Yesterday I had a greek yoghurt bowl with strawberries, banana, and maple syrup drizzled on it. These are my following two meals and I had a protein Kefir shake in between, as well as a Protein pudding for dessert. Is this not healthy?
by Proper-Classic1886
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Those are like 200kcal meals. That is nowhere near enough.
1200 cal is too little food for most people. It’s only really appropriate for shorter people who are sedentary or trying to lose weight
and the whole day totaled up to 1200 cal? (cuz we dont have images of your other food)
Others think it’s too little food because the second plate has 12 cherry tomatoes (20 calories), 3 tiny clementines (60-80 calories?), and a small mysterious food I can’t name. This is a snack plate, not a meal, for a little kid, let alone a grown adult 😭
I hope you’re getting your nutrients in somehow! I don’t mean to judge
That’s terrific for you. No need to judge though. There isn’t a quiet calorie hierarchy here. Condescending in a support collective is pretty poor form.
People will always have something to weigh in on what someone else is eating. Types of foods, food intake amounts, meal sizes, all these things are triggering for people’s various insecurities and traumatic histories with this subject. No matter what you do, there will always be an opinion given. Don’t listen to it and trust what works for you. If your day is totaling 1200, just know that this is probably quite a low intake unless you are quite short + sedentary.
It depends. Is it satiating? Do you feel full when you eat them? Do you think you can eat them for long term?
It might help to use smaller physical plates if you can. Humans aren’t awesome at objective comparisonfree size estimates, so an amount of food on a plate that’s an appropriate size for it (or better yet, piled onto one a little too small) *looks like* more food than the same amount on a larger plate. People calling it too little are probably reacting instinctively to the way the open space on the larger plate makes the array of food look sparse.
It’s probably because your plates look really large for the amount of food on them. Visually it looks like a small portion. Using a smaller plate would fix the perception by others.
Husband calls me out on this type of thing all the time. He’s a competitive athlete! For me, on a day I just walk the dogs and don’t go to the gym this is a filling meal. (Read above that these are burgers which would be a lot even on active days for me but eat and enjoy! 1200 is plenty!)
Why does this feel like body shaming
The second plate looks extremely sad ngl – i would probably feel more satiated if i had something a wee but more filling ie if the burger had a low cal bun / some baked fries etc. the first plate looks alright for a lunch but if the second plate is dinner, I think I’d wake up hungry in the night
Because they overeat and think its normal