Trying To Get Back On Track For Weight Loss

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Here everyone new member so sorry if I have posted this in the wrong section.

I am currently starting to try and get myself back on track for weight loss, a little information to start with I’m male, 27, 6ft 3, 205lbs and sorry I don’t currently know my BMI.

I was doing really well on my diet that I started last February as I weighed managed to get myself down to 190lbs but due to family and work issues (and making excuses) have started to balloon back up.

I go out for a 10k run almost every second day. My diet is pretty consistent.

Breakfast/Lunch: 3 fried eggs (cooked it single calorie spray oil) with a half a pack of cooked chicken.

Mid Day Snack: 250-300g of red or black grapes and two apples.

Dinner: Varies between chicken fillets or fish if I have been out for a run that day or just the same as I had for breakfast/lunch if I haven’t.

Just wondering if this seems a reasonable way to cut back down or if I’m making any beginners mistakes as I’ve heard too much sugar from fruit can lead to weight gain.

Thanks in advance for any info
 
Hey Jolldan and welcome to the forum! If you´re looking to get as many eyes (and comments) on your posts as you can I encourage you to start a diary here https://weight-loss.fitness.com/forums/weight-loss-diary.9/ It´s an easy way to keep track of what you´re doing, what works and what doesn´t, and to get to know folks around here by snooping in their diaries.
Your BMI is currently 25.6, which makes you slightly overweight (unless you´re very muscular). What jumps out at me when I look at your food diary is... I don´t see a single vegetable. Plenty of fruit, which I do like but may not keep you full for very long if it´s your entire midday meal but given that you call it a snack maybe that wasn´t the goal anyway. Enough fat (although I can´t judge your omega 3s) and lots of protein, probably more than you need but that´s likely not a problem as long as you drink enough water and have healthy kidneys. But veggies would help to give you more micronutrients and fiber. Fiber is a pretty important thing and animal products have none. Grapes have 0.9 g/100 g and apples 2.4 g/100 g, which means that even with your higher estimate of 300 g of fruit. Dark red kidney beans would have 8 g/100 g. The (US) national fiber recommendations are 30 to 38 grams a day for men.
I hope that´s somewhat helpful to you and look forward to seeing your progress!
 
LaMaria said:
Hey Jolldan and welcome to the forum! If you´re looking to get as many eyes (and comments) on your posts as you can I encourage you to start a diary here https://weight-loss.fitness.com/forums/weight-loss-diary.9/ It´s an easy way to keep track of what you´re doing, what works and what doesn´t, and to get to know folks around here by snooping in their diaries.
Your BMI is currently 25.6, which makes you slightly overweight (unless you´re very muscular). What jumps out at me when I look at your food diary is... I don´t see a single vegetable. Plenty of fruit, which I do like but may not keep you full for very long if it´s your entire midday meal but given that you call it a snack maybe that wasn´t the goal anyway. Enough fat (although I can´t judge your omega 3s) and lots of protein, probably more than you need but that´s likely not a problem as long as you drink enough water and have healthy kidneys. But veggies would help to give you more micronutrients and fiber. Fiber is a pretty important thing and animal products have none. Grapes have 0.9 g/100 g and apples 2.4 g/100 g, which means that even with your higher estimate of 300 g of fruit. Dark red kidney beans would have 8 g/100 g. The (US) national fiber recommendations are 30 to 38 grams a day for men.
I hope that´s somewhat helpful to you and look forward to seeing your progress!
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Thanks very much will make sure to have a look at that.

Yeah that’s probably part of my problem, I’ve honestly just never found a vegetable that I really enjoy eating. I occasionally dabble with chillis as I like spicy food but other than nothing. Have tried a lot of them and a lot of the more recently popular ones like cabbage, kale and spinach but really disliked the taste of them all. Will just have to make it a thing that I keep trying a different one every week till I find something I like. It speaks volumes that the only time I ever have carrots are if they are in a cake:oops: lol

Yeah that was very useful and I don’t think I’ve ever tried kidney beans so will maybe have to give them a go, thanks again.
 
Hi, Jolldan, & welcome to the forum. I think learning to like vegetables might be the key. Do you like any of them raw? For example, I like cos lettuce, celery, cherry tomatoes, snow peas & carrots raw. Steamed veggies I like. I love baked veggies & that may be a way of you learning to like veggies. Have you tried hummus? Celery & carrots dipped in Hummus are delicious.
 
I agree with Cate, how the vegetables are prepared and served makes a big difference to how they taste and what the texture of the vegetable is.
 
Maybe the fairly challenging "cabbage, kale and spinach" end of things wasn't a good place to start! For starters, cabbage when it's cooking can be pretty... ummm... cabbage-y! :D
What Cate says about trying some pleasant salady sort of veg, like snow peas, is a good hint. And, depending on the season where are, you could also try some of the sweeter, warming veg, like pumpkin or beetroot - or brussels sprouts (roasted! - sure, they're not terribly diety that way, but if it's a gateway to getting into veg, it'd be worth it) - or mixed carrot-and-potato mash.
 
All of the above :) Cooking veggies well is a skill thoroughly worth acquiring. Example cabbage: I don´t tolerate it very well at all raw but if I cut it into thin strips and cook it in a dry pan until just wilted it´s sweet and easy to digest. Leave it in there longer and it goes grossly cabbage-y indeed. A decent slaw isn´t hard to make either and most people love it.
 
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