Check my food diary please?

steviex_xo

I hope this doesn't sound rude at all but would someone please have a little look at my diary and tell me where I'm going wrong? I have been trying to eat the 1200 cals a day, sometimes a bit more but often less (without meaning too), I exercise a lot (I think), when not at work but have a pretty active job. At first I was losing weight, 4lbs a week, and now week three and nothing!!

Thanks

Minnie2361

First , you need more fresh fruits and more fresh vegetables.
There is no where need the amount recommended in the five a day plan the UK is promoting.
You are big on the potatoes which are full of nutrients but need more reds/greens/orange colored veggies in your diet.

The White Bread switch it for Whole Wheat Bread

For Extra Protein in addition to cheese, there is eggs, kidney beans, hummus. other legumes that are rich in protein plus quinoa/
I add hummus to my pastas instead of alfredo sauces.

farway

Well I only went back 5 days

But it really is not balanced or healthy from what I see

The only fruit is 1 banana, and no fresh veg at all [spuds do not count as veg in 5 a day , but baked beans do] however not really fresh or leafy green are they?

I am not a food fascist, but sausage rolls, spud waffles, sausage, or cheese sarnies [I plead guilty to same& tasty sarnies]

c'mon, you really do need to face up to your diet choices, more veg, more fruit, less packaged, or pastry wrapped & calorie dense stuff

lynn_glenmont

Agreeing with earlier posters that you need more veggies, and protein, and if you're really recording accurately, you need more calories (so the good news is you could start adding stuff you need without radically reducing the stuff you're eating now -- although you'd do well to cut back a little on the processed, packaged, stuff and sweets and fried stuff -- if only because you could fit a lot more volume and mass of healthier foods for the same calories of small amounts of the other stuff, which might leave you more satisfied and less hungry, not to mention getting you some of the vitamins and minerals you're probably missing now.

However, are you sure you're measuring and recording accurately? For example, a slice of garlic bread for 37 calories seems unlikely to be right.

melaniecheeks

3 weeks isn't long enough to decide it's not working.

But I would query some of the items in your food diary- how is a slice of buttered toast different from the named bread, toasted?
i.m sure a cheese sandwich had protein
Was your banana exactly 200g??

These mY not matter, but I'd recommend being as accurate as possible in recording ( and yes where are your veggies?) then analyse.

steviex_xo

Thanks all! I love fruit so could up that, but I'm not a big fan of vegetables if I'm honest. I'm really stuck on things to eat at work, so half a cheese usually fills me up in the day.

As for the garlic bread, I thought that too! I just search for things on the app and add it in, so it probably is not that accurate, but I'm not stressing too much about that. When I'm at work, I'm lucky if I eat one meal haha!

Minnie2361

How I got my veggies up was through crunchy salads that means red /orange/yellow /green bell peppers with broccoli slaw, throw in some grapes, mangoes, and other fruit in with the veggies, I like grated carrots, but baby carrots are just as good, flavor your salad by usina arugula {nuty flavor leaf} cabbage slaw, chunks of broccoli , red oninons, feta cheese on top ,
spinach salad, with pan fried toasted slivered almonds, and apple and a hardboiled egg.

I do have some steamed vegetables but crunchy salads with a tasty low fat salad honey Dijon or ranch dressing or homemade go down better for me and it cleans out the intestines so great bowel movements.
You can homemake your salad dressing with lime instead of vinegar and honey to sweeten it with and egg and olive oil,

Francl27

You're starving yourself. Eat more. If you're working out a lot and have an active job, you should probably eat at least 1600 a day, probably closer to 2000.

Go to http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/ and enter your info, and eat what it tells you.

yasminhancey1982

Hi Stevie, I not a professional,but i found this article if it helps I cut out all high sugar foods, and swapped them for fruits and veg. Made my foods all colourful, but I have a junk day at weekends, but I might stop them now after the last 2 days I was well over.

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jwbuild

I would recommend lowering the amount of breads, and eating more protein. Calorie count is ok. Could actually eat a few more. But less junk food and more quality. My typical breakfast is a 35gram Protein Shake for breakfast with some Dry Roasted Soybeans (they are actually pretty good) and a banana or some pineapple.