Looking to lose a lot of weight

Cantona

Cantona

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Hello guys. I'm a 22 year old male from the UK. Not sure if this is a UK or US forum, but I've seen a lot of you using "pounds" so I'm assuming most of you are from the US. Anyway, I've decided to get thinner and lose some weight. I started quite a while ago, but was quite scared to weigh myself, so just went about the diet without doing so.

Eventually I bit the bullet and weighed myself. On the 24th October I weighed 20 stones and 7lbs. As of today I weigh 19 stones 7lbs. So I've lost a stone, but I don't know if what I'm doing is healthy or beneficial to myself. For example, some foods that I always thought were "healthy" or "not that bad", I hear people saying how they're "very fattening". Anyway...

I'm currently unemployed, so instead of sitting around watching daytime TV, I thought I'd try and get in shape. This is my current day plan.

I wake up and go for an hours walk.

I come home and have a breakfast of 23g of quaker porridge oats with 170ml of water (to make the porridge) with a chopped up banana.

Later on in the morning I go for another hours walk

For lunch I have started having a butternut squash soup which I make myself. The ingredients are: 1 onion, 1 garlic clove, olive oil, butternut squash and vegetable stock. (One batch of this lasts about 4-5 days).

I then go for another hours walk in the afternoon.

For dinner I have "normal" food with my family. Different everyday. Mostly fresh homecooked stuff.

If I have a snack, I have a banana or apple and the only thing I drink is water. Completely given up alcohol. (I fell off the "wagon" a few weeks ago and put half a stone on!)

So yeah, basically wondering if I'm going about this the right way? Am I eating healthily and doing enough exercise?

Thanks.
 
HI and welcome.

It seems to me that you're doing ok, but your food could be better. :) At your weight, it doesn't seem that you're eating ENOUGH. I know that sounds contradictory, but eating too little can be as bad as eating too much. When you cut your calories drastically, you wind up causing a slow down in your metabolism that can stall out your weight loss.

I also don't see enough protein there (of course I don't know what you're eating for dinner - so that might make a difference)

I would suggest that you register for a free account on fitday.com or thedailyplate.com and start logging your food. It will show you how many calories you're getting, and how your nutrition breaks down and it'll really help you to see where you can tweak what you eat.

As far as exercise, walking is great. The more weight you lose, the more "briskly" you'll be able to walk, which is good. I would also suggest that at some point you look into the sticky posts in the exercise area - especially the ones on weigh tlifting. If you can add some strength training to your program, you'll help to maintain muscle mass and burn more fat.

Hope that helps some! :)
 
Thanks for your reply. I would say that for dinner it's basically always some form of meat and some form of veg.

Chicken stir fry, Spag Bol, cottage pie, roast dinner, fish and chips, sausages and mash. etc.

If this isn't enough, what other foods are OK to snack on.

I signed up for that website whilst reading around. It looked quite confusing to me.
 
I actually posted about this elsewhere in a thread called ""

There's a huge list of foods there that people who have lost weight eat on a regular basis. Check it out. :)
 
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