There are a lot of web services and mobile applications that you can use to track weight, exercise and calories. I’ve been playing around with a few and will post reviews of several in the coming weeks. One of the ones I’ve played around with is the Livestrong.com MyPlate app on the iPhone. As applications [...]
Breaking Out A Little Bit
This weekend was my birthday, so I “broke out” a small bit and had a couple of slices of fruit cake. That cake was much more “expensive” than I was expecting. A slice of fruit cake (no icing or anything extra on it) weighs in at around 160 calories! When you’re counting calories against a [...]
Starting To Exercise With Dumbbells
A couple of weeks back I bought a very basic set of dumbbells in Argos. They’re not complicated and they’re not fancy. The set is made of 2 x 1kg, 2 x 1.5 kg and 2 x 3kg with a handy little storage “tree” to keep them tidy in my room. Like so many things [...]
Pitta Stuffed With Cheese & Tomato
My sister finally answered the question that had been driving me mad for the last couple of weeks. How on earth can you slice pitta bread open without losing your mind? The answer is incredibly simple – just pop them in the toaster (or microwave) for a few seconds first. Once they’ve been heated up [...]
3 Weeks Into The Diet
I’ve been on this diet now for three weeks. That’s 21 days of eating and living differently. I now have breakfast every single morning. At the weekend it’s scrambled egg on toast, while during the week I usually stick to weetabix and some fruit Lunch is no longer a roll – it’s usually soup and [...]
Healthy Snacks Don’t Hurt
I generally don’t eat between meals. The emphasis firmly on “generally”. Of course I eat between meals some of the time. Before going on this diet (3 weeks today!) I would grab a bar of something between meals or maybe have biscuits with a coffee while watching TV. Not very healthy! My diet plan, however, [...]
Spinach Gives Dishes A Lift
I grew up with Popeye on TV, though in our house, admittedly, it was in black & white. Popeye got his strength from spinach and I suspect there’s an entire generation of children who grew up associating spinach with strength and Popeye. (Of course my entire image of Popeye was ruined by Mad Comic, but [...]
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