Is this really terrible as a days food?

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I'm trying to lose weight, well I have lost 2.5st but have lost my focus. I kniw this set good for weight loss, but how about maintaining?

Breakfast - shake, with almond milk, protein powder, frozen banana abd strawberry.
Lunch - salad (massive 😉) of rocket, baby plum Tom's cucumber , yellow pepper, radish, 8 crabsticks, 1 boiled egg. Low fay mayo.

Snack apple

Dinner - chicken Kiev, small jacket spud, peas and sweetcorn. Tiny portion ofchocolatebriwnue abd ice cream (I kniw I shouldn't have and actually couldn't finish it 🤢)

I've had plenty of water to drink, and walked 13000 ish steps sp far (including an actual walk with the DC rather than just shuffling around the house and an hour in the garden)

I kniw the dinner wasn't ideal but I am desperately trying to a)budget and b) eat the same as the DC.

Each have their nutrients, nothing wrong with either but the OP is specifically talking about losing weight. Protein and fat are more satisfying.

Ive just had chicken kiev myself for dinner along with a mixture of green veg. No other carbs needed.

Plenty of veg and protein, a nice treat to round off the day, sounds perfectly balanced to me. The reason people don't stick to diets is because they cut out all the food they like, or that their family eat, or buy food that they don't like or can't afford long term. Modifying your regular diet to create a calorie deficit is where it's at!

Crabsticks and egg are fine. And banana is fine. It's a high calorie fruit but also a filling one, though more so eaten whole rather than pureed.

Bran flakes are no magic bullet. They're very heavily processed.

Nothing wrong with the occasional chicken Kiev if you log it and allow for the calories from the fat. Chicken thighs in a garlicky marinade are cheap and child friendly, as an alternative, though admittedly lacking in the nice, crunchy coating!

This.

Well no, the reason folks gaim weight is they eat thinks like Kiev stuffed with butter and then follow it up with a chocolate brownie and ice cream

xhes not asking what’s an awesome way to eat if you let go she’s asking for dieting advice.

I'm not asking for dieting advice. I was wondering uf ti's is a terrible days food for someone maintaining/not dieting.

It's fine. You had protein, fat and carbs and fruit and veg
It's always a bit crazy on here about food. If I ask my work colleagues, some don't cook unless it's a jar sauce, some don't eat any veg or fruit in a day
If you're managing 5 a day you're doing better than most people

Sorry, I clearly wasnt paying attention!

I think its fine then

All depends on how active a day you have.

Calories in is only one side of the equation without knowing calories used exercising.

@bellac11 I can do the duet part. I'm just crap at maintaining , I'm all or nothing and striggkec with moderation.. I'm.alsi really skint. So trying g to get through the month on what we have as much as I can.

@alwaysmovingforwards 15k steps, a walk with the DC. Hour in the garden. Mucking out pony field. Not much sitting down, but no formal exercise.

Chicken Kiev is lovely, but a flattened chicken breast browned in a pan with garlic and lemon juice would likely satisfy just as much

God that sounds disgusting. All this fuss over one chicken Kiev. They are only about 250-300 kcal depending on the brand and the fat is satiating; only about 100 kcal more than the plain chicken breast and not accounting for what you’d need to add to force it down.

317 cals according to sainsbury. It wasn't a big plateful, the spud was small too.

It sounds like a fine, normal day. Realistically though mumsnet is absolutely NOT the place to post for diet advice. Any thread about food attracts some posters who will reply through their own world view of extremely disordered eating, where a banana is off limits and you can’t have crab sticks and an egg for lunch, only one or the other. But the thing is that actually that type of very restrictive eating (and the attitude that goes with it) isn’t sustainable. Whereas what you’re doing (eating sensibly with treats included but seen as not an everyday food to eat lots of and exercising as well) is a sustainable lifestyle change.

Actually the only thing I find really unhealthy in your post is the ‘I know I shouldn’t have, I couldn’t even finish it’ and the sick face emoji about the pudding. I really dislike that type of talk, and I know many women who do it. It’s like the need to justify and half-apologise. If you want a pudding, have one. Obviously foods like that shouldn’t be eaten in high volumes but you do not need to feel guilty about eating normal treat foods occasionally.

Thank you @Kanaloa , the comments have been surprisingly tame thus far!

Potato, peas and sweetcorn are a lot of carbs.

I’m not sure exactly what you are asking, but as you have put it out there, I’d cut out the carbs. I personally don’t think there is any nutritional reason to eat grains or starches, but even if you do make them whole and not white.

From that perspective it looks ok until dinner, when I would lose the breadcrumbs on the Kiev, the potato and the sweetcorn and add lots of extra veg (I don’t know anything about almond milk. It’s quite processed, which is generally undesirable, and if you were to do real low carb, you want full fat everything. You don’t have to though. Just cutting the grains and spuds helps in my experience. It’s tough on a budget, though). A baked sweet potato might be an option.

obviously, sugar isn’t on any diet, but you have to live a little. Just be really honest with yourself about how much. (It’s very easy for now and again to become most days if you aren’t concentrating)

Honestly I think it’s fine as a one off, it’s really calories averaged over a week but if you ate like that every day you’d gain

for the commentor on disordered eating they are correct, but it’s not just those who under eat, some will encourage you to eat like this and say it’s fine as they also don’t eat well.

if you ate like that every day you’d gain

How can you possibly know that without knowing OP’s daily caloric needs? This thread is totally meaningless without them. That menu would be a calorie deficit day for me.

Do you make your own or buy them?

Fried or oven baked?

Leave the kievs for the children and try this.

1 or 2 chicken thighs - depending on the size
gatlic paste
dried oregano

Put the chicken on a baking tray or on foil, squeeze over a liberal amount of garlic paste then cover in the dried oregano.

Would you gain? This doest seem like that much food to me.

Plenty of veg and protein, a nice treat to round off the day, sounds perfectly balanced to me. The reason people don't stick to diets is because they cut out all the food they like, or that their family eat, or buy food that they don't like or can't afford long term. Modifying your regular diet to create a calorie deficit is where it's at!

I completely agree.

It’s absolutely fine OP and as long as you’re in your calorie limit then you will lose weight.

There’ll be plenty of people telling you it’s too many carbs as that’s the new fad at the minute but if you asked a couple of years ago they would have said too much fat or protein etc.

This is why people can often lose weight but not maintain it because they cut foods out of their diet which is unsustainable.

Certain foods like protein are more filling.
Foods like veg are packed with goodness and are low calories.
Carbs especially potatoes are very good for you as they are low in kcals but high in vitamins.

I like this picture as it shows that the more we try and cut out certain foods the more we end up eating.
But allowing ourselves treats means it’s much easier to stay on track.

The dinner and dessert weren’t the best but if that’s a once a week thing it shouldn’t make a massive difference. I don’t recommend brownies, ice cream and chicken kievs every day! Walking 13k steps is fine but not enough to burn many calories, you need higher intensity cardio like running, power walking, swimming or a HIIT workout.

I’ve lost over 4 stone this year and did it by running 3x a week, HIIT workouts 3x a week and lifting weights twice a week plus I walk/run an average of 20k steps a day, did 29k yesterday 😂. You need to exercise more than a short walk basically to have any real effect.