Bread crumbed chicken fillets. Acceptable?

fonecrusher1

Howdy folks. Ive been eating weight watchers meals for the last 2 weeks & im getting very bored with them. Today i got myself a few tescos breadcrumbed chicken fillets for a change. So i just had 2 of these things & a load of lettuce & a glass of fizzy water for my dinner. I was going to have just one but im so damn hungry.:pac:

Each 95g chicken portion contains;

200 Calories
1.6g sugar
10.3g fat
1.6g saturates
1.5g salt

What do you think? is it ok to eat these sort of products or would you recommend i stay away from them. A weight watchers meal contains about 400 - 450 calories so i thought i might eat this sort of meal the odd day to break the monotony.

Im 125kg. For the last 2 weeks im eating about 1000 calories (no bread/pasta/rice/potatoes) per day max & doing 1.5 hours brisk walking 6 days a week.

Thanks.:)

2hellr2conaght

Hi, I did weight watchers last year for a while and it does get boring. If I were you I would buy fresh chicken breasts and breadcrumb them yourself. The work will make it more rewarding and help with the boredom. Precrumbed chicken from a supermarket is a no go really. Why not mix some smoked paprika through the breadcrumbs just to mix it up a bit. The chips made from sweet potato are good too when it gets boring, just alot of work though.

Frogdog

You're eating 1,000 calories max a day??? :eek:

You're doing Weight Watchers??? :eek::eek::eek:

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brianthebard

I'm with frogdog on the 1000cals' a day I'm afraid, that's a starvation diet. re; the chicken, they are tasty but they have a ****ty nutritional profile, regular chicken has 20g of protein per 100g, breaded stuff never has more than 12 and usually less than 10. That should perhaps give you an idea of the difference in quality. Imo if you are trying to jazz up chicken (or any meat) it would be better to try a spicy sauce of some sort rather than breaded foods.

Kimia

Sorry Fonecrusher, but someone has to say it. I'm pretty horrified by your diet. Surely you cannot possibly believe that 2 weeks worth of weightwatcher ready meals is healthy? And beyond that, why do you just eat ready meals? Is it because you can't cook? If not, we can help with that!

The most important thing when starting to eat healthy to lose weight or just to be healthier, is to figure out how to cook a couple of proper healthy meals for yourself. It's not a big deal, it won't take forever, but it'd a damn sight better than fecking a WW meal into a microwave and making your body rely on processed crap.

And to answer your original question, no, in moderation, breadcrumbed chicken fillers are not crap, but for taste, would you not just make your own? It would taste a million times better and be a million times better for you too.

ApeXaviour

It is a starvation diet, and unless you really really know what you're doing it'll likely blow up in your face. Others have said what is need to be said on it.

I'd just like to offer a bit of practical advice to
When you finish this diet (whether that's today or when you choose) move to a maintenance 2000-2500 or so calorie diet for at least two weeks, where you count everything. Those couple of weeks as your hormones are upregulating your body will go into a kind of overfeed-and-store mode and unless you're really careful you'll undo a whole lot of hard work.

fonecrusher1

Thanks all for the advice.:)