LaraStar's Journal, 29 Jun 11

Fab news about the exercise..... :-( about the tooth. Bananas, strawberriies, etc are soft. You could whizz them into a puree and put them in your yoghurt. Cous cous wouldn't be too bad with very, very finely chopped cooked ,veg, or a jacket potato that has been oven cooked so it is floury - with melted cheese or canned tuna mixed with light Mayo (not sure if you eat fish). Mashed cauliflower with cheese or flavourings. If you like tomato, I often do a soup with chopped tinned tomatoes and a stock cube - I fry onion until soft, then add tomatoes and stock cube and seaoning and just heat up. On the plus side, soup / food that has been blended stays in your stomach longer, so you feel fuller for longer - they had a tv programme on a couple of months ago that went into all that sort of stuff - they had two groups one eat a normal roast dinner, the other group ate the same dinner but blended. After a few hours they xrayed their stomachs. The group that ate the blended meal still had part of it in their stomachs so didn't feel hungry - weird! Hope you get on ok and get your tooth sorted soon 

Thanks Skinny, all very useful suggestions. And I have noticed feeling fuller after my meals, probably because I just swallow everything down and it doesn't get pre-digested in my mouth. Also eating extremely slowly. I will puree all fruit and drink more shakes. Instead of salad I will have soup with a bit of cream or cheese. I might invent a whole new diet! 

Lol LaraStar... We will be watching with interest.... BUT I am not going to fracture a tooth so that I can eat like that lol 

Sorry to hear about the tooth. Congrats on having people notice your weight loss. Maybe protein shakes or smoothies will help you get your macronutrients, but Skinny has it covered I think. Hope you feel better soon.  

Wow Lara, love your optimism. You go girl. I am sure tooth or no tooth, you weight is not going to stay with you long. 

Thank you all. :)