I made an apple pie last night and its already gone.
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I made an apple pie last night and its already gone.
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I bake chicken, not pies.
Learn how to cook for one, 0r how to ration. Hard to cook for one when baking, so take it in to work or share with neighbors.
You get jacked on your own supply
Shop healthy and don’t keep snacks at home.
I think it’s really nice that you cook for yourself! Do continue, I cheer for you 🙂
As to your question: maybe putting a part of it in the freezer? Offering to family, friends, colleagues?
Best of luck with your cooking!
I fill the house with healthy stuff.
Only “treat” in my house at the moment is one of those bear shaped things of animal crackers.
I also like to be not fat.
A combination of genetics, willpower, and charity. I get commissioned to bake pies/macarons or donate them for bake sales. Ill also bring stuff into work to share.
When cooking, I make single servings or have people over to share. The servings I make are on the small side so I can keep an athletic build without having to workout. People are shocked when I tell them how often I eat pasta without exercising at all.
I’m married but usually cook for myself. I’ve struggled with my weight in the past but got it under control by not eating too much and exercising a lot.
In case of pies? I would make a smaller pie. Instead of using a pie dish, consider making it as a turnover or other pastry.
I count calories. Both the calories I take in and the calories I burn.
If I’m craving something like a pie, I’ll cut off a slice or two for myself and then package the rest to give away to friends… even during the pandemic, I’ll just drop off leftovers for them (especially my single friends who I know don’t cook)
Had a craving for baked ziti this week, and instead of making a giant tray for myself, divided it into 3 smaller pans and gave the other two away.
I cook healthy things.
Being vegan helps, being doing it for 7 years.
Although I’ve gotten just as chubby on a vegan diet, I can cook some mean vegan pastas with meatless meatballs and some pretty rich chocolate chip cookies.
I play sports so I actually need the amount of calories I want to eat
When I’m only cooking for myself my weight drops significantly
Discipline to make the healthy stuff taste good. Then you do exercise. Not getting fat requires more than just being able to cook decent shit to eat.
I try to limit myself completely to things I cook from scratch. I typically crave food when I’m feeling lazy or tired so having to put effort into making food is a surefire way for me to curb my own appetite.
It’s also a good way to get yourself to experiment and cook fancier/heathier things, too. One of my staples nowadays is Shakshuka, which is all veggie with only a little carb.
Genetics
I can’t get fat. I’m 43 and eat like a pig. Drink too much. Never exercise. Has to be genetics.
I cook healthier options. Also I workout atleast a few times a week
Also my metabolism is higher than Snoop Dogg if im being honest
Basically eat only things that were available to cavemen. Meat, fish, veggies, fruit, nuts….if you cut out processed foods (almost all have tons of processed carbs.) No pasta, no bread, no candy…sounds like a boring life, but get rid of the pounds you want to and maybe add in a treat once a week. It sounds hard, but it really isn’t if you drop the bad foods for 2 weeks. It becomes a new habit.
Also don’t beat yourself up if you weigh yourself every day or 2 and have gained a pound or two.
A question was asked one time on FB… “what was the day you decided to make a major change?” …. I had no idea what day it was, but I remembered the moment. I was walking into the grocery store and decided I was not going to buy unnatural foods for myself. I had made up my mind and dropped an average of a pound a week for a year
Good Luck!!!
You become very lazy so you don’t cook very often.
Never snack. Eat three meals a day and nothing in between. If you start to gain weight, clear your house out of anything unhealthy because if it’s in the house, you’ll probably eat it.
Exercise at least an hour a day.
I love to cook, but don’t really actually love to eat. So my SO benefits.
I don’t keep snacks at home. I usually cook baked fish or chicken. Everything else is grain and vegetables
I do most of my cooking on sundays, and it becomes my lunches for the week.
Oh, I just got good enough at cooking that women would put up with a little chonk.
Make the healthy stuff tase good. I fucking love garlic and onions. So I put it on everything. And you know eating more that usual of your own food isn’t that bad because it’s very healthy for you.
I only really enjoy bringing my skills to the fore when I’m cooking for others. When making stuff for myelf I’m much more spartan.
diet and exercise
I don’t like to do dishes. That’s probably not very helpful advice.
A pie is a dessert. Cook meals, don’t bake desserts.
Protein shake. I’ve just started on it and it’s a revelation. I tried it about 10 years ago and it tasted rank. This time it’s almost exactly like a banana milkshake, 200 calories a pop and locks up hunger for hours and hours. I usually have mine about 9pm when I start getting peckish and would usually snack on really unhealthy things. Now I have a 200 calorie shake and totally forget about eating.
