Sweetcorn is not a vegetable, it's grain.

It contains around 20% carbs and the rest is mainly water!

1 can will give you 40g of carbs!

Don't eat sweetcorn if you are on a carb restricted diet.

ditch the sweetcorn

its a pointless food imo

bit like porridge,  no real nutritional value whatsoever.

Barzalona's diet may help you lose weight but it's not healthy.  Big difference.  He's basically describing the early version of the Atkins diet.  Frying stuff in butter!!!  Good God.

Apologies, someone else mentioned ghee.

Brilliant,especially considering Boxing Day hasnt even arrived as yet.But well done anyway.

This year = 2012.
Boxing Day this year = Boxing Day last year.
Er....

Templeton Peck 13 Dec 12 12:09 
Wake up and drink a lot of room temperature water immediately.  Drink quite a bit.

Two hours later, have breakfast:

Breakfast: 3 tablespoons oatbran (oatbran, not whole oats.  Try Mornflake) boil in saucepan with a mug of water, when boiling add a tablespoon of flaxmeal and a sprinkle of cinnamon.  Add 1/4 mug of water mixed with a half-scoop of vanilla protein powder.  Stir well and when bubbling again chuck in 3/4 of a chopped apple; handful of crushed walnuts and a handful of sultanas.  Mix in and add a dash of zero calorie maple syrup (Walden Farms pancake syrup).  Pour into a bowl and top with a chopped banana.  Have with a half glass of apple juice.  Mug of green tea would be better but pressed apple juice is fine, just not too much.  This breakfast is delicious.

Drink water.  Plenty of water.  You know you're getting enough when you need a piss every 30 mins.

Lunch: Tuna/Salmon/Chicken/Turkey salad.  Minimal dressing.  Drink some green tea.  Soup with a Food Doctor pitta break also ok.

Afternoon snack: flan/custard: Crack 5 eggs into a bowl and whisk. Heat 375ml of milk with a vanilla pod scraped out into it.  Include the pod.  Don't let it boil.  When warm pout into the bowl.  Add a teaspoon of nutmeg, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, 1.25 teaspoon vanilla essence, 1/5 cup sugar substitute (I use Total Sweet).  Whisk and pour into four separate ramekins. Sprinkle some cinnamon on top. Place ramekins in an oven tray and fill tray with boiling water up to 3/4 of ramekin.  Put in a pre-heated oven at 155 degrees (if fan-assisted) for 35 mins.  This obviously makes 4.  Leave to cool and put in fridge.  Can have one a day.  Have with mug of green tea.

Dinner: baked fish and sauteed spinach.  Put some white fish on some foil, sprinkle a tiny amount of salt (salt is really bad when trying to lose weight as soaks up water) and pepper, a drizzle of fresh lemon juice and drizzle of olive oil.  Place some sliced ginger on top with some thyme.  Wrap up in the foil and put in a 200 degree fan-assisted foil for 18 mins.  Dice some ginger and garlic.  Slice some shallots.  Rub a tiny amount of olive oil on a frying pan, heat and add the chopped stuff.  Then add 3 large handfuls of spinach and sautee until wilted.  That's dinner.  Have with cup of green tea or apple juice if need something sweet.  Dessert: fat free yoghurt, preferable vanilla otherwise something with no added sugar/fructose, raspberry better than most.

Make sure you're still drinking lots of water.

Weigh yourself when you wake up first thing every morning.

Can't believe I typed this out.  I lose about 1 lb per day with this and don't really need any exercise, although it obviously helps.  Drinking copious amounts of water is really important.


By the time I'd f@nnied around making and eating that breakfast it would be time to go back to bed again.

How does drinking so much water you need a p1ss every 30mins help you lose weight then?

Cobblers.

Barzalona, yes, I'm aware fat plays a part in a healthy diet, but going to McDonalds and omitting just the bun and fries is not healthy.

GPT, Barzalona is correct re the water.  Try it and see what happens.  P1ssing every 30 minutes was an exaggeration, but try drinking around 3 litres of water throughout the day and see what happens.

Cubanpete, I can trade on here whilst making that breakfast.  Easier/quicker than it sounds (especially once you've made it a few times) and delicious.  Excellent source of complex carbohydrates, fibre, various vitamins/minerals, protein, etc and tastes great.

Yep, fair enough with your McDonalds example, nothing wrong with a treat every now and then. 

I'm just not a fan of diets that concentrate on weight loss at the cost of health.  I think high protein/low carb with next to no concern about fat content is not a great way to healthily lose weight.  You'll get more than enough (healthy) fat from fish and nuts.

Love a drop of choch coconut milk in my coffee on the weekend.

i fast dinner (6/7pm) to dinner the next day

i just have black tea and water when i fast.

usually train right at the end of my fast as well.

yes over 24 hours but i am having a decent meal at the end of my fast.

Blimey, nearly 4 hours for that one to hit home.

Shrewdie

absolutely nothing wrong with saturated fat and the whole connection with saturated fat and cholestrol is Government nonsense

you need to broaden your horizons.

"This brings us to that evil substance, saturated fat. Or, at least that’s what we’re supposed to think of it. Saturated fat can, in fact, raise LDL levels, but it raises the good LDL we talked about before, which doesn’t increase the incidence of heart disease. In fact, a paper by Siri-Tarino et al., published in 2010 in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, reviewed 21 studies, including 347,747 subjects, and concluded, “There is no significant evidence for concluding that dietary saturated fat is associated with an increased risk of CHD or CVD [heart disease].” But before scientists, even scientists who endorsed the Paleolithic diet were aware of the distinction between the different kinds of LDL, they demonized saturated fat, including plant sources like coconut oil and palm oil.

Coconut oil or palm oil is actually a great source of medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs), a type of saturated fat that can be used very quickly as energy in the body. In many studies, MCTs have been shown to help people lose weight. One of the fatty acids in coconut oil, lauric acid, is a powerful antiviral and can also increase HDL, the “good” cholesterol in your body. So much for coconut oil’s bad reputation!"

There will be many more studies which come to the opposite conclusion.  If you think a diet containing 60% fat is good for you, then that's your choice, but it sounds like madness.  I hope you don't regret it.

d13phe, just because some quacks say saturated fat is good for you doesn't mean it is.  I could so what you've done and quote a review of 48 studies:

A 2011 systematic review from The Cochrane Library analyzed 48 studies conducted between 1965 and 2009 and included 65,508 participants. All studies reduced or modified participants’ dietary fat or cholesterol for at least six months by at least 30 percent. It was found that reducing saturated fat by reducing and/or modifying dietary fat reduced the risk of having a cardiovascular event, such as heart attack, stroke and unplanned heart surgery, by 14 percent. Of the 65,508 participants, 7 percent had a cardiovascular event.

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However you look at it, there are many areas of nutrition which are contentious.  I'd advise everyone to be sensible and consider the potential negative effects of your insides, not just how much blubber you lose.  Many people say excess saturated fat can lead to heart disease, some people don't.  In my view, it's incredibly naive to assume the minority are correct and so ignore the majority.  To me, it sounds like people want this to be the case - like I'd love to find a scientist say pastries are really healthy - and so cling to it.

great post