What can I eat

Purplestuff102

Maybe a stupid question, but I notice when I’m having diet foods I go over my calories by like a thousand daily but when I ate what I wanted I was under daily calories by like at least 500 . I’m scared that I will get high blood pressure or diabetes I had some success in the past just eating what I want and logging accurately then I had like a fear of success type of thing when I lost some weight and had switched to diet foods then been overeating since. If u check my diary from July and august 2021 to about a couple weeks ago u willl see what I mean

sollyn23l2

Looks like you already have your own answer. Stay away from the diet foods, eat the foods you want and log them.

PAPYRUS3

Looking at your choices, either way you really aren't 'helping' in the area of blood pressure/diabetes, etc., 'Diet' foods that might help in those areas are ones that aren't inflammatory like 'whole' foods (veggies/fruits/grains/beans/fatty fish, etc., ).

Lietchi

Looking at your diary, I'm not sure what you think 'diet foods' are?

Oats? I never eat those, because I can eat a large number of calories that way and not feel full. Do you find oats satiating?

Brown rice? Marginally better than white rice, perhaps. But at those volumes (several cups dry) I wonder whether this is a food that fills you up?

Broccoli and cauliflower? Okay, vegetables are good, but day in day out the same vegetables would easily push me into 'resentment' and eating 'off plan'

Fat free cheese? Well, I'd rather have no cheese than fat free cheese personally. Do you like this cheese? If not: low fat options for regular foods are fine, but make sure pick out the ones you like and satiate you.

My question to you would be: which foods are you eating because you like them and which ones because you feel you 'should'?
If you're overweight and fear diabetes and HBP, the most important first step is to lose weight. And you do that by eating fewer calories. If the foods you choose don't allow you to eat fewer calories, then that's simply not a good choice.

If you don't like the foods: bad idea.
If you like the foods, but they don't fill you up: bad idea.
If you like the foods, but are missing your old foods: bad idea.

Also, for the few days I checked, your diet looks very monotonous. Some people do well eating the same foods days in day out. If that's not an issue for you, great. But if this monotony (combined perhaps with those foods not satiating you or not being as pleasurable) is pushing you towards overeating, then I would try to add variety.

My suggestion would be:
- focus on a reduced calorie count, with foods that satiate you
- for your health, you can try gradual tweaks instead of overhauling your diet (finding lower calorie/more nutrient dense alternatives that taste as good, for example, or adding fruit and vegetables to your regular meals)

cmriverside

Okay, I'll spin off what Lietchi said, because it's right on.

If I don't eat a widely varied diet of all kinds of whole foods (like 20-40 different whole fruits and vegetables per week) nuts, lean protein, a couple full servings of fat a day (yes, whole fat cheese!) legumes, eggs, lowfat dairy - if I don't eat all this variety I can't stay within calories. Call it my body's innate wisdom or whatever you want to call it, but cravings for me come when I'm not meeting all my body's nutritional needs. So, two or three different types of fruit or vegetables wouldn't work for me. Eating low fat wouldn't work for me. I need fat. Not a whole lot, maybe, but bodies need fat - especially brains.

Do some research. Hit those macros as closely as you can. (Protein, Fat, Carbs...with carbs being the expendable one.)