This is crazy, because I love rice and beans and chicken in the Instant Pot with curry. To know I can't get two servings/helpings sucks.I'm a visual guy so I write in a little notebook and I use 'FatSecret' to find calorie values.
I'll tell you, when I found out one slice of meatloaf was 400 calories and I was regularly taking 2, my eyes were opened. Double the veggies and cut the carbs (basically all grains are 200 cal per cup) and I started dropping weight like crazy.
Oh yeah, get a kitchen scale to measure the weight of meats, etc.
Anyway, got some Essential amino acids, so I took those this morning on an empty stomach. Not really hungry