[fabrizioitwloch]

I'm only on Day 2 of Phase 2 and I need help! Yesterday, I ate my meals as recommended but realized I only consumed 443 calories. Today, trying to plan out my meals, I'm going to be under again. I'm trying to follow all the rules and having a hard time figuring out where to add the calories?

- can only do 2 fruits/day, so I can't add a fruit
- can only have 100 grams of meets twice, so can't increase that
- Do I just need to increase my servings of vegetables? Today I brought asparagus for lunch, but 30 small spears is still only 60 calories and Lord, I can't eat more than 30 spears of asparagus.

Help! What's the trick here to getting up to 500??

[b3JOkwXL]

I would up my proteins to gain back the extra calories. For example, uncooked chicken is about 32 calories an ounce. I am giving you a wonderful link to an online calorie counter, you enter the item in the search window and from there you can select the exact product and adjust the ounces to find out the calories you are dealing with. Good Luck!

http://caloriecount.about.com/calori...edishes-ic2200

[Rjvpicux]

Thanks, Nix. So, it's okay if I go over the recommended 100 grams of meat per serving?

[CDCL7WKJ]

Personally, I would not go over the recommended 100 grams of protein. You don't have to eat all 500 calories every day. You can increase your vegetable serving size to increase calories, or have the juice of a lemon or a tablespoon of milk or the allowed grissini. If you just aren't hungry enough to want any of that, you're close enough to 500 calories anyway.

[glopomcyte]

Thanks jmmrr! I've been stressing about not quite getting all my calories in. I just didn't want to reverse the whole process.

While I'm at it - does anyone know if the zero calorie spray dressings are okay to use?