Am i doing the diet all wrong??

[essnce629]

I think you should keep track of your totals on MyFitnessPal for a week and see what your averages are. You may be surprised that you're not eating enough. When I kept track I actually was able to eat plenty and still be full.

[Poppy2222]

Hi everyone thanks for all the replies. I bought the 21 meal day plan but because I am from Ireland a lot of the food doesn't exist here. I can't get low salt tortillas or anything like that.
I downloaded fitness plan and was tracking everything. I would be having 45-50g of protein and about 25-30g of fat and 1500-1650 calories. I am one of these people that eats allll the time. I am constantly eating every 2-3 hours. I was eating a lot of eggs, cheese, chicken, pittas. All full fat and whole meal. Also whole grain rice and stir frys etc. I am doing 60 mins of exercise a day. I just found the area where the girls are putting up examples so I am going to go by that today. I was going to have tomato soup with a bagel and salad today and then a veg & rice stir fry for my dinner with low fat yogurt after and a peeled Apple. Does that seem okay? I am doing 2 fitness classss a week and then going on the treadmill walking or jogging for 60 mins. I know vegetarian is the best option but I felt I really needed to add in chicken as I was so still hungry this week. When I am ever pregnant I suffer with low blood sugar and low blood pressure and have to always have some food in my bag.

[Poppy2222]

Oh and I also meant to say I am 5 foot 7 and weighed 112lbs starting off. I am now 108lbs and and on the le diet and exercise plan 10 days.

[Poppy2222]

Actually is tomato soup a bad idea?
I can stop that one

[honeybee37]

I would say you can have a bit more fat that 25-30 if you're eating 1,600 kcal. If should be between 20-30% of your daily kcal.

[Poppy2222]

Ok thank you honeybee. Will up the fat.

[Poppy2222]

Thank you atomic and all the girls. I will up my fat. I got some receipes from an old thread an Irish girl did and it is a life saver!

[atomic sagebrush]

The only reason I mention certain foods is because it was easy for me to get the nutrient data off them. It is ABSOLUTELY fine to sub in whatever foods you have available in your country and many people have used the diet books in Ireland and the UK.

Sodium, we have mostly given up on that. I keep it in the mix because it is possible to do and some want to, but most of us no longer do it. If you have low blood pressure I would hesitate to restrict it much (even tho it's only during pregnancy so far)

25 was the barest minimum of fat and it didn't seem to be enough so now I have increased that to 30 g. minimum for most people (exception those on 1200-1500 cals)

You realize if you're really still hungry then you still have at least up to 1800 cals to play with and many people go up as high as 1800-2000.

Chicken is NOT the best option if you're hungry. It's fine if you want to have it, the issue with chicken is that it's high in protein and low in cals so you quickly go over your protein limits and then are stuck trying to come up with a lot of calories and fat without any more protein. this devolves into a starvation diet where people are eating chicken, cucumber, and gummy worms and it just won't work in the long term. AGain, it's not forbidden, you can have it, but it's not the solution to feeling unsatisfied.

Also, just want to make sure you are NOT counting low carb veg in your totals. Those are free and unlimited, so you need to get your cals, protein, and fat into the proper range without them.

Your meals look good to me but without totals I can't totally sign off.

[atomic sagebrush]

Actually is tomato soup a bad idea?
I can stop that one

no why would it be??

[atomic sagebrush]

Oh and I also meant to say I am 5 foot 7 and weighed 112lbs starting off. I am now 108lbs and and on the le diet and exercise plan 10 days.

Increase cals to 1800 imediately. DO NOT lose another ounce. Even if you go up to 1800-2000 you cannot spare any more weight.

Please understand that I have to give a very vague, blanket set of instructions for everyone. That DOES NOT mean that the blanket instructions are going to be right for everyone. The average woman is 5-4 and has some weight to spare. You are taller and have NO weight to spare and you're exercising. The rules are different for you.