Cutting Down On Food

[jennyjoan]

If you are trying to do the above - and if you feel like a wee cuppa - what would you eat? No fruit please. Fruit and tea doesn't go together.

[Atheist]

jenny, I wouldn't eat anything, the tea would take the edge off my appetite. And I wouldn't put sugar in it.

[jennyjoan]

right ok, tea and nothing doesn't go either LOL

[davebro]

I had a plum & a cuppa tea earlier!

[Mamyalynne]

Most of my cuppas are taken with no food at all, maybe a ginger nut or two with one cup mid afternoon.

[emmie]

tea with no sugar and a plain digestive, just one.

[jennyjoan]

said biscuits are so reduced that you do need 2 or 3 LOL

[jennyjoan]

do love 2 buttered? digestive, ummmmmm

[emmie]

no to biscuit then -

[jennyjoan]

thankfully - don't take sugar ever in tea or coffee. Don't even put sugar on my cereal. But for health and clothes sake I need to lose a good 7-10lbs. Am afraid to weigh myself.

Any drink out there to sort cut the appetite.

[emmie]

water will do it, if it was me though i would be running to the loo more than i do now......

[Atheist]

jenny if you are trying to cut down on food, then that is what you must do. It's no use saying 'oh but I can't have tea without food'. If you really need a little something with your cuppa, I suppose you'll need to cut back on something else; maybe a bit less bangers and mash with your wine?

[jennyjoan]

I might take up the oul fags - do think they suppress appetite. Friend who has been smoking from she was 13 and took a heart attack 2 years ago has put on about 2 and half stone. She was always a real skinnymalink.

[emmie]

i was weighed in the hospital, not so much a shock as i had a rough idea, but its not ideal. No idea what i would cut out, probably sugar for one thing. But you don't take that, biscuits are a problem because they have lots of calories.

[emmie]

no to smoking, that's the wrong approach.

[jennyjoan]

I do like a biccy or 3 but like not all day - now and again.

[Atheist]

jenny... please don't smoke as a way of improving your health or enabling you to fit into your clothes. I am a bit bigger than I used to be, but on the whole I stay stable, so I'm no expert, but I reckon that reducing your intake so as to train yoursel fo eat less is bound to help, or at least stop your weight increasing.

[ummmm]

Just don't eat anything. You'll get used to it.

I only eat when I'm hungry, not for the sake of it. Never been on a diet in my life.

[emmie]

balanced diet, try weight watchers see if they can help, don't stop eating, that can lead to all sorts of problems, i know how it can affect you.

[ummmm]

Or give up tea.

I have more or less given up coffee. I allow myself one cup a day (unless I'm on holiday, I go wild and might have 3)

[teacake44]

I hate to say this, but I'm one that can eat whatever and don't increase in size. In saying that I've never really had a sweet tooth, but since retiring I have started to get one, so who know what seeds I've planted for the coming months. Last week I bought a coffee and walnut cake from Sainsburys normaly £2.75 they had reduced them to £2, cut into four, I had tea and cake four days on the trot, must throw this habit. :0)