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Austin455sd wrote: »Thanks Everyone for the comments. I have tried alot. So I was looking for the lowest calorie foods That will make me feel full, but not make me fat. Honestly the lower the calories I eat the better. I just don't want the hungry feeling.
no food on the planet makes you fat in a calorie deficit. eat anything.. In a slight caloric deficit. sure you want volume foods but I feel like overall concept is missing3 -
You are not eating enough!0
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Losing weight doesn't have to be a self-imposed exile from food.
Check out this thread. It's great advice and I have no doubt it will get you where you want to go.
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1080242/a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants/p12 -
Try a bowl of home made egg drop soup, add a green leafy salad with shaved carrots, little onion, couple of grape tomatoes to your meal and soon it will seem like you are eating a lot but you have not beefed up the caloric count by too much. You need more vegetables. Remember to weigh and portion everything and stay within your caloric goals.11
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namelesshere wrote: »Try a bowl of home made egg drop soup, add a green leafy salad with shaved carrots, little onion, couple of grape tomatoes to your meal and soon it will seem like you are eating a lot but you have not beefed up the caloric count by too much. You need more vegetables. Remember to weigh and portion everything and stay within your caloric goals.
He doesn't have an issue with staying within his calorie goals. He is massively undereating.11 -
Generally speaking the community here will advocate for a diet with a minimum of 1000-1200 calories per day, as fewer than this typically results in a host of health problems. We're supportive of your effort to obtain better health, however, we all recommend that you add more food to your diet.
I find this resource is helpful when showing people a practical guide to fast food ordering with calorie restrictions: https://gethealthyclarkcounty.org/eat-better/fast-food-under-500cal/
1200 is the minimum for a woman who is short,elderly,sedentary or a combo of those things. 1500(or it may be 1600) is the minimum for males. 1000 calories is not recommended for a period of time (unless a person is an outlier or under a drs care).7 -
Under you under a doctor's care? Eating that few calories for a long period of time can have some pretty undesirable side effects--malnutrition (not scurvy though since you're eating oranges
), hair loss, muscle loss, weakened bones, low testosterone, gallstones... 6 -
You've got some great advice about needing enough calories, so I won't add to it. However, I can answer your question about filling, low calorie foods, which I think is what you were asking about. Here are some of my quick and easy meals- not always using fresh ingredients though.
I really like English Muffins- Thomas High Fiber ones are only 100 calories and have 8 grams fiber. I eat one with a fried egg. (fried with cooking spray, not butter to keep calories down) Quick, tasty breakfast for under 200 calories... more than your orange, but filling. If you have them on hand, saute (in water) mushrooms, onion, spinach, tomatoes, etc. Any veggies topped on the egg will be great.
When I'm trying to cut out carbs, I just eat a fried egg with a tablespoon or so of shredded cheese for breakfast. It holds me pretty good from 6am-11am, although I get hungry around 9:30. I'm a teacher, so I have to wait until 11 to actually eat.
Lunch or supper- any meat, not fried, will be filling and shouldn't be too high calorie unless you add sauces to it. Even a hamburger patty isn't high calorie. I buy 93% fat free, and it's great. More expensive, but much healthier. Check out frozen meats- Tyson grilled chicken, Gorton's grilled fish, tons of other choices that are easy to pop in the oven for a quick meal. Tuna is great also. I've recently started using the tuna in pouches instead of a can. I can take it to work and it doesn't stink up the fridge. You just open the pouch at lunch- no draining the can. I put a pouch on one of the English muffins yesterday for lunch, with mustard. First time having tuna with English muffin, but it was actually really good. There are salmon pouches also.
I would definitely vary your veggies. Buy some Birds Eye steamables- I love the bullalo chicken flavored cauliflower. There are tons of veggies to choose from and you don't have to worry about trying to prepare them.
