Weight Loss - Advice On My Diet

Paully D

Hi all,

I'm just wondering if you could give me some advice on my diet. I'm 6ft 2'', 14 and a half stone and I'm looking to lose the belly and about a stone in the process by the end of the summer.

Breakfast:

Always a bowl of museli with low fat milk

Lunch:

Varies from:

Beans on toast
Spaghetti hoops on toast
Tuna on brown bread
Boiled eggs
Soup

Dinner:

Varies from:

Spahgetti Bolognase
Beef stew
Steak/spuds/veg
Roast beef/spuds/veg
Ham/spuds/veg
Shepard's pie/veg
Chicken curry with wholegrain pasta
Chicken cesar salad

Snacks:

Fruit

Drinks:

An inch of Robinsons or Ribena (both no added sugar) in a pint glass with each meal and after exercise.

Exercise:

3-4 times a week I do:

15-20 minute sprint intervals but sometimes I do a 40 minute run instead just to mix things up.

I'd be very grateful for any advice. Also, do you think it'd be possible for me to lose a stone over the summer sticking to the above, or are there changes I'd need to make? I'm also fond of a few pints every third or fourth weekend but I'll try and keep that to a minimum.

Thanks all

Paully D

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G86

I'm not the best to be advising, but here's my 2cents. Hopefully you'll get more of an input from other posters.

Paully D wrote: »

Breakfast:

Always a bowl of museli with low fat milk

Grand.

Paully D wrote: »

Lunch:

Varies from:

Beans on toast
Spaghetti hoops on toast
Tuna on brown bread
Boiled eggs
Soup

The beans/spag hoops on toast aren't great imo. The others look fine.

Paully D wrote: »

Dinner:

Varies from:

Spahgetti Bolognase
Beef stew
Steak/spuds/veg
Roast beef/spuds/veg
Ham/spuds/veg
Shepard's pie/veg
Chicken curry with wholegrain pasta
Chicken cesar salad

When you say 'spuds', how many are we talking? Also, are you taking boiled or mash with butter etc.?

Paully D wrote: »

Snacks:

Fruit

How much fruit?

I know its a 'good food', but like anything else you'll still put on weight if you eat too much of it.

Paully D wrote: »

Drinks:

An inch of Robinsons or Ribena (both no added sugar) in a pint glass with each meal and after exercise.

Drink diluted drinks myself, can't see it having much of a negative impact but I'm open to correction!

Paully D wrote: »

Exercise:

3-4 times a week I do:

15-20 minute sprint intervals but sometimes I do a 40 minute run instead just to mix things up.

You need to do more than 15-20mins a week. Do you play any sports or is this your only exercise for the week?

cmyk

Paully D wrote: »

I'd be very grateful for any advice. Also, do you think it'd be possible for me to lose a stone over the summer.

How many calories are you consuming daily? If you don't know, go find out. Buy/use a decent scales to measure the portions and plug it into fitday or similar. Most people eat similarly each day as per your list, so you'll only have to do this a couple of times.

Alternatively if you can't be bothered with that, eat as above, monitor your weight loss, if it's not coming down adjust your portion sizes downwards accordingly until it does. With a goal in mind though, I know which route I'd take.

Adjust and discuss the details after you've done the above.

Paully D

G86 wrote: »

I'm not the best to be advising, but here's my 2cents. Hopefully you'll get more of an input from other posters.



Grand.


The beans/spag hoops on toast aren't great imo. The others look fine.


When you say 'spuds', how many are we talking? Also, are you taking boiled or mash with butter etc.?



How much fruit?

I know its a 'good food', but like anything else you'll still put on weight if you eat too much of it.




Drink diluted drinks myself, can't see it having much of a negative impact but I'm open to correction!


You need to do more than 15-20mins a week. Do you play any sports or is this your only exercise for the week?

Thanks a lot for the response, much appreciated.

The spuds are mashed with a small bit of butter, usually two or three small scoops.

I don't eat a lot of fruit to be honest, perhaps 1 piece a day, usually a small orange.

I do more than 15-20 minutes a week. I do 15-20 minutes 3 or 4 times a week, so around an hour or an hour and 20 minute sprint intervals a week. I don't do any other exercise apart from walk the dog but my football pre-season is starting soon so I'll be doing that twice a week too in about 4 weeks time.

Again, thanks very much for the response!

Paully D

cmyk wrote: »

How many calories are you consuming daily? If you don't know, go find out. Buy/use a decent scales to measure the portions and plug it into fitday or similar. Most people eat similarly each day as per your list, so you'll only have to do this a couple of times.

Alternatively if you can't be bothered with that, eat as above, monitor your weight loss, if it's not coming down adjust your portion sizes downwards accordingly until it does. With a goal in mind though, I know which route I'd take.

Adjust and discuss the details after you've done the above.

I'd imagine I'm eating around 1500-1800 calories a day mate, I wouldn't be certain on that but I'll certainly do some more research into it.

I'm setting up a Fit Day profile now too.

Thanks a lot

G86

Paully D wrote: »

Thanks a lot for the response, much appreciated.

The spuds are mashed with a small bit of butter, usually two or three small scoops.

I don't eat a lot of fruit to be honest, perhaps 1 piece a day, usually a small orange.

I do more than 15-20 minutes a week. I do 15-20 minutes 3 or 4 times a week, so around an hour or an hour and 20 minute sprint intervals a week. I don't do any other exercise apart from walk the dog but my football pre-season is starting soon so I'll be doing that twice a week too in about 4 weeks time.

Again, thanks very much for the response!

Sorry, that's what I meant, 15-20 mins in each session - it's grand like, but you could be doing more. You could easily take a 5-10 min break and do 3 interval blocks in the one session. Are you in a gym?

Your diet really doesn't look too bad at all. Definitely check out fitday, I find it a godsend when I put on a bit of weight, you really can't lie to yourself when you're writing everything down and adding it up!

TimeToShine

you can use livestrong.com/myplate as well which doesn't require you to sign up.

Mellor

G86 wrote: »

Drink diluted drinks myself, can't see it having much of a negative impact but I'm open to correction!

Obvious they are high in sugar per unit ml, but its concentrate so pointless lookign at pack data like that.
Pretty easy to measure and i can't imagine its any worse than milk or silimar. Prob better. Lite versions are availible if people care that much


OP, I was going to stick a Jersey Shore GTL reference but couldn't find a decent pic online, missed opportunity imo