can you eat two slices of pizza if it fits in your calories?

weightloss_acc

And still loose weight

livingleanlivingclean

Yes

SusanMFindlay

Of course.

SueSueDio

Absolutely - although you might experience a small "gain" of water weight if it's high in sodium, but that'll soon come off again. As long as you stick to your calorie goal you'll lose over time, but it may not always be consistent.

(And you can eat whatever you want, really, but realistically you want to make choices that are good for nutrition and satiety. In other words, don't eat pizza ALL the time, enjoy it in moderation! )

EricExtreme

I occasionally make my own pizza out of flaxseed/oat pita, home made fat free no sugar added pasta sauce, rice cheese, and 98% lean ground beef. It's guilt free.

EricExtreme

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livingleanlivingclean

EricExtreme wrote: »

I occasionally make my own pizza out of flaxseed/oat pita, home made fat free no sugar added pasta sauce, rice cheese, and 98% lean ground beef. It's guilt free.

That looks incredibly sad...

Alatariel75

Of course. It's meat, cheese, vegetables and bread. There's nothing magical in pizza which will make you not lose weight if you are under your calories.

cordney

Yes you can but I thought pizza made you feel sick. (According to your other post)

Anyway, I have pizza every Friday (sometimes brownies too) and I am losing. Down 50lbs since the first of the year.

cordney

livingleanlivingclean wrote: »

EricExtreme wrote: »

I occasionally make my own pizza out of flaxseed/oat pita, home made fat free no sugar added pasta sauce, rice cheese, and 98% lean ground beef. It's guilt free.

That looks incredibly sad...

I agree. Sounds taste-free.

SueSueDio

EricExtreme wrote: »

I occasionally make my own pizza out of flaxseed/oat pita, home made fat free no sugar added pasta sauce, rice cheese, and 98% lean ground beef. It's guilt free.

I would feel guilty about not having real cheese...

(Glad you found something that works for you, though! I like to make little pizzas out of tortillas, salsa, pepperoni, cheese and veggies, although if I can get a real pizza it's great! )

Fitfromfat17

EricExtreme wrote: »

I occasionally make my own pizza out of flaxseed/oat pita, home made fat free no sugar added pasta sauce, rice cheese, and 98% lean ground beef. It's guilt free.

I would use some spinach, onions, garlic and use feta cheese and diced chicken breast for my pizza with a low fat ranch dressing, all on pita

RuNaRoUnDaFiEld

I eat all the pizza and it never stops me hitting my goal

estherdragonbat

I avoid some of the more 'creative' toppings my favorite pizza place offers, like battered-breaded cauliflower, mac-n-cheese, or french fries (I'm not kidding and they are quite good), but sure.

kommodevaran

Thinking can be good. I love MFP because it made me realize logical thinking applies to food, eating, health and weight too. You can do anything you want. Everything isn't a good idea just because you can do it. What is pizza? What does "fit" mean?

beanfacekilla

livingleanlivingclean wrote: »

EricExtreme wrote: »

I occasionally make my own pizza out of flaxseed/oat pita, home made fat free no sugar added pasta sauce, rice cheese, and 98% lean ground beef. It's guilt free.

That looks incredibly sad...

Man I think it looks amazing. I want one.

Alatariel75

estherdragonbat wrote: »

I avoid some of the more 'creative' toppings my favorite pizza place offers, like battered-breaded cauliflower, mac-n-cheese, or french fries (I'm not kidding and they are quite good), but sure.

the first time someone told me you could get a pizza with Canadian Bacon and Saurkraut, I thought they'd lost their mind. But OMG, do I miss those pizzas now....

amusedmonkey

Yes, I do sometimes. 2-3 slices of pizza are pretty reasonable and is no different than eating a cheese and tomato sandwich. It's just that there is this stigma around pizza because people tend to associate it with fat people. Pizza in itself is not any better or worse than anything else with a similar nutritional profile.

Personally, I like a pizza margherita better than a pepperoni pizza, and thin crust better than regular crust, so it works to my benefit that I can eat more pizza and still be within calories. I consider myself lucky in that regard. A whole 8 inch thin crust cheese pizza is pretty within acceptable calories for me but I find myself okay eating half, which is surprising for the calories but I'm not complaining.

