Food for staying well & looking good - live webchat with Linda Doeser 11 January 1-2pm

I will go to bed and read my nice new books now.

So long as my battery's not gone flat.

Thank you also Faye. I do get acid indigestion and take omeprazole (from the doc). So will keep an eye on that side of things.

Well, I've just downloaded a couple of GI Foods/diet books to my kindle. The two of them together only cost a fiver, so I will have read. Ta GM.

I think it is to do with your ph levels jingl. Since I read about ph levels when we were discussing arthritis months ago on GN I have watched very carefully what I eat. If I eat anything acidic I immediately get heartburn then later I have pain in my hands and if I am eating too much acidic food the souls of my feet start to hurt. If I eat food that is alkaline I am fine, no arthritic pain and no heartburn.
www.balance-ph-diet.com/acidosis_symptom.html

I think that is to do with blood sugar (?) jingl - you get a high from the fat/sugar and then it plummets a few hours later. Have you tried the GI diet? - alas, no good looking young US servicemen feature in it, but it is to do with the Glycaemic Index and which foods keep you feeling full longer. You know how they say you always feel hungry after a Chinese meal or takeaway? Same principle I think.

May I ask another question, please?

I am starting to believe that eating too much fatty and/or sugary foods makes me feel low, about two or three hours after eating it. It even lasts over into the next morning.

I don't think this is simply guilt about eating the wrong foods. I think it is something physiological happening. Do you think this is right? It's so hard to stay off the bad stuff, like icecream, in the evenings. Especially when it's left over from Christmas and you feel bad about throwing it all away.

My husband has emphysema and heart problems so keeping to a tasty. healthy diet is really quite difficult.
Can you suggest any recipes that are really low or no salt, low fat, and not too many calories!?
I have tried adding herbs and spices to add some flavour, but I am not keen on too much of this, so this restricts me too.

granlT I am a work in progress, as far as weight loss is concerned and I seem to have been on a diet for years, but have never lost any significant amoun of weight, so I am no expert. But having tried every fad diet going from Atkins to Cabbage soup diet, I really believe the only way is counting calories(or points as in weightWatchers), and lower fat intake, but most of all smaller portions. Will let you know if I can keep it up, will be logging in to the Monday weigh in on Gransnet which is starting up again next week.Good luck whatever you do.

beeble; I think we all stretch our stomachs at this time of year so they need more filling. We also, probably forget to drink water, because it doesn't seem hot [as in summery hot], but we probably ned to drink as much because of central heating etc. Thirst can make you feel hungry. Sipping water throughout the day can help. Am now going to take my own advice!

I did a high protein diet in my teens; lost loads of weight, but my breath smelt [I wasn't drinking enough water] and I think I'm lucky not to have permanently damaged myself in some way. It was in the Twiggy era when everyone had to be skinny. I fear that that 'skinnyness' is huge compared to todays standards. Glad I'm not that young again.

My brother and SIL have been on the Dukan diet and to be fair, they have lost a lot of weight - but I don't fancy it because a) I don't trust quack diets and b) I've read it makes you flatulent (that again!) and your breath smell and doesn't feed your brain, whatever that means.

So, my question is - what is the best way of losing weight if you don't have all those rules to follow about eating bran pancakes for breakfast and no vegetables for month and no carbohydrate ever?

Thanks - needing to lose about a stone.

Should I raise the tone by moving from flatulence to fish?

Much is said about the benefits of oily fish. I like salmon, can't abide mackerel or sardines and always have a decent stock of tinned tuna. How much should I be eating, what should I be doing with it and what will it do for me?

Not to mention Jerusalem Artichokes!

he he!

I can cook/eat healthily
I can cook/eat cheaply
I can cook/eat to lose weight - and need to do so before my daughter's wedding this summer as I am at least 2 stone overweight.

What I cannot do is all 3. So many "cheap" but nutricious recipes are also fattening, "lean" slimming food is expensive - so what can I do?

Oh, I wonder if it's Cari or Geraldine that's gonna read that! Or all of 'em! [nightmare]

You can delete it if you like.

Hello Linda. Could you please tackle flatulence. I experience far too much of it.

There, I've said it!

I think it's the healthy foods, like porridge and fruit, that are the worst culprits, to be honest, so what can I do about that?! I want to eat healthily, but I don't want the embarrassment!

Butternut, I don't think the metabolism would necessarily slow if we could just keep doing the same amount of moving about as we did. The problem is, tiredness cuts in more than it did.

I second beeble's question!!

I don't know if it's ok for me to ask this as I am a mum and not yet a gran ...but am suffering from that hideous January need-to-lose-weight-but-permanently-ravenous thing. I'd like to drop a stone and am not interested in any of these celebrity diets etc - but how can I stop myself from being starving all the time?

I have already changed to a healthy diet but I would like to ask if dementia can be related to poor eating. My SIL was a vegetarian and was then told by a quack nutritionist that she was allergic to wheat, citrus fruit, dairy....more or less everything. She was reduced to eating salads and some nuts and I wondered if that diet accelerated her Alzheimer's.

By the way, I keep reading the title of this thread as 'Dosser weds' - I thought at first it was a news story about a tramp's wedding.

It's the metabolism that changes, unfortunately

One of the delights of ageing......