Buffing up!

Hi Hun

I live just outside Leeds!

I am just coming to then end of month 2 on these. My diet has not changed much and tends to consist of:

Brekkie - toast and low fat spread or cereal

Lunch - ham salad sandwich, home made soup or stuffed pitta breads

Tea - Varies from casserole and veg, pasta with small amount smoked salmon, roasted meat and veg with yorkshire pud etc etc

I snack on rice cakes, fruit, hummous, sometimes a slice of bread

I dont drink a lot of water but i know I should do better on this score!

As far as food goes, I aim for between 10 and 15g fat for my lunch and tea. I have less at breakfast but that is fine with me!

Exercise I am the worst at! I have no motivationf or this but am trying to change this. I boiught a cross trainer recently so am building up on that at mo (can only do 5 mins at a time at minutes) and will be getting davina's new DVD. I love all her other DVD's so am going to aim for 3 times a week

As far as what to avoid goes, probably stating the obvious here but no takeaways, cut fat off meat, be wary of cheese portions,some fish is high in good fat but it is fat all the same. Stock up on veg to bulk your meals out - I now have less meat and more veg to cut down on fat intake

Sme foods are trial and error I am afraid. You will know when you have done something wrong and trust me, you wont do it again!

Good luck with it

Oh god, knowing when I have done something wrong scares me LOL!

I qondered, how do you calculate the fat in meat? and portions etc? Just weigh it? and guess using the weight given on the pack?

I mean, say you bought a pork chop, cut the fat off and grilled it, how do you know how much of that chop you can have? Same as amount of new potato's? Do you just go by the palm hand size portion rule?

Sorry, new to the whole weighing things etc... I just cook what looks to me as a normal portion, pork chop, 4-5 new potato's and veg?

there's a website called food focus, it's free to register, and there's a fat calculator on the website.

Hope this helps

Gill

xxx

I bought a great book called The Calorie, Carb & Fat Bible, This book lists most foods, their calories, fat and carb content per weight / portion.

So, for eg with Pork Chops, I weigh them, check the bible and then use that as my guide for the fat content. Average sized chops are around 5-6g fat when grilled

KayMarie, I was scared like you when I 1st started of going wrong but to be honest when you go wrong it is actually a great learner. There were foods I ate all the time not realising how much fat was actually in them (i used to do weightwatchers so was used to checking sat fats only!). I am now coming to the end of month 2 and have learnt a great deal about what I eat, what foods I shouldnt eat, what I put into my body etc.

Try not to focus on the negatives of making a mistake - we all do it! Just focus on what you can do and write down each meal and fat content to re assure yourself

xx

Thank you ever so much ladies, I will look up both of those suggestions! I just don't want to have an embarrassing woopsie at work or a patients home etc.. LOL. I'm trying to avoid that!

You've both been a massive help!