Club of Diet' s addicts

[Anthea]

Breakfast:

1 slice of toast - I was in a hurry
No tea only time to grab bottle of water

Dinner:

Chicken stew 2 rolls
My 2 cups of tea

Not going to leave it so long between meals in future

[Piling]

This morning, I don't know why I was terribly hungry.

So 2 cafés crème & 2 slices of bread, butter and Brie.

Dinner : saucisson, gratin d'endives au saumon fumé, Bourbon. Probably ate too much, not even because I was still hungry but the meal was very tasty.

That is my problem : I am a so good cooker that I can not resist to my own plate

But I have to be serious or I will gain 8 kilos before Lent.

So tomorrow… fish and brocolis. Austere.

[Anthea]

Breakfast:

1 slice of buttered toast
! cup of sweet black tea - I was in a hurry to get to my art class

Lunch:

Small portion of fish and chips
Bottle of water

Dinner:

Chicken curry and rice
2 cups of sweet black tea

Unlike Piling I cannot cook so I either eat out - have a male friend who cooks for me sometimes - or get a ready meal out of my freezer - I do prepare my own lettuce leaves

[Piling]

Changed my mind :

Breakfast, 2 slices of bread and butter, a portion of Brie cheese.

Dinner, vegetable soup and veal paupiette, Bourbon.

(less than 1500 calories for the moment).

[Piling]

Breakfast :

Sweet black coffee, 2 slices of bread and butter.

Dinner :

Salad of Petits Plombs pasta, brocolis and cauliflowers, vin rosé.

[Anthea]

Trying to lose weight? Try the HAND DIET: Measure food portions using just your fingers, thumbs and palm

A portion of meat should be no bigger than the palm of your hand
Carbs such as pasta should be no bigger than a clenched fist
A serving of butter is the size of a fingertip, cheese less than two fingers
Recent research found portion sizes have doubled in 20 years
Many people eat FIVE times the recommended serving of pasta, for example

If you like to pile your plate high, then this revealing graphic is likely to depress you. But it could also help you lose weight on the so-called 'hand diet'.

It shows exactly how much of certain foods we should be eating - and it's probably a lot less than you think.

Experts say that a lack of portion control is one of the main reasons so many of us are overweight - with many of us eating way more than we should be.



For instance, a portion of meat should be no bigger than the palm of your hand - and carbs no bigger than a clenched fist.

When it comes to butter, the maximum amount you should be spreading on a slice of bread is the size of a finger tip.

The information comes from the website Guard Your Health.

The American Cancer Society says that many of us regularly eat way bigger portions than we should - for example, up to five times the recommended portion size of pasta.

Research has continually shown that when bigger portions are served, we eat them, because of the 'must clear plate' mentality.

Even a decade ago, researchers at New York University's Department of Nutrition and Food Studies found that food portions were consistently larger than in previous years.

They found that cookies were as much as seven times standard portion sizes, while muffins weighed in at over three times standard portion sizes.

In their book, The Gastric Mind Band, Martin and Marion Shirran provide eye-opening examples of how portion control can make a huge difference to the waistline.

They say: 'Spread butter on your toast, but be aware that a teaspoon of ­butter (enough for a thin layer) is 37 ­calories, but a ­tablespoon (a ­generous covering) is three times as much (111 calories).

'Put dressing on your salad, but learn to weight the vinegar in favour of the oil. A teaspoon of oil may be 45 ­calories, but a tablespoon is 135. That one extra tablespoon of oil every day amounts to a stone weight gain over a year.

'Switch to sweetener in your tea or ­coffee. Cutting out two spoons of sugar in your tea three times a day creates an annual calorie deficit of 37,000 calories, which could be enough to shed more than 11lb.





'Have ice cream occasionally, but just one scoop (about 150 calories) and never eat it straight from the tub. Enjoy a few nuts with a drink, but stop at one or two (a small 4oz bag will set you back 600 calories).'

Kathleen Zelman, Director of Nutrition for the health website WebMD, has drawn up another way to manage portion sizes.

For example, she says that a pancake should be no bigger than a CD, a bagel should be the size of a can of tuna and a serving of mayonnaise the size of a poker chip.

