You may want to add that up again.

Eat as little as possible imo

I'm eating fewer calories than you for the next 12 weeks if you want some misery-company. I can send you some of my meal logs if you'd like.

That would be great.

I was drunk when I posted my calories lol

On the days that I eat ~1200 calories, I try to plan it out as a hearty snack, a large meal, and a small meal, not necessarily in that order. I know if I tried to do three proper meals it would never work. They'd have to be too small to fit in the calories and I'd end up being hungry.

I'm not much for cooking, so I go out or order in almost every day. That usually ends up being my "large meal," around 500-800 calories and almost always involving chicken or reasonably-lean beef. If I liked fish like you do, that would work too. Pork dishes are too low in protein to hit the numbers I want to hit, and too dense in calories besides. For the large meal, I'm pretty lax about carbs, side dishes, etc. I'll have bread, mashed potatoes, even french fries, generally eating half of the portion. I also try to get some kind of green vegetable if it's available since they're great for satiety and have almost no calories.

The smaller meal is generally blander fare. Could be leftovers from the bigger meal, a bowl of chicken salad, some tuna salad with a few crackers, or a quest bar. One hack I've found is to take a can of low-calorie soup (like chicken or turkey noodle) and dump a can of tuna in it. It doesn't taste great but it's very high protein and satiating. This has been more than a few late-evening meals for me.

I don't really eat "low-carb" but with only 1200 calories and trying to eat high-protein, it ends up being fairly low carb by necessity. I still try to get some carbs every day, usually early in the day. A couple of hours after I wake up I may have a granola bar or 30 grams of cashews. It's not much but it gets my blood sugar up and blunts my appetite so I can have my larger meal closer to the middle of the day.

Random meal example: this week I've been ordering a whole tandoori chicken every other day. It's like the ultimate diet food, essentially baked marinated chicken. It tastes great with raita, a yogurt-based cucumber dressing similar to tzatziki, which is also quite low in calories.

Tandoori chicken is protein marinated in protein. The chicken is marinated in yoghurt. It is pretty awesome and tastes amazing!

Lean cuts of pork are just as good in protein per calorie as lean cuts of anything else.

Thurs log:

3eggs+cheese: 520

9oz salmon+spinach: 600

Sushi: 510

Wine: 660

Total: 2290

I love tandoori chicken! After reading this, I actually dreamed I was eating it last night.

Renton,
Where do you buy your chicken from? A restaurant? Doesn't that get expensive?

Mlylt,

Wine? Tinder date?

Liquid calories will kill you in this thing.

Tinder date lol no more drinking for me!

I order it through a meal delivery service from an Indian restaurant. Like 9 dollars for ~400g of chicken, $1.5 for naan, $1.5 for raita. Not that cheap but it serves as two large meals so not that expensive either. Probably it is more expensive in the U.S., though.

MLYLT,

How much sushi did you have? 510 sounds like a pretty small number I think?

A couple of tuna rolls

And you're sure you still have no idea what I'm talking about when I say you're sometimes being intentionally vague when answering questions on this forum?

I really don't know what you mean Fabian.

Friday log:

California rolls, tuna rolls, shrimp rolls: 1530

1 soda: 150

Total: 1680

Hey MLYT,

I hope you're well!

I think Fabian is saying that at the start of this process it pays to be meticulous when logging because our perception of how calorie dense something is could be a little off.

E.g. I seem to recall I made a curry one day and used coconut milk and used mfp to log the cals.....It turns out mfp was wrong.....

It's a good habit to measure everything at the start son you have a truer picture. Likewise take more pics.


Good luck!

I had anywhere from 2 to 17 tuna rolls tonight. Nobody really knows because I also had 4-12 "large" rum & cokes.

MLYLT,

What aiott said. As a PE, I'm sure you can appreciate that "a couple" of tuna rolls is a pretty inexact (or is it imprecise?) answer if you think about it. How are we supposed to figure anything out from that? It's the equivalent of saying "I'm not going to answer your question."

Doesn't a couple tuna rolls mean 2 tuna rolls cut into 16 pieces. Seems pretty standard.

I'm with you MLY, keep slammin those rolls and sodas. Some of us know what a couple means...

Yes, I did mean 2 rolls cut into 16 pieces.

Found these at the grocery store. 480cal/pack of 15 pieces

Mlylt,

That looks disgusting.

The shrimp ones aren't that good, but the California rolls are okay. I was spending too much money at the sushi restaurant and looking for a cheap alternative. I Got a bunch of boxes of these and salmon, so I'll be eating on them for days.