I also love to cut up a ton of veggies- fill a frying pan- with squash, onion, broccoli, etc. Add water to cover the veggies. Add salt, pepper, any other seasoning. Then, let them cook until they are as soft as you like them. Some people like the veggies still kind of crunchy; others like them mushy.
Hope this helps! Good luck!2 -
You still haven't shared your daily calorie goal, but I think it's safe to say the amount you're eating is much too little. I've lost quite a bit of weight this year, and something important I learned is that you do NOT have to feel hungry all the time. You might when you first start out, but your body will quickly adjust and feel satiated IF you consume enough calories.
I really recommend looking up recipes online. Learning to make just a dozen different healthy meals has made a world of difference in my life. I've always loved food and I still love food; meals should be enjoyed in my opinion. I don't know what you like but some great, low-cal meals I like to make include sauteed asparagus/mushroom tacos with guacamole, shrimp ceviche, tuna salad with avocado instead of mayonnaise, and quinoa stir fry. I hadn't cooked anything more advanced than mac n cheese a year ago - if I can do it, you can do it. Best of luck.1 -
eat more.2
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Ok so for recipes...my go to's are:
Skinnytaste.com
Slenderkitchen.com
Emilybites.com
Pinterest...I search low calorie meals and browse sites
These I rotate through frequently and cook most of my dinners from...they all have nutritional info listed to give you a ball park for each meal.
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The way you eat is not sustainable over the long haul we call life. The mistake people always make is putting on weight over years and then expecting to find a way to have it melt off overnight.
The best way to lose weight is to eat a balanced nutritional diet combined with exercise. If you try to eat to little your not going to ever feel full and your body will simply start to eat itself to maintain life.
If you can start going to the gym and working out and start out slowly. building muscle will help burn calories, but you need to eat properly to build those muscles as well. Search videos and you will see guys who body build eat huge amounts of calories and why are they not fat? They burn them calories in the gym doing those muscle building workouts.
There is no easy way. there is no magic pill. there is only hard work and change in lifestyle that will work long term.2 -
Like others say eat at least 1200 calories. My food diary is open if you want to see what I am having3
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Keto is working well for me. I eat high fat low carb foods, and I don't get that hungry feeling anymore. I have my calorie goal set for 1900, but I have never hit that many calories yet. Most of the time I am right around 1500 calories in a day. Sometimes it lower sometimes it's higher.
One thing I have noticed is that when my net calories get below a certain point, I get hungry. I refuse to starve myself, so if I get hungry I will eat something, usually something higher in protein, but I also drink keto coffees that have coconut oil and butter in them.
Try things like eggs, cheese, avocado, mayonnaise, butter... they're very satisfying, and you can get away without eating too many calories. When I used to eat a lot of carbs, I could eat a whole pizza at a time. Now I'm perfectly fine with 2-3 whole eggs an ounce of cheese melted in, a teaspoon of butter and 1-2 teaspoons or mayo.
2 eggs = 160 calories + 110 cheese + 35 butter + from 30 to 60 with the mayo = 365 calories. One whole lil caesars pizza = 2240 calories.
