Hello and welcome to the miserable-diet edition of Meal Planning Monday. It's true, it's true. I can no longer ignore my muffin-top and as of today, the diet has commenced. I'm going for low fat, low carb and basically just winging it to start with. If that doesn't work then I'll probably try Slimming World. Either way, diets are depressing aren't they? Which is why I've tried to find some diet-friendly and semi-interesting meals this week.
Camping got totally rained off last week so the camping meals I planned? Never happened. Still, the summer (!) is young...plenty of time for that.
Here's what we are eating this week;
Baked Asian-style chicken with green beans
Broccoli & lemon chicken with cashews
Vegetable balti
Lamb & mint burgers with a greek salad
Cod with tomato and chorizo sauce
Only, when I went to Waitrose this morning I forgot the cashews. I also forgot kalamata olives and I didn't buy cod, I bought coley because I always get an attack of guilt buying cod.
I haven't had chance recently to catch up and read all the meal-planning posts but as it's raining and I'm avoiding housework today, I'll have a little butchers at last weeks right now.
The linky is below so please do join in with #mealplanningmonday by writing a blog post about your meal plan this week and submitting it below.
Why miserable? I know you are dieting, but think good positive thoughts. Imagine what you will feel like when you've lost a few pounds, the clothes you can wear. The incentivised money pot at the end!
ReplyDeleteBe positive, visualise and you will get there.
My top tips would be to plan all your meals, no excuses then and make sure at least a third of each meal is vegetables, thr more variety the better.
You will do this!
Oh just miserable because I love eating bad food and can't resist carbs. I had to have a sneaky potato with my dinner tonight...!
DeleteGood luck with the new healthy eating plan. Your meals sound delicious so you are not depriving yourself, which is important for morale and motivations. You can do it!
ReplyDeleteThanks Lauren x
DeleteI love the son of the Broccoli Lemon Chicken
ReplyDeleteI'll report back and let you know if it was any good!
DeleteTry "I can make you slim" by Paul McKenna. Personally I can't stand the man normally but the book is really good. It sounds simple but it's all about eating when you're hungry and stopping when you're full. I've not weighed myself yet (You're only allowed to weigh yourself after two weeks) but I'm 100% sure it's working.
ReplyDeleteThe problem I have is when I've done diets before all I think about is food but this stops you doing that. I think it's worth a go personally.
Thanks for the advice, I'll look it up. Yes today, I have thought about nothing other than food.
DeleteYour meals sound yummy! I can really recommend weight watchers - I'm 2lbs off losing 2 stone after just 14 weeks! :)
ReplyDeleteWell done, that's a great result. WW does work really well I've found but I'm always starving on WW.
DeleteThose lamb and mint burgers sound scrumptious!!!!
ReplyDeleteHopefully they will be, never tried them before but shall report back!
DeleteIt all sounds good to me, much better than mine anywhay
ReplyDeleteThanks!
DeleteLamb and mint burgers sound great, diet or no diet :) Good luck with the healthy eating
ReplyDeleteYes, I am looking forward to trying these!
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