Diet advise

Angela

Fluff15 wrote: »

The first thing that shouts out to me is that this doesn't seem like enough food - if you're cutting down carbs you need to up both fat and protein.

The weetabix still have added sugar - you will be better swapping them out for something like overnight oats. Use plain oats, a little bit of milk, yoghurt, and berries. It will be the same texture as your current breakfast, but better for you. Try adding seeds to it or nuts, if you like them - high in fibre and necessary fats.

Also swap the yoghurt to greek yoghurt (Fage) - it's higher in protein and has no added sugars like most other 0% yoghurt you find. The full fat version is better if you're doing low carb.

If you're low carbing try and drop the honey in the tea, it's unnecessary carbs/sugar. The diet soda and wine every night are also not great.

What do you snack on during the day? You must be starving every time you get around to a meal. Healthy (low carb) snacks include nuts, nut butters, seeds, vegetable crudites, houmous, beef jerky, fruit (in moderation), greek yoghurt, small amounts of cheese, edamame beans.

Lunch seems okay, make sure you're adding in lots of vegetables - beetroot, tomatoes, cucumber, beans, spring onions, spinach, peppers, carrots etc. Make sure it's varied and colourful. You want at least 100g of meaty goods in there (fish, chicken, two eggs) as well, the protein keeps you full.

Dinner is good, but DO NOT BE AFRAID OF FAT. Cut off excess if it's too oily, but you will need the fat if you're low carbing. Use 10% fat mince, I find that's the best one for me. Chicken has no fat, porkchops need their fat bit on them so they're tasty when cooking but you don't have to eat the fat.

I don't eat pasta, bread and the only potatoes I eat are sweet ones - if you're cutting carbs down you will still need some carbs in your diet to keep you alive, but the vegetables and oats will provide plenty.

This is a lot of food, I am never hungry, if I was I would have a piece of fruit inbetween, as I am busy at work I don't have time to think about food and get bored and eat.

Just had a look at the sugar in 2 wheetabix and 0% natural yoghurt can't believe that, 17 gms in 2 wheetabix and the youghurt,it's no wonder we have a problem with people eating too much sugar, as I thought this was healthy lol. I shall check out the Greek yoghurt when I go shopping.
The honey is for the health benefits so I won't cut this out,it's only 1 tsp, but will the wine and diet drinks for the next couple of months.

Fallen-Angel

Angela wrote: »

This is a lot of food, I am never hungry, if I was I would have a piece of fruit inbetween, as I am busy at work I don't have time to think about food and get bored and eat.

Just had a look at the sugar in 2 wheetabix and 0% natural yoghurt can't believe that, 17 gms in 2 wheetabix and the youghurt,it's no wonder we have a problem with people eating too much sugar, as I thought this was healthy lol. I shall check out the Greek yoghurt when I go shopping.
The honey is for the health benefits so I won't cut this out,it's only 1 tsp, but will the wine and diet drinks for the next couple of months.

I watched a documentary a few days back that looked at the actual, scientific benefits of Manukau honey and even the purest variety (which can set you back a lot) has the same health benefits of normal honey, maybe a few extra things but such a tiny amount of them that it isn't worth it

I'd agree with Fluff that it doesn't look like it is enough food, very often you cannot lose weight because your body is panicking about not having enough energy and hanging on to it. More fats and protein to keep your body's fuel levels up

StrugglingYouth

You eat a lot of sugary food.

Wine, Weetabix, Yoghurt, Honey all contain sugars. There is no mention of exercise to burn any of it off. So your body will turn the unused sugar energy straight into fat.

You said yourself above the sugar contents in foods like 'fat free' yoghurt + weetabix is suprising. A lot of people are ignorant to it unfortunately. They take out the fat which is the bit which tastes best, so they have to make it palatable somehow and the cheapest way of doing so is to ramp up the sugar content.

If you cut out totally the wine and the diet sodas you have, in a month you will feel a lot better in yourself! I havent looked back.