by a-great-hunger » Wed Nov 16, 2022 2:28 pm
Typically, I have at least one salad a day with a can of beans (garbanzo). The salad is 8 oz. spinach and some miscellaneous stuff: red cabbage, onion, carrots, tomatoes. Dressing is balsamic vinegar.
I will usually have steamed vegetables once or twice per day, too. An example meal is one pound steamed Brussels sprouts, one can beans. If I'm really hungry, I'll add a sweet potato to it.
Usually I am still hungry. Another sample meal is 1 cup cooked quinoa plus one cup blueberries (with steamed vegetables).
Soups are commonplace with lots of broth and cruciferous vegetables.
This is still not a sufficient quantity of food to satiate my hunger, so I usually eat several potatoes after dinner until full satiation. If I do not eat to satiation, I will wake up hungry in the evening and ruin my sleep--which is pretty not great for weight loss!
Unfortunately, satiation keeps me a bit chunkier than I'd like.
The only way I've lost weight previously is by eating roughly 4+ pounds of non-starchy vegetables in a day, which, frankly, seems preposterous financially and is unsustainable long-term. I know Chef AJ does this and basically eats according to MWL guidelines to maintain her weight, but I cannot realistically do so.