At Goal Weight and Typical Day of Food Intake?

debbie_elder

I'm 5'7" and 198 lbs and I've been stuck at this plateau for 2+ months. I'm looking for people who are close to my height and weigh 145-160 and what they typically eat in a day. Surely I am doing something wrong and can learn from those who have done it right

MelaniaTrump

I asked the same exact question but I had an open diary. People helped me and told me to get more protein.

kommodevaran

debbie_elder wrote: »

I'm 5'7" and 198 lbs and I've been stuck at this plateau for 2+ months. I'm looking for people who are close to my height and weigh 145-160 and what they typically eat in a day. Surely I am doing something wrong and can learn from those who have done it right

What you eat is not important for weight loss. You can get meal plans from a thousand people and see no pattern if you don't know what you are looking for.

If you aren't losing weight, you aren't eating at a deficit. Set an appropriate calorie allowance, if necessary readjust your current one. Your goal should be set to lose as close to 1% of your total weight per week as possible. Tighten up your logging. Weigh everything you eat and drink (you can weigh liquids) on an electronic food scale, in grams. Check every entry for errors, or create your own. Log everything. Hit your calorie goal every day. Don't eat back more than 50% of your exercise calories. Don't cheat, don't forget, don't give up.

jemhh

debbie_elder wrote: »

I'm 5'7" and 198 lbs and I've been stuck at this plateau for 2+ months. I'm looking for people who are close to my height and weigh 145-160 and what they typically eat in a day. Surely I am doing something wrong and can learn from those who have done it right

5'6ish and in that weight range. Feel free to look at my diary. I'm recomping with a very slight deficit (150ish) right now. I average 2100 calories per day over the course of the week.

I think I have my diary set as friends only. Feel free to send me a friend request.

tlflag1620

I'm 5'7" and fluctuate between 140-145. I eat LCHF. A typical day for me is -

Breakfast: coffee with half and half; 2 or 3 cups

Lunch: either three eggs over easy cooked in butter OR a big salad with meat, cheese, and either avocado, hard boiled egg, or sunflower kernels, with olive oil and vinegar for dressing OR leftover meat and veggies from the previous night's dinner

Dinner: some kind of fatty meat (steak, dark meat chicken with the skin, salmon or other oily fish, pork chops (with the bone) or pork shoulder, some kind of fibrous veg (green beans, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, etc), maybe a small (and I mean small) portion or rice or potato, but not always (two or three times a week)

Snacks/dessert: almonds or cashews and cheese, dark chocolate, berries and heavy cream (I might have one or two of these in a day); very occasionally I will make fat bombs or have peanut butter with celery.

The main thing is that I eat around 1900 cal per day to maintain, without exercise (on workout days I will eat a bit more). I don't log, but I know I must be eating at maintenance because I'm not gaining or losing, lol. It really doesn't matter what you eat, so long as you stay within your calorie limit you will lose weight. I opt for low carb because I find it curbs my appetite well enough that I was able to lose weight and keep it off without counting calories or logging food, but it doesn't necessarily work that way for everyone, and not everyone finds low carb something they can adhere to long term (I've done it for three years now, but I really love the food and love eating this way). If you are stuck, you are eating too many calories. Are you logging your food? Weighing everything solid and measuring everything liquid? Eating back exercise calories? An open diary would make it easier to offer specific advice.