Mostly because time + working at home leads to less movement and eating to much. Well that and boyfriend needs to loose weight. So it's a combined effort.
The schnitzel was delicious, pretty sure when I froze them they weren't so fantastic. Think 'm going to ditch the dietitians ideas and just count the calories. at least then I can have chocolate while starving and throw in a vitamin tablet to replace the whole fruit torture.
Yikes. Yikes yikes yikes. The issue with calorie counting is it's pretty easy to miss by 20% or more and after a cheat meal or three undo the whole weak. You also have to know the calorie numbers for foods pretty well. If you can do it, great.
There are a variety of healthy eating plans that work. Here are some of the few I like best, in a nutshell. They pretty much ALL leave out pasta and breads though. Just too carb-heavy and too easy to overconsume.
1. Five-six small bowl-sized meals a day. Mix of proteins, healthy fats and complex carbs. By bowl sized, I mean hand-sized bowl, not head-sized bowl. Say 6 inches across. 18 cm.
2. Carb-cycling. You can google this, but basically you have less carbs and more fats on Day 1, shifting the ratio every day until the last of five or six days, which is mostly carbs and few fats. It's not really complicated. For carbs think yams, sweet potatoes, oatmeal, etc. For fats, think olive oil, avocadoes, 100% peanut butter.
3. Cheat-meal plan. Eat 3-5 small meals 5 days a week. You'll be a bit hungry. On day 6, eat normally and even have a cheat meal or two. Don't go nuts, but have pizza, ice cream, whatever. Day 7, eat little or even fast.
4. Intermittent fasting. You can google this too, but basically, go without food for 16-18 hours, then eat healthily but aiming to be filled for the remaining 6 to 8 hours. Still healthy food, but this way you can not worry about breakfast or lunch. Don't go nuts, though.
5.No Junk Food. This is what I do the most often and works. Just don't eat shit food, at all, for 3 to six months. Nothing in plastic, no bad fats, nothing out of a can, if you eat out only steak or chicken breast, no sauces. Try not to eat out. When you go back to eating normally, continue the same diet, but add in a cheat meal every 4-6 days.
I've used all these from time to time. Note: I don't aim for abs, (well, there was that one time. I got to a 4 pack, decided it was stupid and went back to lifting heavy), but I regularly take off 25-50 pounds depending. Why? I like a challenge and I like to run fast. Fat guys don't run too quick.
This is good advice.
Athough to be fair to your dietician, it can take 2 weeks or longer to trudge through the metabolic changes of a diet. Thing with short-term diets, generally, is that they fail on The Hardest Part.
The Hardest Part being -staying- in shape. That's why I prefer a diet I can live with for the rest of my life.