Low Calorie Count/ High Volume Foods

Stir-frys with lots of veggies and a few ounces of meat really fill me up.

Strawberries are delicious. You can eat a pound for 135 calories.

Turkey bacon has like 35 calories a slice.

beef jerky is very low calorie (i think like 80 cal an oz), and takes a long time to eat. I think there's usually like 60 in a single serving bag

Pretzels, if you crave carbs, are the best option

EGG WHITES. seriously! buy a carton of egg whites or egg beaters and just make omelettes out of them. There's maybe like ~75 calories in half a cup of egg whites, but it gets you a pretty big omelette if you had vegetables

Greek yogurt! Delicious, low calorie and mostly protein!

If you really just need to put something in your mouth, but rea lly shouldn't be eating, I recommend carrots or radishes. Very, very low in calories, but also delicious (I think) and filling.

General advice: If you eat more protein, you'll feel less hungry throughout the day - that's where the egg whites and greek yogurt come in. When you really want to eat meat/cheese/something else fattening, do so, but choose a lean cut, and stretch it as far as possible with vegetables to fill you up.

More important general advice: None of this advice might work for you the way it works for me. You have to work with your own body and brain to figure out what works for you. Write down everything you eat and remember how you feel, so that you can decide what you need to do in order to eat within your caloric limits and still be happy. More importantly, don't give up! Just keep trying and adjusting and eventually you will find an eating pattern that works for you. Even bad days are useful because they can teach you something about yourself and what triggers you to eat over your daily limit!

*rant over*

Most vegetables are extremely low calorie.

I am in love with CELERYYYYYY!!! I like to eat it with bolthouse farms yogurt ranch dressing. Only 45 calories for 2 tablespoons.

Exercise more, and then you can eat more...

Seriously though. Start yourself out at a higher calorie count, like 2000 or so, and drop it by 100 calories for every ten pounds you lose. If you start out at a calorie level that you struggle to maintain, it's a really hard adjustment and you're setting yourself up for a harder struggle than you need to. That, and it doesn't give you anywhere to drop to when you do get down to a lower weight.

Just my $0.02. Good luck

So while I have not had any progress on this diet yet, I was 160 in high school and got down to 110 at the end of college, but for me 120 is a bit healthier, I am 5'7" and very athletic.

My recommendation for what I had to do, when I was trying to still eat alot (and I still do) is with my coffee in the mornings, I add a protein powder with my fat free milk and just use a lot of it (I don't eat breakfast, I drink it). Also with vegetables, I eat alot of salad with alot of "fun" veges and maybe some fruit at times, but instead of dressing, which is horrible, I use other things like salsas, of various types, mustard, and other no fat and low cal condiments, etc... it makes each salad different and keeps it really low cal.

I also eat kale, raw or cooked, like kale chips with a really light spray of pam or other cooking spray on top with like onion and garlic powder (sometimes sliced onions go in the oven with the kale to make onion and kale chips), or chili powder, etc... again depending on mood. Really good snack that is crunchy and almost, almost seems "bad".

I agree with protein increases too, I try to get as much protein in my diet as possible. But I would stay away from nut sources, they are usually so much higher in calories and fat than necessary for the amount of protein you get. My recommendations are things like tuna, shrimp, all fish basically, sliced meat (as odd as that sounds it is a quick, cheap source of protein for the cal and fat content so I cut up sliced meat and add it to my salads or do tuna, etc). I am also a big advocate of protein bars, but not energy bars, those are too sugary, etc... just really good protein bars, but those basically are meal replacements then.

Lastly, drink lots of water and if that is hard, then get tea or propel zero calorie or vitamin water or something, anything to drink more liquids.

I like to eat so what I do is load up on low cal lots of food items like spinach salad, lettuce salad, almond milk/slim fast and ice and what would normally be 1 serving becomes 3,

Try the cauliflower pizza crust, string cheese and use low calorie bread (i use the 35 Calorie bread), tuna, salmon are excellent sources of protein and very low in cals.

I throw spinach into a lot of stuff (smoothies, egg dishes, salads, stir-fries, Italian dishes, etc.) for a fiber and vitamin boost. I also like egg white omelets or hard-boiled egg whites. Most white-colored fish is lo-cal and filling. My new thing is Yoplait Greek 100 yogurt. Strawberries, apples, grapefruit, and blueberries are favorites. Also, I like butternut squash cooked in a foil packet with some butter spray and pumpkin pie spice: very dessert-like. Grilled veggie skewers seasoned with a little olive oil, sea salt, garlic, and pepper are the bomb as well (make sure to include mini sweet peppers).

singlE serving miso soup packets!!!

Eat tons of veggies. Load yr plate up with them. Eat more often, I eat ever two to three hours, usually something small or low cal like an apple or some low fat string cheese, or any other fruit or vegetable I can get my hands on. Most everyone else's suggestions are good. Stop eating out too. That food has little to no nutritional content and will leave you hungrier in the end. Eat whole foods that you prepare yourself. Go for whole grains, those are higher cal but they fill you up better since they are actual food. Drink tons of water, room temp water supposedly stays in your stomach longer and keeps you filling full. Idk if that's true but more water is a good thing.

Lots of great suggestions so far!

I will add - use a smaller plate - plate still looks full - it just doesn't hold as much.

My suggestion too.