Don’t want it? Don’t eat it. It can be done.

(LighterLife Route to Management – Week1, Day1)
Another lesson learnt from my friend this week: If the food being offered is not something you want to eat, DO NOT EAT IT. Actually I’m not sure how that should be worded for the thought to come out the way it’s meant to:
If the food being offered is [...]

Just in case – with a twist

Met up with an old friend for a day’s work and a night’s chilling out this week. The absolute BEST bit about seeing him was definitely the food talk!! Amazingly, he’s also on a diet!! He’s doing the Montignac Diet and it’s working for him. I was able to ask all my silly questions on [...]

Recipe 2: Spicy Thai fishcakes

Another recipe suitable for LighterLife Route to Management…
SPICY THAI FISHCAKES

Week1
The dow:
400 g white fish fillets, i.e. cod, haddock
1/2 tsp red chili powder
1 bulb lemongrass
1 tbs coriander
1 tbs Thai fish sauce
juice of 1 lime
1/2 tsp table salt
The dip:
1/4 tsp red chili powder
1 tsp fresh ginger
2 tsp sweetener
3 tbs light soy sauce
The steps:
1. Remove [...]

Ketosis gone fishing?!?

I may have been out of ketosis for weeks!!!!!!!
I suspect I’ve been mostly out of ketosis for the past 3 weeks without having realised!!! That’s not even funny, that’s completely and utterly f***ed up!! That would explain the slow weight loss – hello, only 3.3 kilos in the past 3 weeks!! Not what you’d [...]

Recipe 1: Thai crispy salad

I’m working through some recipes I want to be using during Route to Management, sorting the ingredients out by what I’ll be allowed to have each week.
THAI CRISPY SALAD

Week 1:
The salad:
100g red cabbage
100g white cabbage
1 celery stalk
bunch of fresh coriander

The dressing:
juice of 1 lime
0.5 tsp grated zest of lime
1 tsp Thai fish [...]

It shouldn’t be about food

I keep thinking about what I posted yesterday about needing to concentrate on how I feel about LIFE, not about food, in order to survive my new life.
How has this realisation come about for me? Well, one key contributor is the LighterLife Management manual, which is a little book we received from our councellor a [...]

Observation vs. Action

Today I read through all my posts so far. It’s already shaping up to a journey where I can now identify periods of a) frustration and feeling stuck, b) observing life and other people, and c) revelations about my own behaviour and feelings.
Unlike I feared, it was actually an enjoyable read (go on, try some [...]

Crisis over sweetener

Once again, caught myself wondering if I should or shouldn’t do something because someone else said so.
I caught myself wondering if I should stop putting sweetener in my Rooibos tea because couple of days ago in the book store I glanced at Janet Street-Porter’s latest book and she mentioned she drinks unsweetened Rooibos tea throughout [...]

The fridge of emotions

I popped into my local book store last night, thought I’d buy myself a cool graphic novel or a nice GI cook book.
Instead, climbing the stairs to their second floor, I got distracted by an overwhelming feeling of sadness. INSTANTLY I realised this is the book store, the floor, where I had been coming to [...]

Abstinence is taking its toll

I have been constantly thinking about ending abstinence. My crooked thinking (or is it crooked? still working my way around this one) has moved on from merely talking to me about WEIGHT to ‘only exercise, not abstinence, will make your thighs slimmer and your stomach firmer‘. AND ‘the muscle you’ll get will replace any remaining [...]