Is this an ok plan?

[theplasticbagprincess]

Breakfast
Porridge with fruit and peanut butter
Approx 400 calories

Lunch
Eggs, toast and baked beans
Or baked potato beans and cheese
With a bowl of veg sticks and some pickled onions
Approx 500 calories

Dinner
Pork chop, mash and vegetables
Or fish, rice and vegetables
Or burger in bun, with a cheese slice, potato wedges and coleslaw
Or chicken curry, rice and peas
Approx 600 calories

Snack
A piece of fruit and a small dessert like a yoghurt, mousse or jelly pot
100-200 calories

It depends how much weight you are trying to lose, over how long, and what your general health is like?

I'm trying to lose 5 stone so I'm aiming for 1000 calories per day (which I'm struggling with!). The recommended daily intake for "normal" non-diet diet is 2000. You are down to 1700 so you should lose weight at a slower but health pace. Drink plenty of water and add in some exercise. Perhaps change the menu after a month for variety.

As a menu it looks nice!

Looks fine, but as above, depends on current weight, height, activity levels etc. I personally wouldn’t lose weight eating that amount, because I’m 5’4”, don’t have a lot left to lose, and exercise regularly. I need to eat about 1200 calories to lose.

Also, you haven’t included drinks. Do you drink tea, coffee etc? A few sugary milky coffees could add a few hundred calories extra.

I'd be aiming to up protein. Keeps you fuller for longer. Prevents muscle loss as opposed to fat loss

Most women would struggle to lose anything much on 1700 calories unless very physically active. It would probably be enough to stop you gaining weight, but any loss would be glacially slow - ounces rather than pounds.
Your choices could be improved quite a bit - for example a pork chop is very fatty, and could be replaced by a lean pork fillet, mashed potato contains butter and milk and causes a spike in blood glucose as rapidly absorbed, so wholegrain rice would be both lower calorie and smoother on blood glucose. Baked beans, although a good source of protein, are usually tinned in a high calorie tomato sauce. Porridge really doesn’t need peanut butter.
You could usefully increase green leafy veg to fill you up, while reducing some of the high calorie elements in your plan.

Burger buns and bread are whole grain, potato I always eat the skins, including on wedges (homemade). Rice is wholegrain. Oats in porridge are wholegrain. Drinks are 0 cal/1 cal tops, and mostly water, some sparkling or flavoured water, green tea the occasional Diet Coke. Thanks

I'm just into the obese category, so got quite a way to go, but exercise regularly, including walking minimum 1 hour a day and doing a physical job part time (sedentary job the other Half though). I've been maintaining on about 2000 calories, so should be enough.

Meat wise it's not always pork chop, but whatever cut is cheapest most of the time so could be pork loin, pork chop, gammon, just whatever really. I will have a look at the cuts in future.

I've always resorted to fad diets, shake diets things like that before so trying to moderate the kind of things I enjoy eating. I don't want to eliminate things like peanut butter and cheese which I enjoy eating and also have some nutritional value, but am happy to let go of my crisp, ice cream and creme egg habits!

It’s all personal but there is no way I would lose weight on that (in fact i
would probably put it on). If you are trying to lose weight, I would remove peanut butter from the porridge, would have either eggs or beans or beans or cheese (at lunch) and I think your burger meal sounds very high calorie. In fact, I think you are probably underestimating the calories in some of your meal choices.

It sounds a good menu but have you actually entered all the ingredients into something like MFP? I know you've answered a question on this in a pp, but 600 calories for burger, cheese, bun, wedges, coleslaw is low
Also, jacket with cheese, beans (and presumably butter?) is also usually higher than 500 for me.
I do like a big potato though!
It's worth logging everything, it's eye opening

Sadly I would gain weight if I ate that much everyday. However I am in my 50s.

If you want to reduce the calories of the breakfast you would do better to have a little less oats and KEEP the peanut butter. The fats and protein are vital to an otherwise entirely carb breakfast, which you will end up feeling hungry soon after.

