How many calories am I eating a day?
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Can anyone just give me a rough idea please?
Meal 1 - 5 scrambled eggs, 2 whole and 3 whites. One thick slice of wholemeal toast with butter.
Meal 2 - Large bowl of sultana bran with a pint of semi skimmed milk.
Meal 3 - Salmon or chicken breast on 2 thick slices of wholemeal bread, 1 pack of snack a jacks (100 cals).
Meal 4 - Large banana.
Meal 5 - 2 scoops of CNP pro peptide in water with a scoop of creatine.
Meal 6 - Large chicken breast, green veg and 1 cup of wholemeal rice.
Meal 1 - 5 scrambled eggs, 2 whole and 3 whites. One thick slice of wholemeal toast with butter.
Meal 2 - Large bowl of sultana bran with a pint of semi skimmed milk.
Meal 3 - Salmon or chicken breast on 2 thick slices of wholemeal bread, 1 pack of snack a jacks (100 cals).
Meal 4 - Large banana.
Meal 5 - 2 scoops of CNP pro peptide in water with a scoop of creatine.
Meal 6 - Large chicken breast, green veg and 1 cup of wholemeal rice.
Tumbler said:
That's what I used for this exact reason - just to get an idea of what I was eating.There's an app for your phone which scans barcodes of what you eat, or just search for it. Very good indeed.
TonyHetherington said:
Tumbler said:
That's what I used for this exact reason - just to get an idea of what I was eating.There's an app for your phone which scans barcodes of what you eat, or just search for it. Very good indeed.
Some things are quite scary.
Piece of flapjack yesterday for example - only 100g - 422 calories!
The bottles were something like 350 each!Mr Pies said:
So just eating that without training I should still be losing weight which I am.
Christ, I am not small (6ft and 15St) but if I ate that much a day I be putting on about 2lbs - 3 lbs a week.As your weight comes down, you are likely going to need to reduce your calories, or increase your cardio/training to continue to lose weight.
Have you thought about changing the thick slices for thin?
Good Luck
Don't forget to include everything;
drinks (tea with sugar...cans of coke...everything but water, basically)
sandwiches/rolls; if you make your own, include the mayonnaise, the butter, the tomatoe etc. it all adds up!
Don't do that every day of course, and you can copy across meals from previous days very easily (a made up roll is a good example), but it just goes to show that there's lots you may not think about that you are still eating.
drinks (tea with sugar...cans of coke...everything but water, basically)
sandwiches/rolls; if you make your own, include the mayonnaise, the butter, the tomatoe etc. it all adds up!
Don't do that every day of course, and you can copy across meals from previous days very easily (a made up roll is a good example), but it just goes to show that there's lots you may not think about that you are still eating.
You will need to spend a little time weighing things, cereal is very easy to over portion, I seem to recall the values on the packet are for 30g, roughly 3 tablespoons, which is a very small amount. When calculating scrambled eggs you need to watch the milk and butter. A 'cup' of rice is another unknown quantity, every 1g of uncooked equates to 2.55 cooked.
Tumbler said:
You will need to spend a little time weighing things, cereal is very easy to over portion, I seem to recall the values on the packet are for 30g, roughly 3 tablespoons, which is a very small amount. When calculating scrambled eggs you need to watch the milk and butter. A 'cup' of rice is another unknown quantity, every 1g of uncooked equates to 2.55 cooked.
I don't put any milk or butter in the eggs The rice is 1 cup cooked. I'm 5ft11 and was just under 17st about 6 weeks ago. I'm 15st 8lbs now.
Probably should have said my job involves a lot of walking. My record so far is 3.6 miles in a shift.
Going in what you say a out the cereal though, I'm going massively over. I better curb that.
Guestimates inserted:
Mr Pies said:
Can anyone just give me a rough idea please?
Meal 1 - 5 scrambled eggs, 2 whole and 3 whites. One thick slice of wholemeal toast with butter.
600
Meal 2 - Large bowl of sultana bran with a pint of semi skimmed milk.
400
Meal 3 - Salmon or chicken breast on 2 thick slices of wholemeal bread, 1 pack of snack a jacks (100 cals).
600
Meal 4 - Large banana.
200
Meal 5 - 2 scoops of CNP pro peptide in water with a scoop of creatine.
NFI
Meal 6 - Large chicken breast, green veg and 1 cup of wholemeal rice.
500
Am I far out?Meal 1 - 5 scrambled eggs, 2 whole and 3 whites. One thick slice of wholemeal toast with butter.
600
Meal 2 - Large bowl of sultana bran with a pint of semi skimmed milk.
