r/1500isplenty

I am just wondering if anyone has any good advice for mid afternoon / post work snacks to help keep me on track!

I come home from work around 5pm or so absolutely starving and end up standing in the kitchen demolishing biscuits or bread which wipes out my kcal budget which is otherwise well managed!

would be very grateful for any suggestions. I eat a lot of fruit throughout the day so this clearly isn’t helping!

I'm kind of on a cut.. trying to build/keep muscles while being on a deficit. Before I have just lost weight by eating something like 1500 calories, and I was very hungry.

Now that I'm eating over 100 grams of protein a day, I very rarely feel hungry. Even though I exercise much more than before. Just a little advice for people struggling with hunger!

Please don't comment on how that is too little for me. I know what I'm doing and I'm a short woman <3.

Hiii - was trying to CICO before my wedding in September, and given my height (5’2) and activity levels (moderate-high), I landed at 1500 per day in order to be in calorie deficit. I walk 4-5 days a week & lift 3x a week.

The first month (April) went pretty well, I shaved off about 2 pounds, but it was also coming out of a big trip where I was stuffing myself so it felt “easy”.

However, now that we’re approaching the end of May, I’ve noticed my weight has more or less stayed the same since end of April. I’m not close to my goal at all. Has any experienced plateauing like this? One thing I will say is I don’t really feel hungry anymore, the way I did in the first month. Did my body adjust to my calories and do I need to lower the daily cals again? I just don’t want to lower it too much since I need the energy for weightlifting. I feel myself getting stronger, but hard to see the gains when there’s flab.

Any insight or advice appreciated!

I just bought so miso and I’ve seen so many uses for it and never had it on hand. Now my brains gone blank and I can’t think of half the ideas I was inspired by! I plan to firstly make a miso noodle broth. I’d also like to make a silken tofu mushroom pasta with miso. And I’m planning on adding miso to my savoury oatmeal bowls. What’s your favorite unique ideas for miso!

I know snack posts are everywhere but I wanted to share what actually stuck for me because I tried a LOT of stuff that didn't. 31F, 5'6, been eating at 1500 since December and down 22 lbs. The thing that made the biggest difference honestly wasn't my meals, it was figuring out snacks that stopped me from blowing my budget at night.

What I eat almost every single day:

Greek yogurt (the plain nonfat kind) with cinnamon and a few drops of vanilla extract. About 100 cals and it tastes way better than it sounds.

Baby carrots with mustard. Weird combo but I love it. Maybe 40 cals.

A handful of frozen cherries. The tartness helps when I need something refreshing.

Air popped popcorn with nutritional yeast. Like 90 cals for a big bowl.

Shameless gummies on days when nothing else is going to cut it for the sugar craving.

The pattern I noticed is that everything I actually stick with is stuff I can eat a decent amount of without going over 100 cals. Volume matters way more to me than how "healthy" something sounds on paper.

I see the snack question come up a lot here and I used to scroll past because I figured I had it figured out. Spoiler I did not. I spent months eating rice cakes and pretending I was happy about it. Then I started actually experimenting and tracking what I reached for most often in my food log. Here's what survived the test of time.

Morning snack: an apple with cinnamon. Boring but it works. Around 95 cals and it holds me until lunch.

Afternoon snack: sugar snap peas. I eat these like chips. A full cup is around 25 cals and the crunch really does something for my brain.

Post dinner: this is where I used to fall apart. Now I rotate between frozen fruit (mango or cherries depending on mood), sugar free jello, or shameless gummies if the craving is specifically for something candy-like and fruit isn't going to do it.

The thing I wish someone told me earlier is that snacks don't have to be exciting every single time. They just have to be easy enough that you grab them before you grab something worse. The bar for a good snack isn't "this is amazing" it's "this is fine and I don't feel like crap after."