Hot And Sour Shirataki Noodles With Tofu - 209 Kcal/18.2g Protein

Crustless Pumpkin Pie - 55kcal/1.2g protein

Servings: 8 slices - 55kcal/1.2g protein per slice

1 tsp pumpkin pie spice

2 tsp cinnamon

½ tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

1/3 cup flour, such as spelt, oat, white, sorghum, or almond

1/3 cup sugar of choice or xylitol

pinch uncut stevia OR 2 extra tbsp sugar

1 15-oz can pumpkin puree

¾ cup + 2 tbsp milk of choice

2 tbsp oil, or omit and increase milk to 1 cup

1 tbsp flaxmeal OR 2 tsp cornstarch (can be omitted if pie will be served in a bowl)

2 ½ tsp pure vanilla extract

1.  Preheat oven to 400 F, and grease a 10 or 9-inch round pan.

2. In a large mixing bowl, combine first 7 ingredients, and stir very well. In a separate bowl, combine all liquid ingredients with the flax, and whisk.

3. Pour wet into dry, stir to combine, then pour into the pan and bake 35 minutes. (It’ll still be gooey after baking, but that’s ok.)

4. Allow to cool completely before transferring uncovered to the fridge to “set” for at least 6 hours before trying to slice.

🌸 100 calorie spaghetti 🌸

Hey guys c:

I thought I’d share my recipe for spaghetti in tomato sauce with you which I’m absolutely in love with. I can finally enjoy some spaghetti without regretti (I’m sorry).

I hope you enjoy it as well!

It makes one serving and it’s only 98 calories in total!

Ingredients

200g shirataki noodles (you can get those in Asian supermarkets) ~19 kcal

5g garlic ~7 kcal

70g onion ~20 kcal

200g diced tomatoes ~50 kcal

some seasoning (I added salt, pepper, chili, frozen basil & parsley) ~2 kcal

Instruction

Rinse your shirataki noodles and put them into a non-stick frying pan. Don’t add anything else yet, we want to dry the noodles a bit to get rid of their rubber-ish texture.

In the meantime you can dice the onions and mince the garlic.

When the noodles start to shrink, you can add the garlic and the onions. Stir it from time to time and be careful to not burn them!

I usually take half of the tomatoes and blend them with an immersion blender so the sauce will be a bit creamier. I then mix the diced tomatoes and the blended ones together and add the seasoning.

When the onions start to turn a bit yellow/brown-ish you can add the sauce.

Let it cook for about 4 minutes and you’re done!

I hope you guys enjoy the recipe as well! I also made a 100 calorie stir-fry recipe.

Low Fat Apple Crumb Coffee Cake - 175 kcal/3g protein

Servings: 9 - 175kcal/3g protein per serving

FOR THE CAKE:

½ cups Applesauce (unsweetened)

¾ cups Light Packed Brown Sugar

1 whole Large Egg

1 cup All-purpose Flour

½ teaspoons Baking Soda

½ teaspoons Ground Cinnamon

½ cups Low Fat Plain Yogurt

½ teaspoons Pure Vanilla Extract

1-¼ cup Apples, Peeled, Cored And Chopped

FOR THE TOPPING:

3 Tablespoons Light Brown Sugar

3 Tablespoons Flour

1 Tablespoon Butter, Softened

1. Preheat oven to 350F. Spray an 8×8″ baking dish with cooking spray.

2. For the cake, combine applesauce and brown sugar in a large bowl. Add egg and beat until mixed. In a smaller bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and cinnamon. Gradually add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and beat until combined. Add yogurt and vanilla and mix. Gently fold in apple pieces. Pour mixture into the baking dish.

3. Combine topping ingredients in a small bowl, using a fork to create coarse crumbs. Sprinkle topping over the cake mixture.

4. Bake until golden brown and set, approximately 30 minutes. Remove from the oven and allow to cool. Slice into 9 equal pieces.

~92 calorie Starbucks Dulce de Leche Frappucino Recipe~

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Needing a chocolate fix? This recipe makes low calorie brownies you can enjoy all day. This brownie is moist and soft. You can eat it with a fork. Preheat oven to 400. Blend oats to create oat flour. I used my nutribullet. In bowl mix oat flour, cocoa powder, cinnamon, baking powder, sweetener. Add in greek yogurt, almond milk and egg whites. Stir well. Add 1 tbsp of mini chocolate chips. Pour…

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Easy Low Cal Breakfast

Pancakes- only 33 cals

1 egg white, the yolk is unnesscary

1/8th cup of milk

1/8th cup of flour

And then cook like normal. I got this from @wannabskini

Okay so we all know that halo top is a classic ED staple food

But let me put this out there.

Arctic. Zero.

Almost all of their flavors are 40 calories for half a cup, with the exception of brownie blast, cookie dough chunk, and cherry chocolate chunk being about 70-80. Chocolate peanut butter is 45.

That means 160 calories a pint (180 for chocolate pb, 280-320 for the other three I mentioned earlier).

It’s vegan, kosher, and all the flavors except two are gluten free

I’m personally not vegan or gluten free or kosher but, I mean, still good to know

I can’t actually buy this because I live with my parents 😔 but I absolutely plan on it once I move out!

My safe foods 🌺🍯

Feel free to add your safe foods! For me, it’s:

- lemon water 🍋💦

- coffee w/ cinnamon ☕️

- boiled eggs 🥚

- tomatoes 🍅

- Diet Coke ofc

- chicken w/ salad

- greens! (like cucumber, spinach, kale, lettuce etc) 🥒

- non fat yogurt

- tangerines 🍊

- strawberries 🍓 (they are so yummy and have negative calories!!!!!)

