Ok this might be a big hear me out for some of yall. But 1 cup of the zero sugar cool whip is anywhere between 160-180 calories. Throw a tub in the freezer add some sugar free chocolate sauce or syrup and you get this amazing texture dessert. Idk if I’m weird but I absolutely love doing this
This is the longest I’ve ever been able to stay consistent!! It feels so good to be able stay on track long enough to see actual progress!
Hope everyone is finishing the week strong! 💪🏼☺️
shout out to Poulet Rouge! this is 500 calories on the dot. 34g of protein. the base is lettuce. if you get rice it's a lot more of course.
it's 4 chicken fillets (BBQ), cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, crispy onions, corn, peppers, sublime avocado sauce, and lettuce if anyone's interested in ordering the same if you have a Poulet Rouge near you.
I'm not on a 1200 cal diet but I like coming here for low cal ideas. btw this is the large bowl but you can get the "mini" for like under 300 cals. sometimes I don't get the sauce because it's over 100 cals. so you can make this even more low calorie.
because why is chicken and veggies so high calorie??? i used to think my meals were 300-400 cals MAX, turns out they were pushing 800 😭 no wonder i gained weight so fast
Left this in the freezer and was too impatient to wait for it to fully defrost, to my absolute delight I enjoyed a very delicious ice cream of sorts - the texture was great
sometimes i have an intense need to bite down on something crunchy. but if it tastes too good ill be too inclined to eat too much. what are some bland, crunchy foods i can use?
edit: i need it to be really crunchy. i have my hands on some cheerios and goldfish but its not crunchy enough. popcorn would be a good choice if i had an air popper but im about to move so im not really wanting to get more kitchen gadgets right now
edit2: i just remembered that ice from sonic that has the consistency of a shortbread cookie. literally all the crunch and no flavor or calories.
Been craving some spaghetti and meatballs and put this banger together for dinner tonight. I feel like I ate 800 calories it was so filling. First time using baked spaghetti squash, too, which was incredible. The sauce came from a store bought jar of Hot Honey Marinara, but I pumped it up with sautéed zucchini and mushrooms to add some volume. The pecorino romano on top didn't even register as 1 gram with how light I went, so I didn't bother tracking it lol
Modified this recipe https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQUf65NCLSS/?igsh=MWhia3p6bGhrNWozeQ==
Swapped the egg for 1/3 cup of egg whites fried in sesame oil spray in a cast iron skillet, added the kimchi, and reduced the rice to 1/4 cup. I try to average 10 cals per gram of protein and this one absolutely nailed it. Even better you can meal prep the beef and rice, making it super simple to eat multiple times a week in under 30 minutes.
Best breakfast meal I’ve been eating recently
Mushrooms, tomatoes, eggplant, onions and a few eggs , around 300 cals id say :)
This is what I meal prepped for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for this past week. It went well- wasn’t hungry very often, but I wish I had made room for dessert,, any advice?
Breakfast: 402 cal, 54g protein
Lunch: 510 cal, 69g protein
Dinner: 575 cal, 57g protein
Total: 1487 cal, 180g protein
It really feels like I've been trying to lose this weight for years, and every night I go to sleep absolutely disappointed in myself. When I have a bit of sugar, I can't stop, when I see something, I have to try it. When I don't, the food noise is so so loud, it's exhausting. I booked a holiday for June this year, hopeful I would actually reach my goals this time but it's April and I still feel so stuck. Now I'm losing hope I'll reach my goals by then. I just feel like food is controlling me so much, and moderate deficits don't work because there's such a small margin for error, and I don't have time for those. I feel like I've tried everything but the problem is I can't stick with anything long enough to see enough of a difference to motivate myself to keep going. I think I just needed to vent but if there's anyone that has been in a similar situation and has found their way out, any advice would be amazing.
It’s taken me all my 40 years (and being without my air popper) to figure this out… I’m sure many of you will know how to do this already, but it’s been a game changer for me. So here it is for the uninitiated.
1/2 cup corn kernels in a regular brown paper bag. Fold the top over a couple of times.
Put in microwave for 3 minutes (or until the popping slows down significantly, bit of experimentation needed).
Take out and eat. That is literally it!
I can’t believe I didn’t know this until now. Spread the good word.
Hi everyone!
