ups and downs of christmas

Well after a disappointing up of 1kg last week, it was a surprising
down of 800g this week. Better choices and more exercise. Total up
just a mere 200g ( 1/2 lbs) Christmas will be done at our place this
year so I knkow the menu and its all healthy and lower fat options (
except for dessert)

Menu :
Vegeible crudites with dips ( low fat)
Prawn cocktail with home made low fat sauce
BBQ and salad with low fat dressing ( I am an Ozzie after all)
Pavlova with cream and passionfruit ( but I on ly made just enough so
no leftovers)

Drinks:
Mineral water plain, Mineral water with added grapefruit juice, white
wine for the starter and red for the main course.

Starting the day by going Aqua jogging with a friend before come home
to do last minute preps

Now that sound like a good plan, a splurge but not excessive.

Merry Christmas everyone.
Michelle Ozzie in Switzerland
70.4/70.2/60 Starting again 24.11.04

"Michelle Guy" wrote in message
...
Well after a disappointing up of 1kg last week, it was a surprising
down of 800g this week. Better choices and more exercise. Total up
just a mere 200g ( 1/2 lbs) Christmas will be done at our place this
year so I knkow the menu and its all healthy and lower fat options (
except for dessert)

Menu :
Vegeible crudites with dips ( low fat)
Prawn cocktail with home made low fat sauce
BBQ and salad with low fat dressing ( I am an Ozzie after all)
Pavlova with cream and passionfruit ( but I on ly made just enough so
no leftovers)

Drinks:
Mineral water plain, Mineral water with added grapefruit juice, white
wine for the starter and red for the main course.

Starting the day by going Aqua jogging with a friend before come home
to do last minute preps

Now that sound like a good plan, a splurge but not excessive.

Merry Christmas everyone.
Michelle Ozzie in Switzerland
70.4/70.2/60 Starting again 24.11.04

Sounds like you have a great holiday planned and you have the exercise
planned to go with it!

I'm offering only low-fat or healthy dishes at my house for our open house
on Saturday. I have no idea how many people will be there or when, they
just come and go throughout the day. I'm so sick of even seeing cookies and
junk food that there is no dessert or fat-laden goodie that's going to even
look appealing.

It's the wine I'll have to be careful with

Jenn

"JMA" wrote in message
...

"Michelle Guy" wrote in message
...
Well after a disappointing up of 1kg last week, it was a surprising
down of 800g this week. Better choices and more exercise. Total up
just a mere 200g ( 1/2 lbs) Christmas will be done at our place this
year so I knkow the menu and its all healthy and lower fat options (
except for dessert)

Menu :
Vegeible crudites with dips ( low fat)
Prawn cocktail with home made low fat sauce
BBQ and salad with low fat dressing ( I am an Ozzie after all)
Pavlova with cream and passionfruit ( but I on ly made just enough so
no leftovers)

Drinks:
Mineral water plain, Mineral water with added grapefruit juice, white
wine for the starter and red for the main course.

Starting the day by going Aqua jogging with a friend before come home
to do last minute preps

Now that sound like a good plan, a splurge but not excessive.

Merry Christmas everyone.
Michelle Ozzie in Switzerland
70.4/70.2/60 Starting again 24.11.04

Sounds like you have a great holiday planned and you have the exercise
planned to go with it!

I'm offering only low-fat or healthy dishes at my house for our open house
on Saturday. I have no idea how many people will be there or when, they
just come and go throughout the day. I'm so sick of even seeing cookies
and
junk food that there is no dessert or fat-laden goodie that's going to
even
look appealing.

It's the wine I'll have to be careful with

Amen to that! I love a good glass of cabernet sauvignon, but if I have two
glasses I find that I lose my willpower to not sample other things
(chocolate goes SO well with red wine!).

GG


Jenn

"JMA" wrote in message
...

"Michelle Guy" wrote in message
...
Well after a disappointing up of 1kg last week, it was a surprising
down of 800g this week. Better choices and more exercise. Total up
just a mere 200g ( 1/2 lbs) Christmas will be done at our place this
year so I knkow the menu and its all healthy and lower fat options (
except for dessert)

Menu :
Vegeible crudites with dips ( low fat)
Prawn cocktail with home made low fat sauce
BBQ and salad with low fat dressing ( I am an Ozzie after all)
Pavlova with cream and passionfruit ( but I on ly made just enough so
no leftovers)

Drinks:
Mineral water plain, Mineral water with added grapefruit juice, white
wine for the starter and red for the main course.

