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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Zeon@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

I have unintentionally become pescatarian recently because I've come to realize that fish have a lot of nutritional value. So far, my meal plan looks like this:

Breakfast

  • 3 eggs
  • 1 slice of Ezekial bread toasted
  • Mixed berry smoothie with banana, peanut powder, collagen peptides, chia, creatine, non-fat greek yogurt, and water

Lunch

  • 2 tin cans of sardines, mashed
  • Non-fat greek yogurt
  • Tzaziki sauce
  • Lemon
  • Black pepper
  • 2 slices of Ezekial bread toast or one ezekial tortilla, depending on my mood

Dinner

  • Shrimp kebabs made with olive oil and veggies
  • 1 corn roll or asparagus

Some days I'll switch out my dinner for a salmon salad / salmon wrap, or I'll change the shrimp kebabs for a shrimp ceasar wrap with a nice avocado oil based dressing. Being pescatarian is really great because it's easier to make, shelf life lasts very long, and it's generally cheaper than buying meats.

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[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

Bruh I'm just trying to survive out here

[-] schmorpel@slrpnk.net 13 points 2 weeks ago

I feel you. People here seem to be so particular about their diets? Wtf is Ezekiel bread, and how do they manage to make it look like the blandest white bread one could imagine? Why is there baby food with added protein now? So many questions???

[-] blarghly@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

Breakfast: Coffee, maybe with milk.
Lunch: Usually nothing, maybe a salad.
Dinner: Burritos

It works for me

[-] sealhaslupus@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

the bowel mover diet

[-] PragmaticOne@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

I’m in the UK. Wtf is ‘Ezekial’ bread?

[-] Melobol@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago

It comes from the Bible, Ezekiel has some stuff of what should be in bread. (It is pronted on the packaging all over) Its sprouted and has like 11 different seeds in it. It is usually in the organic freezer section in stores.
Even if you don't care for the origin story - it supposedly really good stuff, it tastes good also.

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[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago

Also UK but I looked it up - bread made from sprouted grain/legumes instead of normal flour.

[-] zxqwas@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Breakfast: no fucking way you chase me out of bed in time.

Lunch: leftovers from dinner.

Dinner: 300g of meat/ fish/ chicken. Salad (usually red onion, lettuce, peppers, feta cheese, cucumber).

I've got about 80% adherence to this diet. Either my belt has gotten longer or my waist has gotten smaller.

[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Not sure how old you are but you might want to mind the sodium content of the two tins of sardines. They likely exceed your daily allotment. I know people don't worry about these things when they're young but tge habits you build now will be with you when it does matter, and they will be hard to change.

[-] Zeon@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm 22, and believe it or not, I actually lost 120lbs over the course of 8 years. I have a whole spreadsheet dedicated to my meals which shows me everything (Calories, fats, mono/poly, sodium, fiber, etc.) I try my very best to make sure I'm healthy, tracking everything down to the gram.

Right now, I'm averaging about 2000mg sodium a day, and the seafood also provides a sufficient amount of Iodine too.

Thank you for showing concern at least haha, you're right that people need to build these habits early on.

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[-] Bongles@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I checked a can i have of Brunswick brand sardines in olive oil. That has 16% DV or 370mg. If theirs is similar, it looks like they may just get other sodium from the bread or tortilla or when they do caesar and they might be fine.

[-] psud@aussie.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago

Brunch: pemmican

Dinner: every now and then pemmican

Snacks: none

One to two meals a day is the win

[-] ArchEngel@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

Heyyyy +1 for pemmican! I almost never hear anyone talk about it nowadays.

[-] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

It's pretty much all I eat :) the simplest portable whole food

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[-] forgetfulmeat@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

I just try to not eat too much processed food and go to the gym

[-] Zarobi@aussie.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Reading the comments mine might be the weirdest...

