Dieting Tip Of The Day: Complete an Eating Plan
January 31, 2008
If you are about to start a diet. Make sure you fill in a meal plan for each week. It will help you to follow your diet. Allow you to buy for the week ahead without adding any extras. Don’t forget to add in a glass of wine or a treat if you wish. Keep your diet plans and look back so you are able to vary what you eat. Diets can be expensive, by making a plan you will be able to make sure you are not exceeding your budget.
Dieting Tip Of The Day: Eating Out
January 30, 2008
Here are a few tips for if you are eating out. Firstly cut your meal in half and take half home to eat another day. If you see the dreaded bread basket heading your way, ask them to take it away. Finally If you do have a car drive to the restaurant. It will mean that if you do have a drink It will only be one and therefore you will consume less calories.
Dieting Tip Of The Day: Reducing your food portions
January 29, 2008
If you are struggling to reduce your portions, buy yourself a smaller plate. The plate will look full of food, yet as the plate is not as big as before your portions will be smaller. A win, win situation you are eating less food and as your eyes are looking at a full plate your brain is thinking it is eating loads!!!
Exercising: I Don’t Have Time
January 28, 2008
We have all used the excuse that we do not have time to exercise. Yet it is really simple to fit in just half an hour of exercising into your day. If you are drive to work or maybe to school to drop the kids off or even take the car to the shops. Then park your car further away so you have to walk part of the way. If you can park 15 minutes away then there and back that’s 30 mins exercise. Just think of all those calories you are burning off.
Dieting Tip Of The Day: Home-made Soup
January 27, 2008
Soup can be a very filling and nutritious food to eat when on a diet. However, take the time to make yourself some home made soup. Not only will it help you achieve your five a day fruit and vegetables for the day. You could also save up to 300 calories per portion. Tinned soup comes in at approximately 400 calories a tin compared with 100 calories for a portion of homemade soup.
A Low Fat and Low Calorie Recipe: Indian Vegetable Curry
January 25, 2008
A curry that is not only rich in flavour and also very filling. This recipe is also low in fat and calories. Each serving will also provide just over 2 portions of your 5-a-day fruit and vegetable.
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 45 minutes
Serves: 2 people
Ingredients
· 1 Tbsp Oil
· 2 Cloves Garlic, crushed
· 1 Med Onion, finely chopped
· 3 Stalks Celery, sliced
· 1 small Apple, peeled cored and diced
· 1tsp Chilli Powder
· 1tsp Ground Ginger
· 1tsp Turmeric Powder
· 100g Green Beans, sliced
· 200g Cauliflower, broken into small florets
· 100g Carrots, sliced
· 100g Potatoes, diced
· 1tsp Tomato Puree
· 20g Sultanas
Method
1. Heat the oil in a large pan and stir fry garlic, onion, celery and apple for 5 minutes. Add chilli, ginger and turmeric and
continue to stir fry gently for a further minute.
2. Add the green beans, cauliflower, carrots and potatoes plus 300ml water. Stir in tomato puree, sultanas and a pinch of
salt. Bring to the boil, reduce heat, cover and simmer for 35 – 40 minutes.
3. Place on your plate and enjoy!
Nutrition Information Per Serving
Calories: 220
Protein: 7.9g
Fibre: 9.3g
Fat:4.6g
Carbohydrate: 37.4g
Which Exercise DVD Should I Choose?
January 24, 2008
We are nearly at the end of January and thinking about exercise is all I have done. I am not sure what I fancy doing this time. I have thought about an exercise DVD. Which one? I am thinking of sticking a pin in a peice of paper with them all written on. Will it be Davina’s high impact workout or maybe Natalie Cassidy’s DVD. Have you seen the front cover? Not the best of photographs taken, It really does look like her head has been attached to someone elses body. She has of course lost an incredible amount of weight, why such a bad photo I am really not sure. That’s enough thinking of exercise for now, will pick that thought up next week.
Activia yoghurt 14 day challenge
January 21, 2008
As many of us have seen on the t.v. Activia with the help of Nell McAndrew, have challenged us to the Activia 14 day challenge. So does it work? I have to say I did not believe it for one second. How can a small pot of yoghurt possibly make a difference?
As part of my healthier eating plan for 2008 I decided to take them up on their challenge. Two weeks on, I am eating my words. Or should I say wondering why I had never eaten Activia yoghurt before. Not only does it taste really nice. With an array of flavours such as Kiwi, strawberry, mixed fruits, muesli. It really does get rid of that bloated feeling. I have now gone up to two pots of Activia a day.
Curiosity got the better of me today. I had a look at their website and set up my own plan. Your Activia plan has some very useful tips. It does of course say you must include one of the tips from the activia part. Well who came blame them? After all, they are a business and are out to make a profit. On this occassion I do not mind as the product is good.
I’m stocking up my fridge with Activia as I plan on eating these for breakfast, mixed in with a bit of muesli for the foreseeable future. So Nell McAndrew you may now shut up - I am convinced.
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