Shit diet or ok?

[EddieStobbart]

Breakfast - Big bowl of porridge made with jumbo and normal oat flakes plus pinhead oatmeal and flaxseed with Brazil nut mix and a few raisins. A cup of milk.

Lunch - Brie and aubergine quiche and salad. Didn't eat the pastry. Two cappuccinos.

Snacks - Half small bar of 85% sugar chocolate (about 15g). Two oatcakes and cheese

Tea - Vegetable curry plus salad.
Greek yoghurt and chopped fruit plus more flaxseed mix

2 glasses wine

Too much fat or ok?

What about roasted salted peanuts? I can't see there is a huge problem with them if the rest of your diet doesn't have loads of salt but am I kidding myself?

I've been on every fad diet going ever and have cane to the conclusion that it's the dieting that makes me fat .

Honestly, what you described sounds very healthy. I generally don't recommend obsessing and counting/weighing as I think it's quite a destructive habit but if you don't generally have issues around food maybe register with my fitness pal. It'll tell you how much fat/carbs/cals/sugar etc you've ate in a day so you can be reassured you're doing ok.

The problem with peanuts (aside from the salt) is that they're the most addictive food on the planet. Try having a handful of nuts and walking away, go on I dares you

absolutely shit try again

If people cut down portion sizes, stopped snacking so much and did more exercise, I think most people could eat whatever they want in moderation and still stay healthy.

^^ this.

Your day sounds perfectly normal to me OP. I think people worry FAR too much about food and how much we are told what we 'should' or 'shouldn't' be eating. Grinds my gears a bit.

I had a bit of an "incident" with a huge packet of peanuts yesterday. I think that was a bit of a step too far.
Doesn't seem to have stopped them falling into my basket during my trip to Lidl however

Sounds delicious and nutritious op

I often have peanut butter incidents. I don't eat bread so the only way to eat it is out of the jar with a spoon. Never ends well!

yes but low carbs op. think about that

This is pretty much how I'm eating at the moment, lots of yog and oats, not so much bread/wheat, not really cutting anything out just nice yummy but healthy food.

I haven't lost a huge amount of weight, but my stomach is less bloated, more than that, I actually like the food unlike other times I've modified what I eat.

I don't think that's too bad at all, you don't say what you were eating before or what your objectives are, is it just weight-loss or that plus improved health? Check out the sugar content in the wine

I've gone for the long-term hopefully healthy approach and want to avoid Type 2 diabetes, high BP etc. and all associated drugs. I've read a lot about sugar spikes, the Fat Switch, Wheatbelly and Dr John Briffa's blog so the aim is to get rid of the belly fat, it is the first place I put any on and the last place for it to leave. I did the 5:2 diet and reduced my carb intake for a year and got to a reasonable weight, then life as it does, got in the way and I started not fasting and more snacking on chocolate so hey ho, back to the drawing board. I'm vegetarian and currently in my first month of a low carb low sugar regime. Having 5:2'd for so long and rarely feeling hungry throughout the day, currently I eat two meals daily. One is blueberries, peaches or other fresh fruit or berries, pecans, flaked almonds, walnuts, 3 to 4 teaspoons of coconut oil, half a tub of Total full fat Greek yogurt.

The other meal varies:-
*Homemade vegetable soup with small chunks of cheese instead of croutons or homemade chestnut flour and ground almond 'scones'.
*2-egg Spinach omelette, loads of fresh or steamed green veg with cheese or mayo if hungry
*Veg salad with selection from black olives, mayo, cheese, 2 boiled eggs, pistachios, cashews, steamed veg, garlic mushrooms.
Snacks - a few mints, 85% chocolate bar Moser Roth 150cals although I find it hard to have only one so I've had no choc at all for 4 days, this is a record! I intend to make homemade choc substitute with Green+Black's cocoa powder, coconut oil, ground almonds and stevia. Homemade 'biscuit' or 'scone' either sweet with stevia or savoury with herbs using chestnut flour, ground almonds, baking powder and an egg to bind.
Drinks - Green tea, Tulsi tea, Mint tea, Ginger tea, occasional fruit or berry tea. Filtered tap water.

Hope it's given you some ideas

Honestly, it's not the fat you need to worry about but the sugar. No point eating a fuckload of sugar if your insulin is just going to turn it into fat anyway, is there? That's how I look at it, I honestly don't understand how anyone who doesn't have even a basic understanding of how digestion works could think they could eat loads of low fat sugary stuff and it wouldn't get converted to fat if it was in excess of their calorie needs.

It looks quite light on protein - not sure if you had some pulses in your curry though...

Sounds very much like the Patrick holford low GL plan. Raisins are high in sugar could you substitute blueberries maybe. Also flaxseed can have a laxative effect. I changed from Greek yogurt to live natural yougurt and digestion issues I was having have almost gone. Stay away from the go ahead, too much sugar.

Didn't have the curry in the end. Bit of a body swerve there. Fried chicken breast with a peanut butter, chilli, mustard and vinegar dressing (was fried in this) and salad. Hit the peanut packet a bit heavily beforehand as well which was a bit unnecessary.

The veg curry was the plan but realised had ten thousand carrots and not that much of anything else solid

Just keep an eye on your salt intake

Who eats a curry with salad?! That's just wrong!

Need to have a palmful of protein at every meal. Less wine and avoid processed foods.

Good that its low on gluten and sugar.

I'd change the raisins for berries (fresh or frozen)

Not sure what the processed foods were? The oatcakes? I think the quiche is made by the cafe.