Analyze my meals?

Here's what I ate yesterday and what my nutritionist wants me to eat.  Do you think I'm eating too much?  My weight loss is very slow to non-existent whereas I was losing faster before I started eating fruits. I'm wondering of maybe I'm actually pre-diabetic or something.  I'm having a hard time at dinner.  I'm finding myself scarfing my food down and then running back for more and really craving sugar.  I do everything I can to fight it but it's winning, a lot. I did great last week but the weekend and this week have proven to be difficult. I've cut out majority of the simple carbs and high fructose corn syrup as much as possible. This honestly feels like a maintenance plan, not a weight-loss plan. Which I suppose makes sense to learn for long term.  Our next session is going to be on fat. I'm afraid she's going to tell me fat is bad... Water: 80 ounces B: Turkey ham & eggbeaters roll-up with green leaf lettuce, 1 small banana, 4 cups of coffee L: 1 turkey sandwich with green leaf lettuce and mayo on wheat, about 20 farmland cheddar veggie chip things  1/2 naval orange S: 1 Breyers Light Strawberry Yogurt (80 cal), 1/2 naval orange D: 4" x 2" pot roast with 3-4 small potatoes and 1 cup carrots, 1 natural PB& sugar free Jam on wheat (prolly 2 much PB but i like it thick) Nut's plan: B: 1 meat, 1 starch, 1 fruit L: 1 meat, 1 starch, Veggies, 1 fruit (May have been 2 starches...?) S: Protein + carbs  (if it's karate day add a piece of fruit) D: 1 meat, 3 starches, Veggies (No fruit, period)

If you are insulin resistent or pre-diabetic.. the sugar in the fruit will just MAKE you hungry.  If the glucose can't be delivered into the cells and be used as fuel, it'll hang around until it's stored as fat.  In the interim, you'll always feel hungry because your cells are starving.  I'll be the first to tell you that I'm no expert.. I've just learned this from experience and from the advice of a close friend who is a very talented diagnostician and surgeon.  Anyway.. what didn't make sense to me THEN.. makes a lot of sense to me now. Can you get checked to see if you are, in fact, insulin resistent?  I know your glucose was good in the last blood study, but honestly, if you continue to be hungry with starches and the sugar in fruit.. it's calling for further investigation... no?  

My glucose levels are always good.  Outside of that I know nothing else about how to find out if I'm pre-diabetic. My doctor is useless.  When I ask him thinks I'm intimidated by his answers. It's almost as if is of the mind, "Don't question my judgment! I know when you're sick and I know when I need to give you what tests!".  It is calling for further investigation though. So co-workers recommended their doctors too me. One in particular has a lot of issues and protein deficiencies and his doctor has been very helpful. My next doctor will be female. My nut is female and I love talking with her. She listens and shares her own personal life. My PCP is male and is insensitive. I'm also thinking about seeing an endo to get thorough tests done.  I've found one through the web that is spoken highly of. As for the female doctor my coworker sees, she's a part of the same group as my current doctor. She's in a different building. I'm a little apprehensive about seeing her. I mean, what will she think of me? I'm just a problem patient who didn't like what my doctor had to say?  I just don't like his bedside manner.  Still, the fact she's part of the same group makes me nervous.  Should I go to a different group?

ah..  well.. I wouldn't go to a doctor in the same group.  I'd probably look for someone who specializes in metabolic disorders...  Those non-starchy veggies will help.. but if you are insulin resistent, it's the starches that will bring ya down.. make ya hungry all the time.

Well, I am not a nut but it doesn't look like too much to me.  All the meals look like the correct proportions.  How many calories is this?  That's how I judge.  My doc told me just to count calories for now and stay under 1200 a day.    She may change that up later if my weight loss slows. I crave sugar all day.  It's a struggle for me too.  I had a VERY hard time last night not giving in to Girl Scout cookies.  In fact, I had to put them in the trunk on my commute home from work (one hour) so I wouldn't be tempted.  I bought them weeks ago from a coworker.  I think your nut has you on the right track.  Keep us updated!

I had t do something like this for the Weight Loss Clinic I was in last year. But i wasn't allowed that many starches let me see if I can remember For the WHOLE day I was allowed 3 starches 8oz of skim milk 3 proteins I think like 5 veggies 4 fruits bah I cant remember!

Well, first I'd suggest you bite the bullet & get a glucose test & see if you are pre-diabetic.  That way at least you will have an answer. 

Also, you might try breaking up your meals even further; same foods, just 3 meals & 3-4 snacks a day...that helps me keep my metabolism rev-ving up. 

With that little amount of food (I'm guessing about 1200-1400 calories?), I'm surprised you aren't losing weight.  Are you exercising? 

Lisa

Glucose levels are fine which is confusing to me. I've tried the whole breaking food up into smaller meals and it irritates me. I hate eating all the time. I prefer to have set meals. I hiked 10 miles on saturday and I do karate twice a week for one hour.  I skipped karate monday because I got stuck in traffic and would have only been able to attend the last 15 minutes. It was a good thing because my legs were still sore from Saturday.  But yes, I do exercise and I feel like I'm in decent shape for me size. I don't have any problems with endurance or breathing.

Overall, you don't list the amounts that you are eating, so that may be why you are not losing. I praise the pretty good balance (more veggies might have helped you feel better) and regular meals/snacks!  Kriz, I so beleive that when i incorporated more veggies into my diet, it helped me overcome my sugar fixation (remember me - oreos + canned frosting?  I was out of control!) My comments/suggestions based on my personal beliefs/experiences: 1.  Try adding more leafy greens to all meals - like with that breakfast, stir in fresh or frozen spinach. At lunch, maybe spinach leaves on the sandwich or a small side salad with red cabbage, red lettuce. 2.  Toss the yogurt. I told you they do squat for me, maybe even aggravate my hunger! Try adding in a protein shake plus whole grain crackers or fresh fruit for the snack. Cottage cheese with tomatoes or fruit is more satisfying to me, too. 3.  Suppers are likewise my bugaboo...I am hungry, even if if I ate a cheeseburger for lunch...for some reason my appetite is always huge there, so I am not a lot of help here. I try hard to only eat about 400-500 calories at supper, but I am lucky if it 600.  :(    Again, I am better off when I have lots of chew-veggies like broccoli, cauli, cukes, beets, etc with supper to fill that hole. The PM snack might have been better to have had the pb sandwich in your example - that does help me to make sure I eat a more substantial snack then. 4.  Your nut is likely to fat bash!  But ask her if a moderate level with good fats is acceptable - 35%, and watching the saturated fat.  Satiety is an issue with you - tell her that!  Of course, also curbing artificial trans fat.  I think you are doing really well and trying hard to see if this works for you! So far from the deep fried fill in the blanks at 7-11! (citing one of your first posts here) I hardly recognize this new improved guy!

Okay, to see where I was at I went ahead and logged all of this into thedailyplate.com. I figured I was eating about 1500-1800 calories a day and I'm pretty close to it everyday.  Yesterday I had the PB&J and I could have forgone that for reduced calories but still. This is not a bad meal plan for a guy my size. Okay, so posting the whole day's detail isn't work well. I'll just post the totals.

	Totals:	1,758	86g	243mg	4,137mg	206g	45g	41g	104g
% daily value		94.26%	131.54%	80.83%	172.36%	68.68%	n/a	n/a	208.9%
		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein