How would you feel if you ate this in a day?

[Foolsgold74]

Breakfast - 4 slices white toast n butter
Snack - 16 mini brownie bites
Lunch - small portion of fish fingers n chips
Snack - cheese n mayo sandwich
Dinner - large bowl of pasta with tomato sauce n grated cheese
8 glasses of sparkling water with lime cordial

Would this be akin to an average day for you? Would it leave you feeling hungry or stuffed? Bloated? Absolutely fine?

What about salad?

Buy a lettuce, some tomatoes and a cucumber. While your toast is toasting, wash and slice it and stick it in the fridge.

Have your cheese and mayo sandwich for lunch instead of a snack and stuff it with the salad too.

It's a quick easy cheap little step.

So I know I'm going beyond the question you asked, but I didn't want to read and run. It sounds like you're acknowledging that eating that way for a prolonged time isn't ideal, but getting stuck in a cycle of eating that way is incredibly difficult to break out of.

I highly recommend reading ultra-processed people by Chris van Tulleken - mainly to get some perspective on how ultra-processed food works on our bodies. I'm not preaching never touching processed food ever again, but it is packed full of useful info that might help reframe how you think about food.

Then try and take small steps. Ditch the diet coke. Drink a large glass of water between meal/snack times to make sure you are well hydrated. Have an item of fruit or veg in the house and commit to eating that before you eat anything else.

Finally, you say you could afford ozempic - could you afford to enlist the help of a nutritionist/PT? Making these kind of changes can be really tricky on your own. They may be able to provide the support and guidance to do it.

I think you need to look at why you are effectively choosing to abuse your body. You know you shouldn't eat what you do, but do it anyway.

So I would say you need to work on your positive mental health so you can be arsed to prep veg and fruit and eat a healthier diet.

FWIW I overhauled my eating habits at beginning of this year due to cancer (incl bowel cancer) in the family striking far too many times. In three months I feel so much better for it. If I ate what you ate, I would feel so unwell. My bowel would be sluggish, my skin grey and dull, my joints would ache, and I'd bloat horrendously.

Loathe cooking. Am utterly inept too!

As a one off I would be absolutely fine. If I ate like that regularly though I would probably end up feeling quite bad. I would miss vegetables. I am not a mumsnet competitive small eater by any stretch of the imagination (I am in no danger of being called ‘willowy’ that’s for sure) but I do love vegetables and fruit and this day of eating is lacking in that. Do you not like vegetables, OP? If I were you I would really get to like them, because it makes healthy eating so much more pleasant. A rainbow plate is a genuine joy but you might have ‘re-set’ you taste buds if you’re used to junk food. You can do it though!

I absolutely could eat that in a day and I’ve eaten similar things in a day before but I’d probably be feeling bloated and depressed afterwards.

Are there any sauces you love? I fill a bowl with spinach, cucumber, tomatoes etc and then pier my favourite sauce on it and have it with crisps. Its by no means a brilliant diet but I do at least consume a bowl full of veg most days.

Like someone with extreme IBS - and if eatng that way daily, on my way to developing a bowel disorder..

Do you want to change your diet?

I think I’d feel hungry, all those refined carbs will make you feel full for a couple of hours then the sugar crash will have you scouring the kitchen for more carbs.

You don’t need to go low carb but should at least include some more protein to balance it out. So if you’re having toast for breakfast have peanut butter on it or scrambled eggs.

16 brownie bites isn’t a snack, it’s a tray of brownies. 4 of them would make a decent sized single portion.

You could easily add in at least a small amount of veg in your pasta, even if it’s just buying a chunky veg pasta sauce.

Just did a rough estimate using MyFitnessPal of this days worth of food and it’s about 2800 calories, 60% carbs, 30% fat and 10% protein, about 100g sugar across the day.

That's because you're not getting the nutrients you need and seriously lacking fibre.

I'm feeling a bit rubbish today and have stuffed my face with crap too, OP, so I'm not judging.

I would feel painfully full and sluggish. I would most likely have a raging headache the next day.

I physically couldn't eat a quarter of that amount of food ( Mounjaro) but even that amount of crap carbohydrate would leave me feeling pretty yuk

That much fizzy liquid in the evening would give me terrible acid reflux. Plus no veg would make my gut sluggish so I’d wake up a bit woolly. That said,I’m not in great health so have to be careful.
why do you ask OP? Are you feeling a bit off and wondering if it’s your diet, or are you judging someone else? As a one-off, without other issues, it won’t do you any harm.

Same here! I could actually probably eat 16 brownie bites (perhaps spread out over the day) but along with the rest of the stuff listed, I'd feel awful. I had a terrible day on Friday (far too much chocolate mainly) and not enough movement- super busy work day and hardly left my wfh desk. Felt sluggish yet wired (not in a good way) all evening,slept late and didn't feel good this morning.
I've tries to make up for it today a bit.

Bloated, very shaky and also weirdly hungry.

Do you want to change your diet or not? You are being very negative to every suggestion.

Could you buy some ready meals that have some vegetables in?

Carbzilla.

It sounds like you're addicted to carbs and self medicating for anxiety/depression? Carbs stimulate serotonin production

@Foolsgold74 the only thing that worked to snap me out of stress and comfort eating was when at my recent annual exam, my blood work looked terrible compared to last year’s, & I’d gained 10 pounds.

I stopped buying sweets & other goodies and replaced them with extra fruit and veg and small amounts of unsalted nuts. I would much rather eat the treats, but I don’t want to do damage to my health. And I know if the treats are in the house I will eat them, so I don’t buy them.

Thankfully, my husband likes snacks I can take or leave, so no temptation there.

God I am just in awe of your metabolism that you can eat like that day in day out and only be 12st!?! I eat far far healthier and can’t get below 16 stone ☹️

What age are you @Foolsgold74?

Honestly, I’d say to not have eaten veg for months and months is not just lazy eating. There’s such thing as frozen veg which is incredibly easy for a lazy dinner prep. I can cook, but I don’t enjoy it, and personally I find it way more annoying and time consuming to prepare pasta than cook some veg or do microwave veg. It seems more that you’re avoiding anything of nutritional value than simply being lazy. I can’t go more than a day or two without veg or I feel awful. My body hates me for it! (And im a massive sugar fiend myself too)

Honestly? I’d feel awful if I ate that over 2 days!

If that’s true how come you don’t have skurvy