Lean Cuisines to break a plateau?

cheryldumais

I use Lean Cuisine alot for lunch at work. The only problem I have with them is they are mostly carbs. If you are satisfied with that amount of food then give it a try. I find I am often hungry an hour or two after eating one. I think if I were getting more protein and less carb that might not be as much of a problem. Depending on your calorie allowance you could add some lean meat and veggies like suggested above.

Theo166

There aren't that many choices of lean cusine. If you like to cook, I'm surprised you want to go that route rather than work on your meal planning skills (which you will need forever)

When you cook, make enough for leftovers, which are thus in your history and easy to log.

Don't get pedantic when creating your MFP recipes. The purpose is calorie counting, not as a cook guide. You don't need to bother with spices and can focus on just entering key ingredients that add calories or fiber.

If you made one soup that is calorie similar to another soup, just log the one you already have in recipes.

To break your plateau, try a fast day or two.

nevadavis1

quiksylver296 wrote: »

I use Lean Cuisines and Healthy Choice a lot. And I don't know where the sodium rap comes from, they tend to have about 25% of your daily sodium.

But people with HBP or other conditions are supposed to eat a lot less salt than the daily sodium.

nevadavis1

Also the 2,300 mg of sodium for the daily limit is considered an "upper limit" and 1,500 mg is a better amount for most adults.

whitpauly

BlueSkyShoal wrote: »

Lean Cuisines are okay, but Amy's microwaveable meals are the bomb. Mmmm.

I love Amy's! Especially the burritos

inertiastrength

I was pleasantly surprised by some of my recipes, try and add them into the recipe builder. I frequently use that feature

brb_2013

As far as making your cooking/logging easier, have you tried simplifying your meals? I basically rotate the same 4-5 dinners, all in almost the same proportions so I can weigh it then just use saved meals from my own logging past. It's made it a lot easier on me.

You can try whatever you think will work for you, lasting weight loss is about you learning about yourself and what works for you. Making my meals more simple has helped me, but I won't say I don't bring a LC once a week or so because it lets me sleep in. Flexibility is usually a good thing but I wouldn't start to rely on them.