Easy Mac Diet
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livingleanlivingclean wrote: »What is easy mac?
I think it's the single serving cups of mac and cheese (the "kraft dinner" type) that cooks in the microwave.
This diet sounds like slim fast without the added micronutrients.8 -
Slept till 1115 so going straight to lunch. Easy Mac, toasted Turkey sandwich on Ezekiel bread (yum), Clausen pickles and a sparkling ice. The turkey sandwich has a dallup of Kallas honey mustard and the Easy Mac garnished with BBQ rub hand crafted by Rick. The Easy Mac diet is flexible if you sleep thru breakfast.5
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^^copy paste from my Facebook1
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I removed several posts from this discussion. There are lots of people constructively asking questions and offering guidance or sharing their Mac & Cheese stories (all good), please avoid mocking the OP or coming here just to troll.5
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I removed several posts from this discussion. There are lots of people constructively asking questions and offering guidance or sharing their Mac & Cheese stories (all good), please avoid mocking the OP or coming here just to troll.
And if I suspect the OP is trolling us all? Because really.. come on now.. (I'm giving my screen the same look I give my 9 year old when she tries to tell me she hates a food she devoured last week.) Or perhaps this could just go down in a ball of irony not unlike a bird shaped marshmallow purification method... *sips tea*14 -
PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »livingleanlivingclean wrote: »What is easy mac?
I think it's the single serving cups of mac and cheese (the "kraft dinner" type) that cooks in the microwave.
Yup! And it's nasty!
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snickerscharlie wrote: »PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »livingleanlivingclean wrote: »What is easy mac?
I think it's the single serving cups of mac and cheese (the "kraft dinner" type) that cooks in the microwave.
Yup! And it's nasty!
I don't think they even call it easy mac anymore. Mine just says Kraft macaroni & cheese. I do buy it as a quick lunch sometimes, though I prefer the velveeta shells & cheese version if I'm going with the processed cheese product.2 -
At least cut up some hotdogs in it for protein.9
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At least cut up some hotdogs in it for protein.
I retained water just thinking about all that sodium.
One Oscar Mayer Selects turkey hot dog has 480mg of sodium, and 1 "cup" of Easy Mac has 670mg. That's 1,150mg... twice a day and you're at your sodium max for the day. I go over 2,000mg and you could tie a string to me and put me in the Macy's Day Parade.
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PrizePopple wrote: »At least cut up some hotdogs in it for protein.
I retained water just thinking about all that sodium.
One Oscar Mayer Selects turkey hot dog has 480mg of sodium, and 1 "cup" of Easy Mac has 670mg. That's 1,150mg... twice a day and you're at your sodium max for the day. I go over 2,000mg and you could tie a string to me and put me in the Macy's Day Parade.
Yeah I have no idea. I eat more sodium than that daily for sure.1 -
PrizePopple wrote: »At least cut up some hotdogs in it for protein.
I retained water just thinking about all that sodium.
One Oscar Mayer Selects turkey hot dog has 480mg of sodium, and 1 "cup" of Easy Mac has 670mg. That's 1,150mg... twice a day and you're at your sodium max for the day. I go over 2,000mg and you could tie a string to me and put me in the Macy's Day Parade.
Yeah I have no idea. I eat more sodium than that daily for sure.
Oh hai! Your profile pic gave you away since I've totally seen that on IG.
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PrizePopple wrote: »PrizePopple wrote: »At least cut up some hotdogs in it for protein.
I retained water just thinking about all that sodium.
One Oscar Mayer Selects turkey hot dog has 480mg of sodium, and 1 "cup" of Easy Mac has 670mg. That's 1,150mg... twice a day and you're at your sodium max for the day. I go over 2,000mg and you could tie a string to me and put me in the Macy's Day Parade.
Yeah I have no idea. I eat more sodium than that daily for sure.
Oh hai! Your profile pic gave you away since I've totally seen that on IG.
Or you just know my *kitten* like the back of your hands. I want my old friends back on here. I'll make a post on IG. But my starting weight is screwed up. Do you know how to fix it?
(Done derailing thread, sorry).0 -
PrizePopple wrote: »PrizePopple wrote: »At least cut up some hotdogs in it for protein.
I retained water just thinking about all that sodium.
One Oscar Mayer Selects turkey hot dog has 480mg of sodium, and 1 "cup" of Easy Mac has 670mg. That's 1,150mg... twice a day and you're at your sodium max for the day. I go over 2,000mg and you could tie a string to me and put me in the Macy's Day Parade.
Yeah I have no idea. I eat more sodium than that daily for sure.
