Favorite Protein Sources??

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  • Shropshire1959
    Shropshire1959 Posts: 982 Member
    I keeps seeing this from our American friends .. can someone tell me, What is String Cheese? (please tell me it's not that crap in a can :tongue: )
  • craftywitch_63
    craftywitch_63 Posts: 829 Member
    Right now I'm on a hard boiled egg craze. I don't like or drink milk but I love Greek yogurt, cottage cheese and just cheese in general. Love veggie burgers, quinoa, tempeh and tofu - yeah, go ahead and say it - I'm nuts. Speaking of that I love nuts, nut butters and legumes. I don't eat much meat but when I do it's usually lean turkey or chicken. Hebrew National makes some kick-@ss hot dogs that are high protein and really low fat. Lot of salt, though. Jennie-O makes some low fat turkey sausages that I like too.

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  • craftywitch_63
    craftywitch_63 Posts: 829 Member
    I keeps seeing this from our American friends .. can someone tell me, What is String Cheese? (please tell me it's not that crap in a can :tongue: )

    No, no, not canned crap. String cheese is (usually) mozzarella cheese in a small cylindrical shape. It pulls apart in "strings." It's real cheese, just in a different shape.

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  • tennisdude2004
    tennisdude2004 Posts: 5,609 Member
    Red meat

    Also I really like full fat Greek yogurt.
  • LadyTalulah
    LadyTalulah Posts: 174 Member
    As a vegetarian I eat 2-3 eggs a day and have greek yogurt with protein powders on training days! (:
  • Shropshire1959
    Shropshire1959 Posts: 982 Member
    Stringy Cheese - Many thanks
  • sun_fish
    sun_fish Posts: 864 Member
    This is a great post that should give you some good ideas:

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/926789-protein-sources
  • bethlaf
    bethlaf Posts: 954 Member
    eggs!!!! yummy... i probobly eat eggs 5 out of 7 days
  • FoxyLifter
    FoxyLifter Posts: 965 Member
    I think I just need to be better at planning too. I usually enter most my entries at night when I get home from work because I have a job where you cant have a computer or cell phone (yay).

    I spend Sunday pre-planning breakfast, snack1, lunch and snack2 for Monday through Friday. I enter nearly the entire week into MFP in the morning (sometimes on Saturday). I try to plan what food will fit most of my macro and micro requirements Then we go grocery shopping to see what's on sale that we could eat for dinner (pork is a new favorite). Then I cook a bunch of food I plan to reheat and eat during the week (salmon for breakfast, hard boiled eggs for snack, chicken for lunch, and maybe a baked sweet potato or two). My point is that it's much easier to enter it before you eat it. I know that I'm more likely to stick to it that way. Maybe give it a try. Maybe not the whole week, but at least try doing it the night before.

    I only get 1200 calories a day which makes it even harder!

    Have you calculated your BMR and TDEE? If not, search for a calorie calculator and find a more reasonable goal. When I first joined MFP, I was super ambitious and wanted to lose 2lbs a week. Only 1200 calories? No thanks. Switched my goal to a reasonable 0.5lbs per week and got 1600. MUCH BETTER. Slow and steady wins the race. :)
  • UFITYETXX
    UFITYETXX Posts: 38
    Im only 4'11 and started at 138...ive calculated a hundred times and its always hetween 1200 and 1400...I exercise and get some calories back but its still a struggle.

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