A bust and a win

summpear
summpear Posts: 77 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I've been watching my eating patterns lately trying to figure out if there are still times I eat out of boredom or habit instead of hunger/need. I usually eat something small when I get up, and then have 200ish calories late morning, after I worked out.

Bust: tried to skip the past workout snack today because I was eating lunch early (within an hour of finishing workout). Fail. I snacked all. Day. Long. Could not get past the munchies.

Win: excellent dinner. I was tight on calories (see above), low on protein, and generally feeling the effects of all the packaged, snacky crap.
Recipe: pizza quessadilla
1 flour tortilla (140 cal)
1/4 C-ish pizza sauce (35)
1/2C cottage cheese (90)
Pizza toppings of preference, so I did
1/4 bell pepper
2tbsp minced onion
1/8C mushroom
6 small pieces pepperoni
Handful of spinach

All told it came in around 350 calories, fixed my "eaten like crap" funk, and the cottage cheese helped crank the protein without using higher cal meat that i had on hand.
I wish the cottage cheese had gotten melty - it didn't have a true quesadilla texture- but it tasted great and wrapped up a rough day on point.

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  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    If you cook cottage cheese in a pan it goes weird, then stringy and melty...ive cooked it like that then added it to pizza before
  • summpear
    summpear Posts: 77 Member
    livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
    If you cook cottage cheese in a pan it goes weird, then stringy and melty...ive cooked it like that then added it to pizza before

    I thought it did because I've used it as a sub for ricotta before... but it was late and I didn't want to futz. But thanks for reinforcing that yes, it can - it may become a more permanent sub for me.

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