#HealthyEating #LowCalorieOptions #FillMeUp
Hey friends! 🌟 So, here’s the deal. I made a promise to myself to stick to 1650 calories a day until I reach my goal weight of 175 pounds. The struggle is real, especially with stress cravings hitting me hard. I need your help to find low-calorie foods that taste delicious and actually keep me full.
So, what are your go-to options? What are some healthy, satisfying meals and snacks that can help me power through the next two months without feeling like I’m missing out? 🤔 Let’s share our tips and tricks to beat these cravings together! Drop your suggestions below and let’s conquer this hunger together! 💪🥗🍎 #TeamHealthy #YouGotThis
Big salads – include salty, savory, crunchy, protein.
Here’s one way to lose weight and stay full (my personal method that’s kept me 50 lbs lighter for years):
* Add veggies to nearly every meal; they help fill you up
* Boost up the protein; it also fills you up big time (hard boiled eggs, chicken, meat, fish, etc.)
* Easy substitute foods:
* Replace pasta with Palmini (hearts of palm)
* Replace rice with cauliflower rice (season or sauce it up and it’s fine)
* Replace regular bread with Ezekiel (toast it and it’s delicious)
* Replace ice cream with greek plain yogurt (with fat is fine – it’ll satisfy your craving) – I add some sugar free chips, some protein powder and occasionally a little PB
* Eat more frequently and before you are already starving, have a snack like a couple hard boiled eggs or small container of cottage cheese
Disclaimer: Some of this costs more than the regular brands, but it’s an investment/sacrifice I make. If you can make it work for yourself, it is designed for guys like you and me that like to eat.
Green beans tossed in sea salt and other spices of your choice, roasted to where they are just starting to brown. With just a LITTLE bit of olive oil (or any other oil) to make the salt and seasonings stick. And I seriously mean a little. Like a tablespoon for like 5 pounds of green beans is enough. Put it all in a big bowl and toss to coat everything.
6’1 and 175? Curious are you male or female? I would just go carnivore style and eat lots of protein and fill up on meat and veggies.
Pickles
Fiber is what makes you feel fuller. So pick high fiber alternatives to what you already eat. If you eat cereal, eat oats. If you eat croutons in you salad throw in some beans. Heck, if you at beans at every single meal, a handful even, then you’ll feel full I guarantee it. But remember 2 things: 1. beans will make you fart, until your gut adjusts to the beans (give yourself a month; or y’know ramp up slowly) 2. Sometimes eating is emotional. So gut check yourself, are you _really_ hungry?
Use google for great bean and oat recipes.
I swear by vegetable soups, made with real chicken broth. The collagen from the bone broth makes it filling and satisfying, the veggies will keep you full. I like carrots and cabbage, sometimes beets.
(Note: this is a watery soup, not a thick creamy soup)
I just went through this. I’m 6’0 and it was shocking how little I need to eat in order to lose weight.
One thing that worked well is simply eating 3 or 4 boiled eggs for breakfast. It seems at first like you’ve eaten a lot but by lunch time, you are ravenous. Lunch was mixed green salad, heavy on the spinach with some tomatoes and a can of sardines. Drizzle the juices of the sardines as the dressing. Evening, sauteed chicken breast with very little cooking oil and brussel sprouts.
In general, I would try and stay at 300cal per meal if at all possible. I lost 10 pounds in a month. Went from 175 to 165. Hormones dropped like crazy. Libido kind of disappeared.
Plain air popped popcorn! Great while you’re watching TV or something!
>I’m 6’1 and at 192ish pounds right now.
My friend, 1650 calories is not appropriate for you.
No processed foods.
Try replacing bread with dave’s killer powerseed bread. Crazy delicious, filling, healthy.
Eat as many fresh fruit without toppings as you want.
Lean meat for protein. Trader joes has lots of ready-to-go options raw, fresh or frozen.
I personally hate eggs, but if you love them increase them in your diet.
Beans, chickpeas, peas as much as you want.
If you really crave sugar or crunchy chocolate: undercover snacks makes killer quinoa crisps.
Salads without croutons or cheeses in them.
Oatmeal with chia seeds and honey
I don’t know your age or sex, so I used 30-year-old male, 6’1, 175 lbs at https://www.calculator.net/calorie-calculator.html.
To MAINTAIN a weight of 175 lbs with light weekly activity, you can eat **2,486** calories a day. If you ate that daily beginning today, you will eventually get to your goal without torturing yourself, and without having to learn a maintenance diet. Start the maintenance diet now.
Please stop starving yourself. And consult with a dietitian, too.
Cabbage
Edamame. Plenty of protein can flavor with seasonings and shelling them slows down your eating so you get full on less.
Also drink more water with every meal
A big baked potato. Just go easy on the butter. Sour cream is actually not that caloric.
Question for everybody in this group just recently I’ve been having a food cravings. I don’t know where it began but I’m always hungry when I get up. I’m hungry two hours later. I’m hungry when I go to bed. I’m hungry. What can I fix this? The only thing I can think of is colon cancer cause my stomach is like growling at me every day, but I don’t have any symptoms, except dizzy and having heat flash, but I did some research and it’s not that’s just hunger problems. What can I eat to fix this?
Has anyone mentioned cottage cheese?? So good on toast and you can add it to smoothies to increase protein.
Cotton balls
Edamame!!!!!
When I need a comfort food, I go for a bean soup/stew. Just toss some chicken, beans, vegetables and herbs into a pressure cooker and come to perfect meal in an hour. I especially love spicy variations of this dish.
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Check out Mediterranean diet plan eatingwell.com has really good healthy meal plans
Oddly enough, I find V-8 juice to fend off hunger pangs for a couple hours.
The answer is your favorite vegetable. An entire bag of baby carrots (16 oz usually) is less than 200 calories. Have you ever tried to eat an entire bag of baby carrots in one sitting? Well I sure have shit tried and it was very difficult to not be completely full 3/4 of the way through.
Black beans are the perfect food
Bro I’m 5’4” and trying to gain weight (at ~100 pounds) I eat around 2200 calories a day but I just can’t seem to do it, I don’t even enjoy eating I wish I only had to eat 1650 Cals a day (I know everyone’s experience is different, I’m not trying to condescend yours).
I started making salads out of red cabbage instead of lettuce or spinach. it’s effectively homemade coleslaw without the mayo. i use Chilli crisp oil instead of salad dressing. it’s filling and tastes great.
someone else mentioned cauliflower rice, you can make it at home super easily and season for taste or you can buy it frozen
Cooking and cooling starchy food (pasta and rice) changes some of the carbohydrates to ’resistant starch’. This reduces the effect on blood sugar levels and that insulin spike and resultant hunger. I don’t think changing some of the starch changes the overall calorie count, just its impact on hunger.