Some people are stuck in the 1980's terrified of fat still. Peanut butter, measured out, not guessed, is a great source of nutrients, healthy fats and plant protein. It also stops porridge being dull!

Personally I would have the eggs for breakfast or another protein high meal

I think as others have said once you weigh and measure your jacket potato, cheese, the burger bun (usually around 300 cals) the burger, the wedges, the coleslaw your calories would be a lot higher than you've set out

Unless of course its very small

That amount of carbs would make me very hungry though, I would be craving foods and find it difficult to regulate

What is your weight and height? Put it into a tdee calculator (find one online) and find your sedentary tdee. Then tell us what it is, along with how much exercise you do. Then people can advise you 🙂

Eg my sedentary tdee is about 1450, but I walk five miles a day at 70cals burnt per mile, so I add that to my tdee and get 1800. So that's my maintenance cals. If I want to lose weight at about 1lb per week I'd need to subtract 500cals from that so I'd need to eat 1300.

This will give you a reasonably accurate ballpark to aim for. Once you know this number, start your new food plan by weighing every single bit of it and adding up calories per 100g of that product. You only need to do this once for each meal if you are consistent with your portion sizes so it's not as much work as it sounds!

20% off your TDEE (which you estimate to be about 2000kcal per day) is sensible.

1600kcals - which is about what you've got there.

Try it for 8 weeks then review. You can tweak from there.

I think it looks reasonably sensible and balanced. For snack I would go for a Greek style yoghurt rather than mousse or jelly, because the protein will keep you fuller.

If you're not interested in counting calories/fad diets etc (and I don't blame you - it's so depressing) I would recommend looking up Corinne Crabtree. She has a method that looks like it might suit you.

I've cut carbs and only eat in a window of 7 hours, but my daily intake looks like this:

B: nothing -
Between 11am and 2pm - omelette (3 eggs, peppers, onions, asparagus, tomatoes and cheese) or chicken salad.
5pm to 6pm - meat and salad/veg. This could be a curry with salad, beef burgers cut up into a salad, bolognese with carrot and swede mash.

Sounds about right if you are in the obese category and happy losing slowly and want to eat normal meals but agree with others, if calorie counting is your preferred method I would use something like MFP to check amounts in your bread - for example it gives wholegrain slice of bread as 69cal but Tesco wholemeal seeded is actually 115cal a slice.

For meat chicken (skinless) is definitely your friend and look at adding some fish into your diet but if you do have a chop or similar make sure you trim all the visible fat off otherwise you could easily be heading towards 500cal for that alone!
I'm doing similar and I find having protein for breakfast really helps with hunger (egg & spinach on toast or a mushroom omelette) and load up on hte fruit & veg at each meal so you're not tempted to have a bigger jacket potato or load up on cheese.

One big thing that helps me is planning the week ahead so I've got everything in the cupboard for 7 breakfasts, 7 lunches & 7 dinners and depending on how hungry I am or what I fancy can just pick on on the day. Most weeks I also make a batch of chunky soup - made with whatever veg I've got in the fridge (onions, celery, peppers, spinach, carrots, courgette etc) chopped tomatoes, stock, herbs & seasoning plus a tin of beans & handful of lentils. Keeps in the fridge for days and if I'm peckish I'll just blitz a small bowl between meals, goes well on top of jacket potatoes or change it up with some parmesan or heat/curry spices.

@WentForAWalk & @AnotherSpare aren't you hungry? Appreciate I'm been eating too much hence gained weight but I'd be miserable on that. I like my food too much 😬

@lechatnoir Not hungry as such, your stomach adjusts to the change in volume. But bored for sure! I'm eating significantly less, so the food is naturally less interesting and less in volume. I'm finding it really difficult because I enjoy food. But I have five stone to lose and some associated health issues so no choice for me - I'm trying to shift a load of it quickly and then will ease the pace later on.

It doesn't have high enough protein level to justify keeping that much

And i just looked it up. 14g/100 protein in oats, 9g/ 100 for peanut butter