iDieting

Anyone got any ideas for snacks, feeling weak between meals. Eating plenty when i do eat. brekky at about 07.30 ish, and don’t get chance for lunch till 1400, due to shift i’m on at present, don’t get home till 20.30, not really hunger as such, but feeling a bit weak between meals.Drinking plenty of water. Blood suger throughout the day is between 4 and 5 mmol, so slow carb doing its job, just need something rather than almonds to snack on. Halfway through week 3 so far. Anyone tried combining slo carb with a paleo type diet, to include some fruit etc?

Nuts.

…and just a couple to keep things ticking over.

I cooked some more gram bread things last night, tried one this morning with marmite. It was **** disgusting. So bad in fact Im going to get drunk tonight and eat some crisps.

Scruffwhassup bad the flatbread or the marmite addition? Now finishdtheblast of my lorry tyre batch, gonna make some proper ones tomorrow night. I rode 25 mile round trip to see mate last night and had 3 pints of bitter to fuel the ride home, I have missed beer! Snacks for me are usually nuts or chick pea flat breads or celery sticks spread with peanut butter, or I just scoff loads of ham or eat a tin of tuna, its not excing but it does the job

Large part of that last made little sense…I phone typing

If I know I’ll need a snack between meals I usually buy slices of poncy ham or similar from Tesco (stuff that’s not fatty or too processed), not sure if that’s strictly a good idea but I find if I resort to nuts I’ll eat too many :p

pleased to announce that my cauliflower and parsnip mashed potato substitute* was roundly approved of by my kids who declared it even better than mashed spuds. Added a bit of garlic and olive oil.

*ashamed Irishman

jamest, I tried without salt as the other ones were a bit salty, lady at work says salt does special magic things in cookery, so I’ll keep the salt in next time. I need to find something to eat with marmite in the morning.

Dave, thought you were Oirish ?

Turnip is nicer…are turnips in? (Swedes I believe they are called here)

iDave is iRish.

Dave, thought you were Oirish ?

He is. Hence being ashamed in ignoring the humble potato.

also tried a kind of energy bar – gram flour, loads of pine nuts, some flax seeds, salt, an egg, caraway seeds, chili – made it quite thick and baked. needs further development but not bad.

iBar ?

Out tonight Dave ?

I think a gram flour energy bar could be good idea might try this. My recent lorry tyre flatbreads were caused by too much gram flour in the mix, made em really dense, for an energy bar this would be ideal though.
Scruff – yes salt does do magic things in baking you need it

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pleased to announce that my cauliflower and parsnip mashed potato substitute* was roundly approved of by my kids who declared it even better than mashed spuds. Added a bit of garlic and olive oil.

I tried that in the States once. I complemented the cook on the best mash potatoes i’d ever had and i couldn’t believe it was mainly cauliflower.

If parsnips are in, does that mean Jerusalem artichokes are OK?

Off to circuits – carb intake today – 1 small piece of toasted wholemeal bread. 🙂

are you sure it wasn’t a normal sized piece of bread?

Ive just found that lots of cadbury’s celebrations and some cake equates to a decentish pace on the road bike, even with 20mph head winds.

Think I’ve overdone the nuts today – pecans, puistachios, cashews. Tasted good though

It was a normal size piece cut in half 🙂

Dahl on toast for me tonight (post workout). I found it really hard doing my (albeit lightweight) weight routine tonight, but then i worked out what i ate today and realised i’d only had piece of blackpudding/2 fried eggs/small portion of quinoa for breakfast, half a bag of salad/a tomato/half a chicken breast for lunch, and some almonds as snacks.

Oh well, that felt better than last time 🙂

Me no likee burpees 😐

What to put with my chilli 😕

If you’ve worked out you can have toast… or rice… or ice cream…

What’s good with chilli – can’t really manage mashed butter beanz – there are too many beans in there already. I had to do all my exercises at the back this evening due to last night’s chilli 😳

Got any quinoa? That’s my new favourite.

What’s good with chilli

More chilli

diet stuff…

Yesterday i cracked at lunch time, but it wasn’t my fault… ok it was, but i’d had an incredibly **** morning due to idiots. The chicken caesar baguette and chocolate brownie from M&S did make me feel better though.

I was back on track last night and i’ve just made some onion bhajis for dinner later.

Well it’s my day off and i’m having Maltesers for tea 🙂 Lots & Lots of them.

Day off, has involved bread, crisps , cake, curry and now beer.

I had my 2 days off (after a long weekend in Spain where I had a few days off, but I was doing a lot of windsurfing and biking) and expected to be way over.

But no. 89kg. Down from 98kg in May. Which is lighter than I’ve been at any time in the last 20 years plus. And my ability to get to the top of the hill first is increasing too. Good man iDave for cajoling me to start.

Yeah I am still on board, and losing it steadily (doing 95% slow carb as still having muesli). I enjoy my cooking and find this works really well, tonight I had cauliflower and cannelinii bean mash with garlic and paprika and a big fat steak.

Been on the slo-carb/iDave for 4 weeks as from tomorrow. Weigh-in this morning, lost a total of 5.5 KG, 4 cm round my belly. Due to domestic stuff and work shifts, only ridden once in the month and bugger all else, so will see how month 2 goes. Feel generally better, not really craving bread, pasta etc. Cheat day today, but don’t seem bothered about sweet stuff etc. Happy days!

I’m living off Dorset cereal muesli at the minute (especially orgasmically yummy with strawberry yoghurt) Is it iDave diet approved?

Museli No, yoghurt No. Apart from that, all ok.

shit

Not that either.

😆

walked into that.

need something that is yummy (see above) that I don’t need to cook, will fill me up, and is ready in a minute.

thanks

A can of mixed beanz.

Butter.