Today I start a diet, my first proper diet in 30 years! I'm reducing the meds which have caused weight gain and I want to be as healthy as possible! It's a high protein diet something that will make me eat more than I have done before! It's a six week diet regime, so I finished my last night of freedom with a massive bowl of ice cream, filed with crushed nuts and caramel topping. It almost made me feel sick! But I had to get that last bit of freedom in. I'm sure that after this 6 weeks is over, I won't be craving ice cream as much, but then again my sweet tooth is pretty promiment.
This new diet calls at times for lean cuisines, filled with gluten, here's my challenge. What to do?? I'm going to make healthy lunches based on what the packages call for. So instead of instant frozen dinners, I will be making an alternative healthy dish. It got me thinking, how to you do a diet like Lite and Easy for example when you are a coeliac? Have you been on one of the big diets and have they or have they not catered to your gluten free needs?
Thankfully with this diet, the only things I have to alter is the frozen meals which I have no problem making my own. Morning and afternoon snacks in the first week call for eating 4-5 pieces of ham or turkey and a piece of low fat cheese, much more than I would usually have, I looked through the pages of the book and in a few weeks I'll be eating gf rice porridge, smoothie, bacon and eggs! I think I will expolode!
I will keep you updated on my diet, I ate today rice porridge for breakfast with a cup of tea, morning tea was, a tin of tuna on 2 rice cakes (my normal lunch), lunch was meant to be the lean cuisine or my alternative but I wasn't feeling that well so I ate the cold meat I was meant to eat for breakfast, 4-5 pieces of turkery, 1 piece of low fat Jalsberg cheese (there was meant to be avacado but it was over-ripe, I will now have 5 pieces of ham and 1 piece of Jalsberg Cheese and Chicken and vegetables for dinner with an apple for a snack.
Have you ever been on medication that has made you put on weight? I can fit into the majority of clothes but have gone up several bras sizes and my curves are bigger. I actually had a doctor for the first time in my life tell me I was overweight. The 15 year old in me, wanted to purge the iced chocolate I had eaten prior, but the 30 year old in me kicked in and I told him I don't think someone who fits into size 10 clothing is overweight (this was the first time he had met me!) He recalled his statement. But young women reading this, don't take to heart the silly things some doctors say. I remember a 20 year old friend who's doctor mentioned her size 10 frame was overweight, she dove straight back into an extreme eating disorder, being more a size 6-8! Doctor's need to think about their words and the affect they have on women. Even after the visit, I could here thoses words, your overweight, replaying in my head.
So ladies or gents, how have your managed a commercial diet being a coeliac? and have you have a doctor tell you you need to loose weight when they are very wrong? Have you been on a medication that a side affect makes you put on weight? I'd love to hear your stories.
Monday, 12 March 2012
Sunday, 4 March 2012
My health and lack of posts
I just wanted to write you a short post explaining my absence. As a side affect from my accident I get migraines. Over the past 5 days, I've had a migraine every day, which leaves me bedridden until the afternoon! Then last night and today I had crippling neck spasms leaving me crying n screaming in pain and my tolerance is pretty high!
So basically it's only in the evening I feel half decent, but not really well enough to write a big post or cook anything!
So this week I'm going to post on twitter and if my health prevails I'll put the best of posts on Facebook. My mum has also made me delicious carrot muffins, with no icing they are very healthy. When I feel up to it I will post her recipe up.
Thankyou for your patience and following me here on twitter or Facebook! Please urge any young p plate drivers to slow down, I wouldn't want anyone else to go through what I've been through!
I love when I get a new follower on Twitter @MMOAGFL or on my blog or Facebook! Also your comments keep me going, make me proud of what I'm doing. Also If you want to email me my email is mmoagflife@gmail.com
So basically it's only in the evening I feel half decent, but not really well enough to write a big post or cook anything!
So this week I'm going to post on twitter and if my health prevails I'll put the best of posts on Facebook. My mum has also made me delicious carrot muffins, with no icing they are very healthy. When I feel up to it I will post her recipe up.
Thankyou for your patience and following me here on twitter or Facebook! Please urge any young p plate drivers to slow down, I wouldn't want anyone else to go through what I've been through!
I love when I get a new follower on Twitter @MMOAGFL or on my blog or Facebook! Also your comments keep me going, make me proud of what I'm doing. Also If you want to email me my email is mmoagflife@gmail.com
Monday, 27 February 2012
GF Plum and Peach Healthy Muffins
One of my favourite healthy treats to bake is Kim Wilson's Banana Muffins. I regularly bake them, and freeze them, indiviudally wrapped, so I can get them out of the freezer as I please to enjoy these treats, it hits the spot and stops that sugar craving.
The other day I was in a baking mood, I looked in the fruit bowl to find that there wasn't enough bananas to make my beloved muffins. But I wasn't going to be defeated here, I open the fruit section of the fridge, where the fruit is kept.
The delicious, purple velvet looking plums called out 'pick me, pick me!' and the delicious peaches sitting next to the delicious plums sung 'we make a great team, pick us, pick us!'. What can I say but I had to listen to the delighful Australian stonefruit that was singing to me.
I selected 4 small plums and 2 peaches and cut them up into small pieces, leaving the skin on (this is where a large majority of the fibre is stored! I placed the fruit in the blender until them resembled a fine pulp.
When I transfered the stonefruit puree to a large bowl I soon realised that there was a rather watery consistency compared to the banana mixture. This is where the cook in me kicked in and I decided on doubling the amount of flaxmeal combared to the banana mixture. I was successful, as the consistency looked perfect!
