On a strict diet and not knowing what to eat anymore?

[Anonymous]

I don't know what to eat, i'm starting to get frazzled and feeling on the urge of giving up. I don't know want to give up because i've already lost some weight. I just don't know what to eat anymore. The past week i've ate nothing but oatmeal, fresh fruit, and a peice of chicken for dinner. Every single day. What else is healthy to eat or cook?

[kheserthorpe]

I'm going to assume based on what you ate every day last week you are trying to eat:
- some complex carbs (i. e. oatmeal) in the morning, when you have all day to use their slowly released energy
- avoiding carbs at night
- eating a little fruit
- eating some lean protein.

I'm pretty sure you would continue to lose weight eating oatmeal or equivalent in the morning, and some lean protein with fibrous vegetables at lunch AND dinner. So double up on that. Lean protein sources:
- chicken
- fish
- seafood (shrimp are diet food! seafood has almost no fat or carbs, it's straight lean protein)
- eggs

Next, let's talk vegetables a little. Starchy vegetables (potatoes, etc, most things that are roots) can be a part of a healthy diet. They pack carbs. I'm guessing you don't want to eat those right now, especially at night, maybe when you're trying to maintain weight.

But all the other vegetables? Peppers and tomatoes and mushrooms and spinich and salad and celery and onions and mushrooms and kale and bok choy and brussel sprouts and greens all those things?

So few calories you can pretty much treat them as 'free'. And they're good for you!

So I'd suggest you:
- mix up your protein sources for variety
- add another protein meal
- add non starchy vegetables to your protein meals

Other things I'd do if you're sticking with this a while?
- add some calcium. Maybe some milk. Maybe some greek yogurt with some berries, daily
- take some fish oil for essential fatty acids
- ask if you want specific ideas for recipes
- ask if you're sick of oatmeal
- eat 1 cheat meal a week, or possibly 2. Don't skip it - it's good for you to shock your hormones up, and it gives you something to look forward to. A cheat meal does not mean to eat as much as you can for 4 hours. It means you have a reasonable portion of whatever you want. Not the low fat version. What you want. If you want desert, have a piece. Of whatever.

[Kythe]

Look at your daily diet as a whole, not at individual foods. Aside from genuinely toxic materials (like poison, trans-fats, etc.) or situations such as type-II diabetes, individual foods won't generally make or break things.

[msk3_x]

As a psychologist, this is one of my topics I have studied.
The mass phenomenon of dieting is obviously very popular in contemporary society, but over 3/4 of those on a diet give up half way through it.
Why?
Those who diet have one main goal and that is to loose weight, and they do this by cutting out as much and eating as little as possible. Therefore, you are eating dull foods that you don't really enjoy and when you are bored, you find yourself thinking about snacking on your favourite chocolate/crisps/sweets/snacks etc. Those who do cut down and out as much as possible find themselves in a stage which is beyond hungry, they're bored so they snack, and once they snack they don't stop and just think to themselves 'oh well I will start again tomorrow.'
You should be eating three main meals a day and if you find yourself hungry in-between these meals then snack on dried fruit, fresh fruit, pumpkin seeds, or make a smoothie.
You shouldn't cut out chocolate/crisps/ fatty snacks etc - obviously you must not eat them everyday, but one day on a weekend, buy yourself a chocolate bar, (as long as you have been eating well and not eating fast foods/fatty foods all week), you will feel better in yourself for treating yourself, and by dieting this way you are less likely to give up so quickly because you are still allowing yourself treats. You should also drink 2 pints of water a day!!
Here below is a basic diet plan:

Breakfast:
Porridge with blackberries/ scrambled eggs on wholemeal toast/ greek yoghurt with berries and honey and a glass of water and green tea

Lunch:
Avocado on toast/ boiled eggs and salad leaves/ a homemade smoothie with a glass of water

Dinner:
Grilled chicken with asparagus, grilled tomatoes and mushrooms/ chicken (any meat) stir fry/ salmon and scrambled eggs and asparagus. With a pint glass of water!

I hope this helps.

[Bruuh]

Okey so i have been going on with diets and other stuff for like 4 years and what i know there is really good food out there IN THE WORLD YE that are healthy + fat burning. From my experiance there is no healthy way of loosing fat fast, so just eat enough food. I mean sure it's all about the diet in fat loss but you don't have to restrict that much because it sound like you don't get enough of calories, and in the end you're body will want back all of thoose nutrients that have been missing and you will crave unhealthy foods that will lead to a binge..
So anyway here a list of foods i fkn like: (and that are super healthy too ofcourse) All of theese food are also really fatburning and clean.

eggs
avocado
almonds
greek yoghurt - can be the 10% fat one because it's the healthy kind.
sweet potatoes
all kinds of fucking vegetables, i love carrots though.
beans and lentils
fish, lean meats
bananas all day everyday
grapefruit
apples
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some side stuff too "spice up" the fat burning:

olive oil / coconut oil for cooking
cayenne pepper / tumeric for seasoning
cinnamon
applecider vineger infused water (search recepie)

Theese are just a few i know but their all super good and healthy, and sorry if my English is a little bad :)

[Error_204]

If you're using a calorific diet I recommend a cookbook or website with the limits you want to keep. Depends on the diet type.