- green tea! 🍵

- salmon 🍣

if you guys miss chicken ramen, i just made this for lunch and it was only 75cal

ingredients:

-shiritaki noodles: 10cal

-1/2 bullion cube: 15cal

-1/4cup corn: 25cal

prep:

-your shiritaki noodles should come in a bag full of water, open the bag, drain, and rinse them

-after theyre rinsed put them in a frying pan on high

-stir until they turn a slightly white color

-add your vegetable of choice(mine was corn)

-add a 1/4th cup of water

-add your chicken bouillon

-stir until it looks done

-put in a bowl

-serve :)

(i added hot sauce to mine)

Reading, Watching and Listening to Beauty Standards - Saarah

Trigger Warning: This post contains references to eating disorders; reader discretion is advised.

Visit https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/ for help.

This essay will be exploring how beauty standards affect women. There were many ways to approach this but I feel what would perhaps be more interesting is how certain types of media engage and educate audiences on the matter.

It would be dishonest if I were to say I have always been conscious of these societal beauty standards; it would be further incomplete if I were not to include the standards of beauty placed on men who are represented by more muscular ideals. Physical attractiveness is something all of us are judged against. Scientifically, it results in successfulness in procreating. Why then are we beholden to these standards by society, to look conventionally pretty, groom oneself a certain way and attempt to show ourselves in our best light physically?

Outside of genetics and biology and inheriting features from our biological parents, there isn’t a lot we can do to change our look. It is largely outside of our control, and for most of us, our paycheck. The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) reported that women had 92% of all cosmetic surgery in the year 2019. While for men, this figure was only 8% respectively. For men a rhinoplasty was the most popular procedure, for women the rhinoplasty came in 6th after breast augmentation (implants or enlargement) or reduction, abdominoplasty (tummy tuck), blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery) and liposuction (removal of fat). My essay however, will focus on society’s fascination with body weight.

Society is constituted of the people around us, our networks, friends, families and colleagues. It is in the media we consume; the celebrities, the books, the films and television we watch. I have selected a book, a film and a music video to discuss this heavy subject, one of society’s biggest social taboos.

Firstly, the book is one I read a few years ago and one that shaped my opinions on this matter: Tyranny by Lesley Fairfield. If ever there was the one book for someone curious about this subject, weight and body dysmorphia, this is one I would press on any willing reader. Fairfield is someone who has for thirty years struggled with anorexia and bulimia. Fairfield writes candidly about how her thoughts take over and control her behaviour and self-destructive patterns. For me this was the first book I read on the subject, and it was the most educational. It taught me how society has a limited view on the feminine ideal and more often than not, it has nothing to do with “health”.

With weight, especially when you're a woman, everyone feels entitled to speak with you about it publicly. Are you pregnant? Dieting? It comes up over a shared meal, when asking if you'd like to have something to eat or, when you haven't seen someone in a long time. It's a shallow thing but people do speak up when they see a change. Plus, these days, it seems as if everyone is in the business of getting in shape…

Weight bias has become a prevalent, socially acceptable form of prejudice and discrimination. In a study by Falkner et al. titled Mistreatment due to weight: prevalence and sources of perceived mistreatment in women and men (1999), a sample of healthy adults (187 men and 800 women) enrolled in a weight gain prevention program recounted their experiences on the matter of weight bias. 22% of women and 17% of men reported weight-related mistreatment. The most commonly reported sources of mistreatment among women were strangers (12.5%) and a spouse or loved one (11.9%) (source: pubmed). Curiously this is not something only the morbidly obese people experience, the study noted. We all have an experience.

A more recent study: A Picture of Health (2016) by Credos et al. found that 41% of boys feel that the portrayal of men in media images is unrealistic. ‘Adults, as well as young people are finding themselves with issues surrounding body image. (Safeline 2021). We see heavily filtered images, badly filtered images on our apps, social networks and magazines. Where there could be an opportunity to help with body image acceptance, instead we find stereotypes, poor representation and incorrect language like ‘thin’ for anorexic sufferers, and the ‘fat humour’ so prevelant in US televisions shows.

Perhaps unexpectedly, it has fallen on our role models to help us feel better. Before we had the more popular clothing retailers offer larger sizes of clothing to fit plus-size women, we had body-positivity champions. My personal favourite is Meghan Trainor, but big stars like Demi Lovato and Beyonce also come to mind. The second media I selected is Meghan Trainor’s All About That Bass 2015 song and accompanying music video. It has a memorable message of self-acceptance but was criticized for not empowering every body type. Despite this it reached number 1 in 58 countries. It was relatable and for many people, it was refreshing to hear.

The final media I selected was ‘To the Bone’ a film starring Lily Collins (2017) who plays an recovering-anorexic woman. This was like the other two pieces of media I selected, about conquering a life-long battle and finding your own identity. It is a harrowing depiction of what can happen when beauty standards limit and reduce a person, by going too far. The character’s desires are more complex than wanting to be thin or prettier; she wants to be comfortable, and her reasons are complicated. I selected this because I felt it showed the extreme of body dysmorphia and society being an underhand entity in what shapes us and who we go on to become.

To conclude, this essay is only a brief perusal of the influence beauty standards hold. The media I selected all have their own place in a much broader discussion. Some of these will be triggering, others will be life affirming, but they all exist as art works which can educate and be forces for positive, radical change, embracing identity and not image; and ultimately, standing up to beauty standards.

References:

BAAPS statistics available here: https://www.theprivateclinic.co.uk/blog/baaps-releases-cosmetic-surgery-2020-annual-audit/

How body image is portrayed in the media | Safeline - Believe in you - Surviving sexual abuse & rape https://www.safeline.org.uk/how-body-image-is-portrayed-in-the-media/

Mistreatment due to weight: prevalence and sources of perceived mistreatment in women and men - PubMed (nih.gov) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10574516/