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Where am I going wrong?

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Mh0296 · 23/10/2014 12:16

Bracing myself for the replies on this thread on what I eat every day.. My BMI is in the healthy range, but only just, so I'd like to ideally lose about a stone.
Typical day:

Breakfast: 2 x weetabix with a chopped banana on top, black coffee, sometimes a small fresh orange juice.
Lunch: 1 Wholemeal wrap, normally filled with one of those individual weightwatchers tuna tins (70-something calories), lettuce and shredded beetroot. When it's cold, I have a cuppa soup sachet too. I find it hard not too have something sweet afterwards, when I can't resist this is either: 4/5 dried apricots/a pear/a mini pack of the kids' choc buttonsBlush
Mid afternoon: this is what's wrong, I think. I am ravenous by 3/4pm as have early breakfast and lunch and we don't eat until at least 7pm. I have a snack that is either an 'eat natural' bar, one of those mini malt loafs or, more recently, one of the kids' choc chip brioches. Blush sometimes add an apple to that too.
Dinner: meat and veg/salad. I don't eat the potato/pasta/bread part of what everyone else is having. Fat free yoghurt if I want pudding.
I drink black coffee/herbal tea/water and only have one cup of normal tea (milk & 1 sweetener) in the evenings, or occasionally an options hot choc made with water.

I suppose exercise is fairly minimal ATM. School run is 30 min walk each way but that's about it. Might start adding in the 30 day shred.

Any help please? cowers

OP posts:
tobysmum77 · 23/10/2014 21:47

two things:

  1. What you are eating for breakfast and lunch is not filling enough
  2. Avoid fruit juice

Try eating:
breakfast - fruit and greek yogurt (can do zero fat initially) or porridge.
lunch - something very protein-based so 200g of chicken with salad or scrambled eggs and home made baked beans or something. If you need a snack mid-afternoon have a banana.

Seriously if I tried to survive till 7 on a couple of weetabix and a wrap with a little tin of tuna I would be climbing the walls. being hungry then makes you snack.

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