Am I eating right?

Most of your meals look good. I think you need to cut out your high sugar/high salt foods. I also noted quite a bit of processed foods (oatmeal, crackers, slices of bread). Consider bananas and apples sugar as well. Although these fruits are "healthy" foods and a good source of fiber, they will simply turn to sugar and thus fat unless you are actively burning it off through intense cardio. If you are going to consume sugar, you absolutely must get your heart rate up for 30 mins or more.

Your meat consumption is high as well, in my opinion. Ham, beef and lamb are not lean meats. Although a source of protein, they are very fattening unless you are, again, actively trying to build muscle (lifting weights). On the days I lift weights aggressively, I consume egg whites and spinach for breakfast, 6 oz of fish or turkey for lunch and then a sensible dinner (steamed veggies, whole grain rice).

Also, looks like your meals are heavy-loaded in evening. One of your dinners was over 700 calories! Try front-loading your meals. Eat more for breakfast (300-500 cal), snack (150 cal), lunch (300 cal), snack (150 cal), dinner (300) and snack again (150 cal) for a total of 1400-1500 cal). Create the deficit by shooting for 300-500 calories of exercise.

Overall, a good start! Good luck! I hope this helped.

Most of your meals look good. I think you need to cut out your high sugar/high salt foods. I also noted quite a bit of processed foods (oatmeal, crackers, slices of bread). Consider bananas and apples sugar as well. Although these fruits are "healthy" foods and a good source of fiber, they will simply turn to sugar and thus fat unless you are actively burning it off through intense cardio. If you are going to consume sugar, you absolutely must get your heart rate up for 30 mins or more.

Your meat consumption is high as well, in my opinion. Ham, beef and lamb are not lean meats. Although a source of protein, they are very fattening unless you are, again, actively trying to build muscle (lifting weights). On the days I lift weights aggressively, I consume egg whites and spinach for breakfast, 6 oz of fish or turkey for lunch and then a sensible dinner (steamed veggies, whole grain rice).

Also, looks like your meals are heavy-loaded in evening. One of your dinners was over 700 calories! Try front-loading your meals. Eat more for breakfast (300-500 cal), snack (150 cal), lunch (300 cal), snack (150 cal), dinner (300) and snack again (150 cal) for a total of 1400-1500 cal). Create the deficit by shooting for 300-500 calories of exercise.

Overall, a good start! Good luck! I hope this helped.

Sugar will not deter you from losing weight. Eating fruit is a great idea. Just stay within your calorie goals for the day.

Meal timing is irrelevant. Eat whenever you want to throughout the day - again, staying within your calorie goals.


ETA: I have lost over 110 pounds in the last 2 years, eating apples, meat, sugar, and eating at all times of the day. I lift weights and run. You do not have to be so restrictive and regimented with your eating to lose weight.

It looks like you're off to a good start. Something I would change up would be the macros that you track. It looks like with the foods you're eating, you're getting a good amount of fiber, so that isn't really something you need to worry about, IMO. Also, typically, if you keep your total fat grams in check, your saturated fat grams will be in check, too. I'd consider taking that off your tracker, too. Since it looks like quite a few of the things you're eating are prepared, packaged foods, I'd be sure to track the sodium and sugar content. So, the things I recommend being in your tracker are: calories, fat (total), sodium, carbs, sugar, and protein.

Also, are you drinking water or are you just not logging it? Water is super important! The "standard" 8 cups a day isn't really what each of us needs. To calculate your water needs, take your weight (in pounds), divide by 2. The number that remains, drink that many ounces of water each day. Since you said your current weight is 176 pounds, you should be drinking about 88-oz of water each day.

Unfortunatly I really dont like drinking plain water. and yes I just havent bothered logging my fluid intake.

I tend to drink about 1.5 litres of orange squash(no added sugar) a day, and around half a litre of plain water when I am exercising.

This is alot for me! I have always struggled to drink enough, does this sound enough?

Not knowing what orange squash is, I don't know what to tell you, on this, but you definitely want to log it. Personally, I'm at 171.8 pounds and need to drink 2 1/2 to 3 liters of water a day or I feel dehydrated... and that's in addition to anything else I may drink (milk, juice, or soda). I know they say that drinking tea or coffee or other things like that count toward your water intake for the day, but it just doesn't quench my thirst like plain water does. To flavor it up some, you can add fruit slices.

Most of your meals look good. I think you need to cut out your high sugar/high salt foods. I also noted quite a bit of processed foods (oatmeal, crackers, slices of bread). Consider bananas and apples sugar as well. Although these fruits are "healthy" foods and a good source of fiber, they will simply turn to sugar and thus fat unless you are actively burning it off through intense cardio. If you are going to consume sugar, you absolutely must get your heart rate up for 30 mins or more.

Your meat consumption is high as well, in my opinion. Ham, beef and lamb are not lean meats. Although a source of protein, they are very fattening unless you are, again, actively trying to build muscle (lifting weights). On the days I lift weights aggressively, I consume egg whites and spinach for breakfast, 6 oz of fish or turkey for lunch and then a sensible dinner (steamed veggies, whole grain rice).

Also, looks like your meals are heavy-loaded in evening. One of your dinners was over 700 calories! Try front-loading your meals. Eat more for breakfast (300-500 cal), snack (150 cal), lunch (300 cal), snack (150 cal), dinner (300) and snack again (150 cal) for a total of 1400-1500 cal). Create the deficit by shooting for 300-500 calories of exercise.

Overall, a good start! Good luck! I hope this helped.

Most of your meals look good. I think you need to cut out your high sugar/high salt foods. I also noted quite a bit of processed foods (oatmeal, crackers, slices of bread). Consider bananas and apples sugar as well. Although these fruits are "healthy" foods and a good source of fiber, they will simply turn to sugar and thus fat unless you are actively burning it off through intense cardio. If you are going to consume sugar, you absolutely must get your heart rate up for 30 mins or more.

Your meat consumption is high as well, in my opinion. Ham, beef and lamb are not lean meats. Although a source of protein, they are very fattening unless you are, again, actively trying to build muscle (lifting weights). On the days I lift weights aggressively, I consume egg whites and spinach for breakfast, 6 oz of fish or turkey for lunch and then a sensible dinner (steamed veggies, whole grain rice).

Also, looks like your meals are heavy-loaded in evening. One of your dinners was over 700 calories! Try front-loading your meals. Eat more for breakfast (300-500 cal), snack (150 cal), lunch (300 cal), snack (150 cal), dinner (300) and snack again (150 cal) for a total of 1400-1500 cal). Create the deficit by shooting for 300-500 calories of exercise.

Overall, a good start! Good luck! I hope this helped.

I must respectfully disagree with most of this. I agree that eating fewer processed foods is a nice goal, but the part about how you absolutely must get your heart rate up for 30 minutes if you eat sugar just isn't fact. Ham, lamb and meat are not fattening--nothing is if you're not eating over your daily energy output. Plus they're delicious!

I frequently have dinners over 700 calories, so I chuckled that it's called out here as some kind of abomination. 700 calories really isn't that much for a main meal.

Thank you! I dont often eat more than 700cals for main meals, however i prefer to have a substancial good meal in the evening and eating fewer throughout the day. If I only ate 300 calories for dinner as suggested, I would end up reaching for the crisps or buiscet tin by 8pm! My downfall is spaghetti bolognase, this is the meal that was over 700 cals, i just love it!! I did use low fat cheese ontop instead of full fat, so thats something haha.