My routine is changing a lot due to implementing fasting in various forms, but typically:

4 strips of thick cut bacon/4 eggs/half an avocado for my first meal, some cheddar melted on the eggs and some salsa on them - this is rarely when i wake up. If I wake up at 10am, this will usually happen between 2pm-3pm. I'm not intentionally aiming for 16/8 intermittent fasting, but that's usually what happens. I can eat this 350 days a year easily. If I have extra veggies cut up sometimes I'll make an omelette instead and add onion/green pepper/mushroom.


For dinner, I rotate between chicken (either roasting a whole organic chicken or baking chicken thighs), pork chops, ground beef (in a "taco salad" format, or soft taco style with low carb tortillas), fish (whatever is "wild caught" at Costco, usually Cod or Salmon), steak, and shrimp. The last three slightly less if I'm trying to save money. For all of these I look for meals as simple as possible... just baking the pork chops in some random spices, browning the ground beef and throwing it in with taco style stuff with minimal prep, occasionally i'll wrap bacon around the fish, but usually its just heavily seasoned and baked, etc. I usually have either frozen green beans or frozen broccoli that I steam.


I keep walnuts, costco hot dogs, deli sliced pepperoni, homemade sauerkraut, onions, green peppers, avocado, sour cream, salsa, and cheese in my house at all times. Most days I eat a serving of walnuts (weighed out, 30g = 200 calories), I'll have a hot dog or some pepperoni if I'm extra hungry and want a snack in addition to the two big meals and some walnuts.

I love the food I make, I feel like I eat VERY well, but most days, minimal effort is critical to me. I very occasionally get the urge to do something more complicated and will look up keto recipes and make a special grocery run to make something fancier and specific, but this covers me for literally months at a time.

Hmmm...life and food is pretty flexible around here. My husband (thin and a non dieter) has always been a pretty natural 1 meal a day guy so we focus on only 1 meal and that is our late meal which is usually between 8 and 10 PM. It is most often fish or meat and a vegetable. He adds a starch.

We're on own for breakfast and lunch. He'll have black coffee and if he gets hungry mid day he'll have a couple of crackers with peanut butter or a chunk of leftover meat from the fridge.

I am a 2 or 3 meal a day person. My "go to" foods at any given time of the day are: decaf with half and half, eggs and cream cheese, egg and veg omelets, Greek yogurt and berries, meat/cheese roll-ups of any variety, salad with canned tuna or some leftover meat. I've been eating sardines cuz Dom D'Agostino. LOL. I'll eat a decent quantity of almonds or peanut butter and call it a meal. Any leftover meat and/or vegetable.

I looked at a few recent diary entries for dinner. Shrimp, Triggerfish, Hamburger, Rib Roast, Pizza (toppings), Shrimp/steak stirfry, flounder, Roast chicken. All included a vegetable. Right now I'm into kale and Swiss chard but cauliflower, green beans, asparagus, broccoli, cabbage, spinach, collards, whatever.

It's 3 PM and I have nothing planned for dinner. Oops. I have a chicken carcass/broth on the stove so might make some kind of chicken soup. Or crab legs which thaw quickly. If it quits raining I'll walk to the store and get some salmon. I see it is on sale this week. Collards. We'll have fresh collards. I'll make those too if not soup. Taboulah and coleslaw are leftovers in the fridge from Labor Day. Need to get those worked in. I keep carbs under 50 total.

A typical day for me can vary but for the most part I don't usually have a morning meal just green tea and water until lunch at around 11am or so. Once it really starts to cool off I will switch over to coffee in the morning.

I usually go for a brisk walk in the morning nothing strenuous since I don't want to go back to the office sweaty.

Lunch usually consists of a cobb, caesar (no croutons), or chef salad (no croutons or bread) with chicken or turkey and sometimes ham or some grilled chicken breasts and cooked veggies (broccoli, asparagus, etc.). Once in a great while I will get a cheese omelette with other protein options if I find a place that makes breakfast all day long (Beware IHOP puts pancake batter in their omelettes but you can request not to have it added)

I might have a snack which is usually some nuts or a Raw Rev Glo bar. I am currently trying some Paleo granola which is not bad for a snack.

