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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Try this:

Breakfast: coffee and/or tea. Calories: 100

Lunch: 1 sandwich/ cheeseburger/ hamburger etc with a big bowl of lettuce/cabbage/ spinach salad.  Calories: 500 -700

Dinner: chicken breast/ salmon filet with big bowl of steamed broccoli/ steamed beans. You can add a tablespoon of BBQ sauce on the broccoli/ beans( trust me, it's delicious!)
Calories: 700 - 800

No snacks, no desserts, nothing like that. Ofcourse, you'd still eat cake at a party and be fine.

That's a max of 1600 Calories a day, and you are all set.  These are pretty easy, very little prep. And no calory counting.

You can make your own variation of  meals but the key is sticking to about 4 or 5 different  meals that you already know and that are easy to either prepare or purchase .

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This is essentially ket, right?  I'm not seeing a lot of carbs in your two suggested meals.... assuming no bun on the hamburger.[/quote]

I don't think so( I have never done keto so not sure) . Buns/ breads are included above.
Sugar in coffee/ tea has carbs as well as sugar in the BBQ sauce. Another option could be  a beans and hard taco meal for either lunch or dinner.

The focus is  two 600-800 calorie meals a day and no snacking. If you have a list of easy to find, easy to prep meals like these, you don't have to count calories if you stick to your list.
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Was about to create a new thread as “every time I start dieting again I am reminded of how easy it is”. I usually need a reset diet once a year after winter, to lose 5 pounds. And I do something pretty close to the above for 5 weeks. And really it is not that hard if you pile on the salad without dressing and the steamed veggies. Today was my first day and I got

- black coffee ( I basically don’t eat between 7pm and 12.30pm)
- 400 calorie lunch = big salad mixing steam veggies, raw veggies, 200 cal of grilled chicken, 50 cal egg, pepper and lemon
-  100 cal snack, half a cup yogurt with fresh blueberries 
- 500 cal diner = big plate of grilled veggies and a grilled chicken thigh with no skin, a clementine and a 5oz glass of wine (or could have been chocolate instead of wine).

It is a very low 1000 cal diet but I am not hungry because I eat tons of vegetables. I don’t need to count calories after a few days because I remember the portions (first few days I sometimes have to weigh again the protein, or check the calories of the fat sources to get an idea of proportion).

But what is hard is that it makes it difficult to go out and if you don’t eat real food and don’t  make your meals from scratch, it gets hard to have the quantity without the calories. I find that this is the arbitrage to make : if you eat that cookie or drink that glass of juice you don’t have enough calories left to be able to fill your stomach, and you end up hungry and really feeling on a diet. I’d rather keep my calories for clean proteins and veggies [/quote]

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