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Archerychickge wrote: »
i don't quite understand?0 -
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What are the pictures for?0
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Try cooking your food rather than buying pre-packaged foodstuffs - which isn't Food. You aren't feeding your body so it's thinking that it needs to store up the calories (empty ones) that you are giving to it in case it starves. You can't lose weight on that kind of diet.
Here's a week of meals that will put protein and healthy fats in your diet, but keep carbs down:
Monday
breakfast: omelette with veggies (cook a batch of broccoli and use it in your eggs); cooked in butter or coconut oil
lunch: grass fed yogurt with blueberries and slmonds
dinner: cheeseburger (no bun), veggies, salsa sauce
Tuesday
breakfast: bacon & eggs (two each)
lunch: leftover burger & veggies
dinner: salmon with butter & veggies
Wednesday
breakfast: eggs & veggies cooked in butter
lunch: shrimp salad with olive oil
dinner: grilled chicken with veggies
Thursday
breakfast: omelet with various veggies, cooked in butter
lunch: smoothie with coconut milk, berries, almonds, & protein powder
dinner: steak with veggies
Friday
breakfast: bacon & eggs
lunch: chicken salad with veggies
dinner: pork chops with veggies
Saturday
breakfast: omelette with veggies
lunch: grass fed yogurt with berries, coconut flakes, walnuts
dinner: meatballs with veggies
Sunday
breakfast: bacon & eggs
lunch: smoothie with coconut milk, heavy cream, chocolate protein powder, berries
dinner grilled chickens with raw spinach
Object is to get away from boxes and bags filled with non-food and FEED your body food. you will lose weight and feel oh so much better. your body will reward you by taking care of it.
lunch: chicken salad
Amusing: Warns against "packaged non-food"; has protein powder frequently.0 -
neversummer7 wrote: »thank you all for your input, I have made some swaps
tonight i will have some beans with lemon peppered chicken.
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Those things you posted just now are ok in small quantities, but they shouldn't make up the bulk of your diet. Listen to the great advice you've gotten here, especially the poster who said you should scrap your diet and start all over. Build a new plan starting with healthy protein, carbs, and fat. Rainbow colored mini poptarts and the like aren't real food. Do you have access to a nutritionist? If you do, make an appointment. And as someone mentioned earlier, if those pictures are recent, you probably don't need to lose any weight. Rather, you should focus on eating healthy. Good luck!0
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neversummer7 wrote: »Archerychickge wrote: »
i don't quite understand?
It's a comment on the color of the food you posted originally.
Food: tortilla with cheese: 240 calories - beige
Poptarts crips: 60 cals - beige
Fiber one cereal (3 servings dry no milk) 240 - beige
Sugar free pudding 60 cals - beige
Box of Special K crackers 385 cals - beige
Salad 80 cals - green
Walden farms ranch dressing 0 cals - grossness
Carrots with walden farms ranch: 175 cals - orange
1540 cals total
3 servings cocoa puffs dry 300 cals - brown/beige
Bag of apples and grapes 200 cals - red/purple
Carrots with walden farms dressing 175 cals - orange
3 serving of cocoa puffs 300 cals - brown/beige
Bag of apples and grapes 200 cals - red/purple
Carrots with dressing 175 - orange
The vast majority of what you eat is beige. And processed.
However, the issue isn't that it's processed. The issue is that you're lacking two very important macronutrients - fat and protein. And because you are only eating carrots, grapes, and apples as your fruits and veggies, you're missing a lot of micronutrients as well.
You need variety in your diet. 3 servings of cocoa puffs is fine but seriously, where's the chicken, beef, pork, fish, eggs, tofu/tempeh, etc? Where's the olive oil, butter, coconut oil, etc? Green beans, broccoli, sweet potatoes, regular potatoes, etc? Pineapple, oranges, peaches, etc?
You're existing almost solely on carbs. And that's not healthy because you're missing fat, protein, vitamin C, vitamin K, potassium, etc. You're getting fiber due to your Fiber One cereal but I bet eating a box of Special K crackers every day is costing you a pretty penny. You'd be fuller longer on some broccoli and chicken or steak and half a potato for the same calories. And over time, especially if you buy in bulk and in season, it'd be cheaper.
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0somuchbetter0 wrote: »Those things you posted just now are ok in small quantities, but they shouldn't make up the bulk of your diet. Listen to the great advice you've gotten here, especially the poster who said you should scrap your diet and start all over. Build a new plan starting with healthy protein, carbs, and fat. Rainbow colored mini poptarts and the like aren't real food. Do you have access to a nutritionist? If you do, make an appointment. And as someone mentioned earlier, if those pictures are recent, you probably don't need to lose any weight. Rather, you should focus on eating healthy. Good luck!
