I hope the above negative fruit and veg lists are helpful for you as they are for me and someone kindly posted them for me so I've copied them for you.

Remember us women have to stick together he'll cave first for sure! Good luck!

The weather is just as gloomy here in the south of England!!!

Last edited by Sally22 (2007-05-09 03:24:13)

These are the fruit and veg you should aim at eating. I've copied below some info on them below to try and explain how they work!.

NEGATIVE CALORIE FOODS

Negative calorie foods are foods, which use more calories to digest than the calories food actually contains! Calories from these foods are much harder for the body to use. In other words, the body has to work hard in order to extract calories from these foods. Even though a food may contain equal amount of calories, much less of these calories can possibly turn into fat in negative calorie foods as fewer calories are actually available to the body. This gives these foods a tremendous natural fat-burning advantage.
Consider the facts:
A piece of dessert consisting of 400 calories may only require 150 calories to digest by our body, resulting in a net gain of 250 calories which is added to our body fat !
On the other hand, a 5 calorie piece of celery may require 150 calories to digest, but resulting in a net loss of 145 calories from our body fat !! It implies that the more you eat, the more you lose weight!!!
Therefore, these foods are said to be good for achieving weight loss naturally without starving."
How it works?
All foods have a nutrient (carbohydrate, fat, protein), caloric (calories) and vitamin & mineral content. Vitamins stimulate living tissues to produce enzymes that breakdown the caloric nutrients of that food.
The foods with negative calorie contain sufficient vitamins & minerals that produce enzymes in quantities sufficient to break down not only its own calories, but additional calories present in digestion as well. This is the secret of The Negative Calorie Foods.
These foods will have maximum benefits when eaten without any empty calorie foods (junk foods). There are several foods such as vegetables and fruits that have negative calorie effect. Some of the foods that can be eaten in generous quantities are: Asparagus, Beets, Carrot, Zucchini, Papaya, Strawberry, Raspberry, etc.
Negative Calorie Diet & Weight Loss
In order to lose weight you have to burn more calories than you consume. The negative calorie food diet (some says it zero calorie diet) is very helpful in fast weight loss. You should know the complete list of the foods requiring your body to "burn" more calories processing them through your digestive system than the actual calorie content of the food itself. This results in your body burning up the excessive stored fat!

Last edited by Sally22 (2007-05-09 04:31:26)

Lol! I didn't know either until I was informed on this site lol!

Take my advice pick the fruit and veg you like the most even if they are expensive it is a consolation for you when you are dieting and others around you are not!

Hi Aussie Chick & Sally!

The weather in Yorkshire is absolutely naff as well - dull & rainy!!!

Aussiechick, good luck with the diet plan, I agree with Sally, it will be your other half that will cave in first - I bet he thinks it's gonna be a complete walk in the park, but keep using these boards for motivation & it will be you that sails through successfully & win your bet!!

It's great that you are doing it together so you won't be having to face lots of 'banned' food in the house! I have to cook for my daughter & get nice things in for her packed lunch, so that's always a bit of a temptation!

Sally will definitely help keep you on track - the charts she posted are fantastic with the negative foods on - a great help!

Sally - hope you are well & managing to take things easy! Any idea of how long timescale wise before you get over to Wales?

Anyway speak soon!

Kerry x

Luckily for me I can't get to the internet when teaching the kids won't let me I'm usually just sorting them out on it! I'm sure if I had a different job I'd never do any work with a computer to surf on! lol! In fact I sometimes wonder what I did before computers I'd trade in my TV before my computer any day that's for sure!

It has rained here all flipping day it is so miserable well I'll have to get used to it as it rains even more in Wales!!!  Twilight it is never too hot for me I'm a sun worshipper!

We are aiming at 4 to 6 weeks to move I am so excited but there is so much to do as we have so much junk! Charity shop here I come! and we're going to get a skip or two or three lol! for the rubbish!

This site for sure has kept me on track and all the friends we make from across the globe and the support we get helps!

Twilight a pound is lb as in weight and 14 lbs makes a stone us Brits despite having been metric for ages still talk weight in stones and lbs i.e. if you weigh 10 stone [which is how we would describe our weight] you weigh 140lbs. We usually post in lbs cos we know others wouldn't understand if we said it in stones.

