Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like an eating disorder

?? I, 44, 5'4" and 113lbs. I eat less than 1200 calories a day: veggies, fruit, lean meat and whole grains. When I was younger, I weighed 100lbs and ate a lot more, but I don't have that appetite anymore and I feel great at my current weight.

It is delusional of you to label perfectly healthy eating habits as "anorexic".

That is underweight. Are you anorexic? None of us could say. But if your weight and height are what you say they are, you are really skinny. And you're definitely don't have any muscle, which isn't healthy, especially at your age.

Anonymous wrote:Looks like an eating disorder

?? I, 44, 5'4" and 113lbs. I eat less than 1200 calories a day: veggies, fruit, lean meat and whole grains. When I was younger, I weighed 100lbs and ate a lot more, but I don't have that appetite anymore and I feel great at my current weight.

It is delusional of you to label perfectly healthy eating habits as "anorexic".

Anonymous wrote:Can you tell me what a day looks like on a low carb/high protein 1300/1400 calorie a day diet? I am looking to meal prep but I'm not sure what to eat.

If you are weight lifting, this is definitely not enough. Some people can choose to lose muscle mass to lose fat and get skinny, but this will not serve you in the long run as you get older.

Buy a set of crockery from 1970’s or earlier and use that for portion control, including your cup of coffee or tea. And no need to add toppings to everything. Just eat three times a day and don’t snack.

Anonymous wrote:The thing about diets is portions really matter.

You could eat eggs, fruit, and coffee for breakfast, a salad with chicken for lunch, a tofu stir fry for dinner, and dark chocolate and hummus/veggies as extras and come in at 1100 calories with small portions, no dressings or sauces or cheeses, and more veggies than other things. Or you could cook with a lot of butter and oil, love croutons and ranch and goat cheese and eat a lot of chicken, and have primarily rice with the stirfry and douse it all in chili oil before having an entire dark chocolate bar and clock in at 2,500.

It really depends on smaller choices. Not all "roasted veggies" or "tuna" or "nuts" are created equal.

If you aren’t overweight why are you trying to lose weight in the first place in middle age?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Breakfast: Greek yogurt, frozen berries thawed in microwave, 10 grams each of walnuts, hemp seeds, and chia seeds. Black coffee with collagen powder.

Lunch: roasted veggies, table spoon of hummus, skinless chicken breast.

Dinner: 6oz steak/fish/pork with steamed veggies.

Occasional snack if really hungry: honeycrisp apple with havarti cheese.

How do you not hate your life?

I eat a little more than this, am not fat, but fine with this. I have things to do and life doesn't revolve around food. Don't you have things you enjoy besides food?

You can enjoy food AND other things in life. They are not mutually exclusive. I love food. And I am not fat either.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Breakfast: Greek yogurt, frozen berries thawed in microwave, 10 grams each of walnuts, hemp seeds, and chia seeds. Black coffee with collagen powder.

Lunch: roasted veggies, table spoon of hummus, skinless chicken breast.

Dinner: 6oz steak/fish/pork with steamed veggies.

Occasional snack if really hungry: honeycrisp apple with havarti cheese.

How do you not hate your life?

I eat a little more than this, am not fat, but fine with this. I have things to do and life doesn't revolve around food. Don't you have things you enjoy besides food?

Anonymous wrote:Breakfast: Greek yogurt, frozen berries thawed in microwave, 10 grams each of walnuts, hemp seeds, and chia seeds. Black coffee with collagen powder.

Lunch: roasted veggies, table spoon of hummus, skinless chicken breast.

Dinner: 6oz steak/fish/pork with steamed veggies.

Occasional snack if really hungry: honeycrisp apple with havarti cheese.

How do you not hate your life?

Breakfast: Greek yogurt, frozen berries thawed in microwave, 10 grams each of walnuts, hemp seeds, and chia seeds. Black coffee with collagen powder.

Lunch: roasted veggies, table spoon of hummus, skinless chicken breast.

Dinner: 6oz steak/fish/pork with steamed veggies.

Occasional snack if really hungry: honeycrisp apple with havarti cheese.

Breakfast - coffee with half & half, 1 serving of plain full fat yogurt with half serving of granola (total about 300 cal)

Lunch - veggie burger on a bun or cup of instant lentils or turkey sandwich (200-300 cal)

Snack - baby carrots and hummus or pretzels (150 cal)

Dinner - Whatever family is eating. Usually a protein, veggie side and small serving of pasta or rice (600 cal)

Dessert - fudge pop or a square of dark chocolate (50-100 cal)

The thing about diets is portions really matter.

You could eat eggs, fruit, and coffee for breakfast, a salad with chicken for lunch, a tofu stir fry for dinner, and dark chocolate and hummus/veggies as extras and come in at 1100 calories with small portions, no dressings or sauces or cheeses, and more veggies than other things. Or you could cook with a lot of butter and oil, love croutons and ranch and goat cheese and eat a lot of chicken, and have primarily rice with the stirfry and douse it all in chili oil before having an entire dark chocolate bar and clock in at 2,500.

It really depends on smaller choices. Not all "roasted veggies" or "tuna" or "nuts" are created equal.

Anonymous wrote:I just read this whole thread and it’s all so familiar- I tried for years to lose weight following these healthy plans and these women’s diets do look good. But I was starving! This is why GLP-1s are finally saving the day for those of us who are sick of dieting and know that at the end of the day, none of this works if you’re hungry. You will gain it back. Good luck, really, but know there are finally other options.

They’re aren’t other options if you aren’t overweight. I can’t gain weight just so someone will prescribe me a drug to lose weight. I have up eat under 1500 calories a day, exercise, be hungry, and think about food.

Not enough

Anonymous wrote:I just read this whole thread and it’s all so familiar- I tried for years to lose weight following these healthy plans and these women’s diets do look good. But I was starving! This is why GLP-1s are finally saving the day for those of us who are sick of dieting and know that at the end of the day, none of this works if you’re hungry. You will gain it back. Good luck, really, but know there are finally other options.

GLP1’s have convinced me the biggest facet of weight management is how tolerable a person finds the feeling of hunger. People who can maintain healthy weights can eat til they’re satiated and then wait until they’re quite hungry to eat again. A little hunger is tolerable to them. People who need GLP1’s seem to be unable to tolerate any level of even mild hunger. The second their stomach feels slightly empty they’re panicking about when and how much they can eat next and then eating so much to try to prevent any possibility of feeling an edge of hunger again. If GLP1 can turn off that persistent obsession with never feeling hunger then I guess that’s why it works as well as other peoples natural hunger cues do.

Whatever I normally eat, just half the size. I bring lunch with this container, wether chicken and pasta or lasagna:
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