is this over or under eating?

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1 cup of chai
1 toasted tea cake with marg.
1 cup a soup
4 slices of bread
4 M&S chicken pakora
1 pack of walkers fusions (baked crisps)
1 cup of coffee

How does this compare in quantity to what you eat?

If you are looking to eat well OP the DASH diet is the best IMO.

I think it's ok as a one off. I eat like that a lot of the time, when I cba.

I've had:

4 fish Fingers and some sweet corn.
A piece bread with peanut butter.
A few cups tea/coffee with I sugar.

I'm poorly, so I'll have something rubbishy for tea.

What's your diet like the rest of the time?

How is that vegetable when it only has tomatoe, onion and celery in?

I think you should focus on the depression you mention OP. Anti-depressants May help lift your mood sufficiently for you to take an interest in how you eat. If you are struggling with your mood then actually being bothered to eat let alone healthily is something that goes out of the window. You could ask your GP to refer you to talking therapy which might help. From what I’ve seen it’s a terrible loop: low mood/bad or unbalanced diet, each maintaining the other. Try and have simple easy foods to hand complicated recipe suggestions can feel like a bit of a mountain to climb can’t they? Sorry, if I’m off message, I just felt your OP wasn’t really about food.

what is a xmas chop ??

Get some decent fats and protein in there :)

O yuk

It's obviously lacking in so many things op, but you already know that. Is that a typical day for you? Saturdays are usually pretty poor days for me but I try to make up for that during the rest of the week.

Today I've had:
Breakfast: wholemeal toast with lurpak and jam, herbal tea.

Lunch: Sourdough pitta breads with Boursin, cherry tomatoes and salad, water

Snacks: banana, two satsumas, 3 mini stollen bites, coffee.

Dinner (being delivered in about an hour!) : Vegetable biryani with garlic and chilli naan.

I'm currently dribnking a bottle of koppaberg and will definitely have some chocolate after my curry.

Try some small improvements op. Get a bag of salad leaves and have a big handful with your pakoras. Have bananas in the house, they're a really easy snack. Hope you're ok

I've lost 19lb and have maintained a healthy weight for a year. You have to be prepared, so you don't end up eating pakoras to stop yourself fainting, and then wondering why you're not losing weight!
Breakfast: Strawberries, raspberries, quark, honey and cinnamon
Lunch: 3 egg omelette with smoked salmon, light cheese and a big side salad
Dinner: Small spaghetti Bolognese (homemade sauce) and huge salad

Today I’ve had
Breakfast- 2x Weetabix and skimmed milk
Lunch- Tesco lighter cheese and bacon quiche and toffee muller light.
Dinner- 2x chicken breast kebabs with tomatoes, rocket cucumber spring onions.
Snacks - Alpen light bar, 2 bananas, one apple, 1 bag of weight watchers oat cookies.
3 x coffees
4 units of alcohol with Diet Coke tonight.
Will probably have a weight watchers mini ice cream pot later.
That’s on a vintage weight watchers plan called pro points

Hi OP, a year and half ago I was nearly 20 st, an erratic binge eater, with a sweet tooth. I joined SW and basically learned how to eat properly and fill myself up with low calorie but filling meals. My usual day looks like this:
Breakfast - Oats with either milk or soaked in fat free yoghurt. Frozen berries on top. Or a veggie omelette.
Banana or apple for mid morning snack.
Lunch - Big salad, with beetroot, carrot, celery etc, and lean chicken or tuna.
Either grilled Fish / grilled meat or stew for dinner with rice or jacket potato and veg.

Well it's not about how much you've eaten, but what. I've only had 2 pieces of toast and a latte today at about 10am because I was busy and forgot. I'm not trying to lose weight, I only eat twice a day. However we've now ordered Thai and I'll have veg in chilli basil and fish cakes.

Get some more veg in OP!!

Me too Hiding!

Definitely need more fruit and veg OP. You sound a bit uninspired about what to have, go on Pinterest and look up food that’s healthy and tasty. I get lots of ideas from there. My diet today has been awful as i’ve got flu and no help with the kids (both under 5) so it’s been about survival! Had porridge with jam and a satsuma for brekkie, two slices of pizza for lunch with houmous and some salad, polished off the Christmas cake this afternoon in desperate search for energy! Am now in bed with lemsip and a packet of crisps! Not my finest day.

Op if that is just a one off then it's ok.

If that is a regular day you need to really sort it out.

We have eaten in a similar way over Christmas. Junk food and snacks mixed in with the odd cooked meal. We normally eat quite healthily.

You need fruit and veg and fibre. At every meal if possible. I feel fat, bloated and sluggish and I think it's because I am constipated. And I am constipated because I have been eating white bread instead of brown. Toast instead of porridge. Sweets instead of fruit or yoghurt. Cheese and biscuits instead of hm veg soup.

Don't start a diet. It will make you miserable unless you are in the right frame of mind. Eat to provide nutrition to your body. Start small and build on stuff. So swap to wholemeal bread. Aim for 5 portions of fruit and veg. Reduce sugar.

Once those become 2nd nature then increase veg to 7 portions. Swap white pasta to wholemeal etc.

It's pretty grim - no f&v. Occasionally it would be ok but
Not everyday.

I've had-
Breakfast- tea, cold meats and crackers, couple of grapes. Banana a bit later on.

Alot of water as went to the gym

Lunch- mushroom risotto and a yoghurt, decaf coffee

Dinner - roast chicken, baked potato, carrots, baked onion and mushrooms.

I'm going to have another yoghurt and some fruit now.

I don't normally eat so many mushrooms in one day! My shop is coming tomorrow with more and better vegetables.

1 cup of chai (no milk? 0 calories)
1 toasted tea cake with marg. (? 300 kcal, if not parsimonious with marg)
1 cup a soup (could vary, say 90 kcal)
4 slices of bread (400 kcal, I assumed no butter)
4 M&S chicken pakora (how big?? I think might be 400 kcal)
1 pack of walkers fusions (baked crisps) (maybe 125 kcal)
1 cup of coffee (no kcal if no milk)

Just over 1300 kcal for the day so far.

OP posted before my tea time. It's a decent amount of calories before tea time. Many MNers insist they can't eat any more than that without gaining weight, so I guess too much for them. I eat about 2600 kcal/day (a lot).

I stopped reading at ‘marge’. You seem like someone who is quite healthy so I can’t imagine why you’d not eat butter instead. Eating fats, including natural saturated fats with nutrient dense foods and an active lifestyle, is far better than nutrient free margarine, which also tastes disgusting.

Sorry, back to your op, assuming that’s in a day rather than either an hour or a week, I think it seems fine. If you’re not hungry or too full, then it’s not either too much or too little.

The homemade vegetable soup is positive

As a basic, the more colourful the foods on your plate, the more nutritious it will be.

Low nutrition, processed carbs will be doing little to help anyone's energy levels.

Try and get some more veg in. Pre-prepared or frozen is fine. You need to start somewhere accessible.

Use wholemeal bread so there is more fibre. Beans on toast/ eggs are 5 minute meals with some protein and other nutrients.

Do a little exercise, a 15 minute walk in daylight is good for your mood and boosts energy.

Little manageable changes won't solve everything, but can give you a boost to help the next stage. No mind and body will work well if they're not fuelled well, just like a car wouldn't run on coal.

I’m sorry, but I hope that people have been helpful. As they say- it’s not great, and will not aid in weight loss as the empty calories won’t help. Have you thought about joining a group, online or IRL to help you? That as a daily diet won’t be helping your physical cravings or your mental health.

Eat vegetables. Your body likes them and they are filling and tasty.

Aim for 400g of veg a day to start (spread out) and move up from there

And no, you didn’t eat enough food today

All those carbs would make me feel miserable and lumpen. You are picking at tings that are empty nutrition wise. Protein makes you feel satisfied but not slow and stuffed. Think fresh and nutritious and eat meals not picky things
Chicken
Avo
Nuts
Ham
Small (tiny) amounts of whole grain bread
Fresh made soups or tinned without sugar eg lentil or chicken
Cheese
Eggs
A cracker or two for crunch
Any veggies ( limit potatoes or starch)
Some fruit (but not lots as full of sugar)
Ditch the bready or battered things
Smoked fish
Etc

Lots and lots of water

Omelette or bacon and avo is my go to breakfast. Maybe a smoked fish salad with a teaspoon of mayo for lunch. Handful of nuts as a snack or a plum. Chicken and veggies for dinner (including Cauli cheese!) and maybe a wee Yorkshire pudding if I fancy. Around 1200 cals and more than enough to be satisfied.

I would feel quite tired and constipated on that sort of diet, but it also sounds like a day anyone could have if they were rushing around a lot.

Today I’ve had:

Chicken, whole avocado and kombucha for breakfast.

Shrimp and squash salad for lunch, with two chocolate caramels.

An apple

Dinner we ate out and I had broccoli and parsnip soup, pork with sweet potatoes, a vegan brownie, plus two more chocolate caramels and a bag of plantain chips when I got home.

I think I eat well, but need to cut back a bit on chocolate and snacks. I’m slim—5’7 and 8 stone 12lbs—but there’s a strong history of diabetes in my family.