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?

Read The Sugar Solution by Dr Mark Hyman.

Check out Dr Becky on YouTube.

As well as the late Michael Moseley.

Jamie Oliver is great for people who think they can't cook. Especially Ministry of Food and the 5 ingredients and 15 minutes recipes.

As for not liking vegetables and fruit...... you need to understand that a lifetime of eating crap will have deadened your taste buds, so you need to re-awaken them by making a conscious and committed effort to learn to appreciate the more subtle flavours of fruit and vegetables.

Accept that it requires commitment to a change of lifestyle. The carrot is that if you stick to it you will in time feel so much better.

To heck with 'should'. I was struggling massively to get my weight down and am currently on Mounjaro, it's proving to be a game changer for me. I wouldn't rule it out, OP. Obviously you'd need to change your eating habits to keep it off afterwards, but I'm finding mine do seem to be changing naturally.

I struggle with eating excessively too. Eating that would leave me feeling bloated, sleepy & tired, guilty, shameful.

I'm trying really hard at the minute to not overeat, what I find helps me the most is upping my exercise, so say for example, I must walk a minimum of 8000 steps per day, and try to do 10-12K steps a couple of times per week, I'm also trying to do 3 x 20min HITT workouts per week - using free workouts from youtube, so no excuses of having to pay a gym.

I've also started weighing myself every morning, which helps me to keep it up. You have to allow for times in the month when you get heavier, during your period etc., but I find daily weighing helps keep me in line with not overeating. Drinking more water also helps stave off hunger cravings, something I'm guilty of not drinking enough of.

I'm only a month or so in, but am now aiming at upping my steps and increasing the number of workouts.

I had lost 4 stones 5 years ago and was really hardcore at working out and calorie counting and it just dropped off and I felt amazing. But then I suffered a trauma in my life and stopped exercising and started eating for comfort and soon ballooned, so now I have 6 stones to lose, and I'm in perimenopause so I'm finding it much harder to get into the groove this time, but for the sake of my health, I need to do this, I'm going easier on myself this time, if I could shift 3 stones off by the end of the year, I'd be very happy with that. Then tackle the last 3 next year.

You really need to find some willpower, it's really hard, I know x

Very bage no fibre little nutritional value. Was the bread for the sandwiches at least wholemeal?

All that sparkling water would cause me wind pain and bloating.

I know pp are focused on other parts of your food but honestly I'd swap the sparkling water for non sparkling and see what difference that makes, might make it easier to make other changes of not constantly windy and bloated.

I honestly couldn't eat that much that would make me feel very ill

This diet is very processed and carb/sugar heavy - which is not great for feeling full up and makes you tend to want to eat more. I think you know this, which is why you're posting, but are struggling to contemplate how to change. I've been there too - a lot.

The thing I've realised about my own comfort eating is that it rarely brings any true comfort, and if I'm honest leaves me feeling bad about myself. In my head I say I'm treating myself, but in reality it's not doing anything positive.

Try making some small changes; here are a few that have helped me;

• stop eating at 8pm and leave a minimum of 12 hours until eating the next day. This gives your body time to regulate sugar levels etc. it also cuts out evening snacking which is my Achilles heel!
• Have a protein rich breakfast to start the day. How about an omelette, overnight oats or a smoothie with some plant based protein powder and some fruit in. Good way to get fruit in if you don't enjoy eating it and will be really good for your gut.
• set a daily sugar limit of 30g

Little steps - treat yourself with something different like a bath, or a bunch of daffodils or a magazine - something that isn't food. You'll feel so much better for it. Best of luck to you OP

I physically couldn’t eat that much food.

I have a history of disordered eating and for me this day would indicate that I was slipping because that amount of food would be a binge for me.

I think if I were you I'd start by trying to do the overeating you're doing with slightly better things, rather than trying to make the content of the meals healthy and smaller all in one go. Baby steps...

I'd probably try to swap the white bread and white pasta for wholemeal (still nice toasted with lots of butter and I can tell you still perfectly possible to binge on, especially with a bit of nice jam).

I'd buy any good ready meals I fancied, if I could afford them (like Charlie Bighams), for upping protein and veg for some meals without having to make myself cook. I'd also start adding things like frozen peas and cut up cherry tomatoes to pasta if I could eat those. I'd buy smaller multipacks of junk, not none to start with, just less.

