True story. It's pretty much accepted by most nutritionists that the "most natural" diet for losing weight is to aim for 6 "meals" per day (by which I mean take in calories 6 times per day, little and often) with a breakdown of 40% protein, 40% carbohydrate, 20% fat, from a varied dietary source.
Depending on your activity levels, IIRC the "recommended" daily amount for women is 1500-2000 calories per day, for blokes it's 2200-2700. (Obviously this varies hugely depending on bodyweight, metabolism, if you smoke/drink, etc etc - don't shoot the messenger )
Personally since I'm in the gym 3 times a week and am aiming to stick some timber on, not lose it, I'm pitching for 3000-3500 calories a day, and missing it most days haha, but still the intent is there.
RR - when you say you eat all your food raw, be careful since as you are also a vegetarian studies suggest you might be more likely to incur low bone density as a result;
That's okay, I just thought that maybe I was going mad and actually paid for something without realising it. All this dieting is getting to my good brain cells....
After my recent stay in the Coronary Unit at my local hospital the first thing that I was offered to eat was a cheese sandwich...
Then a nurse offered me a cup of tea and asked if I would like a couple of biscuits with it. You would have thought that would be the last thing you would give heart patients to eat
Get a steamer! This has been the biggest recent improvement in my diet. A bit of fish and a mix of fresh veggies. Chop it all up and put it in for 15-20 mins. It's really easy, and you can really taste the difference in the veggies compared to boiling.
Then pour a really fat oily sauce over it of course
my swiss husband constantly added "AROMAT" to everything I would cook the 1st year I was here. It drove me bat shit insane b/c he wouldn't even taste the food first to see if it even needed anything. Apparently, his mother used this in almost every dish.
I love my steamer!!! 2 of the best gifts I've ever rec'd were a slow cooker (a.k.a. crock pot) from my grandmother a few yrs back...and this xmas, I rec'd a steamer that is just beyond awesomeness.
Can you buy steamers here? We got a slow cooker for christmas and it is fabulous. I would really like a steamer though, parents have one and swear by it. I have noticed the veg is really fresh tasting out of it.
Faddiest diet I've ever heard of was blood group based. Assuming you are AB+, you eat certain things and avoid other stuff. Total eyewash IMHO
We had a set of bamboo ones, but left them in the 'Kok. I'll definitely go and buy either an electric one (storage space issue) or the expanding metal one. We had one of those too and left it behind on one of our many moves
I once spent 2 days making a fine ossobuco, with love, lots of it. I served it up with risotto milanaise. I had a friend round for dinner and had an Australian flatmate with a face speared full of botox.
I felt obliged to ask her if she would like to join us for dinner, which she did.
My entire being sank as I watched her splatter her meal with tabasco and ketchup before even smelling the food.
Agreed, it's poison. Well, it's MSG. It makes me incessantly thirsty. When that guy gets around to updating his Xenophobe's guide to the Swiss, he could probably put a whole chapter on Aromat.