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perhaps rhubarb wine would be better??

That's one of my problem. Empty (wine filled) calories.

So it's all a load of rhubarb then!

Thank goodness

ps is rhubarb a food

Thanks Craicon

I had a glass of because I was feeling fed up about it

Empty calories!!

Jalima you can get it for free for a 7 day trial. You don't have to pay upfront.
I was suggested it could be used to help figure out what sensible portion sizes are...
I was kidding myself for ages before I realised I simply ate a bit too much to maintain a healthy weight. My DH is tall and I was eating the same amount on the plate but I'm quite short so I was getting fatter and he was still a slim Jim.

After a bit, you get used to eating a bit less food than previously without feeling hungry.

Rhubarb! as a derisive response to what I have heard of the rest of the "fruit after other food ferments in the stomach" quote - that you shouldn't eat fruit after a meal because it ferments in the stomach and makes your food go bad and that is very bad for you. (Yes, I know you weren't saying that but I was reminded of it - it is in the same pseudoscientific league as the "You must eat alkaline food". As the stomach is full of strong hydrochloric acid which will more than counterbalance any natural bias in food, you would need to eat stuff alkaline enough to strip the lining of your gut for any of it to survive)

Oh! you have to pay for it Craicon

I haven't seen a Caramac for years (and years).

Just off to make a healthy stirfry
Rice or no rice?

OP, have a look at nutracheck.co.uk.
Input your daily food in the diary section and it will show you how many calories you've eaten in a day. To maintain a healthy weight you only need about 1800 calories (for average height women) so if you're regularly eating 2,200, you will slowly gain a pound every few weeks, and an extra stone or more each year.

It would be very easy for me to put on weight especially as I'm only 5ft but I deliberately eat only half a caramac and I too share a cake or scone when out otherwise I would put on weight and I really don't want to.
I don't exercise as I have health problems so the most I can do is small walks and I don't sit down for hours (mainly because I can't !) so I'm aware most days not to overeat and to try to keep moving.
Oh and the other thing is I don't drink alcohol ? because of migraines.

I forgot to add to my post earlier, I'm a very restless active person, can't sit and watch TV for more than half an hour at a time. And during the day must be busy doing something, going out , cooking, gardening etc.
Also as someone else said, all cooking is from scratch (except baked beans.)

I love Rhubarb vodka

Rhubarb ?

Rhubarb ferments and turns into alcohol or rhubarb helps you to keep slim?

I am off to pick some now, either way sounds good!

Like many others I was slim until I was 50+ I went on early diets and that kept my weight down.
Then I had a stomach complaint that was so bad I began to loose weight. It just slipped off. I was down to eating warm shredded wheat which seemed to be the only thing I could face. After examinations I learned that I did not have stomach cancer and relaxed.

Since then I leave my weight more or less how it is naturally. But I am not fat but a stone heavier that I was at 25.
I drink a pint of full cream milk a day with cereals(no sugar) or in tea and coffee,then meat or fish or cheese and veg and potaoes and crisp bread. I gave up yeast and I feel better without bread.
All my meals are freshly prepared.

Rhubarb!

Apparently fruit after a meal 'ferments' in the stomach and can cause bloating.

in which case why don't I feel tiddly if I eat a tangerine after dinner?

I haven't seen anyone mention fruit much. We always eat fruit chopped up after our dinner could this be a mistake perhaps?

I'm conscious of the fact that it is easier to put weight on now I'm not as active as I used to be, although I still walk a lot and only use the car occasionally.

I either eat lunch or dinner, never both. I sometimes don't eat breakfast either.

I'm 5ft 5 ins and weigh just under 8stone. After DH died, I went down to 7stone which was not a good look.

It's hard to say what I eat as it varies a lot. I do like my couple of glasses of wine in the evening as well.

I'm 9 st, used to be 8 , 5 ft 6. I eat muesli with berries, almond milk and Greek yoghurt in the morning. Green tea and cup of coffee. Cheese on toast with salad and an apple at lunch time. Fish or veggie dish with pasta or rice, maybe jacket potato for dinner, maybe a biscuit in the afternoon or mini choc ice while watching TV. Glass or two of white wine. Lots of fizzy water. Do quite a bit of exercise. There are some overweight people in the family who drink beer, eat chips, cakes etc which I don't.

Thank you IZZY and WILDSWAN interested to read what you eat. I am guessing that the amount you eat is on the low side to what I eat, I would feel hungry so this must be the key. I guess neither of you are hungry so you must have a smaller appetite and therefore don't put on weight.

I was 7.5 stone until I was 30, when I gave up smoking and went up to just over 9, where I stayed until I had a hysterectomy in my 50's in 2003, I now tell my DH he has 33% extra free since he married me 47 years ago

I'm a size 10 and weigh 8st 3lbs at 5ft 7. All my working life I was 9st 4lbs and when I retired I expected to put on weight but in fact lost a stone. I put that down to missing the canteen lunches.

Breakfast is porridge oats with a spoonful of ground nuts and half a dozen chopped grapes or banana.
Lunch is maybe 2 slices toast and a scrambled egg (or 2).
Tea is usually fish or chicken with rice and whatever veggies are in the kitchen, followed by yogurt and fruit.

I believe it is the extras or giant portions that put the weight on. I don't have anything inbetween meals except some fruit mid morning and afternoon, and very rarely have coffees when I'm out so am not tempted then by the cream cakes.

Of course I do have the occasional bar of chocolate or plate of chips - just not so often.

People often say I am lucky not to put weight on but I'm not sure luck has anything to do with it. I know for sure if I ate what some of my friends eat then I would quickly become much heavier. It's so much easier not to put it on in the first place.

Some years ago I was complementing a slim friend on her trim physique when she pointed out (being kind) that I had children and she didn't. I said " I had the last one thirty-five years ago" and she replied "yes, you should have got your figure back by now!"

I HATE being a size 18 (5ft 6ins) but I love food so much. Every day is a mental battle - and I have a slim husband who eats much more fried food than I do. I also can't bear to be hungry - If I get hungry I feel faint, and I am very bad tempered and frantic for food!!

My excuse for the weight gain (I was a size 14 in my younger days) is that I have had 3 babies!

I don't think can beat your genes. I've got the same body shape and size as my grandmother and great aunts. Mother was a chain smoker so probably affected her appetite. Can't win. Just off for more crisps!