Is my diet why i feel tired most days? What am i missing?

WannaBLoaded

Hi Alice,

I'm a mess i know.

The thing is, i'm pretty sure on average i spend £320 a month food shopping and i am single, i see people on here with whole families feeding them for less.

I don't get lunch in with that £320 figure either as i buy that when i am out and about.

I think my main trouble is when you order online from tesco the minimum delivery is £40 and if i order lots of fresh salad and fruit it goes out of date sometimes so i end up chucking it.

I need a way in which i can get good healthy food delivered because i don't have time for shopping usually, and at a reasonable cost. I wouldn't mind lowering my food costs.

I got a cat too and he must cost me a tenner a week always eating the jelly and turning his nose up at the meat and he only eats sachets.

This sort of stuff is easier for women than men, not trying to sound sexist there i just think it is a fact. Men are usually just crap at this stuff and i am.

PS: Did you leave you old job for the new one? (i read one of your threads and you left a cliff hanger).

ricardinho88

WannaBLoaded wrote: »

Hi Alice,

I'm a mess i know.

The thing is, i'm pretty sure on average i spend £320 a month food shopping and i am single, i see people on here with whole families feeding them for less.

I don't get lunch in with that £320 figure either as i buy that when i am out and about.

I think my main trouble is when you order online from tesco the minimum delivery is £40 and if i order lots of fresh salad and fruit it goes out of date sometimes so i end up chucking it.

I need a way in which i can get good healthy food delivered because i don't have time for shopping usually, and at a reasonable cost. I wouldn't mind lowering my food costs.

I got a cat too and he must cost me a tenner a week always eating the jelly and turning his nose up at the meat and he only eats sachets.

This sort of stuff is easier for women than men, not trying to sound sexist there i just think it is a fact. Men are usually just crap at this stuff and i am.

PS: Did you leave you old job for the new one? (i read one of your threads and you left a cliff hanger).

There's quite a few companies that can deliver healthy meals to your door. They can be quite expensive, but if you're spending £320 on food a month and wasting some of it anyway, it might suit your needs.

Credit-Crunched

WannaBLoaded wrote: »

Hi Alice,

I'm a mess i know.

The thing is, i'm pretty sure on average i spend £320 a month food shopping and i am single, i see people on here with whole families feeding them for less. HUGE amount to spend unless you are buying organic

I don't get lunch in with that £320 figure either as i buy that when i am out and about. Why? take some control of your time and make the night before, or make a bulk batch on sunday and freeze

I think my main trouble is when you order online from tesco the minimum delivery is £40 and if i order lots of fresh salad and fruit it goes out of date sometimes so i end up chucking it. Try frozen

I need a way in which i can get good healthy food delivered because i don't have time for shopping usually, and at a reasonable cost. I wouldn't mind lowering my food costs. Nonsense, unless you work 22 hours a day you have time to shop, supermarkets are 24 hours in general, plus online shopping, you just seem to be full of excuses

I got a cat too and he must cost me a tenner a week always eating the jelly and turning his nose up at the meat and he only eats sachets.

This sort of stuff is easier for women than men, not trying to sound sexist there i just think it is a fact. Men are usually just crap at this stuff and i am. No, you are, your gender has nothing to do with being organised, strict and disiplined. My gym is full of men that live an obscenly strict lifestyle and prepare daily their food intake. There are lazy men and lazy women, organised men and orgainsed women, so please drop the nonsense

PS: Did you leave you old job for the new one? (i read one of your threads and you left a cliff hanger).

Sorry, but I can not be as polite as most respondants on this web site. You are a walking paradox, I eat healthy, yet have a chocolate bar for lunch, I work 9-5 but have no time to shop.

I think, you need to sit down, with a pad of paper and plan your week. Your training, your work, your shopping and your prepration. You will be amazed how by applying structure to your day you will see huge changes. Try it.

borkid

DSmiffy wrote: »

Hi, just putting my tuppence in here......
I was the same as you OP, always tired and falling asleep mid afternoon, no energy whatsoever.
Went to the Docs and he tested me for Coeliac Disease, turns out I'm gluten intolerant.
I was having a sandwich every lunch time and falling asleep by 2pm.

Changed my diet completely and now I am wide awake all day, big difference.

Looks like you don't have much bread in your diet but gluten is also found in many other things, maybe try a week excluding it from your diet and see if it makes a difference.
Just a thought.

I was just going to suggest that as I have the same thing although all my tests came back normal. I knew from how I felt after mistakenly eating gluten that it was a problem. Check packaging as gluten also appears as wheat syrup and I found it in crisps. Also avoid anything with malt, barley, spelt.

Initially when I stopped eating gluten I was very hungry so I'd eat avocados and nuts or prawns, easy to prepare and filling. Go to Lidl's or Aldi's and you'll find nuts and avocados much cheaper than the usual supermarkets.

borkid

WannaBLoaded wrote: »

Hi Alice,

I'm a mess i know.

The thing is, i'm pretty sure on average i spend £320 a month food shopping and i am single, i see people on here with whole families feeding them for less. What!!!! 2 of us and 4 cats. Our food bill and all cleaning things is about that and we don't skimp. We buy wine a couple of bottles a week, eat meat nearly every day and lots of fresh fruit and veg.

I don't get lunch in with that £320 figure either as i buy that when i am out and about. Make your own lunch and take it to work. When I was working full time I used to cook all meals from scratch and prepare packed lunches for 4, 2 adults and 2 teenagers. Do it the evening before or get up 10 mins earlier.

I think my main trouble is when you order online from tesco the minimum delivery is £40 and if i order lots of fresh salad and fruit it goes out of date sometimes so i end up chucking it. Arrange your journey back from work to pass a supeprmarket or shop at the weekend like a lot of people did pre delivery days.

