What do you guys like to make when you're watching the cals?
>just stop eating so much
not what I asked.
What do you guys like to make when you're watching the cals? >just stop eating so much. not what I asked.
What do you guys like to make when you're watching the cals?
>just stop eating so much
not what I asked.
>What do you guys like to make
The same things I always make
>when you're watching the cals
Same things but smaller portions
>not what I asked
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bump
This, it's actually better because you shrink your stomach and end up feeling less hungry after about a week. Then it's no problem to just keep eating less forever. If you keep eating huge portions of gross vegetables it'll never be satisfying and you'll always be hungry for real food.
i eat kind of boring meals with lots of veg and try to Hispanice it up with sauce. I like to cook broccoli, green beans and carrots and put them in a wrap with nandos perinaisse
I mostly eat raw cabbage and mixed up with raw white onions
I've been on a radish jag lately, those sweet,crisp, Hispanicy lil' fuckers.
Shred that cabbage, superthin those ummyuns, paper disk them radishes, fresh pepper ground coarse, ACV, mebbe some celery seeds, dash 'o' salt. let macerate for as long as you can wait in the fridge..
Nom...Fucking...Nom.
the same thing I normally make but smaller portions.
The only time I’m watching my calories is when I’m bulking.
Anything with a lot of fiber and protein. Light fish is my go-to since chicken breast gets boring and skin-on thighs aren't low calorie. Trout or salmon have enough fat to be worth cooking without any more - baked after searing, they release some of this, and it's good for pan sauce and veggies.
>sear salmon for short time on oven-safe pan
>chuck in oven for a little while
>remove, saute asparagus in salmon fat
>serve with a little lemon juice or malt vinegar
>cottage cheese, grapefruit, and black coffee
>lithuanian pink soup (use low-fat kefir)
>salad (endive, kale, julienned carrot, red onion, orange pieces, sprinkle of lime juice)
>roasted veg (fennel, onion, chili, parsnip or carrot)
>souffle omelette with tomato salsa
>ceviche
>toasted oats
>white chicken chili or chili verde
>just stop eating so much
half a steak and half a potato
or half a steak and asparagus
or half of a bowl of pasta
or half of whatever
500 cals breakfast
500 cals lunch
as close to or less than 1000 cals for dinner.
so far I have lost 60 pounds doing this.
You don't need 1000 calories for dinner.
Yeah you do. A male would need 1750-2000 kcal on a cut.
>Breakfast: 250-500 kcal
>Lunch: 500 kcal
>Dinner: 1000 kcal
Only the people drinking goyslop "shakes" would need less.
You missed the entire point. You are least active after dinner. If you ate more for breakfast and lunch and less for dinner you'd lose more weight. Its called cbronobiology.
Chronobiology*
You just eat dinner at the wrong time then. If you eat dinner at 5PM and go to bed at 10PM your dinner is well within your circadian rhythm.
Also not how the body works, kek.
Nobody said anything about circadian rhythm. Nothing I said is incorrect. If you can get from breakfast to lunch on 500 calories you can get from dinner to bedtime on 500 calories. Saving calories to eat a big dinner at the end of the day is called delayed gratification and its disordered eating behavior.
You don't understand basic human physiology. Basically everything is incorrect about what you posted. You eat a big dinner to restore glycogen storage in your muscles. It's why bodybuilders eat during the night.
Except its not. See
for sources. You are adding irrelevant premesis.
>disordered eating
Not if you do it consistently.
Go eat 8 tiny meals and snacks, fatass
>Also not how the body works
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19730426
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29255175
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23702187
>nocturnal mice
R E T A R D
You're a fucking mongoloid. You googled circadian rhythm, because you didn't know what it was, then glanced over a bunch of studies you thought would prove your point. The first study is a study about NOCTURNAL mice (so with a circadian rhythm OPPOSITE of diurnal humans), and it found they gained weight if they ate outside of their circadian rhythm, PROVING MY POINT.
Again, you're a fucking retard. Luck more, if you don't know shit.
