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cttswctmbb

Hello guys new to this. I have been on here a few weeks and only just realised there was a chat. Which is brilliant. Does anyone have any healthy meals breakfast, lunch and dinner. All I’m eating is healthy cereals, overnight oats for breakfast, sandwiches and crackers with low fat cheese spread and chicken and rice with some sort of veg

AnnPT77

Hello, and welcome!

What you're eating seems pretty rational, so if it's keeping you full, happy, and at appropriate calories/nutrition (on average over a few days), that's totally fine. (Might be a little low on protein, but it's hard to tell without knowing portion sizes.)

Since you're asking for suggestions, is there something specific in your current routine that seems unsatisfying to you or unhelpful for your goals? I'm a big believer that a key to success is personalizing our tactics to our individual preferences, strengths, and limitations. That's why I ask the question that I did.

Sometimes people think there's some kind of universal formula for success. I totally don't think that's true. Personally, I did this "remodeling your eating" kind of approach, and it's worked pretty well for me (I'm in year 7+ of maintaining a healthy weight after about 30 years previously of overweight/obesity):

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10636388/free-customized-personal-weight-loss-eating-plan-not-spam-or-mlm/p1

Because getting to a healthy weight has been such a hugely powerful quality of life improvement for me, I'm eager to help others find solutions that work for them. What are you thinking about your current routine - subjective response - and what more would you like to achieve?

I'm cheering for you, would like to help!

springlering62

Welcome to the boards @cttswctmbb !

Your eating plan sounds kinda like how a lot of us started out. Plain chicken, veg, “healthy” cereal grains, etc.

That’s really all a myth.

If you have a calorie goal, you can eat anything g you want, as long as you can verify you’re within your calorie goal via weighing and logging.

There are lots of cuts of meats that are very similar to chicken. I can easily find pork tenderloin that’s 140 calories for four ounces. I smoked some last night and hubs and I chowed down in half a pound of it apiece. It was delightful. I also made us a very low cal potato salad. If you get creative and use low cal mayo (the relish and mustard have negligible calories) you can have a giant scoop for not much more than the calorie “cost” of the potato itself.

You can make darn good crispy fries in an air crisper with just some sliced potatoes spritzed with about a gram of olive oil per five ounces of potato, and tossed. (I recommend the Misto refillable sprayer).

Likewise, there are cuts of beef, and varieties of ground beef that are very low cal. I was astonished to find some 97% ground beef last week that was so low, I made us XL burgers, and boy did we enjoy those! I’ll def be keeping an eye out for that again!

I make homemade ice cream every night using yogurt or skyr and dry pudding mix. Last night was a killer banana pudding ice cream that came in about 180 calories for a large bowl, including two servings of spray whipped cream.

I did the oatmeal thing for a while, too, but soon tired of it. So I messed around and came up with pancakes made with extra protein powder/cottage cheese/yogurt and more to boost protein. Reasonable calories, and keeps me full for morning workouts.

Lately I’m experimenting with making a lower calorie lemon scone for breakfast. First batch was outstanding if a little dry. Next attempt will be to beef them up with some moisture and some protein. I dry-fry a serving of prosciutto “bacon” to go with them. (Satisfying as bacon but way lower calories.)

Don’t get locked into bland and boring. Creativity is what keeps me in this game, and entices the spouse to keep eating what I plate up. (He’s also on MFP. )