Losing Weight Feedback

titan18

Hi,

Hopefully this is right place to do this but basically just wondering am I doing this right whilst trying to lose weight. I'm exercising a lot and with Christmas food finally gone, have finally managed to stop eating a load of crap.

Today, this is what I've had

Breakfast - 2 Weetabix in full fat milk, cup of orange juice
Mid - Morning - 1 Red Apple, about 250g of grapes (half a Tesco carton)
Lunch - Wholewheat wrap with Chicken Tikka - nothing else in this, just wrap and the chicken
Pre-dinner snack - half a grapefruit,1 square of dark chocolate
Dinner - Chicken fillet cooked in spices, and homemade oven cooked chips done in olive oil
Later evening snack - 1 square of dark chocolate

I'll drink about 3 litres of water as drinks at these meals. That is generally what I'd eat 7 days a week, with generally just the chicken cooked in different spices, or some days homemade wedges (basically just bigger chips done in spices, cooked same way using same amount of potato). Weekends I generally don't have the wrap with chicken tikka either, and usually just have a second apple.

Just looking for someone with more knowledge than me to let me know if that diet would be ok to lose weight. I'm exercising about 2 hours a day (low intensity cardio every 2nd day, and moderate to heavy on the other, and weight training different body parts every day).

Cake Man

Plug all of that into the myfitnesspal app (download it if you haven't already) and see how many calories it all adds up to. This is why specific quantities is vital as saying chicken, chips, half a grapefruit etc. doesn't mean much if you don't know exactly how many grams of each you've consumed. Buy a small food scales that you can use to weigh out what you eat.


You then need to work out your TDEE (total daily energy expenditure) which is basically the amount of calories you would take in each day to remain at your current weight. Knock 300-500cals off this and eat at that calorie amount for a few weeks. Google "Scooby's Workshop Calorie Calculator" and plug in your details.


The exercise is good, keep that up but ultimately it'll come down to your diet if you're looking to lose weight. You're obviously making an effort to eat well and cut out the junk but just bear in mind this doesn't guarantee weight loss. Weight loss will only happen when you're taking in less calories than your body needs. Weighing out your food and logging everything you eat (don't forget drinks apart from water/tea have calories too) makes it easier to stay in a calorie deficit.

Atlantic Dawn

Weight loss is very much subjective, someone 50lbs overweight will lose weight much faster than someone 5lbs overweight will on the very same diet.

titan18

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Weight loss is very much subjective, someone 50lbs overweight will lose weight much faster than someone 5lbs overweight will on the very same diet.

Ya, I'm 240 pounds so a decent bit overweight, so hopefully in the much faster spectrum

panda100

What vegetables do you eat?

titan18

panda100 wrote: »

What vegetables do you eat?

If chips count, potato Other than that none. Eat a lot of fruit, vegetables aren't appealing though even though I know I should.

Alf Veedersane

Plug what you eat into MyFitnessPal. You might need to get a digital kitchen scales but they're reasonably cheap so it's not an issue. Then you can measure the calorie value of everything you eat and drink. If you don't measure it you can't manage it.

It isn't necessarily a long-term strategy but use it as an educational tool to inform you of what is in what you're eating and to figure out the caloric value of different serving sizes so that after a couple of weeks you'll have a good idea of the calorie value of a serving size by looking at it.

SarahMollie

The things that stand out to me are the full fat milk and the olive oil. These are both easy ways to consume more calories that intended, so if you're using MyFitnessPal or similar, make sure to measure what you actually use, especially the oil, and track that - otherwise you won't get an accurate picture of your calorie intake.

Birdie086

I second Alf, get a scales, although mine isn't digital. I picked it up in Tesco for a few euro.

I used it religiously for a few weeks. It was a revelation for portion control, especially if cooking rice or pasta. It doesn't take up much space on the kitchen counter and I only use it how about once or twice a week to double check things or if cooking something new.

I would urge to try and find some veg that you like. They are as great low calorie filler, plus fibre and vitamins.

I also love to cook with turkey mince. One of my favourite dishes is turkey chilli on a bed of broccoli. When buying the groceries I split the veg between fresh and frozen that way we are not throwing out stuff at the end of the week and frozen broccoli/cauliflower is just too easy to prep.

Well done on the exercise, keep up the good work.