What we ate today in a calorie deficit - whole food edition (and how do we feel?)

[thenewaveragebear1983]

I am on a long running ‘what we ate today’ thread, but I am currently trying to cut out ultra processed foods and Eat a (mostly) whole food diet. Mainly because I am really suffering with a looooooong list of minor ailments that are not independently any issue but as a collective, they are really dragging me down. My plan is to do the next 30 days (barring a weekend away) and to see if I notice any improvements, while also sticking to my calorie and exercise goals.

@CortieTat @Autumnleaves82 @Pippinberry your menus sound great (except babybel and protein bar 😂) @thenewaveragebear1983 alcohol does that to me too sadly... Have a great rest of the weekend though

I have my plates 1/2 filled with vegetables, it’s just I don’t only eat raw veg leaves and fruit but cooked, wrapped around rice, or simmered in soups.
I admit I don’t like fruit much, I usually have 2-3 apples per year 😅.

@CortieTat yes yours do look very good indeed, top marks! I always stuff myself with a bucket of veg when trying to reduce calories, I'm always surprised when people don't do this.

My menu for today:

Overnight oats with chia, poppy, pumpkin, hemp and sunflower seeds, dried apricots (30g), banana and turkish yogurt.

Sushi (10 bits and wakame salad) - we were out shuttling children to various sports so grabbed something reasonably healthy

Homemade burger (organic beef), cabbage, yellow pepper, spring onion and carrot salad - it’s the first spring cabbage of the year, I love it. Homemade vinaigrette (lemon+olive oil) plus onion, tomato, cucumber and romaine lettuce. Sambal oelek and leftover mint raita.

Snacks: Tweek gummies (UPF galore) two coffees with oat milk, homemade ginger kombucha, one Lindor ball (80 kcal 💀💀💀) 188 ml (half a small bottle) of brut rose Cava.

1946 kcal, also did my first LesMills Strength Development workout post-partum. It used to be my favourite LM series and it felt great! I am still doing a lot of modifications to core exercises and I started with very gentle weights.

I hope you don’t mind me adding a photo, I really like to see what others eat and get a lot of inspiration from such threads

Good morning, @CortieTatyour menu and photo look amazing.

I’m still away, we have hotel breakfast this morning which will of course contain UPF but after that, I’m back on the rails. In a way it has been good this weeekend to really get a reminder of just how horrible alcohol makes me feel, I am in no rush to have more. I feel really motivated now to get healthier.

I’d like to get a run in this afternoon when we get home. I’m off work tomorrow so I could do both, or maybe try to get to the gym instead, it’s ages since I’ve been.i think there’s a Monday cardio core class.
food wise- I massively overbought last week so I still have things in the freezer and veg in the fridge which need used up. I will need to review the menu! Lunch will most likely be salad with tuna, and dinner will be chicken thighs, new potatoes and veg in a traybake of some sort.

Today I had more protein for breakfast than normally and I felt hungry almost immediately. I’m very used to my overnight oats.

1. Smoked mackerel, a hard boiled egg, cabbage salad from yesterday, sauerkraut, two pieces of gluten free crisp bread (Semper powerknäcke and grovknäcke) with two slices of cheese.

2. Shrimp soup (leftovers from the other day plus a new batch) with shiitake, seaweed, savoy cabbage, fennel, onion, garlic, sprout beans and spring onion. Flavoured with tamari and tikka masala sauce.

3. Salade niçoise. This is my favourite food and a great source of resistant starches - I cook potatoes a day before and they sit in the fridge for 8-12h.

Snacks: two coffees with oat milk, homemade fifteens with gluten-free digestives, 1 digestive, 3 marshmallows (snacking while cooking 💀) vegan ice cream.

2445 kcal. No exercise today, just went for a 6 km walk. I am going to stretch and roll on a foam roller later in the evening.
Posting only the photos of good food, fifteens upon request 🙃

Oh can I join you please.
today I’ve had -

strawberries, pineapple and banana with 10% Greek yoghurt

roasted vegetables and an Italian sausage (leftovers)

roasted herb chicken with warm salad ( new potatoes,asparagus,griddled courgettes and peas with french vinaigrette)
2x dark chocolate mints

2x cappuccino

loads of water

My day didn’t quite go to plan, ended up having a cheese and ham sandwich on thick white bread for lunch 🤦‍♀️ dinner was very good though: chicken thigh fillets in lemon and herb and garlic, loads of roasted med veg and roast new potatoes

back on it properly tomorrow. I have loads of leftovers from dinner tonight, that will be my lunch tomorrow with salad.

Today

lettuce, cucumber, butterbean, red onion , tuna and egg salad

nandos - 1/4 chicken and chips (whoops)

hot chocolate

tomorrow
morning coffee
celery, cucumber, ginger, apple , carrot juice

lunch same salad as yday

celery, cucumber, ginger, apple , carrot juic

dinner
salad

minimum of 7k steps daily

im going to Paris on Saturday and I need to lose weight FAST!

For breakfast I had thin crackers with Philadelphia light, a little bit of Smoked salmon and cucumber with a coffee made with almond milk and collagen powder

Lunch was a low fat low carb meal from Prep Kitchen

Two slices of Soreen as a treat

Dinner was sweet potato, carrot, Cardomom and orange soup with added chickpeas as per the suggestion in the recipe from the Leon Vegetarian cookbook

Then fat free yoghurt, berries, a bit of ginger granola and a small drizzle of honey

I think I've come in about 1300 calories

Oops, oat milk, not almond

Bf - cheese omelette and coffee
lunch - stir fry veg with extra spinach, coriander, olive oil and tofu baked in my ninja
Dinner - roast chicken, potatoes, carrots, peas Broccoli
snack 90% dark chocolate. iced latte, apple and a tin of mackerel

I’ve struggled this weekend with motivation to weigh and track everything it’s so much easier scanning a bar code.

