Is this healthy eating?

[coffeeplease16]

Would you consider this a healthy day of eating for a mid 20s female, do a lot of walking not other exercise

Breakfast: small piece of wholewheat bread with 1/4 of smashed avocado on top

Lunch: shop bought egg and cress sandwich

Dinner: small jacket potato with hummus (no butter) big salad of green leaves, a few olives and boiled egg

Dessert: Greek yog and blueberries.

Drinks: water, two cups of coffee, one cup of tea - with milk no sugar

If not how can I make healthier? I am a veggie btw

Hercule here you go - will also add an apple And then is just under

I’m obviously getting something very wrong. I’ll check on MFP too. Apologies if I am wrong, OP.

And snacks

Fair enough. You know what you had better than me. Good luck!

The body does not cling to calories. You cannot gain weight by eating less than your TDEE. If starvation mode existed as people on this thread, then people wouldn't starve to deaththeyd be producing calories and fat out of thin air. . And the Minessota starvation experiment does not apply because the men volunteering for that experiment were doing heavy manual work as well as eating at a huge deficit for a man.

It's easier to calculate your TDEE and eat 300 - 500 fewer calories than that. Once you reach the weight you're aiming for, recalculate the TDEE and use that for maintaining your weight. When you use a TDEE or BMR calculator, always use the sedentary setting as it does not allow for differences in activity during your daily life.

Remember that as you lose weight, your metabolism reduces as well, meaning you need fewer calories to maintain your weight. Think about it, someone weighing 12 stones needs less fuel just to maintain that weight than someone who weighs 9 stone.

I lost 9 stone over the course of a year and I've kept it off successfully for 5 years now. Maintaining 9 stone 8 at 5ft 10. I aimed for 1300 calories a day, lost the weight and maintain on 1600 a day.

The best thing about CICO (calories in calories out) is that you can eat what you want so long as you don't go over your calorie allowance. It's also a relief because you're no longer worrying about what you eat as you know how much you can eat a day.

Your food there looks fine but I'd add more veg. Brocolli, carrots, spinach, etc. Beans and lentils for protein. Floradix is a fantastic vitamin and Iron supplement.

Try cut-n-bulk.web.app to calculate TDEE.

Anyone else feeling sorry for the OP yet? Posted to help make things clearer for herself and has been told 100 different pieces of advice - cut out carbs, don’t cut carbs, eat more eggs, don’t eat eggs, eat the same every day, have plenty of variety, have a bigger breakfast, don’t have breakfast, buy this book, that book ...
Good grief it’s about as clear as mud.
My favourite pieces of advice when it comes to healthy eating, eat produce not products and don’t eat anything from a packet if your granny w recognise anything on the ingredients list.
As an aside OP, do you actually enjoy veg? I’m not being funny, I know a few veggies who like very few veg and, like some meat eaters find eating veg a chore. If so maybe it’s more a case of finding ways of sneaking veg into your diet. Whatever you decide, good luck, I hope who achieve your goals in a way you find manageable, enjoyable and beneficial to your health.

0.25 avo is 80
Fist-sized potato is about 200

Yes, I agree with a PP, bless you OP I don't think I've ever read a thread with such conflicting advice

I'm a big believer in exercise and not eating anything processed, or as little as possible. I'd personally bin the lunchtime sandwich and replace with a salad and definitely up the vegetable and fruit intake. However, it may be a case of trail and error and seeing what works best for you.

Good luck x

Good effort op. I'm ashamed to say, that not for one single day in my entire 16000+ days of life so far, have I eaten so little or so healthy.

Sounds like a miserable joylesse exsistance to me.

Humous (no butter). FML.

@Wildthyme please eat a fucking pie. There is more to life.

You need more veg. Try to eat a variety of colours every day. The compound that gives each veg its colour is what’s healthy.
Other than that I don’t think that’s bad. Carbs aren’t unhealthy... especially if you exercise! Whole foods are better though. The less ingredients it has the better! So potato is better than bread etc

i'd say more protein needed

I thought more than 1 egg a day was not recommended as one egg alone has 62% of your daily cholesterol requirement

Eggs are fantastic,that's really old advice.

Yes, I agree with a PP, bless you OP I don't think I've ever read a thread with such conflicting advice confused
This thread is typical of every single weight loss/eating thread on MN. Despite getting helpful advice on almost every other subject on here, getting advice on weight loss nearly sent me mad!

I would agree withe more protein in place of some of the bread/potatoes. You need more protein than normal during weight loss to preserve your muscle mass.

I would swap around your menus like this:
Breakfast: greek yogurt & fruit
Lunch: home-made hummous, olive and lettuce sandwich
Dinner: 3-egg omelette. Add some veggies (spinach, red pepper) to the omelette. Steamed french beans on the side.
Dessert: avocado and banana smoothie (1/2 avocado, 1 banana and a few tsp of milk, blended)