Whats your day to day meals look like?

I have a regular rotation:

Breakfast is either oatmeal, yogurt + fruit, cereal (like Life or Chex or something like that), or an English muffin with low-fat cream cheese on the weekdays before work, generally with a glass of OJ (8 oz, or 4 oz on an English muffin day). On the weekends, I'll go for scrambled eggs or an omelette, a bagel with smoked salmon, or (very rarely) pancakes. If I have something that's high in carbs (like a bagel) I'll usually skip the OJ.

Lunch is usually leftovers from whatever dinner I make early in the week. It's just me and the hubs, so when we cook, we'll make a recipe for 6-8 people and eat on it for a few days. When I was "dieting," I'd make a big pot of brown or basmati rice on Sunday night and scoop it into tupperware portions, then mix it with black beans, veggies, spaghetti sauce...whatever I wanted for lunch during the week and have a little salad with it.

Dinner isn't necessarily a free-for-all, but I'll eat what I want/what the hubs wants, just make sure I portion it out.

Plus I have a snack during the day. I'm a teacher, so I'll have breakfast around 6:30, my snack during my planning period around 10am, lunch around noon, then dinner around 7. I try to make sure I get enough protein/good fats at lunch so that I'm not starving when I get home around 4:30/5, but sometimes I'll have another small snack then (or early dinner). I try to include lots of protein in my mid-morning snack, like Greek yogurt and a banana or a protein shake (12g or more), to curb my appetite. If I have to have a snack when I get home...not gonna lie, it's usually a spoonful of peanut butter or a slice (or two) of cheese. I just need that delicious fat!

If I know that we're planning to eat out that night or make a calorie-heavy meal (like burritos), then I just make sure that my breakfast/snack/lunch are lighter than usual, like yogurt and fruit for breakfast and a big veggie salad with a hard-boiled egg for lunch.

It's all about planning ahead. Try to set grocery shopping for one day a week (or twice, once on Sunday/Monday, then again on Wednesday/Thursday) and PLAN YOUR MEALS in advance. It helps SO much.

I eat the same thing for breakfast and lunch pretty much every day. One day a week, I'll buy lunch out instead of brown bagging it. For dinner, I'll mix it up although leftovers play a big part since I've never really got the hang of cooking for one. Sometimes I'll update the leftovers with hot sauce or maggi sauce or frozen peas. My simplest dinner is frozen vegetables with a piece of chicken in a small casserole dish and then cook in the oven. I'll often test out different spice combos or various sauce options (tomato, soy,ginger, etc.)

getting enough protein and fat keeps me full longer, so I try to eat an egg fried on coconut oil, or at least a hard boiled egg twice a day, it helps.