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  • kwtilbury
    kwtilbury Posts: 1,234 Member
    In my opinion, this is greatest value of MFP: making you more aware of what you're eating. I've been able to lose 10 pounds this year without much effort; simply knowing not to have that bowl of ice cream at the end of the day because I'm at my calorie limit.
  • djscavone
    djscavone Posts: 133 Member
    " fitting in treats (ice cream, beer) regularly helps maintain my sanity so I don't feel as if I'm on a diet." nutmegoreo, I love it. Now I know why I still have a beer or two now and then. Makes sense.
  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    djscavone wrote: »
    " fitting in treats (ice cream, beer) regularly helps maintain my sanity so I don't feel as if I'm on a diet." nutmegoreo, I love it. Now I know why I still have a beer or two now and then. Makes sense.

    @djscavone
    I don't plan on giving up beer for the rest of my life. It makes sense to learn how to fit it into my goals now. :smile:
  • chupacabramamma
    chupacabramamma Posts: 5 Member
    Francl27 wrote: »
    Yes and no. I do agree that there are a lot of things that are really hard to fit in now... Like the Cheesecake Factory cheesecakes. Love them. But at 1100 calories or more for the ones I like, I need to split it with someone, and even then, it has to be at the time of my cycle when I'm not starving and can afford a 550 calories treat without starving all day afterwards. So needless to say, I have some once a year.

    Hi!

    If you have some self control, and would like something to "binge" on occasionally, you can bake a recipe like that in muffin cups - and the bottom crust really isn't important or necessary. You can find my late Aunt Ann's old cheesecake recipe here - it's guaranteed to be classic NY Cheesecake. https://plus.google.com/110247016739428907151/posts/J2G3cDpEzC6 Run the cottage cheese/cream cheese/sour cream/eggs through a blender first, if you don't have a mixer powerful enough to make it smooth, otherwise the texture will be a bit more crumbly and less creamy (unless you like it that way.) Once you have the cheese and egg mixture fully smooth, minimize your blending - don't beat more air in it, so you don't get the crack in the middle after baking. My friends in the comments were able to substitute ricotta for the cottage cheese, and stevia for the sugar, if that helps.

    (Think I'll add that recipe to the public database, so it's easily accessible with nutr. info.
  • chuckyjean
    chuckyjean Posts: 201 Member
    well turns out we are not going to BWW after all. Fine with me, miss out on high calorie food (although I do love the food there) and boring UFC fights.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    chupacabramamma wrote: »
    Francl27 wrote: »
    Yes and no. I do agree that there are a lot of things that are really hard to fit in now... Like the Cheesecake Factory cheesecakes. Love them. But at 1100 calories or more for the ones I like, I need to split it with someone, and even then, it has to be at the time of my cycle when I'm not starving and can afford a 550 calories treat without starving all day afterwards. So needless to say, I have some once a year.

    Hi!

    If you have some self control, and would like something to "binge" on occasionally, you can bake a recipe like that in muffin cups - and the bottom crust really isn't important or necessary. You can find my late Aunt Ann's old cheesecake recipe here - it's guaranteed to be classic NY Cheesecake. https://plus.google.com/110247016739428907151/posts/J2G3cDpEzC6 Run the cottage cheese/cream cheese/sour cream/eggs through a blender first, if you don't have a mixer powerful enough to make it smooth, otherwise the texture will be a bit more crumbly and less creamy (unless you like it that way.) Once you have the cheese and egg mixture fully smooth, minimize your blending - don't beat more air in it, so you don't get the crack in the middle after baking. My friends in the comments were able to substitute ricotta for the cottage cheese, and stevia for the sugar, if that helps.

    (Think I'll add that recipe to the public database, so it's easily accessible with nutr. info.

    Ah yum I'll have to try it out one day lol. And cheesecake freezes well too!
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    edited January 2016
    chuckyjean wrote: »
    Been watching food docs on Netflix and they all pretty much all day a whole food diet is the best bet. So hard to get away from processed foods and all the sugars and salts. I mean I was eating rice cakes not realizing all the fructose in them. But I don't think my stomach can handle just fruits and veggies and beans, I'd be running to the bathroom all day

    I tend to mostly eat a whole foods diet, cook from scratch, all that, more for taste and personal preference reasons than anything else. I can say that I managed to gain lots of weight doing this, as well as lose lots of weight.

    Personally, I think the main reasons it can be helpful are: (1) it increases the difficulty of eating in that you have to prepare something vs. just buying it or going to a drive-through window; and (2) it becomes harder to delude yourself about what you are eating/how many calories. You still can -- I have certainly abused the olive oil or made high cal homemade dishes -- but if you are watching calories it makes it hard not to be conscious of what you are eating and also makes it easier to control.

    Anyway, if you like rice cakes, I am sure they could fit into your weight loss plan, and chances are many of them have less sugar if that's a concern (I'm not sure what the calorie range for rice cakes is, as they aren't my thing). Probably a bigger concern is that people think of them as diet food so it's easy to just assume the calories are insignificant without checking, and that's one thing that MFP teaches you.

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