21/02: Home made vs Value brand
Necessity has forced me to learn how to do things with pasta. Mainly this has been because it was a case of eat pasta or don't eat.
For example if you fry herbs in olive oil and then add a tin of tomato soup or chopped tomatoes and simmer for twenty with some bay leaves you can make a tasty something to slop over your pasta. After eating that for a week I noticed a tin of Tesco value pasta source in the cupboard. It was thick gloopy and vile. It tasted like it was a mix of sugar and some nasty thickening agent. Even loads of tubs of garlic source from the bits and bob shelf failed to bring it to a place one could call "nice".
There is another jar staring at me but I refuse to use it.
For example if you fry herbs in olive oil and then add a tin of tomato soup or chopped tomatoes and simmer for twenty with some bay leaves you can make a tasty something to slop over your pasta. After eating that for a week I noticed a tin of Tesco value pasta source in the cupboard. It was thick gloopy and vile. It tasted like it was a mix of sugar and some nasty thickening agent. Even loads of tubs of garlic source from the bits and bob shelf failed to bring it to a place one could call "nice".
There is another jar staring at me but I refuse to use it.
14/02: Matt B Update.
Well, that fibreless week was not quite as bad as I imagined and to make matters worse on re-reading the instructions it was only supposed to be the last three days.
Doh.
My Trip to Hospital was relatively painless and I've even managed to keep my weight stable. It's not much but add in a few walks from Ramsgate to Margate (often late at night) I could even be said to be getting some exercise.
If you are feeling political we are currently talking about How the MPs expenses scandle made us feel at the fantastic site and how party politics works on Thanet Star.
Doh.
My Trip to Hospital was relatively painless and I've even managed to keep my weight stable. It's not much but add in a few walks from Ramsgate to Margate (often late at night) I could even be said to be getting some exercise.
If you are feeling political we are currently talking about How the MPs expenses scandle made us feel at the fantastic site and how party politics works on Thanet Star.
07/02: Fibreless me and now this!
Yes it is from the other end of a week without fibre that I am now reporting to you. Today is, for what I hope are reasons I shall not have to go into, a day for drinking laxatives.
Tomorrow I'll be checking into the hospital for an examination but today is a day for trying not to spray my bathroom with liquid poo. To say I have taken a large number of showers today would be an understatement.
All I can say is that this humiliation had better yield some results (or a clean bill of health) because it is about as deeply unpleasant as I have yet to encounter.
When all this is over I shall be scrubbing my bathroom from top to bottom. Today I'd just be happy to be able to sit still for an hour.
Tomorrow I'll be checking into the hospital for an examination but today is a day for trying not to spray my bathroom with liquid poo. To say I have taken a large number of showers today would be an understatement.
All I can say is that this humiliation had better yield some results (or a clean bill of health) because it is about as deeply unpleasant as I have yet to encounter.
When all this is over I shall be scrubbing my bathroom from top to bottom. Today I'd just be happy to be able to sit still for an hour.
04/02: No Fibre at all
Having spoken to the doc and found out some actually facts it seems that what I am cutting out is not so much veg and fruit and fibre in all it's forms. So Orange Juice is fine. (Yay!)
I must say that unless you have the need to run tot he loo all the flipping time that you should never try such a diet.
While I must confess to having had a lot more time to myself to thing about things and the forced break from facebook has been good for me I still would rather just go properly in the morning like I once did.
Still, at least now I have an increased awareness of the relationship between fibre (of which I had probably not been getting enough) and visits tot he loo. As of Wednesday next week I shall be upping my fibre intake which could mean that I rival Christian Young for fart power. There is a Melaleuca product for that and I shall be reviewing it shortly.
I must say that unless you have the need to run tot he loo all the flipping time that you should never try such a diet.
While I must confess to having had a lot more time to myself to thing about things and the forced break from facebook has been good for me I still would rather just go properly in the morning like I once did.
Still, at least now I have an increased awareness of the relationship between fibre (of which I had probably not been getting enough) and visits tot he loo. As of Wednesday next week I shall be upping my fibre intake which could mean that I rival Christian Young for fart power. There is a Melaleuca product for that and I shall be reviewing it shortly.
Well, as of tomorrow I am meant to go fruit and veg free.
I have massive doubts about this and huge reservations not least of all whole darn expensive it is going to be. Not to mention that I have to replace brown bread with white and basically take all the nutritional foods I have and give them away or freeze them. Given my current budget it's a week of plain cheap arse, nasty tasting pasta. yummy, I do not think.
Myself and the doctor are going to be having a face-to-face tomorrow I think.