It's a lot easier for many people not to overeat if they go keto. I've done the regular diet thing too, and it's pretty hard not to overeat if I'm consuming a lot of carbs. This is the first time it's ever been easy to maintain a decent calorie intake and do it comfortably.5 -
Look at this forum topic for pictures and ideas
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/823358/what-do-your-meals-look-like-show-me-pictures#latest0 -
Have you used a BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) Calculator to find you daily calorie allowance for your height, weight goal and age? It's a great tool if your losing weigh with CICO (calories in Calories Out). I don't put in my current weight in the calculator though, I would put in your goal weight, so that you start now eating as you would have to continue eating once you're at goal. I did that an reached goal the way and through intermittent fasting 16/8... meaning I'd eat my first meal between 11am-noon and stop eating by 7-8pm (fasting through the night and early morning hours).1
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Under the advice of most people here, iv started eating under my limit, but alot more. So that I'm not starving as well. Thanks for your support and tough love. Much needed.10
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YepItsKriss wrote: »
I am under a doctors care and prescription and what I am doing is working fine for me. Last week he told me to keep it up. Lots of layman's advice here MFP. Eat more fat to lose fat. haha12 -
YepItsKriss wrote: »
I am under a doctors care and prescription and what I am doing is working fine for me. Last week he told me to keep it up. Lots of layman's advice here MFP. Eat more fat to lose fat. haha
If your doctor says you're okay then keep doing what you're doing. Eating 1200 calories a day is too little for most men. Estimated BMR for a 40-year-old, 5'6, 150-lb man is over 1500 calories. For a 6-foot, 170-lb man, it's over 1700. So many men would feel very hungry eating only 1200 calories/day.5 -
Austin455sd wrote: »Under the advice of most people here, iv started eating under my limit, but alot more. So that I'm not starving as well. Thanks for your support and tough love. Much needed.
You're still not understanding. The way MFP is set up, you're given a calorie goal to meet.
You're thinking it's a calorie limit that you don't want to go over. That's just completely wrong. Please stop this behavior and get yourself healthy not just thin.11 -
YepItsKriss wrote: »
I am under a doctors care and prescription and what I am doing is working fine for me. Last week he told me to keep it up. Lots of layman's advice here MFP. Eat more fat to lose fat. haha
Unless you're also recommending that the OP seeks his doctor's care and supervision, don't you think it's a little irresponsible to suggest someone do without medical oversight something that you, yourself, have sought medical oversight for?13 -
Austin455sd wrote: »Under the advice of most people here, iv started eating under my limit, but alot more. So that I'm not starving as well. Thanks for your support and tough love. Much needed.
Everyone here wants you to succeed, and the way to do that to develop sustainable eating habits. I totally understand the desire to lose as much as possible as fast as possible - the problem with that is you'll almost certainly gain it all back when you start eating "normally" again. I've been down that road many times.
Aim to reach your calorie goal each day, the one that MFP generates for you when you enter your stats and select "Lose 2 lbs/week". I promise you will lose weight if you do that (unless there are underlying medical problems like hypothyroidism). You won't lose 50 lbs overnight (you didn't gain 50 lbs overnight, after all) but you will get there and you'll feel good in the process.3 -
Alatariel75 wrote: »Unless you're also recommending that the OP seeks his doctor's care and supervision, don't you think it's a little irresponsible to suggest someone do without medical oversight something that you, yourself, have sought medical oversight for?
I agree that would be a good path for OP to pursue as he discovers what works best for him.2 -
Have you used a BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) Calculator to find you daily calorie allowance for your height, weight goal and age? It's a great tool if your losing weigh with CICO (calories in Calories Out). I don't put in my current weight in the calculator though, I would put in your goal weight, so that you start now eating as you would have to continue eating once you're at goal. I did that an reached goal the way and through intermittent fasting 16/8... meaning I'd eat my first meal between 11am-noon and stop eating by 7-8pm (fasting through the night and early morning hours).
BMR is what your body uses calorie wise just by being alive. he needs to find what his TDEE is and subtract from that. and eating what his goal weight is now could be too little of calories and the more active he becomes(if he does) the more calories his body will need.4 -
YepItsKriss wrote: »
I am under a doctors care and prescription and what I am doing is working fine for me. Last week he told me to keep it up. Lots of layman's advice here MFP. Eat more fat to lose fat. haha
eating more fat doesnt = losing more fat. he wants to do lower carb so he needs to either up his fat or his protein. when one macro comes down another needs to come up.5 -
Austin, I like to toss cauliflower in the food processor and make cauli-rice. Then use it for any meal that you would have had real rice.
