Losing weight

[Justamumof2x]

Hi,

I’m trying to lose weight after having my 2 kids and for some reason I’m stuck on 78kg.

I was 65kg before kids and after kids I was 80kg.

my main goal was diet and controlling what I eat because my youngest is 5 months and my partner works away all week plus I have no family or help around so I’m struggling to find the time to exercise but I’m on my feet all day long looking after the kids and cleaning the house and cooking etc.

ive tried calorie counting and counted every last thing I eat in a day, this is the lowest I’ll go calorie wise otherwise I start to feel ill.

I eat very clean, and healthy. I don’t do processed food or sugar etc. I’ll list what I eat and when and how many calories, protein etc I consume.

am I doing something wrong? By body just won’t budge under 78kg and I’ve been doing this for about 3 months now. Occasionally allowing myself a cheat meal but its not a weekly occurrence.

todays food - i eat between 1pm and 6pm only.

coffee, with collagen peptides, 50ml semi skimmed milk - 95kcal / 20g protein

organic protein powder, 100ml semi skimmed milk - 140kcal / 30g protein

Greek yoghurt 200g, raspberries 75g, blueberries 75g, banana 100g, honey 15g - 420kcal / 15g protein

Salmon 190g, cavolo Nero 100g, avocado 100g, 2 fried eggs, aparagus 100g - 871kcal / 65g protein

total: 1,500kcal / 70g carbs / 84g fat / 120g protein.

3L water all throughout the day.

any advice please? Thank you

Thank you very much for this ☺️

Wow such amazing tips and advice.

thank you all for this, I appreciate complete strangers taking the time to do this.

I will post an update in a few weeks xx ☺️

are you absolutely sure your calorie count is right? No extra mouthfuls, couple of extra spoonfuls to your potion, no finishing the kids meals?

I was you when my kids were small. I would have sworn to anyone I was eating 1200 cals a day.

i tried everything. Low carb, fasting, and nothing.

what worked in the end was a diet plan. I bought 3 months- breakfast, snack, lunch, dinner all provided. I had a milk allowance and unlimited fruit and veg.

guess what. I lost two stone easily. Despite feeling like I was eating more.

so the bottom line was I was miscalculating my calories and seriously underestimating what I was eating. I also discovered fasting/low carb doesn’t work for me, I need to not get to the over hungry point, and carbs keep me me full and energised to I’m not reaching for food when I’m tired. High protein just doesn’t suit me.

Try doing as much walking with the pram as possible while weather is allowing. Try going over 10k steps day , build up to ideally 15k of steady fast paste walk. You will srart seeing the difference.

It might be worth getting a thyroid function test.

@NewtonsCradle point about a thyroid function test is a really good idea, there is actually a known link between pregnancy and a drop in thyroid function - Postpartum Thyroiditis and it’s thought to be a lot more common that we know because people just assume they are tired and feeling unwell because they have a baby who never sleeps and screams every time you go for a wee.

Typical symptoms include fatigue, weight gain, constipation, dry skin, depression and poor exercise tolerance.

Yeah unfortunately, I even count a spoonful of mayo should I have it.

what plan was this? It sounds really good ☺️

You are doing very well so far. I'm 5'7", menopausal and have got down to 71kg so far from 85kg by averaging 1400 a day. Variable calories helps- sometimes I have 1800, sometimes 1000.

You are hardly having any fibre, or what you are having is coming from having a ton of fruit which also has loads of sugar. Pick two of those to have a day and five portions of veg (to be fair I count tomatoes and cucumber as veg but they are not sugary ones). Include whole carbs in your diet - those combined with protein are so filling. Eating everything in six hours may be too harsh. Go with what you need. Some days I have breakfast- 50g Bio and me Nutty Granola, defrosted frozen strawberries and blueberries and Skyr - 20g protein and 10g fibre out of the 30g you need a day. I have 110g of carbs a day or less- it's not keto or very low carb but lowish carbs. For me, carbs exist so it's better to have them in moderation and generally pick the good ones. I could never do very low carb long term. Sometimes I don't eat until later and just have brunch and dinner.

Ask Chat GPT for diet plan based on your parameters - it's actually pretty good. A high protein cheese omelette it suggested was a game changer for me, made with two eggs and two egg whites and 30g grated cheese. Normal two or even three egg omelettes were not filling for me but with the extra egg white you get so much more protein without the calories or fat. Not that fat is a huge concern, you do need it to fill you when you are reducing calories, however I think salmon, avocado AND fried eggs is a bit of a fat mountain to have at once. I tend to have a leaner protein like prawns or chicken with avocado.

And have things you really enjoy. I have a take away every Friday, often a bacon butty, crisps and chocolate at the weekend and a few drinks.

Sleep is really important. It's hard to lose weight without sleeping well. I wouldn't try to increase exercise at the same time other than walking which really seems to help with weight loss.

Try and break the steps down into short walks or using the treadmill it all add ups. Upping your protein will help a little as the body burns more calories digesting protein than other macros and I'm all for the small wins! Good luck

I’ve tried this previously and always seemed to plateau. The most effective diet I found was low fat and high fibre. The weight fell off me, currently breastfeeding so can’t do it yet but as soon as she is weaned I’m getting back to it.

I’m 5ft7 and Iog my food into Nutracheck. I have been given target of 1250 calories for weight loss and I walk 5-10k steps a day. It might be worth getting a cheap fitness/steps tracker to see how active you are generally around the house and then you could work on gradually increasing your activity levels. The apps they come with are really good in giving you a baseline and setting you mini goals to achieve. Personally I have lost weight really well on lower carb/keto plus intermittent fasting but everyone is different. Your first meal is incredibly high in sugar and 800 odd calories seems quite high for a dinner just at home. I agree with others you might be better off spreading it all out into three meals of roughly the same amount of calories to keep you fuelled throughout the day and not have such a big hit late in the day when you might not be quite so active. Good luck!!

was going to say the same, please do this. It’s £8 a month and you will not regret it! So much good advice in the groups and you track everything with them. You’d be surprised what your calories will be as well x

It was diet chef. I get on well with it mostly but as I am veggie by the end of 3 months I was struggling with some of the meals as it was quite restrictive and I was on a repeat of two or three evening meals I liked. Breakfast/lunch/snack was fine though, lots of variety and nice enough.

it’s the most cost effective, it didn’t cost me that much more than what I’d spend on food bills. Yes it’s over processed, but it’ easy to follow and it worked. It also helped me move on from all this low carb, fasting quick fix diets and get back into a proper eating habits.

breakfast- muesli, cereal bar, porridge etc
lunch- generally pot pasta or soup
snack, oat cakes, biscuit, crisps, chocolate bar.
evening meal- huge variety, veggie options were usually a tagine, curry, pasta type option. I’d bulk it with a big salad or stir fry. Tbf the meat options did look better.

no cooking beyond preparing veg/salad and microwaving, or thinking about shopping, so removed quite a bit of the “food noise” for me.

i did also look at Jane plan which is more expensive but has some more appetising options. No doubt there are more out there.

Another vote for TeamRH here.
I'm also 5 months pp with my 2nd, lost around 5lbs in 7 weeks eating 2200 calories a day, 5ft 2, 15k steps per day and starting weight 12st 7lbs. It's not a quick fix, Richie is a marmite character and it takes a total mindshift- I'm absolutely loving everything about it xx

Are you able to walk with the children every day? I found pushing the pram on a brisk walk each day hugely helped weight loss. I lost more than i should for the calorie deficit. Also do you need to have a protein shake if youre not exercising / lifting? Ive only had those when actively trying to increase muscle mass and doing weights. Just a thought.