Some advice please: weight control?

[Anonymous]

Why is my weight remaining at 75kg? I eat 60 g porridge/skim milk (224 kcal) with berries and banana in the morning. Sometimes adding a 1/2 Tbsp of roasted hazelnuts.
300ml Innocent smoothie without banana with a super green powder. Lunch: 1 cup homemade irish stew with 3-4 rude health rye crackers. 1 pink apple.
Mid-afternoon: a 1/2cup slice of cake or 2/3 slabs chocolate.
Dinner: 2 cups spiralized courgette with 1 cup bolognese with 200ml of ginger beer.
Dessert: a packet of wotsits
( baked potato chips) And possibly a few Chelsea kittens (jelly candies)

My job is sedentary and I have put working out on hold as in the middle of changing jobs.

please advise.

thank you.

Updates

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I want to LOSE weight by the way:)

[nalaa]

I didn't count the calories but the cake alone might have around 500 cal. And oil has a lot as well that people tend to underestimate.

Anyways, I wouldn't recommend counting calories until you can eat whole foods. Your nutrtious to junk food ratio is way off. By all means, have a piece of chocolate here and there, but cake, crackers, soda, chips, a processed smoothie and whatever wotsits are. That's way too much. You could eat 3000 calories of that and you'd still be starving because they're completley void of nutrients. Your body will demand more food and try not to waste any energy, by burning fat until you get enough nutrients.

What you're lacking is good carbs. Sweet potatoes, squash, cabbage, grains, legumes.
Those foods will keep you satisfied. I mean nothing wrong with zuchini, but as main course? You'll feel like eating a bag of chips after because you're not satisfied. But you know what even that doesn't matter so much.

Here's how you get to a healthy weight. You want pie? Have a piece, in fact have the whole thing and ice cream on top. Eat all the food you want. There's just one condition you have to make it all from scratch no exception.

[kaylaS91]

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[Asker]

What? This is real..

[kaylaS91]

You eat potato chips, gummy candy, pasta, ginger beer, cake, and chocolate on a daily basis. Have a sedentary job and make no mention of making attempts to workout somewhat regularly and are asking for advice?

[Asker]

I don't eat pasta but courgette spiralized. Bolognese is the meat. I dont drink ginger beer every day not the candies or chocolate.

[Asker]

I'm also wondering about the number of calories in what I'm eating since it's not large amounts.

[kaylaS91]

google will tell you estimates on the calories.
Otherwise, if you want to lose weight, cut all of those things out of your diet. Throw in more veggies/fibre-rich food, and start working out regularly.

[ATPPC]

That cake + chocolate + the chips probably add up to a ton of calories. Yes the chips are baked not fried, but they still add oil to it.

Your body stores excess calories as glycogen in your liver and your skeletal muscles. This is about 2000-4000 calories. Past this limit and you gain fat. Your body prefers to use glycogen rather than fat, so unless you go on a calorie deficit (unhealthy) or do cardio, you will not lose any fat.

[Asker]

So it is a MUST to work out. Thank you

[Josht11]

Try exercising e. g. treadmill or bikes Your not gonna lose much weight without exercise unless you starve yourself. Also don't eat cake, chocolate and jelly candies this is really bad on a daily basis.

[Asker]

The cake is homemade using coconut sugar. The chocolate and jellies is eaten some days during the week. I get it. Exercise is quite key. Thank you

[Josht11]

2+ good hours of cardio exercise a week you should get good results.

[Doyoueven]

Firstly, all calories aren't equal. 500 calories of vegetables is way better than 500 calories of sweets. Your body reacts differently to it.

Secondly, rather take measurements than weighing yourself since weight can sometimes be misleading.