Current Weight: 165 Goal: 130
 

I had 2 babies in 14 months. My son (youngest) is now 15 months, and I'm ready to lose the baby weight. Before my kids I was 150 (wasn't happy about it, but better than I am now).

Any tips on weight loss? Obviously chasing my babies helps with exercise, but I plan on working out 5 days a week, and here is my diet plan for today, and obviously it will change daily, but stay healthy.. is it ok?

Breakfast:
Strawberry greek yogurt
5 cups of coffee w/ french vanilla flavoring

Lunch:
Tuna w/ light mayo and a whole wheat pita pocket

Dinner:
6 oz salmon
1 cup non fat organic milk

Snacks:
Banana
Strawberries
Tomatos
Naked food juice Mango

Also drinking 100 oz water/day

Where's your veggies? :)

You should consider plugging your food into a calculator and seeing what the calories add up to. At rough glance I think they might be too low. I use fitday.com, but there are others that other people prefer.

You are the same weight as I am and with working out I need to eat 1500 calories a day! I know it is against our normal thinking to think eating more equals weight loss, but it does! You will lose on the diet you are trying to implement, but you will gain it all back.

To change diet is to change the way you eat forever. There is no way you can survive on what you are trying to eat now.

Here is a day I logged and I forced myself to eat:

Breakfast:
1/2 cup plain oatmeal with cinnamon
Protein shake w/skim milk (I use water some times as well depending on caloric needs)

Snack:
3 boiled egg whites, 1 apple

Lunch:
Protein shake with frozen strawberries (I was short on time on this day)
1/2 avocado

Snack:
celery sticks with reduced fat peanut butter

Dinner:
Baked Chicken Breast 4oz
apple sauce
frozen pea vegetable stir fry

Snack:
3 boiled egg whites

Carbs: 135 (goal 188)
Protein: 113 (goal 107)
Fats: 34 (goal 33)

I was short on my calories as well :( You also need to remember our metabolism is like a fire. You need to start the fire off right with a good amount of wood (breakfast) and add logs as the day goes on. Depriving yourself will only make your body retain what ever goes in. Also, you do not want to burn muscle, you want to burn fat. Not eating enough you tear down your newly built muscle.

Also, the "goal numbers" are based on the Weight Watcher's Diet plan. I do my logs through a website. If you have a smart phone, you can download myfitness pal for free, it is very helpful!
Here is an example meal plan it gave me:

Breakfast:
Cereals ready-to-eat, KELLOGG, KELLOGG'S FROSTED MINI-WHEATS, bite size

Lunch:
Rice, brown, medium-grain, cooked
Fish, salmon, Atlantic, farmed, cooked, dry heat
Spinach, frozen, chopped or leaf, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt

Dinner:
Fish, tilapia, cooked, dry heat (x2 servings)
Rice, brown, medium-grain, cooked
Corn, yellow, whole kernel, frozen, microwaved

Snacks:
Apples, raw, with skin (x1 servings)


I know this has a lot of fish. I noticed I eat a lot of chicken breast.... that is 110 calories for every 4oz.

If it were me I'd cut back on the fruit and replace it with veggies and healthy fats. I don't know how large your banana and strawberry servings are, but I would make sure they are small and I'd eliminate the Naked juice completely. I love Naked juice but I've found on restricted calories I need to cut out fruit juices (even 100% ones) to reduce sugar and make room for more nutrient-rich items. Nuts, avocado, beans (like a hummus or black bean burger), cheese, and/or veggies could be very good substitutes for those calories. I also really like making no-oil high-protein high-fiber muffins or cookies and having those around as snacks. Just my two cents though :)