emilybrittain

20g cereal (all-bran or shredded wheat) and 10g hazelnuts plus a piece of fruit - nectarine, peach or apple is good! Keeps me fairly full until lunch and the hazelnuts contain good fats. Oatmeal/porridge is also good and filling but perhaps not so good in summer!

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Thanks everyone - it seems that a little goes a long way!

I make an avocado salad with the following between 2: 1/2 avocado 1 large beef tomato/large handful of cherry tomatos small red onion cider vingegar Salt and pepper Dice it up and mix togther - you can then have this with grilled chicken breast or a fillet of fish. With a normal size chicken breat (125g) it comes in at…

Great ideas - thank you!

Could really do with some help on this... Ditto to everything that everyone has said so far. I like to meet friends on the weekends and go for drinks, and although I try to pick the healthiest option, I know I'm going way over my calories! Any suggestions would be great!

Difficult decision between cheese and chocolate! But definitely wine to drink!

Jamie's book doesn't have nutrional values - I've been adding them in manually as recipes and saving them. BBC Good Food website and magazine is very good for nutrional values - they give the value for calories/carbs/protien/salt/sugar/ fats etc. Definitely worth looking at - I got myself a subscription as it it so easy…

Not everything but most things such as breakfast cereal, pasta, rice etc. Oh and also cheese! You'd be surprised once you start weighing things out and you can start to judge them better. It also means you can be more exact with your calorie intake. Go for the electronic scales though - it makes it more accurate - I find…

I find that I have to be very strict with myself otherwise it quickly comes crashing down. I haven't worked out for a few days as I had a tooth extraction - I didn't really think about what i was eating afterwards so long as it was soft and boom - I put a couple of pounds on! Trying to be very good this week in order to…

Add it into soups - my favourite is chicken noodle soup - just through everything in a pan of cold water except the noodles and the kale, heat it up, leave it to boil away and then add the noodles and kale at the very end. You can put anything you want in - I normally also add mushroom and sweetcorn.

Thanks so much for all the suggestions! I'm a bit nervous about it and want to look after myself but don't want to ruin my diet by not being able to exercise for a few days! Thanks everyone!

Try soup for luinch or dinner. You don't even have to stick to a recipe - I make a batch nearly every weekend and then freeze it and just use whatever vegetables I have that need eating. It really does fill you up and if you just use veggies then its fairly low on calories. Be careful if you have a bread roll with it…

Gin and Slimline tonic is always good, or if you want to drink white wine, add some sparking water or soda water so you are only drinking half the amount of wine.

The same thing happened to me this weekend! A few drinks and dinner out and it all goes wrong :( Tried to be really good yesterday but still no change this morning. All of last week's work undone - feeling rather down about the whole thing :(

Parma ham and melon makes a good low cal starter. I sometimes do fish for main course with a suance of garlic, lemon juice and capers. Just whizz it all up, put over the top of the fish with some salt and pepper and put it in the oven. You can serve it with fresh steamed vegetables and new potatos. For dessert, try making…

Thank you all for the suggestions! Think I need to find a day and stick to it and not every day!