I like to eat and am looking for things I can eat a lot of!
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cwolfman13 wrote: »I think primarily you're going to be looking at lots of veggies...particularly with a 1200 calorie diet. You could make big egg white veggie omelets.
This. I buy bags of frozen veggies (usually California blend) and add 1/2 bag to rice dishes, frozen entrees, egg scrambles etc. I also use fresh veggies like spinach to bulk up salads and sandwiches. Low calorie, inexpensive and gives my meals more staying power
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A serving of brocolli, defined by me as a bunny, has a standard weight (like all non starchy fruits and vegetables) of 80g. Of course the aim is to have maximal, not minimal bunnies! Thursday my bunnies were hibernating in a Siberian rabbit hole, but Friday I managed 9+
I think the most I've fit is ~25. An MFP friend is regularly over 20 and she is an omnivore (and so am i)
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OP: There is a book out there, among the thousands in the weight loss library, called "Picture Perfect Weight Loss", by Dr. Howard Shapiro. I have no idea what his angle is - low carb, high carb, low fat, lo mein, whatever - but the book has a ton of photos that show calorie equivalents between standard items like bagels, muffins, burgers, pizza, etc, and piles of fresh fruits and vegetables and whole meats, etc.
So for instance, he shows that a bagel with cream cheese, say, has 450 calories, 60 g carbs, 80 g fat, etc. Then he shows you a pile of strawberries, a half a cantaloupe, two oranges, a banana, a kiwi, and an avocado, with two eggs, for the same calorie and macro load.
It is quite striking to see the visual comparison.
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Just because "someone" might suggest X grams as a "serving", it doesn't mean I have to eat exactly that. That would be absurd! Instead, I choose to extract what is meant - moderaton. Sometimes moderation take a little discipline. "Fatty mentality" is restriction followed by bing(e)ing. Normal weight mentality is responsible enjoyment, and not freaking out over eating more than a suggested serving, whenever that is responsible and enjoyable.GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »kommodevaran wrote: »Part of the concept of weight loss is lifestyle change, rather than restriction and diet. All foods have a suggested serving size, and a good discipline would be to watch your serving sizes, rather than searching for foods to consume large amounts of.amusedmonkey wrote: »You love to eat, so eat foods you love. For the best compromise between taste and volume, if a dish you love is higher in calories, reduce the fat and/or bulk it with vegetables to reduce the calories per serving. Another alternative would be to pick a dish you love, have a smaller serving, and then add another dish that is low in calories for more volume. For example, light broth based soup (miso soup is a good choice for the calories ) before the main course plus a side dish of vegetables makes it easier for me to have a smaller serving of moussaka without leaving the table hungry.
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Not really. A suggested serving of vegetables is actually small.
For me, a serving of broccoli is about 3/4 of a pound. I make no apologies for this and think there's nothing wrong with it, and have worked through all my issues with food. I consider it multiple servings of broccoli in place of the side of bread I used to have. What I don't have on that broccoli? A ton of butter. What I do have? More broccoli.3 -
Spaghetti squash, zucchini... squash in general are very low calorie! And delicious too. Also greens of any kind, most non starchy vegetables...
Shrimp are surprisingly low calorie compared to other meats. Greek yougurt and cottage cheese are pretty good on the calories for being high protein too. Thin snackers rice cakes are only 25 calories each. Popcorn, pop corners chips. Coconut water. For adding flavor to food for minimal calories I like: salsa, pico de gallo, lemon juice, lime juice, vinegars, soy sauce, ketchup, BBQ sauce, mustard... also for cooking be sure to pick up some good spray oils! Switching from liquid oil to spray saves a ton of calories and these days you can get all kinds of oils as a spray- olive, avocado, coconut... or you can get a misto.3 -
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Just because "someone" might suggest X grams as a "serving", it doesn't mean I have to eat exactly that. That would be absurd! Instead, I choose to extract what is meant - moderaton. Sometimes moderation take a little discipline. "Fatty mentality" is restriction followed by bing(e)ing. Normal weight mentality is responsible enjoyment, and not freaking out over eating more than a suggested serving, whenever that is responsible and enjoyable.GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »kommodevaran wrote: »Part of the concept of weight loss is lifestyle change, rather than restriction and diet. All foods have a suggested serving size, and a good discipline would be to watch your serving sizes, rather than searching for foods to consume large amounts of.amusedmonkey wrote: »You love to eat, so eat foods you love. For the best compromise between taste and volume, if a dish you love is higher in calories, reduce the fat and/or bulk it with vegetables to reduce the calories per serving. Another alternative would be to pick a dish you love, have a smaller serving, and then add another dish that is low in calories for more volume. For example, light broth based soup (miso soup is a good choice for the calories ) before the main course plus a side dish of vegetables makes it easier for me to have a smaller serving of moussaka without leaving the table hungry.
