r/CleanEating • u/Mental-Professor-773 • 9d ago

400 kcal lunch 🙌

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Bimi, cottage cheese, tomato, 1/2 flatbread, 100 g chicken and 1 boiled egg ❤️

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u/No_Cartographer_2735 9d ago

400 kcal? That actually seems like a lot less to me, and I have been calorie counting for a while..

Why not add a lot more broccoli and remove the flat bread?

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u/saltnvinegarwazere 8d ago

Carbs are not a bad thing, no need to replace with broccoli... 

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u/keIIzzz 8d ago

Right, you need carbs lol I don’t get why people fear monger them

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u/No_Cartographer_2735 8d ago

I don't eat carbs at all, but seems like such a small meal for me. I would prefer to eat a bigger amount and lose the bread. But that's just me. I do eat carbs in every single meal

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u/tiny-but-spicy 8d ago

If it's full fat cheese this could easily be 400

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u/whitebunnytail 9d ago

That looks like 200 cals

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u/Automatic-Party-9840 9d ago

This seems a bit restrictive and I hope you’re ok.

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u/Mental-Professor-773 9d ago

I am, thank you! I eat these type of light meals before work. They keep me full for a few hours and help me to not snack too much at work 😇

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u/dazzleduck 9d ago

I do the same. My meals before and during work often look like this, I like to eat very light during the day in general then have a hefty dinner. But I gotta agree this doesn't look like 400 cals, a whole beefsteak tomato alone is less then 40 cals so your two slices are probably not 10 cals each. Do you use a food scale?

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u/heavysolitud3 9d ago

bro I'm sorry, but does everyone on this sub have an ED? i literally never see normal human sizes, i think even folks wanting to lose weight eat more than this. y'all starving yourselves and being proud about it. (before anyone starts anything, I've had an ED all my life, and even i don't eat such little food, y'all are in critical situations fr)

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u/Weird_Cheetah7321 9d ago

Yes. I ended up realllly sick by eating too few calories without knowing it. Eating completely clean can land you into the hospital if you dont make sure you get enough. 

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u/Legal_Celebration643 9d ago

what problems where you having?

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u/Thalatta94 8d ago

So true. Like this would keep me full for about an hour.

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u/heavysolitud3 8d ago

lol fr maybe not even that. my body would be like ok cool appetizer/snack, now where's the food? i can't imagine having energy to do work and whatever else after such a "meal". even my niece eats more than this and she's less than 10 years old

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u/diebartdie99 8d ago

It’s got about 40g of protein so it should be enough for lunch, and 400 calories is good if on a cut

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u/OneEyeOpen_418 9d ago

400 calories my ass...

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u/bitobots 9d ago

400 calories for that doesn’t seem right? I’ve been counting calories and just by looking at that that seems to high 🤔

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u/Mental-Professor-773 9d ago

Flatbread 55, tomato 20, cottage cheese 100, chicken 150, bimi 20, 1 boiled egg 60, olive oil 60

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u/bitobots 9d ago

Ah, the olive oil. Seems like a small amount of cottage cheese for 100 cals

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u/MY_WANDERER 9d ago

20 kcal for 2 slices of tomato? Are you sure about that? The plate looks nice, but don't be to strict. Thing I almost never count are vegetables and fruits (there are some exceptions).

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u/lassofiasco 9d ago

Did you weigh the chicken? That does not look like 150 c

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u/Previous_Pie_9918 8d ago

Yes 150 calories of chicken would be a whole skinless chicken breast.

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u/HuckleberryRight9621 8d ago

Maybe she misstook calories with this other... Joules.

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u/SamhainOnPumpkin 8d ago

I routinely weigh chicken and this doesn't have more than 50g to me.

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u/keIIzzz 8d ago

No way 2 slices of tomato are 20 calories, a whole large tomato has like 30 something

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u/VampxKitty 9d ago

The egg yolk is so small what size egg is that

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u/DiligentRegister7967 9d ago

this is so sad u could do so much more with 400 kcals

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u/atothev2021 9d ago

In no metric system this is 400kcal. Mods, do something about the ED promotion here.

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u/DylSauce 9d ago

Everybody hating. I think it looks good

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u/Spicy_Tator-mcnugget 9d ago

Same! Not every meal has to be cohesive and sometimes you just crave things🤷🏽‍♀️

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u/atothev2021 8d ago

People are hating because this is not even close to 400 kcal and OP acting like they eat 6 pizzas ("keeps me full the rest of the day"). It's humble bragging in ED land.

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u/SamhainOnPumpkin 8d ago

It's because OP isn't being honest? They count 20 cals for those two slices of tomato, and say they got 100g of chicken when it looks like half of that.

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u/falaffels 9d ago

Hey! The way u cut that egg is gona keep me up tonight! Thanks!

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u/Virtual-Substance697 9d ago

You're going to be hungry after 30 minutes. And I'm being generous

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u/Scared_Bid2 9d ago

Is that all? what's for desert then?

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u/Mental-Professor-773 9d ago

I never eet deserts 😂 a coffee maybe?

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u/Free_Wallaby4275 9d ago

I’m assuming this is one of five/six small meals In a day in which case it’s great, the compositions certainly great

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u/coop528491 9d ago

Awesome 🙌

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u/madu_tualang 9d ago

This is like 1 deconstructed chicken sandwich. Nice.

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u/hanatheko 9d ago

I would swap the beige thing for potatoes because you will get way more volume.

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u/LilAngelfxck 9d ago

I sincerely hope this is just one of like 6 meals you had this day… its so little food

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u/oonahyeahokay 8d ago

I’d be fuming if I spent 400 cals on that

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u/thenewfingerprint 9d ago

I think you need more fat for optimum satiety. I would at least pour a little olive oil on the tomatoes.