LisaC
Gold Member
i have just put in bold all the foods you have eaten that are high carbs....im no expert or nutritionalist but it does seem like a lot of carbs...yes some people can eat carbs at every meal and get away with it but others cant and if your not happy with the result your getting then i would really consider swapping your dinner for salad with quorn pieces or cheese from your hexa.....treat the amounts of potatoes and pasta and rice that you have as hexb's in other words, dont look at the recommended amounts on the pack....look at what they are as a hexb...i think youll find they are a lot less. i dont have carbs such as potatoes, rice and pasta every day.....ill have maybe a slice of wholemeal in a morning for breakfast or ill have cereal btu for lunch i tend to have salad and tuna, then for tea ill have meat and veg....but im cc so its different but i know sw inside out and i know that when i was doing ee it didnt work for me, and if i ate lots of carbs by doing green days i didnt lose, the only way i lost was doing red days...but i understand that if you dont eat meat its not really an option. and you ARE doing green days, theres no meat in there.....i think you need to put in another hexb, its for your fibre which will help reduce bloating and keep you regular...at the end of the day its finding what works for you personally. there is nothing WRONG with this diary at all, so please dont think im picking it to bits as im not...you lost a pound eating this so you got the benefits from eating this way, so if your happy eating this way then i think you should carry on. but as i said if its a bit erratic it could just be the carb over load, and you are eating a lot of eggs......perhaps more meat substitutes? your veg and fruit intake looks good and i dont think your snacking is too bad....your certainly not massively over eating, but the only thing i can think of as ive said is the amount of carbs...and possibly eggs, maybe mix it up a bit. if i were you i would try having:
breakfast: mixed fruit salad and ff yogurt
dinner: home made vegetable soup with 2 slices of nimble bread HEXB
tea: spag bol made with quorn mince and lots of veg and just 50g pasta (uncooked weight) with cheese hexa
snacks: 2 alpen light hexb, 250 ml semi milk hexa....
its mixing it up a bit, reduced your carb intake right down, included the other hexa and hexb you realy should be having and youve got lots of fruit and veg in there and lots of superfree. and maybe have a cut off time for snacking on fruit cos i read if you eat fruit before bed it sits and ferments in your stomach and leaves you bloated, not sure if its true but it put me off lol..
also i took day 4 and inputted all the food from this day into mfp, i worked on the amounts youd put in and the amounts i know your allowed on sw and you had 1904 calories on that day.......the 3 apples you had totalled to 225 cals, the 125g of cous cous you had was almost 500 calories...that was just based on plain cous cous......i could of course be completely wrong, and i know your not doing cc, your doing sw but as everyone knows losing weight works on a basis of taking in less cals than you use......and i just wanted to angle it a different way so you could see that while these foods are 'free' they can easily take you over what you NEED in terms of calorie consumption. i have 1200 cals a day then more on a weekend and am losing 1-2 pound a week, now if your having 1900 a day its stands to reason the weight loss will be hit and miss, your saving grace is probably the fact your exercising. recommended amounts of carbs are not meant to be had at each meal, then as a snack. and 3 apples, 2 satsumas, a curly wurly and fat free yogurt all as snacks is quite a lot tbh...it soon racks up. technically your doing nothing wrong but as i say...everything has a calorie content and just because its free doesnt mean it wont affect the scales.x
I totally agree. I've always thought my problem area could be too many carbs but its difficult having a meal thats not too big but filling enough at the same time. I have salad everyday for lunch for dinner I do think I need something a little more sunstantial for dinner which is why I know I couldn't have no carbs. I'm happy to reduce them so maybe I'll try to halve what I was having...? I've found that I have to have my B choice everyday other wise it affects me, I may try mixing up breakfasts & using my B on something else.
I think for me its really difficult balancing SW with cc as in the past I did cc but took it too far & was on my way to an eating disorder. I am in control now but I know how I can become obssessed with numbers which is why I love SW, only "so much" counting & weighing, but I do feel it goes hand in hand with cc as there's no point eating past pasta pasta everyday & thinking it will never affect your weightloss! I think I'll go through my meals & staple foods & see what I can change, mix up, substitute. I know I lost this week so that is good but to lose 1lb every now & then isn't what I want so I'd rather try harder with food. I just don't want to undereat especially given my exercise, so I'll need to keep an eye on that too!
Two weeks ago when I gained 0.5 I'd been tracking everything I ate & that week I was taking in ardoun 1300-1400 cals a day & that was before working out my exercise calories, so not sure what happened there!! If I am undereating at all I'm not sure how to tackle it. I know some would say "eat more" but its not that simple. Sometimes I can't find a balance, I don't want to eat for the sake of eating, I'd rather enjoy it knowing its my syns or a post workout snack.
