High-volume eater - are there any others?

Wow, congrats on your progress! While I can't speak specifically to your question, I'd love ideas as well.

Maybe you should try LeanGains 16/8 Intermittent Fasting method? Beacause you push your daily intakes further into the day. this would allow you to have bigger meals to catch up.

Check out www.inspiralized.com! I usually have lots of veggie noodles and a big piece of meat or a bowl of soup, medium sized salad, and a bunch of protein.

OH you mean 100 pounds lost. It sounded like 100 pounds was your goal weight.

I agree with intermittent fasting. I love it, myself and can't wait to get back into it once my body settles from having a baby and lactating.

I am definitely a high volume eater, especially around "that" time of the month or when I'm stressed I find the feeling FULL aspect being a huge help emotionally and to avoid any binging. Like others have suggested I add a TON of veggies to most meals either diced, chopped, shredded depending on the texture I'm going for.

Eggs/egg whites scrambled with a ton of spinach, kale, onion, celery, green pepper and broccoli slaw (pretty much julian broccoli stems, carrots and some cabbage) with some lean ham or cheese thrown in for flavour with a few drops of hot sauce is my go to fast easy meal, and I feel stuffed after, usually runs around 400 calories all together.

For snacks, popcorn is definitely a go to, air popped and then seasoned with whatever I feel in the mood for, sometimes butter/oil if my cals allow. Oatmeal with cut up fruit or berries in it is great too when its cold out. Other than that veggies to nibble on like cucumber slices, carrot sticks, celery sticks etc if I feel like I want to "mindlessly" eat.

Oh, I'm definitely a volume eater. My go-to "big" meals when I need volume:

Egg scrambles (whole egg or whites--usually I just do 2 whole egss) w/ cups and cups of sauteed veggies (spinach, mushrooms, bell peppers/capsicums, onions, etc.), season with garlic and a pinch of salt/pepper, maybe a little cheese and hot sauce--A dinner plate full of awesome around 300-400 calories

Steam bags of frozen veggie mixes--I eat them by the bagful--some of the lightly sauced ones are still under 200 calories for the entire bag--add 1/2 a baked potato for another 100-150 calories, some protein of choice (Greek yogurt as "sour cream", a piece of meat or whatever)---again a 400-500 calorie heaping plate of satisfaction.

I'm too lazy to "spiralize" veggies, but yeah, I've done pasta night where I give myself 1/2 a portion of pasta, 2-3 cups of broccoli, zucchini, etc. tossed with my sauce--Just as satisfying (and BIGGER portion for less calories than I could get with just pasta).



TL;DR VEGGIES are your bestest, awesomest friends. Get creative with seasoning/saucing them--a tablespoon of prepared sauce or marinade, roasted garlic, ethnic spice blends, a bit of cheese or oil, etc. makes it interesting and flavorful--and BIG!

I like to make gigantic salads in big bowls...i cut it all up good with the salad dressing on so it mixes really well. Lots of veggies that you like and 2 eggs or 1 egg and some chicken. Sometimes I do salsa instead of dressing. I also sometimes steam a whole bag of cauliflower then put it in food processer and add a tsp of ghee [cultured butter] and eat the whole thing. It doesn't taste like mashed potatoes as some claim but mashed cauliflower. Broccoli is super filling. Steam it and put parmesan on it. Congrats on the weight loss. I'm sure you'll make it to the 100 mark.

I second getting the frozen veggies steamers in the sauce and eating the whole thing. I especially like the "healthy weight" one from green giant and then I put it over a pile of lettuce and use it as my dressing, very satisfying! Albacore tuna packs (while not very tasty) pack a ton of protein for only about 80 calories. I'll put that on a big pile of lettuce with seasoning if I want to save my calories for a dinner out later in the day--big pile of food with enough protein to keep you going, only 100 calories or so.

I also love soup for volume, but I make my own because it's more filling for the calories. Two of my favorite recipes:
Take a can of fire roasted diced tomatoes and throw it in the blender with spices and seasonings (and sometimes a little olive oil, low fat cream cheese, or Bolthouse farms blue cheese dressing for creaminess) and i blend spinach in too, for the leafy greens. It makes a delicious meal, like a restaurant tomato basil soup, but without the crazy calories. I eat the whole thing and it ends up being about 150-200 calories. For extra protein, you can add veggie meat substitute or poach an egg in it (super yummy) and you'll still be less than 300 calories.
I also make my own version of ramen. I use a pack of ramen, but instead of using water and the seasoning packet (those make me sick), I use half broth (swanson's has a thai broth that's especially delicious) and half water and then i'll just use a little of the seasoning packet and put my own herbs and spices in. I sometimes also mix in whatever veggies i have on hand. The key to the volume, though, is to double the amount of liquid that the packet calls for and then just let it cook/sit for much longer so the noodles soak up more of the liquid. This soup is higher calorie (around 400), but it's such a huge bowl that I find I often can't finish it.

Finally, giant salads are also a volume go to. Enjoy!