To ask what you would eat if you were trying to lose weight?

[Bibs2014]

Breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks.

Interested to see!

I have lost 33lbs since Christmas - I am obese though - I use myfitnesspal and calorie count. I haven't cut out one single food group. This needs to be a long term thing for me and therefore it needs to have a long term solution. To me, cutting out a food group means I will fail.

Ideas for meals:
Breakfast: Porridge with berries or egg on toast
Lunch: I am limited at to what is available at work so beans on toast, home made soup with a nice roll, left overs like potatoes and veg, salads with chicken or tuna. And a bag of skips
Dinners: Slow cooker curries or stews with lots of veg and potato added so no rice needed, quorn chilli, home made pasta sauce, minestrone soup, rice with veg and something like a kiev or fishcake
Snacks: Yogurt, fruit

The important thing though is I do an hour minimum of exercise everyday.

I'm losing weight at the moment. I'm following slimming world but also avoiding carbs and sugar as much as I can.

B- mango, fat free Greek yogurt and walnuts
L-homemade chicken and veg soup
D-homemade chicken, chorizo and cannellini bean casserole with green veg
I've just had some melon as a snack.
3 litres of water.

Breakfast - Eggs / Bacon / Fish

Lunch - Homemade soup / Chicken salad / Leftovers

Tea - Fajitas (no tortillas) / Spag Bol (no spag) / Chicken dinner (no potatoes)

Yep, low carbing!

I had 2 stone baby weight to lose, I started 2nd of Jan and it's gone now YAY!
What worked for me

Not cutting out any food, I still had carbs, chocolate, wine. Just a smaller portion of pasta, few squares or 1 bar choclate, 1 glass of wine etc

I always start the day with either porridge or peanut butter on wholemeal toast with a banana

I am back at work after maternity leave now and Take Soup for the microwave or a chicken wrap and chopped fruit for lunch

In my bag I have mini packs of nuts for snacking on the train

Dinners, I didn't change at all I shill have Spag Bol, pizza (1/2 with salad) etc

I need something sweet after dinner so I have full fat Greek yogurt with apple to dip in it or once a week a small slice of cake

thecontentedcat fry a chopped up onion, a heaped teaspoon of curry powder, then add to a tin of beans and a tin of tomatoes, add half a stock cube and cook for a few minutes.
Got the idea from the netmums site but I had to miss out a couple of things like coriander leaves.Was surprisingly nice though.

Weekday breakfast: fresh fruit & low fat yogurt
Weekend breakfast: 2 boiled or poached eggs, two slices of wholemeal bread

Weekday lunch: 150gr cous cous or pouch rice with diced radish, sweet peppers, onions and a pinch of cheese, slice of meat and baby tomatoes.
Weekend lunch: don't bother as I'm at the gym or out walking

Weekday dinner: Stirfry: 1/2 steak, noodles, pepper, courgette, onion, or what ever else in going buckshee in the fridge!

Snacks, at work, a banana if I feel that hungry.

Evening 2 x ryvita with low fat spread and a pinch of cheese.

Dropped from 12 cups of coffee and full fat milk to 2-3 cups a day with semi skimmed milk, far too much diet coke and water.

I eat the same thing every day. The fruit varies though.

Weekdays: I make sure I do a minimum of 4,000 steps at least over the course of the day - I go to the gym for at least an hour, I do 20 mins fast walking at 6.8km per hour, and 1200 various equipment reps.
Weekends: as above but include different equipment as it is quieter. I also road walk for 2 hours

I've lost 2 stone in 9 weeks.

Today I had
Breakfast: Porridge
Lunch: Home made carrot and lentil soup and an avocado
Dinner: Beef stew with one spoon of mashed potato and a large helping of broccoli
Snack: 2 satsumas

I also did 45 minutes intensive work out on the cross trainer (675 calories) and some resistance weights at the gym.

I don't believe in cutting out any food groups completely but am cutting down on fats, sugar and carbs.

I don't believe in cutting out any food groups completely

Smaller portions.
No snacking.
No alcohol.
No creamy sauces

I eat about 8 portions of veg a day, 2 portions of fruit. Lean protein, Greek yoghurt, whole grains, good fats.

B: egg white omelette or chicken sausage with spinach and mushrooms
L: poached chicken breast, cauliflower, broccoli, wholegrain rice cake with 1 tbsp peanut butter, apple/pear
D: similar to lunch
Bedtime : casein shake, 1 slice wholemeal toast, peanut butter

At the weekend I relax a bit and I might have crepes for breakfast or a few biscuits after dinner

I eat this to maintain weight and I have always been lean

I'd cut down on sugar. I had gestational diabetes and lost weight on that diet.