Before dinner I usually work out (cardio and weights) its roughly 5 days a week since I am in class two of those days.

Dinner will usually consist of something low carb but vegan (happy wife happy life). So it will either be an Orgain protein shake with chia and psyllium husk and some almonds or some Gardein or other fake meat like protein in a salad depending on my carb count for the day. My source for low carb tortillas dried up (probably not a bad thing) so I will have to find some new way to make soft tacos or wraps. Anyone tried the Paleo wraps? Last night I made a Gardein "chicken" Scalopini stir fry with kale, tomatoes, and Miracle rice which was pretty good. Properly prepared Miracle rice and noodles have become my friend. Zoodles are good as well when things are in season.

Most of the time I try to keep my net carbs between 30-50. Sometimes I am lower other times higher but so long as I keep losing inches and lbs I am doing OK. I would probably lower my net carbs if I wasn't working out.

I typically have 2 eggs with 2 slices of bacon and coffee with HWC for breakfast. Sometimes I have an additional protein source.

Lunch is often a can of Great Value Chunk Chicken and an ounce of peanuts. It is easy, and I can keep it in my desk at work. If I go out I get a bacon cheeseburger with no bun or fries.

Supper is typically 8 oz of meat and some greens or some broccoli. I like sautéed cabbage.

I drink a gallon of Crystal Light every day, and I mix in that gallon a teaspoon of Morton's Lite Salt, a teaspoon of magnesium sulphate and a 1/4 cup of ACV.

Today I had three scrambled eggs, coffee w/ HWC and 6 oz of leftover turkey for breakfast.

Lunch was the chunk chicken and peanuts.

Supper was 8 oz of pan fried beef liver with 2 pieces of bacon,1/2 cup of fried onions and 1/2 cup of sautéed mushrooms.

This was 1,590 calories, 15 net carbs, 70 grams of fat, 188 grams of protein, and 4195 mg of sodium.

and i budget for 1-2 glasses of red wine and/or vodka with sparkling ice per week

When I get up: 2c black coffee, water with magnesium in it and my pre-eats supplements.
Around 3 or 4 pm - breakfast is a protein bar if I am on the run with errands, or some quickie pepperoni and cheese, or other equally non fuss protein like a can of tuna in olive oil, or pickled eggs.

Dinner with hubby at 6 or 7 pm - my favorites are quick stirfries with whatever veggies are on sale that week & add whatever protein I feel like (shrimp, chicken, pork loin strips, turkey breast, steak cut into strips). I change them up with homemade coconut curry sauces, or Szechuan seasonings, or 5 Spice Powder and Bragg's. Taco Salad with extra guac & cheese hold the chips. Sometimes I make 'riceless Paella' or 'Spanish Caulirice'. Fathead pizza when I want to fuss. Plain old steak or chicken on the BBQ with steamed or grilled veggies. Chicken Caesar Salad (no croutons) with extra bacon. Frittata with lots of veggies in it. etc. etc.

Sometimes for a snack I have 85%+ dark chocolate, or a few berries with plain high fat Greek yogourt, or a vodka and diet tonic/soda & lime, or a good whiskey neat. I have been known to combine Muscle Milk 100 Chocolate with 2 or 3 extra garlic baby dills - in the same snack but not in the same mouthful.

I am zero carb, so my days are very similar - I tend to eat twice a day and usually have either pork, lamb or steak, occasionally I will have fish but I mostly stick to meat - if I am more hungry or fancy snacks I will eat pork rinds or cheese and I drink coffee with double cream (heavy whipping cream), I do occasionally have eggs - when I am fully on track I feel amazing doing this as veggies and fruit tends to give me stomach distress

I discovered why I was having such a hard time eating the day I posted here. I turned up flue like sick the next day. Doing ok or much better now but dropped four pounds almost over night. I actually hope it comes back as it usually does. I am way thin enough. Words I never thought I would hear coming out of my mouth. Even so I do not want to stop eating this way as I LOVE no longer being hungry all the time.

tcunbeliever the tea with HWC sounds wonderful. I will have to get some HWC and try it.