That is a lot of food BBJ but I wonder how the heck you have the time to prepare all of that. That is my biggest problem. Do you cook a whole pot of rice and then just divide it into small containers? How about the veggies? Do you cook them and then reheat them? I'd love to hear your strategy.
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Romeo I hate to burst any illusions you have about me...that photo that is my profile photo was taken last January. Somehow I literally gained twenty pounds between January and August! I am a stress eater so most of the weight went on while the divorce was being finalized late winter/early spring. Too many days of getting Mexican carryout for lunch...
Then this summer my favorite 'fast' chinese opened up. You know Panda Inn in Pasadena? Love that place! Their fast food version opened and I honestly went there ten days to eat the first month they opened!!
But no more of that, going to lose those twenty pounds and then another ten to get me to where I feel like myself again...
Sandycay just to give you an idea I eat six times a day and this is what I just ate for lunch:
Chicken-- 3 oz Brown Rice-- 2 oz Broccoli-- 4 oz Green Beans-- 4 oz Potato-- 3 oz Cashews-- < 1 oz
To me, that is a ton of food!!
You do that 5 times a day... geesh that's a lot of prep but I do like to eat so maybe that's a better plan for me.
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Eating small (and healthy) portions 6 times a day is the trick to losing weight. It trains your body to burn more calories as opposed to storing it as fat.
If you want to maintain the weight you have you eat approx your weight x 10 calories i.e. 120 x 10=1200 calories. If you want to to be a certain weight you eat that weight x 10 calories i.e. 100 x 10=1000 . Again this is ball park, not scientific.
I don't do any of the above myself but hey I'm full of good ideas
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Well I am eating around 1900-2000 calories and I do NOT weigh 195 pounds!!
CTH I didn't run as much this summer as I planned to...besides running has never helped me to lose weight, it helps me firm up whatever size I am. I have to eat right to lose weight.
As far as prep goes, I buy mostly frozen veggies. I cook up the chicken in a crock pot once every 5 days, and same with the steak. It's only 18 oz steak in the entire week and 2 lbs chicken the whole week so not much work.
Just now I am home for lunch...I got out the chicken and weighed 3 oz. I microwave the rice a bag at a time and put it in a tupperware. So I got out the rice and heated it up, less than a minute. Then I put the asparagus in the microwave, two minutes. Since the portions are small it never takes more than 5-10 minutes to heat it all up....3 oz of baked potato, cut into small slices, only takes about 3 minutes in the microwave...
I have to eat the same meal again at 2:40 (chicken, lettuce, asparagus, rice, apple) so while I heat up one batch I measure out another and put it in a bowl to take back to work. Not too tough...no more time than it took standing in line at the fast food places.
Right, the calorie intake of the 10x is supposed to be for those that don't excercise regularly. If you're running and eating several small portions etc then you're burning lots of calories.
Do you cook the chicken with some type of broth? what do you put in the crock pot besides chicken?
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