Re: OT - Health Update

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:29:03 +0100, Kate Dicey
<kate@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>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.


I now get the most awful indigestion if I eat fatty things. - the best
incentive not to eat them
--
Sally at the Seaside~~~~~~~
http://community.webshots.com/user/sallyswin
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