To ask what you think of this typical food intake?

Surely this is a wind up? You eat 7lbs of cheese a week?!

Where’s the fruit, veg, fibre? I thought I ate a lot of cheese (50g?)-to get calcium because I don’t like milk, yoghourt etc, but 450g a day is insane.
All that protein is a nightmare for your kidneys.

It's simultaneously way too much food and not nearly enough food. I asked ChatGPT:

Day 1
(eggs + pork chops + veg + snacks)

• Calories: ~3,300–3,600 kcal
• Protein: ~180–200g
• Fibre: ~12–15g
• Saturated fat: ~110–120g

• Calories: ~3,000–3,300 kcal
• Protein: ~170–190g
• Fibre: ~12–15g
• Saturated fat: ~105–115g

• Calories: ~2,900–3,200 kcal
• Protein: ~170–190g
• Fibre: ~12–16g
• Saturated fat: ~100–110g

• Calories: ~2,800–3,100 kcal
• Protein: ~150–170g
• Fibre: ~10–12g
• Saturated fat: ~100–110g

• Calories: ~3,200–3,500 kcal
• Protein: ~170–190g
• Fibre: ~18–22g (avocado helps here)
• Saturated fat: ~110–120g

• Calories: ~3,300–3,700 kcal
• Protein: ~190–210g
• Fibre: ~12–15g
• Saturated fat: ~120–130g

• Calories: ~3,000–3,400 kcal
• Protein: ~150–170g
• Fibre: ~12–15g
• Saturated fat: ~100–110g

Day 8 (salmon + veg + wine + snacks)
(you listed an extra day, so including it)

• Calories: ~3,200–3,600 kcal
• Protein: ~170–190g
• Fibre: ~12–16g
• Saturated fat: ~100–110g

What this actually means

Calories
You’re consistently around:

• ~3,000–3,600 kcal per day

Protein

• Very high (150–200g/day)
• More than enough for muscle maintenance or growth

• Low to moderate (10–20g/day)
• Recommended is ~25–30g+

Saturated fat
This is the standout issue:

• ~100–130g saturated fat per day

• UK guidance: ~20–30g per day

So – too much food or not enough?

In energy terms:

• This is a lot of food, not too little
• Even with one meal a day, the snacks alone push you well over typical needs

In structure:

• The main meal approach is fine if it works for you
• The issue isn’t timing – it’s what fills the rest of the day

The real lever
This isn’t a complicated diet to fix.
It comes down to one thing:
The cheese quantity is doing nearly all the damage.

If you changed nothing else and:

• cut cheese from 450g → 100–150g

• drop 1,000–1,300 kcal
• cut saturated fat massively
• still keep the foods you enjoy

• You’re not under-eating – you’re eating well above maintenance
• Protein is more than covered
• Fibre is a bit low but fixable
• Saturated fat is extremely high, driven almost entirely by the cheese habit

The structure works for you. The content needs adjusting.

If you want, I can reshape this into something that still feels like your routine but lands in a healthier range without losing the foods you like.

(I am about to tell my robot overlord that this isn't ME)

I believe cheese can be addictive, so you might find it hard to stop your current diet. I’m not sure if cold turkey or weaning off it would be better, but just be understanding of yourself if it’s not easy

You must be at risk of a heart attack eating all that cheese, and no water at all and no roughage. Madness.

Funnily my teenage daughter told me that just now.

@Willowy2 That's great, thank you very much. Looking forward to trying it out

Some days the op is consuming up to 300g of protein, the strain on her kidneys must be enormous, even if she weighed 150kg, 23 stone, it would be far too much, unless she was body building muscle.

that much protein with all the fat as she’s frying foods, so will have a lot of oils in that, and also eating all the cheese and nuts, will see kidney damage, calcium loss, so osteoporosis , dehydration, constipation and her cholesterol must be through the roof, risking heart attack of stroke.

I hope this thread is a wake up call, for her sake and her families, as she’s killing herself and she will have significant health issues, either now or very soon,

How do you go to the loo???

You need to eat some fibre. This is a seriously worrying diet. You need an intervention.

Cheese is addictive because cows milk needs to be addictive to calves so they'll feed. Go cold turkey for a few weeks.

You should focus on getting your 5 veg/fruit a day and drinking two litres of water. Then focus on no processed food.

To me that looks like a massive amount of animal protein and fat, and nowhere near enough fruit and veg. But you do ok on the no processed food part.

She won’t get into keto as there is too much protein and carbs (nuts). Additionally keto only works as people eat less.

OP, you need to half the nuts and quarter the cheese. Also split the meal into 2 eg 4 egg omelette meal one. 2 pork chops and pepper sweet corn meal. 500g of mince would be 4 meals for me. 3 chicken thighs and 2 legs is 3 or 4 meals.

I feel queasy just reading it.

It’s extremely high in saturated fat, low in fibre and really high in calories. Very unhealthy.

😁I love "eggcessive"!

An egg is only about 75kcal and 7g protein - as a just-under-6ft woman I have 3 as a portion but I'd have more if I wasn't wary of getting the egg ick...

I'm a protein evangelist but as a 5'2 sedentary woman, you don't need anywhere near this much protein. 1.2-1.5g protein per day, per pound of bodyweight should be more than adequate for someone who isn't weight training (if overweight/obese then use ideal weight to calculate)

I would:

• have half the amount of meat, and add a carb source and some fruit
• halve the cheese, halve the nuts, accompany with houmous and crudites to get some vitamins and roughage whilst also getting crunch and umami
• limit yourself to two or three caffeinated coffees. Do you put sugar/milk in the coffees?
• reduce alcohol as much as possible - as I say, this may be easier if you're getting some carbs in your diet.

You might also find you're able to cut down on the wine if you add in some carbs and some fruit; as it is, your body will be desperately seeking the sugar in the wine.

She won’t ever get into keto, she drinks 2 bottles of wine a week, so as soon as she gets in, she knocks herself out.

but it doesn’t matter as ultimately the sheer volume of cals she’s consuming would always see her either gain weight, or maintain a heavy weight, ultimately cals in trumps it, even if she is in keto as she needs to burn off what she consumes.

i suspect she’s attempted to do keto, or low carb, not understood it, and ended up gorging, I can’t even fathom a day eating half a kilo of beef then half a kilo of cheese.

I think Big Protein has convinced people that protein is negative calories or something. Protein is 4kcal per gram, the same as carbs; fats are 9kcal per gram

My thoughts are you are eating very little (volume) food that is very high in calories. Majority of your calories come from fat.

450g cheese is 1800 calories, 100g nuts is about 600 calories.

I don’t know your size / height etc but for an average woman, suggests calorie intake is 2000.

What changes are you thinking of making?

I think @ivyballis in a cheese coma and not able to reply.

i think she’ll come back and say she’s a size 6 and 8 stone…

If you're really eating over 3kg of cheese a week, do you ever poo?

Can you reply to the question about whether you are very over weight? Do you know your BMI? That's loads more calories than you need!

Best not to eat 6 brazil nuts on the daily - likely to lead to selenium toxicity

It reads like diy guide to getting gout

This is a very odd diet OP. At your main meal, you’re eating enough food for 2 or 3 people. I would be uncomfortably full after eating all that, and I’m taller than you, quite greedy and a bit overweight.

You need more vegetables, particularly green veg, and more fruit. You’re probably deficient in lots of vitamins with eating so few vegetables.