What are your low calorie solutions when you want to satiate that sudden hunger at night or after your main meal and maybe you’ve already consumed your calories? I’m referring more to something that fills the stomach a little bit, whether it’s a snack or vegetables or whatever. I’d like to understand or know how people do in these cases, because it’s always in these moments that I risk eating too much.
Push through it, drink a warm cup of water to settle the stomach too for me that works better than tea. Like if I feel bloated after a meal I’ll drink a cup of water thats almost on the hotter side of warm if that makes sense but it does wonders for me. Or try and sleep it off if Im at home.
Popcorn. I don’t use it for this purpose, but it’s definitely filling since you can eat a very large amount of it and it wouldn’t add a whole lot of calories. I eat it about once a week because I like it and 1/2 of a cup can pretty much fill you up. Making it in an air fryer would lower calories even more, but I make it with coconut oil for health.
Broth is more filling for me than tea, and beef or chicken work great plain or zhushed with ginger, squeeze of lime and cayenne.
If you’re willing to spend a few min in the kitchen it’s easy to come up with some low cal options:
Even more filling than broth, slice and sauté an onion, add it to beef broth - requires some chewing and it feels like a meal. Large onion + 1t olive oil + 2c beef broth = ~130 cal.
Roast or sauté sliced cabbage (or coleslaw mix), the whites of a couple of green onions with 1t neutral oil, add soy sauce and rice wine vinegar, sprinkle green parts of onion over the top with a spare drizzle of sesame oil. Calories will depend on your measurements, but also in the 100-200 cal range.
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