can you eat two slices of pizza if it fits in your calories?
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You can eat everything that fits your calories. (Seems obvious).2
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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! Lol9 -
Need to add oregano to that pizza!3
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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.9 -
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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!3 -
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.20 -
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.
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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.4 -
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.1 -
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.2
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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 eat pizza pretty regularly, including a couple slices of Jet's deep dish yesterday at a spontaneous family picnic and felt no guilt. Why should any food create feelings of guilt? That doesn't seem like a very healthy overall attitude and especially since the OP was concerned about eating 2 slices even knowing that they fit into her calorie goal.
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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.
Roll that up, use real cheese, drop in a few tablespoons of hot sauce, turn it into a burrito ... and some guac and refried beans on the side ... and you'll have something there. 4 -
the 2 slices of pizza might not cause you to gain weight, but if that food begins to add weight, and you continue to eat it, then that 2 slices of pizza might not be your best choice. See how it goes over the course of a few weeks whether it slows down your goals or makes no difference.1
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KirbySmith46 wrote: »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
Acv=apple cider vodka? Cuz if so, hell yeah!
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the 2 slices of pizza might not cause you to gain weight, but if that food begins to add weight, and you continue to eat it, then that 2 slices of pizza might not be your best choice. See how it goes over the course of a few weeks whether it slows down your goals or makes no difference.
How would the food begin to add weight? If it is within her calories, aside from some possible temporary water weight gain, why would it slow down her goals?6 -
2 slices or 8 if they fit your calories! Water weight aside, of course. Pizza is a beautiful food! You can have it all - meat, veggies, dairy, delicious carbs (no cauliflower crust for me) all with no utensils required!4
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Yes! I eat about 3 slices of regular gourmet pizza just about every Friday and have lost 80+ pounds and have been maintaining for years.
However, I do gain 1 - 2 pounds of temporary water weight the next day. It quickly goes away in a couple of days though.
Sometimes I will make my own pizza during week as well. I love pizza! 6 -
Only if two slices of pizza fit in the palm of your hand at the same time...3
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The answer to the OP is clearly "yes," but...
The difficulty with pizza is the wide variation in calorie content.1
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