Anyone else on a diet and struggling?

paulineb_2

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

She's not eating half a pizza though, she's eating the whole lot and at least once a week.

She's sharing it with her bf I think.

nickyhutch

The Hairy Dieter books are good if you're calorie counting. Portion sizes are smaller than I'd like, but I guess that teaches us that what we see as a normal portion is actually too big. If I want more, though, I split it between, say, 3 instead of the 4 they recommend and adjust the calories. Or pad it out with more veg.

Tink2

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

She's not eating half a pizza though, she's eating the whole lot and at least once a week.

No. It's once a week max not at least once a week

paulineb wrote: »

She's sharing it with her bf I think.

Eating the whole things, still not a lot really

nickyhutch wrote: »

The Hairy Dieter books are good if you're calorie counting. Portion sizes are smaller than I'd like, but I guess that teaches us that what we see as a normal portion is actually too big. If I want more, though, I split it between, say, 3 instead of the 4 they recommend and adjust the calories. Or pad it out with more veg.

Yeah we have both of their diet books, they look good

nickyhutch

Tink2 wrote: »

Yeah we have both of their diet books, they look good

Which recipes have you tried? The spag bol is good. Nowhere near as good as mine, but then mine isn't anywhere near healthy ;-)

Tink2

nickyhutch wrote: »

Which recipes have you tried? The spag bol is good. Nowhere near as good as mine, but then mine isn't anywhere near healthy ;-)

None yet

My OH will have to substitute the meat for fish or quorn

Looking forward to trying them though

Quasar

Just a general observation now. I was in Sainsbury early today and decided to check the ingredient on some common foods. I found that SUGAR is added to the following:

Bread
Mayonnaise
Savoury ready meals
Pizza base
Pizza toppings of various kinds.

All the above do NOT need sugar added and I can only assume this is done just to satisfy (and perpetuate) an acquired sweet tooth. Even those who do not eat cake and/or sweet as such, are ingesting considerable amounts of sugar if they buy conventional supermarket food.

No wonder there is a problem of obesity and, more worryingly, of increased diabetes incidence.

paulineb_2

Theres even sugar in weetabix. Couple of people I know was doing a no sugar detox and was most upset because they had bought weetabix and not realised there was sugar in it.

I dont eat a lot of ready meals, I would assume I dont actually eat that much sugar apart from in fruit and the very odd ready meal I do buy, but stuff like tomato sauce, tomato soup is really bad for sugar I believe.

System

paulineb wrote: »

Theres even sugar in weetabix. Couple of people I know was doing a no sugar detox and was most upset because they had bought weetabix and not realised there was sugar in it.

I dont eat a lot of ready meals, I would assume I dont actually eat that much sugar apart from in fruit and the very odd ready meal I do buy, but stuff like tomato sauce, tomato soup is really bad for sugar I believe.

On the subject of ready meals, my bf showed me one where it contained 95% of your rda of saturated fats :eek: in one meal

pink_princess

Quasar wrote: »

Just a general observation now. I was in Sainsbury early today and decided to check the ingredient on some common foods. I found that SUGAR is added to the following:

Bread
Mayonnaise
Savoury ready meals
Pizza base
Pizza toppings of various kinds.

All the above do NOT need sugar added and I can only assume this is done just to satisfy (and perpetuate) an acquired sweet tooth. Even those who do not eat cake and/or sweet as such, are ingesting considerable amounts of sugar if they buy conventional supermarket food.

No wonder there is a problem of obesity and, more worryingly, of increased diabetes incidence.

Most people don't even realise that either.
Even people with diabetes seem to know very little about which foods contain added sugars.

I think that outdated NHS advice is partly to blame for it.

Tink2

Sugar is not the problem, it's calories!

Has anyone watched the supersize v super skinny show? 99% of the time the skinny person will be eating sugar and the fat person eating fat, the skinny person isn't eating enough calories and the fat person eats too many

The one that sticks in my mind was a skinny kick boxer who drank 8-9 full size full sugar energy drinks and had one small meal a day, the fat person on the show had fatty greasy food

If someone is eating more calories than they need they will gain weight, doesn't matter what they are eating, look at Michael phelps diet, it's full of sugar AND fat, he eats massive amounts of calories yet he works off the excess calories in his training

My OH eats low sugar nothing, he used to literally pore sugar in his tea, he could go through a bag a week! but his fat is low, he always chooses the tomatoey based sauces rather than the creamy ones and he hates mayo yet he's never been fat, in fact he's lost weight (going from 14 stone to 12 stone 1 despite not having low sugar anything) I've always been a fan of higher fat, always preferring a greasy burger over a cake, i always pick the higher fat sauces and i love mayo, I always drink the no sugar versions of drinks and I don't take sugar in tea, my dad was the same, loved high fat things and he was fat, he cut down on the fatty things and lost 5 stone!

Some find cutting fat easier, some find cutting carbs easier, whatever works for the individual, personally I find cutting fat easier as I get more food for the calories I've set myself

We watched a program the other day, it was a program about low fat foods, there was a "expert" who said you shouldn't be able to call a food low fat if its high in sugar, my OH disagree with this because a low fat food means it's low in fat nothing to do with the sugar, they were also claiming low fat foods have extra sugar added, this is inaccurate, they don't add extra sugar per se, it's a by product of having less fat, when you have less fat in a product it automatically has more protien and carbs (if it had protien and carbs in the original product) for example milk, they don't add extra sugar to skimmed milk, when you take the fat out you have more of the carbs and protien left, they failed to understand this simple fact