Can someone share their menu?

I generally start my day off with a bowl of active lifestyle and skim milk and a piece of fruit, then I have a lean cuisine for lunch, and a salad and a normal entree for dinner. Just make sure to only eat serving sizes! My mistake was last week I realized I'd lost 4 pounds and I got thrilled and celebrated.....:noway: , now I'm back to two.:mad: Just watch your portions and try not to snack. Good job on the exercise though!:smokin:


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Today I ate

Breakfast
original oatmeal
strawberries
protein shake

am snack
big breakfast skipped my snack ssh don't tell lol

Lunch
High Protein Skinny Chocolate Smoothie


Afternoon snack
Balance protein bar

Evening snack
green apple

Dinner
chicken breast 1/2 a sweet potato

Thats my meals for today total calories 1246

And if I hit the gym tonight I would have another protein shake

Oh I forgot- 3 liters of water a day-

Basically I eat like this everyday- maybe I will have lean steak or lean ground beef for dinner and instead of the sweet potato I will have brown rice and a vegetable of course I just didn't get one today

Drink LOADS of water! You'll have to run to the restroom a lot, but it's pay off.:drinker:


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Eventually, your body does adjust to the extra water.

Well my best advice is to replace things that are bad for you like cheeseburgers, chips, cookies, and other bad for you things with better healthier replacements. Instead of chips have fresh veggies and a fat free dip, instead of a cheeseburger have a veggie burger or a chicken breast... things like that.

On a typical day I eat something like this:

Breakfast- a fruit (normally a banana or an apple) with either a WW muffin, or low sugar oatmeal, or a luna bar or something like that. Maybe a fresh fruit smoothie.

For Lunch I have a turkey wrap or a pizza wrap made with veggie pepperoni and low fat cheese. Or maybe some Campbells healthy request soup. Something light. I've been eating a lot of "unwiches" from Jimmy Johns lately- it is basically a sandwich on a lettuce wrap and then i get no mayo and no cheese.

Snacks are normally carrots with hummus, celery with fat free dip, and apple with laughing cow cheese or something like that. if I'm still hungry i'll have some Motts natural applesauce, or sugar free jello, or grapes or something like that.

Dinner is normally my biggest meal because I work at night instead of during the day so it gets me through work and through the night. My bf will normally cook chicken, steak or some low fat pork chops, normally with a veggie side. I normally have a muffin or something like that after dinner if I still have the calories beacuse I always seem to crave something sweet at that time of the day.

I personally stay away from pre-packaged stuff as they seem to be full of preservatives and sodium, which can slow things down for weight loss. This is a typical day for me. I sometimes eat my exercise calories, sometimes not.

Breakfast
Coffee - No Sugar With Skim Milk, 1 mug
Raspberries - Raw, 0.5 cup
Skippy - Natural Creamy Peanut Butter, 1 tablespoon
Deli World - Light Rye Bread, 1 slices (
Butterball - Turkey Bacon, 1 slice

Lunch
Dole - Packaged Salad - Spring Mix, 3 ounces
Sara Lee Deli Meat - Oven Roasted Turkey Breast, 3 slices
Generic Tomato - Tomato Raw, Red, 1 tomato
Blackberries - Raw, 0.5 cup

Dinner
Beef - Chuck, clod steak, lean and fat, 1/4" fat trim, 4 oz
A.1. (A1) - Steak Sauces And Marinades - Steak Sauce, 1 tbsp
Squash - Winter, butternut, cooked, baked, with salt, 1 cup, cubes
Earthbound Farm Organic - Spring Mix Salad Greens, 0.25 cups
Tomatoes - Roma Tomato, 1 Tomato

Snacks
Morning Snack:
Oranges - Raw, navels, 1 fruit (2-7/8" dia)
Eggs - Hard-boiled (whole egg), 1 large

Afternoon snack:
Nutribar - Protein Bar, 32.5 g, 1/2 bar

Breakfast: steel cut oats mixed with light soy milk, almonds, strawberries

Snack:1/2 cup strawberries mixed with 2 ouces sugar/carb control vanilla yogurt, whole wheat pita and hummus

Lunch: Vegetable korma, cherry jello cup

Snack: ThinkThin chocolate protein bar(was supposed to have other half of strawberries and yogurt but wasnt hungry after protein bar)

Post gym snack: whole wheat pita and hummus

Dinner: sweet chili grilled chicken breast, just for one green giant broccoli and carrots in italian dressing, atkins endulge peanut butter cups.

My menu has been somewhat the same for the past 2 weeks.

Breakfast:
multigrain waffles
sugar free syrup

or

92 calorie cinnamon pankcakes w/ sugar free syrup

Lunch:
fat free hotdogs
wheat italian bread
ketchup

or

turkey burger (4-6 oz ground turkey, wheat italian bread, Laughing Cow cheese, ketchup)

MIdday Snack: (not an everything thing)
homemade roasted red pepper hummus
thin wheat crackers

or

fat free black cherry yogurt

Dinner:
some type of Uncle Bens ready rice
shrimp
avocado

Late snack/Dessert:
Hungry Girl's mini microwave chocolate cake

or

no sugar added butter pecan ice cream

Today's menu:

Breakfast: 1 whole egg omlet with chopped bell pepper, tomato & 1 slice 2% milk american cheese (I chop vegies the night before for easier mornings), 1 cup 1% milk (I'm not a coffee person) = approx. 250 calories

A.M. Snack - Yoplait Fat Free Harvest Peach Yogurt = 110 calories

Lunch - Turkey Sandwich on one slice of Double Fiber Bread, handful of grapes = approx. 150 calories

P.M. Snack - 1 whole apple, small handful of honey-roasted peanuts = approx. 200 calories

Dinner - Grilled Pork Steak, Salad with low-fat dressing, 2 whole wheat rolls = approx. 500 calories

Just a little over 1200 calories for all if I work out during the day I'll allow myself two oreos and a cup of milk at night (I know not the best choice but I do enjoy it)

Here is what I ate today:

Breakfast: Activia cherry yogurt w/1 tsp. Grape Nuts cereal

AM Snack: 100-calorie bag Kettle Corn popcorn
Small box raisins

Lunch: 1/2 c. cottage cheese w/pears
Fiber-One bar
2 Gingersnap cookies

PM Snack: Handful of almonds
Jell-O sugar-free pudding cup

Dinner: Spaghetti
Two vegetables
Slice whole wheat bread (no butter)

Dessert: Small piece of Angel Food cake w/strawberries and 1 tsp. Cool Whip

Water: as much as I can get down (I'm working on it)!

Exercise: Walked on treadmill for 90 min. (but not all at once)!