Not affiliated at all, but I don’t know how other brands taste, I get mine from the protein works.
Since lockdown started I’ve really not eaten as much, lost 10kgs and am staying with same routine
I struggle with this a lot currently. I have just moved out from my parents for the first time to live alone and I love cooking and baking mostly. It’s hard to not make yourself pancakes at 10 pm just because you can and there’s nothing stopping you.
I gave myself a sort of “Fuck it” trial period till the end of the year when I can fully enjoy it and don’t care. I know I will probably gain some weight but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make. From the new year I will get back to my usual routine I set for myself when I was losing weight last year – I don’t eat sweet at all except for one time a month when I bake myself something really special, a new recipe or something challenging and difficult. I surprisingly don’t really miss it because I always look forward for the next time.
cook healthy food. treat yourself on the weekend. that’s it.
how was the apple pie though?
Just try to not use sugary/or unhealthy food. I completely stopped eating sweets tbh.
Well … I’ve had an eating disorder and a thing similar to relapse when I was poor and ate so little that everything that makes me sick even in small amounts.
Instead of making me not want to eat, it makes me eat a shit ton. I eat nothing most of the week out of illness but then eat a $50 takeout alone in one night. If not for being ill I would probably do this every night.
What stops me is “I am literally turning my money and therefore my time into ACTUAL FUCKING VOMIT.”
Change “vomit” to “shit” and you have the truth for most people.
Think … would you rather spend a few hours engaging in a loved hobby, or spend 10 minutes shitting out another 10 minutes of mostly-wasted pleasure from the night before?
And I mean 10 fuckin’ minutes. I can have a 14 inch pizza gone in 10 minutes if it tastes good enough.
For baked goods (pies and cobblers mostly), I freeze them immediately. After frozen, I cut them into proper portion sizes, and store in the freezer. That way I have to dig them out, microwave them, and it becomes a whole process.
Match that with the discipline to only pull out a single server, I fail 20% of the time, and it has helped a lot.
Start buying small appliances and cookware, probably too late for you now but pay this forward to younger siblings/cousins or friends. A single males first pan should be a three to six inch not a 6-12 inch fryer. You can buy small format glass pie “tins”, small format ramekins, other small format bakeware. A body building trick for portioning and baking multiples at once is using muffin trays.
Also directions on how to scale recipes precisely:
Every published recipe will have the number of servings on it, get the nutrition Information and divide it to your desired amount of calories, calculate how many servings that is, and scale the recipe by only making that many servings for yourself (example: if you want 60 grams of protein and assorted other macros you’re not tracking. You know youre gonna want about 200 calories worth of this recipe based off the nutritional facts, which comes out to 3 servings off the label . The recipe as written makes 12 servings, so divide every ingredient by 4 When prepping ingredients and you’ll make the perfect amount.)
Metabolism, mine is fast
If I’m cooking it’s either enough for just one meal, or plenty where I can put the leftovers into tupperware and use it for several meals throughout the week.
What I struggle with is eating too much junk food if it’s available in the house, because there’s no one else who is helping to eat through it. The best remedy for that is to just not buy junk food so it’s not available, or only buy it once a month to get the craving out of your mind.
Decades of emotional neglect makes me mostly unresponsive to hunger signals, so that’s how I do it. I made a small piece of sausage and 2 scrambled eggs for breakfast, and ate about half of ’em.
1. work out
2. Dont eat carbs late at night
3. chicken+Veggies are your friends! (protip grill them both, in the same pan so they taste alike, mhhh <3
4. mealprep for a week if youre lazy, asian food tastes great if you warm it back up 😀 so learn to cook asian food f you like that kidne of couisine
I tend to ratio my stuff
Ie meats are split into one meal portions
My measruing cup for rice is about 1 cup for lunch or dinner
I’m too cheap/broke to buy too many ingredients for unhealthy things.
I limit my portions. I learned I used to eat for pleasure, gobbling up loads of delicious everything. Then I realized I should be eating for nourishment fist, enjoyment second. I ;learned I could eat better foods, limit my portions and still enjoy the meal based on flavor and the fact that it was making me healthier, not sicker.
I exercise a lot.
I don’t make apple pies.
I also don’t keep sugar or anything with added sugar in the house.
I also try to walk 10k steps a day and built a power rack in my garage and make sure to lift on the regular.
I usually cook 2/3 meals at once, so dinner and lunch or 2 dinners and lunch, if I eat too much I’m gonna have to make a whole new meal.