Another pizza question

Just wondering, is pizza never considered a healthy or weightloss food? I had a thin crust pizza with chicken, green peppers, and mushrooms for lunch, and I'm wondering if I cheated. This wasn't a craving or anything, I just thought that a thin crust pizza with chicken and veggies would be the equivalent of whatever Subway sandwich I would have eaten instead. Was that a mistake on my part? I've eaten two slices for lunch, and was considering having another slice for dinner, and then two more tomorrow for lunch. But I'll scratch those plans if it's going to kill my diet.

I'm no expert, but I think the veggies, chicken and sauce are great, but the crust is usually nutrition-less white flour high calorie bread product and the cheese full fat (nutritional but high in fat and therefore calories)... I love pizza though, so it has to be done now and then!

Thin crust is generally a good choice. :-) So are the chicken, veggies, etc. I usually use my knowledge of the area of a circle and the information they have on things like dominos to determine the calorie count.  Its not a wonderful choice, but neither should it ruin your diet. :-)

I love pizza too, and I've found a fairly good alternative.

I use a small tortilla (around 100 cal) with some pasta sauce, a little bit of low fat cheese(1/3 cup) (around 110 cal), a couple turkey lunch meat slices cuz into chunks (around 50 cals), and then veggies of my choice like peppers and mushroom to top.  It ends up being around 300-350, and it calms my pizza craving.

Bake in the oven 15 min at 400F

Of course pizza can be considered an extremely healthy choice! The catch is, it is only healthy (or at least you know it's healthy) if you make it yourself. You could get the frozen kind (south beach diet, amy's, etc) but I don't consider them to be that good. They have the same ingredients as unhealthy pizza, just a lot smaller.

Trader Joe's has this amazing Almost whole wheat pizza dough. It's already made and all you have to do is shape it and add your stuff to it and bake it.  The whole dough is about 1140 calories, so even half of it would be around 550 cals if you have that much calorie room. For personal pizzas, I weigh the dough, so I know exactly how many calories of it I'm consuming, top it with fat free pizza sauce, fat free shredded cheese, loads of veggies (mushrooms, bell peppers, tomatoes, olives, artichoke hearts, etc) and pop it in the oven. It's absolutely amazing and very healthy.

Another pizza that I discovered is called fit 'n free pizza. i ordered it online and they're 7" fat free pizzas that just have cheese. I take them out of the freezer, put more fat free pizza sauce ( i love sauce!) add my veggies, pop it in the oven and acompany it with an amazing salad. I have been having this meal for last two days for lunch and dinner! The great thing is that the whole meal is about 350 cals with the pizza itself being 252 cals! 

Pizza can definitely be altered to fit your needs. I'm such a pizza girl and I deprived myself so long because every fast food place out there is so unhealthy with 500 cals a slice! But now I seriously eat pizza almost everyday! 

it's not the best thing in the world but it's not the worst thing either!  i think a healthy diet includes balance and moderation.... maybe you shouldn't eat it tooo much, but once in a while there's nothing wrong wtih it. 

problem with pizza is all the oil the use on the crust, the cheese, the thick crust, and the toppings.. some places if u ask will use a smaller portion of oil on the pan, light cheese, and thin crust. The toppings are up to u to decide. Theres definately a healthy way to eat pizza. A personal thin King Arthur Sumpreme from Round Table has 720 calories. For me thats a great reward for dinner and still fits into my calories for the day, granted it has more fat then a usual dinner for me. But still around the same calories..

I know it's better to make things yourself, but I seriously LOVE the Lean Cuisine brickoven pizzas, bar-b-q chicken with red onion, gourmet mushroom (drool), and roast garlic w/ chicken. 

They are so good, and single servings of course, because leftover pizza doesn't stay "leftover" for long at my house.   Pop it in the microwave and the crust is so crisp and tasty that I could eat it all by itself. 

maryfway has the right idea....I love pizza too, and when I added up the numbers on my low-cal version, I was shocked! I wasn't cheating at all, in fact it was an excellent balanced dinner. I use a whole wheat pita though, its just like a thin-crust pizza, and I use a blend of cheddar and mozza low-fat cheese (30g mozza and 20g cheddar) and 1T parmesan. I find the low-fat cheeses are rather tasteless but melt well, the parm kinda jazzes up the taste. I also use soy pepperoni. I was skeptical, but it really does taste like real pepperoni, only difference is it's very low fat so there is no slick of oil after cooking.

Oooo, soy pepperoni!  Didn't know that existed!   That's definitely on my list...  :)

I estimate a real NYC style slice has about 600 calories. Too much?

Of course it can be considered a weight loss food!! :) The trick is you have to make your own, and homemade always tastes better anyway.