I have cleaned up.my diet and am losing weight at a startling rate

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Which was initially good, but now I'm starting to worry.

I was 10st9 and 5'7, so never fat but a bit heavier than I'd like, between 10st and 10st4 is, I think, my ideal weight. Mostly I wanted to be feel better, my diet was never dreadful, but I knew the junkand the booze had crept in.

So since the beginning of June I have:

-Drunk moderately and only once over a weekend. I never drank during the week, but I'd have "a few" at least 2 nights pw. Now I have a couple, once.

• Cut out snacking - here I was probably worse than I realised, and saying no snacks at all makes it easier for me to stick to.
• No takeaways, but they were never that frequent.
• Made an effort to choose healthier options when faced with a menu
• Desserts only at weekends.
• Stopped using the car all the time and walk as much as possible.

I'm 55, an age when weight is supposed to be difficult to shift. I've never been hungry or felt deprived. I've lost a stone in 2 months.

Does this sound right with the changes I've made or is it too much?

It says two rounds of bread as a sandwich, so I’m assuming two slices of bread.

Yeah that's normal really for a diet, obviously eating a lot less calories

Do you walk 10 miles a day plus gym session and weigh the same as OP and the same height? Are you losing too much weight? That is why I suggested she may want to eat more. Either for lunch or adding in some more snacks.

I am not overweight and I eat more than a cheese sandwich for lunch….it wouldn’t fill me up enough but more protein - chicken/tuna/tofu would…

A 'round' in a sandwich is 2 slices of bread.

2 rounds is 4 slices.

If you go to a cafe and ask for a sandwich (in the old days) they'd ask 'one round or two'.

You'd never get a sandwich made with 1 slice of bread.

Agree. A round is two slice One slice is one slice.

There isn't more protein in a chicken sandwich than a cheese one though, and there's a lot less in tofu.

Hmm you’d have to eat a lot of cheese to get the same amount of protein as a piece of chicken. But I don’t want to get hung up on the cheese sandwich…

It would be my last resort for lunch if I had nothing else in or was in a massive rush.

A pound a week is not a startling rate nor quickly (you defecate more than a pound!) BUT it’s still an achievement so well done for making the changes and sticking to them!
I have a genuine and often crippling sugar addiction which I am failing to overcome. Also a milk addiction which isn’t helping in the slightest…

I'm struggling to see what the point of this thread is.

'Woman eats less , walks 10 miles a day and loses around 1.5 lbs a week.'

Yep, normal.

There is. Or you’d have to eat the equivalent amount of cheese as the piece of chicken. Which is a lot of cheese. I mean I love cheese but I’d mix it up a bit for general health…

Not necessarily op. I struggled to lose weight all through peri menopause and then thought that’s that, I’m never going to be slim again.

Then at 55 I ate properly and did lots of exercise and 2 stone dropped off me in 5 months. It’s like the menopause ended and I had my old body back.

Exactly.

There isn't more protein in a chicken sandwich than a cheese one though, and there's a lot less in tofu.

It depends on the amount of each.

Yep..

Well, it's clearly not true/possible for everyone.

I wfh most days, so no car being used, my office is 37 miles away, takes an hour and a half to drive in. I can't walk it.

I walk to the village shop some days, half a mile, max, round trip. Can't walk to the supermarket, it's over ten miles away. Can't walk to the gym, another eight miles (not that I go anyway).

And adding in ten miles walking a day would take around four hours.

No, you wouldn't. 25g per 100g in cheddar, 27g in chicken, but the cheddar is heavier *)(and I cut it thick) so by volume in a sandwich you'd likely have more protein. Only so much chicken you cannot fot in a sandwich.juat by way of a check I looked up Tescos prepared sandwiches. Chicken salad 11.6g protein, cheese salad 10.3g, and that cheese would be a sprinkle of grated stuff, not a good slice.

Besides which I've said I'm not hungry, so I don't need something to fill me up more.

Well yes, but a standard sandwich sized amount the cheese and chicken would be broadly equal and the tofu less.

2 rounds of bread = 2 slices
as a sandwich = one sandwich.

I agree with you that a round of sandwiches is two slices of bread. That’s not what the OP said though. She said ‘2 rounds of bread as a sandwich’.

Whenever I went on a completely clean no processed food diet, I always struggled to eat enough calories and lost a lot, prob, too much weight. You have to eat a lot and include higher calorie things like bananas, rice, avocado, salmon etc

Ok so who’s walking 10 miles tomorrow? 😂

I'm going to take the day off and do 20! and just eat a cheese sarnie 😂

Not taking the piss OP, what you've achieved is brilliant.

Why does she need to eat more if she's not hungry and her BMI is 21?

Some people lose easier than others. I both gain and lose very easily and can play with half a stone at any given time.

That's what I'd like to know too. I like walking and can easily do 10 miles but every day? Absolutely no chance because I have a job and stufc to do. Unless your job allows you to walk all day OP?

Well, mainly because she said that she’s worried that she’s losing too much weight. The answer to that is to eat more or exercise less.

Eat more or walk less 🤷‍♀️

then you will figure out if you have a health issue. You probably don’t.

very few people have time for the sort of lifestyle the OP is managing to live.