No More Rabbit Food
Weight Loss Tips For People Who Love Food
August 1,
2008
Issue 10
In This
Issue...
As you read this I’ll be packing my suitcase for sea, sand and sunshine.
Feature Article
It’s so easy to get into bad habits while on holiday. Having meals prepared by someone else, getting three cooked meals a day, lazing in the sun and totally chilling out mean that you may not be on the alert for poor food choices.
Or perhaps you are self-catering and the effort of shopping in strange supermarkets, dealing with a large family group and finding meals that please everybody is getting to you.
So here are some holiday survival tips, designed to keep your weight loss programme on track.
- Don’t expect to live by the same rules as at home. You are on holiday, after all. This doesn’t mean eating relentlessly at every meal – you can relax your rules but don’t abandon them completely.
- It does mean that if you have the occasional holiday ice cream (note the word occasional, not with every meal!) that’ll be fine.
- Your weight loss goal should be to maintain the status quo. Don’t expect weight loss with a change of diet and activity level but don’t relax so much that you put on weight.
- Be aware that in a hot climate you will need to drink more liquid. While you’ll like the chilled beer and white wine, water is better. Always have water with your meals and if you are having alcohol, make sure you have sips of water as well.
- Alcohol can add a surprising number of calories to a meal, plus it makes you less aware of what you are eating so it’s easier to overeat.
- Gear your diet towards lean meat and fish with vegetables and salads. Try not to have too much pasta with rich sauces, though the occasional pasta dish will be fine. You shouldn’t have to count calories, just be aware of what you are eating.
- Finish each meal with the feeling that you could possibly eat a bit more and allow yourself to feel "having had sufficient"
And finally be aware that if you make healthy food choices when you get back home, by this time next year you could be slimmer, fitter and healthier. So aim to continue your healthy eating strategy when you get home too!
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About Liz
- Degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge (that’s where I get my biochemistry knowledge).
- Degree in Nutritional Therapy (that’s where the nutrition knowledge comes from).
- Module leader in Masters Level Module Tackling Obesity at the Centre for Nutrition Education & Lifestyle Management. On this module I lecture on the biochemistry of eating and starvation, satiety mechanisms, stress and obesity and emotional eating.
- Fifteen years experience as a herbalist and health coach.
- Practitioner level qualification in NLP, Coaching and Stress Management.
The information in this newsletter is not intended to replace medical advice. If you feel you need to lose weight and you have any medical problems please consult your doctor before starting a diet.
Weight Loss Success Tips
If, when you are sticking to healthy eating, you just want the sugar hit, why not try some frozen fruit?
Soft summer fruit (raspberries, strawberries, blueberries etc) can be blended into a puree and frozen into ice cube trays or put into lolly molds for freezing.
They can be used as an instant sauce on fresh fruit or be mixed into a plain yogurt. A couple of ice cubes worth of blended berries work well in a smoothie.
They give enough sweetness to be satisfying, are bursting with vitamins and antioxidants and taste fantastic.
A vital vitamin – but did Peter Rabbit get
enough?
Vitamin B12 is a vitamin that is vital for the body’s
activities and a deficiency may lead to anaemia.
B12 is not made by
plants so we get it in our diet from animal sources.
This means
that if you are vegan you could, in theory, run out of B12.
So, as
this newsletter is called No More Rabbit Food, I thought about Peter
Rabbit. Would he have been B12 deficient? Certainly he would have had a
vegan diet– lots of fruit and veg with nuts and seeds but no meat or fish
or cheese.
Except that his salad was not pre-washed in cellophane
packs. So his B12 would have come from his insect intake!
The
modern western salad greens are “too clean” and lack the insect life to
contribute to B12 intake.
Having said that, I think I’ll stick to
the washed salads!
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