I think what you're eating looks fine.  I don't think I'd cut out all the fruit, you're a good girl!!  I recently started maintenance and was having a bit of trouble getting my head around it so I've been using the calorie king website.  You may already use it but I found it really helpful because it tells you what percentage of carbs your day is made up of and you can actually put in how much fat, carbs, protein etc you want in your day and it makes it much easier to monitor.  If you're still trying to lose, you could maybe limit it to however many carbs are in the shakes (and allowed veggies, of course)?  Just a suggestion, sorry if it's not very helpful.  I've found doing this diet that I'm a bit of a "rule" person so this' what's helped me.  I'm sure you'll be successful losing those couple kgs, you sound very commited!!

Naomi.

Good luck.

 Thank you so much Mally!!

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This might be a bit late but I hope it's helpful anyway. Everyone has valid points, what you need to remember though, is that you must have protein with every meal. The shakes have 17g av. of protein in them, and this must be translated when you go onto maintenance. Maybe a dollop of a good sugarless yogurt (like a greek one) with your muesli would help up your protein from the milk, and then you could have a little less muesli and it would balance out. The thing is, muesli is fine if it's the right one, but if you have a cup of it it'd be too much. Also, when you have your lunch, you shouldn't just be having salad on bread, again you really need protein. So some low fat ricotta and ham, or tuna or cottage cheese or boiled eggs or smoked salmon are all really good options for your protein that way you'll lose fat and not muscle mass  Maybe have muesli every second day and then on the day you don't have it have your fruit because fruit is really important for vitamis and minerals and fibre also  

Hope I've been helpful.

Kesh.

When I was training (just twice a week, 30mins with a PT and my normal cardio for heart strength), my basal metabolic rate was 1600 calories. Having a decent amount of muscle mass will often forgive you for any misgivings. Everyone is always like "oh I ate a Tim Tam, how many hours of cardio do I need to do to burn that off?" LOTS if you have no muscle mass!!

I lost weight on my last program having eggs with multigrain toast for breakfast, 1 serve (25g) carbs for m'tea, 2 serves at lunch (so 2 slices of bread), almonds in the afternoon, vegies and protein for dinner, then a pear before bed. (Plus protein shakes after training). Now my body hates me and I DON'T lose weight and I have almost NO metabolism (well its useless at any rate).

I can never stress enough what a difference resistance training makes to weight loss. You don't need to become a body builder, but 30mins twice a week (upper and lower body) of REALLY pushing yourself will just send your body into calorie burning overdrive.

Then you can have your museli and your sandwich and eat it too!

thanks again everyone makes sense quiet clearly now... and I must say compared to eating crap and junk food and take out all the time or eating sensibly like musli low fat milk multi grain sandwiches for lunch and good dinners made me feel a whole heap better too!

OVERALL WEIGHTLOSS TO GET TO GOAL:

Danielle - 18.4kgs GONE!!!! In size 10's again yippee yay!!!

24 y.o.

Height:165cms

weight:80kgs

Goal weight: 60kgs