Feeling full on low calorie foods Please help!

ChemcialSunshine
ChemcialSunshine Posts: 15 Member
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HELPPP! What are some foods low in calories that I would be able to eat a lot of or eat the recommended amount and feel full without breaking the calories?

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  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    Veggies for the Win.

    .... also, hydrate (with water)
  • janjunie
    janjunie Posts: 1,200 Member
    Shirataki noodles, fruit, vegetables, non fat yogurt, cottage cheese, chicken breast, egg whites, popcorn, rice cakes just to name a few.
  • ChemcialSunshine
    ChemcialSunshine Posts: 15 Member
    I really appreciate you all. I got this :D
  • ChemcialSunshine
    ChemcialSunshine Posts: 15 Member
    I love using vinegar and oil. How do you feel about that on a salad? It's just a dash of oil and a little more red wine vinegar or balsamic. I like sour type things
  • bbell1985
    bbell1985 Posts: 4,571 Member
    ChemcialSunshine wrote: »
    I love using vinegar and oil. How do you feel about that on a salad? It's just a dash of oil and a little more red wine vinegar or balsamic. I like sour type things

    Fine. You have to measure your "dash" of oil though. A whole tablespoon is 120 calories.
  • ChemcialSunshine
    ChemcialSunshine Posts: 15 Member
    I think I can do without the oil then. I never really noticed a difference with it anyways :) gosh I appreciate you. I didn't know it was that high
  • bbell1985
    bbell1985 Posts: 4,571 Member
    ChemcialSunshine wrote: »
    I think I can do without the oil then. I never really noticed a difference with it anyways :) gosh I appreciate you. I didn't know it was that high

    Yes. It is fat. Fat has the highest calorie count per gram of all the macros. 9 calories per gram as opposed to 4 in carbs and protein.
  • ChemcialSunshine
    ChemcialSunshine Posts: 15 Member
    I agree. I would rather turn that 120 calories into more veggies or cubed cheese for protein instead
  • rheddmobile
    rheddmobile Posts: 6,840 Member
    Just a note on oil and salad dressing - many nutrients in vegetables require oil to be absorbed, so a little oil is a good thing. If you have trouble using just a little, a bottle of spray extra virgin olive oil is a great way to coat your veggies without going overboard.

    My favorite low calorie snacks include roasted seaweed, sliced radishes, and almond milk in latte with cinnamon (15 calories, satisfies sweet tooth.)

    If you eat all the veggies and still feel like you could chew your own arm off, try just a few almonds or cashews. A little fat makes you feel satiated.
  • P_yoga_runs
    P_yoga_runs Posts: 4 Member
    I make my own salad dressings - almost always some version of lemon, tahini, and red pepper flakes or anything avocado-based. I avoid oil since it's stripped of nutrients and opt for nuts, seeds or avocado to add fat to my salads.
  • kyubeans
    kyubeans Posts: 135 Member
    Sometimes ten minutes after eating a huge salad, I'll feel hungry. First, I try water. If I'm still feeling hungry after another ten minutes, I'll have some full fat cheese or nuts (portioned!). Usually that's my body signaling me that I did not consume enough fat.
  • shandy82165
    shandy82165 Posts: 184 Member
    Spaghetti squash. Ridiculously low in calories but high in volume.
  • deannalfisher
    deannalfisher Posts: 5,600 Member
    my go-to snack is a bag of riced cauliflower (green giant or birdseye), mixed with some low fat onion/chive cream cheese - its about 200cal for the entire bag of cauliflower (3.5ish servings) and the cream cheese (15C/8F/9P)
  • rainbowbow
    rainbowbow Posts: 7,490 Member
    check out this thread:
    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10563959/volume-eaters-thread/p1
  • fuzzylop72
    fuzzylop72 Posts: 651 Member
    edited July 2017
    ChemcialSunshine wrote: »
    HELPPP! What are some foods low in calories that I would be able to eat a lot of or eat the recommended amount and feel full without breaking the calories?

    Try picking from low caloric density foods. Here's a spreadsheet someone put together:

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZW6TlsuGv7oQFEv8sryubIzYyQ8OFebY_1or7TYzrdY/edit#gid=1827593641 sorted by calories per 100g

    but you don't need that, veggies, then fruit, then legumes tend to be the lowest in terms of caloric density. If you're feeling hungry on a caloric deficit just replace some of your high density foods with lower density alternatives.
  • rmgnow
    rmgnow Posts: 375 Member
    Oatmeal. Fills you up in the morning. I get the steel cut variety
  • bbell1985
    bbell1985 Posts: 4,571 Member
    rmgnow wrote: »
    Oatmeal. Fills you up in the morning. I get the steel cut variety

    This is where people have to experiment. I find oatmeal to be calorie dense and not filling at all. I could eat so much more for a serving of oatmeal.
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    Bok choy, lots of vitamins.
    Jicama, lots of fiber.
    It won't even take much jicama to make you perceive your belly to be filled.

  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    @bmitchelmfp Thank you! I've been on this site reading these discussions for nearly 18 months and have never before encountered that tremendously useful spreadsheet.

    Now I've got that AND the protein spreadsheet. This has got to be the greatest site in the history of sites.

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