I need a way in which i can get good healthy food delivered because i don't have time for shopping usually, and at a reasonable cost. I wouldn't mind lowering my food costs.

I got a cat too and he must cost me a tenner a week always eating the jelly and turning his nose up at the meat and he only eats sachets. So you are saying your cat only eats jelly? Is he underweight as well? Buy sachets when on offer this will help cut costs. My local shop has them at half price at the moment so I have stocked up with a couple of months worth. Mine do eat dried food as well which I buy in bulk and have delivered. You spend more per week feeding your 1 cat than I do feeding my 4.

This sort of stuff is easier for women than men, not trying to sound sexist there i just think it is a fact. Men are usually just crap at this stuff and i am. As someone has said rubbish. Following your logic there should be no male managers as they are not organised enough to run an office.

PS: Did you leave you old job for the new one? (i read one of your threads and you left a cliff hanger).

Get your health checked out incase it's a medical problem but from what you have said so far it looks like a dietry one.

natbags

This is a great thread and very relevant to me too.
I am trying to lose weight also but suffering with tremendous lethargy and not losing any weight at all!!! Looking at the suggestions I don't think I'm eating anywhere near enough - I've just downloaded the Myfitnesspal app and sure enough I'm 600+ cals down! It's very confusing though, when the advice is generally to eat less and move more, but I guess there is an 'ideal' point for everyone. I'm going to track over the next week and see how I go on - Thanks again, interesting thread and lots of tips

theoretica

I think you are overthinking things http://xkcd.com/1592/

Don't throw out fruit and veg just because of the date - it goes brown and squishy when you shouldn't eat that bit. My general rule of thumb is the shorter the list of ingredients on anything I buy, the better, and better to eat the real thing in moderation than low fat/sugar alternatives, and better to buy the plain version (eg yoghurt or sparkling water) and flavour it myself.

I tend to do a big cook one night and then eat it for the next couple of days for both lunch and dinner. You might also find it useful to broaden the vegetables you eat - you get a lot of carrot for your money and they can be eaten raw or cooked. Swedes, parsnips and other root vegetables are also filling for the price and last a long time before going off. Butternut squash is in season and a lump cooks in a few minutes in the microwave if you are short of time.

Lizling

Well when i put that it was SATURDAY, i bet you don't work saturdays do you I usually work 6 days a week but only do 6 hour days usually, but my work is relatively physical (property refurbishment) and you probably sit in an office

You seem very active though, if i got in at 7 not sure it i would be able to get my jog on

Not only do I often put in a few extra hours at the weekend, but I've just finished an OU course which meant studying for an average of 8 hours every weekend for the past few years, and for months at a time, 16 hours, but it's not about what I do or don't do.

The point remains that either you find a way to make your own meals and get healthy, or you don't and eat chocolate. How hard it is for you to do that doesn't change what the choice is.

WannaBLoaded

Lizling wrote: »

Not only do I often put in a few extra hours at the weekend, but I've just finished an OU course which meant studying for an average of 8 hours every weekend for the past few years, and for months at a time, 16 hours, but it's not about what I do or don't do.

The point remains that either you find a way to make your own meals and get healthy, or you don't and eat chocolate. How hard it is for you to do that doesn't change what the choice is.

What was you studying, sarcasm? No, what was you studying? You sound like you have more enthusiasm for life than i do. :j

I like to know how other people live so i can see if i am doing stuff wrong, which i am.

Having started this thread i am eating more nuts and my morning yogurt now has some seeds dropped in it.

I have been eating more and feel like i put a bit of weight on, :eek: carbs like rice and potato make me fat

My cooking skills are pants this is my main trouble.

What i will eat today

My breakfast was two muller light greek style yogurts with some seeds mixed in and i had a protein bar.

For lunch i am making now, i have two chicken breasts in the halogen which are total of 300g and i'm going to put a whole sweet potato in with it and then make some salad, onion, tomato, cucumber. I will probably have an apple and some nuts for desert.:D

For dinner i think i am going to be having two steaks (total 300g) in two brown bread pitas and some fruit and nuts.

I am going to total my calories up with my fitness pal at the end of the day to see whether i have been a good boy or not.

I wanna be healthy, i really do! I might even go for a jog tonight but i had a mega crap nights kip so not sure if i will be able to but i sometimes get energy boosts of an evening, i think i am a night owl.

Credit-Crunched

WannaBLoaded wrote: »

What was you studying, sarcasm? No, what was you studying? You sound like you have more enthusiasm for life than i do. :j

I like to know how other people live so i can see if i am doing stuff wrong, which i am.

Having started this thread i am eating more nuts and my morning yogurt now has some seeds dropped in it.

I have been eating more and feel like i put a bit of weight on, :eek: carbs like rice and potato make me fat

My cooking skills are pants this is my main trouble.

What i will eat today

My breakfast was two muller light greek style yogurts with some seeds mixed in and i had a protein bar.

For lunch i am making now, i have two chicken breasts in the halogen which are total of 300g and i'm going to put a whole sweet potato in with it and then make some salad, onion, tomato, cucumber. I will probably have an apple and some nuts for desert.:D

For dinner i think i am going to be having two steaks (total 300g) in two brown bread pitas and some fruit and nuts.

I am going to total my calories up with my fitness pal at the end of the day to see whether i have been a good boy or not.

I wanna be healthy, i really do! I might even go for a jog tonight but i had a mega crap nights kip so not sure if i will be able to but i sometimes get energy boosts of an evening, i think i am a night owl.

That is a whole lot of meat! That is heavy training food intake. Try One steak and one Pita, one chicken breast, rest sounds good. Eating that volume and not training of course you will put on weight.

If you put off training because you are tired, you will never get fit. You need structure, routine and dedication. Not excuses.