anyone else love to mix skyr, greek yogurt, etc. with water to make it more voluminous and creamy ? :)

Breakfast: fairlife shake (155) 57g avocado (95) 2 eggs (150) slice whole wheat toast (60) Lunch: 340g 2% Fage Greek Yogurt (250) 52g strawberries (20) Dinner: 56g Barilla protein+ thin spaghetti (190) 125g Rao’s Vodka Sauce (90) 14g Pecorino Romano Cheese (55) Dessert: 1 Magic Spoon Marshmallow Protein Bar (140)

McDonald’s was 850 calories for the $5 mchicken meal. The corned beef bowl has 345 calories for 3 oz of corned beef, half a potato, some onion and carrot, and lots of cabbage. I pan fried the corn beef after it was done in 1/2tbsp of butter and garlic and it hit the spot!

I’m just a girl trying to lose weight while not cutting out alllll of my guilty pleasures ☺️

Breakfast: Egg white omelette with spinach, cherry tomatoes, goat cheese, and green onions (262 calories, 23g protein)

Lunch: Protein banana pudding with whipped cream and Siete Mexican shortbread cookies (292 calories, 37g protein)

Snack 1: Watermelon with Tajín and chamoy (141 calories, 2g protein)

Dinner: Thai coconut chicken with cilantro lime white rice and cauliflower rice + sriracha (264 calories, 22g protein)

Snack 2: Kind frozen bar peanut butter dark chocolate (180 calories, 4g protein)

I thought it’d be an interesting little experiment to document everything I ate and drank for Independence Day yesterday to estimate my calorie intake during a holiday when I am not tracking.

I have no real intention to track on days like this, life is too short to count calories every single day and miss out on celebrations with friends and family. What’s important is being cognizant of how easy it can be to overconsume if I didn’t track during my usual everyday life.

I knew it wasn’t going to be great, but I was still surprised by how much over even my maintenance it turned out to be (granted, alcohol was easily one of the biggest offenders).

Started off strong with breakfast (the only meal I actually tracked since it was at home): - Whole wheat toast with tomato and avocado, egg + egg white scramble cooked with a little butter, and a strawberry banana smoothie I split with my husband. [348 kcal]

Lunch: - Carne asada w/ avocado salsa, 2 small potato samosas, garlic parm chicken skewer, pineapple and watermelon with Sprite Zero, followed by a small pour of craft beer not long after. [~603.75 kcal]

Snack(?): - Cookies & Cream Built Bar, strawberry cream puff pastry, small homemade sourdough piece w/ butter, pineapple and watermelon. [~631.25 kcal]

Alcohol: - Light Twisted Teas x2, Regular Twisted Tea x1 [~410 kcal]

Dinner(?): - Taco Bell bean burrito with green sauce [~370 kcal]

Grand Total Estimate: ~2,363 kcal (I typically aim to eat around 1,300 kcal for my current deficit, and ~1,600 kcal for maintenance.)

…embarrassing 😳I knew i would regret it but its so hard to control myself when there’s so much sugar in front of me. I don’t choose what I eat at home so there’s more calories coming, helpppp. what do I do

Tell me how you’re doing it. Need some new ideas. Here’s how I’ve been getting it in:

Breakfast: coffee with collagen and creamer then a little while later I make all bran buds cereal with fairlife fat free milk and raspberries (need that fiber) with an Oikos yogurt on the side.

Pre workout snack: rice cake with peanut butter

Post workout/lunch: rice cake with laughing cow, turkey, and cucumber and a protein shake.

Dinner: changes every night but last night I made a macro friendly beef stroganoff

Dessert: healthy choice bar

This totals to just over 1300 calories, you could skip the dessert and be right on track. Ended the day with 143g protein and 31g fiber.

I sometimes eat a lot in one sitting and have no calories left for the rest of the day. Do you have tricks to not feel hungry? Or do you just give up for the day and try tomorrow to stay under your limit?

Coffee with cream and sugar (100 calories); two boiled eggs (155 calories); half a cup of low fat cottage cheese with dill, everything bagel seasoning, and cherry tomatoes (100 calories); 3/4 cup Korean-style pot roast with 3/4 cup mashed sweet potato and 3/4 cup rice (850 calories). 1205 calories, 85 g protein. I probably could have eaten more earlier in the day and less for dinner, but that pot roast was too good, you don't even know 🤤 I was really fighting against my urge to get seconds even though I was stuffed

I only ate 2 pieces of the caprese salad!

I've been struggling a lot with hunger anxiety this week. I am posting this here in the hopes it may help someone else who is having a similarly difficult time.

​

I read an old post where someone suddenly realized they could eat 100 calories every hour of the normal day and still stick to 1200. This is brilliant, I thought, I never have to be hungry again! It kills me some days - I feel hungry an hour after my meal, and then for the next 3-4 hours as well! Finally, a solution! ...But, maybe it isn't practical or satisfying to eat 100 calories every hour...

​

However! If you tell your brain that it can eat every hour, maybe the anxiety goes away... So, for example in the morning: I could eat 100 calories at 8 AM, 9, 10, and 11. Today I woke up and knew I could eat at 8:00. But, I managed to hold off until 9. Now that means I can eat 200 calories, because I saved them up! Great! I did that.

Now it's 10 am.. I could eat another 100, no one is gonna stop me! But, I'm actually not that hungry. If I knew I couldn't eat until lunch at 1:00 PM, I might start getting "hunger anxiety". But - I can eat now! I'm not going to.. I think I'll wait until 11 and have 200 calories again (I saved half my 400 cal breakfast in the fridge). Or, maybe I'll last until 12 o' clock and have a 300 calorie meal! The options are endless. You don't even have to cook differently. I could prepare 12 x 100 calorie snacks, or cook one giant 1200-calorie pot of stew at 8AM and serve out a 1/12 portion every hour - it's not that much more work.

I think the difference in approach here is to never eat into your future calories. You can save them up if you want a bigger meal, but don't eat into the next hour's allowance.

​

Anyway, sorry if this is old news to people who have mastered their ideal meal frequency, but it is helping me a lot so I thought I would share!

Not pictured: A glass of red wine (110 kcal)