Feedback Please

[cristina-r04]

Hello everyone,

I am 31 years old, 5'2" and weigh 176lbs. I have recently started following the weight watchers online program, and would like to lose about 40lbs. I wanted to get some feedback from others who may be on a similar path, or who have lost weight in a healthy way.

So far (2 weeks) I have been following the program well, and have lost about 8lbs. I have not exercised too much these past few weeks, but will be starting a kickboxing program next week (3 nights per week). In the past I have been a big fan of cardo exercises like walking/jogging, jumping rope, using the stationary bike and hiking. I'm not a big fan of weight training although I have worked with a personal trainer in the past.

For the last 2 weeks, a typical day of eating would look something like this:
Breakfast: one cup of oatmeal, with 1/2 cup each of sliced strawberries and banana, 1 tbsp of brown sugar and cinnamon. Green Tea to drink (no sugar, or milk added).

Snack: 1 slice of whole wheat toast with 1 tbsp reduced-fat peanut butter, an orange, and a glass of skim milk

Lunch: 1 cup of homemade potato and leek soup (no butter, cream or milk included - just potatoes, leeks, chicken broth, and bacon to taste); with a spinach salad (baby spinach leaves, cucumber, blueberries, sliced pear, 1 tbsp chopped walnuts, 1 tbsp goat cheese, and 1 tbsp fat free italian dressing)

Snack: 2 wedges of light laughing cow cheese with green grapes

Dinner: Carbonara Chicken Pasta: 1 cup whole wheat pasta, 1/2 chicken breast sliced, pancetta (1 tbsp), Zucchini, onion, mushrooms, 1 tsp olive oil, one egg.

Desert: IF I have desert, it is either fresh fruit with some fat-free cool whip, or a bowl of multi-grain cheerios with skim milk and fresh fruit.


I have been trying to drink 6-8 glasses of water a day - not always easy, but I'm trying. And I have been measuring out my food to make sure that I'm getting the proper portions.

As I said, the weight seems to be coming off, but I am worried that I may be losing water weight or muscle rather than fat (since I'm not really working out to much yet). If that's the case, I'm worried that once I start working out, the scale won't continue to go down because I'll likely be gaining some muscle.

The other thing I'd like to know is if my diet is a healthy one. I'm staying within my points for weight watchers, and I know I'm getting lots of fruits and vegetables. Am I missing anything else?

I'd just like some feedback from others. I have been overweight my whole life, and would like to make a healthy lifestyle change - I'm not looking for a quick fix. But I also don't want to put in all this effort if I'm not doing the right thing, which is why I would like some feedback.

Thanks

 

[TikTak]

Welcome to the forum!

Congrats on your weight loss so far! Your diet looks healthy to me, but I'm not an expert. Keep it up!

 

[Tally29]

Your diet seems to be on track but I have never tried weight watchers. I think you should probably take some pictures of yourself now and keep those for when you start working out. It isn't all about the scale and even if you start gaining muscle and the scale doesn't go down it doesn't mean you aren't looking better. So pictures help with this and so do writing down measurements. Sometimes you see a difference in measurements but not necessarily on the scale.

If you see no changes though from measurements or pictures though you should always re-evaluate what you have been eating or your workouts. I feel like people wait for weeks without improvements and don't think to change up their workouts and eating. The body get's used to what we do to it so we keep challenging it.

 

[fortyfour]

Hi cristina, the good thing about weight watchers it think is that its geared to good nutrition. So what you are eating looks pretty good over all.

However what are cheerios? Are they some sort of cereal. I would quit those.

I am also against low fat diary foods. I think they taste bad. I think its just better to give up cheese and butter altogether and return to drinking full cream milk which is delicious and your food will taste better and its not morish like cheese is. Well that's for me and it works but you might not want ot go that way.

Becuase of the full crema milk i make my own yoghurt and its delicious. Its better than the sour low fat stuff you buy in the supermarket. I find none of those low fat weight watchers desserts satsify me. I would probably eat teh whole lot of them if i had to eat one. I have difficult controlling myself if the food is sweet so i have given up sugar altogether.

I have learned to eat porridge - cooked oats with only milk and if i eat it raw i have it with milk and a chopped apple or pear which is delicious. I used to eat it with brown sugar but i now believe its best to eradicate sugar altogether beucase i just don't have the control over it.

I have never tried low fat peanut butter but its seems like an oxymoron to me. Peanuts are nearly all fat. That's why they are delicious. If low fat peanut butter is not as yummy as the real thing i would quit that and eat avocardo instead. Its high in fat but a tablespoon goes a long way and gives you vitamins too.

What is cool whip? is that cream or icecream. I find fat free icecream horrible its just air. Eat yoghurt instead. I adore yoghurt. And its so good for you.

I hope i don't annoy you too much with my rant about low fat diary and other foods but i feel that the diet industry is partly responsible for destroying the quality of food in our supermarkets and for making eveyrone get so fat. If we weren't all eating this low fat stuff people would be eating less deepfried stuff as well. people tend to compensate for the calories they are missing from their diay somewhere else.

When you find that the WW food is not really doing it for you, give what i've said some thought.

Ok. I'lll shut up now.

but do what you think is best. At least you are eating vegies and whole grain and have a varied diet. This is good.