CookingDiva

Hey Melissa,
  I need that nasty diet info!  I need to lose 20+ before I come to visit!

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Bueno Melissa, me alegro que hayas perdido el peso. Lo difícil es mantenerlo abajo… :D Pero you can do it. Un saludo.

Hmm… is this why you have not been to my blog lately? A few carbs and some chocolate scared you away LOL !

Hmm.. I should probably cut down on too many carbs too.  Maybe I should not go to my blog either

Kelly! I just have 2 light meals a day and one very complete with lots of protein and veggies. Once in a while bread or a sweet is ok, but not every day.

The most difficult thing has been to eat my dinner earlier. I am used to have dinner between 9-11 PM, but now I am trying to have dinner between 6:30 and 7:30 PM

The 2 light meals consist mostly of 1-2 tall glasses of fresh raw milk.

Greetings from My Dhaba Melissa.

We miss your entries at VCC Q1 2006 - the deadline being today. Thought of reminding that to you.  Cheers!

vkn

I’m glad you found some tasty and quickly delivered food! 

I need to loose 20+ pounds, but sadly enough, I’m not willing to starve for it.  *sigh*

Besos,
Paz

Little Melissa, I can’t bear the thought of you starving yourself out there and being tortured by pastry work!  How horrible!  I hope your food was wonderful, because you deserved it!

Ah Melissa, there is plenty of good food that is low in carbs.  However, I do admit that I am glad that I am now on phase 3 of my diet so I can eat more carbs than I used to.  I still try to avoid white flour and sugar though, so that will not help you with those pastry cravings.  Also I never eat potatoes. Congrats on the 20 pounds.  I wrote a post on Blogher about dieting for bathing suit season and all the young feminists are pouncing on me.  I don’t care though, I think it’s a sign of self-love to monitor your eating and maintain a healthy weight.
Hugs,
Kalyn

VKNarayanan: my apologies, I missed the deadline…I’ll do my best to participate next time

Hola Paz: sometimes starvation is not necessary. In my case, what I know has made a big difference is having dinner earlier. That way I can go to bed earlier, get my beauty sleep and wake up with lots of energy!

Thank you Michelle for your thoughts…I sometimes while shopping, I find my ex boss, Mr. Riba or his father and they always say that I put on some weight after I left them—-I always threaten on going back there to work for them just so I can be so stressed up and over worked that I get back to size #2. We laugh! They are great people

Kalyn, I really enjoy a high protein + veggies diet. It is really what works better for me. What happens is that since I cook for other families, etc, I’ve got to taste a few things. Somehow all that tasting went bananas   Regarding your article at BH, I think you did great. The issue here is that we should accept and love ourselves the way we are. IF for any reason we are not happy with our weight, the hair, the skin or something else, we could try to change it, BUT never forgetting that what we are doing is for us. Our body is ours

A few months ago a friend of mine suggested the “South Beach Diet” to me because it helped him a great deal to keep his beer belly in check
So I went and bought the book and stayed on it for about 4 weeks.
It really worked. I lost about 12 pounds, exactly what I wanted.
Now I am back to my normal cooking pleasures…last night I prepared caulifowers, boiled potatoes, sause hollandaise and pollo Milanesa, accompanied by a very tasty, rich red wine from Argentina.

kinedst peruvian regards
Inka

How torturous having to look at pastries all day and not being able to eat them.  I really admire your fortitude and will power not cave in to temptation.

The best diet book I have read recently is a book entitled ‘French Women Don’t Get Fat’.  It explores the paradox of the French who have a diet high in fat and carbs yet remain one of the slimmest European countries.  The key seems to be the French’s inherent love of food, which teaches from an early age to savour each and every mouthful, enjoying a variety of different flavours and textures as opposed to the glutinous quantities consumed by those especially in America. 

Glad to hear that your diet is going so well

Melissa, sounds like you have done well on the diet.  I have had to start all over again but I will make it.  I worked in a bakery while going to culinary school and it was pure torture not to eat things at the bakery.  My weakness was the fresh pipping hot crusty breads from the oven.  I would carry a stick of butter and hide it so I could slather it on that hot bread.  How bad is that??? I feel your pain!  lol!

Hola Diva, felices pascuas a ti y a toda tu familia. Espero que tengáis unos días bonitos. Con cariño

You’re right.  Starving is not necessary.  And it’s always a good idea to eat earlier, rather than later.  I’ll have to put that into practice. 

Best,
Paz