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elizabethmdavis423
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I have made good progress this week. Family wants to get pizza tonight. How do you handle that?
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My husband eats pizza every Thursday. Sometimes I order a large pizza and join him, other times I order him a medium pizza and I get something else on the menu. Yesterday he had pizza and I order 10 pc chicken poppers (papa johns).
My advice to you:
If you want the pizza, eat the pizza. Log it and eat it. Maybe allow yourself to eat at maintenance in order to allow yourself more calories and not ruin your progress if your worried. ** note that increase of sodium might look like a gain on the scale
If you don't want the pizza, have them order something else with it.11 -
Thin crust, lots of veggies, and limit to one meat topping. Have a nice salad, and a small serving of pizza. When I get pepperoni on restaurant pizza, I like to dab the grease off with a paper towel.
When I make homemade, I have more control. Thin crust (only a little oil in my recipe). A pizza stone will give you a crisp crust. 2% mozzarella and Hormel turkey pepperoni. Lots of veggie. Yum!6 -
Options:
- eat it, log it, enjoy it
- see if there are alternative, lower calorie, dishes available from the same restaurant
- eat a smaller portion and supplement with a salad on the side
- eat a smaller breakfast/lunch to have more calories left for dinner
Unless you're working with a really small calorie deficit the rest of the week, the occasional pizza won't ruin your progress.14 -
I plan to get pizza on days that I also have a higher calorie burn.
I also have a large salad with my pizza. Bulking up on salad and eating very slowly allows me to have some pizza, but less than before, and not feel deprived.2 -
My family has pizza night once per week on average. My wife and I get a medium...I have two slices and a salad and call it a day. Friday night is usually pizza and movie night. A couple slices of pizza isn't really all that devastating calorie wise, and certainly not in the grand scheme of what's going on most of the time.5
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I'm with everyone that says have a couple of slices and a salad or vegetables on the side. Log it in. I will usually be up a couple pounds the next day (water weight), but it goes away in a couple of days. If you like a veggie pizza then have 3 slices. The idea is to enjoy eating with your family and make it work for you.
Have fun!!8 -
I managed a pizzeria for a couple decades, and to be honest, it can be done sort of healthy.. you can get a thin crust pizza, but that has extra sodium.. pick your poison.. or just eat regualr dough.. but have 1-2 slices, not 4-5. Add veggies as a topping, not meat, and maybe ask for light cheese.. I like my cheese though.. then get salad, and add a lighter dressing. If I eat a salad, I remove all the toppings, add dressing to the greens, then put any meat, and cheeses, or tomato/ veggies back on top.. that way you use less dressing, because you need it for the greens. tomatoes are sweet by themselves, and if you have an antipasto, or ceasar, meat, cheese, or croutons do not need dressing on them, right? Last, drink something healthy.. iced tea or lemonade, with sugar substitute. Whatever you drink normally, instead of pop.
The problem with many people's pizza nights.. and MINE, is they eat a bunch of slices of pizza, with 5 calorie heavy toppings, add extra cheese on top, butter cheese the crust, then wash it all down with a liter or 2 of pop. Maybe they add wings, or cheesy bread.. which is made from pizza dough, which isn't healthy bread.
* If I wanted some bread, I would go to a baker, and buy good bread, and slice it, and maybe have a few slices with a bit of olive oil, and melted cheese on them.. or skip the extra.. oil & cheese are added calories, but it tastes so much better than cheesy " bread " from the pizzeria.
Option 2 is to make your own " pizzas " Use pita bread, add tomato sauce, shredded cheese, some toppings, and bake them until the cheese melts, then cut them into 4 slices. You get to choose the sauce, cheese, and quality toppings.. so you can control calories, sodium etc. We used to do this when my parents were alive.. it's fun with several people making different pizzas.. you can swap slices, and the family watches the pizzas cook ( doesn't take too long ), but you are doing something together as a family.. when we picked up a pizza, all we did was eat together, and we ate whatever toppings they chose that day.. you could end up with anchovies, if they had a hankering for them. I used to love prosciutto, fresh mushrooms, and sliced black olives. You can do that on these " pizzas ", because you only cook them for several minutes, so the prosciutto doesn't burn.. but maybe prosciutto is too salty?? You get to pick YOUR own toppings though, and make what some migh call a bad meal, an OK meal.
Plus, you won't be outside the family circle, eating totally different than they do. Others deal with it, because it's your family, and they love you, but it can get awkward, right?
Enjoy. Hope I was some help.5 -
I've been doing homeade pizzas for lunch.
Great ideas everyone!!! Thank you so much.1 -
Pizza night tonight. I make it myself. We haven’t had it since May. It’s cool enough now to have the oven on. No AC. Very thin crust, thin layer sauce, lots of veggies, sprinkling of cheese. Makes a full cookie sheet sized pizza. Two nice sized pieces 300 calories. Every Friday now through late spring.2
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Eat the pizza, log it and enjoy! Maybe have a homemade salad beforehand or something else low calorie and filling so you’re not too hungry. Try to avoid high calorie toppings but you deserve a nice treat periodically. Don’t beat yourself up and being too restrictive is setting yourself up for failure. Enjoy the pizza with your family!1
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Usually, I eat 2 slices and add a light soup, side salad or fruit. Then I log the calories.2
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I failed and ate way too much!
UGH 10 -
elizabethmdavis423 wrote: »I failed and ate way too much! UGH
No biggie. Just get back on your regular healthy routine. You'll see a little extra water weight on the scale for a few days, probably - don't let that panic you, it's not mostly fat; then I'm betting not much other scale impact.
