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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 141963" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>When I've dieted before, especially when I was younger, I made the mistake of allowing calories from sweeter foods (including unsweetened fruit). What I'm doing now is allowing ONE serve of unsweetened fruit per day, generally in the form of frozen fruit juice, and nothing else sweet. I'm finding that my use of artificial sweeteners is cutting back - it now tastes much sweeter with the same amount I've been using.</p><p></p><p>Carbs - I've cut back but nowhere near as much as on Atkins. I've also switched to eating carbs from unprocessed sources. For example, I'm buying the wholemeal wholegrain bread instead of eating my delicious home-baked white bread. If I try baking my own grain bread it wears out the bread machine really fast. I bought some brown rice and I've cooked up some of that, to re-heat in small serves when I'm feeding white rice to everyone else. I'm not being too fussy about limiting it when it's so thoroughly wholegrain because I know so much of it is indigestible fibre and this will speed up the whole process.</p><p></p><p>I made up my muesli. Because I can't use rolled oats (or oats in any form) I've substituted rice as rolled brown rice (very hard & chewy, but it's actually not bad as part of the mix) and also puffed brown rice, which is really light and delicious. To this I added bran (as the powdery stuff, not the cardboard-textured straws), walnut pieces and sultanas. I'm using a one cup ramekin as my bowl, eating out of that. This keeps the serve sizes small and frankly this is still very filling. When I get hungry at other times in the day, I'll have another serve without feeling guilty. I remember I lost a lot of weight on a similar recipe, back when I made it with oats. It all went haywire when I developed my GI reaction to the oats but didn't at the time realise what the problem was.</p><p></p><p>Today for lunch I had made a Greek salad, which I had with a slice of wholegrain bread. I couldn't eat it all at one sitting, so I ate it over about two hours.</p><p></p><p>This morning I discovered I'd lost another kilo - that makes 4 Kg lost since about 5 March. Four Kg in 25 days. Maybe it's a worry if I'm counting my diet in days, when I've got to keep it up for months, probably years. The pills cost me about A$100 a month.</p><p></p><p>I see the gastroenterologist in five months' time. I doubt I'll be able to keep up this rate of loss, it will plateau soon, but any loss should help.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 141963, member: 1991"] When I've dieted before, especially when I was younger, I made the mistake of allowing calories from sweeter foods (including unsweetened fruit). What I'm doing now is allowing ONE serve of unsweetened fruit per day, generally in the form of frozen fruit juice, and nothing else sweet. I'm finding that my use of artificial sweeteners is cutting back - it now tastes much sweeter with the same amount I've been using. Carbs - I've cut back but nowhere near as much as on Atkins. I've also switched to eating carbs from unprocessed sources. For example, I'm buying the wholemeal wholegrain bread instead of eating my delicious home-baked white bread. If I try baking my own grain bread it wears out the bread machine really fast. I bought some brown rice and I've cooked up some of that, to re-heat in small serves when I'm feeding white rice to everyone else. I'm not being too fussy about limiting it when it's so thoroughly wholegrain because I know so much of it is indigestible fibre and this will speed up the whole process. I made up my muesli. Because I can't use rolled oats (or oats in any form) I've substituted rice as rolled brown rice (very hard & chewy, but it's actually not bad as part of the mix) and also puffed brown rice, which is really light and delicious. To this I added bran (as the powdery stuff, not the cardboard-textured straws), walnut pieces and sultanas. I'm using a one cup ramekin as my bowl, eating out of that. This keeps the serve sizes small and frankly this is still very filling. When I get hungry at other times in the day, I'll have another serve without feeling guilty. I remember I lost a lot of weight on a similar recipe, back when I made it with oats. It all went haywire when I developed my GI reaction to the oats but didn't at the time realise what the problem was. Today for lunch I had made a Greek salad, which I had with a slice of wholegrain bread. I couldn't eat it all at one sitting, so I ate it over about two hours. This morning I discovered I'd lost another kilo - that makes 4 Kg lost since about 5 March. Four Kg in 25 days. Maybe it's a worry if I'm counting my diet in days, when I've got to keep it up for months, probably years. The pills cost me about A$100 a month. I see the gastroenterologist in five months' time. I doubt I'll be able to keep up this rate of loss, it will plateau soon, but any loss should help. Marg [/QUOTE]
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