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IIFYM, what it means (to me) and a day in my life...

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  • Posts: 1,298 Member
    The sad part about this (great) post is that there will still be users who "don't get it" Because you can't possible eat what you stated and reach your goals :noway:
  • Posts: 364 Member
    I have recently moved to IIFYM and have been very happy with it, it helps me know by mid day what i should be making for dinner, what I can have and has me yes still focusing on calories but more on what food i am eatin.

    for example i hit my protein # by mid afternoon yesterday! so i kenw right away a nice big bowl of brown rice pasta with walden farms alredo sauce was calling my name! i still had a hard time though hitting my carbs without going over on my protein. it takes time though. thankfully i enjoy food more now, and not unhealthy, over processed food, but food unlike before when my super clean diet was getting boring
  • Posts: 41,865 Member
    I'm sorry, but this is absolutely, horibly ridiculous...

    where's the beer?

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    awesome post...I do think so many people misunderstand and think it just means to eat whatever...if you have your macro goals properly set up to get optimal nutrition, you can't exactly eat whatever whenever...but you can fit a lot more good stuff in than just celery sticks and actually enjoy yourself.
  • Posts: 194 Member
    curious about this - do you just monitor the 3 macros - Carbs, Fat, Protein?
  • Posts: 602 Member
    FY, you can save a 150 calories for something else if you use PB2 Peanut butter.

    Nutrition
    Serving Size 2 tbsp (12g)
    Calories 45
    Fat Cal 16
    Protein 5g
    Sodium 94mg
    Fiber 2g
    Sugar 1g
  • Posts: 890 Member
    After reading the OP, all I can think about is dark chocolate dipped in peanut butter.
  • Posts: 18,771 Member
    I'm sorry, but this is absolutely, horibly ridiculous...

    where's the beer?


    Quoted for truth. I specifically work my diet around my beer options for the day. What a _noob_.
  • Posts: 1,633 Member
    FY, you can save a 150 calories for something else if you use PB2 Peanut butter.

    Nutrition
    Serving Size 2 tbsp (12g)
    Calories 45
    Fat Cal 16
    Protein 5g
    Sodium 94mg
    Fiber 2g
    Sugar 1g

    I love PB2 but if I am low on fat, regular peanut butter seems pretty fitting :)I really want to try the chocolate PB2...silly snow keeping me from store.
  • Posts: 71 Member
    "The sad part about this (great) post is that there will still be users who "don't get it" Because you can't possible eat what you stated and reach your goals"

    You read my mind - I was thinking the same thing... but then I thought again (isn't the mind a wondeful thing), and realized I was basing that off of MY goals and macros, not his. I checked out his diary, and the total calorie intake was high for my goals, but obviously is just fine for him. However, I use a similar method in my own IIFYM daily intake.

    Good post, and good example of IIFYM - which has worked great for me.

    Also...
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    There is the Beer! Rogue Brewery - Dead Guy Ale - YUMMM!
  • Posts: 3,556 Member
    Love this! Now I'm off to find some chocolate and peanut butter
  • Posts: 2,558 Member
    FY, you can save a 150 calories for something else if you use PB2 Peanut butter.

    Nutrition
    Serving Size 2 tbsp (12g)
    Calories 45
    Fat Cal 16
    Protein 5g
    Sodium 94mg
    Fiber 2g
    Sugar 1g

    And again

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    Not everyone is trying to eat the least calorie dense food possible. If more people understood this, there would be less 'how can I possibly eat 1200 Calories?' threads.
  • Posts: 8,646 Member
    FY, you can save a 150 calories for something else if you use PB2 Peanut butter.

    Nutrition
    Serving Size 2 tbsp (12g)
    Calories 45
    Fat Cal 16
    Protein 5g
    Sodium 94mg
    Fiber 2g
    Sugar 1g

    I'm purposely eating the peanut butter for the fat.
  • Posts: 1,667 Member
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    I'm purposely eating the peanut butter for the fat.

    And for its delicious taste and consistency, right?

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  • Posts: 1,283 Member
    This is why I don't get all the IIFYM, paleo, clean eating, whatever hate. I eat IIFYM (30/45/25 - c/f/p) and happen to not eat grains or "processed foods" (whatever the hell that means too).

    I'm sick of all the labels. I just like to eat food! Can't we all just get along? :flowerforyou:
  • Posts: 568 Member
    I hope burning with jealousy is good for some calories, because my IIFYM doesn't look much like that (I have half the calories to play with). :explode:
  • Posts: 4,941 Member
    Sounds good to me!!!
  • Posts: 41,865 Member
    curious about this - do you just monitor the 3 macros - Carbs, Fat, Protein?

