Diet Advice for Weight Loss

slumped

Here's the story.

Male. 6ft tall. Weighed 15stone, was reasonably happy with this.

Have ballooned up to 16 stone 5lbs recently and have decided to do something about it.

Here is a rough diet and excercise plan - comments and help appreciated. Focus is weight loss as quickly as possible while maintaining healthy eating


Breakfast:
1 x Pro Biotic Drink
1 x Glass OJ
1 x Bowl Special K / Sugar Free Museli

Mid Morning:
Banana and Tea

Lunch
Avonmore Low Fat Soup (500g) and 2 slices of Granary Bread
Water

Mid Afternoon
Banana and Tea

Dinner
Salad (Leaves - with sweet chilli sauce for dressing)
Tuna (small can) or small steak trimmed or Donegal Catch Cod (1)
Veg selection - 3 small potatoes
Can of Caffiene Free Diet Coke

Evening
Snack if hungary on Carrot Sticks

Excercise is 30 minute walk with Dog.

What results can I expect to see in 1 month based on this? 2-3 lbs??

Dragan

to be honest, thats kinda like asking us to predict the future. How much weight you will lose depends on a huge amount of factors.

slumped

Dragan wrote:

to be honest, thats kinda like asking us to predict the future. How much weight you will lose depends on a huge amount of factors.

Well is this a good diet to lose weight with? Is it balanced, am I missing out on anything?

Dragan

If it were me i would add more protein to the diet, and get more excercise. 30 mins walking is better than 30 mins sitting, but you should really be doing something to push yourself a little bit. Swimming is always a great option.

Keyzer

I'd increase the excercise, you need to burn more calories than you take in.
If you want to do this as fast as possible you need to burn burn burn. Try jogging/running/swimming 3-4 nights a week. Also, try lifting some weights, muscle burns calories just to exist plus a good weight session will burn calories for 24-48 hours afterwards as opposed to a cardio workout which lasts for maybe one-two hours.

Diet looks ok, concentrate on proteins and fibre plus carbs but not loads.
Always mix your diet up so you dont get bored, obviously with good stuff.
Try smoothies too, they keep you fuller for longer.

LundiMardi

slumped wrote:

Here is a rough diet and excercise plan - comments and help appreciated. Focus is weight loss as quickly as possible while maintaining healthy eating


Breakfast:
1 x Pro Biotic Drink
1 x Glass OJ
1 x Bowl Special K / Sugar Free Museli

Mid Morning:
Banana and Tea

Lunch
Avonmore Low Fat Soup (500g) and 2 slices of Granary Bread
Water

Mid Afternoon
Banana and Tea

Dinner
Salad (Leaves - with sweet chilli sauce for dressing)
Tuna (small can) or small steak trimmed or Donegal Catch Cod (1)
Veg selection - 3 small potatoes
Can of Caffiene Free Diet Coke

Evening
Snack if hungary on Carrot Sticks

Excercise is 30 minute walk with Dog.

What results can I expect to see in 1 month based on this? 2-3 lbs??

It's ok i guess, i wouldn't expect amazing results. Cut out the tea and replace it with water, how much water are you drinking per day? You need at LEAST 1.5 litres a day(this is not incl other drinks like tea, coffee, coke etc). Try and cut out the Avonmore Soup, it's not ideal, full of salt etc. Have a breast of chicken and sald for lunch, or some tuna and veg.

Try and up the walk to an hour at a good speed. If you can, then a 30 min run wouldn't go a miss.

TerrorFirmer

How can you not expect amazing results? To be honest if the guy is sixteen and a half stone, the above diet of he sticks to it combined with some exercise should see a huge reduction in weight after a month or two...I know I've been eating more or less that same diet for the last four months and since Christmas my weight has changed from 16 to 12.5 stone (I'm 6ft also) - although i do go the gym three times a week but even before I started that the weight dropped off fairly steadily.

slumped

HavoK wrote:

How can you not expect amazing results? To be honest if the guy is sixteen and a half stone, the above diet of he sticks to it combined with some exercise should see a huge reduction in weight after a month or two...I know I've been eating more or less that same diet for the last four months and since Christmas my weight has changed from 16 to 12.5 stone (I'm 6ft also) - although i do go the gym three times a week but even before I started that the weight dropped off fairly steadily.

Thanks for the input Havok, encouraging to say the least.

Not a gym person, although my bank account is €100 a month lighter after being convinced I should join one. That expires next month thank god.

Dog doesn't know what has hit him. Walking on average 45 mins a day with him.

S

LundiMardi

HavoK wrote:

How can you not expect amazing results? To be honest if the guy is sixteen and a half stone, the above diet of he sticks to it combined with some exercise should see a huge reduction in weight after a month or two...I know I've been eating more or less that same diet for the last four months and since Christmas my weight has changed from 16 to 12.5 stone (I'm 6ft also) - although i do go the gym three times a week but even before I started that the weight dropped off fairly steadily.

That's a very unsafe amount of weight loss right there...

TerrorFirmer

LundiMardi wrote:

That's a very unsafe amount of weight loss right there...

Yeah, you'd think so, but I guess that's what happens when you go from eating crap literally everyday with no exercise to eating healthily and going to the gym 3 or 4 times a week.

I was about 13 stone, shot up to 16 after a summer of - no joke - not one day in the gym combined with eating junk everyday, so since christmas I've been working pretty hard to get my old shape back.

Oviously enough now that I've reached 12.5 stone that's healthy enough for a guy of 6ft so I'm working on toning up now.