Spec me some low fat/ calorie meals

[muffins]

Cardboard with a pinch of salt & pepper, with a side of paper. Done

 

[monkeyspank]

Use Turkey (mince) in place of beef wherever you can, tastes really good and it's only about 2% fat compared to a minimum of 7-8% for very lean beef.

EWW turkey mince is awful quorn mince much nicer IMO and also very low in fat.

 

[WantoN]

Stir fry leek, white and red cabbage, kurly kale, beansprouts, waterchestnuts, chesnut mushroom, soya beans, and red and yellow peppers with a little olive oil, ginger, garlic and add some soya sauce at the end.

Do this with a peice of fish.

Grill, bake or fry (in a little olive oil). If you want cheap I recommend Basa, expensive stuff like seabass will also be lovely.

Serve the fish on the bed of stirfried vegetables and drizzle over a little chilli oi. Magic.

Low calorie, low fat (as long as you aren't stupid with the oil and/or choose healthy cooking methods for the fish) low in starchy carbs, high in fibrous carbs and ever so good for you

Ant

 

[Raikiri]

EWW turkey mince is awful quorn mince much nicer IMO and also very low in fat.

Lies, Qourn is bloody foul.




Whereas turkey is just fowl (sorry).

 

[WantoN]

Don't need to do exercise to lose weight. it helps and improves your overall health though.

Weightloss is as simple as energy in needs to be less than energy out.

How you achieve hat does not mater. Some diets like Atkins help as it suppresses hunger pains/addictions and it is hard to replace the lost calories in carbs with fat/protein.

Not really. Basal metabolic rate (BMR) is dependant on activity levels and food type / consumption frequency.

By constantly reducing calories, quanitities and consumption frequency, the calories you burn at rest and during activity will diminish. Likewise as your bodyweight decreases so will your BMR.

Without increasing activity you will reach a point whereby you plateu, and further reduction of calories is neither prudent nor healthy. Diet adjustment alone can only achieve so much in terms of bf% reduction.

Atkins (shudder) is the use of ketosis to enduce rapid fat utilisation for energy (through the production of ketone bodies) studies are inconclusive as to the potential damage (through calcium leeching of the bones to balance acidity levels raised in the blood by said ketone bodies) caused by prolonged use of ketosis diets.

Ketosis also carries with it inherent problems. Returning to 'normal' dietary routines (ie regular consumption of carbohydrate) has to be very controlled and progressive. Carbohydrate consumption through either falling of the band wagon, or not gradually returning to carbohydrate consumption will cause rapid weightgain. This is why you'll find most people yoyo in weightloss/gain when using diets like Atkins and many others that require sudden and extreme dietary changes.

Manageable, maintainable weightloss is best (by far) achieved through gradual dietary adjustment and increased activity

Ant

 

[WantoN]

Stews, salads, soups, stirfrys, curries.

Curries: prawn and butternut squash with low fat coconut milk.

it all depends what you mean by low cal.
even burgers are good, if you make them yourself.

Couldn't agree more. Preparing foods yourself and using healthy cooking methods and avoiding unnescessary calories through additives and high fat ingredients makes ALL the difference. It's also very fun

Ant