can you eat two slices of pizza if it fits in your calories?
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EricExtreme wrote: »I occasionally make my own pizza out of flaxseed/oat pita, home made fat free no sugar added pasta sauce, rice cheese, and 98% lean ground beef. It's guilt free.
I eat pizza pretty regularly, including a couple slices of Jet's deep dish yesterday at a spontaneous family picnic and felt no guilt. Why should any food create feelings of guilt? That doesn't seem like a very healthy overall attitude and especially since the OP was concerned about eating 2 slices even knowing that they fit into her calorie goal.
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EricExtreme wrote: »I occasionally make my own pizza out of flaxseed/oat pita, home made fat free no sugar added pasta sauce, rice cheese, and 98% lean ground beef. It's guilt free.
Roll that up, use real cheese, drop in a few tablespoons of hot sauce, turn it into a burrito ... and some guac and refried beans on the side ... and you'll have something there.
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the 2 slices of pizza might not cause you to gain weight, but if that food begins to add weight, and you continue to eat it, then that 2 slices of pizza might not be your best choice. See how it goes over the course of a few weeks whether it slows down your goals or makes no difference.1
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KirbySmith46 wrote: »Ironandwine69 wrote: »Yes. You can eat the whole pizza if it fits your calories and still lose weight.
But only if she eats it before 6:00pm with a table spoon of acv and a thrive supplement the next morning! Lol
Acv=apple cider vodka? Cuz if so, hell yeah!
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the 2 slices of pizza might not cause you to gain weight, but if that food begins to add weight, and you continue to eat it, then that 2 slices of pizza might not be your best choice. See how it goes over the course of a few weeks whether it slows down your goals or makes no difference.
How would the food begin to add weight? If it is within her calories, aside from some possible temporary water weight gain, why would it slow down her goals?6 -
2 slices or 8 if they fit your calories! Water weight aside, of course. Pizza is a beautiful food! You can have it all - meat, veggies, dairy, delicious carbs (no cauliflower crust for me) all with no utensils required!4
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Yes! I eat about 3 slices of regular gourmet pizza just about every Friday and have lost 80+ pounds and have been maintaining for years.
However, I do gain 1 - 2 pounds of temporary water weight the next day. It quickly goes away in a couple of days though.
Sometimes I will make my own pizza during week as well. I love pizza! 6 -
Only if two slices of pizza fit in the palm of your hand at the same time...3
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The answer to the OP is clearly "yes," but...
The difficulty with pizza is the wide variation in calorie content.1 -
I do that every Thursday. Two slices of pepperoni pizza for lunch. Super yummy, probably half my calories for the day but totally worth it. We get it from a local chain but fortunately they list their pizzas in inches (like 14'' large) so I can easily compare to a chain place that does list calories.0
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Mmmm I need to make a pizza fit into my day tomorrow...
Homemade with Gorgonzola and pineapples (yes... I'm one of those people
) among other things... 0 -
EricExtreme wrote: »I occasionally make my own pizza out of flaxseed/oat pita, home made fat free no sugar added pasta sauce, rice cheese, and 98% lean ground beef. It's guilt free.
Roll that up, use real cheese, drop in a few tablespoons of hot sauce, turn it into a burrito ... and some guac and refried beans on the side ... and you'll have something there.
Unfortunately I am allergic to dairy and can't have real cheese, can't tolerate hot sauce and can't have beans or veggies either. Damned severe IBS. My weird pizza is the best that I can do.
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But if one is logging on MFP, one should be able to make a reasonable estimate of the calories no matter where it came from and then determine if it can be accommodated in their daily or weekly budget...Jthanmyfitnesspal wrote: »The answer to the OP is clearly "yes," but...
The difficulty with pizza is the wide variation in calorie content.
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An entire pizza can fit in my calories if I work it right!2
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Dr. Oetker thin crust pizza's are ~850 cals for the whole thing. They were also on 3 for $10 the first time I tried them. Makes a great dinner with some raw veggies. The 3 for $10 was just their way of getting me hooked and last time the price was 1 for $6. Damn drug pushers getting me all addicted and stuff.
Anyway, at $6, I don't think I can make one as cheap and certainly not as easy.
