A Weight Loss Diet for Seniors
Most weight loss programs seem to be geared towards younger people with their added emphasis on physical exercise such as workouts. But the older generation may also need to lose weight too, since as old age approaches, it can become more difficult to get around so the less excess weight being carried the better. That is why the Nigel Lawson Diet holds appeal for seniors.
Nigel Lawson was a senior UK politician in the early 1990s, accustomed to business lunches, dinners, fine wines and whiskey. On leaving office he weighed 238 lbs. After discovering he had arthritis in his knee, with the aid of his wife, he went on a diet and lost 70 lbs in 10 months.
This is inspiring for seniors because Nigel Lawson was around 60 years old when he achieved this weight loss and the loss has been maintained.Having set a target weight he wanted to achieve, and being strongly motivated to reach it, Nigel Lawson put together a simple diet.
Initially he cut out all alcohol and when he felt the urge to drink, he substituted black coffee or diet cola for the alcohol.He had a regime of three meals a day with no eating between meals. Fats, dairy produce, butter-based sauces, sugar, fried and starchy food (such as bread, rice, pasta and potatoes), were eliminated. What was recommended was fish (but not fried) and other seafoods, meat minus the fat, poultry minus the fat and skin, eggs (not fried) salads, green vegetables and other vegetables except the really starchy ones.
Some flexibility was built in like using a small amount of olive oil in cooking and as a salad dressing, since as Nigel Lawson remarked, "What we are talking about here is a diet, not a religion.
"Now out of print, the Nigel Lawson Diet Book published in 1996, can still be found occasionally at ebay.co.uk. In addition, Nigel Lawson's wife Therese, published the Nigel Lawson Diet Cookbook in 1998.
Therese Donnelly
Nigel Lawson was a senior UK politician in the early 1990s, accustomed to business lunches, dinners, fine wines and whiskey. On leaving office he weighed 238 lbs. After discovering he had arthritis in his knee, with the aid of his wife, he went on a diet and lost 70 lbs in 10 months.
This is inspiring for seniors because Nigel Lawson was around 60 years old when he achieved this weight loss and the loss has been maintained.Having set a target weight he wanted to achieve, and being strongly motivated to reach it, Nigel Lawson put together a simple diet.
Initially he cut out all alcohol and when he felt the urge to drink, he substituted black coffee or diet cola for the alcohol.He had a regime of three meals a day with no eating between meals. Fats, dairy produce, butter-based sauces, sugar, fried and starchy food (such as bread, rice, pasta and potatoes), were eliminated. What was recommended was fish (but not fried) and other seafoods, meat minus the fat, poultry minus the fat and skin, eggs (not fried) salads, green vegetables and other vegetables except the really starchy ones.
Some flexibility was built in like using a small amount of olive oil in cooking and as a salad dressing, since as Nigel Lawson remarked, "What we are talking about here is a diet, not a religion.
"Now out of print, the Nigel Lawson Diet Book published in 1996, can still be found occasionally at ebay.co.uk. In addition, Nigel Lawson's wife Therese, published the Nigel Lawson Diet Cookbook in 1998.
Therese Donnelly
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