I am sitting looking out of my window and its raining and dark, ohhhhh
Yesterday Amazon sent me a email regarding a book someone has published regarding diet receipes for PMR has anybody else heard of this, i must admit i am not sure what to eat, as i am off my food, lost over a stone now, but i dont eat as much as i used to, i never ate bad, fish, game, goat as i am not a lover of beef, pork etc. always vegs, salad, grow what i can in my garden, fruit, did like bread, but some of you seem to think bread is bad(have i got this wrong)! i have more dairy now than i used to did eat goats cheese but cut it out because of the fat, but should i eat it now.
I eat a lot of salmon, sardines, love kippers undyed ones, and have rapeseed oil, make my own salad dressings so i think i eat ok, but would like to know if i should be eating anything else to help with pmr. Many thanks, and happy Easter to you all dont eat too many eggs!!!!!!!!
wow margaret your sounding a bit more possitive this morning.i think as we get older we do tend to more good food and dont realise it. i no longer yearn for cakes and
sweets and biscuits. and after saying that our appetites arnt what they used to be, i can remember me sitting down to a big platefull of dinner, and then a pudding afterwards every evening, i still eat potatoes but only one spoon instead of three. and hardly any bread. if i buy a SMALL brown loaf i end up throwing half away at the end of the week. well thats all for now have a good easter
Have you not got a freezer? I put our bread into the freezer as soon as it has been opened - make sure the slices aren't too tightly packed together and obviously slice an ordinary loaf first. I never throw bread away and it doesn't dry out in a week.
If you eat it as toast you just put it straight in the toaster. You can butter it more easily when frozen and then leave a few minutes to thaw. And if you are making sandwiches for a packed lunch - it's thawed by the time you need to eat it.
Have overdone the housework , and cooking for weekend . So now paying the price .beautiful day hear yesterday so shall blame it on that rather than my own stupidity . An osteopath friend told me to eat beetroot , and red peppers . If you are trying to diet cut carbs , but I don't think they agrivated the PMR .
I imagine it will be recipes that include a lot of MrsO's favoured anti-inflammatory foods.
I don't think bread is bad - but it is a carbohydrate and too many carbs don't help when you need to watch your weight. Bread breaks down into sugars in the body. Lots of people find they feel worse with too much sugar - and believe it or not you will find added sugar in a lot of bread these days. It's a different matter if you make your own - when I made bread it was flour, water and yeast!
It's moderation in everything - I don't eat a lot of dairy but I do eat cheese. That is natural fat - the fat and sugar that is bad for us is the stuff found hidden in cakes, biscuits, snacks and so on. A low fat diet is actually bad for us - not the "healthy diet" that it has been claimed to be. The sort of diet we ate in the 50s is actually pretty good - how often did we eat stuff in packages that kept for months then? And the portions were more sensible - as Pauline describes.
There was an article in one of the papers recently about not giving bread to ducks - it isn't good for them. Vegetable peelings (and chopped veg but that costs more) and whole range of other things are much better.
It's a bit like the human race I suppose - how on earth did we survive so long with all the "bad" things we used to do - although I must admit I am one of the people that Margaret mentioned earlier - I have cut bread out of my diet - I have cut all the stodge out of my diet (read all the good bits!!) and I can only just keep my weight stable - with a little downward nudge - so heavens know what I would weigh if I hadn't cut the stodge out. Oh the joys of prednisolone!
Good morning Margaret! No, bread is certainly not "bad" especially if you try and stick to wholemeal/granary versions. A dietitian speaking at one of our support group meetings explained that low GI foods are recommnded since high blood sugars are pro-inflammatory - wholegrain/granary bread is considered low GI, as are oat based cereals, pasta, basmati rice and pulses.
We have our own breadmaker, a panasonic, given to my hubby as a thank-you present years ago. He'd always fancied one, and he makes a small loaf a couple of times a week - easy and delicious, especially waking up to that smell of fresh bread baking in the early hours.
A stone is quite a lot to have lost Margaret, and quite unusual on steroids although not unheard of. However, I hope you could afford to lose it - if not, that it stabilises soon. Avocados are good, as are a handful of various nuts: almonds, walnuts, cashews. I've taken a particular liking to eggs in recent years - just wonder whether it was my body once telling me that I needed more Vit D before discovering I was deficient and taking a supplement?
I think you are doing well with your diet, Margaret, and with growing your own food (hats off to you), but I guess if you are losing weight that you don't want to lose, and are off your food, then you should eat what you fancy including your goats cheese.
Off for a hot cross bun now.
Easter blessings to everyone 'looking in' this morning.
i am thank you , tell (till next time), no i am really trying to stay calm as i know stress is not good for me/us. people have been very kind and listened to me that helps. I dont seem to have an appetite and my ever loving hubby said if you dont eat big meals you will loose weight, so there. never mind, have a lovely lovely Easter, not too much chocolate.
oh pauline love, take it easy im sat here resting before i go to hairdressers get the grey coloured today, and my nails, yipee i love the hairdressers little girl she massages my head bless her, got them some chocolate for easter, they are good girls.i bake my beetroot with rapseed oil, garlic, ginger and herbs, lovely only way john will eat it buts it good, is it not good for PMR.yikkes! i try and eat yelloww and orange pepers, supposed to be good sunshine food.
there was a programme on tv we watched last about fat, and they said the same, they said omega 3 fat is really good, it was very interesting, anybody else watched it.
thank you MrsO wrote all down what you have said, i have brazils, almonds pumpkin seeds/linseeds ground up with oats and yogurt for brekkie, thats a start. have a lovely easter. god bless. Margaret
I am off out for a walk with the dog in this wonderful sunshine - don't you just love springtime - everything is budding and waiting to burst out in all its glory - and I will wave at the ducks - no bread!
Hope you all are enjoying the same sort of wonderful weather - it is so uplifting.
Interesting programme on BBC1 last night about fat - check on iPlayer. 'The truth about fat' number three in the series others are sugar and calories. Not all bad and some interesting facts.