I am going to attempt to do a weekly blog instead of daily updates on Facebook and then share on my page plus any interesting bits and bobs I might find on the internet.
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So the past week:
Interesting appointment with doctor on Tuesday means that I'm now on a low fat diet (not a dieting diet I might add, but if that happens it's a bonus, haha) as my cholesterol is a little high; not worryingly high, but I need to bring it down. Waaaah! No more cakes, chocolate or crisps for me then. Although.......fatless cake might be an option and I'm sure I can adapt something else to make it less 'fatty'. Also my blood results are a bit odd. One week they were fine after not needing to fast and now, two weeks later and after fasting, they are borderline. So I'm off for another damn blood test this week; again non fast. Good job I don't mind needles, hehe
Luckily I have followed a diet like this before which had to be incredibly strict. I had gallstones and whilst awaiting the operation had to follow a low fat diet which needed to be no more than 2g fat (not just saturated, but total fat) per 100g. Regardless of how strict this was I ate really well, was never hungry and still could have treats as jelly sweets, jam and marmalade, marshmallows, yogurts were all within parametres. I'm not going that strict as it meant no eggs, no cheese, no meat and I lived on fish and veg which is fine, but I do rather like the odd egg. Currently going for less than 2g saturated fat per 100g.
So onto Sainsbury, partly because we have a nectar card, and an order of quorn products, low fat yogurt (use a lot of that anyway) and an attempt to find a cereal I could eat that was gluten free and rice free as I also find that rice bloats me and I'd rather not eat it. This is where the moral difficulties come into the blog as the only cereal I could find online was cornflakes by...NESTLE!!! I don't like buying Nestle unless I really, really have to due to the baby scandal and the palm oil problem.
Baby Milk Scandal
INDONESIAN PALM OIL
But, as in this case, I felt I had no choice or at least very little choice. Doves farm do cornflakes, although they weren't on the sainsbury site, but they contain rice syrup as do their other cereals so no good to me. Kellogg's don't even do a gluten free range as their cornflakes are flavoured with barley malt!! Why? They are cornflakes; they should be just corn! But, hey ho, what do I know? So I've relented and bought Nestle *sad face* so I have a choice to have at breakfast between cornflakes and oats (gluten free oats I might add) and I can rotate those with toast or cooked breakie or I can combine if I'm that hungry.
Lunches will be easy as I can have tuna, quorn, cottage cheese, plain cooked chicken or homemade bean paste sarnies, I can also have homemade soups and salads. And dinners are practically the same, I just need to reduce the oil content and swap ingredients for me when I'm doing meat for the rest of the family. Puddings and snacks of fruit, yogurt, and any of the above treats should indulge my sweet tooth. Fingers crossed!
My only problem is my other half who is a big meat and two veg eater and although in the past he's been "if you want to lose weight, it's up to you to do it", he's now tutting and moaning whenever it's his turn to cook and I ask him to do/omit something just for me, ie, cutting the fat off the bacon or not putting butter in the mash; it's not difficult, you mash the potato with milk first, take out mine and then you can shove as much butter as you like into what's left! Pfft! And, of course, I'm getting the "if it's a 100% beef burger, why can't you have it? It's natural!" However, a good beef burger will contain approx 5g of saturated fat per 100g and a total of 13g fat per 100g so not really condusive to a low fat diet as this is classified as medium level and only to be eaten occasionally. So I could eat, but then I'd have to watch everything else in the day and then that becomes a diet diet!
I'm lazy! I don't want to watch every little morsel or weigh or limit, so if I go completely low fat, or at least as low as I can without starving, I won't need to worry too much and, as I've done it before, I already have the experience of eating that way with the addition of the odd bit of chicken or egg when I fancy.
Anyway, six days on and I'm managing so far. I've had the odd day when I've had the munchies and have eaten jam on toast or had some marshmallows, but all in all, it's not been too bad. Hope I can keep it up and not get too bored as I've got to do this for at least six months!! And, of course, after that, if I've managed to get cholesterol down, I'll have to stay pretty good with maybe the odd relapse for a day if a special occasion.
Eeeek! Just realised this six month period covers Xmas! Oh well, jelly sweets for me then when others are munching on chocolate.
Cya
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