Suggest me a good 500 calories breakfast and lunch?

omprakashant
omprakashant Posts: 1 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I’m new to dieting and workout. I tried looking online for some healthy meal plan but failed to find any. Can anyone help me with 500 calories breakfast/lunch meal plan?

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  • yukfoo
    yukfoo Posts: 871 Member
    edited August 2018
    ooopps
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    That's strange - to me, the internet seems filled with "healthy meal plans" and meal suggestions.

    To lose weight, you have to eat less. You're supposed to eat the amount of calories MFP gave you. You can spread out your calories as you like, and eat what you like. Unless you do it your way, you won't be able to eat less for very long.
  • Jkowals123
    Jkowals123 Posts: 133 Member
    Breakfast: 12 almonds, 1 T chia seeds, 1/2 cup oatmeal, 3/4 cup plain yogurt

    Lunch: 3 cups salad greens, 1/2 avocado, tuna fish with mayonnaise, 1/2 cup tomatoes, 2 rice cakes
  • pinuplove
    pinuplove Posts: 12,871 Member
    You need to figure out a meal plan from foods YOU like that fits your goals. We can suggest meals all day long, but if it's foods you don't like, you won't be successful with them.

    Focus on meeting fat + protein minimums; once those are met fill in the rest with carbs. Try to incorporate a variety of fruits and veggies, but only things you'll actually eat and enjoy.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    pinuplove wrote: »
    You need to figure out a meal plan from foods YOU like that fits your goals. We can suggest meals all day long, but if it's foods you don't like, you won't be successful with them.

    Focus on meeting fat + protein minimums; once those are met fill in the rest with carbs. Try to incorporate a variety of fruits and veggies, but only things you'll actually eat and enjoy.

    Right, my kale smoothie lunch probably wouldn't be very popular :lol:
  • pinuplove
    pinuplove Posts: 12,871 Member
    kshama2001 wrote: »
    pinuplove wrote: »
    You need to figure out a meal plan from foods YOU like that fits your goals. We can suggest meals all day long, but if it's foods you don't like, you won't be successful with them.

    Focus on meeting fat + protein minimums; once those are met fill in the rest with carbs. Try to incorporate a variety of fruits and veggies, but only things you'll actually eat and enjoy.

    Right, my kale smoothie lunch probably wouldn't be very popular :lol:

    Kale :confounded:
  • Panini911
    Panini911 Posts: 2,325 Member
    curious what your daily goal is if you only use 500 for two meals?

    Steal cut oats can be kept at a 200 cal portion or less. or oatmeal. the details of what goes in and how much are individual.

    lunch i eat lots of veggies and a home made soup (low cal), a small portion of quinoa salad or tuna+crackers, or boiled eggs.
  • RelCanonical
    RelCanonical Posts: 3,882 Member
    Do you eat dinner? A habit that's been working for me is to eat what I eat for dinner, just in a smaller portion (sometimes as leftovers, but not always depending on the recipe). It takes out the decision-making and I change it up weekly so I don't get tired of it. Some of the things I've been having are:

    Chickpea burgers
    Avocado sandwiches and wraps
    Tacos with corn tortillas
    Flatbread Alfredo pizza

    I just watch my portion. Usually the lunch portion is about 300-400 calories, and the dinner portion is about 500-600 calories.
  • gstaubs1
    gstaubs1 Posts: 200 Member
    I had 2.5 slices of bacon today and 2 large eggs fried over easy, 1 cup of coffee.
    358 calories, 5g carbs, 29g fat, 24g protein, 862mg sodium ouchie lol, 2g sugar. This seems to work for me. But to each their own :)
  • AJB1014
    AJB1014 Posts: 1,380 Member
    skinnytaste.com has weekly meal plans and shopping lists
  • suibhan6
    suibhan6 Posts: 81 Member
    edited August 2018
    As others have said, it won't work long term unless you populate your diet with foods you like - decide if you are going to go low carb (that's me) or low fat, based on what you will stick to. (Do however try to remove, even if gradually, those junk carbs and junk fats, in favor of what's termed Real Food.) You don't want to be hungry... that won't work long term... (Exceptions are true emotional eaters, and they will need additional support... but that's possibly few of us?)


    I lost a bunch of pounds about 6-7 years ago, and kept to my food plan with little stress -- until activity-limiting surgery last December, simultaneously moving to a place where the social activities here mean that many of my choices when eating with others are high glycemic carbs and junky fats. Also, one of my main helathy food groups, seafood, is not readily available here, not easily... So, slowly. I'm re-accumulating weight, and now I am here on MyFitnessPal, to say NO.

    So I do know there is a space where you may miss eating, say, the wrong sorts of carbs (or fats, if that's your direction)... but you can gradually overcome that.


  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,615 Member
    edited August 2018
    500 calorie breakfast?

    Here's my usual weekend breakfast.

    Breakfast ................................................................................................... Calories

    Woolworths Home Brand - Choc Hazelnut Spread, 10 g (1 Tbsp) .................... 57
    the Tasmanian Honey Company - Leatherwood Honey, 10 g .......................... 34
    Woolworths Homebrand - Canola Spread, 10 g .............................................. 57
    Woolworths Homebrand - Light Cheese Slices: Reduced Fat Processed Cheese (25% Less Fat), 1 Slice - 2g ..... 51
    Helga's - Pumpkin Seed & Grain Sliced Bread (Aus_2015), 2 slices (80 g) ........ 213
    Total Calories ......... 412


    During the week, my "breakfast" consists of a cup of black coffee and a glass of water.

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