recipe and general dieting stuff
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dream_labyrinthRecipe I snatched from the British Weightwatchers site - for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
faerishimmer and anybody else who's interested...
Ingredients:
5 sprays low-fat cooking spray
200 g Sainsbury's Porridge Oats
100g sultanas
100 g dates (raw, without stone)
50 g linseed
50 g pumpkin seeds or sunflower seeds
50 g hazelnuts, roughly chopped
50 g almonds, roughly chopped
75 g muscavado sugar, light
1 small can evaporated milk, 170 g
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
3 medium eggs, beaten
Instructions:
Preheat the oven to Gas Mark 4/180°C/fan oven 160°C. Spray a 20 cm (8 inch) square baking tin with low fat cooking spray. Line with non-stick baking parchment.
Mix together the porridge oats, sultanas, dates, linseeds, pumpkin or sunflower seeds, hazelnuts and almonds. Stir in the sugar.
Beat the evaporated milk, vanilla extract and eggs together. Stir into the dry ingredients, then pour into the prepared tin and level the surface.
Bake for 20 - 25 minutes until set and golden. Cool in the tin for 20 minutes, then remove and trim the edges. Cut into 16 fingers. Store in an airtight tin or wrap and freeze in a rigid freezer box.
Just about everything of the dry ingredients, with the exception maybe of the oats, could very likely be replaced by something else, or you can add more stuff.
Raisins instead of sultanas or dates, brazil nuts instead of hazelnuts or almonds, dried cranberries, chopped dry fruit...
Now that I pay close attention to what I eat, I also come across a million diet tips each day.
A colleague of mine is on some expensive diet plan called Metabolism Balance or something like that, where your blood is tested and based on the results they create a diet plan for you. You're only allowed to eat every five hours, no snacks. That's in total contrast to just about everybody else who says or writes something about dieting, because usually they all say you should eat every three hours so your blood sugar doesn't get too low and your metabolism doesn't slow down.
Same colleague also says that according to that diet plan, the first thing you eat in every meal should be more or less pure protein, as that helps the metabolism, apparently. Don't ask me why.
Another diet plan I've read about calls for throwing away the egg yolks and just eating the egg whites. I would consider that a huge waste; I could never do that. Besides, AFAIK the egg yolks contain all kinds of healthy stuff too, so it would also not be totally logical.
Spicy food helps burn fat, that seems to be somewhat of a consensus with diet experts. Also, drinking loads of water and unsweetened tea, green tea being the favorite.
Personally, I try not to eat late - after seven, only fruit and that only if I'm really hungry. I generally avoid convenience food and take-away, and prepare from scratch. (I don't think I can cook too well, I certainly wouldn't want anybody else to have to eat my stuff, but it's fun to experiment.) In general, I don't use butter or margarine at all. I rarely eat bread, and if I do, it's wholewheat. I buy low fat products but check to make sure they haven't added so much sweetener and artifical flavours that the product has nothing to do with the real thing and has no less calories than the real thing either.
Supposedly, you should concentrate on eating and take time. I can only take time eating when I read something at the same time, otherwise I'd consider eating a total waste of time and would just gulp down my food as fast as possible.
I drink a lot - at least 2.5 litres a day, mostly water. I have a 1.5-litre bottle at work that I finish during the day, and then I usually drink another litre after work.
And I work out, up to five to six times a week.
I've come to some sort of routine: I go to the gym on Mondays, fencing class on Tuesdays and some weight training when I come home, swimming on Wednesdays (half and hour breaststroke, half an hour backstroke without stopping, then ten laps in the indoor pool using only my arms, and ten only the legs. I never thought it was possible to sweat when swimming...), weight training and some exercises at home on Thursdays, jogging on Fridays (depending on how I feel, between half an hour and two hours), weight training / exercises on Saturdays.
Yeah, I don't have a life, why do you ask? We'll see how long I can keep this up.
