Comments on: Guest Chef Time: Puttin’ on the Fitz

By: Mallory

Mallory — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:57:27 +0000

yum

By: heidi

heidi — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:52:19 +0000

I can really relate to this post. My entire life I have had a love/hate relationship with food. It is only now in my almost forties that I am starting to have more love than hate and understand that I can be thin without starving myself. I love the sample meals that you have provided here and plan on incorporating them into my diet. Thanks for putting this out there.

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:30:26 +0000

That is a great meal plan! I feel the same way Dara…I feel like I eat so much now..more then ever.

Thanks so much Miz for the link!!

By: Rachel

Rachel — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:06:13 +0000

Great meal plan and story.

Do you mix the egg beaters as you cook the oatmeal? or add it after?

sitting here eating fage w/berries.

By: Dara Chadwick

Dara Chadwick — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:37:31 +0000

This was basically the way I ate while I was writing the Weight-Loss Diary column for Shape. I kept telling people I was eating way more food than I ever had — just different kinds of food, more often.

Not only did I look better, I felt so much better, too. In fact, I’ve been straying away from the mini-meal plan and my goal for August is to get back to it.

By: MizFit

MizFit — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:24:15 +0000

I found I became way too obsessed with food.
EXCELLENT point monica.

this is all so personal. for me keeping a food journal almost tripped me into obsessiveness (it definitely made me irritable and less likely to eat for the pain in the ARSE of writing it all down)—-Id never thought of mini-meals in that light before.

thanks for taking the time to share that.

By: monica

monica — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:16:38 +0000

This post really hit a nerve – I have suffered the same fear of gaining weight and still struggle with it today, though to a lesser degree. I used to eat the mini meals, and I credit the diet with helping me shed a fair bit of blubber, but I found I became way too obsessed with food. The planning alone took up so much brain power and I never really felt “satisfied”, which kind of robbed the joy out of meal time for me. I now keep with 3 small meals and 2 mini meals, if that makes sense… it keeps me energized. I’m neither hungry nor fool. It’s a happy medium. Great post. Thank you so much for sharing this…

By: T

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:20:17 +0000

i was eating the mini meals at one point but got away from it. i really need to go back to it since it does make me feel better. hard, though, when i’m still at home and there’s the large dinner at the end of the day. i try not to eat all that much, but it’s not always easy especially when you get comments about the amount of (or lack thereof) food you’re consuming.

By: mamarunswithscissors

mamarunswithscissors — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:01:40 +0000

i am always amazed by all the different relationships people have with food (comfort eater here!).

fitzalan….thanks for sharing your story and tips.

By: TokaiAngel

TokaiAngel — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:49:25 +0000

As Yorkshire is the finest place to get a curry outside of Asia, I’d like to explain raita. It is a yoghurt based side-dish with mint and coriander (think you muppets call it Cilantro) and other spices. I chop up cucumber and put it in mine, but I’ve seen other veggies like onions and peppers go in the mix too. You serve it on the side of a curry to keep the temperature down, or (in Brit restaurants) with poppadoms at the start of a meal (not sure how authentic this practice is though…)

Sorry for the tangent, I wanted to flash my knowledge.

I love mini meals! Why not spread the food love throughout the day? It’s increases the frequency I can fill my face, and there’s nothing wrong with that :0)

I definitetly agree with sea breeze though – a lot of folks think I (still) don’t eat enough, but that’s just because they only see me at one meal.

TA x