How do I become more fuller?
Kuzofruit
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I’m currently on a chicken/broccoli diet (2 meals/day about 5oz chicken and 1 cup broc). Banana and fruit bars for snacks. I still would have cravings after. Should I increase my chicken intake? Or maybe water? Suggestions? Oh and any suggestions for a healthy inexpensive snack?
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You're likely undereating, and this looks like an extremely boring diet. No wonder you're hungry. I would not last 2 days on a chicken and broccoli diet. Let MFP calculate the calories for you and eat those calories in foods you like. More food and more variety. You can also get more calories by exercising.5
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I’m currently on a chicken/broccoli diet (2 meals/day about 5oz chicken and 1 cup broc). Banana and fruit bars for snacks. I still would have cravings after. Should I increase my chicken intake? Or maybe water? Suggestions? Oh and any suggestions for a healthy inexpensive snack?
Why are you only eating chicken and broccoli?
Maybe this is why your mum's oily food seems so tempting...3 -
I’ve been exercising as well. I’ve stuck with this diet for maybe five months and have no problems with it. It may be a boring diet but I’m willing to work hard to reach my goal. I’ve thought about having some variety but that would require me to adapt a new meal to my routine and learning how to make it. I don’t have much spare time so since making chicken doesn’t take much time, I’m sticking with it.amusedmonkey wrote: »You're likely undereating, and this looks like an extremely boring diet. No wonder you're hungry. I would not last 2 days on a chicken and broccoli diet. Let MFP calculate the calories for you and eat those calories in foods you like. More food and more variety. You can also get more calories by exercising.
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This does not sound sustainable long-term. This is why most "diets" end up failing. They aren't something people can keep doing for long without burning out or getting bored. What are you hoping to accomplish? Short term fix or lasting solution? It's probably better to use methods that you can live with forever (like eating normally but within calorie goals - CICO) if you want to see results that last. Because whatever you do to lose the weight needs to be something you can keep doing. Otherwise, when you stop doing the diet, the weight typically comes right back on. Good luck!
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Because chicken and broccoli is good for dieting and losing weight?TavistockToad wrote: »I’m currently on a chicken/broccoli diet (2 meals/day about 5oz chicken and 1 cup broc). Banana and fruit bars for snacks. I still would have cravings after. Should I increase my chicken intake? Or maybe water? Suggestions? Oh and any suggestions for a healthy inexpensive snack?
Why are you only eating chicken and broccoli?
Maybe this is why your mum's oily food seems so tempting...
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Because chicken and broccoli is good for dieting and losing weight?TavistockToad wrote: »I’m currently on a chicken/broccoli diet (2 meals/day about 5oz chicken and 1 cup broc). Banana and fruit bars for snacks. I still would have cravings after. Should I increase my chicken intake? Or maybe water? Suggestions? Oh and any suggestions for a healthy inexpensive snack?
Why are you only eating chicken and broccoli?
Maybe this is why your mum's oily food seems so tempting...
Nope.
A calorie deficit is good for losing weight.
A balanced and varied diet is good for you in general. Just chicken and broccoli is not balanced4 -
I understand what you mean. I was hoping to do this until I reach my goal (I’m 10-20lbs there) and would have some cheat days now and then while I’m on my diet so it’ll balance out.This does not sound sustainable long-term. This is why most "diets" end up failing. They aren't something people can keep doing for long without burning out or getting bored. What are you hoping to accomplish? Short term fix or lasting solution? It's probably better to use methods that you can live with forever (like eating normally but within calorie goals - CICO) if you want to see results that last. Because whatever you do to lose the weight needs to be something you can keep doing. Otherwise, when you stop doing the diet, the weight typically comes right back on. Good luck!
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You’re right. I meant losing fat sometimes I get it mixed up with weight.TavistockToad wrote: »
Because chicken and broccoli is good for dieting and losing weight?TavistockToad wrote: »I’m currently on a chicken/broccoli diet (2 meals/day about 5oz chicken and 1 cup broc). Banana and fruit bars for snacks. I still would have cravings after. Should I increase my chicken intake? Or maybe water? Suggestions? Oh and any suggestions for a healthy inexpensive snack?
Why are you only eating chicken and broccoli?
Maybe this is why your mum's oily food seems so tempting...
Nope.
A calorie deficit is good for losing weight.
