Reply to I'm a 45 year old woman who wants to gain 25 pounds

Forum Index » Diet, Nutrition & Weight Loss

Reply to "I'm a 45 year old woman who wants to gain 25 pounds"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Thanks for all these suggestions!  I can't eat nuts or hummus though because my daughter has severe allergies to both, and we don't keep those in the house.  So no peanut butter, tree nuts or hummus.  I do try to eat lots of avocados, butter, and breads/rolls and as much crap as I want.

I can't take lactaid pills--they don't work for me, nor can I do Lactose-free products.  I don't know why but I still get symptoms with those.  I feel best when I have zero dairy.  The only dairy that I can do is butter, parmesan and feta cheese.  I can't tolerate lactose-free cheeses or Lactose-free milk.

I did work with a nutritionist for awhile but did not find it helpful.  What I really want is a two-week mealplan for a 3000 calorie diet, taking into account no dairy and no nuts, but the nutritionist was unable to give me that.

The main problem is that I don't enjoy eating and never have.  I view eating as an annoying chore that I need to get out of the way in order to do more interesting things.  When I'm stressed or anxious my appetite disappears and I drop weight quickly.  I also dislike cooking (my husband does all the cooking) so for breakfast and lunch I eat whatever I can that's simple and easy.  I do the grocery shopping and the cleanup but my DH does the cooking.

I don't have the appetite to do a lot of snacking either.  Here's what my typical food intake looks like. I tend to only eat two meals per day, I don't have the appetite for 3.  I have always followed an "intuitive eating" plan naturally and I take cues from my body about when to eat and when to stop eating.  I can't eat lunch if it's noon and I'm not hungry, so I just skip and wait for the next meal, or have a late lunch and no dinner.  I've always mainly eaten two meals per day, but pre-pandemic we would eat out 4-5 times per week, which packs on the calories, and I used to drink tons of soda and put tons of cheese and ranch dressing on everything, but I can no longer tolerate dairy.  So this is also a big reason why I've lost so much weight and can't put it back on.

Brunch:  3 eggs sauteed in butter and an avocado
Snack:  2 chocolate chip cookies
Dinner:  chicken parmesan (no cheese) plus veggies or tacos (meat, beans, veggies) or fish plus veggies
Dessert: A few mini chocolate bars

Drinks:  Juice and water

[/quote]

Start by replacing your snack of 2 cookies with something healthier (banana with sunbutter, smoothie, etc).  Maybe eat one cookie and a smoothie?  But what you're eating actually amounts to a pretty good amount of calories.  Depending on the portions it's 1800 calories or so.   Shouldn't be that hard to get a few hundred more calories in your diet and if you're still losing weight I'd start really talking to doctors about why you continue to lose weight.  Talk to your GP, but I'd be talking to a gastro/endo/etc.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics