vidalia222

I get weighed every morning but only count the reading on a Monday morning. I know we are told not to weigh too often but I find it works for me as a motivator and I know if it goes up slightly midweek not to worry about it too much.

It may be a cliche but it's true - "You always get what you always get if you always do what you always do".

Hi I'm from London and doing Diet Chef. I got a week's supply half price on Groupon and lost 2kilos. I have now ordered a month's supply. It is great for me at the moment as I am often at home alone with various family members away travelling and working and I eithr can't be bothered cooking a big meal after a busy day…

I think it goes with the territory when you venture on to message boards and forums. I have yet to find one that is totally without people I would go out of my way to avoid in 'real life' although I suspect the vast majority of people are far less rude when confronted by real people rather than the sense of confidence that…

I did some bench presses in the park and my upper arms are now killing me! I also did 3 x 30 reps of bench squats and I am finding it very difficult to walk down the stairs now. It's all good stuff though, that's what I keep telling myself.

At the first Zumba class I went to nobody seemed to be able to do it! The teacher just danced and looked at herself in the mirror for an hour totally oblivious to us all bumping into each other. I didn't return but realised it was the teacher and not Zumba itself. I have tried again and was still uncoordinated but the…

I put a chicken breast on a piece of foil and cover it with a tsp of minced ginger, minced chilli to your taste, shake over some soy sauce and top with sliced pak choi and spring onions (scallions). I then wrap up the parcel so there is space at the top for the steam and put in a steamer basket over a wok of boiling water…

I think the case with mothers is different to friends - a lot of mothers use food to show how much they love you, so it's done for the best reasons. They are wrong but it's because they don't know rather than that they want to harm your health - exactly the opposite really. Be kind to them but gently try to educate them.…

Some days I just eat Asian inspired soups - clear broth with bean sprouts, shredded chicken, coriander, pak choi and some rice noodles or a can of low fat coconut milk mixed with stock and a tablespoon of Thai red curry paste with brocolli, Chinese leaves, prawns and lime juice or a fast Vietnamese beef pho, stock simmered…

It's amazing how threatened some people feel by what is after all just normal social behaviour. She must be really insecure about herself.

Hi, I'm new here and finding my way around. I am in London UK and started my healthy eating campaign on Monday as my kids are off travelling the world and my husband is away on business for three weeks so I am totally home alone, which is kind of strange but gives me the advantage that I can eat whatever I want so I am…

I think there are lots of reasons why people try to either sabotage your hard work or just feel a need to put you down when you are feeling so good about yourself, and most of them relate to their own insecurities - they can maybe see you doing what they'd like to do themselves but they haven't got your motivation or inner…

I could have left that big bag of salted pretzels in the cupboard so I could nibble on a couple every time I opened the cupboard door and not remember to enter them into my food diary but I didn't, instead I put them in the rubbish for the bin men to collect today. No tempation so no cheating!

Surely even low carb diets allow for fruit and veg apart from maybe the first week or two to get you kick started. In my view the carbs to avoid are the processed ones. My personal guideline is that if it was around before the industrial revolution it's all right by me!

I make a very unauthentic but very fast Pho which is really tasty and satisfying. 300g good quality steak, sliced very thinly 1 cinnamon stick 2 star anise 1 tbsp light soy sauce 1 red chilli, finely sliced 2 spring onions, sliced 900ml chicken or beef stock 350g rice noodles Handful bean sprouts, handful mint leaves,…