Is this enough food?

[Babysafari]

This is what me and dh had for dinner. A whole baked potato each with butter, grated cheese, 1/2 a tin of beans each and 1/2 a tub of coleslaw plus 1/2 a bag of scampi each.

Dh is still starving but is very overweight and wants to cut back. He'd usually have a whole bag of scampi to himself.

Before anyone tells me off I know it's not the healthiest meal but it has to be something quick and easy on Mondays and it was what I fancied.

In my defence I'd eat just a baked potato with some cheese and beans. Or I'd just have some cottage cheese and coleslaw.

I buy the extras because I know dh will still be hungry

I'm not overweight but I grew up eating quite small portions. Dhs family imo eat giant amounts.

Apples are good for knocking the edge off your appetite too.

that's a lot but I know I'd be able to eat it at least but I'm easily 3st overweight.

I'd personally not have had the coleslaw alongside the cheese and beans.

No one's blaming you babysafari, he's a grown up and chooses what to.put into his mouth. If he usually eats massive meals his stomach will be stretched so that a normal (to us) portion feels like slim pickings to him. It will take time but his stomach can shrink down on smaller portions so he's not feeling in need of eating so much bulk.

Meals need to be protein heavy to keep you full for a long time, there's hardly any protein in that meal, if you eat a lot of carbs you need to be exercising like a demon to burn them off, if not, you need to cut right back.

Woah coslaw? And beans?! Together?!

Madness.

Sounds like plenty to me op anyway.

I could easily eat that, but I wouldn't have the coleslaw unless it was homemade and very lightly dressed.

I am a pig though.

That's basically two meals each!

Baked potato with cheese and brans, then scampi and coleslaw (I'd add a salad and that's a dinner).

At a conservative guess that's 1100 calories.

Meh.
We would eat that if we wanted an easy, filling meal.

We prefer a decent sized evening meal. I dont consider 750kcal as excessive either.

Half a tub of coleslaw is a lot imo, you only need a tablespoon.

You would have been better ditching the coleslaw and had a full tin of beans if it wasn't enough. grate a raw carrot on instead.

Beans and coleslaw is delicious. I wouldn't have the butter, cheese or scampi though.

Just putting rough amounts in myfitnesspal I make that around 750 calories, heck of a lot for one meal

That's kinda the problem with looking at something in isolation though. I'm on 1200 plus exercise calories a day. I have the odd 700- 900 meal in my food diary. Still losing weight

But if it is indicative of everymeal, which we're all assuming it is, it's a massive problem.

I hate carrots. Courgette, baby tomatoes, leeks and spinach have been my diet saving graces. Nice thing about my fitness pal is that it isn't a prescriptive diet, you can tweak your food in a way you like until it all works for you.

It's significantly over 750 cals

This is the tally for a 200gr potato, 10gm butter, 30gm cheese.

Oh I know it wasn't a healthy meal I'm not even trying to pretend it is. We do eat other things and vegetables and salad other days but I think dh eats too much of a big portion.

We've both done my fitness pal in the past. I lost a stone but dh didn't lose any. I don't think he stuck to it.

I'm not fat, I'm 5"6 and 10 stone. I could probably lose 1/2 a stone but I'm not massive.

What else has your DH had to eat today babysafari? Maybe he is not eating enough during the day and is super starving by evening?

If it is 750 calories, that's not particularly large for an evening meal. I was expecting it to be more though.

It sounds like quite a lot of food but equally I can see why he's still hungry. As others have sad, it's not that much protein. A bit of butter and cheese, and there's not much to scampi. Tasty bite but not a lot of substance. He'd probably do better on a steak and a massive salad! Would be just as quick and easy as what you had too.

I'm not overweight but I grew up eating quite small portions. Dhs family imo eat giant amounts.

I prefer ginormous plates full of food (larger often than when i started dieting) However generally these days they are mostly veg and protein. Takes determination to switch what you eat.

And serve off smaller plates can help

That sounds a lot. We would have had half a large jacket each with big green salad, heaped tablespoon of coleslaw, same of beans and a sprinkle of cheese. Tbh we would have been more likely to have a jacket and green salad with no other sides.

That's the bugger with losing weight. Something like my fitness pal is just the tool that helps it happen.

You've got to really want it.

Baked potato beans and scampi. Or potato cheese and beans. Or potato cheese and coleslaw. Not all together! Beans and coleslaw??!

It sounds like a lot but it's the type of meal that my husband would eat and then be hungry again an hour later. He only really gets and stays full when he has meat or fish with a lot of vegetables.

I'm biiig and I'd eat a jacket potato with half a small tin of beans a sprinkle of cheese and 2 tablespoons of coleslaw and then be absolutely stuffed. If he's serious about losing weight he needs to start logging everything in myfitnesspal it really helps and makes you far more aware of what you're eating.

He said he had a bacon and sausage baguette on the road plus weetabix for breakfast.

I've realised he's a bit of a secret eater and has a lot of crisps and things at work.

It is hard for dh he works long hours and is out on site all day. Tomorrow he's leaving at 5am and likely won't get back until 6pm.

I keep thinking I'll make him some lunch for work but I never feel like it once we've got the dc to bed.

I'll try to add some more protein to our meals and cut back on the carbs.

sounds nice

And a lovely amount

A bit generous maybe

but nothing to get your knickers in a twist about.

MN LOVES outdoing eachother in small appetites and petiteness (watch the thread about the size 8 person being called fat). Just wait for everyone saying they could feed their entire family on that. For a week

Maybe have some fruit for a snack if still hungry? But start with water/cuppa, it may just be thirst.

I agree with toffeelatte it's the mindset that has to change. Have you talked to him about if he wants to lose weight? If genuinely yes (and not to appease you) why? Then what worries him about losing weight?

'I don't wanna be eating rabbit food' - there's tons of healthy food that's not salad, also it's easy to tweak already favourite meals

'I don't wanna be hungry' - you can still eat large portions, but large portions of veg and healthy protein and that will make you feel full anyway.

'Real men eat properly' - real men are strong, healthy and aim to stay alive and (sexually major selling point) active as long as possible. Look at body builders their diets are mainly protein and carbs, not fat and grease!

Would that help?