Healthy Eating

Do you want to eat healthier?
- to lose weight?
- to be healthier?
- to save $$$ on takeaways etc
- for other health reasons?
- to help with breastfeeding?

Nup, this is not an infomercial! :)

Maybe we can use this thread to support each other! Since becoming a SAHM I've been consuming more and more junk food. Although weight isn't a factor for me I would like to stop eating so much sugar as the more I eat it the more I need it to keep my energy up. My main problem is 2pm onwards...all I want to do is eat...no amount of protein in the morning, fruit for snacks etc etc seems to help...I have a balanced lunch and then neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed something sweet from a packet! Grrr. I'm also having coffee issues. I never used to have more than 1 cup a day but now I have 3. If I skip one I start to feel really blaaaaaaa and I'd like to cut back down to 1.

Anyone else need some support and encouragement (or a swift kick up the butt) to eat better? Post here and let's help each other out!

Edited by FionaS

I did ask for one a while ago but not sure what happened.....Emma?????? please can we have a dedicated forum??

I know we have the weight loss thead floating around but still it would be nice to have a dedicated forum!

It was my first thought when the new support ones came up and I thought of weight loss as there a many of us post baby that need it and also there a re a few in the TTC ones that are losing weight to become pregnnt.

One way I cut sugar a large quantity of sugar out of my diet was ala French Women Don't Get Fat (brilliant book! One of the best I've come across for healthy eating habits) - I started little by little cutting down sugar in my drinks, and now I don't even have sugar in coffee. Just by doing that, I eliminated 12-20 teaspoons of sugar a day! I feel much better for it too. I'm still a lollie muncher but I'll usually try and get lollies from the bulk bins (so I only get half a dozen or something), or else from the lollie shop (same thing).

I find that doing my own baking too I get a better idea of what is in something, and I'm less likely to eat more than I should when I've seen all the sugar and butter go into it! I say less likely because ... well ... you know

I try to eat well for all of those reasons Fiona - especially at the mo where I want to be nice and healthy for IVF, and ideally lose a couple of KG (literally - I float around 63-65 now, so if I could float around 60-62 I'd be quite happy). Plus, Mum told me that apparently if you have a high-sugar diet, you tend to have bigger babies So we'll be wanting to avoid that

I'm in! I don't have much weight to lose but I'm really interested in nutrition and eating right and all that...

YEP I,M IN FOR REAL THIS TIME i have STOP smoking going on two weeks(yay me) and now are trying to takle food issures aswell my problem was excures all the time you no the old i,ll strat tomorrow ,whats one burger gonna hurt. the funny thing is i know how to eat because i was a fit freck about 3 years ago but i fell off the wagon hard and now getting back on is real hard my plan is to strat eating heatly as i can and strat going back to the gym and going back to the pool ok here we go

Yay Lu 2 weeks is good keep it up.

ginger wrote: I find that doing my own baking too I get a better idea of what is in something, and I'm less likely to eat more than I should when I've seen all the sugar and butter go into it! I say less likely because ... well ... you know

haha.. that's soooo not true here! I bake all the time and I eat most of it! Because I know that it doesn't have preservatives etc in the baking.. for some reason I don't care about the butter quantity!

Plus, Mum told me that apparently if you have a high-sugar diet, you tend to have bigger babies So we'll be wanting to avoid that

well.. if that theory is true, my little 6lber wasn't the norm then hehe

Two Blondinis wrote: I think a weight loss/healthy eating forum is a great idea, especially with input from the experts! I need someone to find me 20 minutes in my day where I can do my exercise without little people being around

Or a way to do it with the little ones around....

busymum wrote: We have an apple tree and have been eating a lot of apple crumble lately! But I've just realised something: instead of roast + crumble, let's have a lighter dinner! Tonight we're having pumpkin soup + apple crumble - sound a bit better? Hopefully that way we won't fill up on dinner and THEN have pudding on top

Apple crumble tip...use chopped dates instead of sugar with the apple + use 1/2 wholegrain oats & 1/2 wholemeal flour + half the amount of butter in the topping! It still tastes fab but is essentially healthy! Deborah, Toni, Emma and Amy have had it made this way...ladies..was it nice?

And Toni...my latest trick for getting exercise in is to turn...wait for it...Aqua (shameful I know!) on and dance around the lounge whilst doing exercise moves. Elle is so busy starring at her crazy mother she forgets to grizzle! If she does I pick her up and use her like a weight :) Aqua has a great beat for exercise (shhhhh, don't tell DH that I have that old CD in the house!)