My favorite is getting Beef & Broccoli from the Chinese restaurant (large portion) adding 8oz of extra broccoli and 16oz of cauli-rice. I toss it all in a frying pan to heat and blend flavors. Then divide it into 4 portions and freeze the other 3 I am not eating right away. They are just as good out of the freezer and three less meals I have to cook 4 -
YepItsKriss wrote: »
I am under a doctors care and prescription and what I am doing is working fine for me. Last week he told me to keep it up. Lots of layman's advice here MFP. Eat more fat to lose fat. haha
OMG...is this the Dude???? (avatar pic)
Anyway...actually, that's true. You can eat more fat *to feel fuller* and more sated. Not necessarily to lose fat in any sort of direct way, per se - like, if you eat the same amount of calories you ate before and were gaining on, then added a lump of lard on per day to that, you wouldn't suddenly lose weight - but the idea that we are terrified of fat and it could in some cases make us feel hungrier to severely restrict it is, I think, true.
I don't really know enough about this (scientifically) to pronounce it Definitely Not Woo but it is for sure something I've heard knocked around the forums fairly regularly.
But anyway. Abide, man, abide. Far out! And have a White Russian on me. (Make sure it's within your macros for the day, though.)4 -
YepItsKriss wrote: »
I am under a doctors care and prescription and what I am doing is working fine for me. Last week he told me to keep it up. Lots of layman's advice here MFP. Eat more fat to lose fat. haha
OMG...is this the Dude???? (avatar pic)
Anyway...actually, that's true. You can eat more fat *to feel fuller* and more sated. Not necessarily to lose fat in any sort of direct way, per se - like, if you eat the same amount of calories you ate before and were gaining on, then added a lump of lard on per day to that, you wouldn't suddenly lose weight - but the idea that we are terrified of fat and it could in some cases make us feel hungrier to severely restrict it is, I think, true.
I don't really know enough about this (scientifically) to pronounce it Definitely Not Woo but it is for sure something I've heard knocked around the forums fairly regularly.
But anyway. Abide, man, abide. Far out! And have a White Russian on me. (Make sure it's within your macros for the day, though.)
some fat is needed for brain and hormone function. some vitamins are also fat soluble so fat is needed. its satiating for some people. how much will vary. I have to be on a low fat diet due to health issues. some can do high fat. if high fat satiates someone then more power to them. but eating more dietary fat wont result in losing more body fat.3 -
CharlieBeansmomTracey wrote: »YepItsKriss wrote: »
I am under a doctors care and prescription and what I am doing is working fine for me. Last week he told me to keep it up. Lots of layman's advice here MFP. Eat more fat to lose fat. haha
OMG...is this the Dude???? (avatar pic)
Anyway...actually, that's true. You can eat more fat *to feel fuller* and more sated. Not necessarily to lose fat in any sort of direct way, per se - like, if you eat the same amount of calories you ate before and were gaining on, then added a lump of lard on per day to that, you wouldn't suddenly lose weight - but the idea that we are terrified of fat and it could in some cases make us feel hungrier to severely restrict it is, I think, true.
I don't really know enough about this (scientifically) to pronounce it Definitely Not Woo but it is for sure something I've heard knocked around the forums fairly regularly.
But anyway. Abide, man, abide. Far out! And have a White Russian on me. (Make sure it's within your macros for the day, though.)
some fat is needed for brain and hormone function. some vitamins are also fat soluble so fat is needed. its satiating for some people. how much will vary. I have to be on a low fat diet due to health issues. some can do high fat. if high fat satiates someone then more power to them. but eating more dietary fat wont result in losing more body fat.
Right...okay, that's what I thought...
Fat does satisfy me. I mean...not fingerfuls of lard or anything. But more than 10-15% as I used to do back in the 80s. I guess everyone really is different in this regard.
I don't have any medical dietary restrictions on fat, though. So if I wanted to I could actually sit down with that lard tub, weigh it, log it and go to town.
Although actually the thought of that makes me kinda sick.
Can we make it cream cheese frosting instead?4
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