I miss larger food quantities
ellengiller
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Since I began tracking calories I realize I definitely over eat. I honestly just really like the act of eating. When I'm enjoying something I don't want to stop... okay, so now I'm aware and cutting back. What low-calorie foods do you enjoy where you can have a larger quantity?
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Vegetables. I eat massive amounts of them - I prefer a large volume of vegies/salad to rice/pasta/grains7
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Veggies!
Roast some broccoli with a bit of olive oil and salt and enjoy with some protein. Or cabbage stir fried with peppers, bean sprouts, and chicken.
You can get a whole big plate of asparagus for very little calories.5 -
I was just thinking cabbage!! Maybe a big batch of leafy greens stir fried with some carrots, red peppers, onions and a little soy sauce w some lean proteins?3
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I just eat ridiculous amounts of vegetables. For example, tonight I had steamed broccoli, steamed baby carrots, roasted beets, and a medley of roasted Brussels sprouts, bell peppers, and onions. I've also had some fruit (grapes, watermelon, banana, ect) that aren't quite as low calorie, but that are still enough so that I can eat a pretty large petition without having to worry about calories.3
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ellengiller wrote: »I was just thinking cabbage!! Maybe a big batch of leafy greens stir fried with some carrots, red peppers, onions and a little soy sauce w some lean proteins?
Not sure if you use oil to stir fry (I don't) but make sure you add fat too - it is calorie dense, but necessary.... For many things, but nutrient absorption is a big one. No point eating the vegies if you aren't getting the nutrients!4 -
I make huge salads. Taco Salad, Greek Salad and spicy Boca Chicken Salad. I load them up although I can get mine around 600+ calories lol.4
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Try intermittent fasting.4
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Broccoli, green beans, lettuce, cucumbers...you can lots of veggies and still be low calorie.2
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Vegetables, fruits, lean meats, are where its at! You can also find processed low calorie foods but still will not be as filling. Finding recipes on here mfp, pinterest, and instagram and other sites are the key!2
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sammyliftsandeats wrote: »Veggies!
Roast some broccoli with a bit of olive oil and salt and enjoy with some protein. Or cabbage stir fried with peppers, bean sprouts, and chicken.
You can get a whole big plate of asparagus for very little calories.
Roasting makes everything taste better. I like asparagus and Brussels sprouts that way too.3 -
Spring greens or cabbage for volume.2
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That's a tough one and it's going to be tough. I like to eat. But I don't like to eat too much. I even started to enjoy food more when I stopped eating too much.2
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I don't do IF per se, but I do tend to save most of my calories for dinner so I get more food. However, that only goes so far. Even an 800-900 calorie dinner doesn't allow you to consume massive quantities of calorie-dense foods.
Definitely focus on veggies. I love oven-roasted vegetables. Some of it just boils down to a change in perspective and expectations. I don't *need* to eat a huge bowl of pasta with meat sauce when a single serving (or maybe two
) with a salad and veggies is more than enough in calories and volume. 2 -
meganridenour wrote: »
Same here. I eat about 1800-2000 calories from 8-1am. IF helps so much because I love to eat big quantities.1 -
I also save my calories for my largest meal of the day - dinner - I try to come home from work at 4:30 with 1100/1900 kcals remaining so I can have a tiny 100kcal snack, and have plenty of room to have a big dinner. If we end up making something low cal like zucchini noodles, then I've left myself room for a surprise treat!0
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I understand your pain. One way around it could be to implement intermittent fasting. This practice condenses the time you spend eating into a smaller window. In doing so it gives you the license to eat larger meals as opposed to miniature meals spread out throughout the day. Or you could just burn more calories and eat more. That way works too.2
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I have just gotten on the cauliflower rice train and have discovered that it is an excellent way to bulk up meals with very few calories and it has an excellent chewy texture like brown rice!2
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I eat a stupid amount of vegetables. People are shocked when they see how much VOLUME I eat. I put anything I'd want in a sandwich or hamburger, in a salad. And I'm talking a box of lettuce, whole tomato, whole pepper, cucumber, laughing cow cheese (they come in 35 calorie wedges and help me with portion control unless I have room for 5 wedges ha), meat.
