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: Kashi Autumn Wheat cereal with skim milk and half a banana cut up.

Lunch: more of the same lentil salad from yesterday, and an orange.

Then, after lunch, I had an appointment to get an IUD put in.

Shortly thereafter, I ate half a pint of Ben and Jerry's The Gobfather.

Maintenance day!

breakfast: Kellogg's 90 cal vanilla snack

lunch: swiss cheese and bologna, peach enviga

snack: small red apple, pepperidge farm goldfish, dry roasted peanuts

dinner: chicken and macaroni and cheese

after dinner snack: green tea enviga, grape sucker

March 28:

cranberry tea; earl grey tea; lima beans sprinkled with lemon pepper; a mix of potatoes, carrots & onions; spinach; Tim Horton's coffee with cream & sweetner; Pete's branch Mambo Italiano with tangy tomato sauce; almonds and skim milk  (by the way lemon pepper is a favorite of mine - really zests up blander foods like lima beans - a little goes a long, long way)

Breakfast: Maple and Brown Sugar Oatmeal

Lunch: Turkey Sandwhich with mustard, provolone cheese, lettuce and tomato on multigrain bread

Snack: Grande Mocha Light Frappuccino (no whipped cream)

Dinner: Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger (had to get rid of the craving

Snack: Nestle Hot Chocolate and a few Chocolate Covered Pretzels

Breakfast: Coffee with a bit of hazelnut cream, a bowl of chocolate life cereal, 1/2 a grapefruit

Lunch: Bagel with fat free cream cheese, bottle of water with cherry-lime flavoring pack

Snack: Green apple, 90 calorie pack of butter popcorn rice ckaes

Dinner: Corn, perone, pork ribs, milk

Dessert: 100 calorie cookie pack

Breakfast: Coffee with 1% milk, 1/2 bagel with light cream cheese and 1/2 grapefruit

Lunch: Homemade veggie soup.  Yummy

Snack: dried apricots, light jell-o

Dinner: Low fat pork strogonoff with no-yolk egg noodles

Snackc: dried apricots

Rice Krispies

Breakaway bar

Cupasoup

Wholemeal batch with salad and humous

2 celery sticks with cottage cheese

Dinner to be arranged.

Feeling proud of myself!!

Alternabagel with eggwhites, veggi sausage and ketchup on it, strawberries

Thai wild curry, vegetables only, basil rolls with tofu and plumb sauce

low-cal granola bar, goat yogurt, quadshot espresso with a little milk and splenda

bell and evans breaded chicken breast, asparagus, little parmesan cheese, orange jello

shirataki noodles in chiken broth

Breakfast: Clif Bar - Chocolate Brownie...mmm..., water

Snack: Oatmeal - Apples & Cinnamon

Lunch: Subway Turkey Breast Wrap with lots of veggies, Baked Lays, Diet Pepsi

Dinner: Not sure yet

Dessert: Perhaps a candy bar, if I have the calories left

breakfast: berry enviga, pita bread w/ cream cheese, small red apple

lunch: goldfish crackers, chicken broth (from bouillion cubes)

snack: french vanilla ice cream

dinner: rigatoni w/ marinara sauce

snack: small red apple, 1 graham cracker, handful of dry roasted peanuts

I would starve to death if I ate some of what was listed above....Today I was bad

I had special K with 2% milk

lunch/ beef with black bean, spicy shrimp, and fish with spicy bean, a side of steamed rice..

I also had a mini 100 grand chocolate bar

dinner might be some hummus and pitas, or a lean cuisine pizza

I prefer to eat bigger meals at lunch time

Oh and I always have my faithful Diet Coke at my side

breakfast:  oatmeal, snack size cottage cheese, coffee, water

lunch: greek salad and french onion soup, nestle orane water

dinner:, grilled ck breast baked potatoe with smart balance butter, brocoli &cauliflower with low fat cheese.

snack:  icecream cone  (ice cream truck came around)

Breakfast:   I slept in today since I went to bed at 4am last night.
Lunch:   lean cuisine spinach mushroom pizza.
Dinner:   a little rice with homemade carnitas (low calorie low fat version from food network)
Snack1:  small banana, some animal crackers
Late dinner2:   More rice and carnitas.  It's really good and healthy.
Snack2:   Fresh organic 2%milk and some kashi or special K with real blueberries.