Saturday day 6 came in at 1252 calories
10% Greek yoghurt and strawberries
Leftover roasted veg, assorted lettuce and used up the last of the feta in a salad with an olive oil apple cider vinegar dressing. Apple.
Homemade spicy chicken aubergine sliders, quick pickled shallots and sweet potato fries.
2 sq 85% chocolate
Drinks - black coffee, 2+ ltr water and a glass of sparkling wine.

Day 7 yesterday 833 calories
Porridge (just oats and water, I’ve always had it like that even as a child mum had to make a separate pan for me) stewed apple and pumpkin, sunflower seeds.
Seabass with tenderstem, carrot mash and roasted cherry tomatoes. Blueberries.
2 hard boiled eggs with a small green salad. 1sq 85% choc.
Drinks - 2 black coffees, 2+ltr water

I wasn’t very hungry for dinner so left out the avocado I’d planned to have in the salad. Managed to find room for chocolate 🙄 though.

Day 8 today and I jumped on the scales and I’m down a good amount for me so that’s helped with motivation to keep on tracking.

Todays plan

this moening

green juice : celery cucumber, apple ginger

coffee

salad : lettuce, cucumber butter beans, red onion, tinned mackeral some pasta

Green juice

same salad finish by 6pm

early bed so I don’t crave!

Today’s menu so far:

leftover chicken and veg traybake with homemade mayo
apple and satsuma
almond milk and frozen fruit in a smoothie

went for a run and to the gym, and walked doggo

not sure what I will have for dinner. Probably the same leftovers. Need to stop off and get some salad leaves and other bits to make lunch for tomorrow

Avocado and egg on toast
Salmon and yogurt wholemeal wrap
pear
Chicken and new potatoes with green beans

Not very hungry today as I’m worried about dd as she’s unhappy at the moment

greek yogurt ,walnuts and raisins

crudités,cubed cheese and some tomatoes

dinner will probably be tomato and anchovy salad

only around 1000 calories

Also I've noticed no one seems to eat normal yogurt on MN (except me) only Greek?

I ate 2 kinds of salad (naked beetroot/red cabbage slaw and lettuce/herb salad)
Carrot and coconut soup
Bowl of raw veg (celery, cucumber, tomatoes, apple, carrots)
Natural yogurt (not greek)
Kefir
Blueberries
Harissa mackerel tomato bake (Aubergine, spinach, courgette, peppers, tomato, tin mackerel) with some grana padana cheese on
Sauted spring greens

I didn't do so well today, I messed up with breakfast

Breakfast was thin crackers with homemade tuna dip but I accidentally bought tuna in olive oil

Lunch was a low carb, low fat mezze bowl from Prep Kitchen

Two slices of Soreen

Dinner was a tub of salad but I chucked the sachet of dressing away and cod loin that I baked with without oil

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I have a cold and baby has just turned 6 weeks, we are both cranky and not sleeping well.

1. Overnight oats (same as usual) with onaka and banana (picture)
2. Shrimp soup - leftovers. I still have one portion left for tomorrow
3. Exercise in hiding vegetables from children :-) brown sushi rice with puy lentils simmered with leek, peppers, carrots, tomatoes, garlic, red onions and stalk celery, topped with fresh oregano and lovage from our garden (spring is here!)

Snacks: two coffees with oat milk, homemade kombucha, 1/4 avocado, fifteens from yesterday, winegums.

2027 kcal, went for 4 km walk and did an hour long pilates for the first time since baby was born. I still have to take it easy with upper abs although I have much smaller gap between upper abs than in my previous pregnancies.

@Authorperson I’m having Greek yoghurt at the moment as it’s the highest protein one I’ve found and it’s so thick and creamy I find it very filling. I love plain natural yoghurt and enjoy it when I’m in a maintenance phase and have more calories to play with to reach my targets.

Day 8 - 1208 calories
Stewed Apple and lightly toasted walnuts.
Poached salmon, tenderstem, green beans, roasted cherry tomatoes, assorted lettuce leaves in olive oil/acv dressing. Strawberries.
Mixed mushrooms, spinach, onion, garlic, ginger, turmeric and 2 eggs scrambled.
2 sq 85% chocolate
Drinks - blk coffee, 2+ ltr water

I find Greek yogurt much less sour than regular natural, and it is more filling (has higher protein content I think?)

yesterday I went for some acupuncture and the appointment was over 2 hours! I didn’t get in until 9.30 and I didn’t fancy leftover chicken so I just had an apple with peanut butter, some grapes and a few walnut halves for my dinner in the end.

food today;
breakfast- not sure, I might just make a smoothie with almond milk and fruit
lunch- chicken, med veg and salad. Homemade mayo
dinner- need to raid the freezer, I think probably a portion of cottage pie or mince with veg on the side.

I haven’t done a shop yet this week as I am trying to use up a few bits as all my shopping gets out of sync!

I think it's cuz I know greek yogurt is the highest most calorie dense one is why I usually reach for normal. So when I've compared before I've seen that you can basically eat twice as much normal to get the same protein and I am greedy haha

Never paid much attention to the type of yogurt. I normally buy thinner fermented drinks such as kefir, a-fil, filmjölk, onaka (that’s Arla’s product that they claim to be Japanese kefir) for my overnight oats and for kids to drink, and matyogurt (usually this one: https://wapnomejeri.se/matyoghurt-10/) for sauces, curries, or instead of mayo. Mat literally means ”food” so it could be translated as cooking yogurt? It’s 10% fat and creamy, it mixes perfectly with hot dishes so it’s homogenised.