Fruit Machine Chat

Ok, it's time for a detox. I'm a carb junkie, I love them and although I stay fairly fit and healthy and active (not today, I've been a lazy b*stard), I have to reduce the carbs.
So I'm looking at pulses and protein and fruit for water soluble vitamins. Maybe some dark chocolate as a treat. Healthy, no big fat burgers/pizza/cheesy baps/tea cakes/scones/Tuc cheesy biscuits/Kit Kat Chunkys etc

I wondered if there were any fruit chat recipes to share?

So I'm looking for things like pulse based salads with tuna and low fat dressings, wholesome vegetable soups. Maybe some tasty rye bread to go with the soup and just a little cheese.


Also, I don't want to get too girly here, but anyone tried that Actobiffiduslactobacillidophipheodopilopatheoparfitisopolisbacopolis yoghurt stuff? Any good?

Moderate alcohol from now on, in fact just a glass of wine to aid digestion of my pulse based tuna snack. I eat too much at night, stuff myself. It will stop. A pulse based snack, a slice of Canteloupe melon, an orange, two squares of dark chocolate and a crisp apple should fill me up nicely.

Two litres of water.

I am told that following this road leads to increased metabolism, energy levels, increased libido and lower levels of toxins in the gut.

Like I say, outside of AWPs I stay fairly active. Inside of AWPs, well all that nervous energy created must burn off a few calories, even if it is just driving around lifting small gold coins into and out of slots.


Maybe I could go really hardcore and just have two Fortisips a day with fruit to top up my water soluble vitamins.

Any stories about detox/low carb experiences to share?

Just to add, Stephen Fry was on Top Gear last week and he had undergone a low carb diet. You could definitely tell the difference, gone was the chubby chin resplendent on QI and his height/weight ratio seemed a lot better proportioned.

I've read a lot of bad press about carbs recently, so sorry for coming across a bit Essex housewife, but there you go. I promise my next posting will not be about the joy of pilates.

Recently I've been eating alot of subways... healthyish...
Typical as there's so many opening in Essex... lol

Shaggerty wrote:Recently I've been eating alot of subways... healthyish...
Typical as there's so many opening in Essex... lol

For me subways become a fad for people for a small time, then quickly you become bored with them and migrate elsewhere....

optimum nutrition 100% gold standard whey - as a meal replacement. ie breakfast or lunch.

Subway do a nice salad, you just order say a subway melt but as a salad not a sandwhich.
Also if you like sweet potato try having mashed butternut squash instead of mashed potato.
Omelette's are another good filler, with cheese.
It's not easy going without carbs though, I did a crash 1 week no carb diet a couple of months back, lost 7 pounds in 1 week but felt hungry virtually the entire time as having no bread or potato really limits your meals.

Has anyone else noticed the repusive smell that wafts out of Subway stores?

It's vial, they always have the bloody doors wide open too.. The food is nice, but I cant physically stomach going in to buy it, I have to send Julie in lol...

I'm an any food junkie, and never go anything over 10.5 stone. It's great!

Yeah wait until you hit 30 mate, ufft and 40 is even worse so they say, so much as look at a full fat Subway the wrong way and you're doomed.

When I was an addict I used to go to the gym and workout or play basketball/badminton/squash/5-a-side whatever as although I wasn't going to get a pocket full of tokens or a £10 all cash repeat, I wasn't going to lose either.

Over a decade on and I don't feel as ripped as an Empire Strikes Back that has given 4 nudges with not much in view, I've nudged down a grape(3) for bonus and it has given winspin for cherries and I've gambled it for the exchange. That's how ripped I don't feel. Smooth.

Ages ago I was all ZIP POW BIFF BOFF press ups and sit ups between Weetabix. Now I give myself a hernia when I press the light switch. I did it today, I made that old man noise reaching my arm around a wall to switch on a light.

It's all pizza, sandwhiches, jacket potatoes, chips, chocolate, pasta yuk yuk carbs for me at the moment. I'm just looking fo something healthy to improve my focus and increase +£250 days to +£500 days and ready to BIFF BAFF BOFF ZAP KERPOW if a pesky landlord gets pesky.

A bit more for good measure BAFF! BOFF! BAFF! BOOOSH!

I've not noticed any repulsive smells around Subway stores, but I'll keep both nostrils open next time I'm near the entrance.
I suppose it's all sushi with wusabi bloopers from now on, pulse based salads and vegetable soups. The main weekly shop is tomorrow. I'm avoiding all that crappy trans fat toxic pig fat (c) Sir Ratholer? or the other one, Mystery Mc Streak? stuff from now on as well. I ate some sausage rolls and toxic choco muffins the other day and could practically feel my remaining free radicals battling with a malignant cell growth.

So it's get the diet sorted for more energy and amazing sexual stamina and then BOOM! onto the exercises. Cheers for the tips, hunger isn't a problem.