Things I cut back on to help me create more volume: carbs like pasta, rice, bread, etc. Higher fat cuts of meat, full fat dairy and cheese, caloric beverages, salad dressings (I use salsa and hot sauce).
Sometimes I need something fatty and carby. That's fine. But on the reg, I need to eat A LOT, so I choose to compromise.2 -
I'm a volume eater, and like many people here I put away a crazy amount of vegetables. Veggies with dinner are often a whole head of broccoli, a bunch of asparagus, a carrot, half a dozen brussel sprouts - that's in addition to a 200g serve of meat and a carb side, like rice or potato.2
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Oh...this sounds weird to some...but I also don't eat fruit. It tends to be calorie dense for ME. I can get in my nutrients in other ways and make room for treats or just more protein and veg with those calories.1
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I make a salad out of almost every meal. Tonight's dinner was cheeseburgers. I nixed the bun and chopped up my burger with tomatoes, a ton of romaine, cucumbers and a tbsp of ranch. Tomorrow's dinner is BBQ chicken - I'll do the exact same. It's a huge portion appearance wise, very filling for way less calories. Also, salads take longer to chew...that's helpful to me, bc I eat more slowly and can recognize that I'm full.5
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Oh...this sounds weird to some...but I also don't eat fruit. It tends to be calorie dense for ME. I can get in my nutrients in other ways and make room for treats or just more protein and veg with those calories.
Heh, I also don't eat fruit at all but it's just due to an intense distaste for it. I'll eat any veg under the sun, but fruit makes me :sick:0 -
Alatariel75 wrote: »Oh...this sounds weird to some...but I also don't eat fruit. It tends to be calorie dense for ME. I can get in my nutrients in other ways and make room for treats or just more protein and veg with those calories.
Heh, I also don't eat fruit at all but it's just due to an intense distaste for it. I'll eat any veg under the sun, but fruit makes me :sick:
I like it alright. But yeah...people are like "are you seriously not going to eat the apple?" Nope. Not gonna spend 150 calories on natures candy when I can get have a choclately protein bar or a piece of meat.3 -
Besides the salad and IF suggestions, buy healthy cookbooks with nutritional information. Their meals aren't visually super huge like a bowl of salad or condensing the number calories in fewer meals, but it will help in the long run in terms of eating and making healthy meals that taste good. If you like eating, then it might help. That and like the others have said, add vegetables but leafy greens you can add almost as much as you wants, however, they aren't very calorically dense (you'll get hungry quickly without protein and fat).0
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Salads. I eat twice a day so I make 900 calorie salads that are twice the size of my head. Takes me an hour to eat so I'm occupied and not thinking about snacking on junk. I change up the fresh ingredients and protein in them and dress with vinegars, yoghurts or dips. I really enjoy them, look forward to them and I feel satisfied which keeps me on track.0
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What we used to eat in creamy pasta (yum!) and the massive quantity we would eat, we now eat in roasted veggies. For a very large plate of whatever kind of veggies you like - we do red/yellow/orange peppers, onion, asparagus, mushrooms, sweet potato (1 of those), butternut squash, zucchini all chopped up - spray an olive oil on it (I use the spray instead of drizzle) and good seasoning roast at 425 for about 25 minutes and dig in! That act of eating all of that is satisfying and we usually have 3-6 oz of lean protein to go with it. Or make a huge salad with all sorts of veggies, lettuces, spinach and grill 3oz of chicken. Sometimes we just want to keep eating and being able to eat a large plate of veggies or salad and protein helps that craving.
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Roasted Veggies... Yes I can do that...0
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Have you heArd of meal cycling? Start with a large plate of veg, follow it with a starch and then you can eat small amount of whatever you want1
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Piles and piles of veg1
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