What the hell do I eat
mcyd137
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Ok I don't really have a horrible diet. My main issue is I love sugar and beer which is why I am in the "must loose weight NOW" mind set.
My main annoyance right now though is that I am getting tired of what I am eating. I can prep things before work, and get food ready for my day, but I work long *kitten* days in the film industry. I have to bring breakfast, lunch, and sometimes dinner with me. So right now, I am just plain tired of a few things and need better options for a slap together at work option.
My days usually look like:
Breakfast- whole wheat english muffin with peanut butter or greek yogurt with fresh fruit
Lunch- salad with mixed veggies and balsamic or turkey sandwich or tuna with celery
dinner- usually a form of chicken with a side of veggies (green beans or brocolli) and potatoes (because I'm irish and I can't stop eating potatoes)
Now, I know I should eat eggs for breakfast but it's one of the more annoying things to prep ahead of time. Maybe that's just me.
Ok, don't listen to the fact that I am being a food grump right now...it would help if I could see some other breakfast and lunch options on the cheap side that will be low on my calorie counter.
side note question....I keep hearing apples and bananas with PB is the WORST snack ever if you are trying to loose weight...true/not true?
My main annoyance right now though is that I am getting tired of what I am eating. I can prep things before work, and get food ready for my day, but I work long *kitten* days in the film industry. I have to bring breakfast, lunch, and sometimes dinner with me. So right now, I am just plain tired of a few things and need better options for a slap together at work option.
My days usually look like:
Breakfast- whole wheat english muffin with peanut butter or greek yogurt with fresh fruit
Lunch- salad with mixed veggies and balsamic or turkey sandwich or tuna with celery
dinner- usually a form of chicken with a side of veggies (green beans or brocolli) and potatoes (because I'm irish and I can't stop eating potatoes)
Now, I know I should eat eggs for breakfast but it's one of the more annoying things to prep ahead of time. Maybe that's just me.
Ok, don't listen to the fact that I am being a food grump right now...it would help if I could see some other breakfast and lunch options on the cheap side that will be low on my calorie counter.
side note question....I keep hearing apples and bananas with PB is the WORST snack ever if you are trying to loose weight...true/not true?
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There is no "worst snack" when you are losing weight. If it fits your calories, satisfies you and keeps you full it's a great snack.
I usually have eggs on an english muffin for breakfast, ground beef with rice and beans for lunch, something yummy for a snack and chicken with vegetables for dinner.0 -
You're going to make yourself crazy listening to other people's rules. Eat what you like. There's no reason you should, or shouldn't, eat eggs for breakfast, although I noter that hard boiled eggs are about as convenient á it gets. There's no reason not to eat fruit with peanut butter. In fact, it's a particularly nutrient dense snack. There's no reason to eat or not eat anything, as long as you're accurately counting calories and eating at a deficit.0
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In a nutshell, eat what you like so long as it fits within your daily calories
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I hear you on the prepping ahead, I have to do it on field work days, and if I get the amount of food I need to keep me going all day I'm pretty screwed!
My usual breakfast is yoghurt, watermelon, flaxseed meal and cinnamon.
Lunch on days I'm not working from home, still kind of working that out, but veggie sticks, hummus, guacamole, cheese cubes, fruit - basically things I can fit into little containers in my wee chiller bag (I'm doing moderate carbs cos of PCOS, hence the lack of nice and easy sandwiches). When I'm at home it's often scrambled eggs with veggies.
Dinner, big salad with tempeh, or stuffed eggplant or butternut pumpkin are my faves at the mo.
And your apples and bananas with PB are only a problem if you're going over your calories. Weight loss is all about calories in vs calories out at the end of the day. if you're eating at a deficit, you'll lose.0 -
If you have a refrigerator and a microwave at work, you can bring anything. I batch cook on the weekends and store meals in Ziplock containers with screw on lids. As a teacher, I often end up eating most of my meals at school. Today I had a baked apple with granola (breakfast), banana (morning snack), garlic parmesan chicken breast, rice, and steamed broccoli (lunch), celery (first afternoon snack), grapefruit chunks with Splenda (second afternoon snack), tomato mozzarella basil salad with small red wine (dinner). With a bit of dark chocolate before bed, which is my ritual, I can get all that in for about 1300 calories.0
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I eat the same thing every day for breakfast until I get bored with it then I do something else... Every day and so on. Right now I'm on fiber one cereal mostly because I'm trying to get a lot of fiber. I bring it in a Tupperware and a small jar of almond milk to keep in the fridge at work.
Before that I was doing a baked oatmeal dish. I make a big serving if it in a baking dish with lots of good stuff in it (banana blueberries pecans brown sugar etc) and dish some out every day.
