Posting some of my meals the past few days. Struggling with progress since i'm 5' 150 lbs 32 F working from home but I go to the gym 4-5 a week. My cutting calories is 1400-1500 cals. I started 157 lbs October 20.
by YoghurtAggravating77
14 Comments
Comfortable-Agent757
That ampalaya with egg had me drooling 🤤
awongbat
Eat more vegetables. More food, more fiber, low calories = more full. Your meals are mostly carbohydrates and protein.
Adventurous_Ad_8404
losing 7 lbs in 1.5 months is reasonable. You’re also on the smaller side. The smaller you are, the slower your progress will probably be to lose a pound, healthily at least. Just saw a woman from another subreddit where she went from 163 to 119 over a year. lost about 20 pounds the first 4 months but took her 8 months to lose another ~20. Just keep at it and don’t beat yourself up about it. 🙂
timidpoo
Definitely try adding cauliflower, broccoli, even asparagus. I boil them together in water and eat them with every dinner. I think those could be paired with all of the meals you showed. Those veggies are really low cal and easy to cook, filling, and while theyre not the tastiest, you can season them. I honestly make these as the largest portion of my meals.
Pink_Ruby_3
While there is a lot of truth to the notion of all that matters is calories in, calories out, I think it is important to know how your body processes certain foods, i.e. rice. It is very high on the glycemic index, and I wonder if it is possible this is spiking your blood glucose. Just a thought.
RekoHart
Get/use smaller plates if you are going to stick to those portion sizes.
Your brain is seeing a lot of empty space and that makes the food look less fulfilling.
The closer you can get to completely filling the plate or more, the better.
Redditor1320
lol this is the most Filipino lineup of food I ever seen
blackwitchbutter
Stop with the rice
Boring_Hearing8620
Definitely hard to do calorie deficit as a filipina 🤣🤣🤣 I had to give up my rice+soy sauce+calamansi+chili and rice+chicken oil. But seriously, track or log everything religiously. Weigh them if you can. Eat more vegetables (steamed brocolli, kangkong, spinach, Cauliflower, etc). Ginisang monggo with tofu (no meat) worked for me too. Ate a looot of mushrooms! Replaced my white rice with brown rice+lentil+Quinoa or brown rice + rice cauli flower or shirataki rice. Swapped my sardines and tuna to the kind in water or olive oil. Skipped deep fried dishes for air fried ones. Went for more shrimp, fish, and chicken too. Got my weight down from 180 -> 161, currently pausing my deficit for the holidays. Wishing you luck in your journey!!
CherryMenace
You need more low calorie high volume veggies!
awkward_peach
It’s really sad but you have to just not have rice. I don’t think I had real rice (only cauliflower rice) when I was on my deficit. It’s simply not worth it. You need to eat more greens and make more voluminous food. I personally cannot have tiny amounts of food on a deficit, it makes me depressed. I chose to have most of my calories for dinner and it usually resulted in 3-4lbs of food.
If you learn how to cook cauliflower rice well (you really gotta let it cook for like 15 minutes so it gets some crisp) then it really is such a great volume addition to any meal. Even now that I’m not on a deficit, I have cauli rice so I can save those calories for a 400+ cal dessert.
pvencat
Rice tip from a fellow Asian where cutting it out entirely simply isn’t realistic – do a 50/50 mix with quinoa. You can throw both in the rice cooker using the same amount of water you normally would
butterbuns0
Are you filipino by any chance?
ravenously_red
I’m 5ft and 33! We are basically twins. Sometimes I find it easier to just skip a whole meal, to have a larger meal later. It’s giving feast and famine, but it’s a nice way to mix it up sometimes.
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That ampalaya with egg had me drooling 🤤
Eat more vegetables. More food, more fiber, low calories = more full. Your meals are mostly carbohydrates and protein.
losing 7 lbs in 1.5 months is reasonable. You’re also on the smaller side. The smaller you are, the slower your progress will probably be to lose a pound, healthily at least. Just saw a woman from another subreddit where she went from 163 to 119 over a year. lost about 20 pounds the first 4 months but took her 8 months to lose another ~20. Just keep at it and don’t beat yourself up about it. 🙂
Definitely try adding cauliflower, broccoli, even asparagus. I boil them together in water and eat them with every dinner. I think those could be paired with all of the meals you showed. Those veggies are really low cal and easy to cook, filling, and while theyre not the tastiest, you can season them. I honestly make these as the largest portion of my meals.
While there is a lot of truth to the notion of all that matters is calories in, calories out, I think it is important to know how your body processes certain foods, i.e. rice. It is very high on the glycemic index, and I wonder if it is possible this is spiking your blood glucose. Just a thought.
Get/use smaller plates if you are going to stick to those portion sizes.
Your brain is seeing a lot of empty space and that makes the food look less fulfilling.
The closer you can get to completely filling the plate or more, the better.
lol this is the most Filipino lineup of food I ever seen
Stop with the rice
Definitely hard to do calorie deficit as a filipina 🤣🤣🤣 I had to give up my rice+soy sauce+calamansi+chili and rice+chicken oil. But seriously, track or log everything religiously. Weigh them if you can. Eat more vegetables (steamed brocolli, kangkong, spinach, Cauliflower, etc). Ginisang monggo with tofu (no meat) worked for me too. Ate a looot of mushrooms! Replaced my white rice with brown rice+lentil+Quinoa or brown rice + rice cauli flower or shirataki rice. Swapped my sardines and tuna to the kind in water or olive oil. Skipped deep fried dishes for air fried ones. Went for more shrimp, fish, and chicken too. Got my weight down from 180 -> 161, currently pausing my deficit for the holidays. Wishing you luck in your journey!!
You need more low calorie high volume veggies!
It’s really sad but you have to just not have rice. I don’t think I had real rice (only cauliflower rice) when I was on my deficit. It’s simply not worth it. You need to eat more greens and make more voluminous food. I personally cannot have tiny amounts of food on a deficit, it makes me depressed. I chose to have most of my calories for dinner and it usually resulted in 3-4lbs of food.
If you learn how to cook cauliflower rice well (you really gotta let it cook for like 15 minutes so it gets some crisp) then it really is such a great volume addition to any meal. Even now that I’m not on a deficit, I have cauli rice so I can save those calories for a 400+ cal dessert.
Rice tip from a fellow Asian where cutting it out entirely simply isn’t realistic – do a 50/50 mix with quinoa. You can throw both in the rice cooker using the same amount of water you normally would
Are you filipino by any chance?
I’m 5ft and 33! We are basically twins. Sometimes I find it easier to just skip a whole meal, to have a larger meal later. It’s giving feast and famine, but it’s a nice way to mix it up sometimes.