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NAME: Roni Marsh AGE: 40 JOB: Debt adviser FROM: London START WEIGHT: 12st 7lb WEIGHT LOSS IN A WEEK: 1¼lb WHAT IS IT? The meal-tracking app poses you a set of health questions in order to figure out how many calories you can take in each day to reach a desired weight. There are also articles on nutrition and suggested fitness tasks to complete. BEST BIT: You log everything you eat with the app, so it can calculate your daily calorie intake. Doing so makes me think more carefully about what I’m eating, which in turn focuses my attention on ways to lose weight. WORST BIT: It provides you with keep-fit goals which I found a bit tough at first – but now I think I’d like even more, as they’re really helpful for getting into shape! OVERALL IMPRESSION: The app is easy to use and helps me watch what I eat. Since I started using it, the pounds have dropped off. Noom Coach: Weight Loss is available for Apple devices from the App Store. See noom.com NOOM COACH: WEIGHT LOSS If you would like to test a diet, send your name, age, weight and a recent photo to diets@ loveitmagazine. co.uk Diet! 5:2 DIET COMPLETE MEAL PLANNER Following the 5:2 diet can be tough going – especially on fast days – but this iPad and iPhone app will make it a bit easier. There are more than 100 recipes to help keep you right on track. It’s priced £1.99 at the App Store. Win! BRILLIANT BUNDLE OF BAKING BITS Our prize draw winner will get to embrace their inner Nigella with this stack of top baking goodies from Salter. To enter, just email your details to food@loveitmagazine.co.uk by 27 November, with ‘Baking’ as the subject.* Lotus Biscoff Chocolate Biscuits, £1.49, 154g, most supermarkets This caramelised biscuit has been given a delicious upgrade with a layer of creamy Belgian chocolate. Each packet contains seven packs of three biscuits, so you can pop one in your lunchbox for when you fancy a cheeky treat. Peanut Hottie: Peanut Butter and Chocolate, £2.99, 225g, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose You can warm your cockles in the tastiest way possible with this unique low-calorie hot drink. The winning combination of peanut butter and chocolate always gets a thumbs-up from us! Just add boiling water to four spoonfuls of the powder for a cup of deliciousness. CHOCOLATE AND STRAWBERRIES CRISPBREAD It takes just seven succulent strawberries to tick off one of your five a day, and you can do it in the most delicious way by topping your Ryvita Fruit Crunch Crispbread with a decent dollop of chocolate spread and the fabulous fruits, sliced in half. Try it! TURKEY HOTPOT WITH COBBLER TOPPING What the celebs have been tw-EAT-ing WHO’S BEEN GOOD OR BAD THIS WEEK… ANGEL DEVIL JENNY FROST @JENNYFROST22 My skinny jeans have obviously shrunk because I can’t get them up #Ibiza FERNE MCCANN @FERNEMCCANN Sunday run and a healthy breakfast with Charlie Sims #Sundays Buy it! £1.28 PER PORTION 481 CALORIES PER PORTION food Skinny kitchen PREP AND COOK TIME: 45 minutes SERVES: 4 2 Add the egg, mustard and half the milk and mix very lightly until you have a soft dough. Don’t overwork it. You can add a little more milk if necessary. 3 Carefully roll out the dough until it’s roughly 1cm thick. Use a pasty cutter to make eight circular shapes. Place them on a lightly greased baking sheet. 4 Brush the tops with a little milk and a good sprinkling of black pepper. Cook for 10 minutes until the cobblers are risen and golden, then set aside. 5 Adjust the oven temperature to 200°C/gas mark 6. Heat the oil in a deep casserole dish, then add the onions, garlic and mushrooms. Fry over a high heat for about 10 minutes. 6 Add the mince, breaking it up using a wooden spoon. Cook until it changes colour. 7 Stir in the tinned tomatoes and basil, and then simmer gently for 20 minutes. FOR THE COBBLER: ●25g unsalted butter ●225g self-raising flour ●100g Cheddar cheese, grated ●2 tsp dried oregano ●1 medium egg, beaten ●2 tsp mustard ●4–5 tbsp semi-skimmed milk FOR THE HOTPOT: ●2 tbsp vegetable oil ●2 onions, peeled and chopped ●2 cloves garlic, peeled and finely chopped ●200g mushrooms, sliced ●500g turkey mince ●400g can chopped tomatoes with herbs ●Handful basil, roughly chopped ●2 tbsp chicken gravy granules 1 Preheat the oven to 220°C/ gas mark 7. In a bowl, lightly rub the butter and a pinch of salt into the flour. Then mix in the grated cheese and dried oregano. 36 love it! www.loveitmagazine.co.uk WORDSSOPHIE WARNER PHOTOS GETTY IMAGES, ISTOCKPHOTO, REX FEATURES. PRICES CORRECT AT THE TIME OF GOING TO PRESS. *TO ENTER BY POST, SEND A POSTCARD WITH YOUR DETAILS AND THE NAME OF THE PRODUCT GIVEAWAY TO THE ADDRESS ON P3. TERMS APPLY (P48). Supermodel Naomi doesn’t just roll out of bed looking this good. She follows a healthy vegetarian diet and aids digestion by only eating before 8pm. She also enjoys vitamin-packed juices three times each week to help her stay in tip-top shape. It looks to us like it’s paying off! CELEBRITY DIET TIP Naomi Campbell Cook it! We all need a good chocolate fix every once in a while – but you don’t need to be riddled with guilt when you have one! Swap two squares of Tesco Finest Swiss Dark Chocolate with Mint Bar at 109 calories for the exact same amount of Weight Watchers Dark Chocolate and Mint Crunch Bar at 81 calories. It’s 28 calories less. Watch it! 8 Once everything is cooked, stir in the gravy granules until the mixture thickens. 9 Top the hotpot with the mini cobblers. Cover with foil and warm through in the oven for 10 minutes. Serve with green veg. Recipe thanks to British Turkey. For more, see britishturkey.co.uk
