Anyone here paid to go and see a dietician ? Did it help what did they tell you ? I’m thinking of trying mounjaro

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And I think perhaps I should try harder with my diet
I did try for a couple of weeks after Xmas
made no weight loss

inhave a good stone to lose maybe bit more

then had a couple of very stressful weeks and fell off the wagon

so now I’m ready to restart

I’ve lost weigh before with slimming world and gym
but slimming world polluted my mind with all sorts of disordered thinking around food

and I want to ideally
think about eatting for nutrition rather than cardboard and whatever just because it’s low calories or syns or whatever

a typical day I might have no breakfast
not hungry

i dont tend to eat till lunchtime
then its maybe sarnie, Crisps drink and maybe say a club biscuit or choc mouse

dinners tend to be family type meals
sausage and mash n beans
burgers n chips pea
roasts
omlettes
beef stew
shepards pie

I don’t tend to snack between meals
I tend to drink one or two cans of sugary drink(which I know is an easy fix)
don’t drink enough water or squash

don’t drink alcohol tea or coffee
no drugs no medication
no smoking
active

5ft 4 11.8 stone

I do like home made soup so I’m gonna be in that next week
batch cooking for freezer

Good for you... Your obviously overweight or you wouldn't even be bringing the subject up??? . Do no questions needed here???...!!!.

Sorry OP but your diet looks pretty awful! Where's the veg?

There are some really easy fixes here. Ditch the mousse, crisps and choc bar at lunch, no sugary drinks (diet ones if you need to transition but ideally just water), and just two thirds of what you'd usually have for dinner. Will make a big difference.

Sorry what ?

Ditch the pop, crisps, club/mousse, have a salad with/for lunch.
Have a lot more veg, and eat it first.

Just work out the calories in that lot and how many you should be eating to lose weight and adjust what you are putting in?

Yes one good thing is, my diet is pretty dismal so there are quick fixes

I suppose that’s one good way of looking at it

I do crave a sweet hit after eatting but I’m thinking perhaps one cube of dark choc day Lindt mint maybe help me transition

today had Nando’s at lunch
tired to keep it plain with chicken
and rainbow slaw

so tonight I just had granola
weighed out 50 g
and it barely covers the bottom of the bowl
so I think I’m eatting way to big portions
Without weighing
maybe even upto 4 times that much

Oh sorry yes I do eat veg everyday day
I just didn’t list it above so
stew is packed with them and say I have shepards pie I’ll also have loads of veg with it

luckily I do like and fruit

Yes I need to eat slower too
and drink more water

Weird thing is when tot up the calories it’s often not that bad say 1500 a day
but I don’t lose weight

wprse diet I ever did was 800 calorie a day
I was so moody and awful on that I felt ill

I was thinking should I book an appointment with dietician or maybe get a book or just chat to people on here that know about this stuff

Granola is really high is sugar, so you won't get much for the calories. If you want cereal, Weetabix or even shreddies are a better bet. But an actual bowlful of shreddies is still 500kcal - compared to what they count as a portion.

What about a sucky sweet when you've eaten? A fruit or caramel for instance that lasts a bit longer but as it's just one it's not much?

I saw a dietician and was really disappointed. Mine used to work for the NHS and it was the bog standard outdated ‘here’s what a balanced plate looks like’. No interest really in building something specific to my specific health needs, no consideration of my lifestyle and no exploration of habits and behaviours. I could have read an NHS pamphlet and saved myself several hundred pounds.

By contrast, Mounjaro has worked and I’m three stone down.

so tonight I just had granola
weighed out 50 g
and it barely covers the bottom of the bowl
so I think I’m eatting way to big portions
Without weighing
maybe even upto 4 times that much

Your mind is not registering granola as a meal. You're probably eating 1000 cals + milk.

It is quite eye-opening weighing food and realising what a ‘portion’ is!

There’s a little rhyme thing about food I can’t quite remember but it’s essentially focusing on food that recognisably has come from nature one way or another: vegetables, meat, fish, fruit, nuts, seeds, grains, cheese. It’s actually quite hard to overeat significantly when you eat food that’s genuinely nourishing and satisfying. Days where I feel like I’ve eaten too much and feel gross are days where I’ve eaten a lot of ultra-processed packet stuff generally. Not stuff that has been cooked from scratch.

