Like weight loss before and after photos but of your new diet !

I'm especially interested in before and after meal photos (take a pic at the point you feel restriction) but it can be of recipe substitutions, your refrigerator/pantry/shopping cart/etc

VSG2017 HW 249 SW 238 CW 167

i haven't been logging my food regularly for quite a while now as i felt like i could manage on maintenance autopilot.

anyway, looks like i need to tweek my diet as i've been unsuccessful in bringing my weight back up to an acceptable level for months now.

its kinda challenging as i've been eating out 90% of our meals all these said months, and its hard to guess the calories content of restaurant meals. gotta try tho.

so here we go! my first tracked meal in a reaaallly long time: cottage cheese, blueberries, black pepper and anchovies (dont judge me! lol)

193 calories (easy to log cuz i made it, ha!)

I have been doing so much cooking lately so here’s a few meals.

Pan seared tilapia, braised kale, masked potatoes, fried maduros, tzimmes.

Roasted lamb and potatoes, braised kale, fried maduros, tzimmes.

Honey sesame chicken breast, mixed vegetables with quinoa, roasted potatoes.

Wholemeal apple and forest fruit hand pie.

sushi lunch!.

(check-marked the items i ate! lol)

423 calories. plus shared a 350ml bottle of sake beforehand (so another 210 cals on top of that for a total of 633 cals)

Chicken Paprikash w/ quinoa

cookies.

ate about ½ of each of the cookies in this Crumbl mini sampler pack (milk chocolate chip, lemon glaze and candy egg Brownie)

295 calories for what i ate (i.e., the peices on the plate)...at least thats what the Crumbl website says

Edited April 17, 20251 yr by ms.sss

p.s. tracking my calories is proving to be extra challenging with the amount of eating out im doing. i need to take the ridiculous amount of time to input all my food at these restaurants, or stop eating so much at said restaurants.

neither if which i am willing to do.

arg.

24 minutes ago, ms.sss said:

p.s. tracking my calories is proving to be extra challenging with the amount of eating out im doing. i need to take the ridiculous amount of time to input all my food at these restaurants, or stop eating so much at said restaurants.

neither if which i am willing to do.

arg.

It is always a challenge to know how many calories are really in restaurant food, but generally I think it's a fair bit more than the at home equivalent! ?

There is an app now that guesstimates based on a picture or camera of the food, but I haven't tried it, no idea how accurate it would be, but may save you some time? :dunno:

Considering your current underweight status, maybe focus on just trying to up the cals without worrying too much about tracking? Or does your Dietician/med team/ own Enquiring mind need to know the data?

13 hours ago, DaisyChainOz said:

There is an app now that guesstimates based on a picture or camera of the food, but I haven't tried it, no idea how accurate it would be, but may save you some time? :dunno:

i've tried these picture calculators and am not entirely convinced they get the cal count right...especially with intricately-plated resto meals with those 10-ingredient sauce swooshes and crab-infused potato puffs lololololzzzzz.

13 hours ago, DaisyChainOz said:

Consideringyour current underweight status, maybe focus on just trying to up the cals without worrying too much about tracking? Or does your Dietician/med team/ be own Enquiring mind need to know the data?

my own inquiry mind, ha! i like to know what calorie burn im at, and these days im on super-exercise mode, so i know im probably at a higher level than "normal". plus, i've sort of been trying to put on some weight since February, and my "unsuccessful-ness" of it all is starting to annoy me. (though secretly i kinda enjoy seeing a low number on the scale. sort of. kinda. i thinks. hello eating disorder!)

ironically, i feel great. no health issues nor complaints. energy for days, and i can keep up (if not surpass) all the 20-somethings in class (p.s. im 53 this year).

so i dunno.

Edited April 17, 20251 yr by ms.sss

Homemade sweet potato pie made with an oil pie crust.

Edited April 18, 20251 yr by GreenTealael

Well, I finally decided to join the fun here in this thread:

I pretty typical breakfast for me:

This is ~3/4 cups of 2% Greek Yogurt, some thawed frozen cherries and some protein boosted granola. I don't really log my food, so I'm just guessing as to nutrition, but I'd think this is ~250 cals and ~22 grams of protein.

Why 2% Greek Yogurt? Because that's what my wife prefers, so that's what we buy. I don't have a strong preference, but personally would probably buy full fat if I were buying it just for me. Note that I often change out the fruit based on what we have and what's fresh in the store.

21 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

Homemade sweet potato pie made with an oil pie crust.

Looks so good!

4 hours ago, Spinoza said:

Looks so good!

It was!

11 hours ago, SpartanMaker said:

Well, I finally decided to join the fun here in this thread:

I pretty typical Breakfast for me:

This is ~3/4 cups of 2% Greek Yogurt, some thawed frozen cherries and some Protein boosted granola. I don't really log my food, so I'm just guessing as to nutrition, but I'd think this is ~250 cals and ~22 grams of protein.

Why 2% Greek Yogurt? Because that's what my wife prefers, so that's what we buy. I don't have a strong preference, but personally would probably buy full fat if I were buying it just for me. Note that I often change out the fruit based on what we have and what's fresh in the store.

Looks good. I used to eat yogurt parfaits non stop in the early years.

Hi there!!

I have a vacation food photo build up. Here are some of the things I have eaten over the course of 8 days - of which all were shared with the hubby and my 2 kids - , the goal was to put on some of the weight I've lost in the past one and a half months, but came back to see that I lost even more weight, Boohoo.

Edited April 20, 20251 yr by Lilia_90

This yogurt bowl has become a hyper fixation snack for me and the kiddos. My little one and I usually share one ?

Kefir yogurt, fruit (I do berries, mangoes, pomegranate, whatever I have on hand really), pumpkin seeds, a sprinkle of chia seeds, crushed pecans/walnuts/pistachios, and a drizzle of honey.

Edited April 20, 20251 yr by Lilia_90