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When You've Eaten All Your Calories at Breakfast 😲

Posts: 1,080 Member
edited June 2021 in Health and Weight Loss
Well, most of them anyway. What are some good ideas for VERY low-cal dinners? Hoping someone here has a better idea than my 'can of tuna & water' plan.

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  • Posts: 192 Member
    Well, I was going to say a vegetable omelette (2 eggs + 1 egg white) made with Pam and a salad, but maybe you've had enough eggs for one day. :D

    So I'd say SOUP! plus drink lots of lo-cal, unsweetened liquids.
  • Posts: 489 Member
    a piece of fish filet and lots of broccolli/cauliflower and or tomato/cucumber/lettuce salad. or just borrow some calories from tomorrow .
  • Posts: 10,230 Member
    I just made a massive bowl of kind of greek salad of freshly harvested cherry tomatoes, cucumber, while greek (some vegetarian 'feta') and edamame. Together with a simple burger with lean tartar, tomato ketchup, acar that I made some other time and Ikea rosted onions. Comes in at around 500 calories all together.
  • Posts: 859 Member
    Fish, egg whites, and veggies are very low cal. Fruit is more on the higher end than veggies. if it isn't berries.
    I don't have meal for you but these are some options.
  • Posts: 1,615 Member
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    I probably wouldn't do anything different and just chalk it up to one of those days. They happen here and there. As long as it's not a regular thing, they're pretty irrelevant.

    Also this.

    Go back to reports and look at your last week, month, or 90 days of net calories. It'll give you a bigger overall picture of how you're doing and some perspective.

    I have eaten above maintenance (by more than a handful of calories) twice in 3 months. so like wolfman I'd just... eat more normally for the rest of the day.
  • Posts: 7,492 Member
    I would probably just have a huge mixing size bowl of salad. Or make a stir fry with 20 calorie shirataki noodles and tons of veggies. You can make a huge meal for <200 calories. See volume eaters thread.
  • Posts: 49,136 Member
    soup.

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    33gail33 wrote: »
    I'd do fish and a bunch of steamed vegetables.

    (Eggs benedict? That'll do you in every time... :smiley: )

    IME eggs benny is actually not terrible, it comes out around 600-750 calories by my math, at least the way it's served at most of the breakfast places around me. (The homefries on the side, though, that's the kicker.)

    Anyway sometimes it be like that, it's more important to stay honest with yourself. Keep logging the rest of the day, drink water, opt for a light dinner of soup or tuna salad and crackers or something along those lines.
  • Posts: 10,330 Member
    My usual go-to for a low calorie meal is boiled potatoes. Cut it up, boil in salted water with a small head of onion and a bay leaf, drain when ready, cover for 5 minutes, sprinkle with dried herbs and black pepper and you're good to go. So delicious and filling!

    If you're too miserable by dinner, don't torture yourself. Just have one of your usual low-ish meals that you like. being a bit over for the day is not the end of the world.
  • Posts: 592 Member
    If you want to go the seafood route, a shrimp louie or crab louie salad with several kinds of vegetables would be a tasty option, quick and easy if you use precooked seafood and premade or microwave-steamed vegetables. An egg white omelette with vegetables could be good too, if you are OK having more eggs.
  • Posts: 39 Member
    A bowl of salad and a bunch of prawns (or shrimp or whatever they are where you live) - they are ridiculously low calorie and full of protein.
  • Posts: 1,080 Member
    Sometimes, people get into the mindset that "Well, I've already ruined the day, so *kitten* it, I'm going to eat whatever I want today and start fresh tomorrow."

    I call that 'the misewells' - as in, I've eaten much too much and so I misewell keep eating and start afresh tomorrow. Thanks for the encouragement everyone. It really helped me keep to plan. I have a lot of trouble dealing with foods off my deficit plan... but that's a subject for whole other thread 😁
  • Posts: 6,035 Member
    MsCzar wrote: »
    Well, most of them anyway. What are some good ideas for VERY low-cal dinners? Hoping someone here has a better idea than my 'can of tuna & water' plan.

    Is this normal for you or was it a special occasion?
  • Posts: 56 Member
    If I eat all the calories for breakfast, which has happened, then I fast for the rest of the day. If I have some calories left, then I find something that will fit in.
  • Posts: 2,144 Member
    egg whites on low carb flatbread. Nothing better than a egg sandwich. If you got enough calories throw in 1/2 pc of cheese.

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