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Not really. A suggested serving of vegetables is actually small.
For me, a serving of broccoli is about 3/4 of a pound. I make no apologies for this and think there's nothing wrong with it, and have worked through all my issues with food. I consider it multiple servings of broccoli in place of the side of bread I used to have. What I don't have on that broccoli? A ton of butter. What I do have? More broccoli.
Oh, I agree with you.
However, the post I took issue with said this:Part of the concept of weight loss is lifestyle change, rather than restriction and diet. All foods have a suggested serving size, and a good discipline would be to watch your serving sizes, rather than searching for foods to consume large amounts of.
People here are essentially saying to replace calorically dense items with large servings of vegetables. In my example of 3/4 pounds of broccoli, I'm really having 3-4 servings of broccoli and replacing the butter and side of bread I would have normally had with a meal. What I'm not doing is having things in "suggested serving size".
Picking nits, here, but again, the point is that there's nothing wrong with eating foods like vegetables in quantity like the poster I quoted seemed to think.3 -
Oh yeah and Halo Top ice cream!7
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Sometimes I'm wearing my nitpicking goggles, sometimes I'm not. Lol, I usually amGottaBurnEmAll wrote: »kommodevaran wrote: »
Just because "someone" might suggest X grams as a "serving", it doesn't mean I have to eat exactly that. That would be absurd! Instead, I choose to extract what is meant - moderaton. Sometimes moderation take a little discipline. "Fatty mentality" is restriction followed by bing(e)ing. Normal weight mentality is responsible enjoyment, and not freaking out over eating more than a suggested serving, whenever that is responsible and enjoyable.GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »kommodevaran wrote: »Part of the concept of weight loss is lifestyle change, rather than restriction and diet. All foods have a suggested serving size, and a good discipline would be to watch your serving sizes, rather than searching for foods to consume large amounts of.amusedmonkey wrote: »You love to eat, so eat foods you love. For the best compromise between taste and volume, if a dish you love is higher in calories, reduce the fat and/or bulk it with vegetables to reduce the calories per serving. Another alternative would be to pick a dish you love, have a smaller serving, and then add another dish that is low in calories for more volume. For example, light broth based soup (miso soup is a good choice for the calories ) before the main course plus a side dish of vegetables makes it easier for me to have a smaller serving of moussaka without leaving the table hungry.
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Not really. A suggested serving of vegetables is actually small.
For me, a serving of broccoli is about 3/4 of a pound. I make no apologies for this and think there's nothing wrong with it, and have worked through all my issues with food. I consider it multiple servings of broccoli in place of the side of bread I used to have. What I don't have on that broccoli? A ton of butter. What I do have? More broccoli.
Oh, I agree with you.
However, the post I took issue with said this:Part of the concept of weight loss is lifestyle change, rather than restriction and diet. All foods have a suggested serving size, and a good discipline would be to watch your serving sizes, rather than searching for foods to consume large amounts of.
People here are essentially saying to replace calorically dense items with large servings of vegetables. In my example of 3/4 pounds of broccoli, I'm really having 3 servings of broccoli and replacing the butter and side of bread I would have normally had with a meal. What I'm not doing is having things in "suggested serving size".
Picking nits, here, but again, the point is that there's nothing wrong with eating foods like vegetables in quantity like the poster I quoted seemed to think. 1 -
Cucumber and celery also1
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Eat more fruit, bananas are 100 calories and satisfying
Popcorn is a good snack I saw that suggestion a lot
Potato stir fry
Rice and beans
Basically a vegan diet with small doses of meat, so yea I'm not suggesting vegan 100%
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madgenius1 wrote: »Eat more fruit, bananas are 100 calories and satisfying
Popcorn is a good snack I saw that suggestion a lot
Potato stir fry
Rice and beans
Basically a vegan diet with small doses of meat, so yea I'm not suggesting vegan 100%
You don't need to eat meat, just make sure your diet is balanced and you take a vegan supplement.1 -
kommodevaran wrote: »Part of the concept of weight loss is lifestyle change, rather than restriction and diet. All foods have a suggested serving size, and a good discipline would be to watch your serving sizes, rather than searching for foods to consume large amounts of.amusedmonkey wrote: »You love to eat, so eat foods you love. For the best compromise between taste and volume, if a dish you love is higher in calories, reduce the fat and/or bulk it with vegetables to reduce the calories per serving. Another alternative would be to pick a dish you love, have a smaller serving, and then add another dish that is low in calories for more volume. For example, light broth based soup (miso soup is a good choice for the calories ) before the main course plus a side dish of vegetables makes it easier for me to have a smaller serving of moussaka without leaving the table hungry.
