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

[Bibs2014]

Breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks.

Interested to see!

I will not be swapping boodles for pasta!

I am actively trying to lose weight. I have about 9lbs to lose, having lost 32lbs in 2015 and maintained ever since.
Today I have had:
2 coffees with sweetener
2 herbal teas
A graze box at 134kcals
4 ryvita with a medium avocado and 100g prawns
A Hairy Bikers Dieters recipe for tea called Pan Haggerty Light (bacon, onion, carrot, chicken stock, topped with thinly sliced potatoes and half fat cheddar, served with petit pois)
15g graze apple crisps

I'm calorie counting and have 136 calories to spare today. I do have half a Crunchie in the fridge which I was going to have this evening, but I have a chocolate addiction of late so I am not eating it every day now.

Water. It's key to weight loss
At least 3 litres a day. Not all at once. 500ml 6 times a day
Breakfast- as I work in busy job- scrambled egg on whole meal toast with rocket, spinach and chilli flakes (speed up metobalism)
Don't snack. Drink water or hot water and lemon

Lunch. Chicken salad. Peppers onions rocket spinach salt and pepper. Small amount of avocado. Balsamic vinegar

Snack apple if really hungry. Maybe 15g of walnuts (that's like 6 nuts)

Dinner chicken and veg and sauce.

This gets results. Can still drink coffee and tea and even the odd glass of wine (well I do)

Oh yes...and 85% dark chocolate and the odd glass of red wine. I never calorie counted, and lost a stone in about 8 weeks. I'm sure it's because I was eating nice stuff and felt full on 24 oat biscuits a day

Snacks are completely unnecessary. Thats a good start.

Its about losing weight yes but you have to train your brain to realise that actually, it's fine to feel "hungry" for a bit. You want to lose weight but you want to keep it off, you need to find the point where you know how much you can have each week to stay healthy. I was a 14 at my fattest and have been a 6/8 for years now which I maintain by eating two very large meals a day. One at 12 and the other at 8. Weekends one at 10 the other at 6. I snack occasionally as a treat. And it's not difficult after the first week my body got used to it. I pack veg and protein and some carbs into my meals and "snack" on icecubes if I feel I need something.

porridge for breakfast
soup for lunch
fruit for snacks, or maybe cheese and crackers/oatcakes
dinner is a reasonable portion of something home cooked.
i cut booze down to nothing- drink spirit and mixer instead of wine or beer.

try to make little changes like reducing bread based meals (pizza) or adding naan etc to a curry. I think bread is the work of the devil. Change lattes for americanos, try to eat less stuff out of packets, it's probably processed to shit and full of rubbish.

I'm losing weight ATM.

Peanut butter on toast

Spinach, red pepper and lentils for lunch, with avocado and sourdough.

Thai red curry with aubergine and green beans and whole meal rice.

Green tea and water to drink, no snacks. All meals eaten from side plates/bowls. Small portions, but all hearty home made food that fills you up properly.

Fruit porridge or yoghurt for breakfast
Soup salad or jacket potato for lunch
Meat fish or poultry with veg or salad in evening
Few snacks
Cut down on alcohol

Bemorepanda - I am on the 10 fruit and veg thread 😂

I'm sick at the moment but will rejoin tomorrow.

Real food, including carbs.
I also exercise, you can't out train a bad diet and excessive calorie counting/restricting, cutting out entire macronutrient groups, relying on shakes etc is a bad diet.

I lost 60lbs and did so through a mix of weight training and cardio. I ate cereal or porridge for breakfast (sometimes omlette, bacon and eggs, baked oats if I had time). I had homemade soups, toasties, sandwiches, salads, baked potatoes for lunch and things like curry, stew, mince etc for dinner.

Nothing can replace real proper food, it's about understanding what you body needs to function and getting yourself moving more.

Drink shakes for 2 weeks and lose weight, then you'll find yourself doing it again in a few months as you haven't changed any habits.
Carbs aren't the devil and you do need them.
Restricting calories messes up your body to no end.

no bread, cakes, carbs

Lots of salad and stir frys, chicken and fruit.

Get a byke. Fantastic for arse and stomach.

Never give up wine as you may as well kill yourself.

You will loose weight

I'd eat proper unprocessed foods and decent portions so I didn't fall headfirst into a bowl of biscuits. Something like:

Breakfast - fried or scrambled eggs (2-3) with sautéed potatoes/sweet potato/kale. Handful of blueberries. Lunch - salmon steak with big green salad, cherry tomatoes, olives, olive oil/balsamic dressing. Dinner - beef chilli with veg side, avocado, lots of veg.

