My dad has requested a meal tomorrow that will have 900 calories itself and is carb-heavy!

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  • mcnabb_fan07
    mcnabb_fan07 Posts: 4 Member
    Love cheesy scrambled eggs! Make em every morning for breakfast had a Ham slice with em the other day. I'm low carbbing myself, lost 7lbs this week. If the meal you're preparing is super high split in half? Eat it on separate days maybe:)

  • cafeaulait7
    cafeaulait7 Posts: 2,459 Member
    Y'all have some very good ideas! Yep, I have been going over (2x this week) because of Thanksgiving, so I wanted to cut back on calories for a while (I'm on maintenance). But I wasn't extra hungry today earlier, thank goodness. So I didn't go over at all!

    And I did skip the grits and half the meat and will eat that tomorrow, maybe. I kept myself to one yeast roll. Man, that part was hard!
    blkandwhite77 wrote: »
    Depends on what you mean by BG and how many carbs we are talking here. If my son ate a ton of carbs in one meal mama would go mama dearest on him. So can you clarify if your diabetic? If so then resist it and cut your portion size down to a reasonable carb intake for one meal. Normally 30-45 carbs per meal is recommended.

    Yep, that's exactly what I meant by BG (blood glucose), and the amount of carbs that would have been all at once was pretty horrendous! I was going to walk a lot afterwards, lol. But I'm glad I listened to reason. Thanks y'all!

    Oh, and Dad knows I shouldn't eat that all together, but he probably wouldn't have blinked had I done so. He considers it my business, I think. He does encourage me when he notices me doing something especially good for it, after the fact. But he's not one to rely on for willpower, I don't think!
  • allenpriest
    allenpriest Posts: 1,102 Member
    Tell him to cook it himself if he wants that meal.
  • stealthq
    stealthq Posts: 4,298 Member
    azulvioleta6 wrote: »
    Wouldn't eating 900 calories at once make you feel awful?

    Just because the meal is requested doesn't mean that you have to make it. If you do make it, there is nothing to say that you have to eat any of it...

    I can answer that one. Depends on what you're eating and your tolerance for it.

    I couldn't eat the meal OP is describing - I like plain grits with a pat of butter and that's it. All the cheese and fat from the meat does not sound appetizing to me at all. But a nice crisp blueberry Belgian waffle with extra blueberries, stabilized whipped cream, a couple of chicken and apple sausage links and tea? Yep. One of my favorite breakfasts at a local restaurant and it's right at 900 cals. I eat it no problem. And then I skip lunch even though I get hungry, because 900 cals.
  • successgal1
    successgal1 Posts: 996 Member
    If you burn 500 calories the day before or the day after, its only a 400 calorie meal.
  • pondee629
    pondee629 Posts: 2,469 Member
    " I could make that reasonable. But no, my dad wants scrambled eggs (cooked in the meat oil and butter)and cheese grits along with it, lol"

    So make dinner for Dad and make "reasonable" for you. OR
    Make Dad's dinner and eat only some of the prelogged portion. OR
    Plan your day to allow for a 900 calorie meal.

    Do you have a special problem with carbs or still buying into "they're bad"?

  • cafeaulait7
    cafeaulait7 Posts: 2,459 Member
    ^^^ Yeah, too many carbs are bad for me -- hyperglycemic :( I could eat the total amount for that meal over the course of the day, but not at one time without my blood glucose getting too high.
  • pondee629
    pondee629 Posts: 2,469 Member
    cafeaulait7 wrote: »
    ^^^ Yeah, too many carbs are bad for me -- hyperglycemic :( I could eat the total amount for that meal over the course of the day, but not at one time without my blood glucose getting too high.

    Cook what works for you and make Dad his meal. Provided you're up to it. I've always liked omlettes when making indivual meals some nights.

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