When your 'healthy' lunch has too many calories. :-(

that recipe DOES look great....! I may have to give it a go this weekend too! (thanks for sharing)

Lots of "healthy" foods are high in calories. Watch out for anything high fat like nuts, seeds, oils, salad dressings, etc. Also "healthy" sweeteners like honey and maple syrup etc have almost as much calories as regular sugar. Sometimes the healthier option even has more calories such as brown rice vs. white rice!

Always be aware of calorie intake if your goal is weight loss. You can over eat healthy foods too- I know because I ate "clean" and healthy for months in an attempt to lose weight and lost no weight because I was still naturally eating at maintenance. One time I even went on an all salad diet in a desperate attempt to see weight loss and I actually gained 4 pounds in a month doing that! I had to start counting calories with myfitnesspal to actually lose weight.

CafeRacer808 wrote: »

Yeah, that recipe is for 2-3 servings.

Would also like to point out that "1/3 cup of chickpeas" not the correct approach when you're trying to count calories. Using volumetric measurements like cups is highly inaccurate for solids. You should be weighing all of the solid foods you eat with a food scale, preferably in grams because grams are more accurate than ounces.

My digital scale goes to the hundredth of an ounce, but only the individual gram. Therefore, in my case, ounces is more precise since one gram is .035274 ounces.

Not that I think it matters much. Either way of measuring is likely to be effective if done accurately.

WandaVaughn wrote: »

I enjoy this recipe. Of the three buddha bowl recipes I've tried so far, it's my fave. Probably of the sweet/savory play in the flavors. Which is best to go after, nutrition powerhouses or low, low calories? I'm hoping to find a happy medium.

this recipe is actually a great example of mixing those things - by using greens as "filler", it turns a reasonable portion of chickpeas and sweet potatoes into a great meal. You learn how to use the high calorie - high nutrition foods as accents and components, and the low calories fillers to help make a meal filling and visually appealing (it looks like "enough food").