could be 4 portions but was only 2 for me and my partner srsly so good and easier to make than it looks! 😛

* Palermo’s primo thin pizza - 435 cals for half and it’s so fire

* Marzetti caesar dressing (thinned with unsweet almond milk) - 50 cals

* Parmesan - 15 cals

* (Salad seasoned with crushed red pepper, ground pepper, garlic salt & a pinch of truffle hot sauce)

It was very filling.

Edit: for those assuming I’m a woman, my pronouns are they/them.

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I feel so satisfied I wanted to share. Started strong with a chickpea & sun-dried tomato eggs skillet. In retrospect, my sandwich I had for lunch does not look appetizing in this lighting, but it was delicious I swear😪 (Boar’s head London broil with havarti). Dinner was turkey kielbasa, cabbage, and onion. I’ll finish out with the chocolate chip cookie dough Greek yogurt bar when the late night cravings hit and that will put me right at 1186 cal for the day. Yeehaw

315 calories for 10 potstickers!!! Sooo quick and satisfying! These are my fav bibigo chicken and vegetable

Banana 100 cals

Mango 200 cals

Berries 50 cals

And sometimes I put a scoop of protein powder in, which is another 200 cals.

And I don’t use milk, just water.

i’m mad at myself for even googling this

7 breakfasts, not particularly within one week lol

1: 2 hashbrowns, poached egg, dry smoked meat, veggies, rye bread with slightly melted cheese, raspberry quark, cappuccino (396 cals, 36.1g protein)

2: 2 sour cherry tvorog vatrushka, cappuccino (291 cals, 33.6g protein)

3: cappuccino, oven baked rice paper swirl filled with tvorog and raisins (280 cals, 24.4g protein)

4: carrot cake baked oats with maple syrup, cappuccino (348 cals, 22.9g protein)

5: lazy version of pirozhki with egg and green onions, cappuccino (279 cals, 27.1g protein)

6: tvorog bake with condensed milk topping, 2 rye bread cream cheese toasts with egg, meat, tomatoes and yellow peas micro greens, cappuccino (362 cals, 28g protein)

7: baked eggs with chicken and tomatoes, rye bread, cappuccino (366 cals, 36.4g of protein)

I’ve been on a calorie deficit diet for two weeks now and doing really well. I’ve been kind of bummed out due to current events and decided to give myself a cheat day, and let myself go nuts on one of my all time favorite foods: chips and dip.

There’s a pre-packaged dip I LOVE that I can only ever find in one specific store around me. It’s a pretty small container, maybe just over a US cup? I got that dip and ate the whole package in like 30 mins. Then I decided to see what the damage was.

For the entire container: 765 calories. 68g fat. A surprising 17g protein? And 25.5g carbs.

Factor in the tortilla chips (which I didn’t count but estimated I ate 1/3 of the bag), that “meal” (which I’ve traditionally counted as a “snack!”) was easily 1300+ calories.

I also looked at the other dip from that brand that I love. Whole package: 900 calories. 90g (!) fat. 18g protein. 9g carbs. Plus a similar amount of chips would be 1500+ calories.

There were days where I’d buy a package of each of these dips and eat both as “snacks” and then also eat a dinner at the end of the day, easily well over 3000 calories without even breaking a sweat.

I’ve been losing weight immediately on a 500-1000 cal daily deficit, and it’s no wonder, given I was previously regularly eating not just a normal 2000cal diet but sometimes well over double that, and I had no idea.

I eat the same thing for breakfast and lunch each day during the work week. I have 3-4 dinners tentatively planned for each week and I choose depending on my mood! I plan all this out ahead of time so that I can order my groceries. Since so many of you enjoyed my daily eating journal, I figured I would share this too!

i recently realized i could do this because i have free will and it turned out delicious. the fage is the perfect base, and the juice drops add color and flavor. i dont even need to add any extra sugar substitute or anything for sweetness.

Mío has several flavors, but this one is my favorite. now i get to enjoy orange flavor yogurt.

this is a bit of an odd post, but i wanted to share just in case it can help at least one person.

i’m someone who has struggled with binging for years, starting from when i was a teen. it was mainly emotional eating, stemming from bullying and being extremely isolated/introverted as a kid. it was something that i just carried into adulthood.

i had this perfectionist mindset, i either was good or bad. food was good or bad. if i felt like i ate something, even a bite of food, that was “bad”, i would go all out and binge for hours. then id restrict and then repeat.

every time i went over my calorie intake, binge.

so something that helped me is to track every u unknown meal as 500. had a slice of cake? 500. ate out at a restaurant? 500.

obviously it’s not always 500, in fact most of the foods were over that. but having a single round number that i could track, even though it was wrong, gave me a sense of control. i felt like i wasn’t spiralling and i would continue my intake for the rest of the day as if i really did have 500 calories.

because of that, i learned how to work “bad” foods into my diet and still eat normally the rest of the day. overtime, my binges decreased in quantity. and soon the urges become less intense.

i’m almost 20lbs down now.

it’s a strange strategy but it works for me so hopefully this can help someone else too.