Cheese

AnnPT77

crazyravr wrote: »

aeloine wrote: »

Parmesan is 20 cals/TBSP. I add to it zoodles, pasta, all cauliflower, pop corn, etc.

Except that this is not real parmesan. Its that stuff that come shredded in a tin.

Fine-grated real parmesan is pretty calorie-affordable, too. I never use spoons for it, so I don't know cals/tbsp, but 7g for around 28 calories is a decent sprinkle.

lemurcat12

HeidiCooksSupper wrote: »

I've been thinking about my relationship with cheese and how it's changing. I used to be a cheese junkie. I'd eat great wads of it irrespective of quality. I am becoming a cheese aficionado. I savor small amounts of really good cheese.

Yeah, focusing on moderation, really savoring it, and mindfully eating it has really worked for me with cheese.

I love it, but don't feel like I need a lot, and the good stuff is expensive anyway.

KANGOOJUMPS

add wine and I am in

rheddmobile

AnnPT77 wrote: »

I can't really accept that cheese, at roughly 100 calories per ounce, is too calorie expensive to eat regularly. I've eaten some nearly every day throughout weight loss and maintenance, often more than one serving.

It's really just a question of priorities, and we've all got some. I've looked at diaries of people who were mourning cheese, and have seen things I would cheerfully have traded for cheese, in terms of nutritional profile vs. calories . (I'm not questioning their food choices; we all have to know our own tastiness and satiation needs, not to mention food triggers.) It's just food, it has macros, and there's nutritional value (calcium, protein, etc.).

I sometimes wonder if cheese is one of those foods some people give up almost as a religious principle of "dieting": If you're cutting calories, you shouldn't be eating cheese, chocolate, beer/wine, ice cream, white foods, pasta - whatever.

+1 to strongly flavored cheeses as a good choice if one needs to moderate, and nutritional yeast as as flavoring in some cases.

Also, a suggestion to cut or reduce it, perhaps gradually, to open-mindedly find the best threshold level of cheese happiness in your foods - especially in things where it's not that visible (melted in).

In my case, 1 ounce is such a small amount it just makes me cry and wish I could eat a reasonable amount of cheese. I'd almost rather have none than 1 ounce.

whitpauly

An ounce of shredded cheese looks pretty decent sized to me,its the cubes that are depressingly small looking

xvolution

Those low-fat mozzarella sticks you find at the store are only 80 calories each.

JeromeBarry1

Cheese is cheese. Low-fat or low-cal cheese is not cheese. It's not axle grease, either, but I'm not sure which it most resembles.

ladyhusker39

I don't like the low fat. I buy the portion controlled snack packs and just eat 1 or 2 on a day. Single serve sizes have become my best friend.