    For the most part...I have mine set to hit my protein and fat goals first and foremost. I also have fiber goals and try to hit on all of my vitamins and minerals. If you have a fairly balanced macro ratio you're pretty much going to hit on your nutrition.
  • Posts: 125
    For me IIFYM means that most days I make breakfast, lunch and dinner at home and it's usually pretty "clean" (depending on your definition), although there might be ice cream for desert. But today I was out, two hours away from home and getting really hungry. The fastest and cheapest thing I could get was McDonald. So I did. I kept within my calories for the day and tomorrow I will go back to making dinner at home.
  • Posts: 26,368 Member
    Yes BUT you have way more calories to work with than most of us.

    My day yesterday was close to perfect on my 1600 calorie diet (40/30/30). I had meatloaf and ketchup for breakfast (regular meatloaf using 90% ground beef and pork), 2 cups of fish soup with toasts with light cream cheese and smoked salmon and 1 pouch of skinny cow milk chocolate cluster for lunch, a small piece of cheese with 4 crackers for snack, chicken sausage, butternut squash, broccoli and a clementine for dinner.

    Most days I wouldn't be able to stick to my macro while having ice cream and chocolate. Today is looking really good too, and I had treats, but two of them had protein too (a quest bar, a small atkins bar, those skinny cow chocolate clusters, and 2 fig newtons).
  • Posts: 41,865 Member
    Yes BUT you have way more calories to work with than most of us.

    My day yesterday was close to perfect on my 1600 calorie diet (40/30/30). I had meatloaf and ketchup for breakfast (regular meatloaf using 90% ground beef and pork), 2 cups of fish soup with toasts with light cream cheese and smoked salmon and 1 pouch of skinny cow milk chocolate cluster for lunch, a small piece of cheese with 4 crackers for snack, chicken sausage, butternut squash, broccoli and a clementine for dinner.

    Most days I wouldn't be able to stick to my macro while having ice cream and chocolate. Today is looking really good too, and I had treats, but two of them had protein too (a quest bar, a small atkins bar, those skinny cow chocolate clusters, and 2 fig newtons).

    that's not the point...the point is hitting your calorie requirements and hitting your macros rather than demonizing foods. You had a meatloaf...lots of "dieters" would scoff at that unless it was a "cauliflower loaf". That is the point...you don't have to suffer and substitute cauliflower for everything or suck on celery sticks all day or deprive yourself of things you enjoy...all you have to do is hit your calories and macros.
  • Posts: 8,646 Member
    Yes BUT you have way more calories to work with than most of us.

    My day yesterday was close to perfect on my 1600 calorie diet (40/30/30). I had meatloaf and ketchup for breakfast (regular meatloaf using 90% ground beef and pork), 2 cups of fish soup with toasts with light cream cheese and smoked salmon and 1 pouch of skinny cow milk chocolate cluster for lunch, a small piece of cheese with 4 crackers for snack, chicken sausage, butternut squash, broccoli and a clementine for dinner.

    Most days I wouldn't be able to stick to my macro while having ice cream and chocolate. Today is looking really good too, and I had treats, but two of them had protein too (a quest bar, a small atkins bar, those skinny cow chocolate clusters, and 2 fig newtons).

    the quickest advice is just scale the servings down, which is admittedly almost impossible due to practicality, reality, and how food is typically packaged, particularly process foods that are ready to eat such as the ice cream cone I ate (what are you gonna do, eat a 1/3 of it and then store the rest in your handy ice chest that happens to have dry ice so it stays frozen?)
  • Posts: 8,646 Member
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    that's not the point...the point is hitting your calorie requirements and hitting your macros rather than demonizing foods. You had a meatloaf...lots of "dieters" would scoff at that unless it was a "cauliflower loaf". That is the point...you don't have to suffer and substitute cauliflower for everything or suck on celery sticks all day or deprive yourself of things you enjoy...all you have to do is hit your calories and macros.

    granted I'm IIFYM advanced version and know myself and generally have a ballpark in my head of where I'm at based on what I ate, but I think about and consider nutrtion when I decide what to eat. It is absolutely a consideration in the foods I eat (and I would ironically say even moreso in deciding what "junk food" to eat, as I spelled out, my junk food actually served a small nutritional purpose in my example).
  • Posts: 3,049 Member
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    I always keep one at home and one at work, in case of emergency. Do it! :smile:

    PS - I also have a pint of Talenti gelato in the freezer at work, you know, in case of emergency.
    Oh those emergencies.

    You work close? :wink:
  • Posts: 257
    I was being sarcastic.

    I don't know when they will invent a sarcastic font but it would save me having to write these sorts of replies. Which I am not really going to write...

    No point.

    No point in this response either really - link your gif again...
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