Lousy eater
bubbex2
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My doctor has me on a low carb diet. I don't eat most veggies and don't like Greek yogurt. With the things that I like and can eat on the diet, I'm only logging in between 700 - 850 calories on here. I know I'm not eating enough but don't know what else to eat given my terrible eating habits. Help please?
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There are lots of types of vegetables with many different ways of preparing them. Try new things and see if you like them. I love roasted vegetables, as does my fiance. He always hated vegetables until he tried them roasted.
And if you're concerned that you aren't eating enough calories here's a list of calorie dense foods. See what fits with your doctor's requirements and incorporate those into your diet:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10142490/a-list-of-calorie-dense-foods0 -
Change your habits. Open yourself up to new foods and spices and recipes. If you want to change, change.0
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Has your doctor put you on low carb for a medical reason or was it recommended as a weight loss plan?
In any case, it would help if you made your diary public so we could see what you are currently eating and how your macros are set in order to make food suggestions.0 -
How about peanut butter, chicken salad (with mayo) eggs, bunless burgers, cheeses, boy there are so many options. Spend some time searching new foods in the supermarket!0
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I would definitely go for nuts, like smokehouse almonds. So yummy, and calorically dense enough to get you to a better range of calories than you are currently getting.0
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How about making a list of foods you do like, and another list you are ready to try? There's a whole range of dairy products that are not Greek Yogurt for instance. There's all the cheeses. You can also experiment with various textures and cooking methods.
I suggest browsing the vegetable aisle every week and picking up something you've never tried and then googling a recipe. I find I love vegetables much more if they are crisp and fresh. So buy small and buy often.
Costco has a variety of creative products you might want to try, like a black bean pasta and pea crisps.
Please do eat your minimum even if for a while it means ending your day with a protein drink until you figure this out.0 -
This!Need2Exerc1se wrote: »Change your habits. Open yourself up to new foods and spices and recipes. If you want to change, change.
There are an almost endless amount of vegetable dishes. You're bound to like some of them!
Eating healthy food doesn't mean you cannot like what you eat!! Get to work on finding healthy foods you like. You can do it.
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Low carb: olives, pickles, almonds, green beans, broccoli, kale, squash, mushrooms, yellow squash.
Omelets, cheese burgers without the bun, full fat salad dressing, cheeses, bacon, pork chops, sirloin, turkey, shrimp.0 -
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I went to the grocery store and actually bought healthy stuff! Baby spinach, cottage cheese, fish, turkey, almonds, salad and dark chocolate milk to add to chocolate protein powder for a smoothie. Maybe there's hope for me after all!0
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KarenJanine wrote: »Has your doctor put you on low carb for a medical reason or was it recommended as a weight loss plan?
In any case, it would help if you made your diary public so we could see what you are currently eating and how your macros are set in order to make food suggestions.
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I was eating almost totally carbs and he said that's why I can't lose weight. I made my diary public. Just had to figure out how!0
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be open to vegetables.
low carb also doesn't mean no carb. Whole grain foods are good and you can even get pasta that why too. carbs do not make you gain weight but I think they can often be high calorie so maybe that's why the dr put you on low carb so it's easy to go over your calorie allotment
weigh your food. I do ounces but people generally recommend grams. I've heard it's more accurate. you don't have that much to lose so you will need to be tight on your food logs. you will not have a lot of room for error.
nut butters are a good way to increase your calorie intake.
sounds like you picked up some great food0 -
Need2Exerc1se wrote: »Change your habits. Open yourself up to new foods and spices and recipes. If you want to change, change.
This.
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I went to the grocery store and actually bought healthy stuff! Baby spinach, cottage cheese, fish, turkey, almonds, salad and dark chocolate milk to add to chocolate protein powder for a smoothie. Maybe there's hope for me after all!
Bravo! Watch the calorie count in that chocolate milk...
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I make a smoothie with baby spinach, chocolate almond milk and regular unsweetened almond milk and unflavored/ unsweetened protein powder. It is yummy and very filling. Watch the carbs in the chocolate milk. 0
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I think the problem is partially that you reduced your carbs but have not been increasing your fat to compensate for the switch. You are only eating about 20g of fat per day according to your diary. Eating low carb and low fat is extremely difficult and sort of makes part of the reason for eating low carb a moot point - people often switch to low carb to better burn fats, but you need to eat fats in order to do that.
When you have baby carrots and celery, dip them in a ranch dressing or put cream cheese on them. Add cream to your coffee, eat chicken with the skin on (if you like it) and eat the darker meats. My guess is that you should be eating a good 60g of fat (or more up to 100+) per day if you continue to eat so far under your carb goal of 166g/day.
Nuts, cheese, avocado, olives, eggs (scramble, baked, fried, deviled), meats (deli meat, pepperonis, beef jerky, steaks, roasts, sausages, bacon, meat loaf or meatballs), seafood (fish, oysters, shrimps, clam, etc), cream, coconut (cream and dried) and added fats (bacon drippings, butter, ghee, olive oil, etc) are all things you should try to add into your diet on top of what you are eating now. You need to eat more, and more fats is a good place to start since you are already almost at your protein macro.
