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I wonder if someone could have a look at what I have been eating in the last few days and tell me where I am going wrong? I don't really seem to have lost any considerable weight since starting - perhaps a pound. I have lost maybe a centimeter from my waist and hips but it's an inaccurate measurement at the best of times.
Well, it's clearly a loss though, isn't it? And you haven't actually got that much weight to lose, so your rate of loss isn't going to be as great as others!
I think it is quite an interesting and healthy way to eat and will e good for me maintaining. I always put on weight slowly with a conventional diet even though mine us quite healthy. But right now, what I really want to do is shift 5k!
I'm sure you do. That's why we're here after all
But the weight didn't go on in a great lump, and nor will it come off like that. I'm afraid that you do need to be a bit more patient.
I drink all the water, one or two cups of tea with a little milk a day
Are you sure? Scouts honour?!
Breakfast is always 2 eggs scrambled in butter
Good. Make sure it's plenty of butter though.
Lunch last few days - ratatouille with cheese, chicken stew with swede, cauliflower and broccoli, ham and cheese salad with mayo.
Difficult to say from how you've written it, but it could be that there's not much fat going on here. And potentially quite a lot of carbs in things like ratatouille.
Dinners last three days- courgetti with heck sausage and bit of cream, roasted chicken thighs with chorizo and roasted courgette, onion and pepper, steak and salad.
Looks OK, but again - how much fat? If you're roasting veg, did you use lots of olive oil? Why a 'bit' of cream? And onion and pepper could be quite carby too - shallots would be better than onion, and green pepper better than red/orange/yellow (although I realise you didn't specify which you'd used!)
Snack was yesterday only - bit of mozzarella and ham.
OK - but you might want to look at how much cheese/dairy and processed foods you're eating.
I had two glasses of wine on Friday and on Sunday night.
And how big were those glasses?! Thing is, it's not just the carbs in wine that affect you. Alcohol is the easiest source of fuel for the body, so all the time you're drinking, the body is burning that and not fat. So a bit of a double whammy.
I'm afraid I'm thinking that I might go off for a bit and do a diet I know sheds a few pounds very fast and then come back. Would that be ok? It's quite low carb carb one anyway by accident.
Up to you, obviously. But I think if you tweak what you're doing, that should help. And remember we're also in weeks 3 and 4 where weight loss is notoriously slow.