Pizza night …. 🍕
If you’re trying to lose fat/weight or just improve your nutrition then it’s really important to find ways to incorporate lall the foods you enjoy but to find ways to do this that still fit within your lifestyle and goals.
Nutrition and fat loss is always a game of trade offs. Rather than being all or nothing about it try to go for a trade off instead. Pizza nights are something many people enjoy and a pizza can be a really handy, quick and tasty meal. Pizzas are tasty but also calorie dense and low in fibre. That means it’s easy to eat a lot, and in doing so, a consume a lot of calories.
No pizza is going to be low calorie per se – they’re usually fairly large, they’re bread based, with cheese, veg and often meat on top so you’re always going to be looking at a fair few hundred cals. However many are well over 1000 cals. If you’re trying to lose weight and tracking calories then it’s hard to accommodate that many calories for one meal. So instead of going for a pizza to yourself have half (save half to cook another evening or share with someone) and add a side salad. You’re still going to be looking at over 600 cals for most standard pizzas – but that’s still a calorie saving, without massively impacting taste or enjoyment! And as a bonus it won’t leave you feeling over stuffed and you get the extra nutrients and fibre from the salad.
By making small swaps and compromises you can easily fit everything you enjoy into your lifestyle long term. I guarantee you’ll feel just as satisfied and you’ll probably feel a lot less guilty the day after (not that I’m suggesting you should ever subject yourself to guilt for what you eat but the reality is most of us do feel that way).
Enjoy!
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