Trying to shed a few pounds but need an input on my diet :-)

Redzer7

Hi all, I'm new to this dieting at the moment, I'm 19, 5 foot 6 and I weigh around 10 and a half stone. I don't do much exercise either but I want to lose a bit of weight as I have a bit of a beer belly already, but I know I can't just lose weight around the stomach area it needs to be around the body.

Before this I was eating basically crap! Sweets, crisps, fizzy drinks, pizzas, chips, chicken nuggets etc so am I right in thinking I can lose a few pounds without exercising by changing to this diet?

I'm not really sure on a diet at the moment, not sure whether this would be a suitable diet so if someone could correct me where I'm wrong that would be great.

Breakfast: A bowl of Special K with low fat milk.
Lunch: Scrambled egg.
Dinner: 2 chicken fillets done on the George Foreman and a few baby potatoes.
Snacks: Fruit but not too much of it.

I will be trying to eliminate alcohol from my diet as much as possible but it's easier said than done.

I understand that this diet may be horrendous so if anybody can steer me in the right direction that would be great.

Thanks in advance for the help :-)

homemadecider

First things first, read the stickies at this top of this forum and find out your calories needs per day. Join up to Myfitnesspal.com (it's free) and start logging all your food to measure your intake against your needs.

As for the diet you posted up:

Redzer7 wrote: »

Breakfast: A bowl of Special K with low fat milk.
Lunch: Scrambled egg.
Dinner: 2 chicken fillets done on the George Foreman and a few baby potatoes.
Snacks: Fruit but not too much of it.

Your breakfast is junk. Special K is full of sugar and no has nutrition. Go for porridge or eggs.

Lunch - only scrambled eggs? How about soup/ salad/ pulses etc?

Dinner - where's the vegetables? Green things are great for you and are delicious.

Fruit is good but watch out for the sugar levels. Again, read the stickies and you will get a lot of information there.

Redzer7

homemadecider wrote: »

First things first, read the stickies at this top of this forum and find out your calories needs per day. Join up to Myfitnesspal.com (it's free) and start logging all your food to measure your intake against your needs.

As for the diet you posted up:



Your breakfast is junk. Special K is full of sugar and no has nutrition. Go for porridge for eggs.

Lunch - only scrambled eggs? How about soup/ salad/ pulses etc?

Dinner - where's the vegetables? Green things are great for you and are delicious.

Fruit is good but watch out for the sugar levels. Again, read the stickies and you will get a lot of information there.

Sorry forgot to mention I signed up to myfitnesspal.com and have the app on my phone so I can monitor everything I eat or drink :-)

Not a big fan of porridge so will probably go for the eggs. How many eggs? And is boiled or scrambled the best way to do them.

Well scrambled eggs would probably fill me to be honest but I wouldn't mind having chicken or vegetable soup to mix it up a bit every now and then
would a chicken fillet and salad be a good lunch to have aswel?

I'll take on board the vegetables :-) is there any in particular I should be getting?

Thanks for the help :-)

you will have zero energy, get ill easily and become demotivated within a week if you continue to eat like that. It's not workable, you are consuming no fats (fats are essential to survive!) and all of 900kcals a day (not enough to live!).

No need for shortcuts, to become the person you want to be, eat like they would. When you are at your target weight, would you be eating the above? No, then you are on a 'crash diet' as opposed to becoming a healthier version of yourself, which is what you aim to be.

Breakfast - scrambled Eggs and bacon / spinach & salmon / Greek Yoghurt with berries and nuts

Lunch - Meat and loads of vegetables (green leafy veg, can't eat enough of this! - spinach, kale, brocolli, cauliflower, asparagus). Aim for 2/3 of your plate to be veg, 1/3 to be meat.

Dinner - See lunch. This is how you are to eat from now on, meat/fish and vegetables!

Snacks - have a handful of nuts, a bit of cheese, a little piece of really fine (>75%) dark chocolate, a few pieces of chicken, a bit of whatever you didn't finish at lunch time, have breakfast again if needs be!

Drinks - Water is great, tea with a splash of milk, black coffee, green tea,

If you approach a 'diet' as a temporary change of existence you will fail, 99% of people do. If you change your opinion of the term diet to "being more health concious" then you will realise that after some time it's almost impossible to go back to what you'd been doing to yourself. You'll feel disgusted by how you used to eat, won't find any satisfaction in greasy chipper chips or a tayto sandwich.

Be patient, allow yourself time to lose the excess just as it took time to put it on. Jumping off a cliff weight-wise isn't recommended for anyone really.

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Redzer7

Thanks for that great post will help a lot! Will take it all on board.
How many eggs should I be using to make scrambled egg? Also is doing the chicken fillets on the George Foreman ok?

Bid08

just wondering if someone can give input to my own
Breakfast - Porridge
Snacks - Fruit (prob 3 a day)
Lunch - Brown bread sandwich / wrap generally chicken and coleslaw / beans on toast / scrambled egg on toast/
Dinners - this is my down fall some evening could be one of my lunches above / or else chicken breast, brocolli , baby potatoes / generally home made chicken curry once a week / spagatti bolognaise
No Alcolhol

Bid08

Bid08 wrote: »

just wondering if someone can give input to my own
Breakfast - Porridge
Snacks - Fruit (prob 3 a day)
Lunch - Brown bread sandwich / wrap generally chicken and coleslaw / beans on toast / scrambled egg on toast/
Dinners - this is my down fall some evening could be one of my lunches above / or else chicken breast, brocolli , baby potatoes / generally home made chicken curry once a week / spagatti bolognaise
No Alcolhol

It's pretty poor (but typical!) to be honest
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Redzer7

Redzer7 wrote: »

Thanks for that great post will help a lot! Will take it all on board.
How many eggs should I be using to make scrambled egg? Also is doing the chicken fillets on the George Foreman ok?

Cook food as you want it (try not to deep fry anything).

Try not to over cook vegetables, they're pretty much fine raw in most cases. Bitta butter in a saucepan and 3/4 minutes of heat leaves them crunchy and tasty.

"Eggs - How many?" - is a strange question. You can eat as many as you want. (Within reason!) Just need to keep an eye on the calorie intake. (about 70kcals for a medium egg).

You should try to educate yourself about what you are eating, it really doesn't take that much time. Follow the link above and have a read of Nutrition101. You should be able to answer a "how many" question to pretty much all of your favourite foods. "What size portion of X is 200kcals?" for instance.

MonkeyBalls

a basic paleo diet will sort you out. get rid of the special K and all that grainy garbage