What am I supposed to replace chocolate with now?
I have massive doubts about this and huge reservations not least of all whole darn expensive it is going to be. Not to mention that I have to replace brown bread with white and basically take all the nutritional foods I have and give them away or freeze them. Given my current budget it's a week of plain cheap arse, nasty tasting pasta. yummy, I do not think.
Myself and the doctor are going to be having a face-to-face tomorrow I think.
What am I supposed to replace chocolate with now?
I don't want to be the one that said I told you so (but I did):
150 years of diet fads and still no quick fix - Health - Diet and nutrition - msnbc.com
Sustained weight loss comes only from a lifestyle change. Yes pills, crash diets and even surgery can, for the right people, kick start that journey but it must be a complete change of life.
As the government prepares to update U.S. dietary guidelines, a look back at what people have tried to lose weight shows what hasn't changed is the quest for an easy fix.
Sustained weight loss comes only from a lifestyle change. Yes pills, crash diets and even surgery can, for the right people, kick start that journey but it must be a complete change of life.
I am not the biggest fan of carrots and cabbage anyway so you can imagine it took me ages to get myself eating lentils and brown bread and plenty of nuts and so forth. Yet I am finally off of white bread and onto some quality brown stuff. When I am busy midweek I tend to eat a lot of pickled foods, sandwiches made with brown bread and filled with some cheese (some vices go harder than others) and some chopped raw veg like peppers, home grown chives etc..
Then I get a letter from the NHS telling me that I need to spend at least seven days withno pulses nut or seeds, no fruit or vegetables of any kind not even fruit juice and no vitamin tablets. For breakfast I should not have cereal.
I should instead eat lots of mashed potatoes, white rice and pasta and as much eggs, cheese, pork, ham, salami, and fish as I like! I rarely eat fish or meats, I don't cook rice very often and pasta without tomatoes to make a source from... erm, that leaves dry pasta and cheese...
The whole diet reads like a recipe for a heart attack. Not only that but all the foods are much more expensive. I know me - I'll eat crisps and chocolate because I'll be hungry all the time and that will just undo the dieting and hard work I've been going through just to stop weight gain during the inactive winter months.
So for a week I have to starve or eat sugary crap!!!
No fruit or veg! What!?
Help!
Well at least I have a few weeks to plan for this madness.
Then I get a letter from the NHS telling me that I need to spend at least seven days withno pulses nut or seeds, no fruit or vegetables of any kind not even fruit juice and no vitamin tablets. For breakfast I should not have cereal.
I should instead eat lots of mashed potatoes, white rice and pasta and as much eggs, cheese, pork, ham, salami, and fish as I like! I rarely eat fish or meats, I don't cook rice very often and pasta without tomatoes to make a source from... erm, that leaves dry pasta and cheese...
The whole diet reads like a recipe for a heart attack. Not only that but all the foods are much more expensive. I know me - I'll eat crisps and chocolate because I'll be hungry all the time and that will just undo the dieting and hard work I've been going through just to stop weight gain during the inactive winter months.
So for a week I have to starve or eat sugary crap!!!
No fruit or veg! What!?
Help!
Well at least I have a few weeks to plan for this madness.
14/01: Not good but not bad
Give or take half a pound (my scales are not very accurate) I have seen no change in my body weight which on one hand is disappointing but on the other hand given the junk I've been eating this week is quite good.
Good girth reduction things I have been doing including walking for over an hour and then having a pasta meal with plenty of crunchy veg (and some bacon bits) but bad stuffs includes a large donor kebab and a whole range of ales and ciders (and some stoats too).
No I've not gone on a massive bender but I have spent a good number of evenings meeting friends and reviewing live music nights for Thanet Star which is a blog about where I live.
So a no change day. This is about typical for me actually loosing it or putting it on has, for my entire life, been a bit of a challenge. As an average since I was 17 I have been this exact weight so hopefully this years attempt to maintain an allotment will provide the change of pace I have been looking for.
Good girth reduction things I have been doing including walking for over an hour and then having a pasta meal with plenty of crunchy veg (and some bacon bits) but bad stuffs includes a large donor kebab and a whole range of ales and ciders (and some stoats too).
No I've not gone on a massive bender but I have spent a good number of evenings meeting friends and reviewing live music nights for Thanet Star which is a blog about where I live.
So a no change day. This is about typical for me actually loosing it or putting it on has, for my entire life, been a bit of a challenge. As an average since I was 17 I have been this exact weight so hopefully this years attempt to maintain an allotment will provide the change of pace I have been looking for.