Oh hai! Your profile pic gave you away since I've totally seen that on IG.
Or you just know my *kitten* like the back of your hands. I want my old friends back on here. I'll make a post on IG. But my starting weight is screwed up. Do you know how to fix it?
(Done derailing thread, sorry).
I'm not sure if I should be proud of that first sentence or slightly ashamed (but not too much).
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PrizePopple wrote: »PrizePopple wrote: »At least cut up some hotdogs in it for protein.
I retained water just thinking about all that sodium.
One Oscar Mayer Selects turkey hot dog has 480mg of sodium, and 1 "cup" of Easy Mac has 670mg. That's 1,150mg... twice a day and you're at your sodium max for the day. I go over 2,000mg and you could tie a string to me and put me in the Macy's Day Parade.
Yeah I have no idea. I eat more sodium than that daily for sure.
Oh hai! Your profile pic gave you away since I've totally seen that on IG.
Or you just know my *kitten* like the back of your hands. I want my old friends back on here. I'll make a post on IG. But my starting weight is screwed up. Do you know how to fix it?
(Done derailing thread, sorry).
I don't know about from the app, but you should be able to edit from the website. >My Home >Check in >Edit previous entries (at the bottom of the table, just above save changes. That should take you there.
As for the OP, sounds nutritionally void (depending on what else you are consuming), and may lead to difficulties with maintenance. Possible health complications for long-term, but who knows. Have you looked at your micro targets (vitamins and minerals, to see if you are hitting those as well? I have eaten them a couple times. They aren't the worst thing I've put in my mouth while trying to lose weight.1 -
snickerscharlie wrote: »True story:
When I left home at 16 with my dog in tow, I had *very* little money to feed either of us on.
Kraft Dinner was on sale for 17 cents a box. (This was in in late '60's!) So I gathered every dime I could and bought a freaking case of it. 48 boxes.
Figured that my dog and I could split a box of it between us for dinner every night and at least neither of us would starve to death.
Problem was, I couldn't afford the milk or the butter that you're supposed to use to make the powdered cheese sauce decent. So I just boiled the noodles and added water to the powder to make the sauce. It was pretty gross, but it's all we had.
After about two weeks of having this as our only meal of the day, I made up the usual batch, and put half of it into my dog's dish. She walked over to it, sniffed it, and then looked up at me with a look that clearly said, "I just can't do this." When my freaking dog turned it down, I knew we were in trouble! LOL
To this day - almost fifty years later - just the smell of Kraft dinner makes me gag.
Swap dog for cat and Kraft Dinner for tuna noodle casserole and you have 2 years of me being at uni!4 -
PrizePopple wrote: »At least cut up some hotdogs in it for protein.
I retained water just thinking about all that sodium.
One Oscar Mayer Selects turkey hot dog has 480mg of sodium, and 1 "cup" of Easy Mac has 670mg. That's 1,150mg... twice a day and you're at your sodium max for the day. I go over 2,000mg and you could tie a string to me and put me in the Macy's Day Parade.
Your avatar would look adorable in the parade!
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OP, this is probably not the healthiest plan, but at least make sure you are getting lots of protein and fiber in your third meal.
I eat far more "convenience" food than I'm sure some of the posters in this thread would tolerate, but I think I'd get bored pretty quick eating the exact same thing twice a day, every day.
FYI, you can buy some pretty cheap bags of frozen mixed veggies, microwave a serving while you are stirring up your mac & cheese, and then combine the veggies with your Easy Mac. A great way to use up the extra cheese sauce and would add a little fiber and nutrition :drinker:11 -
Dinner tonight serving of easy Mac and a cup of tomato basil soup. Will definitely get in a bedtime meal with some pb toast and a protein shake. Can't post pic on the forum?1
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The overwhelming question still has not been answered. Why Easy Mac specifically?7
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The overwhelming question still has not been answered. Why Easy Mac specifically?
Mainly because it is cheap and easy. Easy meal prep for lunch at work all I need is access to water and a microwave. Plus it has a catchy name - the Easy Mac Diet.
I'm doing the contra of what many do at the beginning of a new year. I'm not getting on a plan that I can't stick to. This diet is eat what I want to eat when I want to eat it, but having the easy Mac as the one item that is in my consumption every day - and staying within my daily calorie target.
I'm working on calories out > calories in without being overly concerned about the macros. Adding in cardio 4 days a week.
One thing I am trying to limit is my beer intake. That alone is the biggest contributor to the weight I've packed on. I had a 16oz beer yesterday, 4 or 5 less than I normally would have.3
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