Re-make you favorite foods

jamielangley00

I'm working on re-making my favorite foods so this will be a lifestyle change. I still love veggie pizza. That's my next quest, to make a super thin and crispy crust, low cal, veggie pizza. Cheat day: on Sundays, I don't log at all. I try not to over indulge, but I know you need a treat once in a while.

kommodevaran

All my meals are "treats" I refuse to eat anything I don't like and certainly not for the cause of being "healthy". But I do eat responsibly, I account for everything I take in. What I do, is reflected on the scale either way.

Francl27

Log everything. I can easily wipe out a week's deficit by eating too much one day.

GottaBurnEmAll

I get what you're saying. I remade a lot of my favorite foods by simply using a lot less olive oil than I used to as a first step. I had a pretty heavy hand with it in the past. That has saved me a lot of calories.

I still enjoy a lot of what I ate before (I tend to like a lot of what people consider healthy food), but I've cut down on the calorie dense ingredients in my recipes and increased the less caloric ones (there are a lot more veggies in my soups and stir fries and casseroles now, for example).

neldabg

GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »

I get what you're saying. I remade a lot of my favorite foods by simply using a lot less olive oil than I used to as a first step. I had a pretty heavy hand with it in the past. That has saved me a lot of calories.

I still enjoy a lot of what I ate before (I tend to like a lot of what people consider healthy food), but I've cut down on the calorie dense ingredients in my recipes and increased the less caloric ones (there are a lot more veggies in my soups and stir fries and casseroles now, for example).

Same. I made some unnoticeable swaps like having ground turkey over ground beef, or the leanest beef.

Annie_01

GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »

I get what you're saying. I remade a lot of my favorite foods by simply using a lot less olive oil than I used to as a first step. I had a pretty heavy hand with it in the past. That has saved me a lot of calories.

I still enjoy a lot of what I ate before (I tend to like a lot of what people consider healthy food), but I've cut down on the calorie dense ingredients in my recipes and increased the less caloric ones (there are a lot more veggies in my soups and stir fries and casseroles now, for example).

I have a cauliflower/cheese casserole that I love except that it is quite heavy on the calories for a side dish. I added broccoli and carrots to it plus cut up chicken and turned it in to a full meal.

Francl27

GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »

I get what you're saying. I remade a lot of my favorite foods by simply using a lot less olive oil than I used to as a first step. I had a pretty heavy hand with it in the past. That has saved me a lot of calories.

I still enjoy a lot of what I ate before (I tend to like a lot of what people consider healthy food), but I've cut down on the calorie dense ingredients in my recipes and increased the less caloric ones (there are a lot more veggies in my soups and stir fries and casseroles now, for example).

Ditto. Less oil/butter, more veggies, more meat, less pasta/rice/potatoes. You can cut down the calories of pretty much everything and still make it satisfying enough by switching to lower fat stuff too (except dessert, that just doesn't cut it for me, and cheese, unless it's as a topping in a recipe).