To think this is more than enough calories in a day

[user1486841477]

My parents are concerned that I do not eat enough. I do seem to be losing around 2 lbs a week but I'm not sure why. I am sure I eat 2000 calories a day.

I have:

Bircher muesli (0% fat natural yogurt, strawberries, 1 cup of whole meal oats, ground almonds, 1 tablespoon peanut and cashew butter)

Lunch: chicken breast sandwich with Philadelphia cream cheese, tomato and lettuce side salad,
potato salad, beetroot, homemade flapjack Made with oats, butter, agave syrup, apricots, raisins and cinnamon.

Snack: fat free natural yogurt, beef slices.

Dinner: wholemeal pasta, extra lean beef burgers (homemade), homemade tomato sauce using herbs and tin of tomatoes.

Dessert: fruit salad and 2 nutri grain cereal bars.

Drinks: tea, coffee, water, 2 skinny lattes. No sugar in my drinks.

To me that seems like a lot of food and I have quite big portions. How can I be losing weight on that?

I walk around 5 miles a day at a brisk pace for exercise.



AIBU to think my parents are being unreasonable to think I need more calories and my weight loss is probably nothing to worry about?

If I lose more I will go to the doctors but in terms of my diet, I think it's absolutely fine.

[omnishamblesssssssssssssss]

5 miles is about 10000 steps. Which is perfect fitness wise

[omnishamblesssssssssssssss]

Ive always assumed it's about 100 calories a mile but could be wrong

[donkir]

You say you're visiting a very sick friend. Stress can make you lose weight. I went from a 12 to a 6 within a year when I split with my child's father. Nothing in my diet or exercise had changed.

[Judydreamsofhorses]

I am exactly the same weight/height, and Monday to Friday do 15,000 steps per day. An example of a typical day's food for me would be:

Breakfast - slice of wholemeal toast with peanut butter
Lunch - M&S salad, single Milky Way, packet of Hula Hoops
Dinner - chilli and rice, guacamole, salsa, soured cream
Snack - cereal bar in the morning
Drinks - tea in the morning and evening, 2 x cups of coffee at work, can of Diet Coke at lunch, tea in the evening, glass of wine with dinner (hot drinks with skimmed milk)

I tend to have more treaty weekends, but i am surprised you are losing 2lb a week based on what you're eating. (But am not a nutritionist.)

[PerspicaciaTick]

Unexplained weight loss needs to be investigated. I'd be booking a GP appointment and asking her to check out how you have lost 10% of your body weight without trying or intending to.

[specialsubject]

Bit of junk there (cereal bars, sugary yogurt) but as someone has just said - unexplained weight loss = see doctor.

[user1486841477]

There's no sugar in my yogurt. It's just plain natural yogurt.

[PerspicaciaTick]

I'm not sure that the plainness of your yoghurt is the major point of concern.

[EpoxyResin]

special there is not one piece of "junk" in user's menu! Junk being something which provides calories with no nutritional benefit, if you're losing weight when you don't want to be everything you eat has a nutritional benefit. It's a very different mindset weight loss. Quite apart from the fact the yogurt is likely plain and a Nutri Grain is a million miles from a Mars Bar.

[Trainspotting1984]

I think I would carry on! Why don't you want to lose weight!

[Trainspotting1984]

That end one was supposed to be an question mark

[EpoxyResin]

*mindset FROM weight loss

How did I know your yogurt would be plain.

[Trainspotting1984]

I don't think it's unexplained- extra exercise and stress.

[EpoxyResin]

Extra exercise that results in unwanted weight loss is the same thing as not enough food.

[WonkoTheSane42]

If you're losing 2lbs a week then you're consuming 7000 calories less than you burn. Work out your basic metabolic rate (just google it) and log your food intake for a week with MyFitnessPal or similar to confirm. If you don't appear to be eating too little, consult a doctor.

[user1477282676]

I'm 5.6 and weigh 11 and a half stone which I carry well...though I'd like to be 11! ....if I were ten stones and losing still, I suspect people would worry about me as I have a flat chest and small frame I quickly look too thin. How old are you OP if you don't mind?

[user1486841477]

I'm 27. :-)

[TheEdgeofSeventeen]

Increase with protein not fat, that way your weight will increase through muscle x

[reallyanotherone]

How long have you been losing for while eating like that? How big is the total loss?

You're eating far more than me and losing more...and I'm actively trying to lose weight.

Might be worth a pop in to the doctor if it's been going on a while. Hard to hive certainties without portion sizes though. Try logging your food in My Fitness Pal for a few days to get an accurate read on calories in and out to check your perception is right.

This. I (3.5mph so not slow) walk 8 miles/day mon-fri, i usually eat 200 cals for breakfast (toast, cereal, eggs etc), 400 for lunch (sandwich of some sort), and 500 for tea, plus a couple of snacks (apples, popcorn). Bit more on weekends.

I am two stone overweight and maintaining on that.

[AyeAmarok]

If you want to lose some more weight then stick with what you're doing.

If you don't, eat a bit more to fuel the extra activity you've recently started.

It's not that big a mystery, is it?

[LooksBetterWithAFilter]

It doesn't need to be heavy exercise to lose weight and you aren't I clouding any other walking you do including cleaning your house or helping your friend.
In the warmer months weight pours off me because I usually walk the dc to school so for return trips it worked out about 6 miles a day. I use a fitness tracker and when you add in the walking g around the house, shopping, cleaning etc. I actually cover a fair distance in a day and am a hundred times fitter than I am in the winter terms when I drive more generally.
You are losing weight, you are walking miles a day and your diet is pretty healthy and low in fat so yes if you up the fat as long as you're not stuffing half a dozen cakes down every day then you are unlikely to start gaining weight.

[BarbaraofSeville]

You could be burning a lot more calories than you think. I'm 5'7 and about 11 stone 7 and my fitness tracker claims I burn 2000 to 2500 calories a day on my inactive days where I am walking only around 5000 steps. This goes up to around 3000 on days where I do about 12-14000 steps when I go for a proper walk.

[jujubeanz]

. I'm 5'7 and about 11 stone 7 and my fitness tracker claims I burn 2000 to 2500 calories a day on my inactive days where I am walking only around 5000 steps

Whaaaat? That's not right is it?!

[Araminta99]

I don't see what's the problem? I'm taller than you and weigh quite a bit less and I don't look too thin, just very healthy and fit. Being overweight is normalised these days, don't let it bother you -- you have a way to go before becoming underweight for your height.

[Araminta99]

Barbara you must mean 200-250. The average person burns 1 calorie per 20 steps.