New please help with diet

Welcome! You need to go to the "most helpful posts" pinned to the top of this board to get yourself started on the program It looks like you just recently decided to start losing weight and posted before getting familiar with the tools. This is a great site with a lot of friendly, helpful posters to help you along the way. Best of luck!

cityruss wrote: »

After you weighed and logged all of this did you meet your MFP calorie and macronutritional goals?

That'll tell you if it's OK or not.

^^^^ this!

edited to say: I do not cut out carbs or any foods as advised by the post above. Sandwiches are simply fine!! I just make sure what I like to eat is within my goals. I would not survive through food restriction.

There are many ways to do salad.........but salad is going to get old really fast.

My diet includes everything. Pasta, rice, sandwiches, etc. I don't cut anything out. HOWEVER, I can't snack whenever, I can't dish up pasta without regards to portion. It's all available.....but it's all controlled. That's my future on maintenance too.....all available....but within limits.

Just log everything you eat. Meet your calorie goals. Tweak your macros (you don't have to do this right away). But you may find higher fat is filling, or higher protein....whatever. Find macros that help you stay the course.

You can view your macros in the food diary. The web version doesn't do a full nutrition breakdown in one glance but the mobile version does; no premium account required.

The thing is, you're telling us what you're eating but we'd need to do a lot of work to figure out how many calories you're eating and how many you need. Instead, what you really need to be doing is entering your height, weight and activity information into MFP to get a calorie goal and then entering the food you are eating into the Food Diary to see if the calories you're eating are close to the calories MFP says you need to be eating to lose weight. It's really that simple. Then you can vary what you eat every day and just aim to stay close to that calorie goal.

If you're buying premade salads then they should have calorie and nutrition information on the package or bowl the salad was sold in. Once you add the salad in once, it'll be available to easily pick from your recent foods list. You can then add the chicken and cheese you added, too, so you'll get the full information from your meal.

Buy a food scale and use it. They are relatively inexpensive and a very handy tool so that you know exactly how much you're eating. Things like cheese have a lot of calories and should be weighed so you can make sure they fit into your calories. A cube of cheese about the size of playing dice contains around 100 calories. If you're eating 4 of them on a salad that's 400 calories. If they are bigger that's more calories. Best to weigh them so you make sure exactly how many calories there are.

What time are you working out?

Workout timing doesn't matter for weight loss.

What time are you eating?

The time of day one eats has no affect on weight loss or gain.

A sandwich for dinner isn't the best choice. Veggies and fruits are a great idea if you feel hungry at night. Try eating fish and baked chicken before 8pm. If you are a lady (It doesn't tell us on here) like me, having carbs (bread) for dinner really doesn't do good stuff for us. Carbs with breakfast is a better idea, and wheat with low calories is the best

Sandwiches are fine for any meal if someone wants to eat one and it fits their macros and calories.

Carb timing has no affect on weight loss. Carbs are not bad and can be eaten any time.

Why is it bad for females to not have carbs for dinner? Many have pasta/rice/veggies with dinner and lose weight just fine. Do you have any scientific evidence backing up this claim?

The time of the last meal of the day does not matter unless reflux is an issue... Eating after a certain time does not equal fat/weight gain. The metabolism runs 24/7. Sometimes I eat around an hour before sleep and I've still lost weight.

Weight loss is ALL about calories. Eat less than your TDEE (maintenance calories) and you will lose weight.

Try smart ones or lean cuisine meals. You can add extra veggies if you want . If you do sandwiches do carrots and or a rice cake. Also you should probably add snacks . Apples , peaches , fruit cups , fruits and veggies are very safe. I was also told staying away from carbs is a bad decision because when you start eating the carbs again you gain all the weight you lost back. If you want variety egg whites and toast will make a breakfast . Grape fruits , slim fast shakes , special k meal bars are good too . Certain cerals if you eat the serving size. Soups are good too if you eat the serving size or plan your dinner for the whole can . I recommend fit star for at home working out too. Two sessions a week are free.

dariusshaw wrote: »

Yea you guys are right I logged 8nbmy weight etc and food it says I was eating less than required I thought that was the goal to eat less.

The goal is to eat less but if you've given MFP your information and told it how much weight you want to lose per week it's already figured out how many calories is "less". That's your goal calories and the weight loss is built into them. If you exercise and add that into MFP it will give you more calories to eat since you "earned" them. You should eat at least some of those extra calories, too, so you can maintain the weight loss and not lose too much too quickly.

dariusshaw wrote: »

Well anyway I ate a salad for lunch and for diner I had two baked fish steaks and 5 shrimp i think I have to buy a food weigh too. I hope that meal didn't ruins my diet plan. Also is crystal light liquid good to add to water?

As long as your dinner stayed within your calorie goal (you did log it into MFP, right?) then it won't ruin your plans. Yes, Crystal Light is good to add to water.

dariusshaw wrote: »

Hello everyone for the past week and currently I have been eating a big salad for lunch and dinner and for breakfast oatmeal. The salad is one of those pre made salad from sams and I add 3 to 4 cheese cubes in it along with a handful or 2 of chicken breast no dressing. Now my oar meal I make in microwave as instructed half cup of oats and 1 cup of water. I add 4 grapes and a little stevia sugar too. I was hungry last night so I ate a sandwich that had two wheat bread and 1 slice deli cheese and 1 white turkey the ones that are located by bologna was that ok? And can i do this to lose weight? Also I am starting to work out again I have trainer

Darius, dude....your meals sound so boring. Are you going to be able to keep that up? At your height/weight/activity there is no need to starve to lose weight. You can eat prepackaged stuff if it's easier...there is nothing wrong with it. Bag salad is my friend too. But man, throw in some treats before you fall off the wagon..Even if it's just fruit and cheese.

Using this website, you are gonna have to count calories to be successful...at least initially. After a month or so of that you'll have a good idea of what portions look like and what fills you up and you might be able to skip counting (or not). But you need a baseline to start from.

Any zero calorie beverages won't impact your weight loss. It also doesn't hurt to have a beer or something if you have the calories for it.

Try to eat your goal calories, or close to them - eat something calorie dense (like peanut butter) if necessary. If you eat too little, you risk losing more muscle than you would want to, along with the fat. Losing slowly helps ensure that most of your loss is from fat, not muscle. Stay strong & healthy while you lose the weight!