Starting the day by going Aqua jogging with a friend before come home
to do last minute preps

Now that sound like a good plan, a splurge but not excessive.

Merry Christmas everyone.
Michelle Ozzie in Switzerland
70.4/70.2/60 Starting again 24.11.04

Sounds like you have a great holiday planned and you have the exercise
planned to go with it!

I'm offering only low-fat or healthy dishes at my house for our open house
on Saturday. I have no idea how many people will be there or when, they
just come and go throughout the day. I'm so sick of even seeing cookies
and
junk food that there is no dessert or fat-laden goodie that's going to
even
look appealing.

It's the wine I'll have to be careful with

Amen to that! I love a good glass of cabernet sauvignon, but if I have two
glasses I find that I lose my willpower to not sample other things
(chocolate goes SO well with red wine!).

GG


Jenn

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 14:17:58 -0600, "JMA"
wrote:
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Sounds like you have a great holiday planned and you have the exercise
planned to go with it!

I'm offering only low-fat or healthy dishes at my house for our open house
on Saturday. I have no idea how many people will be there or when, they
just come and go throughout the day. I'm so sick of even seeing cookies and
junk food that there is no dessert or fat-laden goodie that's going to even
look appealing.

It's the wine I'll have to be careful with

Jenn


I agree on the wine bit too. To go with our Australian Theme we are
having a few Ozzie beers too.
Michelle Ozzie in Switzerland
70.4/70.2/60 Starting again 24.11.04

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 14:17:58 -0600, "JMA"
wrote:
snip

Sounds like you have a great holiday planned and you have the exercise
planned to go with it!

I'm offering only low-fat or healthy dishes at my house for our open house
on Saturday. I have no idea how many people will be there or when, they
just come and go throughout the day. I'm so sick of even seeing cookies and
junk food that there is no dessert or fat-laden goodie that's going to even
look appealing.

It's the wine I'll have to be careful with

Jenn


I agree on the wine bit too. To go with our Australian Theme we are
having a few Ozzie beers too.
Michelle Ozzie in Switzerland
70.4/70.2/60 Starting again 24.11.04

It Depends on the people invited, those that are ocming to visit tend
to be "healthy" eaters, favouring low fat healthier options. Low fat
doesn't mean lower quality.
Michelle Ozzie in Switzerland
70.4/70.1/60 Starting again 24.11.04


On 22 Dec 2004 20:54:08 GMT, Ignoramus31279
wrote:

At our parties, we always offer high fat and low fat foods, leaving
the decision up to the guest. Healthy meat, healthy vegetables,
healthy fish, and not so healthy cookies and cakes. The result is that
everyone has a great time, eating whatever they feel appropriate. I
figure, since they are generally free to choose what to eat -- they
could buy any food they wanted at stores -- they should choose what to
eat at our party, also. The only stuff that we do not have, normally,
is packaged junk food, because DW cooks her own pastry that is
marginally better (no trans fats).

Kids would not, normally, eat anything low fat.

For a picture of tied up children at our latest party, see

http://igor.chudov.com/tmp/tied-children.jpg

They had a great time and screamed bloody murder when it was time for
them to leave.

I saw a television programme last night that said that a typical
calorie intake for Christmas day was 6000 calories!

Cheers,

Ross-c

I saw a television programme last night that said that a typical
calorie intake for Christmas day was 6000 calories!

Cheers,

Ross-c

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I saw a television programme last night that said that a typical
calorie intake for Christmas day was 6000 calories!

Cheers,

Ross-c

I did an example food plan after seeing a programme that said you would need
to walk from London to Calais (about 70 miles) to work it off. And with
kedgeree for breakfast with champagne, turkey dinner with all the trimmings,
red wine, Christmas pudding, mince pie, mulled wine, choclates, nuts,
satsumas, christmas cake, turkey sandwich and night cap I made it 5125 cals!
Needless to say I shan't be eating that!

Rachael
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