Monday, March 9, 2020

My weight loss journey would have been so much more difficult without breakfast cereals. Cereal appreciation thread.

As I'm approaching 120 pounds lost since last year, I'm just thinking man, what would I do without cereal lol. One of my biggest guilty pleasures was eating a full pack of cookies with milk roughly 2000 just for one "snack" not including everything else I ate during the day.

I've always loved cereal, so making this a core part of my daily eating is huge for me, and oftentimes I eat 2-3 servings a day (a serving is no more than 300 calories for me, usually one cup of cereal with 1/2 cup whole milk). Yeah some cereal has very high added sugar amounts, but I stick to the cereals that I don't deem as too bad since they also have huge amounts of fiber and sometimes protein such as Mini-wheats and raisin bran.

One of the best things about cereals is just the vast amount of variety available, it never makes cereal boring to eat. I can eat chocolate or strawberry mini-wheats, cinnamon special K (high protein), among many others. However the real life saver is the rare times I feel like eating cookies, I just buy Cookie Crisps or Reese's puffs. A cup without milk is like 150-180 calories, way better than the 2000 calories splurge I used to do.

On a side note, I recently discovered the Fiber One 70 calories brownies, my gawd. A pack has 6 brownies (420 calories total) and I splurged on it 3 times last month completely guilt free with 1 cup of milk. All in all 570 calories, the amount of fiber in a pack is like a little over 100% DV, it makes me use the bathroom crazy, but it makes me feel full for a while.

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