A serving of chocolate should be the size of a dental floss package, a portion of hummus the size of a golf ball and a three-cup serving of popcorn the size of three baseballs.

Late last year the British Heart Foundation (BHF) warned that Britain’s supermarkets are ‘out of control’ when it comes to portion sizes.

Despite the deepening obesity crisis portion sizes continue to rise, and are now double the size they were in 1993.

An average chicken curry and rice ready meal is now 53 per cent larger than in 1993, and a shepherd’s pie meal is about double the size.

Crumpets and garlic bread are from 20 to 30 per cent bigger now, while an average bagel has increased in size by 24 per cent.

To gain a pound in weight, a person need only consume an additional 3,500 calories and the massive increase in portion sizes explains why so many people are unwittingly putting on excess pounds.

As well as fuelling the growing obesity problem, the BHF said that oversized food portions were also contributing to heart disease, currently the UK's single biggest killer.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... sizes.html

[Piling]

My own method is to calculate all the calories of what I eat per day and to not eat and drink more than 2000. (in fact the more often is around 1500).

I can eat a huge plate of pasta (100g) if this is the only meal of my day.

[Anthea]

As I am a useless cook I tend not to cook pasta - but I love rice

Brunch:

Beans on 2 slices of heavily buttered toast
2 cups of sweet black tea

I had thought that I was allergic to bread - my doctor thought that I was allergic to the wheat in bread - or the gluten - he even made me eat gluten free bread and other food

I have found a proper baker who actually bakes his own bread - it does NOT have any of the preservatives or anti-mould chemicals that shop bought bread normally contains - I am able to eat bread again

Dinner:

Chicken curry and rice
2 more cups of sweet black tea (not the time of year to drink cold can of Diet Pepsi)

Snacks:
Still NO chocolate
Cheese biscuits - I love cheesy biscuits

[Piling]

Sunday lunch… BIG HUGE POTÉE AUVERGNATE.



Feel as if I swallowed cement bags…

[Anthea]

Sunday lunch… BIG HUGE POTÉE AUVERGNATE.



Feel as if I swallowed cement bags…

Looks beautiful - all those fantastic colours and textures - I would not know whether to eat it or paint it

Did you eat the entire plateful?

[Piling]

Did you eat the entire plateful?

Not far from it.

[Anthea]

The real fast diet! Mother-of-two signed by modelling agency after losing two stone in less than three months

Most of us struggle to lose more than a couple of pounds over a month but a Welsh mother-of-two claims to have discovered the secret of speedy - and sustained - weight loss.

Rosie Grech, 23, from Treharris near Merthyr Tydfil, lost an impressive two stone in 90 days and says she hopes to inspire other women struggling with their weight.

Ms Grech, who is mother to Zaria, two, and Zak, eight months, says that she was spurred into dieting after finding it hard to lose her baby weight following the birth of her youngest child.



But she said her fortunes changed when her fiance, Wayne Ewer, came back from shopping one day with a flyer for the Body by Vi 90 Day Challenge and a sample shake.

'Finding time for a quick bath was hard enough, let alone visiting the gym,' she explained. 'I needed something that could fit in with my busy family life.'

Three months after giving birth to Zak, Rosie began her diet, aiming to lose the extra two stone as quickly as possible.

By day 45 of her challenge, she was thrilled to have lost a stone. The final pounds were shifted by adding exercise to the routine, allowing her to reach her goal within 90 days.



Full article & Video:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... onths.html

[Anthea]

This will encourage us - if Sharon Farrell could manage loss so much I am certain we lose weight

sharon farrell : Rosemary conley's 40 Slimmer of the Year 2013

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[Anthea]

Brunch:

Beans on toast
2 cups of not so sweet black tea
(I am am cutting down on sugar)

Dinner:

Chicken curry and rice
1 can of Diet Pepsi

Snacks:

Mini cheese biscuits

I have completely cut out Cadbury chocolate and crisps

[Anthea]

I still have not eaten any bars of chocolate since the start of this year

How many Kurdish men have given up cigarettes since the start of the year

If I lose a lot of weight - grow my hair longer - and become considerably younger - I would look just the same as the model below



I have the ginger hair and the freckles