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Oh no, I don't follow suggested serving sizes at all except for the foods that I'm used to having in a certain serving size like ice cream or cereal. 80 grams of vegetables, 1 oz of nuts or 1 cup of watermelon would never fly with me, while I had "half a serving" of chips today no problems.
I'm using "serving" here as in "the amount of food you are used to eating" and sacrificing some of the higher calorie items that are not very important to you in favor of volume and/or reducing the amount of something higher in calories that is important to you by introducing bulk to achieve a comparable meal volume.1 -
That's how I use "serving" as well. The amount I choose to serve myself. I was pointing out that sometimes it takes some discipline to serve myself a portion that I find reasonable. And I'm not always able to manage that.amusedmonkey wrote: »kommodevaran wrote: »Part of the concept of weight loss is lifestyle change, rather than restriction and diet. All foods have a suggested serving size, and a good discipline would be to watch your serving sizes, rather than searching for foods to consume large amounts of.amusedmonkey wrote: »You love to eat, so eat foods you love. For the best compromise between taste and volume, if a dish you love is higher in calories, reduce the fat and/or bulk it with vegetables to reduce the calories per serving. Another alternative would be to pick a dish you love, have a smaller serving, and then add another dish that is low in calories for more volume. For example, light broth based soup (miso soup is a good choice for the calories ) before the main course plus a side dish of vegetables makes it easier for me to have a smaller serving of moussaka without leaving the table hungry.
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Oh no, I don't follow suggested serving sizes at all except for the foods that I'm used to having in a certain serving size like ice cream or cereal. 80 grams of vegetables, 1 oz of nuts or 1 cup of watermelon would never fly with me, while I had "half a serving" of chips today no problems.
I'm using "serving" here as in "the amount of food you are used to eating" and sacrificing some of the higher calorie items that are not very important to you in favor of volume and/or reducing the amount of something higher in calories that is important to you by introducing bulk to achieve a comparable meal volume.2 -
Salads, fibrous veg, zero calorie desserts, black coffee, diet drinks and frozen berries.2
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veggies, veggies and more veggies. Right now I'm eating a basic sandwich (bread, meat, cheese), accompanied by a mound of fresh vegs ... spinach, cherry tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, mushrooms. Last night it was 150g of steamed kale ... so much kale you couldn't see the rice or chicken on my plate.2
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GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »kommodevaran wrote: »Part of the concept of weight loss is lifestyle change, rather than restriction and diet. All foods have a suggested serving size, and a good discipline would be to watch your serving sizes, rather than searching for foods to consume large amounts of.amusedmonkey wrote: »You love to eat, so eat foods you love. For the best compromise between taste and volume, if a dish you love is higher in calories, reduce the fat and/or bulk it with vegetables to reduce the calories per serving. Another alternative would be to pick a dish you love, have a smaller serving, and then add another dish that is low in calories for more volume. For example, light broth based soup (miso soup is a good choice for the calories ) before the main course plus a side dish of vegetables makes it easier for me to have a smaller serving of moussaka without leaving the table hungry.
2 ways of saying the same
Not really. A suggested serving of vegetables is actually small.
For me, a serving of broccoli is about 3/4 of a pound. I make no apologies for this and think there's nothing wrong with it, and have worked through all my issues with food. I consider it multiple servings of broccoli in place of the side of bread I used to have. What I don't have on that broccoli? A ton of butter. What I do have? More broccoli.
I thought I was living large with my nearly 1/2 pound broccoli serving size. I bow down before you @GottaBurnEmAll3 -
carrots!0
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Pickles make an excellent snack, very low calories.3
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If you are a foodie and love food might I suggest you change from volume eating to slow eating. You can double your pleasure with a fraction of the volume (the brain retains the memory better) by taking, say, twenty minutes to finish off a cookie. Treat each meal like a wine tasting, considering the fragrance, colour, texture, high notes and subtle flavours in your meal.
Wherever I can I eat with chopsticks to slow me down.
If only volume satisfies I echo others' advice to look for foods pumped up with air or water. This includes popcorn or other air popped cereals, mousses and soufflés of any kind, and water loaded fruits and veggies.
Is it love to scarf down food so fast there is no time to taste it?6 -
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