Weight-Loss Please rate my diet.

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Breakfast:

1 boiled egg, 2 slices real turkey breast cold cuts, and 1 wedge light wedge laughing cow cheese


Lunch:

small Spinach salad, with cherry tomatoes, cucumber, carrot, onions with 4oz grilled jerk chicken, with 2 multigrain crackers

Snack:

1 0% fat yogurt, with 35 calories

Dinner:

half cup Broccoli and 4oz salmon
 
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Hard to tell since we know the items but not the amounts.
 
Without any other information about you, I can't say for sure, but I will say that quantity of food and calories is about enough to sustain someone weighing about 80 lbs. So if you weigh more than that, you're seriously undereating. Eating too few calories can cause weight loss to stall.

Read the sticky posts in the nutrition forum, including the one about how many calories you should eat.
 
i've stuck to this meal plan and 30-40 mins excersise 6 times a week..

i started off at 233lbs, and am now 198lbs, and it's been around 4 months

i'm 5'4 and my goal is 145lbs-150lbs
 
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Um. Ok. Not sure what response you wanted then. If it's working for you ... I guess fine. It just doesn't look terribly healthy to me - not enough food to sustain that level of working out.
 
what's with the attitude? what else should i be eating then ? i really can't stuff my face with too much food because that will trigger my bad habits.

i'm completely satisfied, and if i do get hungry i'll have some light laughing cow cheese with 4 multigrain crackers, or 5- 6 almonds

i'm really not depriving myself, some people just don't need as much food as other people to be satisfied. i just chew slowly and at a pace.
 
What Kara is trying to tell you is that based on the math you are not getting enough food. Kara wasn't trying to give you attitude and I think you misunderstood what she was trying to tell you.

Honestly, I know people who weigh less than you that NEED more calories to sustain a healthy weight. You might be losing weight right now but at what cost to your future health? What you should be doing is trying to figure out where your bad habits stem from. Mine usually stem from depression and stress. Once you can pin-point the cause of the bad habits you can control your eating and have a better handle on your life.

You shouldn't look at eating as the problem. You should look at eating too much as the problem.
 
what's with the attitude?
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I'm not giving you attitude. I just don't know what response you want. Your thread title says "please rate my diet". When I responded that it didn't look like enough food, you responded that it was working for you.

Ok then. If it's working for you, then what feedback do you want? What response do you expect from asking people to rate your diet? Honest and sincere question - not attitude.

what else should i be eating then ? i really can't stuff my face with too much food because that will trigger my bad habits.
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Eating more healthy food does not equate to "stuffing your face".

At 198 lbs, you should be eating at least 1600-1900 calories worth of food per day. Healthy food.

Right now it appears that you're eating around 700 calories per day. At that rate you cannot possibly get enough nutrition for your body. You're also going to speed the slowdown of your metabolism and eventually your weight loss will stall out becuase you've cut calories so low that you can't cut any lower w/out stopping eating entirely. You're also going to lose muscle and lean mass as you lose fat - ultimately resulting in a flabby "skinny fat" look, rather than a fit healthy and slim look. When you eat a properly balanced diet, you'll lose more fat and less lean mass.

The number of calories you're eating is considered a starvation diet level by most medical standards. Even concentration camp victims during WWII ate higher calorie levels than that - and you saw what happened to them.
 
What Kara is telling you is true! I know just for the pure and simple fact that I did the same thing years ago. And trust me the body you will end up with might not be the one you are looking for. Also your health will be crap.

You asked to rate your diet. On a 1-10 scale I give it a 2

But we all learn through mistakes, so good luck and carry on.
 
I am far from an expert on the topic & am not sure about everyone else, but the lifestyle changes I have been making are ones that I plan to continue the rest of my life. This includes not only diet/food intake but exercise as well.
I mean, what happens once you reach your goal and you start eating "normal" (more calories/other things) to maintain that weight?
 
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