does this seem like a good weightloss recipe?

MinazB101
MinazB101 Posts: 33 Member
edited February 12 in Health and Weight Loss
Instead of using butter I'll use olive oil and instead of.brown lentils im using yellow ones (split pigeo peas) www.eatingwell.com/recipes/baked_curried_brown_rice_lentil_pilaf.html

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  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,368 Member
    Everything is fine as long as it fits in your calories.
  • ell_v131
    ell_v131 Posts: 349 Member
    If this is the only change you are making then no.

    If this is a change you're making after you have figured out your caloric intake in deficit and it fits in it, then go for it.
  • megsmom2
    megsmom2 Posts: 2,362 Member
    If this is the only change you are making then no.

    If this is a change you're making after you have figured out your caloric intake in deficit and it fits in it, then go for it.

    yup. this. butter and olive oil are both healthy things, and I suspect lentils are pretty much the same nutritionally as the yellow split peas. Its all about calorie deficit. Eat what you like and enjoy....at a deficit.
  • richardheath
    richardheath Posts: 1,276 Member
    What they said.

    Weight loss is about your overall diet, not one meal. At only 348 cal per serving, that recipe is already pretty low cal.

    So yes, that'd be a good weight loss recipe, with or without your changes IF you eat at an overall calorie deficit. If you ate the whole pot of it in one sitting, that'd be 1392 cals right there and so no, it might not be so good (especially if you wanted to eat something else that day).
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