Got to stay up tonight and wait for hubby.  :)

Breakfast:  Multi-grain Cheerios w/ 2% milk, banana
Lunch:  canned veg soup w/ cottage cheese and tomato, S & P
Snack 1:  strawberries and those little quaker caramel rice cakes
Snack 2: mixed berry trail mix bar, and then a while later an apple
Dinner:  cabbage, corn, and tomato w/ tuna and sour cream on top, triscuits, S & P (sounds really weird, but it was good!. . . I like making up new dishes)
Snack 3:  wheat thins

Breakfast: Cream of Wheat (plain with a dash of 1% milk)
Lunch: Plain Spinach Salad
Supper: Tortellinni Soup, Steamed Cabbage
Snack: Strawberries, carrots

Mmm I loved steamed cabbage, oddly enough. :]

Breakfast: sausage patty, pancake (light butter/syrup), scrambled eggs, black coffee

Lunch: Fresh pineapple spear (still full from breakfast)

Dinner: grilled Mahi Mahi fish tacos from Rubio's
       &nb sp;     split a shrimp burrito w/hubby

Snack: 1 dark chocolate truffle

I know, I need to add more veggies and fruit.  This was a bad day, I'm usually much better.

And, by the way (warning, rant coming) - - I got regular fish tacos for my husband, and the grilled Mahi Mahi fish tacos for me, figuring they'd be lower calorie and fat.  Au contraire!  Regular fish tacos are 300 calories and 16g fat.  Grilled Mahi tacos are 310 calories and 16g fat!

I'd have been better off ordering the Carne Asada tacos at 250 cal/10g fat or the Health Mex chicken taco at 170 cal/2g fat.

Live and learn, huh?

(I know I'm not supposed to list calories, but I thought it was a good warning that things you think are healthy choices may not be!)

This is a good thread. I am enjoying reading the responses.

Breakfast: Fat free waffles, sugar free syrup, and a banana.

Lunch/Dinner: Whole-grain pancakes and sugar free syrup.

Snacks: Grapes, Chips, Salsa, and an all fruit popsicle. YUM!

I like sweets, can ya tell?

BREAKKY:
quaker quick cooking oats w/homemade cranberry sauce (splenda sweetened) and banana
coffee/2% milk/splenda

LUNCH:
salad - mixed greens, tomato, red onion, feta cheese
2 slices toast with marble cheddar melted and tomato slices

SNACK:
4 homemade cranberry-oat muffins (no added fat or sugar)
orange and canteloupe cubes

DINNER:
chicken breast stuffed w/garlic & cream cheese
shell pasta w/cucumber, zucchini, celery, carrots, red onion
thai chilli sauce for dressing

Breakie - Millet Flakes porridge with raspberries, sliced banana and sweetner

Snack - carrots

Lunch -- couscous salad (tangy tomato couscous, mixed beans, cucumber, tomato, feta cheese) sooo good.

snack - plum, honeydew melon

dinner - tomato & courgette egg bake, jacket potato, cauliflower, broccoli, brussel sprouts

snack - homemade rice pudding (pudding rice, skimmed milk, sweetner, cinnamon, nutmeg) with an apple

breakfast: 2 medium eggs with 2 cherry tomatoes, and two mushrooms wrapped in a Tortilla. Strawberry Yogurt. 4 almonds

lunch: A can of light tuna, 2 rice cakes, and 21 almonds

snack: Rice cake

dinner: Shrimp with tomatoe and mushroom in lemon juice

snack: Fiber bar

yet i feel so fat. ugh. i go through feeling like 'is this enough to is this too much' hourly. its really because of the scale and not seeing loss recently though i figure that i'm so unsure lately. im such a sedentary lazy arse though. cant get discouraged and binge :( CANT'! (scared i might)