I don't remember the last time I had a Dorito!!!!!

Alan used to buy Rice Cakes (thinking they were healthy).
Well, when we went to the nutritionist a few years ago, I remember this list she handed us and we looked at high glycemic foods and low glycemic foods and all the bad stuff was circled and she said "And especially do NOT EAT RICE CAKES"

Alan looked at her like she was bonkers. He said "but I live on these", and she said 'Not any more". It seems they are high carbs or something to that effect.

I never ate rice cakes, because to me they tasted like cardboard.

Yuck!!

I wasn't going to reply to this because i didn't feel I had anything to add initially. I have a feeling I would be much thinner if I were a single woman still! I have clients constantly giving me boxes of chocolates,my son is always selling chocolates for school. My husband cooked the biggest 3 steaks on the barbie I have ever seen. Mine was 2/3rds the size length wise of a litre of milk bottle. It made me sick just looking at it dripping blood on my plate.I apologised to him and said I did not want it, it was making me sick. He gave it to the dog.

Anyways I broke down and called Light n Easy meals. The cost is $125 for myself for the week which includeds breakky lunch and dinner for 7 days. The meals are suppose to be nutritios gourmet & fresh. They said after 2 weeks I may titrate just to the 5 day plan,and have weekends off. I figure if I don't have to cook,clean,think,and worry about nutrition and calories it is well worth it. It is also cheaper to just do lunch & dinner.

I get my delivery this Wednesday,and I can tell you how I go.

Hi Aussie, seems pretty reasonable priced for 7 days of properly balanced meals & i think they deliver everything right to your door too if i am not mistaken, seems like a good option for busy people that are working and looking after a family as well, i wish you well, please let us know how it goes.
You might have to re train your clients to give flowers instead of the great temptation of chocolates good luck with it anyway.

Brian

there - do you have Weight Watchers? I remember working with two women years ago who went on their diet - which was just normal food and exercise - but healthy stuff - and reasonable portions - and they both lost over 100 lbs......(no pre-packed meals - they just went to meetings once a week to "learn" what to eat and not)... and they kept it off..... Another friend too a few years ago lost about 60 lbs - and she looks great (and we're at that age of putting it on)....

Dont do anything drastic! Due to autonomic neuropathy (gastroparesis) I went thru a period a few years ago where I couldnt keep anything down but broth for 2 months - I lost 30 lbs in that time period and it took a year just to gain back 10 (which is still where I am cause I still have to live on liquids - but Ensure so at least it has calories and nutrients)... I can tell you that your gut is very sensitive to change in diet and if you cut something out it takes a long time to get your system used to it again... sounds like you are eating good and healthy and thats a good thing at least!

Hope you find the formula that works for you

Kneb, yes the " Weight Watches " clubs are every were here, i am basically doing what they do without going in to weigh in every week or so, they are a very good option for some though, i don't need the actual support of such a club as once my mind is made up to do something, i won't slacken off the target one bit.
Last night i down sized my plate and it was really plenty, a few hours later i grabbed a pear for a snack and i wasn't starving hungry this morning so i know that was one reason why i wasn't moving on the scales, all that fuel and just lying around at night watching TV and not burning it all off.

Brian

stubbies,steak,and fish and chips. As a child they ate meat every night.Apparently they were well known at the butcher as having the resources to eat meat everynight.

I am trying to change this now,and he also recognises that all that beef has not done him good.he is also now suffering alot of digestive problems,and bloating and such. He has English ancestry,and I have mentioned that he may have food intolerances such as milk or wheat. He is now starting to take me seriously because he is fatigued about 80% of the time,and his stomach always hurts.

Back to you Brian. Apparently Australians now have a huge problem with obesity. Have we stopped to examine why probably as little as 50 years ago the average Australian was so much thinner? I have seen furniture made in the 1940's -1950's and it's tiny compared to our furniture today. I reckon they are poisoning our food supply with additives and preservatives,colours,agents,pestacides,and our bodies cannot break this rubbish down. We need to go back to whole foods as much as possible,and ofcourse preservative free food one step at a time. The pear at night is a great idea. My granny is now 85,and still trim as ever. her secret was that she cooked everything herself,lived on whole foods,no alcohol,fish,and veggies and fruit. No secret at all.She raised 4 kids on that diet,and they were all healthy and then in the late 80's the processed food was slowly making it's way onto the marketplace. Then the people started to get bigger. 27 years later we are considered one of the unhealthiest and most obese nations!

On tv the people who were trying to eat less meat like steak switched to like turkey meat. So like a turkey burger or turkey meatballs. I really feel its a fad about the eating right before bed. Its about calories in vs out not the time a day. A big reason I feel people think its bad too is cause they munch on cookies rather then a balanced snack. I keep wanting to try sushi but it will have to be vegetarian though I'm not vegetarian but raw seafood gives me the heebie jeebies. Australlia people that is neat. I always take interest in people from other countries. I hate to travel but I think the way of living out of the us though I don't want to experience it sounds interesting. I always thought you guys have less junk then us in the US. Aussie were you the one who gave up added sugar for your pain? How is that and the results if so?I'm a candy addict but trying to get better with that and of course and the idea of it helping with the pain is a huge motivator.

Aussie, you made my mouth water at the start of your post " stubbies, steak & fish & chips " the steak i can still have, but i would just about kill for a few stubbies then a big feed of fish & chips with plenty of salt & tomotoe sauce all over them only in my dreams now

I seen on Current affairs that Safeway & Coles are allowed to import fruit from countries that they use chemicals on them that are banned for use for Australian farmers to use, yet they allow it to happen , it's also well known that chemicals are used all the time to keep red meat looking fresh

I do think that not only the hidden chemicals [ which is a worry] but far to much junk food is consumed in the Australian diets, in my younger day it was the norm for fish & chips every Friday night but otherwise every other night was good wholesome food, in some families these days, Kentucky, McDonald's, Pizza's, fish & chips seem to be more popular as a choice for any night of the week and during the day as well, any wonder waist lines have increased so much.

Brian

As a matter of fact i was thinking about getting some of those Rice cakes, i have no idea what type of rice they put in those rice cakes, can't be the long grain rice as they say the long grain is ok, in moderation of course, thanks for the tip Mel.
Brian