But I'm beginning to actually see the muscles, which is totally cool.
faerishimmer and anybody else who's interested...Ingredients:
5 sprays low-fat cooking spray
200 g Sainsbury's Porridge Oats
100g sultanas
100 g dates (raw, without stone)
50 g linseed
50 g pumpkin seeds or sunflower seeds
50 g hazelnuts, roughly chopped
50 g almonds, roughly chopped
75 g muscavado sugar, light
1 small can evaporated milk, 170 g
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
3 medium eggs, beaten
Instructions:
Preheat the oven to Gas Mark 4/180°C/fan oven 160°C. Spray a 20 cm (8 inch) square baking tin with low fat cooking spray. Line with non-stick baking parchment.
Mix together the porridge oats, sultanas, dates, linseeds, pumpkin or sunflower seeds, hazelnuts and almonds. Stir in the sugar.
Beat the evaporated milk, vanilla extract and eggs together. Stir into the dry ingredients, then pour into the prepared tin and level the surface.
Bake for 20 - 25 minutes until set and golden. Cool in the tin for 20 minutes, then remove and trim the edges. Cut into 16 fingers. Store in an airtight tin or wrap and freeze in a rigid freezer box.
Just about everything of the dry ingredients, with the exception maybe of the oats, could very likely be replaced by something else, or you can add more stuff.
Raisins instead of sultanas or dates, brazil nuts instead of hazelnuts or almonds, dried cranberries, chopped dry fruit...
Now that I pay close attention to what I eat, I also come across a million diet tips each day.
A colleague of mine is on some expensive diet plan called Metabolism Balance or something like that, where your blood is tested and based on the results they create a diet plan for you. You're only allowed to eat every five hours, no snacks. That's in total contrast to just about everybody else who says or writes something about dieting, because usually they all say you should eat every three hours so your blood sugar doesn't get too low and your metabolism doesn't slow down.
Same colleague also says that according to that diet plan, the first thing you eat in every meal should be more or less pure protein, as that helps the metabolism, apparently. Don't ask me why.
Another diet plan I've read about calls for throwing away the egg yolks and just eating the egg whites. I would consider that a huge waste; I could never do that. Besides, AFAIK the egg yolks contain all kinds of healthy stuff too, so it would also not be totally logical.
Spicy food helps burn fat, that seems to be somewhat of a consensus with diet experts. Also, drinking loads of water and unsweetened tea, green tea being the favorite.
Personally, I try not to eat late - after seven, only fruit and that only if I'm really hungry. I generally avoid convenience food and take-away, and prepare from scratch. (I don't think I can cook too well, I certainly wouldn't want anybody else to have to eat my stuff, but it's fun to experiment.) In general, I don't use butter or margarine at all. I rarely eat bread, and if I do, it's wholewheat. I buy low fat products but check to make sure they haven't added so much sweetener and artifical flavours that the product has nothing to do with the real thing and has no less calories than the real thing either.
Supposedly, you should concentrate on eating and take time. I can only take time eating when I read something at the same time, otherwise I'd consider eating a total waste of time and would just gulp down my food as fast as possible.
I drink a lot - at least 2.5 litres a day, mostly water. I have a 1.5-litre bottle at work that I finish during the day, and then I usually drink another litre after work.
And I work out, up to five to six times a week.
I've come to some sort of routine: I go to the gym on Mondays, fencing class on Tuesdays and some weight training when I come home, swimming on Wednesdays (half and hour breaststroke, half an hour backstroke without stopping, then ten laps in the indoor pool using only my arms, and ten only the legs. I never thought it was possible to sweat when swimming...), weight training and some exercises at home on Thursdays, jogging on Fridays (depending on how I feel, between half an hour and two hours), weight training / exercises on Saturdays.
Yeah, I don't have a life, why do you ask? We'll see how long I can keep this up.
But I'm beginning to actually see the muscles, which is totally cool.
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Date: 2008-02-12 01:02 am (UTC)I really need to up my exercise, but it's so diffult when I have the conditions i do ... I just need to take my time, I guess.
Thank you for the advice, I really do appreciate it <3
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Date: 2008-02-17 11:39 am (UTC)Considering the lovely area where you live, I would suggest going for walks as a start. Take it slow, take your camera along, and just walk at a comfortable, steady pace.