How big would your meal be?

zyxst

peleroja wrote: »

I guess I'm the weirdo here but I'd have like 200g carrots and 500g broccoli (with 1/2 tbsp of olive oil or butter for the nutrient absorption), none of the potato, and about 100g of chicken.

I'm pretty little, about 118 lbs, but I like volume so I eat pretty large portions of vegetables and usually skip starchy stuff in favour of more green stuff.

Trade my broccoli for your potatoes?

bikerjoe83

Strudders67 wrote: »

I'd have 125g of potatoes (but then add a small knob of butter (5g) to them) plus 80-100g of broccoli and 80-100g of carrots. My chicken portions are normally around 150g. What you've described looks fine to me and I would certainly find it filling, but I possibly weigh less than you to start with and my calorie goal is 1200 a day.

Re the subject of fats, there will certainly be some in the chicken you're planning to have. Macros is a phrase I've read about a lot on here and it's either a US thing or hasn't made it to the UK yet or it has just bypassed me completely, but the general concept seems to be that, in addition to only having your goal number of calories, your carbs, fats and protein figures should be balanced to some sort of ratio. These tie in with the first three column on the tracker page (unless you've changed it) and the 'target' that you get for each. I'm often slightly over my supposed target for fat because it seems to be in everything - my breakfast and lunch usually take me up to the 'target' even if I have a lean dinner.

Yeah I read up on the ration of protein, carbs and fat. I've changed my tracker to suit me, which is only just slightly off the recommended ratio. I tend to never eat much 'added' fat, never deep fry anything, only use tiny bit of oil when pan frying, don't add butter to potatoes or cheese to anything. Now I'm changing my diet I know I'm getting more natural fat, if you can call it that, in meats, fish, cottage cheese and yogurt.

I don't want to get bogged down in all of the finer details. Some information has become interesting but micro-managing my intake will make dieting a chore for me.

cityruss

I was left to fend for myself this past Saturday evening and came up with something in the region of...

300g ovenbaked chicken breast.
300g boiled sweet potato.
300g mixed veg from a bag.
Squirt of some hot sauce I found in the cupboard .

Thia morning I've put a lunch together for today as I'm swamped with work all day...

2 tins of tuna 248g
Baby potatoes 250g
Mixed veg 300g
Banana 98g with protein sludge 50g powder splash of milk

Currently about 182lbs and shooting for around 3000 calories a day

lemurcat12

bikerjoe83 wrote: »

JB035 wrote: »

bikerjoe83 wrote: »

I know this sounds like it should be in Fun & Games but it's a serious question. Below is something I might have for dinner, with weights etc. What I'd like to do is find out if this meal size is 'normal' based on how much other people eat.

Chicken breast (plain - baked) - 150g
Baby potatoes (boiled/steamed) - 200g
Carrots (boiled/steamed) - 120g
Broccoli (boiled/steamed) - 120g

Could people please list the weight of each item they would have? Just these items, forget about calories, just go with what would be 'enough' for you. If you don't mind, please also share your weight to give me an idea of what different sized people feel is enough, compared to me.

I'm 210 lbs and this meal size doesn't leave me feeling satisfied, I want more.

That's close to what I would eat. Except you are missing fats. I'd add a good chunk of avocado or a few fist fulls of almonds.


I'm 5'8" 172

The thing with those choices though... you will be hungry again shortly.

A couple of people have said fats are missing. I may be wrong in presuming you're from the States, but in the UK, we don't tend to see fats as something to have with a meal, unless fats to you is something else to me - is this just something to add as a benefit to the diet or generally is adding fats a done thing in the US? Outside of my diet, I'd most likely add a heap of stuffing, some gravy, maybe a bit of bread sauce, probably a few onion rings (not fried).

How I would have fats with that meal:

I rarely eat just plain chicken breast, so I'd have fat with my bone-in, skin-on chicken (or my pork chop or salmon -- not a lot, but some). If I did have just skinless chicken breast I'd likely make it as part of a meal (a tagine, for example) that would have something with fat (like olives) in it.

I'd also cook my potatoes and veg with a little olive oil, not a lot.

With a different meal I'd add a bit of cheese or have pine nuts or avocado as part of it. I don't find fat hard to get and I think of it as an accent or something that comes with my protein (especially with something like eggs or dairy), and not something I need to add separately. (But I always cook with a bit of fat, just don't think of that as a separate course, that seems weird to me -- I didn't assume your things were fat-free.) I usually don't do a sauce that has much fat or add fat to a finished meal unless it's salad when I'd have dressing with some olive oil and vinegar, normally.

Just for your survey. ;-)

I'm in the US, specifically Chicago.

perkymommy

Chicken breast (plain - baked) - 4-6 ounces per meal
Baby potatoes (boiled/steamed) - 6-8 ounces per meal
Carrots (boiled/steamed) -
Broccoli (boiled/steamed) - 2-4 ounces but don't eat this often at all

I'm currently at 147 lbs.

amc2509

That is pretty much my exact dinner, except I would also have 10g of butter on my potatoes. I'm currently 182lb and aiming for 1570 calories per day and losing slowly. I have just cut out most of the rubbish that I used to eat and find that I can really eat decent portions of good food and stay within my calorie goal. If I really NEED that packet of crisps, I have to add exercise calories to have it!! But if I know that cutting my dinner portion dramatically isn't sustainable long term, so I still eat a decent dinner!