How can I lose weight when I have problems eating veggies and salad?

Hi,  you might need to just substitute a few of the foods you normally eat to get it right, so to make it easier to help you please provide your age, weight, and height, and a  list of what you eat and drink, ( even coffee, tea, water, drink, zero, anything you put in your mouth )  and what exercise you do every day for 7 days.  Not a typical week an actual week starting from today.

I only consult with obese and over weight ( many of my clients are diabetic.)   

thanks anneabell, you are still reasonably anonymos,  so I dont think it would be embarrassing if gave your weight age and gender, to make a few better recomendations for you.  

Hay, Not bad,  looks like you do have veggies and salad. 
for now this should help
1)  please give us  your age weight and gender
2) anything else you drank,  I was hoping for some glassess of water.
3) substitute the white bread for wholemeal,
4) leave or cut down,  the chocolate and chips for a while,
5) more veggies, sure, but  you also need 2 fruit a day,  an apple, orange, banana, ?  pear, ?   
6) don't juice,  its great to see you do consume veggies but not in this way,    leave juicing  for once a week if you must,  your diet  is low in fiber and needs the fiber of the whole veggie. have them raw, microwaved, boiled, but dont just drink the juice. 
7) please state any activity,  what do you do at work or home,  ? sit or stand, walk.  you have to  exercising,   try some dancing, put on your favorit song, or look on youtube for some full body exercises that work and stretch your major muscle groups,  that you can do ( very hard to find ) good luck, or walk,  30 minutes a day minimum,  I can point you in the right direction with your age weight and gender. 

the more information you give us,  the more  we can help,  hay this is a free service that will help you save your life. 

others reading might also get the courage to aslo ask for help. 

Vangel,  WLE,  I only consult obese and overweight. 

Hi Anneabell,

Thanks for the extra info,

Hay every ones weight goes up and down,  even upto 2 kilos a day, its normal. Its not your fat that gives this frequent fluctuation, normally its the 3- 6 kilos in your digestive system.  

Weigh your self evey day, but look at the change over 7 days  then the average over 1 month will be a better indication of how much fat you have lost.  

Yes please,  send it in   for 1 week and this time please put down the time it was that you exercise, eat any food, and any drink.  

to help you with fiber, try for smaller portions of the hi fiber foods, on their own,  with an interval of 20 minutes minimum to 2 hours, spread out during your day,  example, if your having wholemeal bread, then eat it and set  your smart phone reminder to go off after 20 minutes before you consume anything else,  even water, this will give time for you to digest it better.  

Chew your food more to reduce gas. 

Vvitimins are not your problem, coconut water is no benefit in your condition,  and your Ensure plus is also no benefit.  Get your health to improve with normal food, not an artificial shake or powder. 

Once you remove all the strange things you are eating and drinking, then you should consider your medicine to be exercise.  What you are doing is not often enough, exercise  must be daily for it to work for you,   so what you are doing now is is of no benefit,   You will only see benefit if you do it  twice a day, do 10 minutes ( minimum) in the morning and then 10 minutes at night,  every day for 30 days,  not hard exercise,  it just has to be done for those 2 x 10 minute sessions.  Then you to see some real improvement, improvement will give you motivation to continue this.

there are no web sites for any paid or free full body exercises that I would recommend at the moment. So I still suggest finding some songs or film clips on youtube,  that you like, maybe Madona, or Inexs, ACDC, cool and the gang,  michael jackson,  tina turner, dance music from the 80's is more your demographic, of anything,   just make sure you like it and dance, in your TV room.   You dont need equipment to exercise.  Not in your condition. 

what you are doing to your self at the moment will only make you go backwards, less healthy
and feel older, then what you realy are.   



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Dear Anneabell,
I suggest you ask your gastroenterologist or endocrinologist to refer you to a Dietitian who understands both these diseases well, to get expert dietary advice that is specific for your needs and medical conditions. There are a number of factors which may be affecting your weight and tolerance to some foods which this forum is not the best way to help you, such as the medication you are taking for both your diabetes and UC, your diabetes control, whether your UC is in remission or active, nutritional state, lifestyle and understanding any food intolerance specific to you and your inflammatory bowel disease. You have also mentioned additional co- morbidities which may also be making it more difficult for you to achieve your goals.
A Dietitian understands both these disease and medications used to treat these diseases very well and will be able to provide a healthy eating plan for weight loss, meet your nutritional needs and help you manage both your diabetes and UC well. I think you will find this very valuable as there may be many things affecting your tolerance to some foods and weight. For example just one small thing is, it is not so much the amount of fibre but the type of fibre that is important to you as the anonymous post has indicated in one of their posts. A Dietitian will also know the groups of foods that you may not be tolerating well and why, and give you advice on how to help you include these foods into your diet. There are a number of foods that you are eating which may not be helpful for your bowel function , and if you change these you might tolerate more of the foods you are wanting to eat and lose weight.
Diet for both diabetes and UC needs to be individualised and will not always be the same for other people with the same diseases.
Regards
Elizabeth