A balanced and varied diet is good for you in general. Just chicken and broccoli is not balanced
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Chicken and broccoli is good because of low calorie and high protein. If you're not gonna eat more, you have to drink more water to feel fuller.4
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You’re right. I meant losing fat sometimes I get it mixed up with weight.TavistockToad wrote: »
Because chicken and broccoli is good for dieting and losing weight?TavistockToad wrote: »I’m currently on a chicken/broccoli diet (2 meals/day about 5oz chicken and 1 cup broc). Banana and fruit bars for snacks. I still would have cravings after. Should I increase my chicken intake? Or maybe water? Suggestions? Oh and any suggestions for a healthy inexpensive snack?
Why are you only eating chicken and broccoli?
Maybe this is why your mum's oily food seems so tempting...
Nope.
A calorie deficit is good for losing weight.
A balanced and varied diet is good for you in general. Just chicken and broccoli is not balanced
Undereating is bad for fat loss. Lack of variety is bad for health.2 -
I haven’t been undereating. I’m usually close to my calorie goal. Do you have any suggestions for variety? Maybe add in some fruits then? The reason for chicken and broccoli is because it’s inexpensive and easy to prepare.amusedmonkey wrote: »
You’re right. I meant losing fat sometimes I get it mixed up with weight.TavistockToad wrote: »
Because chicken and broccoli is good for dieting and losing weight?TavistockToad wrote: »I’m currently on a chicken/broccoli diet (2 meals/day about 5oz chicken and 1 cup broc). Banana and fruit bars for snacks. I still would have cravings after. Should I increase my chicken intake? Or maybe water? Suggestions? Oh and any suggestions for a healthy inexpensive snack?
Why are you only eating chicken and broccoli?
Maybe this is why your mum's oily food seems so tempting...
Nope.
A calorie deficit is good for losing weight.
A balanced and varied diet is good for you in general. Just chicken and broccoli is not balanced
Undereating is bad for fat loss. Lack of variety is bad for health.
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Try a different diet. 2 reasons:
1. It's really boring, which makes it really difficult to stick with.
2. Unless you plan to do this diet for the rest of your life, then it's not helping you develop the habits you need to keep the weight off once you lose it.
Look, you can eat literally anything you want, as long as you maintain a calorie deficit. Don't make this process harder than it needs to be.1 -
Try the Volume Eaters Thread lots of ideas there http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10563959/volume-eaters-thread/p1
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You’re right. I meant losing fat sometimes I get it mixed up with weight.TavistockToad wrote: »
Because chicken and broccoli is good for dieting and losing weight?TavistockToad wrote: »I’m currently on a chicken/broccoli diet (2 meals/day about 5oz chicken and 1 cup broc). Banana and fruit bars for snacks. I still would have cravings after. Should I increase my chicken intake? Or maybe water? Suggestions? Oh and any suggestions for a healthy inexpensive snack?
Why are you only eating chicken and broccoli?
Maybe this is why your mum's oily food seems so tempting...
Nope.
A calorie deficit is good for losing weight.
A balanced and varied diet is good for you in general. Just chicken and broccoli is not balanced
still, nope.
A calorie deficit is good for losing fat.
A balanced and varied diet is good for you in general. Just chicken and broccoli is not balanced3 -
You're writing in a way that makes it seem like you're trolling. If you're sincere, you'll listen to advice. So this is probably just as futile as the previous posters attempts, but hey, maybe we're in for a surprise, so let me try too:
Losing weight IS losing fat as long as your calorie deficit isn't too aggresive.
All food costs money, and you can decide for yourself what you want to eat. You're paying for your chicken and broccoli too.
Snack foods are typically more expensive and calorie dense than foods we typically eat at meals.
There isn't really much extra skill needed to cook other meats, vegs and starches.
If you eat properly, the need to cheat will go away.
A healthy diet is balanced and varied. Eating more of the same of a monotonous diet, is not making it healthier.
We can eat sub-par for a short time without feeling the effect immediately. But you will, eventually.
If you don't eat healthily, over time, you'll get hungry.
You are hungry because you aren't eating well.
A bad diet can also impact your brain functions - your ability to think straight, becomes impaired.
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Sorry if it seems like that. I don’t know everything about nutrition or health. I’m still learning. I’ve seen some vlogs on YouTube where people prep a meal for a diet and it’s usually chicken with veggies. They would cook it and store it in the fridge and that would be their meal for the week. I’m basically doing the same thing and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. You guys are against that for some reason. So I’m a bit confused and trying to understand.kommodevaran wrote: »You're writing in a way that makes it seem like you're trolling. If you're sincere, you'll listen to advice. So this is probably just as futile as the previous posters attempts, but hey, maybe we're in for a surprise, so let me try too:
Losing weight IS losing fat as long as your calorie deficit isn't too aggresive.
