To ask what you think of this typical food intake?

I've been on Mounjaro for over two years and have lost 9st 11lb.

I'm now at a healthy weight.

The food noise has disappeared and things that I used to eat a lot of are no longer of interest to me.

I also agree WLI would help. Obviously up to the OP but it would cut out that cheese obsession food noise.

(I was obsessed with cheese and on WLI. Barely eat cheese anymore).

From another person who loves cheese I know it is so moreish but you are eating far too much cheese. Also 1 large meal and snacks is worse than 2 smaller meals as then you'll need less snacks. Try eating more meat for lunch to stop you from wanting to pick on cheese. A 3 egg omelette with veg is a meal on its own. Then for lunch you could have 2 pork chops and veg with a small jacket potato. Try to pick or snack on a chicken breast cut into strips instead of cheese. Cut cheese back to 3 times a week and much smaller portions. I don't see any fruit in your diet. Try to eat an apple, grapes or a banana in the evenings.

This is a key point. Because OP eats one huge meal she feels that she’s not eating much. In reality most people could not eat that quantity of food spread over 3 meals!

Yes, a ridiculous amount of food for a 5ft 2 woman who has this as a "snack".

@ivyball I would in your shoes, seriously consider Mounjaro to give your body a break from consuming so much cheese I would then go and talk to the doctor and get some specialised help. You owe it to yourself to get healthy and live the life you deserve.

Good luck..

@ivyball
You need to make a decision on whether you want to keep on living and eating the way you do.
Your DH needs to support you.
If he HAS to have cheese can he keep the cheese at work and make sandwiches there?
Can he buy cheese sandwiches?
If he won't do this for your health, then he is an absolute cock.

It must be clear to you from this thread that you have disordered eating that is probably very harmful to your health.
You need to decide what you are going to do with this information

Because it’s an extraordinary diet! I’m over a stone overweight as a result of overeating regularly. Only mentioning this to show I’m not a super healthy, small salad for lunch person. I cannot comprehend eating meals as large as this. So much fat, protein , salt and calories. No fibre or nutrients!
Do you sleep well? Have enough energy? Have good mobility, stamina and general health? I hope you do but it can’t be a good long term diet for your wellbeing. I hope you get some help.

If you feel you need to eat cheese, could you slowly reduce the amount you eat. Buy a smaller
block and each week, eat a smaller portion than the week before - do it in baby steps and reduce by a tiny amount each week. And substitute the nuts with greek yogurt and fruit and maybe scatter one or two chopped nuts over.

WLI are not more potentially damaging than remaining obese, that's why they are approved as a treatment for obesity by the UK MHRA. Of course they come with possible side effects and risks, but the risks of taking them are outweighed by the benefit of losing weight. I think that assuming the OP is not obese after years of eating more than twice her daily calorie need is optimistic and unrealistic.

I think that WLI could give the OP some space away from the disordered eating, time to think about what's healthy and what's not, and the ability to make different decisions. Over a decent length of time that may enable her to break away from her current eating patterns and do so for long enough that the new eating habits become the new normal.

I certainly used to eat enormous quantities of food and have specific foods that I would overeat regularly. Now after approaching two years on WLI, that seems so far removed from anything that I would ever contemplate doing now that I can't ever imagine behaving in that way again. And I have the benefit of being at a healthy weight now too. So I don't think it's astounding that people have suggested WLI.

Well theres lots of layers to disodered eating

One is the emotional/psychological side, others are the social and cultural sides and then there is the physical practical side. Guess which one it will fix

She simply wont be triggered to eat as much so it will 'fix' or go some way to fixing her obesity.

If this is true, as I keep caveating at risk of deletion, she is literally killing herself minute by minute.

WLI should be attempted, but thats her choice.

If she doesnt, then what is the answer, some long winded therapy that she may never receive on the NHS, 6 sessions of CBT? A year or more waiting list for a dietitian to do what, have some sessions with her about cheese and macros? For her to source private therapy which she may not be able to afford (cost more than WLI and cheese) and she may not make psychological progress anyway

Years and years down the line she is still in thes ame place, except by now probably immobile and at much higher risk of heart attack.

They’re potentially life saving also!

If used well, they will reduce the food noise and allow OP to adjust her eating, give her space to make sensible choices and adjust her attitude to food.

Astounded by people suggesting WLI. Yes cheese is unhealthy in those amounts but WLIs are potentially damaging too and will not do anything to help OP’s disordered approach to food other than temporarily mask it.

I really wouldnt waste your breath.

Oh, and do not be shamed into giving up your bottle of wine, 2 bottles a week is not excessive. It is an empty 1.2k calories a week but it's not the problem here at all

@EvieBB did you miss the bit where she's drinking two bottles of wine each weekend? And did you miss all the posts pointing out that 450g of cheese and 100g of nuts every day is around 1850 + 500 ish calories, so around 2350 calories per day just on that, before any other food is counted. That is not healthy.

Could you potentially just eat a second meal, so you get that full feeling you crave and then you won't fancy the cheese so much?

And to confirm, you eat your main meal for breakfast before driving to the office?

It seems the cheese is your biggest issue so if nuts make you want cheese, maybe cut the nuts out?

Ngl, your diet is basically 'if i could i would', other than the beef I'd rate it 10/10, but it is not clear to me if you are happy with it, is the goal to lose weight? Or just get your family of your back?

Large protein meal and protein snacks are healthy....it's not like she's eating bags of crisps and sweets and alcohol

I lost a lot of weight by switching my donught habit for nuts....plus my skin glowed and my joint pain improved. Nuts are healthy fats. Good for you. It's refined carbs that are fattening not healthy fats

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Nuts are v healthy protein and good fats so I'd ignore people's comments about the nuts... It's sugar that is important to limit (not good fats) and it looks like you don't eat any sugary treats at all so well done 👏

Yes but she has ADHD, well she is on the meds for it anyway although she hasnt specifically clarified despite me asking whether she has ADHD

And that causes issues with eating and impluses which the WLI are known to support as well
I suspect they would be very helpful, the research and stats around ADHD and food bear this out

I love cheese but that it way too much cheese to be eating daily, you would be much better off having 3 balanced meals a day, you are eating a lot of calories just on cheese and nuts, you may not think you're eating a lot but what you are eating is very high in fat and calories and it will cause health issues long term

I suspect that even with might not work well. You can still eat on them, ans if she chooses to eat cheese then nothing really changes. Without significantly changing her diet, wli will only do so much.

Ps - im probably injections, just not sure they will change much in this case.

Who says that?

She'll apply to Boots or whoever she chooses, simply put in her weight and height, supply photos answer some questions and get a prescription.

She'll qualify and if she engages with the treatment it could well save her life

I think she has an eating disorder.
She has said she thought we would say her diet is healthy and that she’s should eat more.
People with disordered eating do not meet the criteria for WLI