losing weight

[kim1234]

Hi everyone I have want to lose weight but the problem is i don't cook at home at all, I need help

[Portlandprincess]

Hi Kim....welcome...do you have a plan? this is a great forum for support...I really didn't cook until a few weeks ago and am loving the new experiences...I don't really cook ...just throw healthy veg into a pot! Good luck this week.😉

[kim1234 in reply to Portlandprincess]

I didn't know about the plan but i've always junk eat food

[Portlandprincess in reply to kim1234]

There's a twelve week NHS plan...you ca down load weekly or all in one go...check out your BMI and this will give you a calorie intake guide for shedding the unwanted pounds...I'd think your calorie intake would be around 1800....a day! Myfitnesspal helps add up the cals and energy used exercising...

Junk food is usually laden with calories to ensure long shelf life. This is fun...even if it sounds daunting.

Have you got access to a cooker? Or microwave, or slow cooker...cos if you have, food has just got really interesting!

[Hidden]

Hi kim1234, here's the link to the 12 week plan. nhs.uk/livewell/weight-loss...

Why don't you cook - do you not have a cooker, or do you live somewhere where it's hard to use the cooker? There are lots of ways to start preparing your own food and take control again. Cooking for yourself is also a great way to start saving money. Good luck getting started, and feel free to ask any questions. There's loads of great folk on here ready to help

[kim1234]

i have a cooker and i live on my own in ground floor flat but sometimes i dont want to eat or cook

[Hidden in reply to kim1234]

I also live on my own, it can seem a faff to do all that cooking just for one person. But it's really key to eating healthily.

How about looking up a healthy recipe for one thing you'd like to cook, go out and get the ingredients, then make enough for 4 portions, put three portions in the freezer and have the 4th one today.

Or how about putting a potato in the oven for an hour, and heat up a small tin of baked beans to go with it, or mix half a tin of tuna with a spoonful of mayo to go on top, with a handful of salad leaves on the side.

There are lots of ways to make cooking easier, and it will also become enjoyable as you find things that you like to make. Good luck

[Andyt2120]

It really is important that you start to cook. No one is born able to cook nice food, you have to learn. Plenty of cheap cookbooks about and some that deal with beginners.

Stir fries are easy. Chop some veg up, plenty of stir fry selections in supermarket. Put some oil in a wok or deep frying pan. Keep stirring about till it is cooked. You can throw in some soy sauce and oyster or black bean sauce to flavour it up. You can have this with some chicken breast which you can fry with the veg or I cut mine up and fry it separately or a fillet of salmon which I bake in the oven for about 10 mins on 180. The whole meal can be prepared and cooked in 15 mins.

Plenty of free advice and recipes on the Internet.

It will be very hard to eat healthily without doing some cooking as it allows you to take control of your diet.

Soups are really easy to cook and with winter coming make a nice healthy and filling meal. You can make big batches as well and freeze individual portions.

I hope you try because I found the more cooking you do the more you start enjoying it and wanting to learn more. Nothing more satisfying than producing and eating your own food and it can be delicious.