Focus on protein: yoghurt, cheese, chicken; healthy fats: nuts are a food source of this; vegetables and fruit, grains. Ditch stuff that comes in a packet and has ingredients you don’t recognise in the list. Anything packed with sweeteners and flavourings is designed to make you eat an excess of it, so steer clear. Stick to as little ultra-processed food as you can manage: marinated chicken and vegetables, grilled fish, fruit, yoghurt and peanut butter, cheese, nuts. Loads of recipe books out there with quick and easy meals from scratch.

People love to slag off calorie counting but its th way you know for sure if you are in a deficit, the same thing counts on WLI, you still need to eat in deficit although obviously they support you to do that easier, but you really need to know how to do it properly and how to be dligent and you have to weigh everything out.

There are obvious changes to be made to your diet that you can get advice on, from here (although there'll be a load of shit to wade through) or use AI and put in your requirements what you want to achive, what you like and dont like

Dont go paying good money for a dietician when late ryou might want to use that money for the injections

Portion sizes listed on packets are usually tiny.

This is magical thinking

I can absolutely overeat nuts, cheese, meats fish, some veg although it doesnt have a significant calorie impact

Im craving nuts right now

I cook everything from scratch and have mostly all my life, I got massive on my own food, its irresistible.

Natural food is absolutely more satisfying and takes longer to eat, but if you need to be in a deficit you still need to measure everything its not enough to just eat natural foods and hope for the best

Absolutely right about sweetners, the work of the devil.

(I would also say I see NHS dieticians every two months for a health condition and there's not much that they say that's groundbreaking)

Absolutely this OP, dont waste your money

I guess it depends on the person! Since I lost my weight I find it very hard to overeat when I’m eating ‘right’ but when I have a couple of days eating ‘conveniently’ I really start to notice it and how much more food I am consuming to reach the same level of satiety.

The issue for me is that eating all that stuff on the list inevitably came with carbs on the side of it in large portions, so the meat is fine, the cheese is fine, the giant portion of spaghetti sitting under it is not. So I’ve had to adjust so that when I have say spaghetti bolognese, the meat to pasta ratio is now much higher.

All good stuff although I dont eat pasta bread or potatoes. I do eat some rice now and then with other grains from time to time

I do occasionally make my own bread and have a bit of that but I cant eat much of it.

Unfortunately I have a fat tooth and very much could chomp away at nuts all night

I haven’t personally been to one but what I would say is to make sure you’re actually counting everything because I am just a little shorter than you and my maintenance calories are just over 1500 a day and I am 8st 9 and sedentary. The fact that you are active and 11st 8 and only eating 1500 calories a day would suggest that you should maybe even be losing weight on those calories (don’t know how active you are). Maybe don’t even start trying to shift the weight just yet, instead try to track everything for the next week or so to get an idea of how many calories you’re actually taking in. Echoing what a pp said about the granola. It might not keep you full for very long and it’s very easy to over-pour portions leading to more calories, the calories on the back of the packet are only for one serving. If you have twice that amount it will be twice the calories. Then you have to track the milk going into it.

I would guess either your portions are quite big or you’re taking in extra calories here and there where you don’t realise it. Do you pick at anything when you’re cooking? Do you find yourself picking at the kids food that they haven’t finished? Are you counting sugar in your tea/coffee, sauces on dinners or salads etc. All that can easily put you into a surplus. That’s why it’s good to get into the habit of tracking, then use a TDEE calculator to find out your maintenance calories, ie how many cals a day it would take to maintain your weight depending on your weight, height and activity level.

I know it’s hard but if you also have to try and have a protein source with each meal it can help to keep you fuller for a bit longer. Sometimes I also have choc and crisps as part of breakfast or lunch and it would be so much better for satiety to have had something a bit more robust to keep me from being hungry later on, hence why you might be overeating at dinner time.

Yes its too much processed food, I don't even partially enjoy sarnie and crisps for lunch butnits just a deeply ingrained habit from childhood so my whole life

So much of it is habit