I skipped breakfast today and then made this for lunch which I thought would be healthy but now I have 420 calories left for dinner which is okay but I would like to eventually cut down more if possible. Any advice or tips on how I can make this meal less calories? Second pic has the details about the ingredients and calories.
by _aishhh
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I don’t see the 4.5 eggs?
Substitute egg whites for the eggs and use lower fat beef, like 96/4. Substitute low cal tortilla.
There’s no real secret here: cut out or reduce high cal ingredients. Or just reduce overall quantity (this is a huge meal).
Some of it is just personal preference- do you want one big, filling meal or more, smaller meals?
Cut out the eggs and avocado, get lean mince.
In this case I think you’ll just have to eat less of it. Something I try to keep in mind is that you want to eat until you’re no longer hungry, *not* until you’re full.
As other people have said though, you can also aim for a one meal a day style diet, which some people have great success in. I, personally, can’t do that style so I go with a lot of small, snack sized meals
You stop worrying and move on
Coles extra lean mince is literally half the calories of what you have listed here. And surely you could half the amount of avocado and eggs without any real changes to the end result?
Egg whites instead of eggs, less avocado, probably choose mince or eggs tbh – 80g of protein in one meal is overkill imo
Definitely use egg whites, or like 2/3 cup egg whites plus one egg whisked together, get a low carb tortilla, lavash bread or pita. Use the leanest beef you can find. If you’re open to other meats like ground turkey or chicken that’s way lower calorie as well. Mash half the amount of avocado and spread it out, and use fat free cottage cheese.
Use half the avocado, egg whites instead of eggs, ground turkey instead of beef and cook it with veggies mixed in like bell peppers, zucchini, etc to bulk it up and lower calorie count. So instead of a half cup of just meat on the plate do a half cup of the meat/veggie mixture
Make the portion size much smaller.
if you find yourself gravitating towards needing just more stuff, check out r/volumeeating, it’s literally perfect for low cal high volume stuff so you’re not dying of hunger lol
Mince turkey with seasoning will do you better. Wraps are fine but low cal wraps, like 45 cal. I say keep the eggs, for the cost (70 cal) you can’t really beat how filling they are. My eggs I like to add more veggies than meat or anything. Onions and mushrooms, asparagus, beans, really ill put whatever leftovers I have in there. Also I’m heavy on hot sauce and salsa. Tons of flavor, low calories.
Cut all the ingredients portions in half. It’s so simple
You have 78g protein in one meal. Let’s say your protein goal is 120g then it should be spread out in 3-5 meals throughout the day for max instances of MPS triggers. 78g in one go leaves little room for more triggers.
Add up the calories of what you plan to eat before you prepare it. If it’s more than 400 calories, cut the portion size, leave out an ingredient, or substitute lower calorie ingredients.
Here, I would have cut the eggs or ground meat altogether, used half that amount or less of avocado mashed, and added low-cal veg for additional bulk. I’d also swap the wrap for a low-cal keto-friendly wrap with high fiber content, to help keep you full.
For future reference, you’re not going to be eating many meals with 4 eggs on 1400 calories per day unless eggs are the ONLY thing you’re eating.
Kill the avocado
4 eggs is crazy. You should have done just one
I will say this looks fucking incredible and hope you’ll be able to enjoy it more when you’re out of your cut
I don’t know about you but I don’t like avocado enough to use 1/6th of my daily calories on it.Â
Id wrap that whole thing in butter lettuce and lose the wrap.
Increase the low calorie content like tomatoes to get enough volume and decrease higher calorie items like the eggs – or use a substitute. It looks like the egg thing could be used as the tortilla, so the tortilla could go altogether.
You could also use half the amount of mince or less and maybe increase the avocado or the eggs for a better calorie to protein ratio option.
That’s a massive lunch lol
Oof that’s a big plate. That would be my whole day, I wouldn’t even want to eat until tomorrow, if be stuffed. 🫣😂 Like just do that but like 1/3 or 1/4 of the stuff if it’s a combo you like. Honestly, get smaller plates. It sounds stupid but it helped me when I got started. Tricks your brain I to thinking you have bigger portion,
Lots of really calorie-dense ingredients here for not a lot of volume or fiber. I would maybe cut down the mine and egg portions a bit, which add up to almost 600kcal in themselves, and add more veg. You could do some lettuce, beans, maybe even a cabbage slaw? Beans aren’t the most low-calorie, but all of these would provide extra fiber that will help you feel fuller on fewer calories.
Extra lean beef mince, skip the eggs for this meal, half the avo, bulk with rocket, mushroom, spinach, tomato, salsa
Half everything, especially the avocado and mince which I would cut way down. If you need more food add veggies to bulk it.
Look into volume eating. Eating a lot doesn’t have to mean eating a ton of calories.Â
You could try reducing some of the portions of other ingredients and replacing with white rice.
That portion is huge
I definitely think the problem is portions. Very healthy meal but you could do with less mince and eggs. Otherwise good job!