Nutritionists aren't regulated.
Registered dietitians are a better use of your money0 -
OP, you are eating a lot of crap. Now I am as big a proponent of CICO as anyone else, but you are eating next to NO whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables, and I didn't see ONE listing of lean protein anywhere. Change your snacks to foods that are going to keep you full longer and stop wasting your calories on junk that's going to leave you feeling hungrier than before you ate them.0
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Try cooking your food rather than buying pre-packaged foodstuffs - which isn't Food. You aren't feeding your body so it's thinking that it needs to store up the calories (empty ones) that you are giving to it in case it starves. You can't lose weight on that kind of diet.
Here's a week of meals that will put protein and healthy fats in your diet, but keep carbs down:
Monday
breakfast: omelette with veggies (cook a batch of broccoli and use it in your eggs); cooked in butter or coconut oil
lunch: grass fed yogurt with blueberries and slmonds
dinner: cheeseburger (no bun), veggies, salsa sauce
Tuesday
breakfast: bacon & eggs (two each)
lunch: leftover burger & veggies
dinner: salmon with butter & veggies
Wednesday
breakfast: eggs & veggies cooked in butter
lunch: shrimp salad with olive oil
dinner: grilled chicken with veggies
Thursday
breakfast: omelet with various veggies, cooked in butter
lunch: smoothie with coconut milk, berries, almonds, & protein powder
dinner: steak with veggies
Friday
breakfast: bacon & eggs
lunch: chicken salad with veggies
dinner: pork chops with veggies
Saturday
breakfast: omelette with veggies
lunch: grass fed yogurt with berries, coconut flakes, walnuts
dinner: meatballs with veggies
Sunday
breakfast: bacon & eggs
lunch: smoothie with coconut milk, heavy cream, chocolate protein powder, berries
dinner grilled chickens with raw spinach
Object is to get away from boxes and bags filled with non-food and FEED your body food. you will lose weight and feel oh so much better. your body will reward you by taking care of it.
lunch: chicken salad
Amusing: Warns against "packaged non-food"; has protein powder frequently.
Oh come on. Protein powder is fine and this proposed diet is 1000% more healthy that what the poor girl has been eating!0 -
I am a dietetics student, and in terms of satiety (staying full) I learned that the macros that are best are in the following order:
Protein (best at keeping you full)
Fat (second best at keeping you full)
Carbs (best for quick energy, not that great at keeping you full)
All are necessary for optimal health, and none of them cause or promote weight gain without a calorie surplus. So up those proteins and fats, and make sure you are getting enough fiber in your diet.0 -
0somuchbetter0 wrote: »Try cooking your food rather than buying pre-packaged foodstuffs - which isn't Food. You aren't feeding your body so it's thinking that it needs to store up the calories (empty ones) that you are giving to it in case it starves. You can't lose weight on that kind of diet.
Here's a week of meals that will put protein and healthy fats in your diet, but keep carbs down:
Monday
breakfast: omelette with veggies (cook a batch of broccoli and use it in your eggs); cooked in butter or coconut oil
lunch: grass fed yogurt with blueberries and slmonds
dinner: cheeseburger (no bun), veggies, salsa sauce
Tuesday
breakfast: bacon & eggs (two each)
lunch: leftover burger & veggies
dinner: salmon with butter & veggies
Wednesday
breakfast: eggs & veggies cooked in butter
lunch: shrimp salad with olive oil
dinner: grilled chicken with veggies
Thursday
breakfast: omelet with various veggies, cooked in butter
lunch: smoothie with coconut milk, berries, almonds, & protein powder
dinner: steak with veggies
Friday
breakfast: bacon & eggs
lunch: chicken salad with veggies
dinner: pork chops with veggies
Saturday
breakfast: omelette with veggies
lunch: grass fed yogurt with berries, coconut flakes, walnuts
dinner: meatballs with veggies
Sunday
breakfast: bacon & eggs
lunch: smoothie with coconut milk, heavy cream, chocolate protein powder, berries
dinner grilled chickens with raw spinach
Object is to get away from boxes and bags filled with non-food and FEED your body food. you will lose weight and feel oh so much better. your body will reward you by taking care of it.
lunch: chicken salad
Amusing: Warns against "packaged non-food"; has protein powder frequently.
Oh come on. Protein powder is fine and this proposed diet is 1000% more healthy that what the poor girl has been eating!
She's pointing out that the person is being a hypocrite. Protein powder is processed and packaged.
