Dieting

If you don't buy it, you can't eat it
A 45g bar of milk chocolate is 240 calories - a meal!

I'm not sure I needed reminding of that Moth ........or then again maybe I did.  Its time to get the calorie counting books out again   they must be 20+ yrs old but they come out at least once a year.
PS my choccy bar is 200g! A banquet.

I've just eaten a Penguin (the chocolate biscuit kind) = 130 calories.
I've just opened another one while I typed this.

P p p pick up a penguin. The exercise will work off the calories,

As a kid, I remember asking my Dad if he's heard what had happened at Bristol Zoo? That some yobs had picked up a penguin and thrown it to the lions.
He went crazy, going on about youngsters today etc etc..................
He went even more crazy when I said "It was alright, though, they'd taken the silver paper off first".

For years afterwards, I'd remind him of the penguin story, just to wind him up again.

Well done Vinny for sticking to your diet. You have far more willpower than most of us.

I don't look on it as a diet veggie, it's just become a way of life.Its regimented i.e I have the same stuff to eat every week for every weekday but it gives me a seven day break from eating the same stuff again. I enjoy cooking. so the cooking of the OMAD is as enjoyable as the eating of it.  Its not as boring as it sounds because each day I have a base element which can be cooked in loads of different ways and with various additions.
Many years ago I was like you in that I enjoyed a glass of red wine in the evening. The problem was it turned into a bottle of red wine every evening and acute kidney pains during the day. At first I didn't associate the two but when I realised I had a problem I stopped drinking alcohol completely .

...I'm not sure I needed reminding of that Moth ........or then again maybe I did.  Its time to get the calorie counting books out again   they must be 20+ yrs old but they come out at least once a year.
PS my choccy bar is 200g! A banquet.

I don't actually count calories, I've just stopped eating stuff that contains lots of calories - potatoes, bread, cake, biscuits, confectionery, and so on, and I don't drink alcohol at all. I do have a splash of single cream on Sunday desserts, otherwise it wouldn't be Sunday. 

A lot of what I ate, like VC's evening glass of wine, was more habit than anything else, so I've changed my habits for the better.

I just eat whatever I fancy - be it fatty, starchy, sugary etc...........but, I don't eat meat and haven't for about 30 years so that knocks a lot of food off the menu. I drink coffee black, no milk or sugar and dislike sugary drinks - too sweet. A bar of chocolate isn't, though .

For Vinny - a "diet" doesn't always mean a "slimming" diet - its what you eat to survive on, so Vinny's OMAD, mine is meat-free (not vegetarian!) and so on.

Mine's just unhealthy with lots of veg to counterbalance

My weight seems to stay about the same so long as I exercise/walk but that's probably down to me not liking chocolate, cream or anything to sweet.
Do like pies, carrot cakes, scones and nuts though.