[Behind the Scenes of Meal Management] Enjoying snacks too! I'm revealing all my daily data—this is the menu that helped me lose 26kg
Today's snack was 551 Horai (shumai & char siu bun)✨
I also ate four coconut sable cookies and some snacks I got as a souvenir from Korea🤫
And for dinner, I had 150g of premium bluefin tuna medium fatty tuna (a divine value at 700 yen!)🐟️, served as a luxurious half-and-half of sashimi and rare steak🍖.
“Is it really okay to eat that much while on a diet?”
“You probably aren't writing it down because you've already gone over your calorie and salt limits, right?”
For those who thought that, I want you to see the “complete puzzle data” I put together for today😊
In short, it's strategy.
Here is the final, honest total!👇️
📊 Today's Puzzle: Total Daily Nutritional Intake
Morning/Lunch combined (seafood bowl, etc.): approx. 690 kcal / salt approx. 2.4g
Snack ① (coconut sable + Korean snacks): approx. 210 kcal / salt approx. 0.3g
Snack ② (551 shumai + char siu bun): approx. 291 kcal / salt approx. 1.1g
Dinner (medium fatty tuna, pumpkin, etc.): approx. 594 kcal / salt approx. 0.35g
🔥 Today's Total
Total energy: approx. 1,785 kcal (a surplus compared to today's expenditure of about 2,000 kcal!)
Protein: approx. 82.7g (ideal high protein)
Salt equivalent: 4.15g (easily cleared the goal of 5.0g or less!)
👑 Why did I get this result while eating everything I love?
The reason lies in my thorough subtraction strategy.
I anticipated that calories and salt would come from my snacks and lunch, so I made millimeter-level adjustments on my dinner plate.
Carbohydrate swap: I had planned on potatoes, but I stopped and switched to “75g of pumpkin”.
⭐ Thorough subtraction of salt: For the medium fatty tuna, both the sashimi and the steak had zero salt. For the sashimi, I just dipped it lightly in low-sodium soy sauce. For the miso sprinkle I put on the grilled vegetables, even though 3g only contains 0.6g of salt, I only added a “tiny pinch”.
⭐️ Focus on the quality of fats: The fat at night is the high-quality Omega-3 contained in the medium fatty tuna. I finished the rare steak using a Teflon pan without using a single drop of oil.
And what is indispensable in my meal management is the playfulness of “fun to look at”.
Today's highlight is the colorful star-shaped fu (wheat gluten) scattered on top of the grilled eggplant✨
Just by having pastel-colored stars sitting on top, the plate becomes instantly gorgeous and romantic, like a night sky at a festival. I value this kind of excitement!
Even though I ate my snacks properly and ate a full, colorful deli-style plate at night, in terms of numbers, I am completely on the “guaranteed weight loss route”.
A diet based solely on endurance will eventually reach its limit.
However, if you assemble your daily puzzle like a game based on your own limits (1,600–1,700 kcal, less than 5g of salt), even snacks become a valuable piece of the strategy.
With an active mindset of 'just keep moving!' and this logical puzzle-solving approach, dieting is no longer a penance, but a creative life's work that makes every day incredibly exciting😊
I've completed the perfect puzzle, so I'm in a great mood!
I'm going to take a long bath to improve my circulation, boost my metabolism, and then head to sleep🌛
Losing weight is truly wonderful!