Newbies

Evening all, or morning or afternoon. apensa I’m in santarcangelo di romagna near rimini but originally from scotland. Firenza is a beautiful city but only been once, agree totally on your take on the weather here. If it helps I wrote down a reply from Ossie on here once that said this plan is based on 45% energy from Carbs, 25-30% fat and 25%-30% protien, the ratio 1.5 grams protein to 1 gram fat to 3 gram carbs, if that is any help to you. I really like the personal menu planner, it gives me structure to potion sizes which I was no good at before, and I love changing items (by hitting the refresh button) when I get bored or cant get the stuff here. Hope it gets easier for you and you Sandydan. I know it recommends SWG bread primarly but the next best things are 100% whole grain breads, just don’t pick SWG on your personnel menu planner, as it has all the other alternatives, I love rye crispbreads now and whole grain rolls. It true what Chai says try reading as much as possible, then when you get a quesiton just post on here, Ossie is trim down club dietitian so she answers all the quesitons, otherwise just moan away and someone will always try and give you encouragement on what to do or try. We all had doubts to start with but a little efford goes a long way
Ginnerlou,I know I’m surely blessed living here but scotland has great scenery too, it may rain more there but I hate the heat of summer here. I love both countries now for different reasons but if I had to choose the best, Scotland is where my heart truely is. Love how your try all those now recipes, will have to try more out myself…although cheese on toast has always been a favorite of mine, I love adding a little onion on top too. Have a great weekend with you wee girl there too. I watched the austrilian tennis today, so please Andy Murray is through to the final.
Marcia2013, don’t be discouraged, let everyone know whats up and someone will always give engouragement. A ld to 2lbs is great, well done, little by little your get there.
Hope your slept well seaborn, has it stopped raining yet, I do hope so, as then you can take the boys out to jump in those muddy puddles. have fun baking too. Kelz, has your bread arrived yet and how tasty is it?
Well folks happy sailing all, hope you all stay positive, it’s not easy getting started and I know theres lows along the ways but keep your goal in sight and try with all your might. 🙂

Welcome to the club, Sandy. Yep….my sentiments exactly. Trying to see if there is a list of offsetting items that can be used to come up with our own menus. In other words SWG bread on one side, a can of tuna fish on the other. By the way, SWG means Sprouted Whole Grain….I feel your confulsion.

Hang in there Oregon girl. We are here to encourage and help. Just remember this is NOT a diet but a healthy way of eating with losing weight as a side benefit. My husband and I have been doing this for about 3 weeks and feel so much better than we did. We fill full and not at all tempted to eat unhealthy things. Haven’t had soda, candy, cookies etc. I am going to make the cookies in the recipes. Banana brown butter bread in the oven and all the ingredients for the cream cheese chocolate fudge cake on the counter getting ready to make. It’s the second for both of these. The lemon cottage cheese muffins remind us of cornbread in their consistency. Made those twice also. We are all here for help. Have a great day y’all

I am a little discouraged that my menu planner includes foods I can’t eat and many names of things I need to look up before I can eat or make them. Did make lemon cottage muffins this AM and had 2 with yogurt and tea for breakfast. It is a start and I am down a pound or 2.

Question….My biggest problem in using this program is that I don’t intend to cook most of the menus and use most of the ingredients they list….heck, I don’t know what half of them are. Isn’t there a way using their basic guidelines as to portions to find a list of offsetting foods (Proteins and Carbs) that a person can eat throughout the day and make up menus as they go and based on what they have available. Anything that would streamline this process would be appreciated. I don’t mind eating correctly but I hate being resticted to a menu. I’d like to just grab a slice of SWG bread and a can of tuna fish if it is available for a snack….or a piece of fruit and a slice of bread….or a cup of yogurt and a banana.

Question….can you exchange the flours in a recipe? For example – quinoa for almond or brown rice flour? Not a fan of the quinoa. Have made quite a few of the recipes and both my husband and I like them. He loves the egg salad. Jackiee, I envy you living in Italy. After I saw Under the Tuscan Sun and saw how beautiful the country side was I knew that one day I would love to visit. Bev, hope you don’t wash away! Have fun with your boys. I’ve got my little one here for the day. Hang in there all you newbies. It’s a fun sail. As my husband and I say – ” it’s not a diet, it’s a way of living!”.

Thank you Jackiee. I need all the support I can get – don’t we all!

Good morning Norunyan, hope you have a better day today. Its nice to here the daffies are always trying to bring spring early. Hope it brightens up for you over there in Alabama. 😀