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In the web interface, you can add a few things as a "quick meal" which makes those sorts of custom orders easier to add, assuming you regularly eat the same sandwich. I haven't used the app much lately, but when I did I was always having homemade fruit smoothies for breakfast, so I set up a few different quick meals for the different combinations of fruit (eg: soy milk, grape, banana, blueberry, raspberry or skim milk, pomegranate, mango, banana, blackberry) that I was using.
two apples for lunch as opposed to taco bell.
dinner is still pretty crappy, but only because I had all this bad food in my fridge that I didn't want to just throw away (lebanon baloney and swiss on whole wheat, why you got to be so good?).
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edit: maybe like deli sliced chicken?
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I dislike many leftover items that need to be reheated but beans really are top-tier in not tasting bad after being chilled and reheated. I usually make a lightly salted batch with a pound or so of chicken on the weekend and eat the rest during the week along with tortillas or rice.
The best way of getting chicken or fish is to make it yourself. Here's how to get "deli" chicken from raw chicken:
http://lowfatcooking.about.com/od/chickenbreastrecipes/a/poachedchicken.htm
cause that chicken looks darn tasty
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Poaching the chicken is going to significantly change the result both in flavor and texture. Some flavor compounds are water soluble and some are fat soluble. If the recipe is built around it being sauteed then it's probably going to be pretty bland if you poach it instead. Olive oil is a pretty good fat, and chicken breast is already very lean. Some fat in your diet is good, so go ahead and follow the recipe.
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On the Weekends I eat fewer meals, but they tend to be larger. With one at 10:00-11:00 am (usually the largest), one at 4:00 pm, and one at 8:00 pm (the smallest). Either way, the pattern keeps me full, and is high fiber and water to keep my numbers down and my innards working smoothly.
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A baloney and swiss sandwich isn't inherently bad. For sandwiches, it's often the condiments that put it over the top. What are you putting on that puppy?
As for your meals overall, you're a big guy now so your hunger levels may be out of wack. My dad is around 270lbs, and one of his dieting strategies is to skip lunch entirely. He says he just doesn't get hungry for lunch, necessarily, and I believe him -- it seems that "bigger people" have an easier time skipping meals or eating off a schedule.
I'm 5'10" and 160lbs, so I'm pretty lean. If I end up going 2 hours after a normal meal time, I start to feel lightheaded and crappy. My body is expecting food, and I don't have much of a reserve for it to work from. In other words, my body would not let me eat just two apples for lunch. For you, though, how's your hunger?
Honestly, the hardest part for anyone losing weight is hunger control. The first step is to not eat when you're not hungry. The second step is to not OVEReat when you ARE hungry.
You also don't want to crash diet and harm your body. Sure, Christian Bale can subsist on coffee and apples when he's losing weight for an acting role, but it's not good for your body to lose weight super quickly, and it's much easier to yo-yo and gain all the weight back if you don't develop healthy eating habits.
So, for your lunch, you should find something that works for you, but you should look for some protein at every meal. For lunches, you have a lot of quick options -- my ex was big on tuna fish, since it's tasty and filling.
Honestly, though, if you've already dropped sodas, coffee, and lunch, at this point leave your nightly routine the same. Don't overeat to make up for dinner -- eat a normal portion of food you like. See how it goes. Don't expect to lose all your weight in a weekend, as this could be a multi-month or even multi-year ordeal. Can you see yourself eating just 2 apples for lunch for the next year, or for the rest of your life?
What worked for me was eating like someone who would weigh my goal weight would eat. I figured out the numbers from calorie counting, as there's a lot of websites that will tell you your ideal calorie consumption based on height and weight. Put in your goal weight, and see how such a person would eat, and make that your rough calorie goal. When you get to your goal weight, it should be a soft landing.
light mayo., dijon mustard, and ground black pepper
and I was going to mix it up, I just happened to buy a bag of apples at the farmers market
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Just some thoughts, but I realize that budget/location may be a problem for some of these options.
Maybe down the road when I have some spare monies I'll look into a bread maker or something (is that what they're called?)
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You can make all that stuff you love for much, much lower calories/fat/salt.
