Club of Diet' s addicts

[Piling]

Morning : Sweet Black coffee

Dinner : 4 Chinese shrimp ravioli, Thai noodles with shrimps & coconut, bread and Brie, Touraine Gamay blanc, Pastis.

[Piling]

Morning :

Sweet Black coffee, Galette des Rois à la frangipane

Dinner :

Chinese shrimp raviolis, fried flounder with onions, celery, soja sauce, ginger, coriander and rice, pastis.

[Anthea]

Breakfast:

Pitta with cheese salad and humus
Sweet black tea

Lunch:

Cheese salad with cheese biscuits
(no more toast with butter - just a handful of biscuits )
Sweet black tea

Dinner:

Fish salad with rice
Can of Diet Pepsi

Snacks:

Cheese biscuits

Trying to eat smaller meals with lots of salad

[Piling]

There is a good way for eating less : with Chinese sticks. As you would eat in a slower way than usual, and with smaller morsels, you will be sooner satiated.

[Anthea]

There is a good way for eating less : with Chinese sticks. As you would eat in a slower way than usual, and with smaller morsels, you will be sooner satiated.

Strange you should write that because a few days ago I went out and bought myself a couple of sets of Chinese sticks (in UK we call them chopsticks)

My set is similar to that below - the bowls are very small



I have not tried them yet - think I will have to find a video on how to use them before I try

[Anthea]

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Eating rice with knitting pins is a stupid idea - my rice does not stick together in lumps so it will take me forever to pick up one grain at a time

However - I do rather like the idea od having my rice in a small separate bowl - especially as I eat salad with almost everything nowadays - i used to have side salads but now salads take over most of my plate - I am getting good

[Piling]

Chinese rice is sticky because it is put in a bowl and steaming cooked. They eat it as we eat bread with our meal.

[Piling]

Yesterday :

Morning : Sweet black coffee

Dinner : salmon, pasta with avocado, mâche, tomme and roquefort, bread, pastis.

Surely ate too much cheese, cheese is for me what is chocolate for you

[Anthea]

Lunch:

Fish and Chips

Dinner:

Chicken and Rice
Can of Diet Pepsi

Snacks:
Cheese biscuits
Toffees

My chocolate has remained UNOPENED for one month

[Piling]

Breakfast :

Sweet black coffee, galette des Rois à la frangipane.

Dinner :

2 sausages of Francfort, a bowl of vegetable soup with cream, a portion of Quiche Lorraine, mâche, pastis.

[Anthea]

Morbidly obese woman is separated from her husband and mother as it emerges they are feeding her a 7,000 CALORIE-A-DAY diet in My 600-lb Life

A morbidly obese woman gets separated from her mother and husband in tonight's episode of TLC's My 600-lb Life after it emerges they are feeding her a 7,000 calorie-a-day diet.

Christina, 23, from Mississippi moved to Houston in a bid to get bypass surgery, but instead of losing weight from her 640lb frame over a four-week period she gained 17lbs.

'This is very, very disturbing behavior. This is a sign of a very dysfunctional family dynamic,' Dr. Nowzaradan tells viewers in a preview clip.



Christina tries to protect her family by suggesting her weight gain is the result of water retention.

However, Dr. Nowzaradan swiftly puts her straight.

'It's not water, for that you've got to drink at least 300 gallons. You gained weight because you feel comfortable with your eating.'

It then emerges that Christina has been gorging on a take-out diet consisting of pizza, hamburgers and fries, despite being told to cut-back on fatty foods.

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Full Article:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... -Life.html

[Anthea]

What lengths do beauty contestants go to in Venezuela?

Venezuelan teenager Meyer takes desperate measures in a bid to win the country's most vaunted beauty pageant.

As she sits down to dinner she reveals a plastic mesh which has been sewn onto her tongue. It makes it painful to eat solids, forcing her to stick to soup and keeping her weight down.

Meyer's family runs a convenience store in the Santa Cruz barrio in Caracas and raised £7,000 to pay for cosmetic surgery to improve her chances of winning.

Link to Meyer's Video:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-25962930

[Anthea]

Painful new weight loss craze: the tongue patch diet



IT'S a real case of nil by mouth when it comes to the latest weight loss fad - with two women trying out a "miracle" patch sewn into the tongue.

The postage stamp-sized plastic square is secured to the tongue with six stitches in an op that takes just 10 minutes.

It makes consuming solid food so painful that subjects stick to an 800-calorie liquid diet developed by plastic surgeon Nikolas Chugay, who developed the patch.

Currently only available in the States, it costs around £1,500 - and promises dramatic results.

Marlene Beltran, 20, and Lysander Lanuza, 27, put it to the test in an ABC News segment.

In just one month, Lysander lost 23lbs and Marlene dropped 18lbs.

Lysander said after surgery: "I can't feel my tongue."

She is shown on the news segment trying to "cheat" by consuming a single piece of popcorn, exclaiming: "I can't eat!"

Marlene, who started out at 169lbs, said: "I'm excited to see how things turn out."