Before that I was doing an English muffin with peanut butter.
Lunch I normally just eat leftovers... So that doesn't really ever get boring.0 -
Agree with the other posters. No such thing as "worst foods to eat" or even "best foods to eat."
The best foods, in my opinion, are foods you enjoy, that taste good to you, that fit within your calories, and that provide satiety.
For me I find it helps me get through the day if I eat enough protein and fat. Feel free to check out my diary if you want - it's not a shining example of anything (just ignore Sunday, I didn't record much cause the day just became a "i'm not gonna think about it" day - it was planned and not a "cheat..." Just a day "off" for mental health reasons, lol...I ate a lot of thin mints that day, rofl..>I was home all day and didn't need to eat "sustaining" food so much.)
I try to meet my macro goals. And I'll eat what I want - and apples and peanut butter sound pretty good right now!0 -
For breakfast I have one of these things and all I have to do is drop the stuff I want for my sandwich into it while I go do my hair. It means a hot breakfast as I walk out the door.
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Overnight oats is great for breakfast. You can prop up to 4 days worth in one evening. Then just grab and go in the morning. If you like them warm hear them up and then add some fresh fruit or nuts. Also I like to make egg muffins. You can crack an egg directly into a muffin tin, break the yolk and sprinkle some salt and pepper. Bake at 325 for about 12-15 mins. If you prefer omelettes beat together about a dozen eggs with whatever meat or veggies or cheese you like. Pour them into the muffin tins and bake as above.0
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@psych101 I love this thing! It took a few tries to optimize how I use it, but it's so worth it.
hamiltonbeach.com/breakfast-breakfast-sandwich-maker-25475.html0 -
This was all my husband wanted last winter. We looked and looked and couldn't find one. Christmas day, he opens a white elephant gift, and there it was! He loves is, btw Great for a quick breakfast you can take with you. 0 -
Overnight oats. It takes 5mins to prep the day before and it's available the following morning.
The options are endless, don't limit yourself. If it fits your macros, enjoy it.
My meals usually look the same almost everyday but that's because I'm fine with it. I enjoy what I eat, if I want to change it up then I can do it without hesitation.
There are so many macro friendly receipes out there.
There's nothing wrong with a serving of peanut butter and fruit. There's definitely a problem if you eat an entire jar of peanut butter. I eat peanut butter almost daily to help hit my fat intake.0 -
@psych101 I love this thing! It took a few tries to optimize how I use it, but it's so worth it.
hamiltonbeach.com/breakfast-breakfast-sandwich-maker-25475.html
We have one. I'm not usually much on unitaskers, but I make an exception for this. Makes amazing breakfast sandwiches!0 -
Fritatta is a good option for breakfast (or lunch) and can be made ahead of time and even frozen and defrosted when needed. You can basically add whatever you want so it can be a great way to use up leftovers or bits and pieces you have around. Things you can add are cheeses, ham, bacon, pumpkin, potato, mushroom, spinach, pepper, zucchini, tomato, fresh or dried herbs...
I really like to add some wholgrain mustard to mine for a bit of extra zing0 -
There are a million recipes online for egg muffins. If I'm on top of my game I'll cook a dozen on Sunday and have two to eat every morning for a week.
The refridgerate and re-heat well, just 20 or so seconds in the microwave. I just store them in a normal baggie and re-heat them on a napkin in the break room.
I like the ones with broccoli inside the mose, but this looks good too.
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/paleo-omelet-muffins/0 -
Honestly, I eat what I want. Once I hit my limit, i stop. Even if I go over by like ten, I still know when to quit.0
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You don't have to eat eggs for breakfast. Personally, I can't stomach something savoury in the morning about 80% of the time. Banana or apple with PB is also not the worst snack to have. 3 pizzas and a tub of ice cream would fit that description more closely. The thing with PB is just that it's easy to have too much of it and seeing it's quite high in calories, you are more likely to eat over your calorie allowance. If you fit it in, however.. no problems there.
That said, how about:
- a boiled egg avocado sandwich (boiled eggs will keep for a couple of days in the fridge)
- overnight oats or cooked oatmeal reheated in the microwave
- frittata with salad
- salad nicoise
- salad with grilled veg and goat cheese
- thai beef salad
- using dinner leftovers (taco salad, meatloaf sandwich, meatballs with zoodles)
- couscous salad with chicken, almonds, dried apricots/mango and curry spices
- hummus wraps (optionally with falafel)
- crepes with fresh fruit and yogurt
- Greek yogurt with homemade berry compote0 -
Now, I know I should eat eggs for breakfast but it's one of the more annoying things to prep ahead of time. Maybe that's just me.
