different fruit and veg a day should give you plenty of vitmens and minerals.

sadiedoll wrote:

Just jack in the choc and crisps and eat some fresh stuff and homecooking

If only it were that simple to change one's habits!

Red_Fraggle_3

I have the are what you eats books - and I do some of the receipes and enjoy them lentil stew and the aduki bean stew - if you can chnage to eating more fruit and veg its a start the boots - change one thing works well - looking forward to my morning text to motivate me lol

start walking if you can just 10 mins is a good start - good luck and enjiy its amazing how you can feel better quickly

thriftlady_2

Don't forget there are plenty of cheap fruit and veg around. Gillian McKeith emphasises expensive, imported, out of season produce.

Think carrots, apples, beetroot, cabbage, oranges, bananas, squash
Think oats, wholemeal bread, sunflower seeds
Think mackerel, herrings, turkey, rabbit

oldMcDonald

Mrs_A. wrote:

as the title of this thread suggests yesterday i bought this book as asda its an eating plan to change the way you live your life etc (you might have seen it on tv).
i read the book and was utterly fascinated i suffer from digestive problems, depression, seroiusly overweight etc.
the book makes sense to me
So what i want to know is
should i rush out and buy a juicer
should i rush out and buy fruit and veg to juice in said juicer
anyone tried it and do they feel any better
and finally do i really need all these supplements she goes on about, i only eat chocolate and crisps and chips (VERY BAD I KNOW) my gp is always nagging me about my diet.
regards
mrs a

On buying a juicer - I would think very carefully before you do!! Otherwise you may end up like me - spending day 1 playing with juicer, day 2 not finding the dismanteling / cleaning / putting it back together each time not as much fun as it was on day 1, day 3 putting it up on Freecycle along with the other 10 people who obviously felt the same way!!

Whilst I know some people who love their juicer, I know many more who see it as a bad buy and worktop clutter.

TKP_3

oldMcDonald wrote:

On buying a juicer - I would think very carefully before you do!! Otherwise you may end up like me - spending day 1 playing with juicer, day 2 not finding the dismanteling / cleaning / putting it back together each time not as much fun as it was on day 1, day 3 putting it up on Freecycle along with the other 10 people who obviously felt the same way!!

Whilst I know some people who love their juicer, I know many more who see it as a bad buy and worktop clutter.

Yes, it was the same for me. Great fun the first time, not too bad the second time, a PAIN by the third time. Why can't they design an easy clean juicer? :rolleyes: