Or is this okay for a typical days food?

[CleanOnMe]

Breakfast: 2 slices of Seeded toast with sunflower spread and a tiny bit of marmite. A glass of fresh orange juice (fresh).

Or

Wheatabix (2) with a little skimmed milk and low calorie sweetener sprinkled

Lunch: Usually don't eat it, but if I do, two scrambled eggs or 1 avocado, sometimes on a Davina McCall cracker

Dinner: Vegetable rice with Linda McCartney pulled chicken (not real chicken), or pasta with Quorn mince and a light sauce

Snacks options: Banana, handful of fresh berries, a passion fruit

Does this sound okay? Anything I need to add/cut back on?

If eating out, I will usually order a kid's meal chicken nuggets with chips and a blue WKD or lemonade. Maybe a chocolate brownie and ice cream for desert, or sorbet. But I don't eat out very often at all.

I'm a very fussy eater and struggle to add more variety to what I eat

Admittedly I typed it in slightly wrong but you are 10 stone 6 and 5'4 thats a BMI of 25 which is not overweight. Please check again.

www.nhs.uk/tools/documents/healthy_weight_v3/healthy_weight.html?variant=phone

It sounds like you eat a lot of synthetic, processed, fake food which will give you no satisfaction and do you no favours - McCartney chicken, Quorn, sweeteners, ‘light’ sauce, blue WKD... it all sounds horrible.

Maybe try something like Jamie’s Superfoods cookbook? The meals are all balanced and nutritious, you get a calorie count and they are real food which will actually nourish you.

Breastfeeding means you should eat lunch and you should up your calorie intake. I can’t lose weight when breastfeeding, my body hangs on to a bit extra until I stop and I went past a year with both babies. I didn’t worry about losing the weight whilst I was feeding them; I did concern myself with eating decent food. Your intake sounds extremely depressing and your attitude towards food does sound worrying.

Fruit I'm definitely overweight, my BMI says I am too so not sure where you're getting from that I'm in a healthy weight range?

No, your bmi is in the healthy range and you are not overweight.
www.bmicalculator.ie/bmi-information/bmi-result/index.html?bmi=24.5

Try eating sweet veg then, sweet potato, butternut squash, avocado, carrots, beetroot, parsnip, swede etc.
Berries are lower in sugar than most fruits, use frozen berries to make coulis and have it stirred into yoghurt or on porridge.
Dark chocolate is good for you.
I would swap the crackers for a slice of decent sourdough bread for example which is dense and filling. And goats butter perhaps rather than spread.

How long have you been eating like that OP? Have you just started?

You sound like those people who’ve done a diet for a week and are all envagelical about it but in 2 weeks they’ll be back on the McDonald’s

What's with the Davina M cracker? I was wondering how big the cracker must be to support two scrambled eggs
OP - why not have mashed avocado on toast for breakfast and then scrambled eggs with a bagel at lunch, maybe with some cheese stirred in?
Maybe an Alpro non dairy yoghurt after one of your meals.
And add some nuts or a flapjack in somewhere? And more veg with your main meal.

Wtf is a Davina McCall cracker

I am breastfeeding a 5 month old and I eat almost the same ( porridge and almond milk for breakfast) but add multi vits and calcum tablets as DC has dairy / soya allergy. No supply issues here and DC's weight gain is perfect. also same height as you OP.

I'm not sure breastfeeding women need dairy, if they get enough calcium otherwise. This is outdated advice along the lines "drink milk to make milk". I've been breastfeeding for 1.5 years with very little diary intake.

However, they do need the calories. This sounds like very little in total, and very far apart - essentially 2 light meals a day, when you should be having more like 5 small meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner and two snacks).

Have lunch. Try to get a variety though. Dont eat the same thing every day. Personally i think two weekabix is too much. Maybe go for one and a piece of fruit.

Snack on veg too. There are many different types. You cant dislike them all! My son wont eat cooked carrots but will eat raw ones. Try that.

Always remember your meal should be colourful.

When I was breastfeeding i think i got the majority of my calories from rolos

With breastfeeding it is fair to order kids portion ..

Not enough food but is that what u wanted to hear?

I did the NHS calculator and it says overweight (only just though).

Sprinkles it's been 5 weeks, so not long, but the thought of eating big meals makes me quite uneasy because I weighed myself every week and lost loads, then ate one cheeky meal (a burger with cheese and chips, followed by a cheese cake), and gained 2 pounds in two days but I stuck completely to my usual foods for all the rest of that time!

I'm starting to look at food that aren't necessarily good for me and think "is it really worth it?"

I'm not a secret eater. I don't have the cash to be and as I say, I don't keep foods that aren't very good in the house. And I rarely eat out anyway

So I really must be one of those people that looks at a biscuit and gains a pound

You sound like those people who’ve done a diet for a week and are all envagelical about it but in 2 weeks they’ll be back on the McDonald’s

What exactly.does this comment mean? She is breastfeeding a baby and is a healthy weight. I dont see what harn it would do if she did occasionally have a Macdonalds if thats what she would enjoy.

And sunflower spread sounds vile. Peanut butter?

If you hate veg, can you hide it as people do for toddlers? (Eg grated carrots, courgette, eggpant in sauces like bolognese) Or veg soups with eg chilli or chorizo for a spice kick? Or homemade curry, while we're at it?

What you are doing does not sound sustainable. And please don't listen to the grown woman upthread who couldn't possibly eat two eggs in one sitting.

“Today 23:17 Fruitcorner123

You sound like those people who’ve done a diet for a week and are all envagelical about it but in 2 weeks they’ll be back on the McDonald’s

What exactly.does this comment mean? She is breastfeeding a baby and is a healthy weight. I dont see what harn it would do if she did occasionally have a Macdonalds if thats what she would enjoy.”

I have no idea what that comment has to do with my original post

“Sprinkles it's been 5 weeks, so not long, but the thought of eating big meals makes me quite uneasy because I weighed myself every week and lost loads, then ate one cheeky meal (a burger with cheese and chips, followed by a cheese cake), and gained 2 pounds in two days hmm but I stuck completely to my usual foods for all the rest of that time!”

I knew it 🤣 no eating disorder just someone a bit too into their new diet.

LOL at 2 Weetabix being 'too much' for breakfast at 68 calories each.

Whats the shiz with Davina McCall crackers? Are the just a generic healthier cracker pr are they actually in the shape of Davina? She has a mega flat stomach....wonder if she looked down one day and thought 'fuck I would make a perfect cracker'

If you have been restricting your calorie intake and then have a bigger meal or one that is higher in salt etc then you often see a weight gain. It isn’t fat though, it’s undigested food and water. To put on 2lbs of fat you would have to have eaten 7000 calories over and above your daily calorie needs.

On top of that a lot of people’s weight fluctuate throughout the range and it’s entirely normal to bounce around a bit. Put all your details into a TDEE calculator and see what you should be eating plus the extra for breastfeeding then take it from there. Healthy eating to sustain you and your baby is the name of the game at the moment.

Just want to add before I go to bed that there are likely to be posters on here who have unhealthy attitudes to food so please don't take at face value all the posters who are telling you what you eat is fine. There are lots of people who have given good advice about how to up your calorie intake. The measurements you have given us give a healthy BMI so I can only assume you are rounding up. Please make sure your strict dieting isn't affecting your baby's weight as that is the most important thing at the moment.

You are not eating enough.

At the very least, you need more iron.

And more calories.

I also don’t eat a lot because I’m short and skinny but I would feel terrible on that amount of food especially when breast feeding.

wonder if she looked down one day and thought 'fuck I would make a perfect cracker'

you are NOT overweight at 5 ft 4 and 10 st 6, you are smack bang in the middle of a healthy BMI - I know this because I am the same height as you and when I was 10 6 last year and on a weight/BMI tracker I was right in the middle.
But you are breastfeeding, that is NOT the time to try to lose weight - your body will draw all its reserve nutrients to make the milk, leaving you seriously depleted.
Ditch all the 'diet/low fat' crap and eat normal food
bulk up on fresh veg
when you starve yourself your appetite goes, especially if you are low on carbs

Whats the shiz with Davina McCall crackers? Are the just a generic healthier cracker pr are they actually in the shape of Davina? She has a mega flat stomach....wonder if she looked down one day and thought 'fuck I would make a perfect cracker'

🤣 that's brilliant

They're a type of cracker by Rivita, I think. She advertises for them on Instagram