Slow roast shoulder of lamb! Perfect for us as we can go out without having to think too much about the lamb roasting away. We've put the lamb into a dimpled top oval roasting tin. It's sitting on a bed of vegetables, some rosemary and thyme, and a little water.
We're going to serve this with roast potatoes, cauli, carrots, brussel sprouts and peas. We love our Sunday roast, as it helps lift our metabolism which seems to help our long term weight loss.
It was interesting talking to a friend in the pub on Friday. He seems to have understood our method for losing weight, and was explaining how well he was doing following our method. Curiously though, he hadn't quite understood about eating properly at meal times. He explained how he ate a special 'calorie counted' slimming meal. He then said that these meals didn't really fill him up. So we showed him our typical daily meals, and he was shocked. "You eat ALL of that" he said. Yes we do. He was amazed at the size of our meals and in particular the Sunday roast. "But you've lost so much weight" he continued. It seems that he, and thousands of others think that the only way to lose weight is to go on a restrictive diet and eat special packets of diet foods. Not so for us! We asked him if he felt like snacking and he said yes. We suggested he tried filling his plate with nutritious meals, and I showed him a few pictures stored on my iphone. He couldn't argue, as he could see we have lost over 5 stone between us. We stick by our rule - eat plenty at mealtimes, of good nutritious food, fill up enough so you DON'T snack. It's the snacks that add up in the end.
We're going to serve this with roast potatoes, cauli, carrots, brussel sprouts and peas. We love our Sunday roast, as it helps lift our metabolism which seems to help our long term weight loss.
It was interesting talking to a friend in the pub on Friday. He seems to have understood our method for losing weight, and was explaining how well he was doing following our method. Curiously though, he hadn't quite understood about eating properly at meal times. He explained how he ate a special 'calorie counted' slimming meal. He then said that these meals didn't really fill him up. So we showed him our typical daily meals, and he was shocked. "You eat ALL of that" he said. Yes we do. He was amazed at the size of our meals and in particular the Sunday roast. "But you've lost so much weight" he continued. It seems that he, and thousands of others think that the only way to lose weight is to go on a restrictive diet and eat special packets of diet foods. Not so for us! We asked him if he felt like snacking and he said yes. We suggested he tried filling his plate with nutritious meals, and I showed him a few pictures stored on my iphone. He couldn't argue, as he could see we have lost over 5 stone between us. We stick by our rule - eat plenty at mealtimes, of good nutritious food, fill up enough so you DON'T snack. It's the snacks that add up in the end.
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