Posting photos of food!

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Hello! Posting photos of everything I eat! Please join (there’s been a few previous threads but haven’t been on one for ages, however have lost some healthy habits and need motivation to start again so here goes!)
not for comparison as everybody has different activity levels/nutritional needs! I’m aiming for a small calorie deficit of 250-500 cals a day 😊
breakfast 40g curiously churros and 100ml heated up frothed oat milk (honestly soooo delicious - sounds weird but don’t diss till you try!)
takeaway oat latte with syrup
early lunch cause I’m starving- toast smoked salmon and eggs!

3 little moons mochi
decaf coffee

4 chocolate squares (40g) 2 of each type

Meatballs and wholewheat pasta
consumed around 2160 calories so far and will aim to burn about 2500 cals altogether. Not loads of fruit and veg consumed so I might have a bowl of frozen veg later for an extra 100-200 cals ! As long as I’m in a small deficit today I’m happy as my body is used to being in a surplus atm so just got to break that cycle !

Ended up making a green smoothie for my fruit and veg fix, was so delicious ! Frozen cauliflower, frozen spinach, frozen strawberries, scoop protein powder, banana, oat milk, water! Deff a reminder to have more smoothies as I love them! Has taken calories to about 2450 but I’ll still be in a small deficit so I’m happy!

Ended up eating a bowl of cereal and a bit more dark chocolate last night so unfortunately ended up in maybe a 200-300 calorie surplus! Was just really hungry, not sure why I’m soo hungry atm, I have covid but not feeling ill just tired! But will try being in a deficit today!

breakfast- cereal, mocha, hersheys cream egg
lunch- caramelised banana bagel, Biscoff and peanut butter

Hello! Starting again- working from home for a while now so perfect time to get back to spending time planning meals/taking photos/trying to cut down on snacks!
also I have always had such a sweet tooth and am very wary of cutting out any foods as I had an ED as a teen, so really try and go with intuitive eating as much as possible, However I am trying to cut back on ultra processed foods as much as possible and cooking from scratch more! Aiming for under 2000 calories each day this time, and aiming to burn minimum 2400 a day through walking about 2 hours a day, house chores, and running a couple times a week! (Although today will be less as too hot to get outside!!) I’m sort of doing intermittent fasting but eating window isn’t going to be too strict - probably around 9-5/6 a day and no eating as a general rule after dinner (unless socialising!) main thing is I need to cut the snacks as they add soooo Many calories on, so aiming for bigger more fulfilling and delicious meals so I don’t feel the need to snack! Gosh sorry massive ramble 😂😂

breakfast- perfect smoothie weather! So a smoothie bowl made with 160g frozen strawberries, 30g vanilla protein powder, oat milk, water, 15g chia seeds, 15g peanut butter, 1medjool date, ice, then topped with chia , flaxseed, ground almonds, sunflower seeds and peanut butter. Was really lovely and refreshing and I love topping with seeds as gives it a good texture! Would normally pop a banana in too but didn’t have any left!
oat milk latte with 100ml oat milk and sweet freedom cinnamon syrup
632 cals

lunch will be aubergine and tomato baked eggs

dinner will be paneer stuffed pancakes

all logged into MyFitnessPal so fingers crossed I stick to it 😅😅

Lunch- Aubergine harissa baked eggs with cous cous and Greek yoghurt! V nice and filling! realfood.tesco.com/recipes/one-pot-harissa-spiced-aubergine-and-eggs.html#method

Had some extra lunch and then paneer and chickpea and spinach stuffed pancake for dinner. Also had a decaf coffee with oat milk and two waters and lime cordial at a pub so estimated 60 cals for that. Overall I’ve eaten roughly 1935 cals and burnt 2170 as it was so hot I didn’t do much exercise!

Felt like weetabix this morning but unfortunately we just ran out 🤦‍♀️ So had 4 medjool dates with peanut butter which was actually lovely, and a decaff oat cappuccino. Around 300 cals

lunch will be left over paneer and chickpeas from yesterday with brown rice

dinner I’m thinking crispy fried tofu and aubergine slices with egg fried brown rice

Lunch and snacks

Dinner- crispy tofu with egg fried brown rice
Also licked the bowl from baking protein flapjacks and had a little bit of one. Estimated Cals for the day around 2341 which is a bit over my goal however I’m going to head out on a 5k run now and will have burnt around 2900 cals today as it’s been quite an active day so the higher cal intake is fine!

