Anyone care to critique my diet?

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I've got 10 lbs to lose, it's crept on this summer but I'm struggling.
Low Carb isn't an option for me, I've been successful in the past but realistically can't sustain it.

Breakfast. Home made granola (baked mixed nuts, seeds and dried fruit) with full fat Greek yoghurt and raspberries. Big portion.

Lunch. Sourdough seeded baguette, quite a large one, with egg mayo (half fat), tuna & cucumber or ham and salad.
Yoghurt (Skyar or Greek) and banana.

Dinner. Had roast lamb, fresh veg and new potatoes with butter. Often have meat/chicken/fish and salad.
2 glasses of wine 3 times a week.

I'm not a snacker and exercise daily. If I reduce portion sizes I get hungry and bad tempered.

If anyone can see any big errors I'd really appreciate advice. Thanks.

Breakfast - how many cals in the granola?
Lunch - same, how many in the baguette?
You could do with totalling up your cals for the day really to know where you're at

For me, your lunch and dinner would be like having 2 main meals in a day.
I often have yoghurt for lunch with almonds, pumpkin seeds and then an apple and satsuma and I'd consider that a main meal.
So to have that and a baguette and then another proper meal in the evening is a lot.
I would put on weight really quickly if I ate that much.

Try reducing high sugar stuff such as dried fruit.

Have an apple or orange or handful of berries instead of banana.

Make sure you have more green veg than potatoes.

Try sliced bread (hand sliced from uncut if you prefer) instead of baguette. Less bread there but sandwich can still be substantial.

These small tweaks will reduce carbs/sugar but you'll not be eating much differently psychologically.

Thanks for the comments.
I've no idea how many calories . Seems I'm eating too much, but I just get so hungry.
Should I be going down the low fat route?
When everyone was away I tried a calorie controlled ready meal but I could easily have eaten two.

It sounds awful but if you're eating too much then you have to reduce your portion sizes, and you will be hungry for a while - yeah it sucks!
I'm on around 1300 cals a day and for that I have

B - protein shake with skim milk
L - banana pancakes (2 eggs, 1 banana) with 70g Greek yog and berries
T - one tortilla wrap with wafer thin chicken, pickle and salad
Snack - 99 calorie of fruit and nuts or apple and peanut butter, sometimes a 100 cal choc bar or some more berries or a 50 cal babybel

I fill up on water and bovril

Sugars and carbs can make you hungry. Upping protein can really reduce appetite. So even if you don't want to all out avoid starchy carbs readdressing this balance might help.

Nuts and seeds are rammed with calories. A standard portion of the sugar free granola in my cupboard is 250 calories, so your breakfast is at least 500 calories, probably more.

I know your baguette is sourdough but a tuna baguette on white is around 600 calories, banana 100 and yoghurt 100 or more.

A glass of wine is about 150cal for a 175ml glass. So before you've had your dinner you're on at least 1450 calories and probably a bit more if the granola is a large portion. Your lamb and potatoes and butter is unlikely to be less than 600 calories so you're easily doing 2100 calories in a day, which will cause weight to creep up unless you're very tall and active (I'm 5'8" and overweight and I would maintain on 1900 calories a day according to a TDEE calculator)

I would swap the and yoghurt for scrambled egg and fruit, saving 300 calories, have a huge tuna salad and one slice of sourdough which would save another 250, and cut the wine right back.

*I would swap the granola and yoghurt

It does all sound quite high calorie. Breakfast could you try overnight oats with fruit and low calorie yogurt or eggs and vegetables? Lunch maybe swap the baguette for a low calorie wrap? I've been eating a lot more veg, about 3/4 of the plate and it seems to be working so far.

Simple way to cut calories is to halve the size of the lunch baguette, opt for a roll instead if you are buying it from cafe, and have just 1 glass of wine instead if two on drinking days.

Oh and think volume. So foods that are bulky but low cal like salad, soup, grated carrot, apple, berries, water, 10 cal jelly pots etc. Helps you feel more full

Try intermittent fasting, it really works.

Really helpful advice.
We have a garden full of raspberries but I definitely could reduce/ cut out the granola or make it without fruit.
Happy to stop the baguette and have a slice of whole meal. Maybe have a scrambled egg on one slice for lunch.
Thanks everyone, I think I've got muddled with low carbing and reducing calories.

Well low calorie and low carbing can be linked. If you are swapping some starchy carbs such as potatoes for green veg it cuts carbs and calories. As does swapping fresh berries for a banana. Reducing the amount is of bread, sliced instead of baguette cuts calories and carbs also. The only difference is that with low carb diets people don't usually worry about calories from fats or proteins but then starchy carbs really have to be significantly reduced.

Swap to low-fat yoghurt, but be very careful about which one you go for as lots add sugar to compensate! Fage 0% is a good one - it has very slightly more sugar than the full-fat version, but has zero fat and higher protein.

There's some easy wins there.

Dried fruit in the granola will have more sugar than fresh fruit, so I would leave the dried fruit out and mix a bit of fresh in when serving.
Similarly, nuts are high in calories. So if your current ratio of nuts and seeds is 50:50, I would change to 20 nuts and 80 seeds.

I would swap egg mayo baguette for egg salad, and swap ham salad for chicken salad.

Lamb is a fatty meat, so I would stick with chicken, turkey or fish with the occasional fillet beef thrown in for variety. I would use fresh mint to make new potatoes more interesting over butter.

Half the wine (or if not unrealistic, lose it altogether).

A few tweaks without changing your diet too much should be enough to make the difference you need.