Can some one please share their weight loss food diary with me

[dogsandbudgey]

I’m just disgusted at myself really. I’m getting fatter and fatter and no matter what I try I just can’t stick to it for any longer than 6 weeks. I don’t know why this is because I know that by derailing I’m getting more rounded. I always had a sharp jawline but I cought myself in the background of a photo yesterday and I could not believe how round and puffy my face looked!! I just feel so minging and struggle to style myself.

im 5ft6
about 13 stone ( guessing)
size - tight 14 but all my weight is in my middle so I look pregnant
im also on the implant and I think it’s making me gain?!?

i would love to shift some weight for Xmas but I feel I’m so deflated that I’m so overweight it’s making me really depressed

can anyone help?

Take it slow, change the way you eat for life. Don't do a diet. I can't stick to respective diets for more than a month and they make me miserable

I'm 5ft7 and down to 12st 11, from 13st 10
I'm focusing on eating more fibre and protein to keep me fuller and to cut out the food noise! I hate being hungry and I hate feeling deprived. I have albran and a latte with protein powder in for breakfast. I have a couple of dates and a handful of nuts for lunch. Will have an apple or banana with a spoon of peanut butter if I'm peckish mid afternoon. Tea is homecooked normal food - pasta bake, curry, spag bol etc. But I've halved the portion of the carbs I used to have and hugely increased the amount of vegetables on my plate. I'll have a couple of chocolates on an evening or a chocolate moose sometimes. I used to drink alcohol most days, now probably have a drink every couple of weeks.

I need inspiration too! Im same weight but a little smaller (so therfore a bit fatter). All i ever want to do is eat.

The weight loss chat thread on MN is very supportive with lots of different threads for different sizes and goals.

Thanks @Socktree, I think my problem is I’m a lazy grazer and having teens and always being needed to drive about makes me so tired and I can’t be bothered making a big meal.

I wish the food noise was silenced completely then I wouldn’t have the urge to snack.

I absolutely hear you, I'm in those trenches too! My lunch is basically a snack because I have no time or desire to make anything proper. But it's healthy now. I used to have a couple of slices of toast, a packet of crisps and a kitkat. The only way we eat decent meals on an evening is because we batch 3 or 4 meals worth of food when we do cook and freeze portions of stuff to bliz in the microwave. There's always bolognase/curry or something in and we just need to cook the pasta or rice and the veg

I started the keto diet and i have gone from 80kg to 62kg in three months without ever feeling hungry (energy levels are amazing and food super filling and satisfying). Mood and contentration and motivation all improved! I can't recommend it enough. No diet had ever worked for me like this one!

Yesterday

Breakfast: 3 scrambled eggs no butter no oil (just non stick pan). One buckwheat cracker

Lunch: pork steak, 1/2 slice of bread

Dinner: beef burger patty no bun. Boiled green beans. 3 dumplings

Snacks: one orange.

I'm not sure how many calories that is. It probably looks like a lot of food to some

mine is a bit different as I have gallstones so have to worry about the fat.

Breakfast
egg white veggie omelette , banana and two wheetabix ( gluten free ones ). I use water on the wheetabix as it cuts down on the calories and tastes exactly the same.

lunch
potato and some chicken
banana strawberries and blue berries
banana popcorn ( it’s from the kids section as is it low fat. But the bag is large and it’s only 39 calories a bag and it fills u up.

dinner
turkey mince with pasta
roasted veggies and chicken
scrambled egg on toast ( I only have the egg whites so that keeps the calories down and it doesn’t taste any different.

Eating this I lost three stone in weight and was never hungry. Fill up on veggies and fruit. It really does help.

I add in gluten free thins / buckwheat thins / quinoa thins. All taste fine and low in calories.

for a treat I have iced gems. Low in fat and not many calories. If u hunt around there are lots of things that are low calories nice to eat

as I say I have to worry about the fat content of my food so it is fairly plain. But I actually found eating the same thing really helpful. Took out the guess work of calories. Easy to prepare for. One of the best things I got was a steamer for vegetables and potatoes. Chuck them in and walk away. Don’t need to worry about them

Basically once you tip over into a metabolic cycle of obesity, it changes your hormone balance and it's a compounding problem. Adipose tissue itself is hormonally active -- it's producing a bunch of hormones like leptin. Too much leptin overwhelms your endocrine system (a bit like too much insulin) and you become "fat-deaf". This means you feel hungrier and hungrier while you get fatter and fatter.

It's really really hard to break out of this cycle once it starts. Keto can help, as up thread, though a lot of people find it hard to maintain. Obviously Mounjaro and Wegovy help, because they counter the hormone imbalance. But mainly don't beat yourself up for finding it hard. It's actually really hard. Your body thinks it is starving because it can't detect its own fuel reserves accurately. That's the "food noise" you mention. It's your brain going, oh, we've not got any stores, go and find some calories! You get temporarily satiated through a different hormone produced briefly on eating, which your brain can still detect, then you go back to feeling hungry again because the signal from your reserves has whited out.

@wineosaurusrex I did keto about 6 years ago, lost weight but believe me it really started to suck the fun out of me. I found social settings became difficult and I just got bored with it. I do agree it works but for me it wasn’t sustainable