Weird diet side effects

Margarine? Anathema!

 

So is vegetable suet a trans fat?

 

depends on the type or brand you use Zigs
http://www.naturallygoodfood.co.uk/search.php?keyword=Vegetable Suet Non Hydrogenated

 

Ta Yvonne Just had a look at my Tesco packet, doesn't say one way or the other.

 

Tesco Vegetable Suet (?)

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And then I located this article (albeit in the Express and dated 2008)

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Trans-fat / hydrogenated oils is pretty much plastic, except made from veg oil instead of mineral oil.

 

I agree with Kristen about myfitnesspal. It is a very effective tool to help reduce weight without going into any weird dietary regime.

At the beginning of 2012, MrH decided that it was time to get his weight back into the "normal" BMI range. We discovered that there was a myfitnesspal app available for the iPad which made calorie counting even easier. He set his calorie level in myfitnesspal to lose about 1lb a week and, having started the year at just under 14st, by August had met his target of 11st. His waist size also reduced by about 4in. Since then he has stopped monitoring his calorie intake but has stayed at roughly the same weight.

Our diet had always been reasonable well balanced (lots of home grown vegetables see to that) so it was really just about reducing quantities or doing more exercise to "earn" the right to have a glass of wine or a piece of cheese, for example. Myfitnesspal was very useful in helping to monitor calorie intake and calories burned by exercise.

It also produced a graph showing weight against time so that he could easily see his progress. Although his weight occasionally "plateau-ed" as his body adjusted to the reduced calorie intake, it was good to be able to see the steady progress downwards.

Good luck with your diet @Kristen and @clueless1.

 

I can't believe what's happening. I did some very, very rough calcs to work out how many calories I needed to drop and what rate of weight loss that should give, with a target of 2lbs per week. I've been watching my intake but certainly not starving myself or eating anything faddy, and I'd applied the principle that there's probably more calories than I think in my food, so even allowing some slack I still stay on target.

When I started I said to myself that friday's were exempt, as friday at my work is chippy day, and I had a big chip butty. My weight is dropping off like crazy. I've shaken off 7lbs in 2 weeks.