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Breakfast: Black coffee, water, trail mix with roasted edamame, lightly salted almonds, and vanilla-almond granola. Lunch: black-bean-corn-avocado salad paired with turkey meatballs seasoned with cilantro, lime, and hot sauce. Snack: Black iced coffee, vanilla almond Pure protein bar, an apple, and a sugar-free fizzy apple…

Budgetbytes.com is such a fantastic resource for this. She breaks down cost per ingredient, cost per whole meal, and cost per serving. Her recipes are also always super good. I’ve made a ton.

Breakfast: Black coffee, trail mix with roasted edamame, lightly salted almonds, and vanilla-almond granola. Lunch: slow-cooker Greek-marinated shredded chicken breast in a half a whole-wheat pita with a side of roasted cauliflower Snacks: iced black coffee, vanilla almond Pure protein bar, an apple. Dinner: Sloppy joe,…

Mainly, I used the weight-loss period to really discover what kind of eating behaviors and activity I could do for the rest of my life. I didn't cut any food out, I just slowly introduced small changes (logging all my food, hitting a certain calorie target averaged over the week, drinking a certain amount of water each…

Breakfast: Black coffee, water, trail mix with roasted edamame, lightly salted almonds, and vanilla-almond granola. Lunch: Homemade black-bean-corn-avocado salad paired with turkey meatballs that I seasoned with cilantro, lime, and hot sauce. Snack: optimum nutrition protein bites (chocolate frosted donut flavor), an…

Female, 30, 5’4”. I lost 100 pounds over about 17 months, and I’ve been keeping it off for about 8 months.

In my weight loss period, I would bank calories by eating less during the weekdays as you mentioned above. Now in maintenance, I have started doing that again. I eat 100 less than my maintenance level on weekdays and sometimes a weekend day, then I have the final weekend day to go 500-600 calories above maintenance. It's…

Chips, beer, creamy dressings, milk chocolate, plain potatoes, store-bought bread, ice-cream with no mix-ins, cheese on salads or burgers, and regular mayo are usually not worth the calories. Calorie-dense foods that I DEFINITELY find worth the calories: peanut butter (fave food), clear liquor (for that drunk experience :D…

Great job!! Sounds like you are setting yourself up for improvement in the skill of food measurement

I have gotten so comfortable with logging my food and my body weight that the whole process takes me probably 10-15 per day altogether. And I actually enjoy doing it, because it allows me to plan and save my recipes, and be secure in the knowledge that as long as I’m counting consistently, I have a tool that works. It also…

You won’t get a 100% accurate calorie count. HOWEVER this is a perfect time to practice honest estimation! Great thinking in taking the picture of your plate. Go dish-by-dish. You can research similar packaged foods online (like maybe search Dole Classic Coleslaw With Dressing nutrition facts, or Sodexo pesto pasta salad…

I have logged every day since May 2018. This saw me through a 100 lb loss, and since October 2019, pretty steady maintenance of that loss. I can't see myself stopping the logging habit either. For like 10 min a day, I am armed with all the knowledge and mindfulness I need to stick to an average calorie target with really…

Red beans and rice: Start four servings of rice (in chicken broth with a tiny bit of butter if desired) going on the stove. Dice a yellow onion, some garlic, some bell pepper, some celery, a small hot pepper if you have it. Set out onion powder, salt, and pepper, to season your dish as you build it. Heat some olive oil…

Rice and beans with chicken sausage: Egg roll in a bowl: Cheddar-bacon waffle with a fried egg:

Found this great similar thread from 2014! Has good ideas. https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10032342/healthy-option-fish-and-chip-shop

I agree!

You say nothing about your activity.

Pure Protein bars are great: nice flavors, lots of protein bang for your calorie buck, the most affordable I can find, and I don’t taste any of that chalky protein taste

Also, if I order something at a restaurant (or somewhere where I didn’t prepare the food) and something on the plate isn’t great, I will just stop after the first few bites. Can’t waste calories on something I’m not enjoying!

I will make a plan for what I’m eating for the day, but I feel flexible enough to switch something out if either I don’t feel like, something else came along that I’d like better, something in my fridge is gonna go bad soon so I should eat that first, etc. As long as it still fits my calories, I’m good. and yes, if I eat a…

Normally for about a 4-6 serving batch!

I usually prep easy weekday breakfasts on Sundays (bags of trail mix). I also make one batch meal for weekday lunches. Dinner is more variable, sometimes a freezer meal, sometimes a really quickly-prepared easy meal after work, and sometimes takeout.

I usually do 45 g uncooked rice (1/4 cup uncooked) which ends up being a little less than a cup of cooked rice, and is around 160-170 calories.

A great combo: 1/4 cup Low sodium soy sauce, 1-2 tbsp rice wine vinegar, 1 tbsp of honey or brown sugar, 1-2 tsp of sriracha, 1 tsp sesame oil, a bit of grated garlic and ginger, and a pinch of red pepper flakes!

I’m a big fan of almonds, roasted edamame, and granola. I also love oatmeal with peanut butter.

Congrats on your progress and your habits!!! Personally, I would say it’s 3 things. Counting, weighing, and adjusting. The counting is the mechanism by which we’re balancing out calories in versus calories out. The weighing is the metric by which we are judging our success (obviously, really strong knowledge of water…

How many days do you meal prep for? I usually prep for a lot of weekday meals, since I can't take time out of work to cook or prepare much. I prep breakfasts (usually a little personalized trail mix) either on Sunday night (5 total), or the night before (for the next day). On Sundays, I also cook one batch meal with at…

Do you log your meals and try to hit a calorie target? There's nothing wrong with ordering some take-out as long as you practice either 1. making it fit in your deficit-calorie target, 2. take a maintenance day and make it fit in your maintenance-calorie target, or 3. eat a little bit less over the previous days to "save…

Wait...you wrapped soup in tinfoil?

I would google "smoothie recipe [berries you have]" and see what comes up.