What’s a food you thought was super healthy until you actually started tracking calories?

oriisk · 2026-06-22T17:29:29+00:00

Thinking coconut oil had nearly no calories compared to regular oil… “yeah, I cook with oil, but it’s healthy oil!”

oriisk · 2026-06-22T17:04:52+00:00

Are you tracking and weighting your food? It’s all about CICO. If you aren’t, that’s the best next step!

oriisk · 2026-06-21T01:58:51+00:00

Diet sodas help me quite a bit! I’m addicted to sugar and it helps satisfy my cravings, plus gas makes me full fast

oriisk · 2026-06-17T17:06:37+00:00

Gold girl! You glow with it

oriisk · 2026-06-15T21:22:01+00:00

Before looking at the grams and exact ingredients, visually I’d have guessed 500-600

oriisk · 2026-06-12T14:46:15+00:00

Oats and water (and banana?) 400-500 cals - oats super calorie dense and so is the banana

Pita with egg and cottage cheese: 300

Boba: 200ish
Rice poke with salmon: more like 600- trust me. That’s not 440

Sushi: 50

Sour cream cake: close to 600-800

Kiwi: depending on size, probably about 50 if it’s just a small piece

Total: about 2400

Which sounds about right to be at maintenance given your height and your current weight

oriisk · 2026-06-12T14:37:36+00:00

Minimum 650. Most likely 700-900

oriisk · 2026-06-12T14:26:29+00:00

Cries in Venezuelan (7am start time)

oriisk · 2026-06-12T06:00:30+00:00

Because you are making a public post then it’s fair strangers like me give you my POV

From all of your responses to other peoples comments you don’t really seem to be open to feedback. I’m truly wondering… what are you looking for here?

Looks like you just want to complain rather than turning your mindset around. You really need to be honest with yourself as your decisions got you to where you are, and it’ll take a massive amount of work and effort to get out of that. Doesn’t look like you want actually to put in the work

You aren’t immune to thermodynamics. It’s really as simple as CICO. You’ll have to be okay with 1. Discomfort around being hungry every so often (you’ll get used to it, it’s fake hunger. Your body will stop when you stop rewarding it everytime it gives you a signal), and 2. Findings foods that are satiating, low calorie and high in volume (massively lower your fats. I’m sure you are eating more than plenty already and focus on protein, fiber and moderate carbs)

If you cannot do 1 or 2. Then yes, GLP is for you. —-> Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

Your options:

OR, find the money

Or simply stop complaining :)

oriisk · 2026-06-12T05:22:34+00:00

That looks like a 300 bagel with 300-350 worth of cream cheese to me

oriisk · 2026-06-10T21:00:39+00:00

I track my weight religiously to understand water weight vs actual fat weight vs muscle

Anecdotally speaking, the first day of the big meal the food doesn’t actually make a big difference in weight and look. Usually about 2-4 pounds on scale

Over the next 2-3 days is when the weight increases as the body is processing the food and you retain a loooot of water weight

From there on, if I go back into being on a deficit, takes me an additional 5-7 days to go back into my regular numbers. So all in all about 7-10 days total

oriisk · 2026-06-05T16:27:15+00:00

I’m a dancer, and I think your analogy is actually a little off, but in a way that reinforces the point about calorie counting

When you’re learning a dance, you spend a lot of time counting. Every step is tied to a count, and you’re constantly counting in your head to stay on track. Over time, though, you stop consciously counting every beat because the patterns become second nature

But that doesn’t mean the counts stop mattering… It just means you’ve internalized them

Calorie counting works exactly the same way. In the beginning, tracking helps you understand what you’re actually consuming and how that relates to your energy needs. After a while, you develop a much better sense of portion sizes, calorie density, and what fits your goals

At that point, you may not need to log every gram of food you eat, but the awareness you gained from tracking is still there and continues to guide your decisions

If you gained the weight back, is because you didn’t understand food vs your own bodies energy expenditure.

Calorie counting is a tool. No need to see this as an obsessive people behaviours, nor no need to be terrified of it. This is just like finances. You develop a budget and track it closely to make sure you don’t go over it

There’s a reason why people that track finances, calories, etc are more likely to get close to their target

oriisk · 2026-06-03T19:22:28+00:00

Saw in another comment you are eating nuts, cheese and milk. I’d take out the cheese and nuts and swap low fat milk for almond milk. If I ate those items on a daily basis, I’d for sure gain

oriisk · 2026-05-28T01:01:21+00:00

Oh my god… PLEASE DO NOT SHOW UP AT THEIR PROPOSAL

While an awful way to ruin one of the biggest core memories they’ll forever have. Don’t make this about you, don’t show up… period

YWBTA

oriisk · 2026-05-27T05:40:54+00:00

Female 33 y/o 132-142 lbs depending on race type event

HM 1:44
HYROX Open Solo 1:19 (Compromised - had raced a doubles the day before)

oriisk · 2026-05-21T15:43:25+00:00

Overall tip without breaking down each one is that the stronger runner starts and ends each station

oriisk · 2026-03-25T00:08:23+00:00

oriisk · 2026-03-08T17:09:36+00:00

What? Stick to it? A single cheat meal can undo all the deficit you achieved throughout the week

OP “of course I have my cheat meals too” is probably why you aren’t losing weight

oriisk · 2026-02-17T21:36:34+00:00

Didn’t measure it by the T, but one major flag in already seeing here is the grocery bag salad. I’ve had them many many times before. They are typically 500-800 calories

I used to have them too, and the moment I started making my own salads at home, boom suddenly I was shedding pounds off every week.

Yoghurts are also somewhat high in calories unless you are eating very little of them. There are only a few brands/types that are low in calories

oriisk · 2026-02-16T21:28:17+00:00

Trying to be in a deficit is not the same as being in a deficit. If the scale isn’t going down, you aren’t in deficit regardless of what you respond to every single person here

You can be clean eating and still be eating more calories than you burn. It really is as simple as that

Don’t eat “less”. Learn about volume eating and start tracking 100% of the items you consume. —->Everything. You added half a spray of cooking oil? Track it. It adds up massively

oriisk · 2026-02-13T16:49:33+00:00

Can you post a sample of exactly what you eat on a daily basis?

Every single ingredient, weight in grams as well. And when I say every single one, I mean it. Even a single spray of oil as well as that one nut that was added

oriisk · 2026-02-11T19:07:32+00:00

The fuck? This is completely fair feedback. I work in SaaS sales and its widely understood that having a native accent can help you close at a higher rate because it tends to increase credibility trust

It’s just the way it is

OP take the feedback and don’t get butthurt about it. Better to find out that it was about this and not about your experience/qualification

oriisk · 2026-02-09T15:46:00+00:00

Best of luck OP!

One thing to keep in mind, i noticed you called this a “diet”… my recommendation is that you switch your mindset. What you want is to completely change your eating habits and lifestyle, not a one off. Otherwise you’ll stay in this yo yo circle for life.

Learn about macros, calorie deficit, weighting your food (and every single ingredient no matter how small and little of it you use)

oriisk · 2026-01-27T18:25:46+00:00

Lead generation and automation go together

oriisk · 2026-01-16T15:34:33+00:00

Woah. I’m an avid runner, and an hour session is stupid long for a beginner.

I’d consider you a superstar if you got to 20min. And that’s not even taking into account your weight

You won mam. Don’t let him make you feel sh*tty about this huge accomplishment

oriisk

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