Do I overeat? :(

newbie!

Hi all,

I have a thread on my exercise over in the Fitness forum but wanted to get opinions on my diet.

Breakfast:
Boiled Egg and handful seeds/nuts/dried cranberries

Mid morning:
Muesli/Granola with fresh raspberries and some natural yoghurt

Lunch:
Either homemade soup with 2 ryvita and homous
OR
Lentils with tomatoes and spices
OR
salad with ham/salmon and 2ryvita.

Dinner:
This can be anything from a curry, pasta, lasagne, meat, veg and potatoes etc. I'm trying to eat more fish also. I try to not eat naan, garlic bread, chips etc but prob succumb to some bad dinner about once a week.

Snacks:
Fruit, nuts etc.

I try not to snack on rubbish during the week but inevitably on a weekend I do eat some chocolate or some crisps etc.

Basically if you eat well for 5/6 days of the week, can you afford to fall off the wagon on the last day?

rocky

What's your weight?

Track your calories for a week with www.fitday.com, weigh yourself at the beginning and end of week, then you'll know if you overeat or not, what's your maintenance calories and all sorts of other stuff.

Frogdog

OP, you seem to eat very little for breakfast and a lot for your dinner. I'd say swop it around.

Khannie

newbie! wrote: »

Basically if you eat well for 5/6 days of the week, can you afford to fall off the wagon on the last day?

Are you gaining fat?

EileenG

Are you gaining, maintaining or losing weight?

It's often not the food, it's the portion size. Muesli and granola, for instance, have the same calories, gram for gram, as cheddar cheese. So a big bowl can really pack in the cals, and most people do eat a much bigger portion than the recommend one, which barely covers the bottom of the bowl.

Same with rice and pasta. They're so bland that you don't realise how many calories you are eating.

newbie!

Sorry, Im female, 5'4", 10stone. I exercise about 3times a week but can't shift pounds ( i reckon I have about 1/2 stone to loose). I reckon the problem is more with my food than my exercise.

I definitely eat more in the evenings. I find it much easier to control my food in work. I will try to use that weblink the first user mentioned.
Other than porridge what other healthy breakfasts can you suggest? Also, Im always grazing so any ideas for some snacks?

thanks for all the help.

EileenG

Eggs are a good breakfast. Much more filling than you'd think, and you know exactly how many eggs you've eaten, so it's easier to keep track. Make an omlette with mushrooms, herbs and any leftover veggies from the night before, and you'll be full for hours.

Cottage cheese is a good snack meal, because again it's more filling than the calories would suggest.

At home, sugar-free jelly is handy, lots of spoonwork for very few cals.

spaceylou

Fruit is great for snacking - obviously different fruits have different amounts of calories but off the top of my head I think melon one of the lowest amount of calories but I mean fruit is a fairly safe bet for healthy snacks. If you are organised you could have fruit salad in the fridge to pick at in the evenings or failing that have a fruit bowl on the kitchen table with fruit that you can just pick up and eat.

Nuts are great after a workout - filling and healthy

I love raw carrots for snacking on - especially with houmous or avacado dip but also good on their own.

I wouldn't say so, based on that but as others have said, it depends on portion size. It's probably better to have a bigger breakfast and then cut down the mid-morning snack, but a lot of people can't stomach big breakfasts first thing. I'm not into massive breakfasts but find if I have two boiled eggs and a small bit of toast, or porridge, or muesli and a banana, that carries me through until 2pm or so.

I'd say especially watch how much pasta you're eating. I find that most Irish people eat crazy amounts of pasta, twice what would be considered normal in Italy. I cooked a meal for a friend the other day and she said 'where's the rest of it?' You're not meant to be eating huge plates of pasta! Try cutting what you currently eat in half. That can be an issue with rice as well. In Asian restaurants you get a tiny little bowl instead of mountains of it. I don't think it's a huge problem to have your main meal in the evening, but just watch the portion size.