I love how you have it so well planned! I am way too random! At least I plan enough to have "stuff" around to be random with!

BUT, I am AHEAD OF THE GAME today! I have 1118g of rutabaga (swede) already cooked and ready to mash (plus 500g green beans and 150g carrots and peas). I'm thinking that the last 300g of Costco ready to eat roast beef pouch is joining all this.

Most impressive, PAV. My bunnies were not up to snuff today....some green soup, grape tomatoes and and apple...but alas they were all out delivering chocolate or some such thing

This has been one of my easiest Easter weekends. NO chocolate ! Lots of guests coming and going but menu was soup, grape tomatoes, pineapple, watermelon , pan-fried tofu (yesterday only), lots and lots of tea and that was it! If all holidays could be so easy.

My day has taken a bit of a turn as this was consumed in early afternoon. Now how the kittens am I going to log this is what *I* want to know!!!!



pork, shrimp, the egg was sunny side (I flipped it before remembering to take a picture), rice noodles and token vegetables (broccoli, sprouts, peas, red peppers, onion)

Oh way way higher. Large portion.
And quite full (very temporarily).
Genuinely perplexed for now.
But i will figure it out when my brain starts working again!
There was a LOT of rice noodle in that bowl!
Very tasty too... unfortunately.
I was more going along with quiz for Laurie
I might have to go there with a jug of water and try to figure out 20? 21? 24+oz bowl?

Laurie is off to Newfoundland so I’ll give it a guess. About 1800 calories considering lots of noodles, fried egg, pork and oil. Some sort of Thai/Vietnamese bowl? Could even top 2000?

I’m trying to cut back after Easter feasting because we’re off to visit family next week. So not much control over meals for a week. It will pretty much be holding back on portions.

Interesting. We have no real way of knowing because neither weight nor size is truly known. It was a full size / platter sized deep bowl. For size indications the only referents would be the one fried egg (unfortunately upside down already in the picture) and the piece of broccoli.

For whatever it's worth, and again no way of knowing if Yooly's second guess or Dante's are more correct, this is what I logged. Based on "fullness factor", the sub 1000 Cal options are definitely out. The real question is whether I should have gone higher too!

One of the main downsides the volume eating method has - which I'm kinda following together with the Med diet - is that it is extremely easy to eat vast amounts of any food without physical limitations.

I put this to the test a week ago, strictly for science purposes.

It didn't go well. After 3 Xlarge pizzas and ~8000kcal I had to stop, not for feeling sick or guilty but simply because there was no point. About three hours later I was hungry again, and the next day I woke up 11 pounds heavier (but only 13€ poorer, since the pizzas were bought in a 3for1 discount).

A couple of Frumil and light eating the following two days brought my weight back down, and served as a reminder that if your strategy is pairing large food consumption with low caloric density, you gotta be extra careful because your satiety cues are non existent and your stomach is trained for thermo-nuclear war!

Salmon patty, cauliflower rice and salad for lunch. A couple of homemade cheese crackers too.
I’m not sure about dinner. Maybe some yogurt and cereal- because it’s easy and filling. Lately I’m just uninspired by meals. I’d just walk around snacking all day if I could. But that’s dangerous and usually adds up to more than taking the time to sit down and eat properly.

So I was going to do a stir fry last night, but was craving fried rice so did that instead.

Chicken, oyster mushrooms, zucchini, green onion, and cashews with a sauce of garlic, coconut aminos, honey, and sesame oil. SO GOOD! And I have enough for lunch and dinner today. Which is good because I have a ton of cleaning to do before my friend comes to visit tomorrow.

i made super soup yesterday... cause... half price chocolates have played a number on my calories for some strange and totally unfathomable reason!

Plus... well it's still supposed to be Greek lent (other than the obviously DARK and as a result totally lent-y chocolates! Just be glad that I'm not doing an honest to goodness "real" Greek lent with shrimps, mussels, octopus, cuttlefish, oysters, lobsters, squid, broad beans (gigandes), multiple kinds of olives, breads, salads, oil, etc, etc, etc. It's like sad eatings I tell ya! Sad for the wallet that is!

Anyways.... super soup... 1kg lettuce!!!!!, 350g onion, 750g tomatoes (just because they were going bad) 350g baby baby sweat peas (cause they were there), 300g konjac rice, artificial chicken and mushroom powder 40-water-lemon to serve with and no eggs... cause my eggs have chocolate!

Well I'm sure Dante partook of all that! Mine was not as exciting. Except for the half price Lent chocolates 😝 and kitchen sink soup! 😘

Sounds like a plan Athijade!

We could have met up while I was stuck today at Chicago Midway for hours! I realized I actually kind of knew someone in Chicago!

Good plan, Athijade. Hope you can solve the riddle in a way that feels sustainable and not too restrictive

Out of Chicago now, Yooly????

What's on the cover of the one you picked?