So i need help with my diet

lulu1985

So I'm trying to lose weight and get fit. I'm 17St 5 at the moment which actually disgusts me. My usual food is breakfast is smoothie( berry's kale apple or natural yoghurt, Apple pineapple 1/4 of banana or brocolli cauliflower and pineapple) then at 11 I have banana cup of tea 2 sugars and 25g of pistachios, for lunch is omelette or salad with chicken or salmon. Dinner then is chicken or salmon and veg. In the eve then I'd have cup of tea with 2sugars and 2/3 squares of dark chocolate. I drink about 2ltrs of water a day and 3 days a week I do strength training for an hour maybe a little cardio.
I don't seem to be getting anywhere with weight loss...please help...

Alf Veedersane

Start tracking EVERYTHING on MyFitnessPal. You need to be honest with it.

Tar.Aldarion

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

Start tracking EVERYTHING on MyFitnessPal. You need to be honest with it.

How does this work? Since I make all my own food do i add each ingredient? Seems like it would take a long time.
Is chronometer different?

Alf Veedersane

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

How does this work? Since I make all my own food do i add each ingredient? Seems like it would take a long time.
Is chronometer different?

Takes a while the first time but everything is there in a handy database the next time so you can just tick the box and it adds it. And you can save meals that use the same ingredients so you can select that anytime you have it.

Cronometer is a bit different and the foods are a bit more generic. Not sure if it saves everything the first time you use it or if you have to go search for everything every time. MFP is just really handy to use.

Tar.Aldarion

Cheers will try them out and see how accurate and easy it is cheers.

daviddenis

Try cutting out sugar in thous teas. Sugar is lethal. Try splended or go cold turkey. Its bad habbit i used to be v bad for it.

Little things like that add up. Im 17st too. Its so tough but you can do it.

PinkLemonade

daviddenis wrote: »

Try cutting out sugar in thous teas. Sugar is lethal. Try splended or go cold turkey. Its bad habbit i used to be v bad for it.

Little things like that add up. Im 17st too. Its so tough but you can do it.

Are sweetners any better for you though?

Mellor

In terms of weight loss non-sugar sweeteners are better than sugar.

In terms of general health, good/bad.
Neither is going to kill you. And it's probably not the main issue.
But neither is particularly good for you either. In that there is nothing positive they add.


People are obsessed with filing everything into one of two groups, good food and bad food.
When the reality that most foods in isolation are closer to neutral.

Rayne Wooney

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

How does this work? Since I make all my own food do i add each ingredient? Seems like it would take a long time.
Is chronometer different?

its very easy if you have a scales and it takes seconds.

With myfitness pal people really have no excuses these days not knowing their daily calorie intake

Roselm

lulu1985 wrote: »

So I'm trying to lose weight and get fit. I'm 17St 5 at the moment which actually disgusts me. My usual food is breakfast is smoothie( berry's kale apple or natural yoghurt, Apple pineapple 1/4 of banana or brocolli cauliflower and pineapple) then at 11 I have banana cup of tea 2 sugars and 25g of pistachios, for lunch is omelette or salad with chicken or salmon. Dinner then is chicken or salmon and veg. In the eve then I'd have cup of tea with 2sugars and 2/3 squares of dark chocolate. I drink about 2ltrs of water a day and 3 days a week I do strength training for an hour maybe a little cardio.
I don't seem to be getting anywhere with weight loss...please help...

That doesn't seem like much food.Are the portions very large eg piles of spuds with dinner?

nomwakao

Farmers have used artificial sweeteners in pig fattening for decades. It was always assumed that the sweet taste increases appetite and therefore calorie intake.

Researchers from the Weizmann Institute published test results in the scientific journal ‘Nature’, suggesting that the fattening effects of artificial sweeteners are much worse! Artificial sweeteners are affecting gut bacteria in a way that is contributing to the obesity and diabetes epidemic.

Mellor

nomwakao wrote: »

Farmers have used artificial sweeteners in pig fattening for decades. It was always assumed that the sweet taste increases appetite and therefore calorie intake.

Researchers from the Weizmann Institute published test results in the scientific journal ‘Nature’, suggesting that the fattening effects of artificial sweeteners are much worse! Artificial sweeteners are affecting gut bacteria in a way that is contributing to the obesity and diabetes epidemic.

It's used to ween piglets on to solid food faster. Sugar would have the same effect. It does cause then to eat more, but studies show that as they age they get sick of it and eat less.

If you let kids eat as much sweet food as they liked they'd stuff their faces too.

Also, there's a huge difference between a diet consistimg entirely of sweet fattening food and a sweetener in your tea.