#tw diet
Breakfast: Cottage cheese and mixed greens frittata
This has been my favorite high protein breakfast lately. It keeps me full all day, I get lots of greens in with out eating a huge salad and it could also be portioned through out the day :)
3 eggs
½ cup 4% cottage cheese
126g mixed greens
¾ tbsp butter
Salt/pepper to taste
Pinch of nutmeg and garlic powder
Preheat oven or toaster to 400. Whip eggs thoroughly, add cottage cheese and seasonings and mix. In a skillet, cook salad greens until wilted, remove and set aside. Add butter to heat-proof skillet coat thoroughly using pastry brush. Pour egg mixture into hot skillet, place greens on top, and place in hit oven or toaster oven! Ready when no longer jiggy!
435 calories
Lunch:
2 cups baby carrots grazed on over the afternoon 140cal
Snack:
I don’t have a sweet tooth but my biggest weakness is chips and dip :/ I try to have some through out the week so i don’t binge on a huge bag bc they r my one true comfort food.
10 tortilla chips and ¼ cup refried beans
210 cal
Dinner: Avocado and meat ball salad
100g lean meatball mixture
125g chopped romaine lettuce
¼ avocado
¼ cup 4% cottage cheese
½ lime, juiced
2 tbsp red onion
Salt/pepper to taste
I make four small meat balls and pop them in the air fryer on 350 for 10 min to cook to render out some fat. Then, dice the onion finely, mash the avocado and mix with cottage cheese, salt, pepper, and lime. Kinda weird, I know, but it makes a creamy dressing and adds extra protein w/o making it super unhealthy. Toss dressing romaine and top with meat balls! Enjoy :)
410 calories
Total: 1195 calories
Daily log -09/07/21
Breakfast: 80 grams of low-fat cheese
Lunch: grilled flounder fillet
Dinner: fasting (for 16 hours, started at 4PM)
Water track: 5 glasses
Exercise: walking (around 10,062 steps)
Total cal:380
Burned:523
Daily log -04/07/21
Breakfast: 2 cups of watermelon
Lunch: cucumber dip
Dinner: spicy chickpeas
Snack: 2 cups of black berries
Water track: 4 glasses
Total cal:374
Daily log - 28/06/21
Breakfast: 1 apple
Lunch: 1 boiled egg
Dinner: Spicy chickpeas (6 tbls of chickpeas, 1 tbls lemon juice, 2 tsp olive oil, a pinch of paprika, cumin, salt and thyme)
Water track: 6 glasses
Total cal:314
Burned:68
(Note: I used to eat cereal with milk for dinner but that was around 208 calories, this spicy chickpea recipe on the other hand is only 156 calories and it helps a my metabolism !!!)
Honestly though, this is like 50% of the root of my food addiction. Last night was a rough night with the kid. And the moment the hard part was over, I wanted nothing more than to eat the entire pint of ice cream that’s in our freezer. I ached for it. I wanted to open it up, pour chocolate syrup on top, eat that layer with the syrup, then pour more and eat that layer, and rinse and repeat until I’d shoved the whole fucking thing in my face.
I’ve been doing so well. I’ve been shifting away from sugary and highly processed foods. I’m far past the point where it requires a lot of self-control. Last weekend we went to get movie night candy, and I didn’t get anything. There was nothing I really really wanted. So I snacked on an apple and some peanut butter. And I was happy with it. It doesn’t even feel like denying myself. I just don’t want it as much.
The exception is when I have a bad day. On the bad days, I want a giant bowl of buttery, cheesy pasta and a party size bag of m&m’s. I just want to eat until all my feelings disappear. Even though I know they won’t. And I’ll only feel a million times worse. Still, on a rough day, I’d throw away all my progress to chase that temporary relief from binge eating. It’s the hardest behavior pattern to break. Last night it almost had me in tears.
it’s weird when i step outside of my firmly anti-diet social circle and hear a person talking about doing some pretty severe calorie restriction as if that’s totally normal. like how the fuck do i even begin explaining to someone i barely know that eating only 1300 calories a day is extremely bad for you and that basically everything they think they know about nutrition is false.
the average thin person is so afraid of becoming fat that they’ll do things which are extremely bad for them on every level with zero upsides (calorie restriction is even likely to cause future weight gain!) and this is completely normalized in mainstream culture. anti-fat discrimination is so deeply ingrained in the systems of our society and it’s so fucked.
I feel like its rlly offensive to ppl who actually have an ed when ppl say that everyone who diets or eats differently has one. Ive had ppl accuse me of having an ed when i clearly do not and it just pisses me off. That sort of comment comes from a place of judgement, not concern. There are people who actually suffer from eating disorders and i feel like its rlly offensive to them. Like “anorexic” should not be an insult. People with those disorders are suffering and its not right to use their condition as an insult. Its also offensive to me because my diet takes a lot of effort and a lot of hard disapline and saying that all my work was for nothing is just fucking rude.