I'm a 40-year-old , 5'7 tall, female and I've been eating 1200 calories daily since March 9th. In the evening, I do 30 minutes of cardio. My starting weight was 167 lb and I'm currently at 161. Six pounds down!
. But for the last 2 weeks I've been stuck at 161 lb
Anyone know what the deal is? I haven't changed anything and I'm very strict.
The only thing I will say is I've been having extreme fatigue in the evenings
I've been overweight for quite a long time, which I don't beat myself up for but I am striving to be a healthier weight. I've done tons of research and even created a tracking system that actually worked for me for a while. When I seriously decided that I would start managing my weight, I was able to lose 16lbs over the course of three months. It was so easy once I got started.
But then the holidays came around... Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc, and I started taking a "break" so I could enjoy the holidays with everyone else. When I say break, I mean I went from losing weight to just *maintaining* weight, which is still ideal. I decided in January that I would start again... then I did the same in February, then again in March, and here we are again in April. I've been telling myself "I'll go back to dieting tomorrow" since Christmas, and instead of losing or maintaining, I've gained a bit of weight in the past 4 months.
My main problem, I think, is the environment I live in. It's clear that I'm capable and I don't lack the knowledge to be able to lose weight, considering I did it with no trouble before. The two people I live with, however, make dieting so so difficult. My partner has an addiction to fast food that he doesn't want to acknowledge, and he's fairly overweight. He isn't interested in dieting, which would be fine, but he also gets uncomfortable and weird whenever he sees me dieting. Any time I mention calories (my own, not his), he makes some joke about how I shouldn't count calories or else it'll drive him mad.
Meanwhile, his grandmother (who we live with) makes dinner every night. A few problems here, but to be clear I don't dislike that she makes us dinner all the time. I really appreciate how much she does for us. But even though she makes dinner for us all the time, my boyfriend prefers to go get fast food and bring that home for himself to eat. When he does this, it leads to us having leftovers, and grama takes it as a personal attack as if he's saying he hates her cooking (which he doesn't). When we have a bunch of leftovers, which we normally do, grama gets really antsy if we don't eat it the next day, which means it's on *me* to eat it since my bf always prefers to go eat fast food. The other difficult part about her making dinner is she uses a LOT of processed stuff, and I also have no way of knowing exactly what she puts in the food so I kind of have to guess the calories or else make my own food (which would, as you might imagine, make her feel attacked).
Not to mention, grama also loves to bake and make desserts and bring ice cream or other sweets home. I've mentioned that I'm counting calories all the time, and her favorite line is a very silly and sweet little "oh this one is calorie free". She knows that's not true, and that's not how calories work, especially for desert, but I think she's just trying to ease my guilt? She brings me these sweets unprompted, so I could have already had 900 calories from breakfast and lunch, she comes home with a blizzard worth 700 cal, and we still haven't had dinner yet. I can't plan around these sweets, and I'd rather fill up my calories with unprocessed foods anyway!
I've suggested just letting me make my own dinner and she got so depressed about the idea that she started lashing out at bith of us for a week. She has such a weird relationship with food in her house, that she started getting weird about the bf having his *own* bag of chips in the basement we rent from her, as if he was hoarding food from her. Part of our rent agreement is also that I buy the groceries for the house, so making the food non-communal would just be a nightmare in and of itself.
TLDR I don't know what to do. I live with a boyfriend who is addicted to fast food and a grama who unintentionally guilts me into eating way more calories than I intend, plus it's impossible to properly count calories when she makes all of our dinners for us. Is it possible to change my environment so that I can go back to losing weight? Is it me who needs to change? Any advice or recommendations would be awesome. Thank you.
I'm bang on 5'0" and am somewhat of a picky eater!
What I ate today on a random day out:
Drinks ~330:
Jasmine peach tea, 30% sweetness w/ watermelon jelly (would get 50% sweet next time)
Mogu Mogu ice tea (evening sugar)
Lunch ~450: (I usually only have a light snack for lunch)
Mini cucumber roll, Veggie tempura roll, soy sauce + ginger + wasabi
Dinner ~570:
Chapagetti (first time trying it!)
Added shredded chicken (Would add beef next time)
Today ended around 1300 cal, though I didn't finish my dinner or all the boba ^^. I prioritize eating food that I enjoy now, so this example might not be good for everyone. Don't come at my macros, baby steps for me!
Added my 6 month progress, 144lb down to 128 today :)