What We're Eating

Breakfast:
1 cup of dandelion root tea, 1 milk oolong tea

Lunch:
2 cups of emperor puh erh tea, 1 cup of garlic tea

Dinner:
2 pieces of spiced/herb flounder, baby spinach& strawberry salad w/Marie's Italian garlic dressing, sauteed in sesame oil garlic & ginger bok choy and Shiitake mushrooms, ice water to drink

Dessert and/or late night snack:
bowl of fresh strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, cup of coffee w/cream, big handful of macadamia, walnuts and almonds--maybe a cup of mint chocolate chip ice cream

Breakfast: chocolate chia pudding & iced coffee (black)
Lunch: salmon burger on toast with pickles, onion & mayo, savory herb new potatoes, steamed broccoli
Dinner: 1 toaster waffle w/ fresh strawberries & whipped topping, coffee, 2 egg omelet with a ton of mushrooms & green peppers and a little sharp cheddar

Tofu scramble in a spinach tortilla
Sandwich with vegan cheese and ham. Vega chocolate protein shake.
Beyond Meat burger. Medium fries.
Cashew cheese mac with green beans. Small-ish slice of carrot cake

Breakfast: 1 coffee with 15 ml heavy cream,
1 coffee with 25g Vanilla whey protein powder and 1/8 tsp ground cinnamon (freaking awesome!)

Lunch: Rib Eye steak, 15.89 oz
butter, 12 ml.
steamed 'California style' vegetables, 85 g.

Dinner: 2 big sausage links. 97 g for one and 101 g for the other.
144 g canned salmon with 60 g mayo.

Snacks: 2 oz Blue Bell No Sugar Added vanilla ice cream with 43 g strawberry.
2 Reese's peanut butter cup miniatures.
1 Ghirardelli 86% cacao square.

4% carb, 73% fat, 22% protein.

Breakfast: Quest bar and premier protein shake
Snack: Reduced fat lance crackers
Lunch: Leftover chicken thighs with white beans, spinach, and tomatoes sprinkled with a bit of feta, veggie straws, mandarin orange
Dinner: Slow cooker chicken carnitas on lettuce wraps with corn, onion, pico, etc to top

Breakfast:
Protein shake with cottage cheese, half a banana, Quest powder

Lunch - Teriyaki chicken, broccoli and rice

Dinner - Chipotle grilled salmon burger, green beans, sweet potato

Lunch - blueberries, beef jerky, string cheese

Breakfast: Millville Greek yogurt protein bar
Lunch: chicken salad and celery sticks (using the celery as a scoop for the chicken salad) and a string cheese
Afternoon snack: baby carrots and hummus, a small apple
Dinner: Cheesy taco pasta
After dinner snack: chocolate ice cream

Breakfast:
1 cup of milk oolong tea

Lunch:
1 cup of Dandelion root tea, 1 cup of white rose tea

Dinner:
bowl of Steel cut oats w/2 tbsp Nutiva Organic Coconut Manna, blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, walnuts, pecans and ice water to drink

Dessert and/or after dinner snack:
Rita's combo of mango/orange, strawberry, mango ice mixed with chocolate soft serve, black green and kalamata olives

PAPYRUS3 wrote: »

NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »

Breakfast:
1 cup of milk oolong tea

Lunch:
1 cup of Dandelion root tea, 1 cup of white rose tea

Dinner:
bowl of Steel cut oats w/2 tbsp Nutiva Organic Coconut Manna, blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, walnuts, pecans and ice water to drink

Dessert and/or after dinner snack:
Rita's combo of mango/orange, strawberry, mango ice mixed with chocolate soft serve, black green and kalamata olives

wow...you don't eat very much!

Hi! Thanks ever so much for your concern/interest and/or comment-- Ya know, looks are deceiving and it "may" look to you like I'm "wow...you don't eat much, BUT let me show you how much I eat almost everyday--today for example:

McCann's Steel cut oats 1.5 cups =750 cals
Nutiva Organic Coconut manna =200 cals
combo berries =100 cals
1/4 cup of pecans =175 cals
1/4 cup of walnuts =180 cals

Rita's Italian ice =350 cals
Rita's chocolate custard =450 cals

Black olives =60 cals
Green olives =60 cals
Kalamata Olives = 45 cals

So, let's watch/see just how little it "LOOKS" like I eat:
This deceiving "looks like I don't eat very much" equals almost 2000 cals for today, actually it's 1,965 cals for today alone.
I like to eat whatever I want to, whenever I want to, just smaller portions and/or less frequently through-out the day. I purposely choose to (on most days, depending on how I feel) eat the greater majority of my cals during my one or two meals per day, instead of spreading them out thru-out the day. I'm not following ANY diet/plan/program nor anything such thing, other that eating differently than when I was obese and overweight. I choose NOT to eat what the average person attempting to "lose" weight do/does. I choose not to eat several small meals of so-called "healthy" stuff thru out the day. I like to eat all kinds of stuff, including eating out at restaurants quite a bit and a lot of so-called junk foods/"unclean" foods as well. Eating this way has allowed me to, SLOWLY BUT SURELY blast a lot of unhealthy/unattractive/excess flab and fat and pounds and ounces into the place where the sun will never shine.

