Well, it certainly sounds like you’re following the plan and getting your one third speed food in with your meals. One question is what are you using your healthy B choices on each day? If it’s always bread or porridge, could you mix things up a bit and have some nuts or Ryvita or something instead a couple of days a week? I know my losses are slower on weeks where I have a lot of bread so I try not to use it more than once a week for my healthy extra.
Also, it sounds like your meals are quite large throughout the day. This is just me but the things you’re eating for breakfast, lunch and dinner are all things that I’d tend to eat for dinner and I’d only have 1 meal a day that big, with breakfast and lunch being smaller and lighter.
I suppose another question is do you stop eating when you feel full or do you clear your plate at every meal? Also, do you eat when you’re hungry or just when it happens to be breakfast/lunch/dinner time? One of my biggest problems is eating when I’m not hungry, such as clearing my plate at dinner just because the food’s there and not because I actually need to eat it. This is something I’m working on so I’m trying not to eat anything until I actually feel hungry, which is when my stomach starts to growl. I try to stop when I’m full, rather than when my plate’s clean but that’s a bit harder to implement, though it would result in less calorie intake. We were talking about this at group a couple of weeks ago and comparing our habits with those of ‘naturally thin’ people and everyone in group was able to relate to this.
A final thought, do you have a lot of weight to lose or just a little? If you’re already quite close to your target, losses are likely to be a lot slower since each pound lost will be a higher percentage of your body weight than if you have a lot to lose.
Just some thoughts and I may be well off the mark. Do you go to group? If so, have you shown your food diary to your consultant as they might be able to help you. My comments are just based on an example.
