Is this too much lunch for a diet?

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Trying to shift a couple of stone.
I eat v healthily, but probably too much, I don’t work out normally, but have started again.
I’m a person who has to cut back a lot and not eat much/work out daily to stay slim.
In the past when I was v slim, I went to the gym and had less carbs & smaller portions. I’m trying fasting also.
I’ve had no breakfast, just got in from school run, morning work and walking the dog.
Is this too much?
There’s two tins of tuna and two crackers, the rest is just salad? Assuming that’s okay?
Dinner is broccoli, cauliflower, carrots & chicken, piece of fruit afterwards.
I’m attempting to cut right back on carbs, my portions seem big though 😂but I’m hungry
Desperate to lose weight

@ThatFraggle but it CAN be a diet serving
I don't eat breakfast and that lunch would fit perfectly into a day for me
OP hasn't said how much she weighs, how tall she is, what her activity is
If she's 5ft 10, active and 15 stone then she needs more calories than someone who is 5ft and sedentary

A third of that salad would be ridiculous even as a light lunch, fine split the tuna. But I would add way more salad for 3 people otherwise it's about 1 of your 5 a day. There's fuck all calories in cucumber and lettuce and they're good for you so..

said two tins of tuna was enough to feed a family of four, shouldn't be allowed on the internet.

Two regular tins of tuna IS enough to feed a family of four. Even the tuna manufacturers think so. Two tiny tins, no.

for everyone banging on about tuna and not RTFT properly - OP has said there's 85 calories per tin, so she had rough equivalent to a chicken breast.

that looks very yummy, OP. I couldn't eat so much tuna in one sitting, myself (?your serving is about 180g?), but cool that you have a meal that works for you. I'd get a stomach ache if I had that much tuna in one go.

2 x some size tins tuna: 170 kcal
2 crackers: ? 60 kcal
salad: max 60 kcal
mayo 80g : 540g (I love mayo too)
tbh, it looks like the purrfect low-carb obsessed MNer meal. I'm surprised anyone here was critical.

adds up to 830 kcal.
You could have 600 kcal for supper + all drinks of the day, and still only add up to 1430, which as long as you aren't old/very sedentary should allow you to at least not gain weight & definitely lose it if you are starting large.

I'd have a wrap or a sarnie personally and then a salad on the side with a vinaigrette dressing or something. If you enjoy bread you don't have to cut it out to lose weight, just factor it into your daily calories and try and limit it a bit ie bread/rolls/wrap with 1 meal a day and then not with the others. I get really hungry if I just have salad, the tuna is good but you could add more protein like an egg, or a carb like baked potato and then salad or veg on the side. Try and have breakfast too, even if it's something small, the worst thing to do on a diet is to get really hungry as more likely to then crave calorie dense foods. Experiment and find stuff you enjoy, more likely to sustain it then. Be mindful of drinks, dressings and the like too.

I agree people should be mindful of the potential effect of their words on those with disordered thinking, on any topic.

However in general I find Mumsnet skews far more toward minimising, normalising, even glamourising scarily unhealthy excess weight, rather than the opposite. Accusing anyone discussing a healthy food consumption or healthy body weight of being 'pro ana' seems to be part of that.

Food requirements vary from person to person. That should always be the starting point if you think someone is eating more/less than you.

Yeah I agree with this, OP has used small tins but 2 regular size tins are enough for 4 people in a tuna pasta bake or whatever else! I don't think anyone was suggesting 2 tins on their own with nothing with them would be a complete meal for 4 people.

Nobody is getting fat on 2 tins of tuna

It looks fine but to me the actual salad looks quite small. You could add peppers, beetroot, celery, carrot, and a small amount of avo, olives, sweetcorn.

Other proteins to add - hard-boiled egg, mozzarella/feta, beans.

There is so many calories in that mayo!! Seriously though just do more exercise and it'll be fine.

By the way 2 tins of tuna in one sitting is going to give you some serious flatulence 😂

We obviously don't read the same website. You can't go three minutes without someone starting a thread saying everyone is fat now as we've lost sight of what a normal weight is. The weight loss board is absolutely AWASH with loons, including people who think fasting for 5 days is healthy and those who think they will put on a stone if they so much as sniff a piece of bread. Those threads come up daily on active. I don't see any active threads promoting eating to excess, unless of course you use the MN eating to excess, when anything containing a white carbohydrate is gluttonous.

I put red grapes in salad to make more interesting. I also salad cream rather than mayo or I like sweet chilli sauce on my salads.

Half fromage fraise and half hummus for a salad dressing

I was accused of being a competitive under eater just for saying rice Krispies are sugary and taste sweet - only commented this in response to loads of posters claiming rice Krispies don't have any added sugar. I was genuinely confused due to obviously the packet making it clear how much sugar is in them and that they taste sweet to me (thought they did to everyone but obvs not, fair enough). It was a completely genuine comment and I was made to feel really bad for it.

Frosties taste sweet. Rice krispies, objectively, do not.

Could you try this for a salad instead;

1x tin Tuna
Lettuce
Spinach
Grated carrot
Olives
Beetroot
Cucumber
Tomatoes
Half an Avacado
No crackers
Invest in a nice salad dressing that isn't mayo based!

If you're used to sugary foods they don't taste sweet. I even remember ricicles when I was a kid - rice crispies with icing, like frosties. But if you actively cut your sugar you will notice how sweet everything is. Even normal sliced white bread has quite a bit of sugar added.

The best salad dressing is olive oil (a sensible amount, I use half a tablespoon), salt and fresh lemon juice, sometimes with greek yoghurt.

Wait till you say baked beans have sugar in them! Not that I say it often.

They do if you don't eat sugar.

And anyone accusing me of competive undereating can fuck right off tbh. I'd bloody love to immerse myself in a packet of biscuits or a cake but I can't as I will get even fatter than I am now.

Baked beans are sweet though. Rice krispies are not.

My fitness pal...weigh and record your portions put in your weight and height it will give you calories etc needed

As a nutritionist, and as someone who has been there and done that, I would say it is not healthy or sustainable for long term weight loss success to completely abstain from sugar. You want to get to a post where you can have some but not to excess.

If you've never been able to reach that point it's unlikely you'll keep the weight off even if you lose it.

Also protein is key to keeping you feeling full. High protein diet really works