The Radio 3 Boards Forum from myforum365.com
17:33:15, 01-12-2008 *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
News: Whilst we happily welcome all genuine applications to our forum, there may be times when we need to suspend registration temporarily, for example when suffering attacks of spam.
 If you want to join us but find that the temporary suspension has been activated, please try again later.
 
   Home   Help Search Login Register  

The Radio 3 Boards > General Chat > The Coffee Bar > diets
Pages: [1] 2 3 ... 8
« previous next »
  Print  
Author Topic: diets  (Read 3394 times)
Lord Byron
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 1591
« on: 08:54:04, 04-05-2007 »
I have had so much salad this week I think I could turn into a rabbit !
Logged
go for a walk with the ramblers http://www.ramblers.org.uk/
Mary Chambers
*****
Gender: Female
Posts: 2589
« Reply #1 on: 10:17:44, 04-05-2007 »
I don't believe in diets. Just eat sensibly and eat less, and never, ever pay any money for diet books, clubs, phoney "diet pills" etc. I have a friend who firmly believes that some junk quack pill she takes with meals "absorbs the fat" Smiley.



(This is not my friend.)
Logged
Tony Watson
Guest
« Reply #2 on: 10:18:29, 04-05-2007 »
Or a guinea pig. I had to look after one recently and it loved all types of salad, especially lettuce. But too much lettuce is bad for them, apparently, as they haven't evolved to cope with it.

I reached a sort of milestone last year when, for the the first time in my life at 49, I decided I didn't want to put on any more weight. Until then I'd always eaten as much as I ever wanted but at six foot tall 14 stone seemed enough so I now think about such things.
Logged
marbleflugel
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 918



WWW
« Reply #3 on: 10:35:54, 04-05-2007 »
The salad movement (it is on the march milord) is I think to some extent a feminine preference.not that we'd knock that for a moment)I had a really good basic one yesterday with a Frittata thing, and still recall a combo of nuts and peaches and bitter leaves, cottage
cheese in a Forte place long before it was trendy to mix like that. Fresh stuff makes such a difference and you have to pay the earth for it now. The stark choice we single blokes face (well thisone anyway) is that anything easy to
prepare or have delivered makes you double in size widthways in 5 mins or so, hence new door frame required etc, another trip to IKEA at ungodly hour. And peanut butter, pizza etc cannot be done healthily half-fat ( I read
thatfull-fat PB is actually less fattening when absorbed chemically).
re: weight-watcher type courses, I took a client to one who suffered from sleep apnea (not pleasant) and she was
rewarded for her weight loss with 'sins' (mildly fattening and moreish) which led me suspect that there was a bit
of stringing along going on in the marketing and approach. Not all like this necessarily of course, but I see Tesco are at it too...
Logged
'...A  celebrity  is someone  who didn't get the attention they needed as an adult'

Arnold Brown
IgnorantRockFan
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 794



WWW
« Reply #4 on: 10:53:58, 04-05-2007 »
I've always had to watch what I eat, not to lose weight but to GAIN weight! I have a superhumanly fast metabolism and it's almost impossible for me to get fat. Junk food just makes me thinner (this always annoys my female friends, for some reason, especially right after Christmas Wink ). Actually, in recent years age is taking its toll and I'm getting not exactly fat but decidedly "soft" Sad

Because of my weight-gain problem, I've spent a lot of time studying nutrition and I agree with Mary -- you don't need to diet, you just need to eat sensibly.

My top tips for "dieting":

* It's NOT a "diet", it's an "eating plan". Doesn't that sound better? Smiley

* An eating plan is for life, not just for summer Wink . ALL sensible eating plans work -- I guarantee it. Diets fail when people stop them (and it's true that you bounce back worse). So the answer is to NEVER stop eating sensibly. And therefore:

* Make an eating plan that only includes food you like! Don't force yourself to eat something you don't like. NOBODY has enough willpower to stick with that.

