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Diets
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04 Oct 2007 Thu 05:47 am |
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another good one is pomegranite vinegar. Myself I wouldn't put olive oil, lemon juice and vinegar in there if you use lemon juice, forgo the vinegar - you can also add a little crumbled feta cheese to the mix and some black olives!! and you have shepherd salad ready to go. I normally make a batch of it up and I find that lemon juice and olive oil help keep the veggies fresher longer.
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04 Oct 2007 Thu 10:50 am |
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Quoting Leelu: you can also add a little crumbled feta cheese to the mix and some black olives!! |
I'd say feta cheese is a no-no though, when you are really on a diet. I make my salad the same way you do too (and with red onions), but if I were dieting the first thing that would go out of the salad would be the cheese.
ANyway maybe good to start with it, so that you will enjoy your salads more and will be able to keep your diet up.
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04 Oct 2007 Thu 10:50 am |
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Quoting Leelu: you can also add a little crumbled feta cheese to the mix and some black olives!! |
I'd say feta cheese is a no-no though, when you are really on a diet. I make my salad the same way you do too (and with red onions), but if I were dieting the first thing that would go out of the salad would be the cheese.
ANyway maybe good to start with it, so that you will enjoy your salads more and will be able to keep up your diet.
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04 Oct 2007 Thu 11:16 am |
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Quoting gezbelle: you might even like to try a little sprinkling of balsamic vinegar as a dressing for the salad. not too much as it's pretty powerful taste. |
Yes!
Lettuce, tomatoes, green peppers, tuna fish and white cheese, dressed with olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
I like the taste. I used to have it as my dinner 5 days a week during the this summer. I lost 4 kg in about 3 months.
Unfortuntely I went to UK in September and in 2 weeks only, I regained that 4 kilos.
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04 Oct 2007 Thu 11:27 am |
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I remember the Chinese restaurants we used to go for lunch when I was in USA. Eat all you can and pay $7.5 only, damn cheap, every kind of salads, sea food, fruits, sweets. If we have such restaurants here, people would get fat easily, no doubt about it.
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04 Oct 2007 Thu 03:23 pm |
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Quoting teaschip1: Quoting libralady: Quoting teaschip1: Here is an example of veges & fruit I eat;
Veges
Broccoli-boiled with butter & cheese
Salad-in a bag with lots of dressing
greenbeans - lots of salt
corn-salt and butter
potatoes - mashed with butter
Strawberries - usually in a milk shake or with sugar or a pie or cake version
Grapes- I do eat these plain 
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Ditch the butter, cheese, dressing, salt and milk shake and pie and that should make all the difference!
I steam my veg, brocolli, cauliflower, carrots etc etc, boil rice and pasta - with no butter or oil, and I hate mashed potatoes.
Jut dont add unnecssary fat to any cooking, and too much salt is of course bad, high blood pressure and water retention.
Try and avoid cornstarch, it is what the USA puts in diet drinks and it is addicitve according to research and makes you want to eat more.
Good luck! |
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04 Oct 2007 Thu 04:31 pm |
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I always wondered why people that would have a non-diet drink were thinner than people that drank diet sodas. (I know this is not true for everyone, but I did notice it in a lot of people.)
This must be why I am having trouble. I drink a lot of diet sodas. I guess I better start drinking more water. I do now all the rules of dieting, it is the following of them I am having trouble with!!!
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04 Oct 2007 Thu 05:45 pm |
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Quoting lovebug: I always wondered why people that would have a non-diet drink were thinner than people that drank diet sodas. (I know this is not true for everyone, but I did notice it in a lot of people.)
This must be why I am having trouble. I drink a lot of diet sodas. I guess I better start drinking more water. I do now all the rules of dieting, it is the following of them I am having trouble with!!! |
WATER, WATER, WATER....When I banished ALL soft drinks both diet and regular from my diet, I lost a lot of weight. It seems hard at first but I really don't miss it anymore.
I will admit I went a little extreme - I started eating only whole foods that were not packaged and eat only vegetables grown in my garden. I only eat meat with no hormones or antibiotics. I did this because I started to suspect that all the "toxins" I put in my body caused me to be overweight because my caloric intake was normal.
Like I said, I went a little extreme - I get eggs from a friend who has a chicken farm. I get cheese from a woman who makes it fresh....ect but it has made a HUGE difference. I have lost a ton of weight. Maybe if you make several small changes, it will make a big difference.
Good Luck
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04 Oct 2007 Thu 11:29 pm |
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Thanks Elisabeth. My mother is into all the natural stuff, so I really don't have an excuse. I am going to start small and make sure I drink my water and NO SODA!!!
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| 29. |
06 Oct 2007 Sat 04:20 pm |
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I followed which is really popular in Holland at the moment.. and lost quite a lot of weight actually.
It basically says the following:
-Drink at least 2 liters of water a day (very very important!)
-Eat at regular intervals (so breakfast, 1 snack in between, lunch, 1 snack in between, dinner and another little snack).
- don't eat after 8 o'clock, because your fat burns less fast then or something..
Also: variation in your food! don't always have breakfast with bread and lunch with bread. Take something different for breakfast (like an apple, or crackers, or fruitjuice), and again something else for lunch.
I hope this will work out for you too teaschip! Right now I got used to eating less (I usually had more than 1 snack betweent he main meals). And I even can eat some chocolate now and then! 
Good luck!
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| 30. |
07 Oct 2007 Sun 02:25 pm |
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I am on a red wine diet.....so far I have lost 2 days!
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