Help with what to eat

[Rachierach11]

I’m really keen to stick to 1200 kcals a day (so that I can drink wine at weekends) but I’m struggling to find meals and snacks that satisfy my hunger and cravings throughout the day. My evening meals are usually batch cooked and approx 400kcals. I’d really like some filling lunch and breakfast ideas and some low cal snacks to top me up. My breakfast is usually prepared at home and eaten at my desk and the same with lunch. No access to a kitchen at work. Any ideas will be gratefully received as I’m sick of staying the same weight for years on end x

TikTok and chatgbt are great for things like this op.

Chatgbt - ask it for a 7 day meal plan for 1200 calories a day. Any foods it gives you that you don't like ask it to remove and replace. Ask chat to give you snack ideas.

TikTok has thousands upon thousands of what I eat in a day on 1200 calories.

I use Nutracheck and eat around 1400 to 1500 calories a day. I don't eat breakfast usually have a few cups of coffee and glasses of water or orange juice, never been a breakfast person. Lunch is homemade soup with a slice of sourdough, bread is shop bought or a salad with tuna, chicken, salmon.

Snack ideas
Baby bell
Sugar snap peas
Mini chedders
Fruit
Quavers
Fig biscuits
Scone with jam

I'm eating this amount at the moment. Usual breakfast is couple of heck chicken sausages with a slice of sourdough and butter. Snack is apple and babybel. Dinner is usually some kind of meat and a range of veg, or else a big bowl of chicken ramen with loads of veg, or gyoza and rice.
I've lost 99lb in exactly one year. Like you, I need my weekend wine so I'm chuffed I've lost this much weight without compromising things I love.

I get a watermelon each week, chop it up ready into slices and have it in the fridge. This is my new evening snack when I want something sweet. I don’t count calories so not sure how many this is but can’t imagine it being lots?

I’d look for volume and low carb, Michael and Claire molesley blood sugar diet is very effective. For breakfast try overnight ‘oats’- 1 tbs chia seeds soaked in circa 100ml warm water, add 1 tsp ground flaxseed, 1 scoop protein powder, 1 tbs porridge oats, 3 tbs low fat Greek yoghurt, splash of vanilla/almond and half a chopped apple and some berries (frozen will do). Can do a tsp nut butter, a few chopped nuts or a tiny bit of honey or maple syrup for sweetness if you need it. Stick in the fridge and they last a week and keep you full for relatively few calories.
For lunch try omelettes with egg whites and veggies ( Spanish style are meal prep suitable) or grilled chicken with steamed veggies, massive salads etc- protein and fibre for volume with low calories. Soup is good but make it at home and avoid oils and cream- massive bowl for virtually nothing and if you need a bit of bulk stick in a handful of broken spaghetti and a Parmesan rind ( just don’t forget to fish it out fter cooking as isn’t nice in a lump)

Thanks so much everyone! That’s all really helpful. Going to try the overnight oats for work next week and going to hammer chat gpt for hours tonight. I always forget to use it and it’s so useful!

Wouldn't it be simpler to feed your body properly and limit your drinking ?

Try intermittent fasting. You then only have 2 meals to split your calories over.

Agree with the overnight oats. Lots of recipes on IG for them and baked oats. Also things like egg whites (Lidl and Tesco sell egg whites in bottles). Add them to omelette and scrambled egg, really bumps up the protein to keep you full but very low calorie.
Go for volume so lots of veg and do things like add cauliflower rice to normal rice to increase volume.
I use cottage cheese a lot to add protein but also for things like lasagna.
12000 isint a large amount of calories but with some strategic thinking you can make it work

Thanks for your input. I believe I can feed my body properly with some good ideas from other posters. Of course the ideal would be to give up alcohol altogether but I wouldn’t find this enjoyable or sustainable and so I am looking for sensible ways to enable myself to become healthier and slimmer whilst not depriving myself of something that makes me happy