We have decided we want to loose a bit of weight?

Question

However, ny hubby says it's ok to eat home made curries every night, as it's only meat and spices. Is this ok, sorry for sounding naive, but we dont know much about diets

Answer 1

Well you have to eat something from everything to keep ur body balance or else after you stop whatever you will touch will end into body fat since ur body have lost track of it completly.

I found best the calorie diet it worked perfectly for me! i used to have 3 spoons special K in the morning, after that an Apple or an orange, For Lunch a big salad with some light tuna, or feta cheese, or do a nice brown bread sandwich with Ham.

For dinner, You can have for example 200grms Of (Chicken, Beef, Pork, Fish,) With boiled veggies or salad and add lots of herbs, spices and a cube to give it some nice taste!

For Pasta you can used any type of pasta! If ur taking it with just some tomatoe sauce and herbs you can add till 200grms, And if you would like to used some meat with it such as Chicken Mince or Beef mince go for 100grms pasta and 75grms Mince with tomatoe sauce.

Then every day you can have a treat which consist of A cereal bar, or a light yogurth with a dessertspoon of raisens, or a pkt of snack a jack, or a glass of wine.

During the day above all of this you should try to drink 1 ltr of water since all we now it's very important! And you can have up to 6 tea's or coffee's with skimmed milk and sweetners (never use normal sugar since it's full with calories same goes for full milk) And diet soft drink (remeber they also have calories even do little) i used to take a ltr a day.
About herbs, spiced, cubes, worwicher sauce, soy sauce the more you use the better since they help alot.

Ps: If atleast 2 times daily you exchange ur dinner with a soup made with a kilo of mixed veg of ur choice and add a cube and 2 slices bacon or else a can of baked beans. this will help you to lose fat faster!

With this diet i was 101.4 kilos after 4 months present day am weighing 73 kilos ;)

Try it if you do it as i wrote you, you will see a difference in youre scale from the first week! Believe me :)

Goodluck my dear!

Answer 2

Hi - You don't really give enough information to be able to give a good answer. Your diet needs to contain fruit, vegetables, whole grains, good quality protein, nuts and seeds and two litres of water per day. Eating just a meat curry every night is going to play havoc with your digestive system. There is no reason why you shouldn't eat curry every night (its done OK for a billion people in India) but you would be best to stick to mainly vegetables with a small amount of meat and brown rice. The best diet by far is the Low GL by either Jenny Brand or Patrick Holford.

Answer 3

You will only lose weight if you eat
a) less calories than usual
b) less quantity than usual

so if you eat a smaller portion of curry, make sure there is no fat on the meat and use as little oil as possible, then that is fine. Try and use less meat, but put some vegetables in the curry as well, such as peppers, mushrooms, courgettes etc. They fill you up but have less calories than the meat.

A rich curry like a korma wouldn't be very helpful though as it is made with coconut milk.

Good luck!

Answer 4

My suggestion for those who do not know much about dieting, is to simply cut portion size of meals, and frequency of snacking. I am a diabetic, so I must eat several times a day, but they are small meals (snacks) every 2-3 hrs. Try to incorporate exercise into your day, even if it dosent seem like much at the time, then slowly increase activity to where you feel comfortable. Try to stay away from high calorie foods, such as candy, and deserts, and concentrate on more well balanced meals that include green veggies, or try making one meal of the day a salad. There are also vitamins that contain a metabolism enhancer, which I have found to work quite well. Hope this helps.

Answer 5

Only meat and spices? What makes up the sauce? Most sauces are incredibly calorie heavy. What else do you put in it? And do you have it with rice? White or brown? How much salt do you use? In theory it's fine, but you need to look CAREFULLY at the other added ingredients....
And what else do you eat for the rest of the day? Various slimming groups do booklets with calorie and fat content in them, that may help.
Good luck!!

Answer 6

Dieting takes self-discipline and a good understanding of food. I dieted two years ago for the first time in my life and lost 20 pounds. I used the principles laid down by Weightwatchers - though I didn't join - and it worked a treat for me. As for meat and spices; your partner is kidding himself and you - like I said, you need a better understanding of what food is ... and isn't.

Answer 7

yes i agree with muddy. you can eat what you want, but stick off the junk food, that home-made curry seems nice and it will be healthier than a McDonalds. but remember you will have to excerise more for the type of food you eat. if you eat a curry, then you will have to train harder to prevent any fat devloping. things like pasta, baked potates etc are nice and healthy. good luck :)

Answer 8

It wouldn't be a very varied diet but Slimming World have a fantastic low fat curry book.

Answer 9

You can't just eat curry every night for dinner. You need to eat more fruit and veges. Also drink heaps of water and exercise more.

Answer 10

Its the fat and sugars you need to cut down on , your better off cooking your own cos you know exactly how much fat etc you are putting in them , Eat plenty of veg and salads to fill you up and only weigh once a week