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Ritu’s Healthy Eating – Week 32 – #icandothis

17 Mar 2017 46 Comments

by Ritu in Health, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, healthy, Healthy Eating, Quark Pancakes, Recipe, Slimming World, Weight Loss, Weight Maintenance

Quick recap… I have reached that target weight, and I am happy to announce that I have stayed the same again this week! My food has looked a bit like this…

Last week I said I would try and share some recipes that I have been using over the last few months. There is so much that I have made, simply by throwing things into a pan, but if you have any specific requests,I would love you to ask, so I can see what I can do!

I thought this week I would start with a simple breakfast recipe of Quark pancakes.

1 tbsp of Quark
1 tsp of sweetener
1 egg

Whisk the ingredients together to make your batter.
Heat up a pan. I use Frylight spray, or a few sprays of olive oil to grease the pan.
Pour a little batter in at a time to create small pancakes. This is easier as a large one is quite hard to turn, without it falling apart!
Turn, and cook on both sides until golden brown,then put on a plate and serve with whatever you wish!
For a slightly savoury twist, I add bacon that has been cooked with the fat cut off, and then drizzle Agave Nectar on top instead of Maple syrup.
For a sweet alternative, I place mixed berries on top, sweeten some quark with a little sweetener, and dollop that on top of the berries. Sprinkle some cinnamon on top and you have a lovely sweet breakfast that feels quite decadent!
For those that are slimming world followers, you just have to syn the sweetener, and any agave nectar you use! Pretty low syn breakfast if you ask me!

Enjoy! And remember if there are any requests for specific recipes, do let me know!

Do I Give Up Now? #icandothis

13 Feb 2017 52 Comments

by Ritu in Health, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Health, healthy, Slimming World, Super Slimmers, Weight Loss

Sitting at my in-laws house this evening I perused the daily paper. Granted it was not a broadsheet, but rather The Sun! Still, it can be an amusing read!

The middle page spread was rather alarming for me to read, given the last six months that I have devoted to healthy eating, and losing weight.

All these ‘Super Slimmers’, the faces that had been associated with various diet plans, such as Lighter Life, The Cambridge Diet, and Slimming World, who slipped back into the overweight depths after a couple of years.

Upon reading the article it claims that basically if you are planning on losing weight, then great, but most dieters tend to put it all back on, and then some within 2 years!

Nooo!

I must admit, the last time I lost a considerable amount of weight, it was hard to maintain the eating regime that had been set, and yes, I did slowly gain all the weight back, with a little extra on top.

Am I gonna allow this to happen to me again?

Am I planning on being one of their statistics for failure?

The answer to that is “No!”

I am aware that in order to keep my weight at the level I would like, I need to make sure I don’t lapse into the bad eating habits of the past. I actually enjoy eating meals the Slimming World way, and you have all seen the photos of the yummy food I have ingested recently!

Once I hit my last target, I won’t officially stay a member of Slimming World, but I have enough knowledge now to make better food choices. I will aim to get that little bit more active too so exercise does its part.

And in some way, I will continue to blog about it. Writing about my healthy living has been a huge inspiration to me, I always want to report a positive week, rather than a downer, saying I give up.

This way, hopefully, two years down the line, I can look back and say “Whatever!” to those researchers, “Look at me, still slim after losing all that weight two years ago!”

There is a documentary about these Slimmers tomorrow which I plan to watch too, so maybe I’ll get some more pointers about what not to do, in order to maintain my weight!

Scaredy fruit

15 Dec 2014 Leave a comment

by Ritu in Children Tags: fruit, healthy, Humour, kids

So, good parents are supposed to ensure their children get their 5 portions of fruit and veg a day, or is it 7 now?

That’s all well and good when your child likes the stuff. My Lil Man, who incidentally is so slight he looks like he’s hardly fed, loves fruit and veg. He’ll happily ask for fruit as a snack, and tries all vegetables we give him. He has them western style, and in good old curry form too. Then runs around like a total loon, and works all he’s eats, off!

But what do you do when your kid is scared of fruit?! Yes, it’s Lil Princess again! When she was a baby, and it was the weaning fun time, I puréed everything, more varieties than when I had done the same with Lil Man, and she loved pretty much everything… Then I really don’t know what happened.

There had been no distressing situations or stand out incidents, involving fruit, but all of a sudden, all it took was Lil Man waving a banana at her, and she’d be screaming! He liked this new control, and when he wanted the sofa for himself, he’d ask for fruit, so she would choose to sit elsewhere!

When she started nursery and even school, she was offered fruit, and I was intrigued… Did she eat it, or was this just a home thing? But no, she politely declined there too (at least she used her manners there, instead of hollering!) but, the joys of working in the same school as where your children go, I’d get stopped at lunch or in the hallway by a colleague, “guess what? She tried banana/apple today!” It was as much an achievement for her teachers as it was for us at home!

We’ve progressed to school dinners, where I ‘think’ she’s eating more veg, and today she informed me she likes pineapple!

Total list of fruit and veg she will eat
1. Apple
2. Banana
3. Raisins (I know dried fruit, not real stuff, but still!)
4. Mango
5. Honeydew Melon
6. Pineapple
7. Satsumas
8. Carrots
9. Corn on the Cob
10. Peas

But, not with any regularity! Oh well, I guess I’ll have to be happy with what we’ve achieved so far, and just hope this list will extend, and that she’ll eat some every day!

(Oh yes, I’ve tried the old tricks, purée the veg n add in sauces… Then she picks pasta out and won’t eat the sauce!)

Do you have a fussy eater at home?