Help on food

equidivine

Guys I’m really struggling
I’m working out everyday and not losing any weight
So I’m a fussy eater and when I start eating I cannot stop!
Iv kept under my goals but Iv actually stayed same weight for 2 weeks.
I’m feeling allot fitter but struggling with food ideas

Things I don’t like are fish, salad, avocados as general so basically anything healthy 🤦‍♀️

Anyone have any diet plans at hand? I have 1300 calories plus workout 500 a day

Thanks

callsitlikeiseeit

do you eat back those calories?

how accurate is your logging? Looking at your diary ... I'd say not very.

I eat the same i always have for the most part, just a lot less of it. I lost 130 pounds, maintained that for 3 years and am now working on the rest. My diary is open. The recipe builder is your friend.

NovusDies

equidivine wrote: »

Guys I’m really struggling
I’m working out everyday and not losing any weight
So I’m a fussy eater and when I start eating I cannot stop!
Iv kept under my goals but Iv actually stayed same weight for 2 weeks.
I’m feeling allot fitter but struggling with food ideas

Things I don’t like are fish, salad, avocados as general so basically anything healthy 🤦‍♀️

Anyone have any diet plans at hand? I have 1300 calories plus workout 500 a day

Thanks

If the exercise is new in the last 2 weeks you may just need to give it more time. New exercise can temporarily increase water weight which will mask fat loss.

http://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations/

Also if you are not using a food scale you may be eating more than you think:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10634517/you-dont-use-a-food-scale/p1


Choosing the correct database entries is very important too:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1234699/logging-accurately-step-by-step-guide/p1

The type of food you eat will not keep you from losing weight. Most food has nutrition that you need so very little is unhealthy. However, if you want ideas you will have to give us ideas of what you like to eat not what you don't.

ThatJuJitsuWoman

You have quite a few friends on your list, have you looked at any of their food diaries? It might give you some new ideas.
I don’t eat fish and I don’t digest raw vegetables very well (Crohn’s disease), so none of my meals are fish or salad.
Vegetables seem to be the best foods for filling me up with very few calories, so which vegetables do you like? Are they good in soup? Stir fry? Curry?
Can you make lower calorie versions of your favourite meals?

I don’t follow a particular diet plan and my food diary contains a fair amount of sugar, but you’re welcome to look at it for ideas!

ThatJuJitsuWoman

Forgot to add, your hormones can influence your weight at different times of the month. I lost really quickly for a couple of weeks, then gained a bit the next 2 weeks, then lost quickly again. You might find that you’ve lost weight when you’ve been through a full menstrual cycle.

equidivine

My diary is actually very accurate
I don’t do good in day time otherwise I throw up or get very bad heart burn when I work out.
I’m allergic to allot of things and on daily antihistamines

Allergic to milk, cheese, histamine foods and foods containing nickel

Sadly I love cheese and milk so put up with bad bellies mainly bloated or heart burn

I like pasta, ariabata being a fave dish and spaghetti Bol
Cabbage, carrots and swede mash, potatoes
Love all meat apart from fish and lamb

I know I need to eat in day but the heartburn kills me when I work out and end up being sick. Tried all the heartburn meds going.

Ideally need breakfast and lunch ideas as tea time I’m ok as love to cook for family.

Things without milk 👌🏻

Thanks guys and didn’t think to look at others diaries so great idea

callsitlikeiseeit

equidivine wrote: »

My diary is actually very accurate

so yesterday you only had 2 cups of tea and an apple (that was not weighed?)

and the day before Tesco - Roast chicken & bacon pasta (was this like a frozen microwave meal or created in the recipe builder?) and one cup of tea?

if you were TRULY eating this little, routinely, not only would you be losing weight, you would also have some pretty major health issues in short time.

BarbaraHelen2013

I’ve also had a quick look at your diary on MFP and it’s about as far from accurate as any I’ve ever seen, to be honest.

It’s entirely possible you’re keeping a food diary in some other way (pen & paper, spreadsheet, another calorie logging app etc) all of which are perfectly fine it it’s easier for you. but if the diary on MFP is what you mean then you do need to figure that out a lot better.

Whilst new exercise can mask weight loss temporarily, inaccurate food logging is a far far more likely culprit.

On the days you’ve logged a little more completely it looks like you’re logging quite a bit of alcohol (wine). Now, there’s nothing wrong with that, if you’re able to make the odd glass, or even 2 into your calories but working with a relatively small calorie allowance and using 500-600 of those calories for alcohol is not a very nutritional use of the calories. Edit to add this extra bit on this paragraph: I’d never heard of ‘histamine foods’ so just googled and it seems that it’s alcohol and fermented foods. So that’s a little confusing!

