Tweet The diet you eat plays a large part in weight management. What you eat, how much you eat. All this, together with your physical activity and metabolic rate determines how much you will eventually weigh, The GI diet or glycemic index diet is based on how fast the food you eat is converted to [...]
healthy sandwiches eating out
Tweet It’s hard controlling calories when you don’t cook your own meals. Lately, I’ve had my meals out. But outside food tends to be oilier, and higher in calories. One way to watch the carbs is to ask for less rice and even then, eat only half of what’s on the plate. One can order [...]
Yummy vegetable meals
Tweet In the past, I would shy away from vegetables due to my prominently carnivorous taste. Then because of health reasons, I began watching my diet. And forcing myself to eat more vegetables. Actually, veggies are yummy when they are done right. The soup of the day was brocolli soup made of fresh brocolli. I [...]
Soup Diets
Tweet When flu strikes, there’s nothing more comforting than curling up with a bowl of soup, chicken or otherwise. Porridge is appealing too. As is anything with a soup base. These are easier on a sore throat than deep fried food. Soup somehow restores strength. Especially soups that have been boiling for hours as the [...]
Salad for dinner
Tweet This time, I had duck salad with orange vinaigrette for dinner. Duck isn’t as healthy as chicken when it comes to weight loss diets. Duck meat has more fat than chicken meat. I had smoked duck salad on top of it but boy was it delicious! This salad was basically slices of smoked duck [...]
Microwave chicken breast lunch today
Tweet Microwave cooking using herbs and fresh veggies is a delicious way to lose weight and keep it off. Food is cooked through the steam formed when the water in the food is heated up through microwaves. No oil is needed. Today, I had chicken breast, broccoli, carrots and potatoes for lunch, cooked using the [...]
Champagne Grapes – a delicious healthy snack
Tweet Being on a diet doesn’t mean giving up sweets. Nature has provided us with a wealth of desserts. There are grapes – fruit for kings. And there are champagne grapes. The king of grapes. These tiny grapes are the sweetest, juiciest grapes I’ve ever eaten. You can just nibble them right off the vine. [...]
Fat to fight the belly bulge
Eat fat to fight belly fat — the beauty of avocados.
Yummy lunch at O’briens
My favourite wrap.
Steam boat – a healthy family dinner
Who says boiled food has to be bland? This traditional Chinese meal is as tasty as it gets.