It is! Especially when you’re feeding yourself! I had to dig through my fridge and keep pulling out stuff and I made a big meal (for me) that is still only barely 500 calories!
It really baffles me how much weight I’ve gained considering my typical meal size is so small. I hardly eat anything! It’s literally just because of fast food because even one of those meals can be over 1000 calories. Don’t eat fast food kids 
Unless you need to hit that 500 calorie mark for your medication LOL
A salad with an egg for example or tuna or chicken breast is 5-6 00 calories if you add mayonaise !
Or have a banana before a meal. It is already 200 calories
Yeah I just had a sweet potato which I didn’t know was a little over 100 calories so that’s good. And then I had a microwave meal. So I hit nearly 500, like 440 and I’m also drinking a 100 calorie energy drink. So that will help me hit the goal I think.
Usually I’m trying to count down my calories not count up! Lol. (Which means all my frozen meals are diet versions but now that’s not a good thing 
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most of the time I will have 1.5 servings of peanut butter and an oz of pecans to take with the meds or for dinner I will have steak or the same thing to take it but today I am having trouble eating peanut butter even tho I am not taking it in the morning anymore only at night because I am switching meds
That’s not 500 calories that’s more like 300 something. No wonder you’re having such bad side effects 
Glad you’re switching though
A banana is only like 120 calories tops 
500 calories can be so hard sometimes!
Lentils are filling, filled with vitamins, and they’re cheap in calories! I bought some packaged, microwaveable, Indian flavored lentils and each package is 2 servings for a total of 300 calories! TWO SERVINGS! One package fills me up pretty good, and it’s only 300 calories, so I’ve been eating one package for lunch for the last few days. They’re filling, tasty, and I don’t have to cook, I just stick the pack in the microwave and boom tasty bites!
here’s a pic of the lentils:
I’m trying to cut down on calories, so I just recently started counting calories to lose weight.
I got rice that’s the same, you just steam it in the microwave and it’s a little over 500 calories per bag
it is 485 calories I use a food scale 48 g of peanut butter 28 g of pecans
i gained a ton eating fast food
Frozen pizzas are good and quick. I don’t follow the directions, just put the oven on high for 10 min. Perfect
Have you tried exercise? It doesn’t have to be an exhausting workout. What I do is sometimes I pace back and forth in my room for thirty minutes, sometimes an hour. Find something that isn’t too unpleasant, and do that. Do you have a pool available where you could go swimming? You might try that. The point is to just try to increase your activity level. Don’t punish yourself. Just try to be a little more active.
Yep I wrote the gym into my schedule! It’s closed on the weekends here so I can’t go until Monday but then I plan to make it routine! I need to burn off this post Risperdal weight that just seems to never go away considering I’ve been off it for months now.
However in this thread I’m talking more about how I’m having trouble finding/making meals that are 500 calories that aren’t fast food.
I don’t wanna say something.
But where do you buy your banana from ?! 
The ones I measure are at minimum 150 calories :o)
bananas, eggs, oatmeal with coconut milk , peanut butter, cashew nuts etc
Recently Before travel, I have been making shakes with a whole bunch of fruits. Can you do that?
have a piece of whole grain bread with a little butter on it, that will help get to 500. Or you can add a big glass of fruit juice.
or you can do what I’m about to do, eat ice cream lol