Although I don’t agree with their options…
This is a visual form of the men’s health idea of ‘eat this, not that’. Although I don’t really agree with the choices they’ve given it’s a really good visual how you can eat more food by making better choices. It might be something worth repeating with even better choices.
Okay, I found two things to compare side by side. I used to love sausage and egg mcmuffins (although I never ate one, and usually added hash browns). I looked it up - 440 cals (26g fat, 32g carbs, 20g protein). I went back and looked at a picture of a breakfast I had taken back in April. It’s 445 calories (18g fat, 43g carbs, 30g protein) - and much more satisfying than a single sausage mcmuffin. The composition of the breakfast is 1/2 cup egg whites mixed with 1 large egg, 1 tsp butter, 3/4 ounce of cheese blend, 2Tb ketchup (my vice) a medium orange, a small piece of pecan cherry bread and a 1/2 Tb of jam.
It is amazing when you compare food choices how much you really can eat if you eat the right foods. I read somewhere that your calories are spent like a budget, which really clicked with me. I’m a total cheapskate in real life and I would never spent $100 on a pair of shoes, so why would I “spend” 1/4 of my calorie budget on a candy bar?
Agreed - I’ve started to think of it as a budget and what I’m willing to spend. This is actually a higher calorie breakfast that I do on lifting days (at the moment 2400 calorie days), so it’s quite a deal.