* Just use common sense! It's not rocket science to work out that if you eat more calories than you burn in exercise, you'll get fat! Why can't people grasp this???
Logged
Allegro, ma non tanto
Mary Chambers
*****
Gender: Female
Posts: 2589
« Reply #5 on: 11:14:25, 04-05-2007 »
I don't know how old you are, IRF, but I was like that until I was over 50, so thin I could eat absolutely anything without gaining an ounce. People watched in envy. It was a terrible shock to me when I found I had to watch what I eat, but I do, because I don't want to be fat. It's not "dieting", though! You talk a lot of sense.
Logged
Lord Byron
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 1591
« Reply #6 on: 12:12:26, 04-05-2007 »
I used to just burn it off with running, but now, for some reason, i feel my knees are weak and can not get the motivation.  I have just been doing salads for lunch and sandwiches for dinner, the odd lapse will happen and I will have a kebab, I just need to try be good when I can be good.

I agree, salads are a bit of a girly diet BUT I like to copy those I know who watch their weight, and I have noticed that 'salad for lunch' is in the majority.

suspect I will kebab it sunday though, grrrr..need meat, man, hunting instinct,grrr meat meat
Logged
go for a walk with the ramblers http://www.ramblers.org.uk/
roslynmuse
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 1615
« Reply #7 on: 22:43:15, 04-05-2007 »
The problem with lunch salads where I work is that everything is covered in mayonnaise. Only the tasteless tomatoes, cucumber slices (too thick to be palatable) and limp, uninteresting lettuce is free from the dreaded gunge. Occasionally they do something that looks interesting but is full of onion - nothing wrong with onion, some of my best friends are onions - but I feel do bad about breathing anti-social fumes over my students (particularly the one that looks like Janine Jansen...)
Logged
martle
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 6685
« Reply #8 on: 22:45:03, 04-05-2007 »
rm, er, aren't you within about 10 minutes of some of the best and cheapest curry joints in Western Europe?  Grin
Logged
Green. Always green.
roslynmuse
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 1615
« Reply #9 on: 22:50:58, 04-05-2007 »
Quote from: martle on 22:45:03, 04-05-2007
rm, er, aren't you within about 10 minutes of some of the best and cheapest curry joints in Western Europe?  Grin

Yes but they don't do your waistline or your halitosis any favours...

Maybe if Janine were to accompany me there and we shared a garlic balti [PAUSES TO PICTURE THE SCENE] neither of those things would matter any more... <sigh>

 Huh Am I turning into Lord B ?!?!?
Logged
martle
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 6685
« Reply #10 on: 22:53:44, 04-05-2007 »
Quote from: roslynmuse on 22:50:58, 04-05-2007
Huh Am I turning into Lord B ?!?!?

Yes. Now, stop being silly and pop up there for the very good vegetable and salad, UN-spicy and COMPLETELY MAYO-FREE dishes on offer. I'll expect a report.  Cheesy Grin
Logged
Green. Always green.
Morticia
Admin/Moderator Group
*****
Posts: 5788
« Reply #11 on: 22:58:54, 04-05-2007 »
Quote from: martle on 22:45:03, 04-05-2007
rm, er, aren't you within about 10 minutes of some of the best and cheapest curry joints in Western Europe?  Grin

Give me the addresses immediately!!

Re the sandwich thing - our kitchen chucks mayonnnside on EVERYTHING! Then they get artistic and come up with yesterdays offering `Baguette with Ham Mayo AND Horseradish and Fresh Black Pepper and Salad`.  There was something else with canned peach in it but I won`t inflict more on you. Bleergh!
Logged
roslynmuse
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 1615
« Reply #12 on: 23:02:16, 04-05-2007 »
Ham mayo by itself is something of a culinary obscenity...
Logged
martle
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 6685
« Reply #13 on: 23:06:01, 04-05-2007 »
Quote from: roslynmuse on 23:02:16, 04-05-2007
Ham mayo by itself is something of a culinary obscenity...

I kid you not...  Cry
Logged
Green. Always green.
Morticia
Admin/Moderator Group
*****
Posts: 5788
« Reply #14 on: 23:08:22, 04-05-2007 »
L BLUDDY HATE MAYO IN SARNIES!!!!  I also hate rice pudding, semolina and sago. Arghhh!

Thank you. I feel much better now  Grin
Logged
Pages: [1] 2 3 ... 8
  Print  
« previous next »
 
Jump to: