Simply..diet books....

23/8/2017

Starting from the bottom here - I learned a lot from Zoe Harcombe's Stop Counting Calories and Start Losing Weight and will keep the recipe book of these two for a few recipes which have become favourites, and one of my principles is not to count calories, or to totally eliminate any one food group.

French Women Don't Get Fat I have written about on 10.9.14. Sorry I cannot get the link to work :-( (There are a lot of posts under Simply Eat if you have time to browse!) Her light-hearted joie de vivre approach and emphasis on the pleasure of food makes the recipe book a keeper.

Lean for Life is my current favourite. Although I have given up trying her too-intensive-for-me six week programme I will incorporate many of her ideas and love her positive can-do attitude to health and fitness, and the recipes are lovely.

I will donate the top two as again I have taken on board what I want from them. I have adapted the 5:2 diet to have mainly vegetable juices on one day a week, two if my weight has gone up a little (there is a weight beyond which I will not go...)

I'm lucky to gain only a couple of pounds now and then, but I'm pretty careful about only eating good, real food.

I just don't want to spend much time cooking it!

Meanwhile, the sun shone for a few hours today and the second brood of five baby swallows are about ready to leave the nest above the studio window. Yay!

10 Comments

viv link

23/8/2017 03:20:43 pm

My great grandma, grandma and mum never read any books like these or magazine articles on calories and healthy eating yet managed to stay fairly healthy and fit and lived to 97, 90 respectively and mum still going at 91 - so I wonder just where we are going wrong that we seem to need all this advice. I think your approach of 'borrowing' the ideas that suit you is a good one and eating good real food rather than processed is key to being healthy - oh and my grandma didn't have a lot of time for cooking too - in her later years she lived on cream crackers - probably why she only made it to 90!!
PS You looked pretty trim and healthy to me when I saw you last!

Freda

24/8/2017 01:23:39 am

I hope you've inherited their good genes Viv. Good genes and good sense go a long way to being healthy! I think it is the additives and processing of what passes for food that is the modern problem - and may be the cause of many chronic conditions which were rare of unknown in our grandparent's day. Having said that, on average, we do live longer....

Julia

24/8/2017 03:18:54 am

Enjoy every moment of sunshine, Freda. My grandmother lived to 97 as well...she ate out of her organic garden her whole life. Mostly vegetables, a tiny amount of meat and fruit when she could afford it, whoie grains. And she certainly could not have afforded to eat out more than a couple of times per year...well..that pretty much tells me where i am going wrong!

Freda

24/8/2017 01:55:48 pm

You are reminding me that war-time rationing seemingly lead to better health in that generation. Not too much of anything!

cath

24/8/2017 07:44:22 am

Funny, while you have a copy of the Fast Diet, I have a copy of the Slow Down Diet (Marc David).
Wish I could say the same about gaining weight, gaining is really difficult.

Freda

24/8/2017 01:57:29 pm

You don't hear much of either slow dieting or the problem of trying to gain weight Cath.

Lotta

24/8/2017 01:01:37 pm

The only diet book I've ever had is The Blood Type Diet (Peter D'Adamo) which made a lot of sense to me. More about a way of eating for optimum health than about losing weight etc, but optimum health usually goes hand in hand with optimum weight!

Lotta

24/8/2017 01:03:35 pm

And yay for sunshine! ☀️

Freda

24/8/2017 01:59:31 pm

I haven't heard of that one either. The sun shone much of today but solid rain forecast for tomorrow - any ideas for another rainy days plan?

Lotta

25/8/2017 11:35:17 pm

Off the top of my head... a piece of artwork/writing on the topic of rain for the next 7 rainy days - a way to embrace rain in your life?! Or do all of your Christmas shopping now and then you can enjoy a relaxed run up to Christmas doing fun things instead... Or a rainy day picnic in the greenhouse with a friend or two... I'll put my thinking cap on for some more ideas... :-)

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