Struggling with eating enough.

altacosturabeth

Small choc chip cookies are 50 cals each. Have with milk. Voila.

....but I don't even like them

Fussy fart

Drink some orange juice - 300mls is like 120 cals from memory. Have an apple. Nom a mango (they are ****ing delicious). Eat some chocolate. A slice of toast with jam.

Me and orange juice don't go well together either :') I like apple juice though? Oh and apples. Don't like mangos. Bloody love chocolate. Ooh and I like jam!

See, I did a little better there

Apple juice is good too. A small amount of chocolate won't do you any harm and recent research is showing cocoa to be quite beneficial

I did get some 80% somethingorother dark chocolate a few weeks ago. That was pretty decent.

altacosturabeth

Yes the store bought bars are loaded with ridiculous amounts of unecassary sugar which is why i started making my own. I use old fashioned oatmeal, all natural peanut butter, organic honey, dried berries, almonds/walnuts, vanilla extract, and some good chocolate protein isolate powder and people wont stop asking me to make them some now. If you want the full recipe just ask, they are completely all natural with no added sugar and are super healthy at only 200 cals/each.

Ahh they sound pretty decent! I may consider them! My only problem with things like that is the price. I do make my own meals for tea (I believe pretty much everyone else in the world calls this 'dinner') and that costs quite a bit which is annoying because it's not my own money that's being spent. That's another thing that I find quite difficult with this healthy eating!

witchy_wife

How are you with dried fruit? Can usually eat quite a lot without feeling full so would bump calories up. Or making smoothies with fruit?

Even making a none freeze yoghurt / ice cream? Buy some frozen fruit (I go for strawberries and rasperries), don't defrost it, just throw it in your blender and add a yoghurt of your choice. Voila.... yummy frozen yoghurt. (don't put left overs in freezer though as it goes solid and you can't get it out the tub for ages lol)

witchy_wife

Or make your own flapjack with fruit and nuts?

Lextmg86

Ya i have had this discussion with alot of people how eating healthier is just more expensive than not and its really a shame. You would think overprocessed and chemically engineered foods would be more expensive than fruits or veggies that were just grown on a farm but sadly its not the case. I struggled with this in the beginning of my diet change but went searching and found the stores that have what i need. I would say i spend about 50$ every 2 weeks on all the healthy food i eat but i really attribute that to a store i go to here called price rite which is ridiculously cheap. You just have to figure out what you want to eat consistently and go searching for the best bargain on those items.

altacosturabeth

How are you with dried fruit? Can usually eat quite a lot without feeling full so would bump calories up. Or making smoothies with fruit?

Even making a none freeze yoghurt / ice cream? Buy some frozen fruit (I go for strawberries and rasperries), don't defrost it, just throw it in your blender and add a yoghurt of your choice. Voila.... yummy frozen yoghurt. (don't put left overs in freezer though as it goes solid and you can't get it out the tub for ages lol)

Oh yeah I do like dried fruit especially raisins!

Hah, I tried that once but it went awfully wrong! I may have to get my mum to help me next time even though I'm not sure there'd be much difference! I do have a big bag of frozen fruit just chillin' in my freezer now :')

And I love flapjacks. If I could make an acceptable flapjack I would be able to die happy. That was a wonderful idea, well done!

altacosturabeth

Ya i have had this discussion with alot of people how eating healthier is just more expensive than not and its really a shame. You would think overprocessed and chemically engineered foods would be more expensive than fruits or veggies that were just grown on a farm but sadly its not the case. I struggled with this in the beginning of my diet change but went searching and found the stores that have what i need. I would say i spend about 50$ every 2 weeks on all the healthy food i eat but i really attribute that to a store i go to here called price rite which is ridiculously cheap. You just have to figure out what you want to eat consistently and go searching for the best bargain on those items.

It is really frustrating! Even more so with the fact that it's usually just me eating it so we end up buying more than we need. We do all our weekly shopping at just a normal supermarket so I have to try and find everything there! I have only just started making my own food though and I've already found some things I definitely won't be making again so hopefully after a while I'll be able to whittle my list down a little!

californiagirl2012

You need to look at eating higher calorie healthy foods. I can't imagine. I'm petite and maintaining and don't have weight to lose either but I have no problem getting enough calories. In fact I still have to give up one high calorie item to have another and can't eat everything I want without going over budget. I sort of wish I had your problem.

It's really depends on what your BF is regarding how your body will react to eating at a deficit. But you don't have to eat the same every day, maybe just eat higher on the days you are hungry an low on other days. It's not like you will go into starvation mode in just one day, and that is if your body fat is even low enough for that to happen.

"The Reverse Taper Diet " :

The Theory of Fat Availability:
•There is a set amount of fat that can be released from a fat cell.
•The more fat you have, the more fat can be used as a fuel when dieting.
•The less fat you have, the less fat can be used as a fuel when dieting.
•Towards the end of a transformation, when body fat is extremely low you
may not have enough fat to handle a large caloric deficit anymore.

At the extreme low end, when your body fat cannot ‘keep up’ with the energy deficit
you've imposed on your body, the energy MUST come from SOMEWHERE. This is
when you are at risk of losing lean body mass during dieting (commonly referred to
as ‘starvation mode’). This happens at extremely low levels of body fat, under 6% in
men and 12% in women [Friedl K.E. J Appl Phsiol, 1994].

Oddly enough, it seems as though some obese people have an unbelievable amount of fat available as a fuel, but a lower ability to burn that fat, whereas as they get leaner, they have less and less fat available as a fuel, but a greater and greater ability to burn the fat they do have. So at extreme levels of leanness, it is the fat availability that limits a persons ability to lose fat.

altacosturabeth

You need to look at eating higher calorie healthy foods. I can't imagine. I'm petite and maintaining and don't have weight to lose either but I have no problem getting enough calories. In fact I still have to give up one high calorie item to have another and can't eat everything I want without going over budget. I sort of wish I had your problem.

It's really depends on what your BF is regarding how your body will react to eating at a deficit. But you don't have to eat the same every day, maybe just eat higher on the days you are hungry an low on other days. It's not like you will go into starvation mode in just one day, and that is if your body fat is even low enough for that to happen.

Oddly enough, it seems as though some obese people have an unbelievable amount of fat available as a fuel, but a lower ability to burn that fat, whereas as they get leaner, they have less and less fat available as a fuel, but a greater and greater ability to burn the fat they do have. So at extreme levels of leanness, it is the fat availability that limits a persons ability to lose fat.

(sorry, I cut down your post a little so I didn't take up a load of room, I hope you don't mind! I'll add it back in if you want)

I wish I had the problem of trying to cut down on calories! I have no idea about my body fat at all to be honest. I've never had it properly tested but I have looked at the online calculators (obviously not really reliable) and most of them come up with around 18% to 19% but then another has 24% and another even has 30% so yep, no idea!

Anywhere between 1300-1400 calories is what I'm aiming for anyway!

luvmypwds

I don't understand what your issue is really. You are not really trying to lose or gain. So just keep doing what you're doing - ie, eat when hungry stop when full. Why are you trying to eat more calories when you don't want to? I wouldn't.

altacosturabeth

I don't understand what your issue is really. You are not really trying to lose or gain. So just keep doing what you're doing - ie, eat when hungry stop when full. Why are you trying to eat more calories when you don't want to? I wouldn't.

Oh, I just wanna be healthy that's all I guess and I guess I wouldn't mind toning up a little more so I'd have to eat better for that right?

I am kind of tempted to just stop the whole calorie counting thing though