Low fat but filling lunch box ideas

gunsandbanjos

As long as you pre heat your flask with boiling water for about 10 minutes and make sure your soup is piping hot it should definitely keep til lunch. I do it all the time and often it is actually too hot to drink!

daska

Fat and protein are essential to health. Try eating the cheese without the bread and see for yourself whether you actually feel hungrier or less hungry throughout the day.

VfM4meplse

Just wanted to say thanks to the OP for taking the comments in the constructive spirit in which they have been offered. Do let us know which you have found to work.

rachbc

I too would up the protein a bit - aim for a mid morning snack about 10.30 of protein and small amount of slow release carbs - oat cakes and humous, cream cheese or even pate, a handful of nuts and seeds (dried fruit has tons of sugar so may make you feel hungry again soon after), a slice of ham and some veg sticks, greek yoghurt with some seeds sprinkled on and a bit of granola. I make mini baked omlettes in muffin tins - freeze a load and take a couple out at a time. Similar again mid afternoon and you should avoid getting hungry and reaching for the 'bad' stuff!

I have breakfast at 7, mid morning snack at 10, lunch at 12.30, mid afternoon snack around 3/4 and dinner about 7. 5 meals a day and am still loosing weight!!

daska

Just watched this, and given your earlier comment about fat you might find it interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPhXp8pjCjg&list=PLA836E5B9CCCA6F7C&index=13&feature=plpp_video

Andrea Garber, UCSF Division of Adolescent Medicine, is a nutritionist and a registered dietitian. Her research focuses on obesity and eating disorders. Here she explores fad diets and if they work. Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public [9/2009] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 16715]

Don't just watch the first bit, she gives a bit of history and then at about an hour or so in she starts detailing the more recent study results.

There_Goes_Trouble

Thanks all. Great advice.

It's made me realise how little I really know about diet and nutrition - which is ridiculous at my age!!

I will spend some time at the weekend looking through all the links you've posted on here, doing some research and then I'll go shopping and try some new recipes!

Thanks for all the help.

There_Goes_Trouble

daska wrote: »

Just watched this, and given your earlier comment about fat you might find it interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPhXp8pjCjg&list=PLA836E5B9CCCA6F7C&index=13&feature=plpp_video

Just had a little look.... looks interesting!! Will watch at the weekend when I've got the time.

Thanks!

jackjones86

Who else on LCHF sort of gets a nervous twitch when dieters present "low fat" as being the aim of dieting? I just want to scream "YOU'VE BEEN SOLD A MARKETING CAMPAIGN TO SELL THEIR FOOD".

Please listen to Mojisola on this!

There_Goes_Trouble

I'm listening!

daska

If you find that interesting then take a look at the interesting study that provided some of the figures.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eREuZEdMAVo&feature=related

January 17, 2008 presentation by Christopher Gardner for the Stanford School of Medicine Medcast lecture series.