Breakfast:

  • bowl of all bran and special k with cow milk
  • "adult formula" blended with almond milk. It's like feeding tube stuff as a dry powder. I struggle to eat enough calories per day without it so my doctor prescribed it, it's "nutritionally complete"
  • electrolytes potion. Magnesium and vitamin C effervescent with a pinch of salt in coconut water
  • small cup of Turkish coffee
  • two squares of dark chocolate

Lunch

  • sliced strawberries and banana with cream
  • low GI crunchy bread (Bürgen) with hummus

DinnerOne of:

  • vegetable and meat stew
  • wholemeal spaghetti with nooch and olive oil and feta cheese
  • chicken thigh with wild rice and cucumber salad
  • salmon with wild rice and cucumber salad
  • whatever leftovers are gifted to me (as long as it doesn't have sugar or loads of simple carbs)

I have prediabetes along with a dozen other health conditions lol

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

“adult formula” blended with almond milk.

ensure?

I have prediabetes along with a dozen other health conditions lol

unsolicited advice on prediabetesIf your worried about pre-diabetes and other metabolic symptoms (hyper tension, fatty liver, visceral obesity excess adiposity, snoring, etc) ; you might want to talk to your doctor about going low carb. Lots of the food you listed will spike your blood glucose (especially the adult formula), which will spike your insulin, which is the foremost cause of pre-diabetes and other metabolic problems. While whole grain/complex carbs are less bad then refined carbs - they are not good and will still spike your blood glucose. You can see this in real time if you put a CGM (continuous glucose monitor) on for two weeks

[-] Zarobi@aussie.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yep ensure was the one. I wasn't sure if it was available internationally so I didn't put name brand in there.

Complicated Medical Stuff

hyper tension, fatty liver, visceral obesity, excess adiposity, snoring

Yeah I have all those problems lol. I actually did use a CGM and the most concerning thing noted was I was going into high 2's and low 3's blood sugar. Normal range is 4–7 so I was hypoglycemic for a big part of every day.

It turns out I was massively undereating for a long time and slowly starving to death, somehow without losing weight as well. When I brought it up in the past doctors were like, well you're not massively losing weight so you're fine. But I was measuring my calories and only getting 800–1400 on a good day, when my maintenance was meant to be 2400.

My doctor told me to stop starving to death as a top priority, but due to various other medical issues I physically can't eat enough food per day. It got really confusing so now I'm using Ensure even though it's not ideal for prediabetes (I can see it on the graph). All the doctors I've seen have mostly just been confused and not really sure how to help me. My disability makes it impossible to exercise enough per day.

My body seems mostly ok with my current diet of whole meal stuff, but any sugar or refined carbs really fucked me up and made me very unwell. So I'm definitely avoiding all sugar like the plague. I did keto for a while but it wasn't sustainable for me long term. So wholemeal is my compromise.

Overall a shitty situation, not much can be done to help me it seems.

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[-] schmorpel@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

I am here reading and snorting a bit about how particular some people are about their food and its protein content, and wondering who can afford all that salmon and greek yoghurt ... although, I'm fussy about my food as well, just in a different way.

Morning is home made sourdough, butter, cheese, often an egg, sometimes meat. Lunch is the same, if I don't forget. Dinner is either insane amounts of meat and vegetable, all home raised and grown, or something insanely unhealthy, like 1l of custard or a ramen soup or two pieces of cake. Meals I forget are replaced by coffee and a blunt (lots of small meals throughout the day are good for you!).

It's balanced in the way that very unhealthy things are combined with top quality stuff in a balanced way. 🧐

Since I often forget to eat I always have to have a quick option available, therefore custard and ramen are the lesser evils. Other than that I try to produce everything myself out of local ingredients and eat really well for really cheap.

[-] Almacca@aussie.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago
[-] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

Make it high in animal fat and get rid of seed extract oils for better health

[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

You've been getting advice from the brain worm controlling that leather handbag.

[-] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

yeah high protein + high fat seems to rule

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

high fat and moderate protein (1.1-1.6g/kg/day) seems to be the best for long term health.

[-] Kennystillalive@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

For me it's

Breakfast: Wholegraim bread with a Banana (sometimes a nut spread) + Coffee

Luch: Currently due to the heat wave some type of bean salat with tofu bites and a protein bar.

Dinner: Proteinshake & lentin wavers with hummus and some vegies & vegan cold cuts.

[-] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

Ezekial bread

I'm not a big bread fan, due to it not being much better than junk food IMO, but that stuff looks great!

Shrimp kebab

A good reminder to me that a pescatarian diet includes non-fish seafood. That said, I haven't checked on the nutritional profiles of crustaceans for a long time. Not sure how 'healthy' or not they're currently considered...