The hardest part was waiting the 20 minutes of baking time and a little bit of cool down time, before I broke my muffin into smaller pieces. I was in heaven, there was a delightful mixture of moist fruit flavours! The plums and peaches were right they were the best combination. Unlike the banana muffins which are best served heated slightly in the microwave after they have cooled, the moisture of these muffins, meant that for several days after they were made, you could simply pick one out of the contain and gobble up all that wholesome goodness.
The only frustrating thing about these muffins is that in Australia, summer is coming to an end and so will the supply of the delicious stonefruit, that I look forward to each summer! I wish I had of listened to the fruit sing to me in Novemeber not February!
Without further ado here is the delightful recipe
Gluten Free Peach and Plum Muffins
Ingredients:
4 small plums 1 cup brown rice flour
2 large peaches (skin on) 1/2 cup arrowroot flour
1/2 cup water 1/2 cup gf corn flour
1/3 cup honey (or maple syrup) 1 tsp. cinnamon
1/3 cup oil (vegetable) or butter 2 tsp. baking powder
2/3 cup ground flaxmeal 1/2 tsp. bicarb soda
1 tsp apple cider vinegar 1/2 tsp. sea salt
11/2 tbs. golden syrup
opt:up to 1 cup chopped walnuts
Method:
Preheat oven to 180-200 degrees celcisus. Cut fruit into small pieces and place in the blender until they resemble a puree (leave the skin on the fruit). Combine ingredients in left column (except walnuts if using). In a separate bowl, combine ingredients in right column. Lightly mix the two together, fold in walnuts if using (I didn't use walnuts in my version, its a personal choice). Scoop into oiled muffin tins (I use a olive oil spray). Bake for about 20 minutes or until they spring back when you touch them.
Enjoy
xx
Don't forget you can follow me on Twitter @MMOAGFL or on Facebook under Mishaps and Mayhem of a Gluten Free Life. I would also like to mention my fellow food blogger, the lovely lady behind Delicieux is running a fantastic competition to win an ice cream maker, to enter simply click on the link and follow the instructions http://www.ledelicieux.com/2012/02/22/win-an-ice-cream-maker-of-your-choice-from-kitchenware-direct/
What recipe have you altered to suit your supplies in the kitchen and did it turn out to be successful or not?
The other day I was in a baking mood, I looked in the fruit bowl to find that there wasn't enough bananas to make my beloved muffins. But I wasn't going to be defeated here, I open the fruit section of the fridge, where the fruit is kept.
The delicious, purple velvet looking plums called out 'pick me, pick me!' and the delicious peaches sitting next to the delicious plums sung 'we make a great team, pick us, pick us!'. What can I say but I had to listen to the delighful Australian stonefruit that was singing to me.
I selected 4 small plums and 2 peaches and cut them up into small pieces, leaving the skin on (this is where a large majority of the fibre is stored! I placed the fruit in the blender until them resembled a fine pulp.
When I transfered the stonefruit puree to a large bowl I soon realised that there was a rather watery consistency compared to the banana mixture. This is where the cook in me kicked in and I decided on doubling the amount of flaxmeal combared to the banana mixture. I was successful, as the consistency looked perfect!
The hardest part was waiting the 20 minutes of baking time and a little bit of cool down time, before I broke my muffin into smaller pieces. I was in heaven, there was a delightful mixture of moist fruit flavours! The plums and peaches were right they were the best combination. Unlike the banana muffins which are best served heated slightly in the microwave after they have cooled, the moisture of these muffins, meant that for several days after they were made, you could simply pick one out of the contain and gobble up all that wholesome goodness.
The only frustrating thing about these muffins is that in Australia, summer is coming to an end and so will the supply of the delicious stonefruit, that I look forward to each summer! I wish I had of listened to the fruit sing to me in Novemeber not February!
Without further ado here is the delightful recipe
Gluten Free Peach and Plum Muffins
Ingredients:
4 small plums 1 cup brown rice flour
2 large peaches (skin on) 1/2 cup arrowroot flour
1/2 cup water 1/2 cup gf corn flour
1/3 cup honey (or maple syrup) 1 tsp. cinnamon
1/3 cup oil (vegetable) or butter 2 tsp. baking powder
2/3 cup ground flaxmeal 1/2 tsp. bicarb soda
1 tsp apple cider vinegar 1/2 tsp. sea salt
11/2 tbs. golden syrup
opt:up to 1 cup chopped walnuts
Method:
Preheat oven to 180-200 degrees celcisus. Cut fruit into small pieces and place in the blender until they resemble a puree (leave the skin on the fruit). Combine ingredients in left column (except walnuts if using). In a separate bowl, combine ingredients in right column. Lightly mix the two together, fold in walnuts if using (I didn't use walnuts in my version, its a personal choice). Scoop into oiled muffin tins (I use a olive oil spray). Bake for about 20 minutes or until they spring back when you touch them.
Enjoy
xx
Don't forget you can follow me on Twitter @MMOAGFL or on Facebook under Mishaps and Mayhem of a Gluten Free Life. I would also like to mention my fellow food blogger, the lovely lady behind Delicieux is running a fantastic competition to win an ice cream maker, to enter simply click on the link and follow the instructions http://www.ledelicieux.com/2012/02/22/win-an-ice-cream-maker-of-your-choice-from-kitchenware-direct/
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