400
Meal 3 - Salmon or chicken breast on 2 thick slices of wholemeal bread, 1 pack of snack a jacks (100 cals).
600
Meal 4 - Large banana.
200
Meal 5 - 2 scoops of CNP pro peptide in water with a scoop of creatine.
NFI
Meal 6 - Large chicken breast, green veg and 1 cup of wholemeal rice.
500
Mr Pies said:
I don't put any milk or butter in the eggs
The rice is 1 cup cooked. I'm 5ft11 and was just under 17st about 6 weeks ago. I'm 15st 8lbs now.
Probably should have said my job involves a lot of walking. My record so far is 3.6 miles in a shift.
Going in what you say a out the cereal though, I'm going massively over. I better curb that.
I would expect your weight loss to slow, you really want to aim for 2-4lbs a week if you want to maintain it, I'm not a massive fan of cereal, porridge is ok, but a lot of it contains too much sugar for my liking.The rice is 1 cup cooked. I'm 5ft11 and was just under 17st about 6 weeks ago. I'm 15st 8lbs now.
Probably should have said my job involves a lot of walking. My record so far is 3.6 miles in a shift.
Going in what you say a out the cereal though, I'm going massively over. I better curb that.
A 'cup' is currently an unknown quantity, just establish what it is then you will know. I'm a big fan of leafy green green vegetables to aid sustained weight loss.
Mr Pies said:
I should still be losing weight which I am.
This is the only material fact.Having an informed view of your calorie intake is interesting, but only useful if you also know what you're burning on a daily basis.
I wouldn't be at all worried about over-consumption at this point - most estimates suggest that the average man (whoever he is) living a relatively sedentary lifestyle burns 2400 calories a day - ie if you were that average man and you were eating 2400 calories a day, your weight would remain pretty stable.
Your lifestyle sounds more active than average, and at present you also weigh more than average, which also means you'll be burning more.
As your weight comes down, you'll burn less. So to keep on losing weight you might also need to consume progressively less too.
Anyway - as said earlier, you are still losing weight, and at quite a fast rate too, so don't worry too much about how much you're consuming, and don't listen to those who say you're consuming too much - you patently aren't.
I'd only start to worry about more precise measurements of calorie consumption when your weight loss slows to less than 1 lb per week, which is reckoned to be a sensible, sustainable rate.
Good luck!
Dan_1981 said:
2160 a day??!!!
With no training?
Christ - i'm 5ft 10 and 75kg.
I'm only taking on 12-1600 calories a day. Plus doing about 2-300 worth of calorie burning excersises.
Just noticed this sorry. No I am training, as I mentioned in another thread.With no training?
Christ - i'm 5ft 10 and 75kg.
I'm only taking on 12-1600 calories a day. Plus doing about 2-300 worth of calorie burning excersises.
Lifting heavy weights 3x per week (2 body parts a session to failure) and doing 5 2 hour cardio sessions keeping my heart rate 125-135 bpm.
Plus my walking at work and now my mate said I can borrow her dog on a Sunday to walk him as far as I want, which I will be.
Aiming to lose 4 stone.
My weightloss has stalled the last 2 weeks, so I have modified my diet again and am taking a strong fat burner twice a day.
Fat burner on wake up.
Meal 1 - 3 scrambled eggs, 1 whole and 2 whites. One thick slice of wholemeal toast with butter.
Meal 2 - Small bowl of sultana bran with 1/2 a pint of semi skimmed milk.
Meal 3 - Salmon or chicken breast on 2 thick slices of wholemeal bread, 1 pack of snack a jacks (100 cals).
Meal 4 - Fat burner.
Meal 5 - 2 scoops of CNP pro peptide in water.
Meal 6 - Large chicken breast, green veg. Carb cycling last meal now, so 1 night 1 cup of wholemeal rice, the next night no carbs.
Been doing this for 10 days now, will weight in saturday morning and see how I get on.
Fat burner on wake up.
Meal 1 - 3 scrambled eggs, 1 whole and 2 whites. One thick slice of wholemeal toast with butter.
Meal 2 - Small bowl of sultana bran with 1/2 a pint of semi skimmed milk.
Meal 3 - Salmon or chicken breast on 2 thick slices of wholemeal bread, 1 pack of snack a jacks (100 cals).
Meal 4 - Fat burner.
Meal 5 - 2 scoops of CNP pro peptide in water.
Meal 6 - Large chicken breast, green veg. Carb cycling last meal now, so 1 night 1 cup of wholemeal rice, the next night no carbs.
Been doing this for 10 days now, will weight in saturday morning and see how I get on.
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