3 liters of water and 2 salads a day?

Eat at a deficit and you will lose weight. It doesn't have to be salad or any specific food. Aim to eat a variety of healthy foods so that you are giving your body the nutrients/vitamins and the dietary fat it needs to absorb them.

Is this good for what?

Why 2 salads a day? Are they replacing lunch and dinner? How many calories are you planning on consuming? What about fat, fibre and protien?

Drink as much water to turn your urine pale yellow. Any more than that and you're overdoing it and can cause serious complications (yes, there is such thing as drinking too much water).

Why not just eat the calories mfp gave you? Weight loss is all about calorie deficit, not about the food you eat/don't eat. No need to go to drastic measures to lose weight.

Also, carbs are not the enemy. They're in many foods such as vegetables, fruit, grains, beans, dairy, sugar.... you can eat carbs when you like. You can eat any food when you like as long as you are within your calories.

What's in the salads?
Why only carbs at breakfast? The ingredients in the salads probably contain carbs.
Where is the protein and fat?
How many calories is this?
What are your goals?

Sounds boring, not filling, and unnecessary to me. You should aim to eat a variety of foods, focusing on those that provide nutrition (macros like protein, fat and carbs as well as micro nutrients), satiety (fills you up) and enjoyment (keeps you on track to have some treats).

Eating nothing but salad and drinking water is not required to be successful and for most people, that would result in quick failure.

I usually have a salad every single day. I add olive oil, chicken, veggies, cheese, balsamic glaze. My salad is the same calories (slightly better macros) than a big mac. i'm a volume eater so most of the time I pick the salad but you are free to eat how and when you want. It's not about food type or a particular macro, it's about overall calories.

Wouldn't be good for me. Although I make a killer salmon and avocado salad that I enjoy eating.

AngelaHuo wrote: »

Is this good?

I will allow carbs only for breakfast.

Not such a good idea.

#1 - you're going to learn to hate salads post dieting

#2 - after you are done "dieting" then what? Maintenance is step 2 (a life long step). Will you develop a 2nd plan for that? Because maintenance will be (somewhat) fewer calories forever.

#3 - there will be carbs in your salad, not that there's anything magical about eliminating them anyway. Well, low carb is great for an initial "whoosh" in water weight loss. But that comes back when you start eating carbs again.

I'd get bored of just salads but the way I eat them as a meal are definitely filling. If there is meat, cheese, nuts, beans along with all the veggies it is definitely a meal, so that is why I said it depends on what is in your salad.

janjunie wrote: »

AngelaHuo wrote: »

Is this good?

I will allow carbs only for breakfast.

Is that all you're eating in the day? If you are looking to lose weight, calories matter. Salads which are usually made up of mostly veggies are carbs, so technically you'll be having them after breakfast too

Well low GI carbs, which are different from High GI carbs...

dazzler21 wrote: »

janjunie wrote: »

AngelaHuo wrote: »

Is this good?

I will allow carbs only for breakfast.

Is that all you're eating in the day? If you are looking to lose weight, calories matter. Salads which are usually made up of mostly veggies are carbs, so technically you'll be having them after breakfast too

Well low GI carbs, which are different from High GI carbs...

How many people think about that when talking about carbs though.

If you like salads and load them up with a variety of protein and healthy fats, I guess. Sounds a bit like you're trying to punish yourself into losing weight though. You'll only 'allow' carbs for breakfast? What is the reasoning behind this?

Depends on your definition of "salad", which again probably depends on where you are living. For me, a salad is basically vegetables, raw. So, if I tried to survive on salads, I would be dead soon. But if you define "salad" as anything mixed up in a bowl, sure, sounds good. Although I wonder in this case what is the magic property of e.g. a salad with meat, eggs, cheese etc over any other meal for weight loss.

aggelikik wrote: »

Depends on your definition of "salad", which again probably depends on where you are living. For me, a salad is basically vegetables, raw. So, if I tried to survive on salads, I would be dead soon. But if you define "salad" as anything mixed up in a bowl, sure, sounds good. Although I wonder in this case what is the magic property of e.g. a salad with meat, eggs, cheese etc over any other meal for weight loss.

It tastes good to have cooked with raw and you can cram loads of lettuce in to feel more full... They're the only real positives other than the nutrition and water included in raw veg.

I'm super short (only 5ft) so only get 1200 cals/day to lose weight. The salads I do enjoy (I like eggs, avocado, creamy dressings, some chicken) end up being very high calorie meals for me - about 500+ cals. So I have to eat salads in moderation. If I ate my favourite salads every day, I would definitely gain weight - not lose.

Also, the sheer boredom would drive me to binge on something super high calorie.

crazyycatlady1 wrote: »

Are we talking egg salad, chicken salad? Any kind of veggies though and you'll break your other arbitrary rule of 'no carbs after breakfast'.

eta: I eat a large salad every day and it's loaded with carbs and calories. There's nothing magical about salads for weight loss.

Same here! One of my favorite lunches is a salad with grilled chicken that I make, but I limit how often I bring it because it tends to be one of my higher calorie lunches with everything that's in there.