Breakfast - eggs/avocado/marmite on seeded toast, fruit and yoghurt

Lunch - salad with meat, fish or cheese, or cheese/salami/ham on oatcakes

Dinner - meat or fish with veg. Fruit and yoghurt.

Snacks - nuts, babybel

I would have the following:

Breakfast - porridge

Mid morning snack- handful of nuts

Lunch - salad with chicken/tuna and some fruit

Mid afternoon snack - small portion of
hummus with carrots or a banana

Dinner - fish or chicken with steamed veg (no potatoes) and a yoghurt for dessert.

Drinks - water only

I'm on a diet (calorie controlled), I've lost 9lb since beginning of Feb (still a long way to go).

Breakfast is either bacon medallions and avocado in an English muffin (just before gym) or porridge and a banana on non gym days.

Lunch is usually 4 crackerbreads and Philadelphia light with slices of cucumber and rocket and tomato and an alpen light bar and sometimes a piece of fruit.

Tea just whatever as long as it fits in with calories. I also have a snack morning and afternoon (yogurt bar biscuits and a coffee - skimmed milk no sugar).

I have a calorie allowance of 1650 per day ( 5'5.5" and calories worked out using gym boditrax machine which measures muscle, water, fat etc). My weight loss is happening slowly but I suspect it will be more sustainable in the long run and I am trying to build lean muscle.

I'm doing calorie controlled just now and this is what I have:
Breakfast: cereal bar (67 cals)
Break: 2 satsumas and a biscuit(99 cals)
Lunch: cup a soup (under 100 cals) a packet of crisps (140 cals) and a yogurt (50 cals).
Tea: curry/fajitas/chilli etc

Would you not be better with less processed food though?

When I need to lose a bit of weight quickly for a night out or whatever I have porridge for brekfast, soup for lunch and an M&S fuller for longer or count on us meal, no snacks. I can usually lose 5/6lb in a week doing this.

I'm on approx 1050 cals a day at the moment.

Porridge with berries and omega seeds and soya milk about 270 cals - keeps me going till lunch.

Salad with a stacker pot of reduced fat houmous about 190 cals

Spinach and stream fresh veg with fried tofu (in garlic oil) 440 cals

Snacks of around 80 cals as and when. Usually a bit of chocolate here and there!

I've lost 4 stone since October - first 2 stone were on blood sugar diet at 800 cals but to be honest I've seen no change in how much I lost by upping it to 1050!

Also a good idea to make sure you eat t a reasonable time in the evening, try not to eat anything after about 7 . Don't forget to cut down the wine, ditch any fizzy drinks and keep juice down to a small fruit juice in the morning if you have to, though a hot water with lemon juice is better for you.

More veg. More porridge.
Less stuff with added sugar (cereals, fizzy drinks, alcohol sigh )
Drink more water, especially if you feel peckish.
Cut down on pretty much everything except the above.
And just ... less!

I would make a long-term change to my diet, rather than cutting things out short-term.

Anything that reduces calories and is sustainable would work.

Eat what you normally eat only less of it and move more.

Go as natural/unprocessed as possible. Bulk out with veg. Swap carbs out for veg - boodles for pasta etc. Lower carbs where not possible, buy an unsliced loaf and slice thinly or do half/open sandwiches.

Thank you noeffing, I will give that a try!

less processed foods.

Come and join us on the 10 fruit and veg a day. We aren't weight loss focused but my diet has changed dramatically since I've been prioritising on eating 10 portions F&V a day.

I only read on for the baked beans curry. Thanks @noeffingidea I have to try it!

Today I've had

Breakfast: two slices of multigrain toast with butter and marmite
Mid morning: Skinny latte
Lunch: homemade coronation chicken sandwich with lettuce and red pepper, a kiwi fruit, cup of tea
Mid afternoon: Salted popcorn
Tea: pasta with mushroom, courgette, Parma ham, parmesan and creme fraiche, fruit salad made by DD at school with a tablespoon of double cream

I lost 3 stone just eating smaller portions and fewer snacks, doing my 10k steps every day and running. I eat all my exercise calories back, so running = wine, a pudding, treats.

Download MyFitnessPal, plug in your numbers and start at a goal of losing a pound a week. It honestly does not matter much what you actually eat, as long as you eat fewer calories than you burn. Be honest, weigh and log absolutely everything.

No low fat anything. No sugar free anything. Wholefoods only. Nothing really out of packets.

When I needed to lose baby weight, I made a batch of oat biscuits every morning (takes about three minutes in food processor) to snack on. Otherwise ate homemade veg soup, a little chicken and cheese, lots of fish, lots of vegetables and fruit.

But focusing on whole, natural foods was way easier for me. They taste better as well!