Btw, for my wraps, I like to have these, which are mainly made out of resistant starches and only have about half the typical # of kcals. Altho when I get around to it, I'm going to try another round of making my own oat-flour wraps as a similar health upgrade.

Anyway, in terms of fish, I have salmon fairly often, and a bit of canned tunafish, and some omega-3 capsules every day. Diet is mostly soup and stew-based in general, with fresh veggies and some low-cal noodles. Air-fryer is also an essential food prep tool, as well as the spiral elements on my oven, great for precision grilling.

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[-] ArchEngel@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Maybe I'm just tired after a 13 hour construction work day, but what is ezekial bread? Is this a christian bread?! And why? I googled it and it just seems to be whole grain bread?

I have:

Breakfast: random toast (peanut butter) or oatmeal (dried fruits)

Lunch: Apple, cheap superstore granola bar, Sandwiches - Winnipeg rye, lettuce sand which meat, homemade mayo, cheddar, random other ingredients. or Bulk homemade burritos - whole wheat tortillas, black beans, eggs, salsa, cheese, rice, random other ingredients.

Supper: wild variety of different meals.

[-] whynotzoidberg@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Ha, can’t comment on the name but it’s a flourless bread, using sprouted grains instead. It has good macros for a bread, too. I’m a convert from 88 cent Aldi loafs.

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[-] whynotzoidberg@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I do more of a 5 meal thing lately. I became very regimented over the last couple years.

Morning is a 2 hour procession of water, protein coffee, regular coffee, and oatmeal.

Late morning is a piece of Ezekiel toast with a light cream cheese spread and either smoked salmon or sliced chicken breast on it.

Early afternoon is often a full or half banana. Late afternoon is protein drink and either a banana or a rice cake with honey. These two mini meals bookend my workout.

Dinner is the wild card. Chicken, salmon, shrimp, scallops, tuna.. all fair game. Usually with a vegetable and a an egg or half avocado.

Then my night snack is usually Greek yogurt with something mixed in. Mix ins range from Stur to blueberries to peanut butter.. just depends on the day. I’ve also been known to do a hard boiled egg or two instead.

[-] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

Morning is a 2 hour procession of water, protein coffee, regular coffee, and oatmeal.

Late morning...

what fantasy world you guys live in where you can afford SECOND BREAKFAST???

and what about PO-TA-TOES???

[-] Cattail@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Right now it's oatmeal+cinnamon+maple syrup/honey + raisins with milk or water

I learned I love oatmeal

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I've been simplifying my routine, after the gym I typically just have 300-600g of very fatty meat plus a coffee or two for lunch - that's it for the whole day. OMAD. I'm lazy, very lazy.

[-] Melobol@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

Right now I am on ~ 1000 calorie a day. Still have some weight to loose.

Breakfast: oatmeal with 1/2 cup of milk 2% + vitamins.

Lunch: most often a frozen healthy meal ~400cal or salad with meat + fruits.

Dinner: coffee with 2% 1/2 cup of milk, and usually 2 seeded thin toasts with 1tbs of sour cream / sometimes added some hard boiled eggs.

Snacks: sometimes crunchy rice rolls with honey, fruits or a tiny tiny bit of sweets (chocolate/cake etc)

[-] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

May I recommend very low carb? No need to count calories and the weight just vanishes quickly

If you do it with high meat and meat fat you won't lose muscle either

A couple of warnings: it takes up to a few weeks to become used to running on fat instead of sugar (running on fat is how it works), you will need extra salt during the first few weeks; see the keto community for more advice

[-] Melobol@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

I appreciate the advice! My problem is that I just love carb, like crazy.
And I only need to keep it up for about +60 days more.
I know very low calories with keto is the way to go if I want it fast, but so far I'm only about 60 days in with 30lbs loss, so that's not too shabby in my books :D and I still can eat a bit of cheesecake. A tiny one, but it is still cheese cake!!

[-] Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Hunger. It greeted the man at dawn, and laid down with him at dusk. Sometimes, its gnawing woke him up at night. There's only the hunger, the dead, and a terrible solution.

But for real, microwaved potatoes with whatever my CSA hooks me up with. I'm vegetarian for economic reasons, most of the time anyway.

[-] osanna@lemmy.vg 3 points 2 weeks ago

I don’t really eat meals. I’m more of a grazer

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