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Title: Weight Loss and Maintenance
Notice:**PLEASE** enter notes in mixed case (CAPS ARE SHOUTING)!
Moderator:ASICS::LESLIE
Created:Tue Jul 10 1990
Last Modified:Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:933
Total number of notes:9931

478.0. "Slimming can be done on business trips" by NIGE::LESLIE (Nothing sucks like a VAX) Sun Jul 02 1989 08:26

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478.1NIGE::LESLIENothing sucks like a VAXSun Jul 02 1989 08:3844
478.2Just what I needed.SUPER::HENDRICKSThe only way out is throughSun Jul 02 1989 16:508
    Thanks, Andy!
    
    Where is the Harvester Pub near Reading?
    
    This is great info to have...
    
    Holly

478.3NIGE::LESLIENothing sucks like a VAXSun Jul 02 1989 18:507
478.4More ideas for eating out in ReadingMARVIN::JUBBAli, 830-6779 *New location REO2-G/K3Tue Jul 04 1989 09:2461
    Some more suggestions for places where you can eat out in Reading and not
    put on too much weight...

    Pizza Express (St Mary's Butts) - Try their Salad Nicoise without dressing
				      (just lots of black pepper), or what I
				      have also done before is ask for a double
				      portion of side salad, or fruit salad
				      (yes, dessert as a main course) - without
				      dressing/cream of course!  (It helps that
				      I don't like pizza, mind you... but they
				      do a couple of pizzas without cheese,
				      which have considerably fewer calories
				      than those with!)

				      They are also good value for mineral
				      water - a big bottle of Italian water
				      rather than a small designer bottle.

    Muswells (also St Mary's Butts) - Greek Salad - delicious and enormous, and
				      good value at #2-95.  They do other
				      salads too (don't know what they're like,
				      I like the Greek Salad too much!), and
				      I'm sure would oblige with a double
				      portion of side salad as a main meal.
				      They do various fish and chicken dishes
				      which have been marinaded or blackened
				      rather than covered in sauce or fried.

				      They are also very flexible - there
				      is no division between starters and main
				      courses on the menu, so you can have a
				      small meal very easily.

    Pizza Hut (Broad Street) -	      Order a salad as a main course, and choose
				      your own at the salad bar.  The dressings
				      are on the side, so you can miss them out
				      all together, or just have a little.

    The George Hotel (Broad Street) - They serve steak and chicken basically,
				      and have a serve-yourself salad bar.
				      I stayed here when I relocated, and lost
				      weight by ordering plain chicken, plain
				      baked potato and undressed salad, followed
				      by fruit salad almost every night.

    The Hexagon (Behind the Broad Street Mall) - The food bar here is open at
	                              lunchtimes, and you can pick up a
				      selection of salad very cheaply.  Best
				      bet is their side salads, because they
				      put absolutely no dressing on these.

    I hope these are useful.

    Ali

    PS: If you find yourself over here on business, and unable to turn down
        an invitation to Sweeneys (the amazing pie shop), don't listen to the
	list of pies - you can always have a baked potato with ratatouille,
	salad, or the vegetable of the day.  Don't even contemplate the
	puddings!

478.5Guide to yoghurts in the UKMARVIN::JUBBAli, 830-6779 *New location REO2-G/K3Wed Jul 05 1989 08:3632
    This is a quick guide to yoghurt in the UK (in reply to Holly's note -
    461.9, I think).

    If you found the yoghurt in the Indian restaurant a bit sour, the
    same will probably apply to regular plain yoghurt too.  However fruit
    yoghurts have a smoother flavour, and these days they all have the
    calorie count on the side of the carton.

    You may like "set" yoghurt better than the runny stuff, because it tends
    to taste smoother.  And if you are coming to DECpark, you can buy
    both kinds in the canteen and in the shop, which opened here a couple
    of months ago! (They sell fruit in the shop too).

    A word of warning: If you are at all concerned about taste, avoid "diet"
    yoghurts; the small saving in calories really isn't worth the
    sacrifice, and they are loaded with artificial sweeteners.

    You would also be wise to make sure when you buy yoghurt that it is
    low fat.  Luxury "thick and creamy" yoghurts have become more popular
    recently, and they are pretty high in fat!  Another kind of yoghurt
    that is delicious, but rarely low in fat is Greek yoghurt.

    If you like yoghurt, but would like a change, you might like to try
    fromage frais.  This has a lovely light taste (a bit like petit suisse
    cheeses, but with nothing like the fat), and is available in supermarkets
    alongside the yoghurts.  Again, as with yoghurts, look for the ones
    that specify low fat, and enjoy!

    Happy eating.

    Ali

478.6SUPER::HENDRICKSThe only way out is throughWed Jul 05 1989 13:424
    Thanks, this information is great!
    
    Holly

478.7LESLIE::LESLIETue Jul 11 1989 23:454
478.8CSSE32::LESLIESun Jul 16 1989 12:495
478.9try health servicesSUPER::HENDRICKSThe only way out is throughSun Jul 16 1989 15:2712
    Probably.
    
    I can always bring one in from home (I live about 6 minutes away)
    if you can't find one there.  Also, health services would have one.
    
    Let me know if you need anything while you're here - I'm down on
    ZK1-1, and my trip over to the UK got postponed until September.
    
    Take care!
    
    Holly

478.10CSSE32::LESLIEMon Jul 17 1989 10:514
478.11LESLIE::LESLIETue Aug 01 1989 08:594