Not everyone is convinced by this "miracle", however. Weight loss expert Dr Robert Huizenga is unconvinced of the patch's long-term effectiveness.

"This is so primitive an approach," the Biggest Loser star said. "You could hire somebody to hold a gun next to your head and threaten to shoot you every time you eat."

He also adds that many studies suggest that those who lose weight rapidly tend to gain it all back, and more.

What do you think?

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[Anthea]

This is what I think about the patches:

[Anthea]

Now that's credit munch! Formerly homeless mother’s recipes for how to feed yourself for £1 a day (including 4p pancakes and 2p tomato scones)

Lesley Cooper, 62, lived on a tight budget while feeding her two daughters
Claims to have 150 recipes showing you can feed yourself for under 50p
Day begins with 4p pancakes for breakfast, followed by 17p soup for lunch
She makes a bacon and sweetcorn pie with mash for 32p for dinner
Was pregnant at aged 16 and homeless after leaving her first husband

When Lesley Cooper separated from her first husband, she was left to fend for herself and her two daughters while they had no roof over their head.

For four years in the 1970s, the family were forced to move from house to house and learned to feed themselves on the little money they had.

This meant the mother-of-two came up with various recipes which enabled her to make breakfast, lunch and dinner for less than £1 a day.

Now, the 62-year-old has developed more than 150 of the cut-price methods and claims she no longer has any financial worries.



Miss Cooper, who is retired, said: 'Without a roof over my head and no money at all, I learnt to budget. I know that when you’re struggling, having something nice to eat becomes even more important and I want to show it’s possible to have that.

Most people I speak to say you can’t feed yourself for under 50p but I have over 150 recipes which show that well actually, you can.

'Right now, there are a lot of individuals in Britain who are struggling. I’m just trying to get the message across that you can make good food for a reasonable price.'

A typical day consists of 4p pancakes for breakfast, spiced parsnip soup for 17p with 2p tomato scones for lunch and a supper of bacon and sweetcorn pie with mash and peas for just 32p.

To top it all off, there’s a muscovado cheesecake for dessert which costs only 33p to make.



Miss Cooper, who lives with her partner of 32 years, Mike Negus, admits: 'I get a thrill from a bargain. Although I don’t really have any major financial fears anymore, my early years were quite rough.

'I know what it feels like to worry about money - that memory never leaves you. So finding or making something that doesn’t cost too much is a real buzz for me.'

At the age of 16, Miss Cooper met an older man and fell pregnant. She married him but realised it was was a mistake.

She left her husband while pregnant with her second child and returned to her parents’ house. However it was so crowded that her and her children had to sleep under a table.

She was homeless between 1971 and 1975 before she moved into a council house with her two children, Tracey and Sam.


A a daily meal plan from left to right: It begins with pancakes for breakfast, costing 4p, lunch is a tomato scone made for 2-3p alongside 17p spicy parsnip soup. Dinner is bacon and sweetcorn pie with mash and peas (32p) followed by Muscovado Cheesecake, made for 33p

'There was literally no room left at my family home and so for the next four years, my daughters and I ricocheted from place to place. We had nowhere to live and although we never actually slept rough, it came horrifyingly close.

The experience left Miss Cooper with an interest in ‘all things frugal’.

Even today, she will do anything to cut costs, making her body moisturiser from scratch by mixing glycerine and water together.

HOW LESLEY COOPER FEEDS HER FAMILY FOR LESS THAN £1 A DAY

Monday
Breakfast: Pancakes - 4p
Lunch: Tomato scones - 2p
Dinner: Bacon and sweetcorn pie and mash - 32p
Dessert: Muscavado chessecake with red fruits - 50p (33p without fruit)

Tuesday
Breakfast: Bacon sandwhich - 26p
Lunch: Brocolli and lentil Soup - 20p
Dinner: Beef pasta bake - 34p
Dessert: Oaty apple crumble and custard - 22p

Wednesday
Breakfast: Porridge - 5p
Lunch: Beans on toast - 11p
Dinner: Anchovy pizza - 39p
Dessert: Raisin biscuits - 28p

Thursday
Breakfast: Egg on toast - 21p
Lunch: Pea soup - 16p
Dinner: Chorizo, chickpea and tomato in flatbread - 47p
Dessert: Fruit scones - 4p each

Friday
Breakfast: Granola - 8p (14p including milk)
Lunch: Hommous and grated carrot sandwhich - 9p
Dinner: Courgette pasta - 46p
Dessert: Fruit loaf - 9p

Saturday
Breakfast: Jammy oat bars - 7p
Lunch: Brocolli pesto in Pitta - 25p
Dinner: Onion Tart - 42p
Dessert: Plan, large scones - 4p each

Sunday
Breakfast: Creamy apples and croutons - 37p
Lunch: Spicy lentil soup - 16p
Dinner: Butter bean and vegetable curry - 24p
Dessert: Apple and spice muffins - 40p

Full Article:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... cones.html