A big ole yuckky 73lbs have been PERMANENTLY/FOREVER blasted off of my body, soul and spirit and I have gone from UGH/WOE is me size 22w to a YEAH BABY, size 8 (from 219.8lbs to today 146.8lbs) and slowly but surely making my way to a size 6. I'm just taking my everloving time and eating whatever I want to, whenever I want to. just smaller portion and/or less frequently throughout the day. and...I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When I was obese and overweight...I used to eat like this/meals/foods of kind of meal 3 or 4 times per day--now I just eat these types of meals one per day OR smaller portions of stuff like this 2 times per. Or, if I jolly well feel like it, I'll eat 3 meals to equal these cals per day, it's just my "want to's have changed" and I'm so GLAD they have. I'm thrilled with my way of eating, just OVERJOYED with my new lifestyle of eating and living, again I LOVE IT!!!!! iT'S WORKING FOR ME AND I'M WORKING IT WITH JOY. But as most things in life, everyone is different and what works for some may or maynot work for others.

My "Wow...you don't eat very much" has taken me from then to NOW (I took these pics from another thread I posted the other day)

Just for comparison purposes...this is what 209.8 looked like on me. I don't have many "before" pics, because I refused to take pics of myself nor allow many pics to be taken of me when I was obese. It's a different story now, I not only "allow" pics of me to be taken--but I kinda like my pic being taken now. The shame/embarrassment/ugh of getting my pic took is 100% gone! I wish I could say I was "sorry" I don't have a lot of pics of me when I was obese/overweight, but I'm not, not at all. Those were days of UGH/WOE to me then--these slim and trim days are oh-yeah and YAY to me now!






Thank you again ever so much for your post

PAPYRUS3 wrote: »

NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »

Breakfast:

Ha! Thanks for that! Would have never thought that this would total what you posted.

You are rocking it girl! and hey...whatever is working for you...you just keep doing 'you'. I obviously don't know you, but I am so proud of you

{{{{{{{{{{ LOVE and HUGS and THE HIGHEST of fives to/for YOU }}}}}}}}} You're the BEST, period.

Breakfast:
1 cup of milk oolong tea, 1 cup of emperor puh erh tea

Lunch:
1 cup of milk oolong tea, 1 cup of roasted garlic tea

Dinner:
Ethiopian food and Ethiopian black coffee (all the stuff I had last time at the Ethiopian restaurant a few pages ago)

Dessert and/or late night snack:
cup of Greek Gods honey vanilla Greek yogurt w/fresh strawberries, blueberries and blackberries, walnuts and pecans and large/thick homemade butter cookie w/coffee and cream

PAPYRUS3 wrote: »

NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »

Breakfast:
2 buttermilk pecan pancakes w/blueberry syrup ( THANKS pancakerunner ), 3 pieces of bacon, 2 oz cherry juice to drink

Lunch:
1 cup milk oolong tea, 1 cup emperor puh erh tea

Dinner:
something totally DIFFERENT and totally yummy--Ethiopian food?!? MEGA YES!:

Pics taken from the web--things I tried/ate, I had everything on the pic except the meat stuff in the middle, we had different meat dishes below. WOW! Who knew I'd LOVE split pea anything, it was the absolute bomb as was the beets/potato/carrots, collard greens... EVERYTHING
was delicious, the injera spongy bread---soooooooo GOOD! Plus we had these:





It's an Ethiopian tomato salad--YUM!
AND some of this was on the large platter covered in injera bread--all of the food is on top of the injera bread and you use the injera bread to eat all the stuff with, WITH YOUR HANDS, everybody just digs in--- OR if you're like someone who will remain unnamed--and prefers to do it the un-traditional way, you can ask for a plate and fork and they'll happily give you one too :



Lastly, once more, I can not emphasize how GOOD this sponge bread called injera is--WOW, it's like a napkin you can eat--sooooo GOOD and you eat it with everything. Yuuuummmmmmmmmmm!





Finished off with Ethiopian coffee...I've ALWAYS, all my life HATED black coffee with a passion, but this was the BEST black coffee ever! At first it tastes smooth, then a spicy mega robust strong flavor creeps in, not bitter at all, taste like a strange dark chocolate of sorts--thebombdotcom, period. WOW, who knew i'd EVER like black coffee--EVER! Eye-openingly YUM.

I too remember the first time I went to an Ethiopian restaurant and became an instant fan of it all...oh, and the coffee rocks too

Uhhhhhh...you left this one out--it's my ALL time favorite, this fabulous lamb dish is at the Ethiopian place, soooooo yummy--the bombdotcom, period.


Lamb Shekla Tibs

NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »

PAPYRUS3 wrote: »

NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »

Breakfast:
2 buttermilk pecan pancakes w/blueberry syrup ( THANKS pancakerunner ), 3 pieces of bacon, 2 oz cherry juice to drink

Lunch:
1 cup milk oolong tea, 1 cup emperor puh erh tea

Dinner:
something totally DIFFERENT and totally yummy--Ethiopian food?!? MEGA YES!:

Pics taken from the web--things I tried/ate, I had everything on the pic except the meat stuff in the middle, we had different meat dishes below. WOW! Who knew I'd LOVE split pea anything, it was the absolute bomb as was the beets/potato/carrots, collard greens... EVERYTHING
was delicious, the injera spongy bread---soooooooo GOOD! Plus we had these:





It's an Ethiopian tomato salad--YUM!
AND some of this was on the large platter covered in injera bread--all of the food is on top of the injera bread and you use the injera bread to eat all the stuff with, WITH YOUR HANDS, everybody just digs in--- OR if you're like someone who will remain unnamed--and prefers to do it the un-traditional way, you can ask for a plate and fork and they'll happily give you one too :



Lastly, once more, I can not emphasize how GOOD this sponge bread called injera is--WOW, it's like a napkin you can eat--sooooo GOOD and you eat it with everything. Yuuuummmmmmmmmmm!





Finished off with Ethiopian coffee...I've ALWAYS, all my life HATED black coffee with a passion, but this was the BEST black coffee ever! At first it tastes smooth, then a spicy mega robust strong flavor creeps in, not bitter at all, taste like a strange dark chocolate of sorts--thebombdotcom, period. WOW, who knew i'd EVER like black coffee--EVER! Eye-openingly YUM.

I too remember the first time I went to an Ethiopian restaurant and became an instant fan of it all...oh, and the coffee rocks too

Uhhhhhh...you left this one out--it's my ALL time favorite, this fabulous lamb dish is at the Ethiopian place, soooooo yummy--the bombdotcom, period.


Lamb Shekla Tibs

I'm sure it was...I just don't eat meat though lol!

PAPYRUS3 wrote: »

NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »

PAPYRUS3 wrote: »

NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »

Breakfast:
2 buttermilk pecan pancakes w/blueberry syrup ( THANKS pancakerunner ), 3 pieces of bacon, 2 oz cherry juice to drink

Lunch:
1 cup milk oolong tea, 1 cup emperor puh erh tea

Dinner:
something totally DIFFERENT and totally yummy--Ethiopian food?!? MEGA YES!:

Pics taken from the web--things I tried/ate, I had everything on the pic except the meat stuff in the middle, we had different meat dishes below. WOW! Who knew I'd LOVE split pea anything, it was the absolute bomb as was the beets/potato/carrots, collard greens... EVERYTHING
was delicious, the injera spongy bread---soooooooo GOOD! Plus we had these:





It's an Ethiopian tomato salad--YUM!
AND some of this was on the large platter covered in injera bread--all of the food is on top of the injera bread and you use the injera bread to eat all the stuff with, WITH YOUR HANDS, everybody just digs in--- OR if you're like someone who will remain unnamed--and prefers to do it the un-traditional way, you can ask for a plate and fork and they'll happily give you one too :



Lastly, once more, I can not emphasize how GOOD this sponge bread called injera is--WOW, it's like a napkin you can eat--sooooo GOOD and you eat it with everything. Yuuuummmmmmmmmmm!





Finished off with Ethiopian coffee...I've ALWAYS, all my life HATED black coffee with a passion, but this was the BEST black coffee ever! At first it tastes smooth, then a spicy mega robust strong flavor creeps in, not bitter at all, taste like a strange dark chocolate of sorts--thebombdotcom, period. WOW, who knew i'd EVER like black coffee--EVER! Eye-openingly YUM.

I too remember the first time I went to an Ethiopian restaurant and became an instant fan of it all...oh, and the coffee rocks too

Uhhhhhh...you left this one out--it's my ALL time favorite, this fabulous lamb dish is at the Ethiopian place, soooooo yummy--the bombdotcom, period.


Lamb Shekla Tibs

I'm sure it was...I just don't eat meat though lol!

{{{{{{ Hugs }}}}}}}} I can hardly believe I didn't comment on something you have...your avartar pic, is so so funny and super CUTE!

Breakfast:
2 eggs over medium hard, 2 link sausages, 3 pieces of thick bacon, grits, raisin toast w/butter, 4 oz of pina colada juice

Lunch:
1 cup of milk oolong tea, 1 cup of emperor puh erh tea, 1 cup of white rose tea

Dinner:
Avocado Caesar salad, baked potato w/butter, sour cream, cheese and garlic/ginger sauteed baby bok choy

Dessert and/or after dinner snacks:
1 large/thick homemade butter cookie, coffee w/cream, bowl of fresh cherries