Im trying to eat healthy and get my body back into shape, any tips or help?

Question

Im trying to get myself back into shape after jumping up a dress size. Im aiming to lose a stone, from a previous question i have been giving useful tips of exercises to do at home as i dont have time or money for a gym but im looking to eat healthly but im finding it hard as magazines say eat this and then others say not to so this is what i've been eating and would appreciate if you could give me some tips or let me know if im eating wrong things!

BREAKFAST:

2 Weetabix with semi skimmed milk and half a spoon of sugar over top (trying to cut down on the sugar as much as i can, i used to spoon it on which defeats the purpose!)

or 2 slices of wholemeal toast with marg or strawberry jam

or boiled egg

Glass of minute maid fresh orange (not from concentrate)

MID MORNING SNACK

Glass of smoothie

Go ahead wholemeal fruit bake

LUNCH

Salad with cider vinegar and chicken pieces

or sandwich (wholemeal bread) with ham or tuna(made with light salad cream)

or Pasta(brown) with tuna

or Home made carriot and corriander Soup

with Weight Watcher toffee Yoghurt

or Handful of Strawberries

or Mini Milk

MID AFTERNOON SNACK

Snack a jack popcorn

Or snack a jack rice cakes

or Weight Watcher cake slice

DINNER

Pasta, or Salad, or Chicken with steamed veg ( i find it difficult to try and come up with healthy teas)

TO DRINK

2/3 cups of green tea a day

Water

Ive stopped drinking fizzy juice

Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

Try changing your snacks.  You are not having nearly enough fresh food.  A lot of what you are eating is processed so cut out all the snack a jacks and weight watchers junk.  Seriously, that stuff will just make you hungry and is full of salt and fat.  replace with bananas, oranges, apples, pineapple, mango.  So much to choose from.

And have fruit for breakfast instead of adding sugar to weetabix.  Add some plain yogurt to eat - it tastes great and will fill you and provide you with nutrients.

try doing your cardio for a minimum of 30 mins 3 times a week.  You are not exercises enough by doing 15 mins only.  ideally you should aim for 45 mins but you should build up to this slowly.

You will start to see the weight coming off if you make these simple changes. The rest of your diet seems good.

Answer 2

think your on the right track eating frequent meals plenty of veg and chick, also peas carrot corn potato and pumpkin high in carb so they wont help unless your buring them off every night, be mind ful of how many carb are acutally in weight watchers biscuits and snacks j(am is actually made of boiled fruit and suger) no more than 10g/100g is good calcuation but hard to find. it not always about fat, carb/sugar is just as bad if you dont burn it you will store it

used to ahve three sugar in my coffee and half teaspoon at a time in weekly increments cut down to none now when accidently drink my husbands its hard no to spit it all over floor. perserverance is your best asset!!!! hope this helps

Answer 3

You don't have to join a gym, but you DO have to exercise. If all it is is a walk 'round the neighborhood, that's a good start. But it must be done 5 or 6 days a week to be effective - at least 15 min.