Food Diary Advice

This post is going to be all over the place sorry.
I think you could change up your breakie from cereal with yoghurt to maybe having a poached egg and piece of multigrain toast. Start your day with protein will keep you from getting cravings as bad. Also check the sugar content on Just Right, I am constantly AMAZED at how sugary Australian cereals are-it almost makes me cry. Oats with skim milk and half a banana are also a fantastic choice for breakfast.

I would increase your snacking. The general idea they say is to eat 5 smaller meals through the day rather than 3 large ones. Eat a few nuts and a piece of fruit, some avocado or cottage cheese with low sugar/calorie jam on ryevitas, oat cakes with a bit of peanut butter etc. Make sure if you have "sugar" like fruit to have protein with it eg nuts to keep your blood sugar levels stable. Just make sure the snacks are as healthy as possible-plus it'll stop you reaching for bad foods when you have a sugar craving.

Maybe instead of having milky ways, buy a block of Lindt ultra high % dark chocolate. You only need one square to satisfy a sugar craving.

I'd say try to keep the bacon intake low, as tasty as it is, it's not good for you.

I feel like you could eat a lot more, just make sure it's healthy. I think a habit people losing weight tend to fall into is to eat under calories but the food they eat isn't overly healthy. Like you could have 1200 calories worth of Oreos, you'd still be under calories but Oreos aren't a balanced diet. If you can, try making a salad for lunch but make sure it has protein such as chicken and a sprinkling of nuts or eggs or something in it.

If you're in Aus, you should get a Michelle Bridges book (my sister has one and I have one and we swap). She has awesome ideas for meals and things, plus you learn a lot about pairing foods and why you shouldn't have this or that at that time. That helped me mentally (I just need to put it into practice).

I find it easy to make healthy lunches if Im cooking chicken breasts for dinner, to cook an extra one to have for lunch with salad the next day. You could start to cook in bulk and freeze the leftovers to ensure that when you get home and you're too tired/lazy to cook, you don't reach for a bad or high carb food but you heat up some healthy leftovers.

Keep the carbs low at dinner if you can too. Maybe have the carbs at lunch and salad at dinner. As my old PT used to say, load up the cardio, cut the carbs and keep up the protein. Have protein with every meal.

Otherwise looking good!

its quite simple realy, i havent seen your diary so cant comment on it but the best diet is eat fresh and lean. processed foods are full of carbs calls salts etc . the basic thing in diet is we get fat because we eat to much and the body stores it as fat, to loose it we need to cut back to let the body use stored fat. simples , sorry meercat impression

I wouldn't worry *too* much about sugar; MFP tends to way under-estimate what you can eat. In general, though I realize there is much controversy on these boards, I think that you can eat pretty much unlimited fruit and not worry about its "sugar" due to all the goodies it has nutritionally.

Definitely don't go too far below your allotted calories. Good luck!!