When You've Eaten All Your Calories at Breakfast 😲
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Stir-fry won the day! Sesame oil and hoisin sauce added 200 calories to the whole pan - but there are leftovers for tomorrow.
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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.0
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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.3
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Planning to add prawns to the leftovers tomorrow. Yum!
Managed to hold the day at ~ 1800 cals.10 -
Planning to add prawns to the leftovers tomorrow. Yum!
Managed to hold the day at ~ 1800 cals.
I think that's a good example of not letting a day get out of control, but also not feeling like to you have to starve yourself the rest of the day.
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 have done that. There's nothing necessarily "wrong" with that in the sense that one day is not going to ruin you. But, it's kind of a defeatist attitude.
You did it best...you had a big meal that might have taken most of your calorie budget for the day, but then you were thoughtful the rest of the day and still came out with a reasonable calorie total.6 -
SuzySunshine99 wrote: »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 😁4 -
I have houseguests this week, so there are changes in what I keep in the kitchen as well as meal schedule additions and changes. But I also have difficulty making good choices when there is abundant free food at craft services or catering at work. During the pandemic, that wasn't something I had to deal with. Now it's become a bit of an issue.5
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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.2
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egg whites on low carb flatbread. Nothing better than a egg sandwich. If you got enough calories throw in 1/2 pc of cheese.0
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I'd be making cabbage and tomato soup. :-)2
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I agree with those who say to eat how you normally do for the rest of the day. Consider it a maintenance or slightly over day, then consider cutting back A LITTLE each day for a week to balance it out. Or you might have a maintenance week, it's not the end of the world. You can't fix everything in a day.
PS ITs not that hard to eat most of your calories at breakfast, especially in a restaurant.2
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