Ready Meal Diet Jan 2017

Octobergirl

For the past 35 years I have half heartedly attempted to follow a few healthy eating plans. Half heartedly as I've not been that bothered about my weight, I'm from short cart-horse stock and have watched my mother yo-yo for 40 years whilst paying various clubs £5 a week for the pleasure. I decided from an early age I wasn't going there.

However, I'm getting some creaks and pains and have developed a dodgy immune system. I weigh exactly the same as this time a year ago, despite all my fancy weight loss forecasts.

So, whilst watching some pappy diet filler TV last week, I have decided to go on a ready meal 'diet'. Its wrong in so many ways. T
he expense. Our normal family shop is £70. This will cost £50 just for me. I'm paying for it out of my own monthly allowance. I figure I would happily pay £200 for someone to get rid of a stone for me.

Health wise, I'm going for S@insbods healthy meals. Too much salt but green lights for the rest. I'm supplementing with steam veg from family meals.

So, 3 'healthy' ready meals a day to teach me portion control and break my snacking habit. I know what I'm supposed to be doing, just have no will power.

I started on Friday 6th and aim to do it for a month to kickatart some weightloss. I usually break every plan by week 3......

Octobergirl

Week 1 -£48.50
Friday: chicken jalfeizi, kung poa chicken salad, fish pie & steamed veg.
Saturday: chicken & mushroom pie, steamed veg.
Sunday: Jamaican chicken, spicy mango salad, Texan chilli
Monday: chicken biryani, spicy mango salad, fish pie and salad
Tuesday: Thai red veggie curry, hunters turkey, Malaysian salad
Wednesday:sausage in root mash, chicken salad, jacket pot pulled pork
Thursfay: jambalaya, soup, fish and chip takeaway....loops

Weight: -4lbs

sammyjammy

I think as long as you are doing it short term and for the reasons you say it sounds like a good idea, they tend to be small portions in these ready meals.

I'm doing the blood sugar diet, that has only 800 calories for up to 8 weeks, the good thing is once you have finished on the 8 weeks you continue to eat the same healthy, lowish carb food as a way of eating forever, its surprisingly easy to do, I am on Day 6 and have lsot 5lb, I'm hoping for 2 stone overall but will not necessarily need to do the 800 cals for the whole 8 weeks.

sammyjammy

Its the ready meal for breakfast that I couldn't do!

cashewnut

Wonder if there are any reduced salt ready meals out there to supplement the diet? I suppose as long as all the meals don't go over your daily recommended salt allowance you're okay...

Good luck OP!

Octobergirl

Thats great result!ts and good motivation. How are you with the 800 calories? What sort of things are you eating?

I seem to be opting for curry choices for breakfast, remids me of being a student again!

I've got a fair bit more to lose than you at 4 stone:eek:

PasturesNew

Good on you. Don't let anybody knock your "ready meal diet". If it works for you that's all that matters, not their bleating about carbs, organic, healthy, five a day, paleo, clean, proteins etc... bleurgh....

As you say, portion control is important... which comes down to calories.

If you enjoy what you eat, then you're half way there because, once the weight's off, you've got to eat your food for the rest of your life, so you need to find something that works for you and not see it as "on a diet" then "finished and I can go back to what I used to eat".

Not all ready meals are bad. For cost - compare the cost of the 80p ready meals for calories/etc. They can often be lower in calories, salt and sugar than the "posher" ranges. Spag bol's usually a good one - you can top it up with a tin of cheapo carrots for a bit of colour too.

I eat "all manner of junk" I weigh about 8 stone 7 - and I don't exercise. A lot of my stuff's processed/ready meals... and most's cooked in the microwave. I'd call myself a bit of an expert in "not really eating properly at all"

Today I've had oven chips and beans ... then half a swiss roll ... but this wasn't "usual" as such... the swiss roll was bought intended for a quick Xmas trifle that never happened...

teddysmum

Octobergirl wrote: »

So, 3 'healthy' ready meals a day to teach me portion control and break my snacking habit. I know what I'm supposed to be doing, just have no will power.

You could use smaller plates for portion control. That's what dieticians suggest.

teddysmum

Octobergirl wrote: »

Week 1 -£48.50
Friday: chicken jalfeizi, kung poa chicken salad, fish pie & steamed veg.
Saturday: chicken & mushroom pie, steamed veg.
Sunday: Jamaican chicken, spicy mango salad, Texan chilli
Monday: chicken biryani, spicy mango salad, fish pie and salad
Tuesday:
Wednesday:
Thursfay

All that spicy food would kill me off, with indigestion.

teddysmum

PasturesNew wrote: »

I eat "all manner of junk" I weigh about 8 stone 7 - and I don't exercise. A lot of my stuff's processed/ready meals... and most's cooked in the microwave. I'd call myself a bit of an expert in "not really eating properly at all"

I'll bet you're quite young.


In my 20s I was 7st12lb and never seemed to put on weight, whatever I ate.


In my late 60s I'm around 10st and my once skinny husband has midriff bulge. I lost weight, to 9st, when I found I had diabetes (7 years ago), but it creeps back when naughty treats sneak in and a particular drug ( known to cause weight gain and no longer used for another condition) added a difficult to move chunk (no help when you have limited exercise capacity).

teddysmum

sammyjammy wrote: »

they tend to be small portions in these ready meals.

Weighwatchers cakes are minute and I'll bet many a dieter eats the whole pack as a finger of cake makes you crave more, so it's better to go without.