Eating well/real life
What I ate before What I eat now
After
Breakfast Breakfast
Cereal and a couple of slices of Low-sugar cereal or porridge with
white toast with low-fat spread berries; or one slice of wholegrain toast
with no spread and a can of mackerel in
tomato sauce
Lunch Lunch
Huge deli sandwich with tuna Large tuna salad with half a can of tuna
mayonnaise or an egg, and salad leaves, tomato,
celery, cucumber, spring onions and
mushrooms, and balsamic vinegar as
dressing (no oil)
Dinner Dinner
Large steak with all the fat, plus A couple of sea-bass fillets on a bed of
a few potatoes, vegetables, fried steamed leeks and cabbage, and one
mushrooms and fried onions, plus small potato; small carton of yogurt
two large glasses of wine; bowlful of
yogurt, or cheese and biscuits
Snacks Snacks
Bag of crisps, as well as picking at Two rice cakes with some cheese spread
cheese and ham, plus two slices of and a few berries
cheese on toast after dinner
to my deli sandwiches before. I also got
inspiration from a few diabetic cookbooks –
I knew the principles would work for me.
My drinking routine changed too – it had
been a habit to get home in the evening
and reach for a bottle of wine, but now I
stopped drinking apart from a small glass on
weekends – maybe a white wine mixed with
diet soda.
I started going to aqua aerobics two or
Above: Jill loves being able to choose
three times a week and now do weights to skinny jeans and smart, tailored clothes
tone, and it’s been the fi rst exercise I’ve ever for work. Left: Jill before she realised she
enjoyed. Before, I would always look for a
needed to tackle her weight problem.
mince and divided it in half between myself reason not to go to the gym, but now I knew
and my husband John, 57. Now I made three I had to and it became a matter of scheduling My other motivation was to tell
or four portions from a pack of mince, giving it into my diary. John encouraged me when I people that I was dieting, so I would feel
myself a smaller portion than John, and cut didn’t feel like going. embarrassed if they caught me stuffi ng my
out the bread roll I’d always had as a side face. I asked people to sponsor me for every
dish. I learned to avoid anything that would A new wardrobe pound I lost to raise money for Diabetes UK
take up half the day’s calories all in one go or I consistently lost two pounds every week, and the Parkinson’s Disease Society – in total
anything I didn’t really enjoy. I also adjusted and it wasn’t hard. If I make my mind up to I raised £2,300!
when I ate, so that I no longer minded having do something, I can be extremely disciplined It was only when I started losing weight
most of my calories at breakfast and fewer as and stubborn – I knew I couldn’t leave and feeling fantastic that I realised how low
the day went on. crisps alone if they were in front of me, so I my self-esteem had been before. I’d preferred
I never felt hungry or deprived. I made told myself ‘I don’t eat crisps’ and left them to stay in than go out and hadn’t enjoyed
myself big salads to take to work for lunch altogether. As I saw the needle on the scales buying clothes. Whereas now, I saw work in a
each day, which, at around 200 calories, going lower every week, and kept having to different way – I could buy nice, tightly fi tted
saved me at least 400 calories compared buy new clothes, that became my incentive. suits. I felt much more alert and energetic,
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