To think what I eat in a day is ok?

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So I’m overweight and yes I’d like to loose some weight but I honestly don’t think my diet is that bad. I tend to eat the same most days

Breakfast
25g granola or oats
Low fat Greek yogurt
Berries
Honey

Snack
Banana / apple

Lunch
Beans/egg on whole meal toast
(Small amount of real butter)

Snack
Kit kat and a cuppa

Dinner
Jacket Potato cheese/beans
or
Sausage and mash/roast potatoes with veg

We only ever have a takeaway if it’s someone’s birthday

and we only have a pudding on a Saturday night which will be something like ice cream or cheese cake

In a size 16/18 and I do have PCOS

It might not be the healthiest but also it’s not horrendous surely?

Really helpful thank you

I drink lots of tea and coffee (no sugar)
sugar free squash and Diet Coke

I sometimes have a G&T on a Saturday night

Ignore this outdated bullshit.

I have Hashimoto’s which means my thyroid doesn’t work well. That has an impact on all my metabolic processes. So I lose hair, feel cold, breathe less (yes!) and don’t burn calories as well as others.

Id get fat on what you eat OP.

I have Greek yogurt, bran flakes and sometimes blueberries for breakfast, similar kinds of lunch and dinners but always chuck on a salad at least once a day.

I do not do the snacks at all but was raised in a non snacking household.

It doesn't sound bad. Looks similar to what I eat on some days, but I'm a size 6, so I think maybe your issue is with your portion size. I know you said your portions are OK, but maybe it's worth checking again?

I'm so glad other people have already said this.

Once again, no one has commented on eating low fat but low carb has already been described as 'competitive undereating' 🙄

PCOS is hormonal and low carb regulates hormones (insulin is a hormone). Eating low carb has helped people with hormonal conditions (including PCOS) to lose weight.

But you'll be advised by people on here to cut portion sizes, reduce calorie intake, increase exercise and avoid fat.

What are you drinking OP? Calories in a latte, orange juice can add up.
A small butter is 53 calories. Are you weighing everything? A tiny amount of cheese is 60 calories.

I would also say, add more veg in if you can and protein

Fellow PCOS sufferer here, I fully feel your pain OP.
The only way I can remain a comfortable size and shape (I don’t weigh myself) is by cutting out carbs through the day time, only having them with my evening meal, I swim a mile 3 times a week and walk 5 miles every day.
When I don’t do this I absolutely balloon, I’m shorter than you at 5’7 and my god those pounds just seem to come from nowhere. I relax things at Christmas and on holidays etc, I’m not a devout low carber and when I say I don’t eat them during the day I just mean I avoid bread, pasta, potatoes, crisps. I do eat yoghurt and fruit mid morning and then a chicken salad for late lunch and then a snack at about 4. Loads of that has carb content but I’m fine with that.

Increasing exercise is not bad or unreasonable advice in the slightest. If PP is genuinely doing none as she said then it is doing no favours for her health in general, never mind her weight if she’s trying to lose. PCOS is complicated and makes weight loss hard but it’s no excuse to neglect your health on a whole just to focus on low carb.

OP do you mean a full can of 400g baked beans?
That has 500-600 calories in
Do you have ketchup?
Do you weigh you cheese?

PCOS is hormonal and low carb regulates hormones (insulin is a hormone). Eating low carb has helped people with hormonal conditions (including PCOS) to lose weight.

I’d echo this, the only way I’ve lost weight is through low carbing - 4.5 stones lost and staying off.

The diet drinks also provoke an insulin response so make your body think it’s having more sugar. You aren’t eating a lot of food depending on portion size but there’s lots of sugar in there which will really hinder weight loss if you have PCOS.

I didn't say exercise was a bad idea or should be ignored. Of course it's good for overall health but if someone has a hormonal condition, increasing exercise won't impact weightloss.

Starchy carbs at every meal would do my head in, your meal plan depends how active you are, I'd expect someone with that diet to be doing some form of exercise every day

I hate to be predictable but there're a lot of carbs and not enough protein and vegetables.

You mention you only have a small amount of real butter on the toast but then go on to say you have a whole tin of beans with the baked potato - that's a lot of carbs and at least 550 calories, more if you add butter and the potato is large.

Maybe try and mix it up a bit with say a cheese omelette for lunch, and roast vegetables with the sausages, crushed nuts instead of granola.

No it's not horrendous but also not a great diet if you're trying to lose weight!

Exercise is recommended for PCOS to help balance stress hormones. Being in a calorie deficit is a basic necessity to losing weight, regardless of your situation and exercise will help with this.

I drink lots of tea and coffee (no sugar)
sugar free squash and Diet Coke

In some people eg with hormonal conditions/insulin resistance, diet drinks can trigger an insulin response. In some people, their bodies only respond to actual sugar. In others, even the sweet taste can trigger an insulin response.

When I looked into how much food represented how many calories I actually burn to exist per day, it was a stupidly tiny amount - one small healthy meal plus "half a meal" (piece of toast and an apple size) and no spare room for calories in drinks or other food etc per day.
You may find the same - you are significantly taller than me but your list has a lot more food than that!

A tin of beans isn’t 600 calories 🙈

Half a 415g tin of Heinz beans is 168 calories.

If you have PCOS you may need to lower your carbs.

It’s your evening meal you need to change

cheese and beans - no veg

sausages are full of fat

I’d make something like a stir fry, spag Bol, chilli, grilled salmon rice and veg etc

It's not a terrible diet but I'd look at making a few changes if you want to lose weight.

Maybe swap the Kit Kat for veggies and hummus
breakfast for eggs on toast
Dinner salmon/ chicken with rice/ sweet potato and veg

It doesn't sound like an excessive amount of food so I'd also look at your portion sizes.

Roughly 350- 400 then. It's still a lot plus cheese and a jacket potato.

That's a 700 calorie meal before you add in ketchup and other items like butter etc.

Being in calorie deficit is not necessary for losing weight.

I don't have time to explain it all now.

Eating between BMR and TDEE (so not a calorie deficit) and reducing carbs will result in weightloss and a body that isn't under stress from reduced calories.

Exercise is good for physical health for everyone.

But people generally don't want to hear it because they've spent so long indoctrinated into the low fat, low calorie, high carb thinking. Low carb doesn't work for everyone but then neither does low fat. All bodies are different.

All I would say is that this forum is full of people who are trying to lose weight, who have cut their fat intake to virtually nothing, who are filling up on carbs and who are complaining they can't lose weight.

People often struggle with the idea that doing low carb properly requires you to increase your fat intake and we've spent years being told fat is the enemy.

It's not. Sugar is.

Not Enough protein and just generally not enough nutrients. You really need more protein/fibre/veg/fruit. Personally I focus on the nutritional value of the food I eat, rather then calories,but yes watch portion sizes. And definitely get more exercise.

How old are you? I wouldn’t lose weight on that diet. Go low carb and cut out the KitKat and honey.

If you have PCOS it'll be the carbs. You're better off having Fage yogurt which is full of protein and just the berries and honey than the granola/oats for instance. You could have the jacket with ham and cheese and a side salad... better yet would be an omelette with mushrooms, cherry tomatoes and spinach with bacon or ham (veggie alternative)