Jen loses 7lbs on baby food diet!

legslove

Check out pg 37 of Grazia this week - The Baby Food Cleanse is an eating plan devised by Madonna's former trainer - the programme advocates 14 portions of pureed food a day followed by a healthy adult dinner -- nuts or is there something in it?

EileenG

It's nuts. It just gives you tiny portions of pretty nasty food. Read the jars, they average 50 calories each.

legslove

Totally agree re actual baby food - but I wonder is there is something in the pureeing (if thats a word) the article goes on to say .. with baby eating the food is easily processed by the body - which apparently means efficient digestion equaling quick weight loss....

Xiney

50 calories x 14 is 700 calories.

any diet that advocates eating that little will lead to weight loss.

you could eat 700 calories worth of chocolate a day and lose weight (if that's all you ate) - doesn't mean it's healthy

EileenG

If anything, it's the other way round. The more processed, the quicker the food is absorbed, the hungrier you get again soon. The less processed food is harder to digest, it takes longer to get through your system, and your body may not absorb all the calories.

digme

legslove wrote: »

Check out pg 37 of Grazia this week - The Baby Food Cleanse is an eating plan devised by Madonna's former trainer - the programme advocates 14 portions of pureed food a day followed by a healthy adult dinner -- nuts or is there something in it?

I could give you a diet of coco bottles too and you'd lose weight.......

abouttobebanned

There's a lot to be said for eating normally, exercising and drinking green tea.

The less said about eating baby food the better.

davyjose

I would have thought more pureed/better masticated food would allow more efficient uptake of calories.
The body doesn't want to waste calories. It's only in recent times they're viewed negatively.

BTW, who's Jen?

legslove

Sorry should have siad Jennifer Anniston - AKA Rachel from Friends

EileenG

I bet her baby food diet doesn't include breast milk!

El_Dangeroso

Those magazines just make these things up, like Jennifer Anniston even had 7lb to lose!

I always laugh when those sleb magazines tell us the weight of various celebrities, like people just volenteer that kind of information!

rubadub

EileenG wrote: »

It's nuts. It just gives you tiny portions of pretty nasty food. Read the jars, they average 50 calories each.

Yep it is just portion control, like people counting points. Just look at the WW threads, loads of people are eating the likes of wispa, aero, curly wurly, snax, "pink & whites", etc -all these foods have roughly the same kcal as any other chocolate/crisps/biscuits -all of them are just bloated out with air to make them look the same size as normal bars/crisps etc.

When I was losing fat I had a collection of jam/sauce jars, I would cook up a batch of spag bol, or curry etc and portion it out in my jars, so I would have 2000kcal per day. I would then eat these in work and at home. Its the same idea but with food I like (though I heard 2 friends of mine with toddlers talking about eating baby food, they were even swapping recipes they use it as sauces on chicken!)

If I do not portion food out I have a bad habit of cooking up big batches of anything at once, I see it as "well the oven is on, I am not going to cook that miserable portion -its a waste of electricity & effort." Or else I would cook some planning to save some for later but scoff the lot. If it is a mega batch I do not do this.

Another idea is to eat with a small spoon or chopsticks. It is meant to take 20mins before your body recognises you have eaten, if you are hungry you might wolf down far more than you need in those 20mins. It would be an idea to have a starter -even if not a normal starter, like eat something small while cooking if you are cooking up a big batch, so you do not scoff the lot that you had planned on saving

digme wrote: »

I could give you a diet of coco bottles too and you'd lose weight.......

Yep, take 2 cola bottles every 3 hours on an empty stomach