When I'm in lose weight mode, it's basically impossible to eat out. Every food I find is usually at least 400 calories, but I need something close to 150, and that's just not possible. I could eat less, but then I would be hungry. At home I just eat 150 calories and then an enormous bowl of veggies (broccoli, salad without topping, lot of tomatoes), that makes my stomach calm down
I agree with you that eating out is tricky while on a diet, but 150 calories for a meal is extremely restrictive even if you're on a diet.
If you follow a more standard low-calorie diet and eat ~400-500 calories per meal, you can often make fast food work by ordering a kid's meal. Another idea would be to order a single small sandwich without fries and with diet soda or water.
This may not be a satiating meal since it doesn't have enough fiber, but something along the lines of a McDonald's hamburger plus a diet coke would be a "normal" thing you could order while on a diet and still stay within your calorie limits.
I eat a total of 900 calories when on this diet and it worked so well over the years, it's just really bad if you don't have access to your home. It also makes my body feel very healthy when I do, not sure why.
The key to it is distributing the food and eating certain type of foods that are very filling. If I'm hungry, I will eat, I can't think properly otherwise.
So I eat about 4 apples throughout the day (different fruit in summer), that's 200 calories. Fruit is probably the key since it stops hunger.
For breakfast I have a cup of milk and 30g of carbs, which is either a slice of bread (no sugar) or some no sugar cereals. I'm looking for an alternative to the bread/cereals because it's not very filling or satisfying. That's roughly 200 calories.
Launch and dinner are 130g chicken breast, a lot of veggies. Chicken breast can be replaced with avocado or fish or beef, just keep it at 160 calories. I also put a drop of evoo (extra virgin olive oil) in the salad, half a teaspoon, otherwise it's really hard to eat (60 calories), so that puts the meal at roughly 250 calories if you account for some calories from the veggies.
Total of 900.
I also drink enormous amount of water while on this diet, it helps a lot.
Third day is the hardest, since the body asks for more calories, past the third something happens and body is fine. The major problem is at 4 weeks the body starts looking for alternative flavors, which is hard to do at low calories.
Summer helps a lot because the fruit variety is incredible. Strawberries and nectarines are really good!
If I save the evoo calories, I go for a bowl of ataulfo mango + nectarines + strawberries + raspberries, it's really sweet and filling.
I should also point out that I never eat at McDonald's either way, not sure what they put in the North American one, probably sugar, but after 1 big mac and 6 chicken nuggets, which puts me over 1000, I was starving. Did it once, would rather not eat than eat Mcdonald.