Hard-boiled eggs are supposedly easy to make (not for me...I ruin them almost every time). I'll probably eventually just break down and buy a cooker but for now, I just pick up a half-dozen hard boiled eggs from the deli section when I go grocery shopping.0 -
@BruceHedtke , put your eggs in a pan with enough water to cover them. Bring it to a boil. When it boils take the pan off the heat and cover them for 15-20 minutes. Drain hot water and run under cold water for a few minutes until they are cool enough to touch.
@mcyd137 you can always do a quiche dish with (eggs, veggies, meat) and bring it with you to heat at work or even good at room temp. One quiche usually makes 6 servings, so you would have most of the week covered.0 -
Hhhmmmm...i KNOW i will get called on this but...here i go...
You cannot have anything you please. That mentality is what got us in trouble in the first place. Whole foods that are not prepackaged is best. PB? Mmmmm...maybe natural but not Skippy or what have you. I have begun eating salads without dressing because i still get plenty of flavor from the meat and tomatos and jalapenos etc. Why add unneeded calories and bad carbs?
Spaghetti sqaush is a great alternative to noodles and my kids liked it better. We felt full on less volume with it too.
And we just tried fresh mango....pretty good actually. Look at food as a fresh new adventure. Try new recipes and dont be afraid to buy in bulk and spend one day a week cooking for the entire week ahead and freeze what you are able.
Good luck and hope this helped some.0 -
You don't have to eat eggs for breakfast. Personally, I can't stomach something savoury in the morning about 80% of the time. Banana or apple with PB is also not the worst snack to have. 3 pizzas and a tub of ice cream would fit that description more closely. The thing with PB is just that it's easy to have too much of it and seeing it's quite high in calories, you are more likely to eat over your calorie allowance. If you fit it in, however.. no problems there.
That said, how about:
- a boiled egg avocado sandwich (boiled eggs will keep for a couple of days in the fridge)
- overnight oats or cooked oatmeal reheated in the microwave
- frittata with salad
- salad nicoise
- salad with grilled veg and goat cheese
- thai beef salad
- using dinner leftovers (taco salad, meatloaf sandwich, meatballs with zoodles)
- couscous salad with chicken, almonds, dried apricots/mango and curry spices
- hummus wraps (optionally with falafel)
- crepes with fresh fruit and yogurt
- Greek yogurt with homemade berry compote
All amazing options here, thank you! That's what I needed to hear.0 -
Eat food and hit your calorie goals.0
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cljenkins_92 wrote: »Hhhmmmm...i KNOW i will get called on this but...here i go...
You cannot have anything you please. That mentality is what got us in trouble in the first place. Whole foods that are not prepackaged is best. PB? Mmmmm...maybe natural but not Skippy or what have you. I have begun eating salads without dressing because i still get plenty of flavor from the meat and tomatos and jalapenos etc. Why add unneeded calories and bad carbs?
Spaghetti sqaush is a great alternative to noodles and my kids liked it better. We felt full on less volume with it too.
And we just tried fresh mango....pretty good actually. Look at food as a fresh new adventure. Try new recipes and dont be afraid to buy in bulk and spend one day a week cooking for the entire week ahead and freeze what you are able.
Good luck and hope this helped some.
I know what you mean, and I won't be that negative Nancy that yells at people for telling me I can't eat something. I know that I really can't eat everything I want, so I appreciate the honesty here. Truly I agree and disagree. I know I don't need to be perfect everyday (mainly because I have come to terms with losing weight will be a life goal not a quick fix), but obviously me eating whatever I want everyday didn't work for me either. I have learned the hard way that I have to be really really strict on my diet because if I'm not I won't lose a single pound.
I have been eating at about 1600/ day with a goal to lose at least 2 LBS per month. I work out three times a week and you know what...I am the same weight now I was at the end of January. I know it's because of the little things, the creamer in my morning coffee, the skippy PB instead of the more natural PB, the late night spoon of ice cream because I was under my calorie intake. Ugh...the truth is I need to be more aware of what I am eating because even if some things can be good I could be eating the worst version of it.
I appreciate all of these comments though, every single one was helpful.
And holy hell I want that egg sandwich maker thing. Brilliant.
I think survey says that I will start making over night oats for breakfast and making a fritatta on sundays to fill in the days I don't have oats.
Great advice everyone, thank you so much!!!!0 -
@BruceHedtke , put your eggs in a pan with enough water to cover them. Bring it to a boil. When it boils take the pan off the heat and cover them for 15-20 minutes. Drain hot water and run under cold water for a few minutes until they are cool enough to touch.
Just 10 minutes! (15 max)
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healthy_life2015 wrote: »@BruceHedtke , put your eggs in a pan with enough water to cover them. Bring it to a boil. When it boils take the pan off the heat and cover them for 15-20 minutes. Drain hot water and run under cold water for a few minutes until they are cool enough to touch.
