To think this is a decent day of eating?

[jennyhumphreyseyeliner]

I have prepped food for tomorrow and my partner says it’s awful, but I think it’s decent!

Breakfast is baked oats - whey protein added and made with dark chocolate chips and some frozen raspberries. 420 calories and 33g of protein.

Lunch - chicken pie with baby potatoes. Lighter puff pastry used. 520 calories and 54g of protein.

Dinner - beef stew. Beef, potatoes, vegetables and gravy.

Snacks - light Greek yoghurt with stewed berries, and a packet of popchips.

Total - 1511 calories, 137g of protein and 37g of fibre.

I’m on a weight loss journey and will go to the gym before work tomorrow. I think it’s balanced, provides all my fruit and veg for the day (8 portions), hits my goals (im more worried about fibre than protein) and is genuinely tasty wholesome food.

YABU - this is unhealthy.

YANBU - it’s a good day of food.

Actually, if you used skimmed milk, half fat cheddar (Tescos creamfields is good and melts well) and cornflour as your thickener, cauliflower cheese has about the same calories as potatoes (boiled) and you get around 5g more protein.

The gym is on my way to work. It’s easier for me to go in the morning than it is at night as I’ll just walk past it 🤣

Why should she be doing anything of the sort?

Agreed, but it is also why MN food threads are some of my favourite to read

What kills me about this thread is so many people are saying "ooh too many big meals, too many potatoes" blah blah who seem to have missed the fact that the OP has lost almost TEN STONE eating this way!

If any of those posters have lost that sort of weight then I would listen to them, but they havent!

@jennyhumphreyseyeliner Tell your husband when he eats properly you will consider his opinion, until then he should keep his Huel hole shut!

Now that would have me farting!!

Op can I ask for your fibre breakdown? It's an impressive amount for a day when I can't see any beans/seeds on the list? I've been increasing fibre but find it hard to get beyond 20-25g without adding beans or something

The oats have a lot, lots of veg and berries. Skin on potatoes for lunch, peas are good too!

Why is potatoes twice not good? What is your reasoning for this statement?

Why?

Too many hot meals?? Eh?

@Gobbledegoo as your name suggest - that's gobbledegook! OP there's nothing wrong with meat at breakfast or lunch!

It’s not terrible, but I agree that it’s very high carb, which isn’t great you’re trying to lose weight. Why would you have potatoes with a pie? The pie has pastry so you are having double carbs in that meal alone. I would have the pie with some sort of veg like broccoli instead.

Because she wants them? It’s obviously not hindering her weight loss

Yes all the competitive under eaters and Ano Bots are arguing over carbs etc when the REAL issue is OP’s negging, controlling, unpleasant partner!

The food count doesn’t bloody matter, this woman is being put down by the person who should be cheering her on. Can we focus back on that!

OP has asked whether this is a healthy diet. The answer is no imo.

How do you know it’s not hindering her weight loss?

Seems fine to me, why is he so interested in what you eat? I mean personally I usually eat a keto bar for breakfast with coffee, an almond milk hot chocolate for a snack, one slice of high protein dark rye with 1/4 avocado and tin tuna in chilli oil for lunch, a vegetable soup for dinner and a sugar free dessert. That's what I eat 5 days a week, always the same. So you put a hell of a lot more effort in than me and most people and probably should be pretty proud of yourself for that. You clearly researched it and want to be healthy. I eat like an autistic child haha *well I am ASD but still....

Wrong.

She actually asked if it was a "decent day of eating".

And 3lbs per week loss eating real food with no fat jabs, I think it is clear that it isnt hindering her.

I wouldn’t eat this much carbs trying to lose weight but if it works for you that’s fine. Everyone’s bodies are different.

Your opinion is based on nothing but vibes, and she's lost NINE stone!!

It is quite carby but if you’re doing a lot of exercise and you’re not insulin resistant (eg outside perimenopause) then it’s ok.

when I’m being good/trying to lose weight I wouldn’t have pastry and potatoes on the same plate.

'being good' - see the idea that you shouldn't have double carbs is purely based on some idea of a 'good' meal as opposed to a 'naughty' one - ascribing morality to food rather than considering whether it's objectively meeting health goals. OP's days food meets all her macro targets and is within her calorie allowance so it's neither good nor bad morally, and it works for weight loss and health. Everyone who has posted saying it's too high carb is just going on vibes and it's ridiculous.

It never made sense anyway. Like your body has a timer that resets at midnight for when it extracts the nutrients? It doesn't do anything on a 24 hour basis. Gain weight, lose weight, extract nutrients - all of it is a matter of weeks to months, which is the only rational way to consider your diet.

Being good was stupid language, I accept.

But as some who experienced insulin resistance/GDM in pregnancy, this isn’t just vibes. Double carbs isn’t good for stable blood sugar which is supportive of weight loss goals

Well done @jennyhumphreyseyeliner on your fantastic weight loss. Your day sounds lovely to me, I also love carbs.

The only time I gain weight, despite eating lots of carbs is when I add red wine and cheese into my day😂