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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are eating the wrong stuff.  It isn’t a portion thing it is a choice thing.  If you truly are working out/decent cardio for 90 min a day, you are eating the wrong things.

Can you type of schedule of everything you typically eat in a day and when/how long/what you do for cardio/exercise.

I will help you and then in a few months you can thank me.[/quote]

I'm not getting 90 minutes of cardio daily -- typically I will get 90 minutes of cardio 2-3 times a week, the other days 30 minutes of cardio plus a walk or yoga or something like that.

There's a difference between what I want to eat and what I do eat because I'm trying to lose weight. But let's say a typical day, eating enough so I'm not hungry every day, would look something like this:

Breakfast - 1 light English muffin with avocado and two poached or fried eggs on it [/b]No Muffin More Egg. Take the granola/yogurt combo you are eating later in the day and add to Chobani Less Sugar Greek Yogurt. Stop with the Keto friendly.  Do Kind or homemade.  If bigger pieces put in a blender so you get a better idea of portion.[b]
Lunch - either dinner leftovers (a protein i.e. pork chop or chicken) plus vegetables or a canned soup & almond flour crackers and cheese, then will follow it up with a yogurt with keto-friendly granola or fruit or chocolate chips in it. [/b]Plain Pork and Chicken are fine, no bottled marinades or sauces.  Eat more plain protein and veggies.  Get rid of canned soup, crackers, cheese, yogurt granola.  Fruit is fine, fresh or 100% same juice. [b]
Dinner - large helping of the night's protein, chicken, salmon, beef, whatever, plus vegetables, try to avoid the night's carb that I've made for the kids (potatoes, mac & cheese, rice, dinner roll) but usually succumb and have a small helping.  [/b]Again what is on protein is important, plain as possible is best.  Eat more veggies and protein. Nothing wrong with potatoes as long as they aren’t made with a bunch of packaged processed additives.  No mac and cheese and no bread.[b]

Also throughout the day it's not inconceivable I'll also snack a bit or have sugar-free ice cream or something for dessert. [/b]No ice cream.  Greek yogurt or fruit.  Find a  choc, coffee, protein powder (Huel Black would be my choice) do a that with almond milk as your treat dessert, snack. Or a Go Macro Bar. [b]

But this is not what I'm eating right now, as I'm doing WW and actively trying to lose weight. The previous menu is a menu that would keep hunger at bay for me. My current eating (yesterday) looked like this:

Breakfast - none. Just coffee with a splash of milk. 
Lunch - two scrambled eggs with leftover baked salmon.
Snack - Oikos zero yogurt with raspberries
Dinner - homemade buffalo chicken wrap - low carb tortilla, lettuce, tomato, grilled chicken breast w/ buffalo sauce, little bit of low-fat blue cheese dressing, little bit of corn and black beans, six veggie tots
I also did 110 minutes of cardio yesterday, 20 minutes in the morning (Peloton) and then another 90 minutes after lunch (cardio tennis workout).

Thanks for help; would love to thank you in a few months![/quote]

PP here that asked what you.  Good news is you don’t have to change a ton.

Responded in bold above.  Stop the WW and as others have said, you aren’t eating enough.  After workout or intense exercise,  eat roughly double the carbs you normally would as close to finishing workout as possible.

Don’t have anything more than one cup of coffee in the morning and drink it as soon as possible.

Cut out everything 98% of stuff that comes in a box, bottle, can etc.
Eat as few carbs as possible, make them a treat.  Eat as little dairy as possible. No soda, no coffee after 730 am.

Get in the habit of looking at the nutritional information on everything you touch.

Do it 4 weeks, guarantee you will be down 10-15 lbs.

Guarantee you, you will [/quote]

NP.  What is the deal with coffee?  Why only one cup and as soon as possible?  If it's black, can't one keep drinking more throughout the day with no effect?[/quote]

Black coffee still has caffeine.   I have found that when starting out in weight loss program; the less “interference” with stimulates or any outside influences on your natural digestive system makes it harder to identify how your body is reacting to the foods you are now eating.  And having several cups in the morning can contribute to an afternoon caffeine crash.  Having to many cups late in the day can contribute to not sleeping or relaxing, both are key to weight loss.
Reason for as soon as possible, is it get stuff move and helps you have bowel movement first thing in the morning.  [/quote]

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