Anyone have ideas for low cal recipes?

[kitten645]

Get Food Rules. It's not a diet but it's sensible rules about food. No protein bigger than your fist...not red meat. Twice as many veggies. Water. Nothing processed. Anything delivered thru your car window isn't food. That one is my favorite! LOL!
Claudia

[caseysmom]

Get Food Rules. It's not a diet but it's sensible rules about food. No protein bigger than your fist...not red meat. Twice as many veggies. Water. Nothing processed. Anything delivered thru your car window isn't food. That one is my favorite! LOL!
Claudia

I don't usually get fast food so thats not too much of a problem but my problem is things like cookies, ice cream, etc.

Yeah I like to fill up on veggies and luckily the farmers markets will be having more veggies soon.

[Cataholic]

I was thinking of your plain potato dinner, blech.
Green giant makes those singles with broccoli and cheese, either 40 or 60 cals. Put that on top of a potato, with karen's cottage cheese idea and you will have a more complete meal by far. Steaming veggies in microwave is easy and cheaper than the singles.

I have egg whites and salsa most mornings. Low fat, high protein, keeps me going til lunch.

The magazine oxygen has some of the best "clean" recipes I have ever seen, plus great for ALL levels exercises. It has lots of high end body building stuff, too, but always some stuff to do at home, or easy gym stuff.
Low calorie is ONE part of weight loss plan. What and when you eat is important, as well as moving as much as you can.

3500 calories is one pound. Eliminate 3500 extra calories, and you lose a pound. So everything you put in your mouth matters. Make it count with high fiber for fullness, higher protein for muscles, lower carbs so that what you are burning off is old carb extras now stored as lovely fat, and not the last handful or 3 of pretzels!

Go walk! Good luck.

[caseysmom]

I was thinking of your plain potato dinner, blech.
Green giant makes those singles with broccoli and cheese, either 40 or 60 cals. Put that on top of a potato, with karen's cottage cheese idea and you will have a more complete meal by far. Steaming veggies in microwave is easy and cheaper than the singles.

I have egg whites and salsa most mornings. Low fat, high protein, keeps me going til lunch.

The magazine oxygen has some of the best "clean" recipes I have ever seen, plus great for ALL levels exercises. It has lots of high end body building stuff, too, but always some stuff to do at home, or easy gym stuff.
Low calorie is ONE part of weight loss plan. What and when you eat is important, as well as moving as much as you can.

3500 calories is one pound. Eliminate 3500 extra calories, and you lose a pound. So everything you put in your mouth matters. Make it count with high fiber for fullness, higher protein for muscles, lower carbs so that what you are burning off is old carb extras now stored as lovely fat, and not the last handful or 3 of pretzels!

Go walk! Good luck.

I can't really do walking yet because of my foot injury, my doctor wants me to do all low or no impact like swimming or illiptical, so I joined the gym.

I have done this all so many times I know the drill I just want to make it more interesting. There are a lot of more interesting products in the market now also that really helps.

[Queen of Poop]

What about using fat free sour cream?
Stevia instead of sugar or sweet n low? It is much sweeter and a wee tiny bit goes a long way.
The carbs in your fruits/veggies don't count against you, only what you put on them does.
Try using olive oil, it is much better for you and I believe has less calories.
Use lots of seasonings to jazz up your food, they don't add calories (ie garlic, thyme, dill, ginger, etc.)
Cook your boneless and skinless chicken in the oven with loads of seasonings and a little bit of water, comes out tasty with no added fat.

Just a few suggestions. I've been seeing a nutritionist for the last 2 plus years. All stuff I did before the IBS took over. Now I eat rice, tofu and a few other things.

[caseysmom]

We have always only used olive oil, and I am wierd I can't stand sour cream.

What is stevia? I have never heard of that.

[slick]

Well, I'm down "some weight" since last march and it feels great. Good for you CM for recognizing the need for healthier living and eating.

Somethings to definitely watch out for are processed foods (these include all deli meats, packaged stuff such as Krap Dinner and Shake N Bake to name a few - basically anything that comes in a package is bad as it's loaded with sodium and sugar), sauces such as bottled BBQ sauce and soya sauce (loaded with sugar and sodium), canned soup (loaded with sodium), you get my drift. Read the labels.

Try a baked potato with cottage cheese, then top off with sliced green onions and pepper. Yummy.

Another misconception is to eat lots of fruit - which I do. I have not been losing weight lately and I discovered it's because of all the fruit I'm eating - loaded with sugar, mind you it's a much better form of sugar than what you get using white sugar. I eat lots of veggies too and cut way back on meat consumption. I still eat beef but only about once a month. I cook chicken on the bone and with the skin on, and remove the skin after cooking. I don't know, I just find the chicken tastier. I also love, love, roasted veggies. Take some big chunks of red, green, yellow peppers, zucchini, mushrooms, and another veggies you want, put them in a big bowl. Olive oil, garlic and fresh or dried herbs are spinkled over the veggies, spread in one layer on a baking sheet and bake 350 for about 20 min. Makes a great easy low cal side dish.

Stevia??? It's a natural sugar substitute that was recommended to me by both my cancer nutritionist and diabetes nutritionist. I tried it and didn't like the taste of it at all - threw out the whole bottle. I pretty much don't use sugar on anything, including hot and cold cereal.

Sorry to ramble - I'll come back and post if I think of anything else. Gotta get back to work.