To ask if you think it’s a lot to eat/drink a day?

[Chubbste]

Trying to lose some weight… been trying to be good but not sure and never know how to count calories etc.

Today I had:

breakfast/lunch:

• 2 oat coffees in the morning
• Greek yogurt with walnuts and honey
• an apple and about 5-6 strawberries
• 1 cereal bar 78kcal one

dinner:

• 1 glass of rose
• goat cheese about a third so ~50g
• mixed leaf salad
• 4-6 plum tomatoes
• walnuts
• dressing (bit of drizzle)

pudding:

• 1x strawberry Actimel
• 30-35g dark chocolate

any thoughts? TIA

Are you hungry?

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You need to be calorie counting. It's the only way I've ever been able to lose weight, it's just not possible to guess. There are apps you can download.

Id recommend using an app to track. That doesn't sound like a sustainable amount of food food for most people though - ok for one day but not as an ongoing lifestyle change, which is what you need to lose weight and maintain the weight loss.

I don't think that sounds like enough food

I’d be starving if I had that for dinner.

That’s seems like a lot of sugar and hardly any real food

It seems quite a lot of UPF which won't help.

It doesn't sound like a huge amount of food, tbh, although it does sound nice with strawberries, wine, cheese and chocolate! Could you sustain that level of eating every day?

Where are the actual meals?

That would feed me for at least a week but I'd add a massive salad to it.

Too much sugar, not enough protein or complex carbs. I do not think it’s a good diet.

No idea of the actual calories, but seems very lacking in food of any substance, and too much processed sugar.

There's nothing filling so I'd be hungry but I think it could be a surprising amount of calories. Wine, nuts, honey, dressing, chocolate... all pretty calorific for not a lot a satiety.

Not enough protein or carbs to fill you up, it would be difficult to sustain eating like this and probably insufficient to meet your nutrition needs.
I think calorie counting at least for a while is helpful in giving you a more realistic sense of what you are taking in but in general I would try adding more protein as it fills you up and prevents craving snacks etc.
I yoyo a bit but what keeps me healthy is protein rich meals for at least two of my meals in the day, not drinking most of the time, and exercising regularly - i generally don't track calories any more but can keep on top of things.

It’s all relative to your starting weight. If you weigh 2 stone, you may be over eating. If you weigh 29 stone you will lose lots of weight.

google the James Smith Academy calorie deficit calculator. It will give you a target.

big tip, unless you are training to Olympic levels you are sedentary.

when you have your calorie target meal plan properly using my fitness pal :) be honest when tracking

Not really much UPF

Thanks all. I’m not quite sure what I am doing but I haven’t been feeling great in my skin and stepped on the scale this morning.

I’m 5’7 and nearly 10 stone. Ideally I’d like to lose a stone to go back to my slimmer self.

i know I’m not fat or overweight but I had some issues with my weight as a teen and scared that it might happen again.

Not to drip feed but I have been living on my own for 6 months. Before that o was in a relationship and cooking healthy food for 2 is so much easier than when you live on your own - at least that’s what it feels like.

My earlier post was light-hearted. I'd concentrate on making proper meals.
Your list looks more like grazing, and there are barely any vegetables (tomatoes are fruit).

I'd concentrate on making the meals more substantial, mostly vegetables, but watching that there's enough protein and some fat.

Your weight sounds fine. Up the exercise or do toning exercises if you want to feel better about your body.

Come on OP you know the drill here.

Lots of posters will pile in to tell you it's far too much, all sugar, and that we've lost sight of a healthy weight anyway.

Others will obsess on the one glass of wine - have you had a drinking problem for a long time, OP <headtilt>

More will say it is far too much UPF and carbs and unless you're just eating quinoa, you're doing it wrong.

And then you've got the not inconsiderable number of people with seriously disordered eating, who would be "stuffed for weeks" on just your mixed leaf salad, and who could eke out a single diet cereal bar for at least a fortnight.

Food threads on here are ridiculous, you'll get a better response and more sensible replies on the weight loss forum. But to be honest, at 5ft 7inches and around 63kg you are slap bang in the middle of the healthy BMI range at around 21, losing 5kg takes you towards the bottom end of healthy.

But to be honest, at 5ft 7inches and around 63kg you are slap bang in the middle of the healthy BMI range at around 21, losing 5kg takes you towards the bottom end of healthy.

@Misthios Coming on to say exactly this, although I calculated at a BMI of around 22.Either way, OP, you are not overweight, you are a perfectly healthy weight. Why are you dieting?

5' 7" and under 10st?
You are not overweight.

My god that's virtually nothing! I'd be ravenous!

I don’t think there’s enough food there for it to be “a lot of UPF”

OP that’s not enough food! There’s nothing really…. idk filling(?) on that list mate. It seems really unsustainable and borne out of issues with food, rather than a regular day-in-the-life list of someone who is healthy mentally and physically.