Food inspiration, or what's for supper?
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Goal tonight - work out my calorie numbers for L / M / H days
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The 3:2:2 is a framework and will be flexed around social commitments and special occasions.
In a nutshell, the plan is to look at the week ahead, identify the days that are likely to require a higher calorie budget, ringfence higher calories for those days so that I can enjoy them without stress, and then see where I can have a few deficit days to counterbalance them, so that taking the week as a whole I've kept to my maintenance budget.
Makes it easier than thinking of a daily calorie budget (because the body doesn't work in days, right?!)
I did that essentially over Christmas, with a 16 day plan....I saw that I'd have 3 super high cal days (more than 2000 cals/day over maintenance), 5 intermediate days (1000+ cals over maintenance) and the rest of the time I had fewer stressors and could run a deficit. Across the entire 16 days it all balanced itself out...3 -
Well, if I ever get within maintenance again that plan might just work!…2500 calories every day sounds better lol….right now I am staying at or under 1500 calories and not eating many exercise calories….I lost 15 pounds the last 18 days and keeping it off….mostly water weight but I can tell I am losing again….I have a chart with 80 little squares and I have 17 stars on it….my chart I tore up after the holidays only had 40 freaking squares on it!….I can’t think about it….now I only have 63 squares left to fill in and my little sticky stars are shining bright!1
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Building a system that truly lets you be accountable yet includes indulgence days is truly brilliant. Saves that "Just duck and get through it" all or nothing mindset that can set me off in a tailspin. None of this is new...but it seems to be slipping into my mind a bit easier when I read your post! Thank you.
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Not sure about dinner but last night I had some big juicy strawberries dipped in 3T. of chocolate hummus…..it was really good!1
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I feel like the odd duck out here with all you high planning ladies!
I very much agree with Laurie about the "dealing with other people" thing. Other people are EVIL! There, I've said it!
"activity" does vary for me and that when I do engage in activity it also represents a considerable amount of calories. So I don't have "preset" amounts. Because the variance is easily to the order of 1000 Cal between a low and high activity day.
But I do set a "perma-deficit" of about 300 Cal as my target.
And do (shamefaced admission) split calories between two consecutive days. I have a maximum of three. If I find myself fudging things into a third day it gets called back and assigned to where it came from!
And depending on current goals I do try a little bit harder, or less hard, to adhere to the slight deficit target
One thing I've found out over the past few years is that if I am actually hungry... I should eat. Actual hunger has almost never been wrong in terms of eventual scale results no matter what logging was indicating at the time.
HOWEVER. there is a major difference between *actual I am feeling hungry hunger* and "I just want to eat because..." (regardless of what the because is) as we all know. The "I want to eat" bit does not end up well on the scale! 2 -
I tend to have those wild variances in how many calories I'll burn in a given day also. I'm sort of hoping that in my new "Plan" (a losing weight maintenance plan ) - using something near to "sedentary maintenance" numbers - the extra calories I burn while active will be where most of my weight loss will come from?
That will allow me to develop some kind of routine menu to turn to - at least on the low days - hopefully sort of on those medium days too? Can't plan around those "people" who will be influencing my high days.
This convoluted bit of planning might get me through 2022 - through a spring and summer of active weight loss (more active=more burning) and into a fall/winter of maintenance.
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You seem very fluid in your day to day menu, PAV. But your pendulum lifestyle & those crazy hours I've spied you working must almost demand that?
I think I'll find comfort in eating pretty well exactly the same thing at least 3 days a week.2 -
I sort of like such plans Laurie. One of my first thoughts once I started to figure things out was to try to lose while eating the same way (and the same amount of calories) as I would need to maintain long term.
At the time it led me to try and lose weight while eating around 2500 Cal a day.
Turns out that extra activity has continued and maintenance has been North of that.
But doing so while losing weight gave me confidence that I COULD live within that budget if I made the effort, right? And that I had a "blueprint" that I knew I could follow.
Just hamster management 🐹 if you think of it rationally from the outside. But, hey, it works! 😘3 -
Dinner was decided!….John ate soup because he has a cold…..caught the rest of the gangs germs!…..I had my own thing!….salad with three bean salad and a stouffers stuffed pepper……easy peezie!3
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My anxiety and depression are making it really hard to eat right of late. I don't want to do anything much less cook. Just lost out on my 5th house offer so feeling very down again... plus I was sick this week and it is cold. All of that just means I want to curl up in a bunch of blankets on the sofa with the kitties and not move. Taking the weekend off from house hunting cause I just don't have the mental energy. I did my main grocery shopping already but I do plan on going to Whole Foods for a couple things tomorrow morning before I meal prep.
Last night I made mashed "baked" potatoes (I baked the potatoes and then scooped it into a bowl with butter, sour cream, and salt), roasted brussel sprouts, and BBQ chicken breasts. Simple but tasty.
This week is a bit odd because Imbolc is on Tuesday which is a holiday for my practice. So making some beef stew, bread, and some cheese. Trying to find some sheeps cheese though I did get goat cheese.
Also having noodles with thai almond sauce, broccoli, carrots, and peppers as another dinner. Last dinner is a frozen meal of some sort.
Breakfast is just hardboiled eggs.