I just started cooking my own tortilla chips and my fiancee straight up told me that we were never buying storebought chips again.
Learn to love cooking (minimize the chesses, though it is tough, I know) and you will go far.
You should eat dinner like an old person, around 6 PM.
You can have a snack before bed, even! A small bowl of protein-enhanced cereal with 0% milk will kick start your metabolism for the next day!
Basically, there are no real hard or fast rules. As long as you are consistent and only cheat once (ish) a week, you will become much healthier.
Cut that apple into small squares next time and maybe put a sprinkle of cinnamon on it.
One apple will fill up an entire paper plate with apple cubes.
Eat with fork.
Eating slower in general is a good idea.
Note: An apple is a good snack, not lunch. Lunch is the meal you want to eat the most at, imo. Big lunch, small dinner. Small snack before bed.
Supermarkets have a range of bread, some better than others. The trick is to stand in the aisle and read labels until you find the one that doesn't have some sort of sugar listed.
I'll keep on buying my Arnold (or whatever) whole grain for $3 lol
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The difference though, is that with the ingredients you buy, you will be able to make multiple loaves of bread.
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@Moriveth might be able to help you out with good recipes for bread, I know he was experimenting.
Just eat low calorie, wheat bread or the sandwich slims that I've seen around.
yeah, looks like it takes forever to make too
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Your goal should not be fat -> skinny.
Your goal should be fat -> muscular athlete.
Think Olympic gymnast, swimmer, or decathlete.
Aka, lose the belly, but get strong in the process.
It takes a long time to lose the fat, it takes a long time to get strong, but coincidentally, you can do both at the same time, and getting strong actually accelerates fat loss.
Can't afford a gym membership? Do body weight workouts at a local park.
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How do you feel about Dijonnaise? Check this out:
Calories in 1 tbsp light mayo: 50
Calories in 1 tbsp dijonnaise: 15!
By switching to dijonnaise, which would taste essentially just like what you're using now, you'd save 35 calories per tablespoon. It adds up!
And the apple thing is great! Just don't forget the proteins. Honestly, the sandwich thing is probably not that big of a deal -- just read the calorie and ingredient information on your breads. Think of it this way -- if you get breads that don't use sugar, you can eat more of them for the same calories. That helps with hunger and it also makes your meals feel less sad. You can always see what the ingredients are by looking at the nutrition facts. For example, Arnolds breads don't use HFCS or added sugars and are widely available (and nice, sandwich sized slices, too!).
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Baking your own bread is fun and delicious (whether with a bread maker or not.) However it is a lot of effort and not really worth it from a nutritional standpoint, although it does impress people.
An important part of learning to eat healthy is to learn how to get the most benefit from the least effort. For instance I often use pre-prepared sauces and foods, and add a tonne of fresh vegetables. It's not the same as being a total earth mother and cooking everything from scratch, but it gets a lot of vegetables in us at a reasonable price and timescale.
I really like this website for simple healthy recipes:
http://www.eatingwell.com/
Their normal loaves, like the baguettes and wheat, are solid bakery breads and pretty cheap (about 2-3 bucks per loaf). They have absolutely no preservatives, though. So if you buy one you will need to freeze it quickly or it will go hard as a rock on you quite swiftly. Health-wise, they are pretty comparable with other reasonable calorie breads.
Things like their Tomato Basil loaf or their focaccia breads are extremely fatty (loaded up with so much olive oil and sugar, you would not believe). Avoid these.
Bagels as a bread option are handy... but also fairly bad for you as far as bread goes. A nice Naan or baguette is usually a better option simply because it is easier to ensure you are getting an appropriate portioning... and also because they are so versatile!
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Oh, and that Arnold bread you love so much? Sugar. Lots of sugar.
1. Tell people / Don't tell people you're on a diet, regardless, don't listen to anything they say - Before, when I would start to diet it would seem EVERY food I enjoyed that I thought was better for me than what I was used to eating, had some horrible thing wrong with it. Grilled Chicken had salmonella, Fish had too much sodium, Sushi had too much Mercury, etc, etc - Don't listen to them. If you know what you're eating is leaps and bounds better than what you're used too, keep eating it. I have a relatively simple system of Spinach Salad / Grilled Chicken / Pop Chips that keeps me about 600 calories under 2000.
