Whatever works for you mochi 🙂
I have two ready meals in my freezer for emergencies but so far prefer to cook fresh food or add something to salad.
Well done!

Hi mochi, yep I know what you mean about leftovers, it’s very difficult to just cook for 1 or 2, most recipes are geared towards families of 4-6 I find. That’s why I started portioning off & freezing the ‘leftovers’ of my favourite meals when I left home. I’d photocopied all my favourite ‘family recipes’ from my mum’s Weight Watchers recipe books and those were actually ideal for 5:2 because most of them were suitable for freezing and the individual portions very rarely creep over 500 calories per portion anyway (when you don’t add extra cheese or whatever – which I was wont to do from time to time 😉 ).

So you don’t really need any kind of ‘special’ recipes, just find good solid recipes of your favourites and calorie count them to make sure they’re within your tollerance & make sure they’re freezable. Most of my fave WW recipes actually benefit from being frozen weirdly. There’s a gorgeous tuna lasagna that’s OK when it’s fresh but bloody AMAZEBALLS when it’s been frozen for a while.

Hi Mochi, I too started a couple of weeks ago and loss seems to be fairly low but steady so far. I save most of my calories for my evening meal (maybe having a couple of ryvita or a bowl of soup mid-morning). My favourite so far is my version of Chicken Caeser Salad with lots of different leaves, usual salad stuff, a boiled egg and a small chicken breast. I have a tablespoon of low-fat dressing mixed with a tablespoon of natural yoghurt. It’s easy and quick and filling too (and I can add a few new potatoes for my husband!). Hope that helps!

Glad to, sylvestra. Before I do, just checking that you are carnivorous ‘cos it involves chorizo.

xx

Yet another thing we have in common, sylvestra, a house heaving with cookbooks, Some of mine date back to the hippy days, e.g. Diet for a Small Planet and Alternative Cookery, which I still use occasionally.

20-odd years ago I translated 24 volumes of “Cookery Around the World” from German for Time-Life. Since then I’ve found my name online in bibliographies of people in various countries doing Masters’ degrees in food-related disciplines.

Anyway, here’s the recipe

Skipper’s Soup. For those who have Mimi’s Fast Diet Recipe Book it’s on p.175 and, wonder of wonders, the quantities are for 1 serving. Calorie count 142 per portion.

25g good quality chorizo (note from hermaj, try to poke out and discard some of the very fatty bits) THEN weigh it. Less fat, more flavour.
1 small onion, finely chopped,
200g (i.e. 1/2 tin) tinned haricot beans, cannelini, butter beans or chickpeas, drained
300ml chicken stock,
pinch of smoked paprika
salt and pepper

Chop the chorizo into small chunks and heat very gently in a heavy-bottomed pan.When it begins to release some oil (note from hermaj, there won’t be much if you’ve already removed the very fatty bits) add the onion and a little stoick and cook gently until softened. Add the beans and remaining stock and simmer for 10 minutes. Whisk with a hand blender or tip into a food processor and whisk until smooth. Add the paprika and check seasoning before serving. Add 1 tbsp of low fat natural yogurt. One tbsp = 10 cal.1/2 fat creme fraiche works just as well.

aarrgghh – read it before you hit submit you fool!! *definitely* 😀

Oh dear! I didn’t notice that – ha ha – stoick …a New York stork? Or a Noo Yoick stoick!! 😀

xx

I’ve read it’s best not to have white carbs like potatoes, rice and pasta on fast days. That’s why I haven’t had frozen meals since mist have these in them. I guess I’ll start including them if its working for you all. I’ve been wondering if people were having them. Thanks.

Mochi
Good you able to do it.

In the beginning , and every time I’ve restarted it put more of an emphasis of calories rather than nutrition.
So if having the frozen meals helps you succeed . Im for that! Over time I started to get used to the fast days and starting eating healthiest carbs on non fasting days. I believe the healthy nutrition on feed days helps the fast days. Where as when I was eating burgers and pizzas on feed days I still stuggled. On fast days. Eventually putting exercise on feed days when I had more energy and aiming to do HIIT exercise on feed days to help lower fats in my blood stream.

Once I started doing that and trying not to eat till I felt stuffed full on feed days. I got used to eating slowly and around the. 450 calorie meals on feed days . Not sure why this worked by by week 12 I was able to do 4:3 without feeling like I was struggling all day. I guess I just got used to not eating till full and that kept my hunger pangs in check. So once I got used to the 5:2. Being successful for 4 weeks or so . I move on to 4:3 , and that’s when I lost most of my weight.