I didn't share my personal pizza strategy earlier, because it seemed Distinctly Unhelpful. Now, I'm thinking it might be helpful. Context: I live alone. If I get non-group pizzeria pizza, I still eat the whole thing myself, usually within that one day. Yeah, I usually get a small (not mostly individual one, but like 12" round), get lots of veggies . . . but sometimes it's deep dish or Detroit-style, not thin crust, and there's always cheese, sometimes lots.
I just keep it rare, and it works out OK. I'm in year 5+ of maintaining a healthy weight, and have been doing that occasionally all along.
Just get back on your routine, no self-recrimination or guilt. At most, if you're feeling regretful, like it wasn't worth it to you, then think about how to modify your plan to work out more to your liking next time, and rehearse that new plan in your head vividly a few times, to fix the idea in place. Take no more than 10 minutes for that, then just go on with life.
It'll be OK.6 -
How I handle that usually depends on the day, how much I want pizza, how hungry I am, how much I want some other dish, how many calories I have/willing to spend...etc.
- Sometimes I skip the pizza and eat something else if something else sounds more appealing.
- Sometimes I have a slice for a taste plus a salad and a large diet drink if I don't have enough calories.
- Sometimes I don't have enough calories but I want it enough to warrant spending more calories than I have in my budget for that day. The world won't end if I occasionally go over my budget.
- Sometimes I save up calories in advance if we're going out and will be ordering appetizers.
- Most of the time I just eat my regular portion of pizza because my usual portion is usually within the 600-1000 calorie range that I usually eat for my main meal, pizza or otherwise.
In all cases, I always try to make the choice that leaves me most mentally satisfied.3 -
I give in…80% of the time.1
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elizabethmdavis423 wrote: »I failed and ate way too much! UGH
Don't expect perfection immediately
(Or ever, really.)
You will learn and progress.3 -
I give in…80% of the time.
What do you mean by ' giving in'?
I guess if you mean eat many slices and go way over calorie budget ( be that a daily or weekly budget) and this happens often - it will derail your progress
But if you eat pizza in a moderate way, either by using one of the strategies mentioned or some other way - no reason for that to be problematic or seen as 'giving in' rather than a reasonable part of your WOE.0 -
Diet is what you eat every day of your life.. sometimes that includes pizza. often, this makes us feel cravings, and despite our best intentions, and all the advice in the world, we " eat too much ". You can't FAIL, unless the food misses your mouth, and you smear it on your face. That would be a fail, especially since you had WAY to many calories from alcohol.
All this is, was a meal where you ate too much. You can't avoid that completely. I don't want to ever meet anyone THAT perfect.. I'd hate them.
So, you tried one method.. think about what it was.. for starters, pizzeria pizza is manufactured in a way to make you want more. They aren't reying to make you fat, but the more you buy, the more money THEY make. We know this isn't good food, and we know it causes cravings, so you have a couple choices.
1) Just know you will eat too much on a pizza night.. maybe eat a smaller lunch, but how often is pizza night? if it's once every 2 weeks, it won't ruin the other 13.5 days worth of healthy eating. Maybe just roll with it. Enjoy it, as long a soverall, you are seeing positive results.
2) If pizza night is 3 nights a week, and you can't be healthy overeating 3 times a week, maybe try to make home made " pizza ", on product you buy.. maybe lower sodium, and calories, like in pita pizzas, or they do sell pre-made crusts.. you just add sauce, cheese, toppings, and control how " bad " it is.. while still getting the pizza experience. Our family really enjoyed this, versus pizza delivery/pick-up.. we also DID like back when you actually ate in a pizzeria, because they were restaurants, not just a counter.. but that is rare now.. pizza nowadays seems to be at home, in front of the TV, eating until the food is gone. We liked making different pizzas, helping each other do so, and watching htme cook... you might like that, and maybe your family would be okay with these types of " pizza ".. of course, some kids might simply want convenience, so maybe you end up cooking a pizza for each?? If so, would you be OK doing that, to eat healthier " pizza "??
3) Eat something else, if you can't stop yourself, and your family likes name brand pizza, and it would not be possible to do something else. You might even be able to get something ELSE from a pizzeria. Maybe a chicken or fish dinner, if you can just eat that, or some serve pasta dishes, although that would just make ME hungrier, it depends on what you can eat in proper amounts. Surely, if they had pizza, and you had a fish dinner, it would be kind of normal.
Ultimately, YOU need to decide what to accept.. slower weight loss, and just enjoy the pizza, or an alternative, or eeven possibly not able to eat from the same place as them.. if necessary, and you feel the need, you might end up just eating something totally different, but still eat WITH them.. the rest of us can give us our opinions, advice, and probably what WE would do.. many would simply enjoy the pizza, and not feel guilty about it.. BUT, can you?
Do what you think is best, and gets YOU the results you want.. whatever that is. You might not figure it out the first few times, but I think if you experiment some, in the end, you WILL.
Really, we only fail, if we give up, and just allow ourselves to become more unhealthy.. just think of the other times as attempts to get healthy through experimentation.. and now you know MORE, so you are closer to figuring out what DOES work for you.
Good Luck, think about it, and try again. 3 -
We order pizza every Friday night. I eat two slices of thin crust, mushroom, light cheese. I fill the rest of my plate with raw veggies. It's delicious, I look forward to it, and it fits within my calorie goals.2
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This should be on a tshirt or something!
I do eat pizza, and log as best I can. If eating from a small/local place that does not publish nutrition data then I log using Dominos for Handtossed crust. Figure the details should be in the same area.
Lately I'm hooked on Pizza Hut's cajun dry rub wings. Wish they came in 8-10 count. 6 is not enough and 12 is too many.Go_Deskercise wrote: »
If you want the pizza, eat the pizza
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