We are a happily married couple living in Wales who, after a few health scares, have decided to finally live the healthy/active lifestyle that we always talked about.
We have always enjoyed good food, home cooking and takeaways and 'lots' of it; this didn't really fit with our new lifestyle, so we took up the challenge of recreating some of our favourite recipes and takeaway dishes but with lower calories, carbohydrates and fat.
To date, we have lost
We use the term 'dieter' in our blog title and 'diet' in the blog itself in the sense of good nutrition and healthy eating. We do not use it in the sense of 'dieting', something which lots of people seem to do, moan about and never stick to, thus never lose weight.
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'Diets'
Throughout, you will notice references to Weight Watchers and ProPoints. We are not following the Weight Watchers plan/diet, but do find their ProPoints scheme very useful when talking about food, since the calculation takes into account the amounts of protein, fat and carbohydrate in each food item. Generally, we count 50 calories as 1 ProPoint (yes, we are aware that some foods can skew this dramatically sometimes) and stick to a 23-24 ProPoints a day which equates to about 1200 calories.
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Our Recipes
Our recipes include approximate calorie and ProPoint counts. Although we know that most foods contain some kind of calorific value, we do not count the calories in fruit and vegetables because we believe that the health benefits of eating such food items outweigh any calories they may contain. Therefore, we only count the calories of the main items of the recipes, such as chicken, fish, bread, rice, etc. We do include calories of some vegetables, such as potatoes, because of the high carbohydrate content.
Unless otherwise stated, our recipes are for 4 people (4 servings/portions) because there are 4 in our family! It should be easy to adjust the ingredients for a smaller or larger number of portions/servings.
Disclaimer
We occasionally mention certain supermarkets, shops and food items throughout our blog. Do not take these mentions as endorsements or recommendations as they are not!
Also, we do not suffer any food allergies so we do not check any food items for such things and do not mention them on our blog; if you have an allergy, make sure you read the packaging!
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