If you are losing weight what are you eating?

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I'm hungry all the time, please give me some ideas! Today I've had a small omelette for breakfast with tomatoes.
Lunch was a big salad with prawns.
Dinner was gnocchi with green beans and sea bass.

But I'm still hungry so just had a few oatcakes with low fat cream cheese which probably wasnt great.

I have high blood sugar so have to try and avoid sugar and carbs. Did have gnocchi today though.

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Are you exercising?

How active are you? That’s more than i’d eat for breakfast (I usually skip it) but it’s not an unhealthy menu for a day. Maybe add a snack like an apple before dinner to space things out?

I'm trying to follow Joe Wicks.

Protein, 2 x healthy fats with each meal. For my first meal after a workout, skip the fats and have a portion of carbs instead.

Example:

Breakfast
3 x egg (protein)
Avocado (0.5 avocado is a serving of healthy fat so I have one whole avocado)
Tomatoes
Mushroom
Spinach

Lunch
Chicken (protein)
Feta (healthy fat 1)
Seeds or olives (healthy fat 2)
Salad leaves
Tomato
Peppers

Dinner
Bagel (carbs)
Chicken (protein)
Salad

Snacks -
Normally 145g Greek yoghurt and 70g fruit

I’m using my fitness pal and it’s helping me keep my portions small.
Yesterday I ate a pain au choc and 2 rashers of bacon and 1 slice of bread for breakfast (I like a big breakfast!) for lunch I had a salad and 100g of haloumi and a tortilla wrap toasted. For snack I had a slice of watermelon and for dinner I had quorn bolognaise with a small portion of pasta (40g) and a nectarine.
That’s about 1200 calories.

Apples have been my secret weapon when I've been successful losing weight in the past. And exercise. An omelette is a fine breakfast. You could add egg whites and chilli if you want to bulk and spice it up.

I’m doing the 16:8 which is really working for me and has helped reduced my appetite. I don’t have any medical issues / raised blood sugar though so you’d need to look into it to see if it’s safe for you to do. I’ve found it very straight forward - no calories counting / weighing stuff / syns / points etc. I’ve lost 1.5 stone doing this.

Low carb circa 750 calories a day. Try the eight week blood sugar diet.

Are you tracking your calories?

That not much food assuming:

B'fast - 150cal ( 2 eggs spray oil)
Lunch - 150/200 cal (100g prawns, no dressing)
Dinner - 400cal (cup gnocchi, fillet, beans)
Total ~ 700/750 cal.
That is a fast 800 meal plan so I'm not surprised you were hungry.

Fast 800 is effective for a short period but not long term sustainable and needs focus and you have to know that it is not for ever to get through it (personal experience!).

Look at 1200/1400 calorie meal plans online to get an idea. You may feel better with a bigger lunch. Tracking everything on myfitnesspal is very effective.

No I'm not tracking my calories. I'm starving constantly so couldnt cope with 750 calories a day or doing 16:8

My salad was huge and probably the meal that most filled me up!

Obesity Code and intermittent fasting.

Drink shit loads of tea. Preferably herbal/fruit. Keeps your belly feeling full and distracts you from eating.

Eat the same thing for breakfast (nothing preferably)and lunch everyday. Your body learns to feel satisfied with that food which stops you craving more food.

Eat a good sized dinner with lots of veg and protein, small amount of carb and fat.

If you have to eat breakfast have a protein shake.

What's obesity code?

Gnocchi can be very calorific, and I notice you do not mention any sauces or dressings.

I don't avoid carbs. I do avoid over-processed 'white' carbs, having instead lots of veg and wholegrains

I also measured and logged everything - very easy to add hundreds of calories by not measuring properly (and check if it means dry or cooked weight for pasta, there's a massive difference), or to miss things like calories in drinks, or oils in cooking or in dressings etc.

My top tip was to reduce sharply my alcohol intake. It's empty calories, and it tends to give me urges to nibble

I thought I’d never manage the 16:8 either as I was a bugger for wandering into the kitchen and having a handful of nuts, or a banana or a biscuit etc. I also was hungry loads! This way of eating seems to have “reset” my appetite. It really didn’t take long to get used to.

Oh yes we had some pesto on the gnocchi. I have to avoid carbs. Doctors orders!!!

What exactly does your doctor mean by 'avoiding carbs'

(It's an important food group, and not really medically sound or particularly achievable to cut them out. So I'm guessing this is a headline for slightly different advice - because it's really hard to cut out fruit, salads, vegetables and not particularly good for you)

My salad was huge and probably the meal that most filled me up!

There is very little nutrition and no energy in a salad so once digested you will of course be hungry again.

You're better off having a homemade sandwich on seeded brown bread. It will actually give you energy and stop you feeling hungry again until dinner.

Salads are crap don't bother. You need healthy filling food that will keep you full and stop you snacking.

I'm doing weight watchers and nothing is off limits I find it quite easy actually and will stick to it once I'm at my target with just a few more treats, it doesn't really feel like a diet. I've gone from 13.9 to 10.7 so far x

When you say high blood sugar, do you mean high hba1c? I managed to reduce mine by eating no processed carbs and intermittent fasting (started with 16:8 and reduced down to 18:6 which suits me well, it’s worth experimenting with the timing of your eating window too.) Look up Michael Moseley books, the research behind it is sound.

Today I had protein yoghurt and a banana, prawn salad (with a measured tbsp of dressing) and hm turkey and veg korma with roasted cauliflower instead of rice.

Eating less than you’re used to is always tricky at the start as your body will grumble about it but that stops after a few days. I find if I have any bread / cereal bars / pasta etc I’m absolutely starving a couple of hours after. YMMV but that’s why I avoid processed carbs. Salads, veg and fruit are important for fibre and trace nutrients and are good ways to bulk out a meal.

Today will be
B-fat free Greek yogurt with strawberries, blueberries and raspberries a drizzle of agave nectar
L-left of spaghetti with braised steak in tomato sauce with some salad
D-homemade chicken pad Thai
Snacks will be two low cal cereal bars, fruit and maybe a skyr yogurt.
This evening I will either make egg and banana pancakes with fruit or have some halo top ice cream.

I average a 2lb a week weight loss and have lost 16lbs in six weeks.

I’ll get berated for this, but I skip breakfast. If I eat breakfast I end up hungry earlier that if I don’t. It also allows me more calories to play with during the day. I might eat something like an apple around 10.30 or just have a cup of tea.

Skipping breakfast doesn’t work for me. I’m more likely to snack on rubbish.

I concentrate on actually eating 5-10 portions of veg a day with lots of lean protein and measured carbs, plus as much exercise as I can. That works for me.