So many calories

ana3067

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morgan21_76 wrote: »

The extra calories come from crossfit workouts and cardio. And healthy is lean meats, veggies and healthy fats. Oh, and one can only eat so much chicken and protein bars!

Add nut butters (Trader Joes has peanut, almond, cookie). Also, avocados.

What kind of nut is a cookie? We don't have those in Australia, must be a GM American thing?

Quite possibly better than sex. I'm not kidding. It's also sold at Target stores as Biscoff Spread, by the Peanut butter.

It's like Nutella, all you need is a spoon!

Have you seen the new Reese's spread yet!?? I want it. I don't think i can eat cookie butter since I eat GF But suuper want to try the Reese's spread when it hits shelves

Will have to lookout for that.

It's apparently not sold in Canada (yet) though Damn americans!

cwolfman13

morgan21_76 wrote: »

I'm sure this isn't a complaint to many of you but the amount of calories I 'should' eat is crazy to me. How can you eat 1800 calories in a day by healthy eating alone?

My guess is you have a pretty myopic view of "healthy". More calories doesn't necessitate more volume. There's more to nutrition than stuffing your face with as much veg as possible...that's good to eat plenty of veg and some fruit, but you need other things as well for balanced nutrition.

Basically eat more dietary fat...I prefer sources from things like avocado, almonds and other nuts, olives, olive oil, avocado oil, coconut oil, good old fashioned butter, etc. Most of my meats are lean, but occasionally I'll have a fattier cut. I would also add that you can have full fat dressings and eat some dairy.

It's really pretty easy....it's just that most people have a very myopic view of nutrition, especially when just starting out.

I eat around 2300 - 2500 to lose weight and around 2800 - 3000 to maintain my weight...most of those calories come from nutritionally rich sources. I allow myself more latitude for junk when I'm in maintenance and cut back on it when I'm losing weight.