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"Starvation mode" is a real thing - with prolonged very low calorie intake your metabolism does slow - but it doesn't reverse weight loss, just slows it down, and your intake has to be pretty dramatically low over quite a long period. I think your "gain" is from your workouts. That muscle soreness, delayed onset muscle…
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Breakfasts depend on how badly I oversleep. If I get up in time for eggs, with or without bacon or baked beans, that. If I have no time to cook, but a little time to eat, turkey breast strips. If I'm running late, it's a protein bar in morning meeting. Lunches for the next two days are made: salad, and ham and mustard…
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Quorn instead of meat, in a lot of meals, because it has less fat.
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I've had a couple of horrible extractions in the past year and one of my go-to meals was curried lentils, with the lentils boiled down until they were really so soft that I could swallow them whole without issue. A lot of veg will boil to utter softness really, which may not be to your taste normally but introduces some…
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If you get paid monthly or have a little money to spare to start, would you be able to prep a few different things to start off with, so you have some variety? I've just moved house, and on my first weekend I made four different meals, each 4-5 portions. So now I have four veg-packed options to choose from, and I can build…
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Not so much what the food is, but when I eat it. I wouldn't serve anyone else a bowl of tuna mayonnaise for breakfast! Or a yoghurt and a banana as dinner, followed by a bowl of casserole as a bedtime snack. Watching what I eat has made me much less likely to eat what is socially expected, and more likely to eat what I…
