sound about right?

justeoj
justeoj Posts: 13 Member
edited November 21 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi everyone

I've just started my meal plans for my work lunches. Getting 502 calories from 200g chicken breast 200g potatoes 200g mixed veg

Does that sound like a good start for meal plans? I'm allowed 2020 calories daily to bring me back down to my 12 stone goal

Thanks

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  • minties82
    minties82 Posts: 907 Member
    Sounds good to me, but is there any fat in this meal?
  • justeoj
    justeoj Posts: 13 Member
    O yeah sorry I should mention I've got a couple of light snacks that get my fats in. Any ideas why I feel like I'm eatting more? Lol. Like I said I've set my count to the calories needed to get me down to 12 stone but I feel I'm eatting more then before :S having said that I was definatly eatting the wrong foods before... Takeaways where a regular :(
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    edited July 2015
    Chicken, potatoes and veg sounds a little dry... No sauce? No gravy? No Yorkshire pudding and stuffing balls?
  • justeoj
    justeoj Posts: 13 Member
    I wish! But no lol
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    Why not? Why not add butter to your potatoes? Are you cooking them? I can't imagine cooked potatoes with nothing on them. I think they'd be dry and hard to swallow, not to mention bland. I could eat a raw potato that way but I'm not sure about 200 g of it.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    justeoj wrote: »
    I wish! But no lol

    Why not?
  • WBB55
    WBB55 Posts: 4,131 Member
    Honestly, it would be tough for me to eat that much food just to get 500 measly calories (7 ounces of dry chicken?!? 7 ounces of dry vegetables!?!). I'd definitely cook the chicken in olive oil or throw some butter on the vegetables (or eat some cheese with it!) to cut down on the volume I had to eat. (Granted, I'm a short-ish woman, YMMV.)
  • justeoj
    justeoj Posts: 13 Member
    I'm boiling the potatoes and don't really mind the taste at the moment lol I can't use all the above when I start to get bored though :D
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    justeoj wrote: »
    I'm boiling the potatoes and don't really mind the taste at the moment lol I can't use all the above when I start to get bored though :D

    Again.... Why not?
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    You are sucking the joy out of potatoes. I may go eat a stick of butter to bring the joy back :( (kidding)
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  • DeguelloTex
    DeguelloTex Posts: 6,652 Member
    If you people are eating dry chicken, you're cooking it wrong.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    If you people are eating dry chicken, you're cooking it wrong.

    Plain would be a better word perhaps.
  • DeguelloTex
    DeguelloTex Posts: 6,652 Member
    If you people are eating dry chicken, you're cooking it wrong.

    Plain would be a better word perhaps.
    Yeah, probably so. The same objection still applies, though.

  • WBB55
    WBB55 Posts: 4,131 Member
    "plain" chicken vs. "dry" chicken? I've found another regional quirk in my dialect!
  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    Sounds about right for an occasional meal or two...though I would need and want a lot more flavor and variety over the long term.
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