Don't forget the low carb and sugar veggies. Green leafy veggies are all low carb, as are most veggies that grow on bushes and vines (cucs, peppers). The veggies to limit are the ones that grow underground (potatoes, turnip, carrots, beets) as they have more sugar and carbs. You can still eat them, but not much if you want to keep your carbs low.
Grains are harder to fit into a lower carb diet, but it can be done. Most low carbers would rather eat the veggies though.
Check out the low carber daily forum for more support and food idea. Paleo food is often lower in carbs too and may give you some ideas. You're borderline ketosis too (very low carb of less than 50g of carbs) which may affect your energy and feelings of health. Some people feel poorly while their bodies adjust to ketosis and fat burning, so if you want to be in ketosis, and feel fatigued or headachy, add potassium, magnesium and sodium to your diet. If you want to avoid ketosis, you'll most likely need to keep your carbs above 50g per day.
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Make cooking an adventure
learn to cook with spices and herbs
I love spinach but spinach with cheese is even better
So does all leafy veggies
carrots broccoli cauliflower
mash it for ones and add some cream cheese or other stuff try it that way
We love here garlic veggies
I stir fry zucchini with tomatoes and some other vegetables i use a lot of garlic and or onions in it...or curry powder or add water and mustard powder
Other favorite here is liquid smoke, i stir fry the vegetables and add spices and herbs and liquid smoke
yummieee
Just try things out. dont close yourself off when you dont like a cooked carrot...because mashed or stir fried you maybe find a taste you do like.
I love raw leaf vegetables and make the Dutch stamppot...mashed potatoes with raw spinach or kale endive in it with bacon pieces and sausage and pepper, nutmeg, milk and butter
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I went to the grocery store and actually bought healthy stuff! Baby spinach, cottage cheese, fish, turkey, almonds, salad and dark chocolate milk to add to chocolate protein powder for a smoothie. Maybe there's hope for me after all!
Yum!
Go and flip through some cookbooks at the store and buy one you like the look of the recipes of.
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Maybe there is hope. After all, buying some good stuff at the store demonstrates a better attitude than the defiant, stuck out lower lip, response from most of the "I'm too precious for vegetables" posters. I mean it's cute in 4-year-olds, but nobody posting in this forum is young enough to carry it off in adult company.I went to the grocery store and actually bought healthy stuff! Baby spinach, cottage cheese, fish, turkey, almonds, salad and dark chocolate milk to add to chocolate protein powder for a smoothie. Maybe there's hope for me after all!
So I encourage you, while you enjoy your chocolate milk smoothies, at the same time to push past it into a little more mature fare. After all, if not now, when?
Don't get me wrong, a complete overnight transformation isn't necessary. Just continue down the road you've already started. You can follow Christine's suggestion to pick out a book and let it guide you. Or you could pick out a celebrity chef and make him your internet kitchen guru.
Or try this. Pick a vegetable, or other healthy food you already like, and resolve to master it all its forms. Steamed, simmered, sauteed, braised, roasted, grilled etc. In the end, learning that one thing, inside and out, will change your life.0 -
Stir frys are great for getting your veggies in. I load as many vegetables as i can into a wok with some chicken breast and your choice of sauce and you have a healthy and filling meal, plus leftovers 0
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Maybe there is hope. After all, buying some good stuff at the store demonstrates a better attitude than the defiant, stuck out lower lip, response from most of the "I'm too precious for vegetables" posters. I mean it's cute in 4-year-olds, but nobody posting in this forum is young enough to carry it off in adult company.I went to the grocery store and actually bought healthy stuff! Baby spinach, cottage cheese, fish, turkey, almonds, salad and dark chocolate milk to add to chocolate protein powder for a smoothie. Maybe there's hope for me after all!
So I encourage you, while you enjoy your chocolate milk smoothies, at the same time to push past it into a little more mature fare. After all, if not now, when?
Don't get me wrong, a complete overnight transformation isn't necessary. Just continue down the road you've already started. You can follow Christine's suggestion to pick out a book and let it guide you. Or you could pick out a celebrity chef and make him your internet kitchen guru.
Or try this. Pick a vegetable, or other healthy food you already like, and resolve to master it all its forms. Steamed, simmered, sauteed, braised, roasted, grilled etc. In the end, learning that one thing, inside and out, will change your life.
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I like the way you think! I will try to do as you suggest. Biggest problem now is that I have no appetite. I am fighting a sinus infection and I just don't want to eat.0
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christinev297 wrote: »Stir frys are great for getting your veggies in. I load as many vegetables as i can into a wok with some chicken breast and your choice of sauce and you have a healthy and filling meal, plus leftovers
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I like Chinese veggies, so I can try that. great idea! Thanks0
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I like the way you think! I will try to do as you suggest. Biggest problem now is that I have no appetite. I am fighting a sinus infection and I just don't want to eat.
This would be a great time for Thai or other spicy Asian soups. If you like noodle soups, the glass noodles are lower carb.
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I went to the grocery store and actually bought healthy stuff! Baby spinach, cottage cheese, fish, turkey, almonds, salad and dark chocolate milk to add to chocolate protein powder for a smoothie. Maybe there's hope for me after all!
Sounds like you're on the right track but if you get stuck again, ask your doctor for a referral to a dietitian (not a nutritionist).
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garlic is a natural appetite enhancer. just saying...0
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