Just had an absolutely giant dinner 🤣
Got my macros for this meal on the third slide.
Overall was 911 calories. I just did a 2 hour workout beforehand so worked up an appetite and need to prioritise protein heavy foods for muscle retention. This is a whole sirloin (with fat cut off), whole avocado, 2 eggs and half a pepper.
My recommendation to lower the calories is to take away an egg, take away half the steak and half of the avocado. You’ll have about a 500 calorie meal. 😁 and then you’ll have another 500ish calories to work with for another meal.
Or mix and max? You could keep the 500calorie steak and get rid of the eggs and avocado and just add more low calorie veggies.
Steak is a pretty high caloric food, but I love it so I incorporate it into my diet this way.
Also I weighed the olive oil so it’s accurate. 🤣I weigh everything (not being insane just trying to start keeping the numbers accounted for incase other people want to make the meal)
I had a bowl of no added sugar Alpen for breakfast. TBH if I’m sedentary I would cut this meal in half so I can have another meal during the daytime or a snack.
I plan to have a snack tonight because I don’t want to under-eat while I work out.
I didn’t avoid eating in order to have this big meal and generally I don’t encourage trying to suppress your appetite like that if you’re hungry. You need the energy! I just wasn’t hungry before the gym, but if I did have a lunch before, I probably would have just cut my steak dinner in half in the way I suggested above. I hope that makes sense!
Steak is not an everyday meal for me, just a treat. There’s lots of other high volume great meats like chicken and turkey. You can replace the steak with chicken and get just 300 calories for 200g rather than 500calories for 190g.
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