FOOD ADVICE

ldilone13354

My name is lorraine and Im 18 years old. I weigh 141and I plan to lose 10 to be 130 and I started this diet on Tuesday but I need advice.

On Tuesday I started a diet and I've been doing good so far with eating well and everything. My main problem is that money is tight and my mom can't go to the grocery store till next week Sunday. In my fridge all I have is water which I hate now because on a diet you must drink 6 cups of water and I've been doing that which is a struggle. But anyways I have water, milk, peppers and things like that to cook for a dinner and I have ham and cheese and wheat bread for lunch and I have Special K cereal for breakfast. I don't have anything else to eat that I can munch on for snacks in between and so I've been eating like little hand fulls of cereal and honestly I'm in starvation! We can't afford to go to the market till the other Sunday and I don't know what to do.

RAGGEDYANN1970

you can eat the lunch meat on its own w/o the bread which is good protein. the handfuls of cereal might have alot of sugar, check on that one. drink tons of water and make sure to eat a banana or something like that if you can get one. flavor your water with a bit of lemon juice or lime juice if you have some. eating the cheese on its own, too, would be better than eating just plain cereal.

psuLemon

You can eat whatever you have in your house. Its more important to get enough calories and since you only have 10 lbs to lose, 1/2-1 lb per week is your max you should aim for. No food by itself is bad for you, its only bad if you exceed calories.

sharonely9

It looks like you are in the US? (I am in the UK) I will try to write in US English, as observed from movies/CSI etc, so you don't get confused, but apologies if I get it wrong lol.

Obviously until you and your mom can get to the store you will just need to eat anything you have, or can friends/relatives help out with meals/ingredients?

When you go to the store again, you need to look for healthy unprocessed foods like eggs, oats for porridge (much cheaper and healthier than Special K!) and vegetables and pulses (beans etc). With those you could make things like chilli and will be very cheap. You want to avoid processed food and takeaways as these are expensive, unhealthy and often include sugar, which makes you fat and hungry so you eat more. With eggs you can make omelettes which are cheap filling and healthy and you can put different things in like a litle bit of cheese, lean meat, or vegetables.

I assume you can drink the water from the fawcett (sorry I don't know how to spell it, we call it a tap) there? So if money is tight, you should be drinking that instead of buying bottled water? Bottled water and sodas etc are unnecessary and sodas are unhealthy.

If you don't have a job, the best thing you can do is learn to cook cheap healthy meals using unprocessed ingredients as this will help you be healthy and slim. Manufactured foods and takeaways contain a lot of rubbish that we really shouldn't be eating.

In the UK we have a website called moneysavingexpert that helps people live on less money - have a look for similar US ones.

HTH and good luck!

farway

I am also in UK, all fluid [tea / coffee etc] counts as water, so you can stop buying bottled water and just use tap water, flavoured with a splash, and just a splash, of lemon / lime / orange juice if wanted, veg & fruit also contain water