Have rolled oats for breakfast - they make you feel full right up to lunch and you won't overeat your lunch.
Then perhaps have a Subway salad without any dressings around 3-4pm and that's all you need for the day. also helps to take some appetite suppressant. I recommend taking Carnitine or the Musashi Fat metabolizer which doesn't really help burn fat but rather suppresses your appetite. :)
bonkiebonks: Have rolled oats for breakfast - they make you feel full right up to lunch and you won't overeat your lunch.
Perhaps the reason many people miss out breakfast is that they are in too much of a rush in the morning - get up, shower and then out the door !
It takes at least 30 minutes after waking for your stomach to be ready to digest food. You aren't hungry until that 30 mins ticks around.
Then you need to break your fast - break-fast !
When I did a stint on a dairy farm - milking, you didn't get breakfast until the morning milk had been done. Maybe a snack or a chip / marmite sammy while the cows were being led in, but no major brekkie. After the milking, man, you were hungry then ! Just as well it was a full cooked breakfast - bacon, eggs, snags, etc. Then again, you worked it off during the day.
SepticSceptic: When I did a stint on a dairy farm - milking, you didn't get breakfast until the morning milk had been done. Maybe a snack or a chip / marmite sammy while the cows were being led in, but no major brekkie. After the milking, man, you were hungry then ! Just as well it was a full cooked breakfast - bacon, eggs, snags, etc. Then again, you worked it off during the day.
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I tried it out as a possible career just after I left school. Was amazed how big the breakfast was we all ate.
Sunday night, Monday morning, make a huge salad with all the greenery crap that makes up a salad. Put it in a sealed container, chuck paper towels on the top of the salad & store inverted (i.e. with the paper towels on the bottom) in the fridge. It will last the whole week, if you change the paper towels every day. Next you make up/ buy a couple of different dressings & decide what meat you want with your salad (this makes it man salad and therefore acceptable to eat in public :-P). I normally do smoked chicken or bacon & a Alison Holst dressing, so awesome.
Each day just take out a portion of the salad & some of the meat and dressing and away you go, healthy lunch ready to go in 5min. I hate salads in general but I find man salad acceptable, especially with some roasted pine nuts on the top.....can you tell that I'm writing this just before dinner? PM me if you want the recipe for the dressing.
Also: Glass of water 20min before you eat any meal.
As a T2 diabetic I have had to do some tinkering with my diet and I agree with much of the advice.
(1) Carbs are evil for diabetics because they convert so easily to sugar. (2) Carbs seem to stimulate your appetite - the more you eat the more you want. (3) Protein seems to inhibit your appetite - also they take longer to metabolise.
I cut my weight by 1.5 stone ...err....21 lbs or about 10 kilos by cutting out as many simple carbohydrates as possible.
I also eat a large cooked breakfast because this keeps me from feeling hungry for most of the day. Evening meal is salad and tinned tuna, or veggies and lentils/pulses. Protein snacks during the day replace 'bad'snacks - i like sausages or chicken rolled in bacon because they are tasty, filling, and go well with a side salad.
Walking 4 miles most days also helps (oh, 6 km) and running up to 4 miles at least 3 times a week. This has al gone somewhat adrift during my NZ holiday but I am trying not to do too much damage.
Strangely, fats are not an issue for diabetics as they slow down the uptake and metabolism of sugars and if you are on statins they don't seem to muck up your cholesterol either.
So - fillet steak, two eggs, fried tomato, half a tin of baked beans, couple of rashers of bacon, mushrooms, a sausage or two if you are extra peckish. Does that sound like a diet or a new way of enjoying yourself? Keeps me going for most of the day with no desire to snack, improves my blood sugar and reduces my weight.
Breakfast cereals, however, including muesli and porrage are the work of the devil.
Oh, and as this is the Off Topic forum and we are discussing food what is it with you Kiwis and sausages? In the UK if a pork sausage doesn't contain over 90% pork you sneer and walk away. In NZ it seems to be a matter of pride to have at least 60% meat in your "Traditional English Pork Sausages" and somewhere in the lamb and beef there may even be a bit of pork. Gawd knows what the rest is. THe ones with the most pork (but nowhere near 90%) are Nuremberg sausages - a strange choice of name because I immediately associate it with the war crimes trials at the end of WW2.
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