Re: OT - Health Update

Paul & Suzie Beckwith wrote:

Kate Dicey wrote:


Meanwhile, work out your trigger foods: mine were anything fatty (like fried stuff, cream, anything made with full fat milk or butter), all red meats, red wine, coffee, anything sweet like cake and chocolates (which are fatty as well!), some nuts, and just eating too much in one sitting!

Oh Kate - that sounds like a death sentence! Can you eat anything nice?!

Suzie B

Oh, I eat LOTS of nice food! Roast chicken, pork and lamb (red meat is OK now in small quantities occasionally), sausages (I sometimes have low fat sausages, low fat oven chips, and salad for dinner), most spices are OK, and I do a lot of cooking from scratch. I keep cake for treats (I've been dreaming of cake for weeks, but managed to overcome it with a half a small pear and almond tart on Friday ( I shared it with a friend) and a small slice of chocolate birthday cake on Saturday at my sister's 50th birthday party. I eat lots of spicy chicken and i also eat quite a lot of fish. I've cooked delicious things for lots of folk who never realised the casserole they were eating was a Weight Watcher's recipe and well within my points budget for a meal.

I just avoid things that are unnecessarily fatty (like fried things), fat laden (like ordinary sausages - I use the Bowyers low fat ones, or some speciality ones that are 98% lean meat from The sausage Shop), use low fat fromage frais or half fat creme fraiche on fruit salad (unsweetened), and so forth... I can drink coffee again, but not red wine, which is one of the few things I miss! I even have recipes for a reduced fat chicken korma, which is very good.

Yesterday I ate:

Breakfast: a jam sandwich (no marge - just jam!)

Lunch: all home made!  :)
Pasta salad with nuts
Greek salad
bean salad
green salad (no extra dressing)

Dinner was pasta with a tomato and bacon sauce, made by dry frying the bacon with garlic, adding a tin of tomatoes, half a jar of pasata, and the minced remains of Sunday's Medeterrainian Roast Vegetables. For dessert I had a Muller Light yoghurt.

I had a tall skinny latte while out with the lads (we went to Bluewater and the lads climbed the Big Blue Rock while I went to Lush, then we hit the book shop, the Lego shop, and the cinema!).

Adding it all up, I had 15 of my daily allowance of 18 WW points. Bit on the low side, but I'm still recovering from the stinky cold that went to my sinuses over the weekend.

I don't *do* boring food. Some of it is very plain, but then who needs to tart up a salmon filet, new potatoes, and either fresh veg or salad? What could be less boring than best local lamb roasted and served with a gravy made of red wine, quince jelly, and the meat juices and served with roast potates ('dry' roasted with just a spray of oil rather than swimming in grease) and fresh local vegetables? (I find red wine is OK for cooking with, but I can't just drink it.) I look at working out low fat alternatives to traditional fat laden foods as a challenge. After w while on a low fat diet, you lose the taste for really fatty things.
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