For the afternoon snack I'd having something other than bread, but not something specially healthy - maybe some of those flavoured rice cakes, which are really nice with a bit of mayo?

Brain over Binge is a very good book for binge/overeating. The Fast 800 is good for low carb ideas too - you might not like all or even many of them but if you can find even the odd thing to add to your diet then that's one or two better meals a week.

People who cook well and like it will suggest loads of nice 'easy' things to make from scratch but if you are anything like me and hate cooking you won't do any of them. I'm not saying don't try - I mean we all should - but don't wait until you succeed in making yourself cook to eat better things. It is actually possible to eat better quick/rubbish food without feeling so deprived it's unbearable, just as a first step.

My blood sugars would be so fucked id go from being stuffed to starving. Very bad combo of food!

I have improved my diet a lot from one that had a lot of things similar to yours in but not by switching straight to a good diet. A mixture of changing things bit by bit, eating much later, learning some low carb things and gradually cutting out some of the extra snacks has gradually transformed it, a bit at a time, and it feels OK and most things I don't miss.

Agree with above poster. Before a bit of low carb I could have eaten similar to your post, think nothing of a packet of TUC and half tub of Philly ina sitting, as a snack!

3 protein heavy nutrient dense meals do it for me now!

Imo the amount is probably more white carbs than is healthy but it’s not that awful (I’d only feel a bit bloated personally but then I am a stone overweight with a large appetite). I would be craving some fruit and veg though.

If you truly hate fruit and veg and don’t have the time/energy for cooking OP, could you not just blend/mash/finely chop a bit of (frozen and microwaved) broccoli into the pasta sauce? If that’s the green vegetable you hate the least. Enough sauce and cheese and you wouldn’t really notice the taste much. It’s a start at least and the sort of thing I do when exhausted (add extra frozen veg to microwaved, pre-prepared carb heavy meals).

I’d be in A&E.

Wot no pudding?

How curious, I thought, that your choices are hungry, stuffed, bloated, or fine.
Then I realized that you're asking how I'd feel physically. Physically, I'd feel fine.
However, mentally, I'd think:
-Wow, I ate a bunch of crap today.
-Wow, I'd better compensate with a lot of vegetables tomorrow.
-Wow, I can't believe I wasted money on pretentious water like that.

I’d feeling physically and mentally like shit. And very tired. And also quite guilty I was doing that to my body knowingly.

You’re probably hungry because you’re not getting enough protein. Try getting more protein into what you eat and it will help fill you up.

I would be overstuffed by lunch, and I’m obese. Admittedly movement is not my friend so it’s not like o would move any of that off.

Adjust like this, maybe?

Boil an egg or two and have with one (maybe two) slices of toast

Banana. Or buy a bag of frozen fruit such as strawberries and a tub of Greek yogurt and have some of that

Fish fingers and baked beans

Oat biscuits, slice of cheese or ham and a satsuma or sliced carrot or cucumber

boiled new potatoes, chicken drumstick , with the tomato sauce poured over, and some peas.

Leave the cordial out of half the glasses of water, add slice of lemon instead.

that would be a winter day with a serious hangover for me! Sooo much refined carbs in all that bread and pasta. I’d feel bloated and lethargic.
im a fatty (13 stone at 5ft 7) but have lost a stone in a month by eating keto. Eggs and avo and spinach for breakfast. Tuna mayo salad for lunch. Roast chicken, gravy, cauli cheese and lots of green veg for dinner.
2l of water.

i sleep so much better Have masses if energy and lost the brain fog. No bloating and my joint pain has subsided.

Oh and I fast for 48 -70 hours every other week which is great for addressing food noise (no thinking about food at all is so refreshing) and resetting your body.

At that height and weight your BMI is going to be around 26 so you're not morbidly obese or anything. Either you do have a hugely active job and need a high calorie intake, or this is a more recent problem that you're concerned is going to continue to spiral. Do you know which it is? The answer to that will help you work out what needs to change ti protect your health

And for all those suggesting weight loss drugs, @Foolsgold74 doesn't meet the BMI threshold (currently) with the figures given