Foods

Don't list the calories, don't list the exercise, don't list portion sizes.

None of those pesky numbers, since we all are different.

One person can need 1400 a day, while another can need 2,500, and it can be really triggering to see someone ate a lower number than yourself.

Therefore, just list the food you ate. This will help us understand the value of eating healthy food (for the nutrients), while also indulging moderately in empty calories when we want. I don't know about you, but I'm aiming for 90% healthy foods - and 10% empty calories. ;)

Also, do not post here if you are starving yourself. I'm not interested in the details, it is only going to get others riled up, and it is triggering to those of us trying to recover from an eating disorder. Okay, thank-you.

Here's me for today:

Breakfast: slept far too late
Lunch: sandwich (100% whole wheat bread, garden burger veggie medley patty, soy dijon "mayo", pickle, lettuce), dried apricots, diet soda, tums, vitamin
Snack: apple, no salt added raw almond butter
Dinner: corn, bell peppers, sugar-snap peas, lettuce, firm tofu, soy dressing, tums
Snack: soy delicious peanut butter zig zag! yumm.

Breakfast: puffed amaranth with vanilla sugarfree soymilk

Snack: Kashi TLC country cheddar crackers with lowfat plain yogurt

Lunch: Two polenta meatloaf olive muffins crumbled over mixed greens

Snack: light string cheese and three rice cakes

Dinner: Sweet potato, salmon, asparagus and quinoa

Snack: Blood orange

Breakfast:  Steel cut oats cooked with vanilla soy milk and a cup of frozen raspberries.  A glass of orange juice with psyllium.

Snack:  Strawberry-kiwi yogurt.  Maybe a frozen chocolate covered banana from Trader Joe's when I get home (I LOVE those!!).

Lunch:  Leftover quinoa with red beans and carrots.

Dinner:  Probably leftover red lentils with tomatoes and cauliflower ... but maybe toasted cheese sandwiches with my homemade brown rice flax bread and some vegetable soup.  So hard to decide ... ;-)

B - Instant oatmeal, coffee

S - Yoghurt

L- Huge salad with a grilled chicken breast and no dressing

S- Almonds

Not dinner time yet and I have to leave room for beer because I am playing darts tonight :)

Breakfast: coffee w/ splenda and fat free cream, oatmeal w/ flax seeds and Goji Berries.

Snack: Walnuts.

Lunch: Turkey on light wheat bread w/ brown mustard, individual size 2% cottage cheese, and an apple.

Dinner:  I'm planning on having one pita with pizza sauce, fat free shredded mozarella cheese, and turkey pepperoni. 

Drinks: Flavored no cal water and green tea.

(I might have a beer in honor of St. Patty's day.)

B: firm tofu, nayonnaise, banana, vitamin
S: lara bar cashew cookie, black coffee, tums
L: almond butter sandwich on ww bread, dried apricots, soymilk
S: apple
D: whole wheat pasta, meatless meatballs, tomato sauce, bell peppers, tums

Woohoo, I ate 70 grams of protein today! Boo to the myth that vegans are lacking in protein.

I'm getting a weird feeling about the amounts I eat, by looking at everyoone else's intake.  I'd give the measurements of my food but the request is to not do that, so . . .

Breakfast: hard-boiled egg whites (I HATE yolks), yogurt, an apple and grapes, whole wheat toast, green tea

Lunch: whole wheat pasta with Kraft's mac&cheese packet (the "light" preparation), broccoli, grapes, small oatbran muffin, water

Supper: (will be) homemade pollock chowder, water, big lettuce salad with olive oil, skim milk and an apple

Snack: h-b egg whites and diet Pepsi  (maybe another green tea)

(High in carbs but it's Friday during Lent.)

Ugh, you caught me on a bad day... I'm making up for a splurge  yesterday, and also trying to accomodate for Pizza night tonight... (my kids would rebel if I did away with our Friday pizza ritual)... so:

Breakfast: oatmeal, soy milk, flax seed, strawberries

Lunch: Smoothie with yogurt, banana, blueberries

Snack: walnuts

Dinner: two pieces of Papa Gino's cheese pizza   ... and maybe I'll make up a green veggie to go with it, now that this thread has guilted me. :-)

Yesterday (for fun) was:

Breakfast: same as above

Lunch: Salad at Fresh Field's: spinach, carrots, cabbage, string beans, pineapple, tuna (no mayo), kalamata olives, balsalmic dressing

Dinner out with hubby and brother-in-law: wine, fried olives (split three ways), garden salad w/cusabi dressing, grilled tilapia, new potatoes, spinach, asparagus, bread pudding w/whipped cream (split three ways).... and then MORE wine... way too much wine... would have actually been a maintenance day if it wasn't for the darn wine... !

pompey, do you think you are eating too little or too much? Everyone is different, every body is different, everyone exercises different amounts, and everyone is at a different stage in their weight loss/weight gain/weight maintainence/whatever - therefore, every person needs to consume different amounts of food and calories to get the results the want/need.

