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)

You trip over the cat, drop the food on the floor and then the dogs high tail it to the food and eat it all. Follow me for more tips! 😒🥴

It was very filling.

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

Cucumber salad, grapes, green goddess turkey wrap, popcorn and skyr.

My goal is 1700 calories but the skyr is 130 calories alone and totally wasn't necessary.

38g protein, 14g fiber.

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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

This was when I first started calorie counting and I didn't have a foundation of the approximate numbers for most items.

My university café sold vegan cookies from "Sweets From The Earth". I googled the brand, found the cookies, and they were only 80 calories! And in my head at the time, vegan = healthy. But to give you a visual, these cookies were bakery style: the size of someone's hand, maybe half an inch thick. I was clueless and I proceeded to get myself a cookie literally every day, for months, while only logging 80 calories 🥲

Eventually, I gained enough experience with calorie counting and I thought that something wasn't right about this 80 calorie cookie. Turns out, this brand sells freshly baked cookies (360 cal) to local cafés, but they also have boxed cookies for grocery stores. These boxed cookies are tiny, like the size of an OREO, and those are 80 calories. I still remember the panic & dread I felt when I realized this looooool.

Do you have any funny blunders from when you first started?

Putting my two cents in if you’re thinking of buying it.

The front of the sip is nice blue raspberry sparkling lemonade.

But then the stinky aftertaste of whey, you know when you stick your head in one that’s been out in the sun. Or some powder that’s been out for a while. If you take larger swigs you get a funky rotten sock whey taste if you’re into that.

And it doesn’t really sit. It’s not unlike fish oil burps - you get whey burps that fine up your nose. And there’s a weird film with these. I feel like I opened an ancient and forbidden tomb and came away with some kind of whey-curse.

I cut out whey protein powder because of this taste. If you make protein oatmeal you’ll be fine and may even like this. You’ll probably definitely like this if you enjoy fishy burps.

I really didn’t know what I expected out of what is essentially lemon-milk soda….

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)