It depends on how it goes for you. Does eating two slices satisfy that desire for pizza or make you more anxious because you can't have more? If it's the latter, consider a different form of moderation: you could bank calories and eat a larger serving but less often.

lemonychild

Calories are calories no matter where they come from

TimothyFish

Don't be hating on pizza. It covers all the major food groups.

Ironandwine69

Yes. You can eat the whole pizza if it fits your calories and still lose weight.

Seffell

You can eat everything that fits your calories. (Seems obvious).

KirbySmith46

Ironandwine69 wrote: »

Yes. You can eat the whole pizza if it fits your calories and still lose weight.

But only if she eats it before 6:00pm with a table spoon of acv and a thrive supplement the next morning! Lol

Wtn_Gurl

Need to add oregano to that pizza!

lemurcat12

EricExtreme wrote: »

I occasionally make my own pizza out of flaxseed/oat pita, home made fat free no sugar added pasta sauce, rice cheese, and 98% lean ground beef. It's guilt free.

I occasionally make my own pizza at home out of flour, water, salt, homemade tomato sauce (out of season I used canned tomatoes, though -- they are better quality than any "nonprocessed ones you will get at a store, and have more taste), onions, garlic, and whatever else I like to add -- vegetables that strike my fancy, cheese (various types that strike my fancy, all dairy, though!), often some sort of Italian ham, but sometimes some other sort of meat (shrimp can even be good), olives, pinenuts, artichoke hearts, basil. It's fun because it's creative. Sometimes I do pesto instead of tomato sauce.

I hardly think you need to call out the pasta sauce for being no sugar added. Lots of good Italian cooking books will recommend adding a bit to round out the taste. I always ignore that step (no health reason, I just usually don't have sugar around and don't find it makes it taste better, for me), but the absence of a bit of sugar isn't actually going to make much of a difference in overall calories or nutrients, and it's not like a tomato sauce with lots of veg is sugar free.

Anyway, my delicious pizzas are guilt free (wasting calories on a pita--since I don't really like pitas--is more likely to bother me), but so are the ones I get at a (gasp!) local Italian place I like when feeling lazy.

Feeling guilt over food has always been a bad thing for me, so I try to avoid it. I have enough pointless, misplaced, and unhelpful guilt in my life about other things (working on this too!). ;-)

Oh, an egg and arugula are good on pizza. My local place does one involving those.

malibu927

Yes

Actually I eat three, but because I've switched to ordering a small instead of a large. Save a few calories, have lunch the next day!

heiliskrimsli

You sure can. Long run days during my half marathon training (and long ride days now that I've picked up cycling again) this, or something much like it, would be my dinner:



Home made pizza. That one is barbecue chicken with goat cheese, red onion and baby spinach.

Machka9

weightloss_acc wrote: »

can you eat two slices of pizza if it fits in your calories?
And still loose weight

I can eat a whole pizza, if it fits into my calories, and still lose weight.


The whole time I was losing weight, I was eating one of these (a whole one, not just one slice) about once a month.

EricExtreme

livingleanlivingclean wrote: »

EricExtreme wrote: »

I occasionally make my own pizza out of flaxseed/oat pita, home made fat free no sugar added pasta sauce, rice cheese, and 98% lean ground beef. It's guilt free.

Unfortunately due to a severe digestive system disorder that is the best that I can do. I can't have dairy, eggs, soy, fruits, veggies, significant sugars, saturated oils, and other things. I have to eat more frequently in smaller quantities. It's either that pizza or none at all unfortunately.

crazyycatladyy1

There's a local pizza place by me where the thing to do is get your own (full size) pizza and eat the whole thing (they don't even give you plates-just bring them out on the pans and you go at it lol). Each pizza is around 1,200 calories. I ate several of these during my active weight loss phase and still lost 50lbs with not problem.

For weight loss it doesn't matter what you're eating-what matters is that you're at the correct calorie deficit for your weight loss goals.

inertiastrength

yes, but I prefer to make my own on a pita so I can have the entire thing same cals... I'm a volume eater.