Best way of eating I ever did was the Whole30 - I felt good on it and lost weight too. I don't really stick to it now but it still inspires my general way of eating, lots of cooking from scratch, veggies, not being scared of fat, or eating proper food. I do have some full fat dairy now, but I try to eat things like pasta/rice in small portions if at all.

Oh I lost 2 stones after baby 4 16 years ago and have been constantly 8 stone since.

Weetabix for breakfast, soup for lunch with granary bread, yoghurt or fruit mid afternoon or graze snack, dinner salad/wrap/sweet potato fries, or a roast or something with one potato, the odd takeaway because I like them. Something at night to tide you over - a couple of rich tea or jaffa cakes or something.

Low carb High fat is how I lost my 4st of baby weight so I'm quite evangelical about it. Lots of fat and protein. Lots of veg, moderate fruit and careful with starchy veg/pulses. No bread/rice/pasta etc. at all

I refuse to give up chocolate though!

Snacks-hard boiled eggs, salami, cheese, coconut, nuts, hummus with raw veg..I eat butter as a snack actually

Try eg cauliflower rice, broccoli rice or courgetti-alternatives to rice/pasta

This is not helpful but ive lost 5 stone in a year. I eat one meal a day and drink a fair bit of lager daily Currently maintaining a size 12 but i know my diet is apalling . Permanent night shifts kill me

I'm currently losing weight with Slimming World. I eat lots of fruit and vegetables (try to eat more veg than fruit), only eat bread products once a day, limit my cheese/milk, but other than that tend not to limit lean meat/yogurt/fruits and veg/carbs etc.

Normally breakfast (if I'm up in time) is fruit and yogurt, maybe egg on toast or omelette.
Lunch can be anything from something on toast, last nights leftover, pitta bread and chicken tikka slices, pasta, soup, sandwiches etc. Usually have a peice of fruit, occasionally a bag of crisps mid afternoon.
I make my tea mostly from scratch -things like roast dinners/spag bols/chicken and rice/fajitas/chillis/curries etc and plenty of salad to go with it. Occasionally have a glass of wine with it (or more at a weekend)
I don't tend to deprive myself because that's a sure fire way of making sure I binge, instead I often have something 'treat like' during the day.
I do miss takeaways like Dominos but the syns value is astronomical so when I do have it it's a real treat. I relax a bit more on the weekend, and I try to keep my calorie intake to less than 1500

More veg than fruit, fruit is stuffed full of carbs

Substitute rice for cauliflower or broccoli rice! Cuts your carbs down!

WEIGH EVERYTHING.

I weigh my cereal, measure my milk
Weigh my cheese, meat, rice the absolute lot.

Trust me, what it says you should have is what you need, don't weigh with your eyes, you'll always have more!

If you want a low calorie, high protein pudding then buy QUARK, highlights sachets & sweetener

Either 2 portions or 4 depends how much you want.

I have 125g QUARK
2 tsp sweetener
1 11g sachet of highlights

Mix together & you have a sweet low calorie dessert!

All for 123 calories & trust me! It's a good portion so you could even split it down to 4 portions which means less calories!

Just 2 meals a day. No breakfast, smal lunch at 12 (soup or salad)and an early healthy dinner. Eg stir fry, veg based pasta dishes / rissotto.

Whatever I wanted. Just less. Smaller portions. And fewer snacks like biscuits.

I'd use mfp or similar to monitor calories for a bit. It was very enlightening when I started.

No carbs

Eggs for breakfast, salad for lunch, lean meat and steamed veg for dinner. Nuts or small amount of fruit for snacks. Lots of water.

Bloody miserable life.

Today I have had
Pearl barley porridge
Turkey salad sandwhich
Banana
Apple
Yoghurt low fat strawberry
Tonight I'll have veggies and poached chicken as I can't be arsed to cook

Breakfast- 2 hard boiled eggs or chia pudding , coffee with skimmed milk
Snacks- cut up vegetables (carrots/ snow peas/cucumber/pepper)
Lunch - Large mixed salad with lean protein (fish or chicken)
Snacks- cut up vegetables (carrots/ snow peas/cucumber) or total 0% yoghurt.
Dinner - normal family dinner, just smaller portion

Dont drink calories other than wine and not too much of that