The European Commission has released figures that reveal British women to be the 'fattest in Europe'. Read the rest of the article here.
Saturday
Help! This Biscuit Lover wants to Lose Weight!
Do you like a biscuit...or two with your cup of tea (or coffee)? I sure do. But it's always a naughty but nice feeling when I bite into one.
I came across an article that gives you the worst biscuits to eat if you're trying to trim your weight, number 20 being the worst.
20. Tesco All Butter Shortbread Fingers - the worst for saturated fat.
19. Fox's Crunch Creams - one of the worst for saturated fat plus there's a heaped teaspoon of sugar in each biscuit.
18. Cadbury Crunchie Bisuit - The worst for sugar content; one of the highest bisuits for fat content.
17. Jammy Dodgers - has more than a heaped sugar in each; there's no real raspberry in the centre.
16. Fox's Viennese - Contains the highest fat content in a chocolate biscuit; contains hydrogenated vegetable oil - not good!
15. McVitie's Milk Chocolate Digestive - Contains twice as much sugar as a plain digestive.
14. Cadbury Chocolate Rich Tea - Contains twice the amount of sugar AND twice the number of calories as a McVities plain Rich Tea.
13. McVities Chocolate Hobnobs - Compared to plain hobnobs they have seven times the amount of saturated fat AND nearly twice the amount of sugar.
12. Tesco Value Bourbon Creams - The cream centre has almost 10% of your daily intake of saturated fat.
11. Crawfords Custard Creams - Contains more fat, more saturated fats and more sugar than Asda's smartprice brand.
10. Asda Smartprice Custard Creams - Contains less calories and sugar but has a high saturated fat content (as with all creamy centre biscuits).
9. Fox's Crinkles Coconut - High in sugar and saturated fats.
8. Maryland Chocolate Chip Cookies - Only 57 calories per cookie, but eating two or three is equivalent in saturated fat content as eating a two-fingered Kit Kat!
7. McVitie's Jaffa Cakes - Only 46 calories per biscuit AND contains 1g of fat, BUT is high in sugar.
6. Tesco Value Ginger Nuts - Only 46 calories and 2g of fat per biscuit; is a healthy biscuit to choose - contains approx. one-tenth of your iron daily allowance.
5. McVitie's Ginger Nuts - Contains slightly less fat than a Tesco Value Ginger Nut.
4. Fox's Malted Milk - 43 calories and 1.9g of fat; high malt and milk content; low sugar and saturated fat content.
3. McVitie's Digestive - A great source of fibre because of the wholewheat content. This brand contains a lower saturated fat content than other digestive brands.
2. McVitie's Oaty HobNobs - 67 calories and 1.3 g of fat; very good for fibre - three biscuits gives you 10% of your daily allowance; gives a steady release of energy; high sugar content.
The Best Biscuit
1. McVitie's Rich Tea - Only 38 calories; only 1.3g of fat; They're made with vegetable oil so are very low in saturated fat.
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A Little Bit Makes A Lot of Difference!
You keep telling yourself that you must exercise. You keep beating up on yourself when you haven't exercised. You keep telling yourself that you haven't got the time to exercise. Perhaps it's time to stop calling it 'exercise'.
The word sounds like such a chore...and who likes doing chores. It's something you do because you have to, not because you enjoy it. You want to get it out of the way, and subconsciously you're clock-watching, waiting for it to be over.
If you're trying to lose weight, don't exercise...do fat-burning (activities). This is what I've been doing for the last four weeks. As much as I love doing Tae Bo and Harvey's Fighting Fit Fighting Fat DVDs, I want to keep myself physically active, as much as possible, each day.
It doesn't have to be something requiring you to change into workout gear. There are lots of fat-burning activities you can do per day/per week, that will contribute to you trimming down your weight. Recently, I've done the following:
- Putting on a children's CD and dancing around the living room with my two young DDs
- Putting on my salsa/merengue CDs and doing salsa dancing/zumba-like fitness, while cooking, cleaning, tidying up.
- Brushing up, instead of vacuuming. I've found brushing a carpet requires more energy than vacuuming. I've incorporated waist twists for even more fat-burn.
- My own armlifts - no, not using weights...but my three year old daughter! This started by chance, when I lifted my daughter into the air and put her back down...and she wanted me to do it again...and again...and again...and again...It's now a regular in our household. I'm not complaining!
- Lifting up both my DDs on either side of me and being a human see-saw! This they enjoy!
- Being a lover of Strictly Come Dancing, who would love to learn the 'old fashioned' dances, I like to pick up either of my daughters, and dance the foxtrot..or the tango...and the waltz, and waltz around the room. They love it! My DDs sure aren't light (at 3 and 5), so I'm certainly developing some muscles in my arms when I lift them!
- Occasionally walking back from school after taking first my eldest, then my youngest(in the afternoon). 'Power walking' to school to pick them up. It's about a twenty-five minute walk to school, but I often get there in fifteen minutes!Yee har!
- Walking up and down the stairs at home, as much as possible per day.
A little bit really does make a difference, and it hasn't felt like a chore at all.
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