I checked out pizzas at Costco yesterday and found some cheap, but cheese only and I like meat. So when I checked the package for the pepperoni one, saw 260 cals per serving, but the serving was 1/6th of the pizza and I'm used to seeing a serving of 1/4 the pizza, so watch the labels so you don't get a nasty surprise.8 -
Tacklewasher wrote: »Dr. Oetker thin crust pizza's are ~850 cals for the whole thing. They were also on 3 for $10 the first time I tried them. Makes a great dinner with some raw veggies. The 3 for $10 was just their way of getting me hooked and last time the price was 1 for $6. Damn drug pushers getting me all addicted and stuff.
Anyway, at $6, I don't think I can make one as cheap and certainly not as easy.
I checked out pizzas at Costco yesterday and found some cheap, but cheese only and I like meat. So when I checked the package for the pepperoni one, saw 260 cals per serving, but the serving was 1/6th of the pizza and I'm used to seeing a serving of 1/4 the pizza, so watch the labels so you don't get a nasty surprise.
The barbecue chicken pizza I posted earlier probably cost me 3 dollars in ingredients and a half hour to prepare, including making some dough and pre-cooking the chicken. I do use a pizza stone, so there is some wait time while it heats up, which I use for preparing the other parts of the pizza, but it can be done faster without.
Making your own doesn't have to be expensive or complicated.1 -
"can you eat two slices of pizza if it fits in your calories and still loose weight?"
Yes, calories determine weight loss not type of food.
You can also eat any other food that fits your calorie goal and lose weight. So have pasta, potatoes, a burger, taco or cake sometimes too if you like those foods.
If you find it difficult to have 1-2 slices of a stuffed crust meat lovers pizza choose a thin crust pizza with lower calorie toppings instead. Pair a salad with your pizza to help fill you up without adding many calories to your meal.
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Well, while pizza may fit in my calories, I don't find it especially filling for the calories, so I have to plan to eat a large salad with it to help fill me up, and exercise more.
400 calories of chicken, broccoli, potato, and butter fills me up, but I need closer to 600 calories of pizza and salad to be satisfied.0 -
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Tacklewasher wrote: »Dr. Oetker thin crust pizza's are ~850 cals for the whole thing. They were also on 3 for $10 the first time I tried them. Makes a great dinner with some raw veggies. The 3 for $10 was just their way of getting me hooked and last time the price was 1 for $6. Damn drug pushers getting me all addicted and stuff.
Anyway, at $6, I don't think I can make one as cheap and certainly not as easy.
I checked out pizzas at Costco yesterday and found some cheap, but cheese only and I like meat. So when I checked the package for the pepperoni one, saw 260 cals per serving, but the serving was 1/6th of the pizza and I'm used to seeing a serving of 1/4 the pizza, so watch the labels so you don't get a nasty surprise.
When I buy frozen pizza I buy cheese ones. Then I add turkey pepperoni (70% less fat). The taste is every bit as good. But the texture is a little stiff, cutting the slices into quarters solves that. I buy a big pouch of pepperoni and stash it in the freezer for next time.0 -
Aren't we making this a little complicated? The answer to the question is emphatically YES.
Of course different types of pizza can vary in calories; but if it fits, it fits!7 -
Aren't we making this a little complicated? The answer to the question is emphatically YES.
Of course different types of pizza can vary in calories; but if it fits, it fits!
I agree - if it fits in the calorie goal then absolutely. We don't have to torture ourselves to lose weight, or just eat salad. While eating more whole foods is always a good idea, making the foods you enjoy work within your calories really will make for long term, sustained success.1 -
I eat pizza almost every day. Lost over 200lbs. Never had issues with eating it and dropping weight.8
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Yes...as long as there is no pineapple on it.4
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You can eat whatever you want. This being said a lot of people choose to make their own so that they can measure what is in/on it accurately or chose healthier alternatives to some of the higher calorie items so that they can eat more. My only word of advise is that although you can eat whatever you want as long as you are at a deficit make sure that you are accurately logging as there are various sizes of pizza slices out there0
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Let me rephrase the OP:
"Can you eat _________________________, if it fits into your calories, and still lose weight?"
Yes.6 -
2 slices, yes. 3 slices though...nope.0
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You can eat whatever you want. This being said a lot of people choose to make their own so that they can measure what is in/on it accurately or chose healthier alternatives to some of the higher calorie items so that they can eat more. My only word of advise is that although you can eat whatever you want as long as you are at a deficit make sure that you are accurately logging as there are various sizes of pizza slices out there
A tip for logging pizza: for big chains, the slice weight is a known value and all you need to do is to weigh your portion (for example, Papa John's thin crust cheese pizza is 230 something calories per 100g). For frozen, at least here, calories are given by weight. For pizzerias, well, these need to be guesstimated.1
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