you are what you eat

karmacookie

Hi folks
I've had a juicer and a smoothy maker and gave them both away due to the hassle of cleaning them!
My favourite kitchen gadget is my stick blender. Great for blending soups (hides the veg from my son) and it makes great smoothies. It is really easy to clean and takes up hardly any room in the cupboard.
Search the internet for healthy soup and smoothie recipies.
I think GM diet is too strict for anyone to realisticly follow although for some strange reason I do like watching the programme!

Addiscomber

Addiscomber wrote:

OK. For the less savvy amongst us (that is me :rotfl: ) how does a juicer differ from a food processor or liquidiser? Apart, apparently, from being a pain the the backside to clean.

(That will teach me to post when I am stressed from trying to get a BTHomeHub to play nicely, and dealing with moody teenagers suffering Internet withdrawal/cold turkey. However did I get lumbered with being network Technician? :mad: )

Anyway, I knew perfectly well what a juicer was , I really wanted to know how a smoothie maker differed from a blender. Thankfully lizzyb1812 has explained perfectly.

beachbeth

I was determined to follow GM's regime to feel healthier and perhaps lose weight, even if I only tried it for a few weeks. However, I bought both her books and found it either impossible to get some of the ingredients or too expensive to buy. I stuck to the recipes that I could get the ingredients for and some of them just tasted awful! I found I could only eat her way some of the time because it would have cost too much to follow her diet completely, especially having a family to feed too.

I also suffer badly from PMS and that particular month I had the worst pms that I have ever had because I need the starch from carbohydrates. So my advice is that GM's way doesn't suit everybody. Perhaps try some of her recipes but I think her complete diet is just impossible to follow. I sold both my books and bought the Diet Doctors instead, which shows you how to look at your own body and advises you to eat the things that are lacking in your diet as well as explaining what different foods and supplements are good for.

This is a much more general approach which definitely suits me. I try to eat as much fruit and veg as I can and to cut down on the junk. I think if you tell yourself you can't have particular foods you just want them even more. Better to allow yourself the occasional treats.

Sarahsaver

Cutting calories alone does NOT promote weight loss as stated in a previous post. If you 'starve' yourself at breakfast and lunch then have a normal dinner your body has been in starvation mode and will hold onto what it can whilst theres food around. Body fat percentage is more important than overall weight, as is your waist measurement.
IMHO, my opinion should not be taken as medical advice etc
But, sitting next to a size 16 woman at the gym who said 'i don't eat much'!!! I wanted to tell her to eat!
I eat every 3 hours or so otherwise I get cranky. Following Mc K's regime is a bit extreme but it gives the jolt needed to those who have gone WAY OTT on the junk.

MATH

GM is no advert for helathy and vitality IMO. At Chez MATH we shout 'eat a jaffa cake - you look scrawny, wrinkly and misserable!!' LOL I think she is far too militant and judgemental about food to get much credence in the MATH kitchen.

Maybe I'm a bit simple but I stick to the plenty of water, fruit and carbs, and a little bit of everything else approach. Nothing is banned just the quantities adjusted depending on how tight my jeans feel LOL

FannyHill

I'd like to go back after a year and see how many of Gillian McKeith's guineapigs on the show are still following her rules,and how many have put back all the weight and more. If it's a diet change that lasts a lifetime I dont think her regime fits the bill inspite of having many good ideas. You really need incredible discipline to eat that stuff year after year after year.

You need to enjoy food as well, you don't know how long you will be on this earth.

victory

I agree, looked at her books today in the shop (did not buy them!) and it looks very regimented which is good in one way but a sure way to make you want to have the food you cannot have is by saying you can't have them!!
I do wonder if the lady last night used to have 4 ice cream cones and lost 2 stone in 8 weeks which is fab is she actually allowed ever to have another ice cream again?
I have been on a healthy eating plan for three weeks now and have tried the bulgar wheat and brown rice, the haricot beans and all that stuff, some of it I can eat and tolerate in my weight loss plight but others I can't not even for the good of me!!
It has to be at least edible and sustainable to have any effect xxx

weegie_2

Ohhh I couldn't follow's GM's diet if you paid me.

My rules are simple.

Exercise every day while I am at work (go at lunchtimes)
Eat fruit and veg every day (and if I don't eat 5 a day who cares as long as I eat at least 3)
Plenty of water
Watch my portion sizes.
Stay away from processed frozen meals

Understand and educate yourself about food and whats in it...you want to know what you are putting in your body. for example MSG (Mono Sodium Glutamate [did I spell that right?] found in my local chinese takeaway food makes my belly swell up so I look pregnant. Doesn't mean I don't have them now and then - I just make sure I'm not going ou for the rest of the evening in my slink dress looking 5 months pregnant.

Nothing is forbidden. If you fancy a bit of chocolate have it - just obviously don't go for the whopping big great bar :-)

I love my food too much to go dieting.....

Queenie

OK, call me a cynic (Queenie! You're a cynic ) but, seeing the end of last night's show and being told those two women are now a size 14 begs the question .... which shop is sizing their clothing as a 14????
I don't wish to appear rude, but are we seriously meant to believe they are a standard size 14? They both looked like a snug 18 to me; either that, or all those women who genuinely *are* a size 14 must have watched and cried themselves to sleep!!!

Per-leeeease!!! Yes, they lost weight; yes, they looked better for it ... but do not try to convince me that they are a standard size 14, or if they are ... tell me where they are buying their clothes, because I know a 22yo girl who is breaking her heart to know she weighs less, looks slimmer/trimmer, yet still has to buy a size 18/20!!!!

Mermaid

I watch this while I plan my meals for the next week - makes it very easy to avoid buying loads of fatty sugary foods! (Although I avoid watching the poo bits :silenced:).

So the programme does have its use after all...