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Tweedy

Thu, Oct 27 2011, 3:14 pm

I gained about 20 kg since I got married Sad

I really want to lose the weight as it affects me very badly. Cant fit into my pretty dresses, back pain etc.

I've started this diet as discussed in another thread already and it requires you to eat starches and protains separately.

If you have any recipes or ideas (preferably with recipes if you can) with either starches + veggies or protains + veggies , please, please share with me! Also if you have any soup recipes with just plain vegetables and spices, or salad recipes with low fat dressings.

I would really appreciate your help, would be a huge mitzva!!!

TIA

chocolate moose

Fri, Oct 28 2011, 12:52 pm

Cut out the junk and exercise. Drink water. Eat only healthy carbs.

Tweedy

Sat, Oct 29 2011, 2:47 am

chocolate moose wrote:

Cut out the junk and exercise. Drink water. Eat only healthy carbs.

Thanks CM I am trying. Do you have any healthy recipes? Smile

Jewish Mother2

Sat, Oct 29 2011, 9:45 am

healthy vegetable soups are great - if you keep a large pan of it in your fridge and just heat up a cup whenever you want to eat something that will help

I made some on Thursday which we also had for Friday night and I'm going to have some this evening -

pumpkin
courgettes
onions
carrots

no quantities - just chop up a load of them and you can also throw in some white beans to bulk it up

fill the pan with water to just cover and throw in a load of herbs, seasoning and some soya sauce and some soup powder if you want

bring to the boil and simmer for about 20-30 minutes then liquidize

Jewish Mother2

Sat, Oct 29 2011, 9:48 am

this Shabbat I also made -

cottage pie (with a non-potato topping - used a mixture of cauliflower and pumpkin instead)
goulash (without any carbs)
chicken ball casserole

I made rice and potatoes separately so that everyone else could have those if they wanted them but I just had the meat

you can also make risotto with no proteins just lots of vegetables and this makes a great meal

grace413

Sat, Oct 29 2011, 11:37 am

Jewish Mother2 wrote:

this Shabbat I also made -

cottage pie (with a non-potato topping - used a mixture of cauliflower and pumpkin instead)

I love this idea! Thanks!

Tweedy

Sat, Oct 29 2011, 3:22 pm

Great Ideas, Keep them coming Smile

Jewish Mother2, could I please have the recipes for the cottage pie and risotto. Thanks for your help!

Dolly Welsh

Sat, Oct 29 2011, 7:24 pm

Start with soup. There isn't much to it, it gives you a full feeling, and takes up time. Time is needed for your sense of fullness to kick in, it takes several minutes or more. Meanwhile, you are full, but you don't know it yet, so you can eat more than you need to feel full.

Eat an apple every day, or any fresh fruit. Dried fruit does not count. Canned fruit does not count.

Drink a glass of water before bed.

Cook your own food as much as possible.

Read labels and calorie books.

Live vigorously; take the stairs, walk more, get off a stop early and walk the rest of the way.

Do your stretches right after a hot shower, right in the shower, as your muscles are loose then.

Cinamon sugarless gum makes you think you ate something.

Take your vitamins.

Want it.

Jewish Mother2

Sat, Oct 29 2011, 10:23 pm

Cottage Pie

500g minced beef
1 cauliflower, cleaned and broken into small florets
1 large piece of pumpkin, peeled and cut into small dice
low calorie cooking spray
1 onion, diced
1 carrot, diced
1 courgette, diced
1 can chopped tomatoes
1 handful frozen peas
salt & freshly ground black pepper
paprika
soya sauce
1 sachet sweetener
handful parsley, finely chopped
2 tblspns tomato puree
1/2 cup chicken or beef stock

Put the cauliflower and pumpkin in a saucepan with chicken or beef stock.
Cook until soft enough to mash then drain and reserve the stock for the meat.
Spray a saucepan with cooking oil and saute the onion, carrot and courgette.
Add the minced meat and brown
Add the salt, pepper, paprika, soya sauce, sweetener and tomato puree and mix well
Add the chopped tomatoes, parsley and stock and bring to the boil.
Put a lid on the pan and simmer for about 15-20 minutes.
For the last 5 minutes remove the lid and boil hard to reduce the liquid.
Pour the meat mixture into a casserole.
Mash the cauliflower and pumpkin with some of the reserved stock and some more chopped parsley.
Top the meat with this mixture covering it all.
Bake in the oven until the topping is browned.

Jewish Mother2

Sat, Oct 29 2011, 10:33 pm

Risotto

1 cup of basmati rice, checked and rinsed
1 onion, finely chopped
1 courgette, finely diced
1 box of small mushrooms cut into quarters
1 red pepper, cut into small dice
1 green pepper, cut into small dice
low calorie cooking spray
1 tblspn tomato puree
beef or chicken stock
parsley
seasoning

Spray a saucepan with low-calorie cooking spray.
Saute all the vegetables together, stirring all the time
Pour in the rice and continue stirring
Season with salt, pepper and any other seasoning you want
Start adding the stock a cup at a time, keeping the heat on high cook until the water has evaporated then add another cup
Stir in the tomato puree to the mixture before the end of the cooking process
Keep stirring and adding stock until the rice is cooked
Stir in some chopped herbs, turn off the heat and cover with a lid until ready to serve

Levtov

Sat, Oct 29 2011, 11:52 pm

what is a "courgette"???

Jewish Mother2

Sat, Oct 29 2011, 11:54 pm

zucchini for the Americans out there!

Inspired

Sat, Oct 29 2011, 11:59 pm

chocolate moose wrote:

Cut out the junk and exercise. Drink water. Eat only healthy carbs.

And eat lots of low calorie vegetables.
Find opportunities to move whenever you can.

Tweedy

Sun, Oct 30 2011, 6:10 pm

Thanks so much for recipes!

Gee

Sat, Nov 19 2011, 6:36 pm

I posted about this upcoming teleconference somewhere else also- but in case you are interested...

Yaakov Rosenthal- of Nutrition For All Seasons- is a great frum nutritional counselor who really understands the challenge within our communities about how to eat healthy and maintain a healthy weight while being busy with a bajillion things, shabbos meals, kosher.....he is great at offering insights that help people work on improving one's nutrition and lifestyle.

He is co-hosting an upcoming free health teleconference: Chanukah-Healthy Renewal. There is no charge at all - you just need to register (teleconference@nutrition4allseasons.com) to get the connection information. If you are really interested in making serious changes and improving your diet and lifestyle, you (or anyone else:) might enjoy listening...
Check out the flyer here:
http://jeffrey-yaakov-rosentha.....vents

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