Just 10 minutes! (15 max)
Oh and put a teaspoon of baking soda in the water. The eggs will peel so easily. I also find that if I boil eggs several days after I buy them, they are much easier to peel. It seems to me that the fresher the egg, the harder to peel.0 -
The mentality that got people obese is "I can eat as much as I want" not "I can eat what I want."
I have driven myself crazy over the years trying to do everything except..control my actual calorie intake. I did Weight Watchers (succeeded, but was always looking for all those "low points" "low fat" "low calorie" foods that did not provide me with all the nutrients I needed.) I tried Atkins. I tried Nutrisystem. I tried eating only organic stuff, tried eating stuff that didn't have HFCS in it. I tried juicing and smoothies as meal replacements I tried eating only whole foods. It all became discouraging at some point because I couldn't keep at it (mostly with the organic stuff, and juicing/smoothies, I couldn't afford it. An all organic "clean" diet is more for rich people, seriously...unless you're content eating spinach and carrots...)
Since I re-started in January I have had a change of thinking - I will eat what I can afford, what appeals to me (sorry I'm not eating it if I hate it, even if it's "good" for me), in reasonable quantities, all while meeting most of (if not all) of my macro-nutritient goals (Potassium, calcium, protein, iron, fiber, etc.) That means I include coffee, eggs, bacon, hamburgers, some processed foods, peanut butter, etc. in my diet.
If I meet all of those goals (or most of them) and have calories to spare, and I have drank my water minimum for the day, I am going to eat whatever treat I like. Which means, yes, I will allow myself to have cookies, ice cream, cheesecake, etc. Within reason. Not every day.
Since I restarted in January I have lost 14 pounds and am still losing. I am going to succeed this time because I am doing it with foods I enjoy, with foods I can afford, and with common sense.
Someone posted the other day that she hates tuna and wondered if anyone ever pretended they were eating a cheeseburger while trying to eat tuna. When asked why she was eating tuna she said "Because it's good for me and better than a cheeseburger."
Wrong.
I had a cheeseburger for supper last night. 90% lean beef, topped with less than 1 oz of cheese, 40g tomatoes, and 20g of onion. It was about 379 calories and 34 g of protein. I was more than satisfied. I didn't choke down something I dislike and pretend it was something I loved. I made room for it in my day. And I was happy and satisfied. And still within my goals.
Which way do you think is going to be more sustainable long term? How long before you can't even stand the sight of "tuna" because it's not what you want to eat?
I know the discussion isn't about tuna vs. cheeseburgers but it is about eating what you like. If you don't like what you're eating, you're going to fail.0 -
Ok I don't really have a horrible diet. My main issue is I love sugar and beer which is why I am in the "must loose weight NOW" mind set.
My main annoyance right now though is that I am getting tired of what I am eating. I can prep things before work, and get food ready for my day, but I work long *kitten* days in the film industry. I have to bring breakfast, lunch, and sometimes dinner with me. So right now, I am just plain tired of a few things and need better options for a slap together at work option.
My days usually look like:
Breakfast- whole wheat english muffin with peanut butter or greek yogurt with fresh fruit
Lunch- salad with mixed veggies and balsamic or turkey sandwich or tuna with celery
dinner- usually a form of chicken with a side of veggies (green beans or brocolli) and potatoes (because I'm irish and I can't stop eating potatoes)
Now, I know I should eat eggs for breakfast but it's one of the more annoying things to prep ahead of time. Maybe that's just me.
Ok, don't listen to the fact that I am being a food grump right now...it would help if I could see some other breakfast and lunch options on the cheap side that will be low on my calorie counter.
side note question....I keep hearing apples and bananas with PB is the WORST snack ever if you are trying to loose weight...true/not true?
Prep additional meals for the long days
Hard boiled eggs are super easy to prep I make mine for the week every Sunday.
If you go to my profile you can look at my diary also you can add me to Instagram (it's in my profile), all I post are my meals cause of my friends questions about the same thing.
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Someone mentioned - I think on another thread maybe - Mud Slide Oatmeal. Just add a tbsp of Special Dark cocoa powder to your oatmeal. The recipe I saw added a sprinkling of chocolate flavored protein powder and a little honey to it.... OMG. I am going to try it. Special Dark cocoa is high in iron.0
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In to say....I eat peanut butter and apples all the time. Although, let's be honest, the apple is really just a cover to eat peanut butter.
I just make it fit. Somedays it's easier than others to make it fit - I usually don't have peanut butter unless I worked out but that's only because I need those calories for more substantial meals (I'm on a 1420 a day, around 1700 if I work out).0
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