Weight Watchers

[moggers]

Up and at them again on the kinect this morning once I get DS off Skylander Giants! Breakfast was two ryvita, one light cheesespread triangle and two slices of ham, lunch will be about 200 calories (spaghetti hoops and ryvita) and dinner is my homemade chicken curry which comes in about 550 calories including rice. I've included an options hot choc as my treat as well. So about 950 calories aargh, plenty of protein and food but not enough calories according to MFP and if I exercise I'm way out.

[ClareBarr]

Hi all,

I wonder if you can advise me on what to eat when recovering from sickness-I still don't have much of an appetite and most of what I'm eating is in liquid form through a straw, like soup.

What I've eaten so far today (not much at all):

Breakfast:
Bio Activia yoghurt
Orange Actimel drink
Lots of water

Lunch:
Cup of tea
Small piece of bread with thin spreading of manuka honey & marg

Dinner:
Small piece of chicken with small portion of veg (broccoli, sweetcorn, peas, green beans)
Mocha drink

I'm worried that I'm losing an awful lot of weight since getting ill last week & that if I continue at this rate of only eating a couple of hundred calories a day I'll lose yet more weight too quick. My boyfriend suggested I try to drink a SlimFast shake so he's b*ying me a few tomorrow, as they're meant to have nutrients in them etc as a proper meal. I'm feeling very weak & am trying to find food to eat/drink that will give me energy.

Thanks in advance for your help,
Clare x

[Diane65]

Hi all,

I wonder if you can advise me on what to eat when recovering from sickness-I still don't have much of an appetite and most of what I'm eating is in liquid form through a straw, like soup.

What I've eaten so far today (not much at all):

Breakfast:
Bio Activia yoghurt
Orange Actimel drink
Lots of water

Lunch:
Cup of tea
Small piece of bread with thin spreading of manuka honey & marg

Dinner:
Small piece of chicken with small portion of veg (broccoli, sweetcorn, peas, green beans)
Mocha drink

I'm worried that I'm losing an awful lot of weight since getting ill last week & that if I continue at this rate of only eating a couple of hundred calories a day I'll lose yet more weight too quick. My boyfriend suggested I try to drink a SlimFast shake so he's b*ying me a few tomorrow, as they're meant to have nutrients in them etc as a proper meal. I'm feeling very weak & am trying to find food to eat/drink that will give me energy.

Thanks in advance for your help,
Clare x

You would be better with Ensure Plus as you need high calorie high protein food and it is designed for after illnesses etc it is available on prescription but obviously depends on your GP as to whether they will supply them (even if you p*y for your prescriptions it will still work out cheaper) and helps to boost the immune system. Make sure that you get the PLUS not just Ensure as you really need to build up your calories asap.

Take care.

[SOLACE]

clare , blitz some oats in a blender until finely ground, take 2-3 tablespoons of it and mix it into 200 ml of milk, add some drinking chocolate powder and mix thoroughly preferablly in the blender or in a shaker , you will have an amazingly delicious and highly nutricious drink thats will taste exactly like a thick chocolate milkshake except its just flavoured porridge which will keep you full for hours and hours !

[Diane65]

clare , blitz some oats in a blender until finely ground, take 2-3 tablespoons of it and mix it into 200 ml of milk, add some drinking chocolate powder and mix thoroughly preferablly in the blender or in a shaker , you will have an amazingly delicious and highly nutricious drink thats will taste exactly like a thick chocolate milkshake except its just flavoured porridge which will keep you full for hours and hours !

Great minds think alike - we must have been thinking exactly the same thing at the same time

[SOLACE]

clare , blitz some oats in a blender until finely ground, take 2-3 tablespoons of it and mix it into 200 ml of milk, add some drinking chocolate powder and mix thoroughly preferablly in the blender or in a shaker , you will have an amazingly delicious and highly nutricious drink thats will taste exactly like a thick chocolate milkshake except its just flavoured porridge which will keep you full for hours and hours !

Great minds think alike - we must have been thinking exactly the same thing at the same time

haaa haaaaa, yeeeeees i bet your thinking now hmmm i think i might actually have that for breakfast tomorroow, because thats exactly what im thinking right now !

[Diane65]

clare , blitz some oats in a blender until finely ground, take 2-3 tablespoons of it and mix it into 200 ml of milk, add some drinking chocolate powder and mix thoroughly preferablly in the blender or in a shaker , you will have an amazingly delicious and highly nutricious drink thats will taste exactly like a thick chocolate milkshake except its just flavoured porridge which will keep you full for hours and hours !

Great minds think alike - we must have been thinking exactly the same thing at the same time

haaa haaaaa, yeeeeees i bet your thinking now hmmm i think i might actually have that for breakfast tomorroow, because thats exactly what im thinking right now !

Exactly I could make that will add oats to my morning milkshake

[ClareBarr]

Thank you both for your ideas :) & enjoy your breakfasts tomorrow! :)

[Diane65]

Thank you both for your ideas :) & enjoy your breakfasts tomorrow! :)

We will thanks, just having my smoothie with almond milk, a banana, raspberries and oats gosh its filling and under 300 calories

Thanks to the lovely Betty Botter who gave me a Darcey Bussell exercise DVD last night so that I will have a long, lean and strong body just like Darcey herself Its a very long DVD so just watched half of it last night and did do a few moves - it will have to be a weekend one due to the length of it but from what I've seen I'm impressed and my body will do the moves - I had visions of having to get into some obscure positions

Have a fun day everyone and loving your menu moggers

[SOLACE]

we certainly did enjoy breakfast today !

Its like an amazingly healthy, filling and deliciousss milkshake to wake up to , great way to start the day , should keep me full and energised until lunch , but i will still have some fruit mid morning for the health benefits

Lunch plans are spicy chicken and potato wrap with orange juice

Midafternoon , jaffa cakes and tea (jaffa cakes packet will most ceratinly get finished off today !)

Dinner i'll be going to spend the evening with mum and dad so i'm sure there will be lots of nice things there

Hope everyone has a fantastic day today , the sun is out and it seems to feel like a spring morning now but it was cold when i dropped the kids off to school at 8am

ill try and post my seafood curry recipe at some point today if i can

enjoy your day

:)