I'm a large lady. That's being polite. I'm 19st13lbs. By virtue of this weight, my maintenance calories are 2600.
I'm eating at 1800 odd, and have been really frustrated that I wasn't losing weight. Surely an 800 calorie deficit should have the weight falling off me.
But I recently tracked all the extra snacks that "definitely can't hurt" and realised I was eating closer to 2500 a day!!! No wonder I wasn't losing. I was absolutely shocked by this and also a bit annoyed at myself because I was working hard in the gym and just not getting anywhere.
So yeah, just a rant. But now I'm taking berberine to kill the food noise and I'm eating in a proper deficit. Hoping to lose a stone in the next 50 days
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I didn't realise how much the little snacks were hurting me!
concernedchild · 26/03/2024 13:25
ManchesterBeatrice · 26/03/2024 13:33
What did you find were the worst offenders? 😵💫
onwardsup4 · 26/03/2024 15:42
I mean it's fairly obvious you won't lose much weight if your snacks are cheese and crackers and four or five biscuits lol. Biscuits are the worse and I've always avoided them as they're not worth the calories . Lately I've really not cared and been raiding the biscuits can definitely feel weight creeping on
onwardsup4 · 26/03/2024 15:59
Yes I’ve found have to be so strict to lose anything. Calorie checker is definitely good to keep on track just have to be honest 🤣
Weighing out portions as well if you’re really serious as I think it’s easy to underestimate the amount we eat as well
lespameo · 26/03/2024 16:02
My go to snacks are wotsits, or quavers, carrot sticks with salsa, or apple slices with a small dip of bifscoff. Im trying to break my addiction to kitkats - they're only 107 calories but I inhale them. Snacking is my absolute downfall.
BigWillyLittleTodger · 26/03/2024 16:01
Even healthy foods add up, my vegetables with my main meal last night were nearly 200 calories and no that’s not with potatoes!
FlabMonsterIsDietingAgain · 26/03/2024 16:14
Doesn't satisfy the low UPF requirement but I find having cheesestrings or babybel light in the fridge really helpful for those 'need cheese' moments.
Longley farms full fat cottage cheese is brilliant too. It's not the sour lumpy runny stuff like most cottage cheese, it's really nice.
Sainsbury's do a brand of crackers called 'Good guys bakehouse crackers' they are quite small and like wafers but very cheesy flavoured and 5 calories each. A couple of those with a bit of cottage cheese satisfies the snack craving for under 100cals.
Menora · 26/03/2024 16:51
The marmite cheese and the light baby bels are less calories than the little cathedral city blocks.
im not prepared to give up cheese. I will give up everything else but not that!
I just don’t eat biscuits if possible as they are all so high in calories and 2 never feels enough
Laalaland · 26/03/2024 17:00
Have you calorie counted the milk in your brews too?
CurlsnSunshinetime4tea · 26/03/2024 17:00
My lightbulb moment was when I decided I should weigh the organic pumpkin seeds I had been enjoying by the handful multiple times a day…after all it was healthy…300cal later
ohthejoys21 · 26/03/2024 17:11
Rice cakes and hummus are my current weakness.. What does every one do on holiday? Have a holiday and pay the price on return?
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