Not him, but wanna shed some wisdom? I also always thought you were supposed to eat the big kcals before performing labor.
NTA, but you generally want to maintain a rhythm to minimize stress on the body, in my experience. If you're gonna do a lot of cardio, you're gonna want some carbs a couple hours in advance. If you're gonna lift some weights, eat only a little before, and a good deal of protein with some fat after. Outside of that, keeping a consistent intake based on your routine and activities is more important than specific timing / details. Generally you want to get your micronutrients taken care of before your macros, since the latter are readily sorted out with most foods. Figure out what works for you, and adjust as needed. Personally, I consume less though the day if I eat little in the morning, particularly if the morning intake is low in carbs, since the hunger response that comes later is what gets me (insulin / ghrelin blood sugar shenanigans). If I eat a big breakfast, it's either due to a deficiency of some kind, or expected activity (hiking, labor, lifting, etc.); even then, it's a balance of the macros to maintain sustainable energy for a given amount of time (so a tiny bit of sugar, some carbs, decent fat, moderate protein).
thanks
>I also always thought you were supposed to eat the big kcals before performing labor.
That's just silly. If anything your body would be spending energy breaking down the food so you'd feel even more tired. That's also how you get cramps.
It's good to eat at least a bit before, so you're not spending hours working on an empty stomach. But the primary reason for large meals before labor, like a farmer's breakfast, is because of time availability--daylight hours are working hours for them.
I can't sleep if I am hungry, so fuck off.
Well aren't you spoiled.
I find that at higher weights, more significant deficits are sustainable (~1000 calories or less of intake a day down to 18% body fat, and then it increases to 1500-2000 calories a day).
Steamed broccoli
Cucumber and tomato salad (without oil)
Popcorn made in the microwave (without oil)
Rice cakes
I've lost 60+ pounds over the last two-ish years.
I eat a shitload of veg/fruit. Filling, very low cal.
To wit:
Dice a cucumber. In the bowl.
Dice a large tomato. In the bowl.
Add sliced/chopped kalamata, black, and green olives
Add feta cheese
Add a generous amount of powdered oregano.
Salt to taste
Soak with balsamic vinegar
Stir well, enjoy.
Something with potatoes, potatoes are filling and low calories.
The same stuff I usually eat. The trick is just to never eat or drink garbage, and eventually, it will seem disgusting to you.
Every day I just sacrifice one thing and enjoy the rest.
Some days I won't have any drinks
Some days I won't have any carbs
Some days I won't have any fatty/oily food
Some days I won't have any sweets
Some days I won't have big portions but eat everything
That said I mostly only eat home cooked meals, no store-bought snack, no soda, etc. After doing it for a few weeks, commercial stuff just tastes bad.
8oz water
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp NoSalt
spash of lemon juice
I just skip high carb ingredients that aren't vegetables.
I drink more water, too.
Generally, I like fatty fish and a vegetable or two. My favorites are mackerel, salmon, herring, and sardines.
The veggies i prefer are usually green peas, asparagus, broccoli, celery, onion, and okra.
One of my favorite things to make is oven baked mackerel with a simple tomato sauce thing, onion, and broccoli.
Okra. Pajeet detected.
Yes, of course, I can only eat what has always been grown within an arbitrary 50km radius of my birthing spot. Also, I'm pretty dure okra is from Africa originally.
Forever a cone detected.
>Tomato sauce
Pyramid head kicker detected.
I haven't used it when watching calories but barley is seriously underrated in general. It has fewer calories than other grains like rice, because it takes significantly more water while cooking. It also has more resistance and fiber, so it's more satisfying to eat and makes it easier to skip the meat. And supposedly it contains a protein or something that slows down how fast the food leaves the stomach so you'll feel full for longer and gives a slower blood sugar.
I use it for barley porridge, but when I'm craving junk food I may also just boil some barley, fry some onions and vegetables, mix in the barley and add BBQ sauce and cheese.
Or I may make fried rice, but use barley instead of rice, which is really good, and I just ate it.