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Good to hear that you now have two scales to help with your healthy eating plan. Try to increase your exercise if you can. Even extra walking helps. I'm on holiday next week so that will be a challenge when there is a large buffet but I will just have to be careful. :-)
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I started the 5:2 diet on Jan 17th which is 3 weeks this Satirday and have lost 14 pounds! It's briliant. As I have a few stone to lose I decided to fast on alternate days. I make home made soups with fresh, nutritious ingredients like watercress, asparagus etc and just have soup and a slice of toasted 50/50 bread at lunch…
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I would suggest you stop eating when you feel full. Some foods help you to last longer between meals like wholemeal bread, cereals like muslei, weetabix etc and pasta and brown rice. Weight loss is also related to exercise. I have an ankle problem at present so stopped going to the gym and have very little exercise and am…
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I ommited to say, try to eat a healthy well balanced breakfast rather than reach 500 calories. Then you will have more calories to use up on your main meals, fruit between meals etc. Thism is just what MFP is very good for as it tells you after each entry how many calories are still available.
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If you cook from scratch like me you can still get an acurate calorie count from MFP. Go to the recipe area and key in the items and their indivibual weight and it will give you the calories. For example, if making a cottage pie, key in the ingredients and decide how many portions you will have and key that in too. I do…
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I have been doing the 5:2 fasting diet for two weeks and have lost 12 lbs The plan is to have 5 days of eating 1,000 to 1,200 calories and two days where you drop it to 500 calories. Doctors recomend it. To speed it up you can have more fasting days. I fasted on alternate days. Just be careful to drink plenty of water so…
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I started on Jan 16th and have had fasting days every other day so it will be 4 fasting days one week and 3 the next. I lost 6 lbs in the first week so am delighted! To make life easier on feast days I made both a cottage pie and a fish pie and divided them into 4 portions eating one and freezing 3 for other days. I just…
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Dried apricots, water cress, eggs, spinach, liver, all have lots of iron.
