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I dont know anyone (and have never known anyone) who drinks what we call fruit tea, herbal teas, lemon tea, green tea etc etc on a regular basis. They tend to be things we have hanging round the back of the cupboard when we thought we'd get some fancy tea. We dont really do cold tea either. A cup of tea is quite simply…

What about savoy cabbage leaves instead of the lasagne sheets?

What about those little egg muffin things. Get a cupcake tin where there are 12 portions. Mix up 10 eggs, chop up spring onion, cherry tomato, slivers of pepperami or very finely chopped ham, and a little bit of grated cheese. Put the non egg mix of all those things in the bottom of each portion in the tin and then pour…

Is minced chicken lower in calorie than minced turkey? The problem with chicken would be that it might be dry which means adding oil. I make a chilli but always use mince, I like the fat whereas turkey or chicken wouldnt be fatty enough for me. I just add a load of veg (no beans, dont know if you used beans), no oil added…

Just to clarify we do not drink our tea with cream. That would be an abomination. And NEVER offer warm milk with a cuppa. Its cold milk. Sugar optional.

I thought that as well, sounds quite punitive. Im trying to get rid of that mindset, because it treats some foods as good or some as bad and also keeps on the 'punishment' of a certain food rather than just logging it and getting back within your calorie amount the next day

You're not alone. I dont have a solution unfortunately but I feel the same and have the same problem. I have found what helps me, is to try to stay away from main starches and things made of them, so main starches being bread (grains) potato, pasta (grains again) rice, so that includes cake, biscuits, couscous, chips (UK…

I am rather envious of you people who can go on holiday, have all this water retention and only see about a pound or so increase/fluctuation. I can put on 10lbs easy in a weekend, often due to nothing I have identified at all. Im literally like a balloon.

Ignore what you saw on the scales, imagine it didnt happen and weigh yourself in a weeks time. No sneaky peaking.

I must say, its been a real eye opener for me reading some of the posts on here that daily weighing can help you overcome the anxiety about the ups and downs that all bodies have. As a life long dieter and as a life long person who is and has been always overweight, one of the difficulties is the high experienced when…

This is me all over. I am a good cook and love cooking but what that means is that I create something extremely high calorie. I realised I listened to the general consensus for too long about 'ready meals' and that actually its a much easier way to control your intake if like me you would cook up a storm in the kitchen. I…

Yep, my breakfast most mornings is a full pot 250 of the full fat cottage cheese on 4 ryvita. I didnt know waitrose do a full fat one, I might have a look. Im not near Longley Farm unfortunately

I took this to be a little light hearted thread, not some discussion about the morals of eating someone elses chocolate.

Is it your gall bladder?

Its the only cottage cheese I can eat. Almost every single other supermarket (I dont know if you are in the UK) only does fat free or low fat version, except for Aldi I think it is who do a nice cottage cheese but dont stock it continuously. Longley farm is so hard to find. I'll be standing outside the shop with a placard…

What about curried lentils, tarka dhal? Kippers? When you say you dont like cottage cheese, are you talking about the abomination that is 'fat free' or 'low fat' cottage cheese or are you talking about the 5% fat (full fat) cottage cheese? They taste nothing like each other. I love Longley Farm, I can only buy it in Home…

The main starches and most things made of them is mine. So bread (including cakes and biscuits), pasta, potatoes and rice, although rice is not as bad as the others. I just crave anythhing and everything if I eat them. That goes for things like porridge too. Having said that I find I can manage ryvita ok, although not…

Of course not but if you have cooked up 100g of dry weight rice, then thats what you have eaten once its cooked (that would be a massive portion and you could probably split it into 3 over 3 meals), so in the log you put dry weight and dry calories of 100g and you put that you have eaten .3 of that for that meal (if you…

Sorry I should have clarified, Im talking about the dry weight and dry calorie calculation. Then you cant go wrong.

I lost a stone once in one week by being in hospital with a kidney stone. Being sick with the morphine but not being able to eat as I was nil by mouth every day because apparently every day I was due for the stent operation but it never happened so by the time I found out I wasnt going down for surgery it was too late to…

You're only 2 weeks in, over the month or 2 month periods you will see the average, and during times of the month or when you go out or have a holiday it will (possibly, depends on you) go over your goal which means that all the times now you are under your goal will even out. Im similar to you, mine is about 1800 a day…

If you bulk it out with tinned lentils (the brown ones) it makes the mince go further and the recipe (per portion) come down in calories. You dont notice much difference in flavour

Anything you dont eat by the way, put in freezer bags in portion sizes of whatever a portion is for you, like 150g, and then freeze it in little bits.

I dont know why people bother with serving calculations. Cook up some rice and weigh what you are going to eat and use the per 100g calculations, so if you eat 150g say, then you put in 1.5 'servings' of 100g.

Well I wouldnt expect that smoked and non smoked would be similar, they are very different goods. I suppose I feel slightly paranoid and suspicious about manufacturers sources because in many cases they might not want to put the real calorie values on products and look like their food is 'healthier' than it is what with…

I find houmous and peanut butter both filling, they're full of protein and fat. I use them as toppings on ryvita in the morning for my breakfast, very calorie dense

Yes as I said, I do use the package information but I like to double check on some things as my experience has been so varied with say 'salmon', or 'apples'. I measure everything from the 100g calculation but dependent on what site you use or company or supermarket there is such variation. Yes with the oil I had to make a…

Thanks, no I dont have an app on my phone Well I eat a real mixture of packaged foods and whole foods. I recently was trying to work out the calories in 120g of tuna in oil which is not drained, doesnt even seem to exist on the manufacturers website, it was john west. They assume you drain and waste the oil whereas I use…

Me too and whenever I make the big mistake of saying that in order to support my regime I am trying not to eat bread, potatoes, rice and pasta (and things made of those things) as well as refined sugars, you always get someone saying 'oh you shouldnt cut all that out, they are fine in moderation' Well there is no…

Oh me too, awful gnawing pains, Ive never heard anyone else say they experience this