Yours Australia — Issue 97 2017

N’TBUYDIET

LOW-FATFOODS

BUYDiet

t, low-fat

skim milk,

milk, diet

iet desserts,

ressings.

Full-fat

ghurt,

cheese,

t milk,

, sour

butter.

e

s.

yoghurt or coconut yoghurt with a very

low sugar content.

The same rule goes for milk, cheese

• all dairy. I buy the full-fat version of
  everything. Natural fats fill you up and
  eliminate the hungry feeling. Dairy
  products are a good source of calcium,
  protein, iodine, vitamin A and D, riboflavin,
  vitamin B12 and zinc.
  Obviously, don’t go crazy on
  dairy! And check the sugar
  and salt content. I probably
  consume a cup of milk, plus
  30g of cheese a day; perhaps
  some sour cream and/or
  butter in my cooking.
  There’s speculation that
  cutting back on dairy is
  really good for some people


• this isn’t the
  case for me,
  as I’m not
  lactose
  intolerant.

O D TOKNOW

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yoghurt

yoghurt,

low-fat

cookie,

diet

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Greek o

full-fat

full-fa

crea

crea

WHY Often diet foOftendietfoododscoscontaiainmonmorr

sugar andsaltto compensate for

the lack of tastefrom missing fat

Just becausethey’ve got “diet”

in the name, itdoesn’t mean

they’rehealthy!

Let’stake diet yoghurt. It

shouldreallybealled“pud

yoghurt”–butIdoubt

it’dsell...

Andaswe

know,it’sall

aboutwhatsells

–unfortunately, at

ourexpense.

Apopular diet yoghurt

has 26 g of sugar in it or

6. 5 teaspoons per serve.
   Morethan aMarsBar.
   Itry toeataslittle
   addedsugar as possible,
   sothisisnotevenonthe
   menu.Nopudgy yoghurt!
   Iusually buy full-fatGreek

FOOD RULES

Sick of counting calories, this Aussie mum found

a better, healthier and easier way to lose 30kg

F

or more than

20 years, make-up

artist to the stars

Bernadette Fisers

globetrotted, beautifying

well-known faces.

While work was going

well, Bernie, now 52,

struggled with her

weight, eventually

reaching 128kg. “I was fat and getting

fatter by the minute, and on the brink

of diabetes, with hypertension (high

blood pressure) and a fatty liver,”

she recalls.

Just two years ago Bernie,

having tried everything else, took

the unlikely step of enlisting the

support of her trim celeb clients

• among them, women who’d
  been on their own weight-loss
  journey. Piece by piece, she solved
  her very own weight-loss puzzle,
  going on to lose an astounding 30kg in
  30 weeks! Here, she shares the diet rules
  that worked for her – and she still follows.

RULE 1

LOOK AT

ME NOW!

Bernie’s

kept it off

Bernadette Fisers

Author

that worked

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TEXT: MARK BROOK PICTURES: GETTY IMAGES, COURTESY OF BERNADETTE FISERS