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Frozen veggies come in boxes or bags and that's all some people can afford.
Frozen veggies are fresher than fresh veggies (unless you are pulling the veg out of the ground yourself). They are frozen within hours of being picked, while fresh veg is picked, sits in a truck for a while, is transported for a day or several, hangs out on your grocer's shelf for an indeterminate amount of time before you get to it, then spends more time on your countertop or in your fridge before you eat it.
I point this out only because I was spending so much time washing and prepping fresh veg, and tossing out so much that I had paid for (leaves, stalks, etc.) Then I realized a bag and a microwave would save me hours and money, and I would get essentially the same nutrients (frozen undergoes a blanching process that does leach some of the nutrients, but not so much that the frozen version is rendered useless).
Instead of 1/2 hour every day prepping one kind of veg, I now spend 5 seconds and get all kinds of veg.
Yay frozen veg!0 -
If that's a recent picture on your profile (your second photo) - you don't need to lose any weight. You already appear too thin.
If I remember correctly, you posted in the summer about being obsessive with counting calories and food.
I'd forget the weight loss and focus on developing a healthy relationship with food, which is what you were recommended to do in the beginning.
I agree, the second photo indicates someone who is well underweight.
I also recall that her husband / partner was concerned about her ongoing weight loss.
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Kill the simple carbs (sugar), eat lean meats, veggies, nuts, and berries. If you workout, eat one banana before and after. You are eating too many simple carbs, raising your blood sugar and causing the food to be stored more quickly as fat - so this isn't going to work.0
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In your case it is what you are eating! I agree that there is a nutritional issue with what you are eating, but I used to eat like this when I lived alone. Its cheap and simple.
Carbs are bad if you eat more than around 150 mg a day. You need carbs depending on your weight and size but for most 150 mg is doable.
If something says it is calorie free it is. But I do believe that there are trace calories in anything, look for sugar alcohol, aspartame, artificial sweetners and assume the following:
-- These are to be processed in some way through the body.
-- Your body does something with it - either is burns it for fuel, stores or it recognizes it as a toxin and gets rid of it.
-- I was told everything has a calorie and if it does NOT do not put it in your body and call it energy or fuel, it is what is.
I sometimes will add an additional 50 to 100 calories to my daily nutrition if I know I ate something that says it calorie free but might contain trace calories so that I get my deficit right and include "possible extra calories".0 -
neversummer7 wrote: »thank you all for your input, I have made some swaps tonight i will have some beans with lemon peppered chicken.
Good. THAT is what you should be eating for your meals.
At the very least, you need a serving of protein with each of your 3 main meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Have milk with your Fiber One cereal. Enjoy a cup of greek yogurt with your bag of apples and grapes. Put tuna on your crackers. Eat a breast of chicken with your ranch salad. Throw some lean steak into your cheese tortilla.
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Oh yeah let me add, protein with help you lose weight. Need a lot of protein. I learned this hard way, especially when exercising an 1 hour a day.
My question is you work for 1 hour your exercise and only burn 220 to 330? I would die if I worked this hard and only burned this much. There is only calorie burn and no fat burning in your work out! Work smarter not harder. You could get a 220 calorie burn in a shorter work out unless your work out is by design to work this way!0 -
tiptoethruthetulips wrote: »
I agree, the second photo indicates someone who is well underweight.
I also recall that her husband / partner was concerned about her ongoing weight loss.
Yes, and sometime past also she was drinking way too much fluid and her electrolyte balance was off - can't remember if it was sodium or potassium.
Either way - eating disorder.
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DeirdreWoodwardSanders wrote: »Frozen veggies come in boxes or bags and that's all some people can afford.
Frozen veggies are fresher than fresh veggies (unless you are pulling the veg out of the ground yourself). They are frozen within hours of being picked, while fresh veg is picked, sits in a truck for a while, is transported for a day or several, hangs out on your grocer's shelf for an indeterminate amount of time before you get to it, then spends more time on your countertop or in your fridge before you eat it.
I point this out only because I was spending so much time washing and prepping fresh veg, and tossing out so much that I had paid for (leaves, stalks, etc.) Then I realized a bag and a microwave would save me hours and money, and I would get essentially the same nutrients (frozen undergoes a blanching process that does leach some of the nutrients, but not so much that the frozen version is rendered useless).
Instead of 1/2 hour every day prepping one kind of veg, I now spend 5 seconds and get all kinds of veg.
Yay frozen veg!
Oh I know that. I've come around to frozen veggies. Except broccoli. Its too mushy.
In regards to stalks and leaves, freeze em for making broth with a chicken carcass in the crockpot0
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