All food costs money, and you can decide for yourself what you want to eat. You're paying for your chicken and broccoli too.
Snack foods are typically more expensive and calorie dense than foods we typically eat at meals.
There isn't really much extra skill needed to cook other meats, vegs and starches.
If you eat properly, the need to cheat will go away.
A healthy diet is balanced and varied. Eating more of the same of a monotonous diet, is not making it healthier.
We can eat sub-par for a short time without feeling the effect immediately. But you will, eventually.
If you don't eat healthily, over time, you'll get hungry.
You are hungry because you aren't eating well.
A bad diet can also impact your brain functions - your ability to think straight, becomes impaired.
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Because chicken and broccoli is good for dieting and losing weight?TavistockToad wrote: »I’m currently on a chicken/broccoli diet (2 meals/day about 5oz chicken and 1 cup broc). Banana and fruit bars for snacks. I still would have cravings after. Should I increase my chicken intake? Or maybe water? Suggestions? Oh and any suggestions for a healthy inexpensive snack?
Why are you only eating chicken and broccoli?
Maybe this is why your mum's oily food seems so tempting...
No it isn't. Are you *kitten* kidding? You're starving yourself because of an assumption with absolutely no backing?
Would steak and asparagus be any less effective for losing weight?
You feel like you're starving BECAUSE YOU ARE. OP you seriously need to reevaluate your eating habits. You need to count your calories to lose weight and keep it off in the long run. You need a variety of foods in your diet. Both for physical and mental health.
Tell us. Who told you that you need to eat that to lose weight?2 -
What exactly is your daily caloric intake set to?0
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That's okay, we are all learning, every day. These days, it takes years of reflection and experimetation and honesty and sucking up, to learn what's real and what's fake, and still we make mistakes. Some things are easy to learn, but wrong, and hard to unlearn, because they make sense and feel right, for a while. What you've seen on those vlogs, falls into that category. It's flashy and hip, and the people who do it, are thin and muscular and beautiful and fun. Of course you want to be like them. But the hard truth is that good nutrition is everything but flashy, it's day in, day out, making decisions, trying to fit it into your real life schedule. You can't go on eating chicken and broccoli every day. You want hamburgers and wraps and sandwiches, fruit salads and chocolate bars, ice cream and steak and potatoes. The vloggers make you think that all this is naughty and forbidden and unhealthy. But nothing is unhealthy in the proper portions and proportions, and eating food you like is not naughty, it's necessary self-care.
Sorry if it seems like that. I don’t know everything about nutrition or health. I’m still learning. I’ve seen some vlogs on YouTube where people prep a meal for a diet and it’s usually chicken with veggies. They would cook it and store it in the fridge and that would be their meal for the week. I’m basically doing the same thing and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. You guys are against that for some reason. So I’m a bit confused and trying to understand.kommodevaran wrote: »You're writing in a way that makes it seem like you're trolling. If you're sincere, you'll listen to advice. So this is probably just as futile as the previous posters attempts, but hey, maybe we're in for a surprise, so let me try too:
Losing weight IS losing fat as long as your calorie deficit isn't too aggresive.
All food costs money, and you can decide for yourself what you want to eat. You're paying for your chicken and broccoli too.
Snack foods are typically more expensive and calorie dense than foods we typically eat at meals.
There isn't really much extra skill needed to cook other meats, vegs and starches.
If you eat properly, the need to cheat will go away.
A healthy diet is balanced and varied. Eating more of the same of a monotonous diet, is not making it healthier.
We can eat sub-par for a short time without feeling the effect immediately. But you will, eventually.
If you don't eat healthily, over time, you'll get hungry.
You are hungry because you aren't eating well.
A bad diet can also impact your brain functions - your ability to think straight, becomes impaired.2 -
Sorry if it seems like that. I don’t know everything about nutrition or health. I’m still learning. I’ve seen some vlogs on YouTube where people prep a meal for a diet and it’s usually chicken with veggies. They would cook it and store it in the fridge and that would be their meal for the week. I’m basically doing the same thing and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. You guys are against that for some reason. So I’m a bit confused and trying to understand.kommodevaran wrote: »You're writing in a way that makes it seem like you're trolling. If you're sincere, you'll listen to advice. So this is probably just as futile as the previous posters attempts, but hey, maybe we're in for a surprise, so let me try too:
Losing weight IS losing fat as long as your calorie deficit isn't too aggresive.
All food costs money, and you can decide for yourself what you want to eat. You're paying for your chicken and broccoli too.
Snack foods are typically more expensive and calorie dense than foods we typically eat at meals.
There isn't really much extra skill needed to cook other meats, vegs and starches.
If you eat properly, the need to cheat will go away.
A healthy diet is balanced and varied. Eating more of the same of a monotonous diet, is not making it healthier.
We can eat sub-par for a short time without feeling the effect immediately. But you will, eventually.
If you don't eat healthily, over time, you'll get hungry.
You are hungry because you aren't eating well.
A bad diet can also impact your brain functions - your ability to think straight, becomes impaired.
It's probably due to the fact that those diet gurus make money off of every video they produce.
Tell me what's someone who knows nothing about diet more likely to believe.
A. "In order to lose weight, you need to be strict. Cutting out all junk foods and sugars. Along with doing cardio at least 3x a week. Then for your meals you need to eat chicken and a vegetable. The best way to go about this is cooking it all at the beginning of the week then putting it in the fridge."
B. "You can lose weight/fat without any sort of restrictions. So long as you eat under your calories. Anything from spinach to sour keys. You can have it, regardless of if you exercise or not."2 -
As a starting point: https://www.healthline.com/health/balanced-diet#Whattoeat40
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Yes! But I want to elaborate on this (because I find it deeply fascinating and complex). What makes us believe things? We like to believe that we use our rational minds. But we don't always do that. So when you ask yourself what you find most believeable of these two statements, Jesse wants you to think logically. But use your gut feeling, too. What sounds most compelling? I can almost guarantee that you'll find yourself torn between "good common sense, of course I can do that, but boy, how boring" on the one side, and "ooh, that sounds hard, but I guess it's necessary, because I've been really really bad and greedy and need to get this off NOW, and desperate times call for desperate measures".
Sorry if it seems like that. I don’t know everything about nutrition or health. I’m still learning. I’ve seen some vlogs on YouTube where people prep a meal for a diet and it’s usually chicken with veggies. They would cook it and store it in the fridge and that would be their meal for the week. I’m basically doing the same thing and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. You guys are against that for some reason. So I’m a bit confused and trying to understand.kommodevaran wrote: »You're writing in a way that makes it seem like you're trolling. If you're sincere, you'll listen to advice. So this is probably just as futile as the previous posters attempts, but hey, maybe we're in for a surprise, so let me try too:
Losing weight IS losing fat as long as your calorie deficit isn't too aggresive.
All food costs money, and you can decide for yourself what you want to eat. You're paying for your chicken and broccoli too.
Snack foods are typically more expensive and calorie dense than foods we typically eat at meals.
There isn't really much extra skill needed to cook other meats, vegs and starches.
If you eat properly, the need to cheat will go away.
A healthy diet is balanced and varied. Eating more of the same of a monotonous diet, is not making it healthier.
We can eat sub-par for a short time without feeling the effect immediately. But you will, eventually.
If you don't eat healthily, over time, you'll get hungry.
You are hungry because you aren't eating well.
A bad diet can also impact your brain functions - your ability to think straight, becomes impaired.
It's probably due to the fact that those diet gurus make money off of every video they produce.
Tell me what's someone who knows nothing about diet more likely to believe.
A. "In order to lose weight, you need to be strict. Cutting out all junk foods and sugars. Along with doing cardio at least 3x a week. Then for your meals you need to eat chicken and a vegetable. The best way to go about this is cooking it all at the beginning of the week then putting it in the fridge."
B. "You can lose weight/fat without any sort of restrictions. So long as you eat under your calories. Anything from spinach to sour keys. You can have it, regardless of if you exercise or not."
(I think it's hard to understand how confused someone can be if you've "always" had an understanding on the subject. Hindsight is always 20/20.)1 -
Your diet is boring. I'm not sure why you are restricting what foods you eat, that's not how weight loss works.
If we take in less calories than be burn we lose.
Eat foods you like/enjoy, weigh them and log them accurately in this app. Stay consistently within the given calories and you will lose.
If you're hungry you aren't eating enough fat/protein/fibre.0
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