No, I know different people have to consume different amounts.  What's bothering me is that I've been eating roughly 1700 for a week now, with a calorie deficit, and not losing weight.  Seeing the "menus" for different people makes me wonder if I am still eating too much, given my lack of weight-loss.  (trust me, I do NOT need to consume more calories!  My sedentary lifestyle ensures that.)  I'll have to play around with my own menu and exercise amount to see.  Chances are it's a lack of exercise.

Sorry, this is off-topic for the thread.

Breakfast~ banana bread instant oatmeal

Lunch~ whole grain bread lettuce and weight watcher tukey. Banana and a nature valley bar.

snack~ Slim fast optima snack bar.

Dinner~ mixed vegtables and shrimp.

I also only drink water, 64 oz. a day or more. :)

Breakfast - Maple & Brown Sugar Oatmeal, a banana and cottage cheese /w pineapple

Lunch - Subway Turkey Sandwich and shrimp

Snacks - almonds, an apple, v8, cottage cheese

Dinner - Italian Sausages (sweet links), Lettuce, biscuits

another day - skim milk, coffee

lunch - peas & carrots, sweet & sour pork ribs

snack - herring tidbits, orange

dinner - soya sun-dried flavored "cheese", cornbread, jerk chicken, banana

i like snacking on little meals:


#1 tofu w/ broccoli zuchini and cashews

#2 strawberry rice crispies, rice dream (milk)

#3 popcorn, pumpkin seeds, raspberry flavored dasani

#4 mushrooms, asparagras (pan cooked: no oil, salt or butter)

#5 frozen fruit mix, light cool whip

#6 vegetarian baked beans

#7 grits w/ cheese

I work overnights so my meals are backwards

Breakfast: Homemade pasta sauce over whole wheat pasta, salad with red leaf lettuce,tofu, mushroom slices,chick peas, tomato, olive oil, and balsamic vinegar,Glass of red wine, Eddy's fruit bar

Snack: Plum

Lunch: Lentils and another helping of the salad

Snack: Apple

Dinner: Brown sugar and maple syrup oatmeal, Orange Juice

Breakfast:  quaker maple & brown sugar oatmeal--less sug. and a blood orange

Snack:  almonds

Lunch: mixed green salad with FF balsamic dressing and a granny smith apple

Snack: gala apple and dannon light and fit raspberry yogi

Dinner:  amy's chunky veggie soup and a mango and a slice of wheat toast

Snack:  nestle FF hot cocoa and perhaps some pretzels. 

today i had breakfast- cottage cheese and i put a little taco seasoning in it for flavor lunch- sandwich (bologna-one day a week treat!) and tortilla chips dinner- chicken potato onion pepper and bbaked zuchini

later on its either going to be light choco ice cream or pudding snack!

Breakfast - Vanilla Crisp Power Bar, Fat free blueberry yogurt, Bannana, 2 hard boiled eggs, cold grilled skinless chicken breast

Lunch - Fat free turkey sandwich with cheese, Apple, Baby Carrots

Snack - Chocolate Power Bar

Supper - Chicken Cordon Bleu, rice, brocolli

once again

b-cream of wheat with raspberries and almonds- yogurt mixed with cottage cheese-

snakc- orange and plum

l- salad, tortilla with chicken and melted cheese, small banana

snack-yogurt mixed with cottage cheese(gotta love it) then a sugar free creamsicle and a berry enviga drive

dinner-chicken with sides of broccoli & cauliflower, salad

snack- two blue bunny fudge lites with green tea

B: coffee, 1/2 a pear (I'm not so good in the morning... I left the other half on the counter on the way out the door :( )

L: salad of romaine, red peps, mushrooms with some full fat salad dressing thinned with some super-lite dressing, a ww english muffin toasted with some lean ham and some full fat cheddar.

S: some crispy mini rice cake thingies

S: a babybel lite

S: the other 1/2 of the pear

D: a curried chicken burger patty - no bun, with spicy mango chutney, roasted sweet potato wedges, kale sauteed with lots of garlic

Dessert: hagen daaz smoothies sorbet-froz yog blend - banana and strawberry

I would consider this a pretty good day, as pretty much everything I ate was quite delicious!

hmm.. today i had..

kashi golean crunch cereal
apple
low fat kettle corn popcorn
dried pinapple
a few ritz crackers
my momma's homemade chili :D yumm
a chocolate milkshake from the gas station =[

eh. not too bad.
i'm recovering from a really harsh binging disorder, so i've been gaining like nearly 10 lbs a week and eating nonstop.
today was pretty good actually!
now if only i had the time to excercise a bit..
ah well. we can't always fit in the time for everything. =\