A pound can also be money over here so we have pounds and pence like you have dollar and cents in America. Before long though no doubt our money will be Euros and cents.

Hope this helps!

Aussiechic do you come from Australia?

Thanks for the info.  10 stones sounds much nicer than 140 pounds in my opinion, so I see why you use the term.  Regardless it's cool to hear the different expressions, though we all speak English it can be like a different language entirely!
Cheerio!  (do they still say that?) ha ha

Hey Whittnie, glad you're home from work!  Miss you during the day!
Like I said before, even if your husband has some 'cheats', he will probably loose weight and maybe more than you.  It's frustrating!  I just look at a piece of cheesecake and gain weight,  Mike can eat  8 pieces of "Albertson's" fried chicken in one sitting and then be careful for a couple days and looses every week!  He just lost another 2 pounds today!  That makes 28 pounds in 2 months and he doesn't starve OR eat cabbage soup, it's disgusting!

Hope today has been good for you, mine's been fine, I seem to have so much more energy!   I did 30 minutes on the Gazelle today and for the past 3 nights I haven't been able to fall asleep before 1 or 2 AM!  So what they say about 'light headedness and feeling week doesn't apply to me, thank god!

Good Luck All!  Another day down!  yeah!  I can't wait for day 8!

Liesa-wanted to wish you good luck starting the diet.  I've had success with it and as you can see so many others have too.  It's nice that you have someone starting with you, you can never have too much support.  Keep us posted on how you're both doing.  Barb

Thanks for the good wishes Barb, and everyone else too!

Well, this is it!  Day 1. 

So, Mike and I have fallen out already and it's only just past 9am!  Ha ha! 

I made the soup last night, and spent ages cutting up fruit and packing it in little containers for us to take to work (which is not up Mike's street really, cos he hates to take lunch to work - he usually has a cigarette and a coffee for his lunch!) and then he said to me "where's the salad?"....hmmmm, can you guess what happened next?  I went into freak-out mode!  I have no excuses....well, actually, I do...I gave up smoking (after many many attempts and a wasted £200 on laser therapy!) 3 weeks and 4 days ago (not that I'm counting) and I have PMT.  And I'm generally a bitch in the mornings!  LOL 

But, I have sent a wee text to Mike to say sorry for my erratic behaviour, and he accepted my apology, so we're all good again!  ha ha....he's probably thinking "geez, it's ONLY Day 1!"  Poor soul....he's lovely in the mornings too, and I'm a nitemare!

So, we have weighed and measured -

Mike:
37 inch waist
172 lb

Liesa:
33 inch waist
39.5 inch hips (what a waste that I haven't got children - great child-bearing hips!)
23 inch thighs
170 lb

SCARY! 

BTW, silly question for you guys...just want to chack that I'm reading the diet plan correctly...are we able to drink cranberry juice every day of the diet?  or just day 1? it only seems to mention it in the first instance...

I am getting SO addicted to the idea of this diet that I've even dragged my old yoga mat out so I can start exercising again this week instead of sitting on my arse watching telly! 

Right - back to work Liesa...

See ya later! 

Thanks for keeping me right on that one Stew.  What the hell am I gonna do with all those bloody cartons of cranberry juice now?    Ahhhh, I'm an idiot! 

Well, it's lunchtime and I have eaten some very yummy fruit so far today, but the smells of toasted cheese sanwiches are wafting over this way from the cafe situated across the open foyer at work.  Damn them!  Esp since I ususally have a cheese, ham and tomato toasted sandwich every day at work. (and I have the audacity to wonder why I don't fit into most of my clothes anymore!)

Anyhow, onwards and upwards!! 

Liesa

Stew,

I didn't know which children's book is responsible for the phrase "onwards and upwards", so I googled it!  But I only found Anne Fine's novel called Up On Cloud Nine.  But now I'm thinking that can't be it because the saying has to have been around far longer than her book!  So, who is it? Which book?  Put me out of my misery....

I know you were gonna give brownie points for the correct answer, but since I did some reearch of a sort, can I have a brownie? whoops! I meant brownie point!

I am SO SICK OF FRUIT!  But I WILL NOT CAVE.  I'm actually looking forward to my soup tonight!

Liesa