Hello everyone, I'm here to share a tip I've had success with that has helped me to enjoy dieting and not deal with a variety of pesky cravings.
The tip? Eat veggie burgers(Hear me out) Now this seems simple, but to elaborate, I use boca (100 cal "all american") with a whole wheat bun as the base. If you're careful about the bun you get, the bun and burger will total at 220 calories before additions.
From there, it's all a matter of preference in how you dress it up. You can fully load a burger for almost no calories (pickles and lettuce are insignificant, and a thin slice of tomato and a thin slice of onion add about ~20 calories to the whole affair), but you don't have to go that route. You can just slap some pickles on it with a little ketchup and mustard and be none the worse for wear.
Now, I can tell you're probably not sold on it yet. I can understand, I'm a carnivore myself, and veggie burgers?
Let me sell you on it.
For one, a boca burger can be made in less than five minutes for minimal effort. It's never going to "replace" a beef patty perfectly, but (and this is coming from a unapologetic carnivore) it makes for a darn good burger given the minimal prep time involved.
This is important, because if you're sitting at home and a Mickey D's ad comes on, you can make a tasty, diet friendly burger at home, in less time than it would take to go to McDonalds. Heck, you can emulate the experience of most of their burgers by gently heating a couple of pickle slices and some diced white onion and tossing it on with some condiments. Even Big Mac sauce can be copied, the recipe is on youtube by McDonalds themselves! It's not identical, but it's close enough, and easy enough as to steal the thunder from the ad. Same with BK, toss on some tomato, iceberg lettuce, and mayo. Bam, instant junior whopper at home. Copy the way they stack the toppings, and what they use, and you can make them at home with ease.
For two, they're relatively cheap. I've found them on average at 3 bucks a box (4 patties per box). Unless you're absolutely inhaling them, the price is great, and way cheaper than fast food alternatives.
Still not sold yet? Still not sure about the veggie burger dream?
Here's the fun part.
If you eat them regularly (as I do, 3-4 times per week) burgers seem SO MUCH LESS appealing when they show up on ads. It's just a burger, who cares? I ate three in the last four days. Big whoop. And the truth is, eating one on a whole wheat bun is SUPER filling and satisfying. When I eat a veggie burger I'm good for at least 3 hours, which is insane considering how relatively few calories is in one.
You can dress them up with other stuff (a little mayo, or a slice of american cheese if you're so inclined) and it still will rarely top 400 calories unless you go absolutely HAM on the mayo or something.
It's been an integral part of my current diet, which has managed to keep food cravings in check almost 100% and has kept me from going over on my calories for the day for over two months now, with no signs of stopping.
Bonus tip: you can get tyson chicken patties in bags cheaply at Wal-Mart for easy chicken sandwiches the same way, but they're twice as calorie dense (200cal/patty) so it can be a little trickier to fit in with extra toppings, but even still, bun + patty is 320, which isn't bad at all for a homemade chicken sandwich.
Those come in spicy, too, if you're like me and love some heat.
I still eat other stuff of course, but this trick has made my life so much easier. Burger cravings, begone!
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