Woman's Own: Comfort Food Diet

Yes, it is possible to lose weight on diet which includes burgers, potatoes and chocolate! Nutritionist Monica Grenfell shows you how to lose weight while still enjoying your favourite comfort foods

Monica says:
Does your diet hit the skids because salads and veg just don't do it for you? Do you think comfort food such as mashed potato, rice pudding and biscuits are fattening and off limits?

Well, it's not true. Anybody can get slim on a diet of comfort foods because the trick is to count calories.

This diet is well under your 2,000 recommended calories a day, so you'll lose weight enjoying foods you've always thought of as 'bad'.

There's no such thing as a fattening food, just a fattening diet if you eat too much of anything. So get eating - and start slimming!

Allowances:
- 112g butter a week (ration it yourself)
- 1 pint skimmed milk per day
- As much water and tea as you want
- No more than 4 cups of coffee a day