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The more you have to lose, the longer and more weight it will take before you start to visibly really show a difference. I've lost half a stone in the last few weeks and my jeans are really loose now but I can't really see a difference yet. The smaller I get the more each half stone will be visible.
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That's nowhere near a healthy balanced diet. You need variety, especially with the veg. Why no fish? It's low in calories even when it's pan friend with some olive oil. Make a large pan of soup. So many different types and so much flavour with so few calories.
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I tried the 5:2 diet and found I was ravenous the day after a fast day. The only thing that really works for me is calorie counting and eating fairly plain food. It's horses for courses.
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Sedentary hobbies such as knitting, crochet and cross stitch burn roughly an extra 30 calories an hour over your BMR according to my online research.
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This isn't IF. It's bingeing and starving. Intermittent fasting is one or 2 days a week. The clue is in the word intermittent. What you're doing sounds like a really bad idea to me. Think of the strain you're putting on your digestive system by shovelling all that food into an empty stomach.
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It depends on what you mean by dry mixes. I have packets of soup mix that I put into soups but I don't buy packeted soups, if that makes sense. My lodger has a packet of dumpling mix in her cupboard and it shows the dry weight calories and the cooked weight calories. I think a lot of dry mixes here in the UK show both. If…
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Pea soup is easy. Empty a bag of frozen peas into a saucepan with a finely diced leek and loads of garlic. Add some finely diced fat free bacon or cooked ham hock, loads of black pepper and a ham, chicken or veggie stock cube. Cover with water and simmer until everything is well cooked. Blitz with a hand blender and…
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I need more food in winter. But I cope by cutting out the salads, which just make me ravenous when I'm cold and making huge pans of different vegetable soups. Very low in calories but very filling and warming. Make a huge panful and have cups throughout the day. A tip I learned back in the 70's which works very well.
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I have type 2 diabetes but it's still okay for me to eat fruit. Loads of things have sugar in but your body processes granulated sugar and sweeteners made from fruit in a different way. If it worries you too much try reading up on the Glycaemic Load. It explains it all really well and is actually a very good way to lose…
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SPICY PUMPKIN SOUP. Brown I large onion, as much garlic as you can stand, 2 green chillies, 1 heaped tsp ground cumin and 1 teaspoon chilli powder in 1tbs of olive oil. Fill your saucepan 3/4 full with diced pumpkin and 3 large carrots. Put in just enough water to cover the veg and add 2 stock cubes of whichever type you…
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Personally I don't see the point of burning up all those calories and then eating them back. It's different once you're on maintenance. Give yourself a couple of weeks just on your calorie allowance and see how you do then. Don't forget as well, if you are doing a lot of excercise you'll be building muscle. It weighs more…
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I'm not sure you CAN cheat once you're on maintenance. Surely it's all about finding out what your body can tolerate or can't. It also depends on what you mean by cheat. Do you have a day when all bets are off and you eat anything and everything or do you just have a couple of squares of chocoloate? Personally I don't like…
