Anyone else on a diet and struggling?

WantToBeSE

Also- do you drink enough water?

re fitting in more fruit- chop 1 up and put in in your cereal/porridge/on your bread/toast. Tinned, frozen, fresh or dried, they are all good topped with yogurt for a sweet treat.

MrSmartprice

Tink2 wrote: »

Sugar first meal = heartburn, not an excuse it's a fact

I do want to do this hence why I'm cutting down

This is my point. More excuses. Instead of saying what you can't/won't do, work it out for yourself. If it's that important to you, you will find things that work for you. Otherwise it's just working out why you won't.

Looking at the diet you posted, I would suggest that you could cut out a few things completely, such as pizza, chips, crisp, chocolate. If you are sincere, you will.

Also, you talk of 2-3 larger meals, not more smaller ones. Surely you should be balancing 1 larger meal against 2-3 small ones. I eat a light breakfast (usually cereal), a sandwich for lunch, and a main meal in the evening. I'm not that active so it's plenty. You simply have to discipline yourself or you will be chasing this for evermore.

Tink2

WantToBeSE wrote: »

Also- do you drink enough water?

re fitting in more fruit- chop 1 up and put in in your cereal/porridge/on your bread/toast. Tinned, frozen, fresh or dried, they are all good topped with yogurt for a sweet treat.

Yeah I drink enough water

Tink2

MrSmartprice wrote: »

This is my point. More excuses. Instead of saying what you can't/won't do, work it out for yourself. If it's that important to you, you will find things that work for you. Otherwise it's just working out why you won't.

Looking at the diet you posted, I would suggest that you could cut out a few things completely, such as pizza, chips, crisp, chocolate. If you are sincere, you will.

Also, you talk of 2-3 larger meals, not more smaller ones. Surely you should be balancing 1 larger meal against 2-3 small ones. I eat a light breakfast (usually cereal), a sandwich for lunch, and a main meal in the evening. I'm not that active so it's plenty. You simply have to discipline yourself or you will be chasing this for evermore.

I'm purely going on calories though so it doesn't matter if they are eaten in 2 bigger meals or 4 smaller ones as long as I don't go over a certain amount

And yeah crisps are gone

koan_2

Tink2 wrote: »

If its including fish then it's not vegan or veggie

No way could I be vegan, I hate nuts apart from the odd walnut

That's why I said vegan plus fish.... So you don't like nuts either.. what DO you like eating?

There's no way you'd be overweight if you ate fish and vegetables and rice

You've been packing away the pizza, sausages, crisps and goodness knows what else.

Can you switch to wholemeal bread and pasta and rice? They'd at least fill you up more.

Indie_Kid

mummyroysof3 wrote: »

I'm not a fan of fruit so could do with some ideas how to fit in without making into a crumble lol

Smoothies or yoghurts?

paulineb_2

How did you decide how many calories you should be eating every day to lose weight?

Tink2

koan wrote: »

That's why I said vegan plus fish.... So you don't like nuts either.. what DO you like eating?

There's no way you'd be overweight if you ate fish and vegetables and rice

You've been packing away the pizza, sausages, crisps and goodness knows what else.

Can you switch to wholemeal bread and pasta and rice? They'd at least fill you up more.

Well obviously yes but not since the 6th jan which was when I started this diet

paulineb wrote: »

How did you decide how many calories you should be eating every day to lose weight?

Used this

http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/

Then used Harris benedict

Queen81

mummyroysof3 wrote: »

I'm not a fan of fruit so could do with some ideas how to fit in without making into a crumble lol

Fruit infused vodka.

paulineb_2

Tink2 wrote: »

Well obviously yes but not since the 6th jan which was when I started this diet




Used this

http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/

Then used Harris benedict

Its the schofield one I know, but they look pretty similar

The thing is as you lose, you'll need to keep cutting calories as the less you weigh, the less your body will need in calories to maintain your weight.