DianeCorriette

Having to eat protein at meal times is proving really difficult for me – especially if it means eating bacon and sausages for breakfast every day so I decided to come up with high protein breakfast ideas without meat that will lay off all the saturated fat! The great news is my body is responding well to the protein – after all I have been on carbs for years  – but the Diet Solution Program really doesn’t encourage the type of food that the metabolic typing book does so I may lay off the book... Read Full Story

If you want a free metabolic self test there are a couple that I have gone through but the one I prefer is here at natural healthy yellow pages: http://www.naturalhealthyellowpages.com/metabolic/self_test.html What that will tell you is how to eat well according to your metabolic type, which has definitely helped me with weight loss While searching around the web I also found a great question that asked if eating less slows our metabolism how can we lose weight when we are on a diet... Read Full Story

I find it difficult sometimes to come up with healthy snacks because I am such a carbs lover and my snacks need to be more protein heavy. An easy one for me is to eat a banana (carbs) with a mixture of almond nuts (protein) and sunflower/pumpkin seeds. It helps if I chop the banana up and eat it slowly while I am working rather than just eating the whole banana in one go. I have to do all these little tricks to help me get through the hours before I eat again Apple, banana, coconut and... Read Full Story

I love a tin of sardines with spinach as a lunch. The combination is really healthy and it helps me get my extra protein that I need. Sometimes I may follow it with a small yoghurt and an apple and other days I may add more than just spinach. When I cook the sardines in a little coconut oil (only a little because it has its own oil) I will add onions and green/red peppers too to add bulk to the lunch. To add my carbs to it I will add a little quinoa (although I am not a fan of it) or have a... Read Full Story

In my last blog post I focused on the importance of protein for fat burning as promoted by the Diet Solution program. Today I have a video put together by David Petersen who is a personal trainer in Clapham, London. He goes through a basic outline of fat burning. It all focuses on the number of calories that come in that is balanced out by the number of calories you burn. David says you only need to do a number of small changes to really make a difference and I love his approach to fat loss... Read Full Story

When you buy the Diet Solution program it gets you to look through your ideal food based on your metabolic type and put together your menus based on that. This is why planning is so important – you need to get an idea of the type you are and how to put that altogether to make up your meal plan for the week. Porridge is a great breakfast and as I am a protein metabolic type it is important I add protein to it so I can eat it with a couple of eggs and a slice of bacon (proof that the old... Read Full Story

A really important lesson that I have learnt about fat burning is the need to increase the amount of protein I was eating in a very carb heavy diet. All of my snacks were carb based like toast or crumpets and maybe even oven chips. The Diet Solution recommends a good healthy source of protein with each meal. You don’t need to over do it but stuck to a sufficient amount. Your body breaks down protein into amino acides and amino acid is used to help your body build muscle. Protein is also... Read Full Story

I have been looking at why I keep starting the Diet Solution then going back to my old ways of eating and I came to the conclusion that I was doing it for a reason, the first reason was my holiday, then there was a christening and a new man…. there are all these reasons for me to focus on weight loss but what happens once I no longer have the reason is I stopped. So I took a long hard look at what I was doing and what I wanted to achieve and now I am following the Diet Solution again (which... Read Full Story

I did my best to be happy for everyone but I was a little annoyed this week that despite being great all week with just one slip where I ate bread once I lost no weight but did lose body fat, which I know is way more important anyway… still, with all that struggle it would have been nice to have lost something! All these people walking in the room confessing their sins about not having a great week and everyone lost something – even if it was only a pound!!! This is week three already of... Read Full Story

I handed in my food diary before I got a chance to copy it all over so sorry there are a few days missing! On Wednesday weigh-in I had lost 5lbs going from 19 st 3lb to 18 stone 12lb – I won’t be happy until I am back to 17stone 12lb that I was before and then I will count it as ACTUAL weight loss so I have a stone to go. It will be great to lose that during these 5 weeks but I know now that this way of eating is for life! The Diet Solution information came out once again and I found it... Read Full Story