I see that you’ve said you love to cook for the family, which is great, but looking at the entries there’s very little in the way of home cooked food there? There’s a generic ‘home - roast chicken dinner’ entry at 700 calories. As an example of what I mean by accurate logging, if I were to log that I’d be weighing and logging the chicken on my plate, weighing and logging any vegetables, including any fat they were cooked in, the flour to thicken the gravy, the weight of and accurate iingredients in any other things on my plate.

If you’re not sure where we’re saying you’re going wrong with your logging, don’t be afraid to ask, as many times as you need, for advice on finding the better methods and entries.

NovusDies

Understand that we are not picking on you for your diary. If someone says they are not making progress that is always the first thing we address. As mentioned if you are doing another logging system of some sort that is perfectly fine but your MFP diary seems incomplete and definitely contains common logging errors. Read the links I provided in my previous post.

Also understand that I doubt anyone here started with really good logging habits. I am sure we all made mistakes, I certainly did, and had to learn with experience and time. My own log is good enough for me to lose weight as expected but there are places I could tighten up if my weight loss ever stalled for a long enough period of time.

However, as I mentioned above you may be losing fat weight that is simply being masked by water retention at the moment. In time the bathroom scale may show your true progress.

JBanx256

equidivine wrote: »

My diary is actually very accurate

I call shenanigans. You have an entry where you claim all you consumed for the entire day is an apple & a cup of tea. Nah, sorry, your logging is FAR from accurate.

kshama2001

NovusDies wrote: »

Understand that we are not picking on you for your diary. If someone says they are not making progress that is always the first thing we address. As mentioned if you are doing another logging system of some sort that is perfectly fine but your MFP diary seems incomplete and definitely contains common logging errors. Read the links I provided in my previous post.

Also understand that I doubt anyone here started with really good logging habits. I am sure we all made mistakes, I certainly did, and had to learn with experience and time. My own log is good enough for me to lose weight as expected but there are places I could tighten up if my weight loss ever stalled for a long enough period of time.

However, as I mentioned above you may be losing fat weight that is simply being masked by water retention at the moment. In time the bathroom scale may show your true progress.

I sure didn't start with good logging habits.

Three key moments for me were when I:
1. Got a digital food scale
2. Started using the old recipe builder https://www.myfitnesspal.com/recipe/calculator
3. Learned to grab syntax from the USDA and paste that into the MFP DB

Unfortunately, the "verified" green check marks in the MFP database are used for both user-created entries and admin-created entries that MFP pulled from the USDA database. To find admin entries for whole foods, I get the syntax from the USDA database and paste that into MFP.

Note: any MFP entry that includes "USDA" was user entered.

For packaged foods, I verify the label against what I find in MFP. (Alas, you cannot just scan with your phone and assume what you get is correct.)

lemurcat2

equidivine wrote: »

Guys I’m really struggling
I’m working out everyday and not losing any weight
So I’m a fussy eater and when I start eating I cannot stop!
Iv kept under my goals but Iv actually stayed same weight for 2 weeks.
I’m feeling allot fitter but struggling with food ideas

Things I don’t like are fish, salad, avocados as general so basically anything healthy 🤦‍♀️

Anyone have any diet plans at hand? I have 1300 calories plus workout 500 a day

Thanks

You don't have to eat fish, salads, or avocado to lose weight, and that's hardly "everything healthy."

Start with what you do like, and create a plan around that. You mentioned mashed swede, that's great. Pasta arrabiata, you can make a healthy arrabiata sauce, no problem. Most meats -- so the protein will be easy. The various veg you like, and you can generally add extra to a pasta or make a soup or stirfry with your veg and protein, etc.

If you have trouble once you start eating, maybe you are someone who does better skipping breakfast and starting your eating window later.

For many people, having a basic plan for breakfast (if you eat it) and lunch (or just go with leftovers) can make everything easy while you get used to it, and also makes logging no fuss, since you are logging saved things you've had before or frequent foods.

You said you like cooking dinner and it's not a problem, so that's great. My own personal template for dinner is some kind of protein (often meat, including fish, but you don't need to eat fish, again), and then some kind of starch (potato or pasta or beans/lentils if they aren't the protein or corn or rice or the many other grains -- on and on), and then vegetables. Sometimes I have fruit instead of the starch or also, if I have sufficient cals or depending on the dish. Tagines are great during the winter and often include dried fruit: https://www.thespruceeats.com/the-moroccan-tagine-2394748

quiksylver296

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1080242/a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants/p1