Snacks are taking up my calories!

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  • Mtleiker
    Mtleiker Posts: 160
    It's a preference. You don't have to eat "meals" like most people. The days when I know I'm going for a PR I eat 80% of my food in the morning (mostly one meal) and save 20% after the gym. If you're finding it hard to stay under your calories you're suffering from probably lack of fiber, water, and possibly protein/vitamin rich meals. You don't need to know how to cook with a crock pot. Throw **** in and turn it on. You could mix dried soup mix into yogurt and eat whatever veggies you like. There are always solution around problems.. it just takes creativity and patience.
    Very true thanks. I guess I always focused on having to hav 3 meals a day. But if I'm better with snacking I should stick with tht. Thanks
  • Mtleiker
    Mtleiker Posts: 160
    Don't buy the snacks and you won't be able to eat the snacks.

    I don't buy snack food. If I want a snack, Im usually hungry so my "snack" is more like a small, home-cooked meal.
    I don't my twig of a fiancé does.
  • Mtleiker
    Mtleiker Posts: 160
    Just finished reading all these comments . Thanks guys y'all are AWESOME !!! REALlY:)
  • amberxy
    amberxy Posts: 35 Member
    Don't buy the snacks and you won't be able to eat the snacks.

    I don't buy snack food. If I want a snack, Im usually hungry so my "snack" is more like a small, home-cooked meal.
    I don't my twig of a fiancé does.

    LOL @ the twig fiance. I have one too!
  • mcelysium
    mcelysium Posts: 14 Member
    wow arent you sorry you asked for help from all these trolls?
    :drinker:
  • bachooka
    bachooka Posts: 719 Member
    I will teach you how to cook endless meal combinations in one post... you'll be amazed!

    1) (optional) Slice meat into strips
    2) (optional) toss meat strips into hot pan with 1 tbsp of olive oil
    3) Chop up some veggies, whatever ones you want... go wild!
    4) Toss dem veggies in the pan
    5) cook 'em up until they are softened but still crisp
    6) chuck in some diced garlic and some soya sauce.
    7) eat it... on top of rice or noodles if you want.

    You could literally eat a stir fry every day but never have the same thing twice... SO SO SO easy! (and once you can pan fry food, you have a basic stepping stone to other cooking)
  • matt2442
    matt2442 Posts: 1,259 Member
    Arby's Jr roast beef or ham, 210 cal. and $1
    If vegatarian, Subway salad?

    COME ONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

    For a first post i expect more...at least get a meat ball sub with some cookies on the side, my gawd.
  • piggydog
    piggydog Posts: 322
    Buy 4oz round eye steaks from Walmart

    Add a little salt and pepper and a tad of Tony chachere seasoning and cook it in a pan till down with a table spoon of oil

    Microwave a bag of valley fresh steamers in your favor flavor and split in half.....

    Now you have a 10 min meal that is less then 350 calories that will fill you up and you cooked it...
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    , or these artesian baked chip or one cookie or weight watchers snack size ice cream thing.

    Not being able to cook and eating a bunch of empty calories that don't fill you up are two totally different things. Eat better snacks. Whole foods with fiber and protein.
  • NYCNika
    NYCNika Posts: 611 Member
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  • cavia
    cavia Posts: 457 Member
    Go on youtube. Thousands of how-to videos on any dish you could name. Browse them until you view one that looks simple to you and looks interesting and tasty to you. Then cook it. Then repeat the process and soon you'll have a bunch of dishes you can cook.
  • Mock_Turtle
    Mock_Turtle Posts: 354 Member
    why don't you just snack on carrots and drink a ****load of water?
  • Tanja_CHH
    Tanja_CHH Posts: 216 Member
    Its not that I dont cook, some days I just have serious chocolate cravings and on those days I have very small meals. Take yesterday, I had my eggs for breakfast (277 calories) then around 400 calories of chocolate, including other sugary snacks, and then a 400 calorie microwave meal (microwave because Im home at 5 from school and then gym at 6 or 7 just means I cant be bothered to cook, its not so much about not being able to, as I often do have cooked food) Its just about priorities, if you want to snack, have smaller meals or merge breakfast and lunch or lunch and dinner.
  • triciab79
    triciab79 Posts: 1,713 Member
    My entire diet is based on snacking. Work with your weakness. I know I can't not snack so I don't eat meals (except a small dinner with the boys) and all my calories go to snacks. Keep in mind you need to make your snacks healthier so that you get what you need from them. Humans are grazing creatures we aren't bears we do not eat big meals and then skip food for days we are more like pigs we are built to forage and if we sit still and eat big meals it fattens us up..... mmm bacon.
  • rbeckner711
    rbeckner711 Posts: 161 Member
    I will teach you how to cook endless meal combinations in one post... you'll be amazed!

    1) (optional) Slice meat into strips
    2) (optional) toss meat strips into hot pan with 1 tbsp of olive oil
    3) Chop up some veggies, whatever ones you want... go wild!
    4) Toss dem veggies in the pan
    5) cook 'em up until they are softened but still crisp
    6) chuck in some diced garlic and some soya sauce.
    7) eat it... on top of rice or noodles if you want.

    ^^^^^^ very good recipe for great food. If it is too salty, get low sodium soy sauce.

    You could literally eat a stir fry every day but never have the same thing twice... SO SO SO easy! (and once you can pan fry food, you have a basic stepping stone to other cooking)
  • Mtleiker
    Mtleiker Posts: 160
    My entire diet is based on snacking. Work with your weakness. I know I can't not snack so I don't eat meals (except a small dinner with the boys) and all my calories go to snacks. Keep in mind you need to make your snacks healthier so that you get what you need from them. Humans are grazing creatures we aren't bears we do not eat big meals and then skip food for days we are more like pigs we are built to forage and if we sit still and eat big meals it fattens us up..... mmm bacon.
    :) like tht
  • kristacali
    kristacali Posts: 30 Member
    What is the difference of calories and net calories?
  • Mtleiker
    Mtleiker Posts: 160
    What is the difference of calories and net calories?
    i have no clue. thats why i was asking . im gnna google it. but someone said you should focus on net calories.

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