Back to taking photos today after a few days off! I’ve been having trouble with digestion and also skin rashes and decided to try an elimination diet to see if it was peanuts.. but then also wheat.. I know you’re supposed to try one thing at a time but I’m going to try both then can reintroduce one if I feel better.. gutted about both things but especially if it’s wheat, I eat soooo so much stuff containing wheat 😓😓

but first day
breakfast- oat milk white choc mocha with hazelnut syrup
fruit and 0% Greek yoghurt
Lunch- sweet potato cheese and onion frittata
snack- rest of mango pack
dinner- broccoli pad Thai

I think roughly around 1800 cals consumed, aiming to burn around 2500cals by end of the day, hopefully offsetting quite big surplus the other day!

Breakfast (no photo)- decaf white choc mocha
blueberry muffin nakd bar
iced oat mocha
lunch- salt and vinegar rice cakes with hummus mixed with tuna
snack- strawberries
dinner- teriyaki salmon
snack- leftover dinner 😅

only ended up burning 2330 cals yesterday but today I’ve burnt about 2850 and eaten just under 2200

Breakfast- yoghurt and berries teaspoon of maple syrup (old photo)
nakd bar
matcha latte oat
oat hazelnut mocha
lunch- free slice of cake so I had to, lemon meringue pie, I know it has gluten in but hopefully not too much 😅

about 1000 cals so far- the drinks were quite high in cals!

Soo yesterday I had a binge on the things I’ve been trying to avoid to test for intolerance, I knew it was likely because whenever I restrict anything I will ultimately binge! Luckily it wasn’t a full on ‘eat till you’re sat on the floor crying/unable to breathe properly’ binge, I haven’t had one of those in over a year thankfully!!! But I did have a white bread bun with butter and peanut butter, a slice of white bread, some spoons of peanut butter, a huge peanut butter NYC cookie (cooked them yesterday and have been very restrained) an apple (to feel a bit healthier!!) so that was probably around 1000 cals, then for dinner (I think it’s important to still have meals not starve yourself after a binge!!) I had 2 small slices of pizza, hummus and some rice cakes. I burnt 2480 cals yesterday so I’m hoping I ate about the same and wasn’t in too much of a surplus, but it’s hard to tell when I don’t track! I am feeling some tummy pain /slight nausea today so I’m definitely going to try and do a strict cut out for 6 weeks and see if I’m better. Going to be hard restricting and not binging but I really want to try, got to remember it’s for the sake of my health!

Breakfast- latte oat milk and sugar free syrup
4 salt and vinegar rice cakes and hummus
banana egg and almond flour pancakes (these were delicious and very photogenic haha hence the only photo I managed)

snack- about 6 salt and vinegar rice cakes
couple pieces white chocolate
matcha oat latte

dinner- aldi large beer battered fish but I removed all the batter to be gluten free, sweet potato fries, ketchup
oat cakes and cheese and butter

snack- 2 square dark chocolate and strawberries

no idea on calories, I’ve sort of lost the motivation to count calories, but I think the fact I’m cutting out gluten will probably mean I don’t eat as many.

Also realised the soy sauce I’ve been using for meals this week has gluten in! So today was first day truly gluten free (except from traces from the batter!) I’ve decided to not cut out peanut butter yet just focus on the gluten for 6 weeks and see if it makes a difference!

Breakfast- oat milk decaff
maple syrup latte
microwaved nakd bar and yoghurt and berries, peanut butter
lunch- same pancakes as yesterday but with fried banana, yoghurt, maple syrup and peanut butter, wasn’t very photogenic though so no photo
pudding- microwaved nakd bar
snack- strawberries, 2 dark chocolate squares and 2 white chocolate squares
dinner- mushroom risotto

Around 2100 cals (added too much peanut butter to everything this morning!!) so going to try and go on a run later so I can burn about 2500 cals overall and be in a decent deficit

i keep saying it but I’m going to try and skip breakfast tomorrow as today breakfast + lunch + snack was too many calories, we’re getting Indian takeaway for dinner tomorrow so I especially need to save them!

Yay first day of intermittent fasting has been great! Did it properly and didn’t even have my coffee 😅 lunch- baked sweet potato with leftover mushroom risotto

going to bake some gluten free sweet potato brownies for snack

dinner will be Indian takeaway- Chicken tikka starter, tarka dal and possibly a bit of rice. I will really really really miss my usual stuffed paratha however I genuinely think gluten was the problem- feeling better already with my digestion!

Hi! I'm back after a long break - I can't remember exactly, but I think I stopped posting when I fell pregnant with my son who's now 5 months old so it's time to get back on the wagon! I actually had gestational diabetes whilst pregnant so had to radically alter my diet for most of my pregnancy, however now I'm trying to reduce my carbs again I can't even remember what I used to eat 🤦🏽‍♀️ I saw on another post you said you had tingly toes so you were trying to reduce sugar - same here, I really want to try and get in the normal blood sugar range, so I'm going to try and eat more mindfully!!