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Originally Posted by will76
Maybe i am intaking more than I realize. On days when I eat a subway sandwich for lunch (foot long about 700 cals) and a frozen dinner (350 cals) for dinner, eat a frozen desert (250 cals) and maybe snack on a pudding or couple 100 cal snack packs, I don't think I am getting over 2,000 cals. I might have some OJ that accounts for a couple 100 cals... My biggest help to keeping my calories down is drinking diet drinks and water. With the exception of a glass of OJ I get 0 calories from drinks. Before I switched to diet and water I was drinking about 1200 - 1500 calories a day in soda but I had a 6pack back then not counting all of the beer I was drinking lol  
When I eat out (lunch or dinner) I have no idea how many cals I am getting but I eat not the best when I eat out so i am guessing I am eating 1000- 1500 or more just from that 1 one meal. So I might be doing a lot more those days and making up for my pathetic frozen dinner eating days. |
Lots of hidden stuff, if you eat anything pre fabricted it always includes hidden calories etc.
But mainly a quality is important - much better if you buy fresh ingredients and mix them yourself.
Also you can eat frequently (every three hours), and more in total, but if it's really quality food you're much better off than eating the "typical" way.
I've also bought me a new saucepan, so I don't need to use any sort of oil if I'm about to do eggs for breakfast or fry spaghetti w. tuna fish, this quite majorly lowers the amount of fat one consumes.
Planning to get me also a George Foreman grill cause I'll need to mix in some red meat time from time, eating almost entirely fish for almost six months now.
As far as I remember a decent dining out the American way is enough to feed a village in Africa for a week,
I seriously would have problems with so much great and cheap food around, if I need to fantasize about food I use to search through the memories how I used to dine in NYC, Vegas or Florida - Japanese restaurants, steaks, ribs, Mexican food, Thai food, lobster, shrimps, breakfast omelettes .. damn.
What's advantage over here is that most of the dining is just not worth the money - bored waiters, service sucks, portions are small, food not overly tasty, ingredients not fresh and they charge you for every non sense like water costs about one fifth of the price of a meal - so it's easier to stick to my own "recipes"