Lunch I am meal prepping a bunch of stuff so I can make meals as I go. So I got some greens and will make some rice, chicken, beans, roasted peppers and onions, and roasted cabbage.
Oh... and I got some vanilla skyr and cherry pie filling so I am joining the club!3 -
So sorry about the house situation! Housing seems to be tight and expensive everywhere. Maybe there will be more choices in the spring because most people tend to move in warmer weather.
Haven’t joined the yogurt cherry pie filling thing. The cherry filling from a can is so gloppy - maybe frozen cherries? Or just Greek yogurt and fresh fruit.5 -
I like your lunch plan! Prepping ingredients rather than "a meal" feels a bit freer!
Sorry about the house heart break.
Hopefully this horror will soon be in the past. 3 -
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Brunch today - a big fat Jamaican ginger bulla bread.
Supper - not sure? Part one will be the two hardboiled eggs and egg curry sauce on a bed of coleslaw that I was going to have for brunch. And maybe something snacky to follow up with? The Boy was to come for a sleepover tonight - but he's choosing to stay home
so I'm all up in the air with possibilities! 2 -
I purposely did not go to the Amish market this morning because I was craving their home made ham salad and huge molasses cookies….so I get a star for not going….but I stopped at Publix for some tomatoes ( because John decided to have 2 tomatoes last night with cottage cheese )
…..the bakers were taking cranberry walnut bread out of the ovens and I caved in and bought a loaf….wish I had gotten two but glad I only bought one !…$5 bucks a loaf but omg it is sooooooo good with a smidge of butter and a huge mug of hazelnut coffee on this chilly afternoon….50 degrees and wind 35 mph out of the north!….I am all snuggled in sweat pants, two shirts layered and a super soft blanket wrapped around me….this is so nice!….dinner is a lean burger, baked potato, and salad….I was going to make a warm pasta casserole but this darn bread is better!3 -
Sounds perfect for a chilly day!1
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Hmmm Connie. So.... salad with ham would have been closer to goals; even though loaf sounds good... maybe sounds a bit too good for me!!!!!!!
I had coffee... and am strategically rotating stock that is about to expire... grabbed a couple of "indian" dinners from the freezer (chicken, sauce, rice)... half the calories for the dinners come from the 150g of rice... I admit to being profligate here (but remember, they were going to expire anyway)... but the rice got tossed and I served the sauce over konjac "sticky" rice (~190 Cal for the whole pouch, about 200 Cal less than what the real rice was and way more fiber, and it too was getting close date-wise)
This only makes sense in terms of stock rotation, otherwise it is a total waste!
Contrary to Connie all I am claiming is that the food was warm and filling
Let's see where pooch wants to go now
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The ham salad is NOT a salad with ham on it…..it is cold cuts with ham put through a grinder and mixed with sweet relish and gobs of mayonaise!….it is good but has a ton of fat and calories in it!…..it was a biggie that I didn’t buy it!…..I usually only buy it once a month and enjoy one sandwich out of it!2
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The sins that can hide in a "salad"! Glad you escaped Connie!
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But I ate the bread…..so yummy!1
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Already changing things up...
Whole Foods had Delicata squash so I grabbed one of those to roast for meal prep instead of the peppers and onions. Just sounded so good.
Also I really don't want the noodles with veggies and thai almond sauce. Not sure what I will have instead, but I want to respect what I want. Maybe soup or a frozen meal. Then need to figure out something for tomorrow as well.
Tuesday is the slow cooker beef stew which is good because they are calling for snow this week.4 -
Pork tenderloin roasted with small potato and carrots. Green salad. I try to have the largest meal early. However I’m finding that small evening meals lead to snacking. I may need to rethink this going forward.2
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Pork tenderloin roasted with small potato and carrots. Green salad. I try to have the largest meal early. However I’m finding that small evening meals lead to snacking. I may need to rethink this going forward.
I love you @Yoolypr
(In a strictly platonic kind-a-way-even-though-we-know-you're-a-hot-momma!)
a) because that's actually a really nice, filling, low cal vs satiety meal-at least for me!
b) because you're willing to think, re-think, adjust and experiment - and so many of us neglect to use one or more of these four pillars! 3 -
I am humbled by praise from THE PAV. Thank you!2
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I love you too, Yooly. You too, PAV. XOXO And I'll stop there so no one thinks I'm too easy! 3
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Indian ready made mtr (Bindi masala, claims 240 Cal for 300g on current box. Previous cronometer entry had as 380 Cal for 300g.... hmmm 🤔). Served over 300g riced veggies (88 Cal) and 60g cooked jasmine rice (80 Cal) mixed together
And, err, vegetable based sour candy at 130 Cal per 42g.... 90g so far!🙀😹
Getting some oikos for late snack to add to the protein a bit2 -
PAV - what is this "mtr"
And - now I have masala 2 minute noodles and a bag of coleslaw mix. Maybe tomorrow I'll try a PAV combo - maybe even add some black beans? or maybe crack a couple of eggs into the mix (somehow) for protein and see how that works?
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MTR is the cheaper of the ready made Indian food brands my nearby Loblaws carries.
Same as Ashoka is the cheaper of the brands my local Walmarts deals in
Was under $2 per each 300g pouch.2 -
So I'm getting weird thoughts of cooking up stuff, and then maybe freezing it?
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