2. My fitness Pal App - my big thing was that I never, truly, realized how many calories were in my Wendy's fast-food meals. 1600 calories for a sandwhich, a soda, and fries. That was ONE meal. Fitness pal lets you scan the stuff you buy, or type it in, and it gives you a good idea of what you're eating in a given day. I used it religiously through about 6 weeks and have lost to date about 16-20 pounds, and have a FAR better eye for what's good and bad for me, food wise.
3. Losing a battle is not losing the war. You're gonna be hungover some day and want the greasiest thing on the BK menu. You'll give in, feel guilty, and want to kick a small animal (don't!). But the important thing is getting back on the horse. You'll have good days and bad days, the important thing is that you're better than you were on average.
4. Football / Hacky Sack / Soccer - find some sort of physical activity you enjoy. Currently I'm taping hard-drives together and doing Jumping Jacks with them.
5. Mio! - I drink like 70 percent more water now, and flavor it with "Mio: Fit" which has a bunch of vitamins and Electrolytes, which I assume are good for you.
6. Multivitamin, All Day Energy Greens. This could be just a *me* thing, but I used to get pretty bad migraines, and after switching my diet and using these All Day Energy Green things, I've had fewer and fewer, and tend to have more energy. Also starting your day with a big class of water never hurt anyone.
I can't say this is perfect advice, but it works for me, so far. I don't think I'm going to fall off the wagon tooo badly, and while my intake is down, my actual exercise is fairly low, and I'm not perfect. But, you won't be either, but, being "better" is better than nothing.
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damn it!
they trick me by putting oats or something on the crust =/
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ALWAYS
Once you cut out prepared/pre-packaged foods, anything you cook on your own is typically better overall for your health and your weight. There is nothing wrong with an olive oil saute. Poached chicken? Horror of horrors! Cook that sucker with the respect it deserves! Throw on a dash of salt and some herbs! Drizzle on the olive oil! It will still be a much better choice than anything you get outside.
Your lunch of two apples also seems too light. If you have a choice, eat a heftier breakfast/lunch and a lighter dinner. Load up your breakfast with stuff like fruit and yogurt, even eggs if you fancy them, and have more proteins for your lunch rather than carbs. The rationale is that you are more active during the day, so your body will burn off the calories you consume. Towards the evening is when our bodies are the least active, so eat less overall.
Start paying attention to serving sizes. The first time I realized the recommended serving size for pasta was 2 ounces... 2 ounces! I was shocked. After a period of trying it out, I came to see that 2 ounces of pasta, with sauce and all other dressings/vegetables, actually creates a feeling of overall fullness without being bloated. You can even have a glass or two of wine without feeling guilty. Anything over 2 ounces of pasta and you're consuming too much pasta in one sitting.
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First and foremost, everyone's physiology is different. What works for someone may not work for you. You will probably try a million different things before you find something that helps achieve your goals and a million more before you find something that achieves you goals and you actually like doing. Don't get discouraged, and don't give up!
It also helps tremendously (I've found) to have specific goals. Like currently my overall goal is 'build strength' but that is a blanket goal that I can break down into very specific sub-goals like 'bench press 1.5x my body weight' or 'deadlift 2x my body weight'.
Trying to eat right is a very good start and if you can manage that then your other goals will be cake since eating well takes a tremendous amount of discipline. Even little changes can have drastic effects. I know you mentioned cutting out soda and holy shit that's huge (assuming it was sugared soda) and you should be seeing positive results from that fairly quickly.
Lastly I really want to suggest taking up weight lifting, even if the weight is just your own body like doing squats, pushups, dips, etc. Don't be worried about bulking. The worst that's going to happen is that huge area that is taken up by your gut and ass is going to migrate north into your arms, chest, and shoulders.
You will have to buy all new shirts though.
EDIT: Also take a picture of yourself in the mirror (no duckface) every day. At the end of the month compare the first and last day and feel really fucking great about yourself. That's great motivation right there.