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Tracking calories, keeping it to 1500 and trying to hit at least 50-75g of protein, but 100g if I can. Just setting those as the goals winds up forcing you into something kind of like low carb and also making smart choices. I can still eat garbage now and then. I'll still hit up McD's at work if that yogurt just doesn't look like it's gonna hit the spot. But I'll just get a $5 meal deal or just a Quarter Pounder or 10pc nugget but no fries and then make sure my dinner is something healthy. Healthy meals wind up being stuff like yogurt, a small bowl of frosted mini wheats, oatmeal with a drizzle of maple and some crushed pecans, omelet without going overboard on ham/bacon, chicken breast or a slightly leaner steak like sirloin or strip (trimming off the fat cap after cooking) and some veggies, beans and rice, homemade chicken stock (usually adding mirepoix, and maybe chicken meat if I have it around). If I wind up fucking up my earlier meals or just don't feel like cooking dinner and need to up the protein, I'll usually just do something like a Fairlife 42g or a Barebell protein bar as a light dinner. I also luck out in the fact that I'm not hungry until after I've been awake for at least 2-3 hours, so I go to work and the first 2-4 hours are so hectic that I don't have time to think about food so I usually don't eat until lunch anyway.