What did you eat today?

Eggs are a good way to increase your protein intake, or eggs whites if its still too many calories. Low fat cottage cheese is another good way to increase protein without adding too many calories.

Breakfast: Sweet potato-banana oatmeal with chia seeds and soy milk.
Lunch: Creamy chicken and brown rice soup with a slice of wheat baguette.
Dinner: Bitter melon-tofu-egg stir fry; steamed purple sweet potato; simmered radish and chicken soup and possibly a fruit pudding for dessert.
Snacks: Cheese, some sliced apple and melons, and a few cherry tomatoes.

That's today's menu. It'll be around 1450 calories. I'm 4'9 and maintaining... Well, trying to. Apparently I'm still losing. :x

Breakfast--oatmeal with fruit
OR
high fiber cereal with fruit
OR
greek yogurt and fruit
OR
overnight oats--my new favorite thing

I am a maniac about measuring my food since I've been here, so the oatmeal is like 1/2 cup dry, cereal is 2/3 cup, greek yogurt is 1/2 cup. fruit--berries usually, 1 cup most times

lunch--different in the summer because I am off--often I have the cereal or yogurt that I mentioned above if I had something different for breakfast. when I am back teaching I may still do the yogurt-fruit thing or the oatmeal or leftovers
OR
a big salad of 2 cups of arugula, 1 cup steamed broccoli, 1 cup steamed cauliflower (LOVE cauliflower), 1 cup cherry tomatoes, maybe peppers or carrots-whatever other veggies I have but I always measure and lately no dressing--stupid waste of calories
OR some leftover dinner

dinner--different every night BUT I do very little dairy--the greek yogurt once a day is pretty much it for dairy, so if I make a dinner with dairy in it for my family, I leave it out of mine. tonight I am making a black bean and quinoa casserole thing that is topped with cheese--I just won't top it with the cheese--the other three folks in my house can sprinkle the cheese on their portions. I do whole wheat noodles with marinara, frittatas with lots of veggies, different kinds of veggie mexican dishes (without cheese). I try really hard to only cook things that I have a calorie count for and I measure the portion so I am pretty sure of what I am eating. I usually come in around 1000 calories. snacks include tons of watermelon, maybe a slice of low fat whole wheat toast and a little fresh peanut butter, plain popcorn. I've been pretty strict this summer--should all go to hell once school starts again!!!!!!!

Breakfast: protein bar, banana, poptart (I'm currently addicted but make it fit my calories)
Lunch: ham, turkey and pepperjack on cinnamon raisin bagel thin and a sliced cucumber
Snacks: jazz apple, 100 cal cocoa roast almonds, 3.5 oz chobani blueberry yogurt

Dinner will likely be Zatarain's jambalaya made with chourico sausage and a cup of broccoli florets.

I was supposed to make Chicken Cacciatore in the crock pot but I didn't wake up early enough to get it put together. Thankfully the chicken is still frozen solid so I can do it tomorrow no problem.

Pre-workout - fruit and yogurt smoothing (homemade)
Did 1 hour of lifting and 55 minutes of spinning
Breakfast - 1/2 Think Thin protein bar and 3/4 cup Ancient Grains cereal
Lunch - Small wild mushroom arancini, Lobster Ravioli, bread with olive oil, shared a molten lava chocolate cake w/a friend
Dinner - Probably something light given my lunch out, like grilled chicken and steamed broccoli

A more typical day would be:

Pre-workout - fruit and yogurt smoothie
Late breakfast or early lunch - some type of sandwich or salad with protein, unsweetened iced tea
Snack - cottage cheese with fruit or high protein bar
Dinner - Grilled protein (chicken, marinated steak, salmon), usually two veggie sides (or salad) I made a roasted vegetable pasta salad a few nights ago that was great (using wheat/protein pasta)

We have been also getting ice cream for a treat after dinner, but not every night. I usually have room....although I will cut back on this now that we are out of vacation mode.

I agree 900 is very low but that is BMR not TDEE, right? I can usually maintain 132lbs when eating 1500-1600 cal

Breakfast - Coffee + 1/2cup whole milk & 1Tbsp brown sugar
Snack - Beef jerky
Lunch - Amy's bean & cheese burrito
Snack - 2 x mini Hershey bars w/ a little less than 1 Tbsp natural PB (don't judge me, it's SOOOOOOOOOO delicious!)

I'm 5'2" so I lament with you... us shorty doo wops get the shafted when it comes to weight gain and BMR but ~900 is kind of very low. I can do 1200cal with no problems and have, on occasion, done 800 but that's w/ eating bags of spinach, ribs of celery, and chicken breast and I justifiably was chastised by my nutritionist.

BMR = as I understand it is the amount of cal your body expends in a day even if you're doing nothing
TDEE = BMR + the energy you expend.

So my BMR - 1400 cal but my TDEE = 1600 cal

there are tons of calculators out there but I really like this one:
http://iifym.com/iifym-calculator/

keep in mind that these are all based off of general algorithms and if you are visiting a doc I'm sure the info they give you would be more on the spot for you.

Today, I had a bowl of All Bran with chia seeds and almond milk, and some pineapple. I missed lunch, which is just tragic. I never do that, but I was extra busy today. Normally, I'd have something like toast and peanut butter or a sandwich and an apple. Dinner was lamb and feta stuffed peppers with boiled potatoes, carrots, and sweetcorn.

3 slices pizza. breakfast
9 oz chicken sammich w cheese . lunch
Trutien cinnabun shake and chocolate chip cookie dough bar. pre workout
8 oz chicken thighs 3 cups veggies salad. dinner
2200 cals

Breakfast- Chobani apricot yogurt with agave nectar and cinnamon and a slice of 12 grain toast
Snack- Trail mix
Lunch- 1 slice of Pepperoni Pizza
Snack- Fiber one bar
Dinner- haven't eaten yet but brats and corn on the cob is on the menu.

Cals- around 1300, 5'4