What are you eating?

I read somewhere that you will almost always have gained a couple pounds first thing in the morning because of the meal you ate the night before....I'd recommended weighing yourself in the evening or after you know what! Haha
How many kcal has this site given you? I'm sure if you ate any less it would be unhealthy for you.:flowerforyou:

There is no way i could only eat salads....... ick lol I eat pretty much what everyone else is i just try to eat smaller amounts and i "try" to keep away from sugar and bread .... and if i am cooking i will give the kids a side dish of pasta where i will try to keep only to the chicken or fish and veggies.... I also am in love with all the 100 calorie packs of treats i can find.... there are popsicles and cheetos and lots of other yummies so i dont feel like im missing out.... who ever invented the 100 calorie packs is a genius.

I definitely eat more than salads. I will eat just about anything if I can fit it into my calories. My biggest adjustments are portion sizes and i switched to whole grains and low fat/fat free dairy (this saves my calories for more food) You can also re-evaluate your activity level for the day and change them or maybe overestimating exercise??

hello! first off, i want to say sorry you're not seeing the results you'd like :sad: just stick in there and keep trying! it may just be that your body's still adjusting to eating less and working out and it could just take a little longer than you'd like to see your results. some possible problems could be you may be over-estimating your calories burned for the day. also, make sure you're logging all of your cals closely. those little things, like pb on your toast can quickly tack on 200 sneaky cals so make sure you're logging everything you're eating. one of those mini size twix bars is 50 cals! so make sure you're paying close attention to everything that's going in your mouth! :noway:

as far as what you eat and stuff, for me, this life style change has been a combination of four things:


1. choosing to eat things that are better for your body anyways:
before mfp, i would have unhealthy foods around. whatever looked good and was cheap, hopped into my grocery cart! but now, my grocery cart is completely different. instead of junk food to snack on and food loaded with cals, i'm just picking up healthier things like more fruits and veggies. i am still picking up pringles and popcorn and ice cream. i'm just getting the reduced fat kinds, if there is that option. i'm looking at the cals on everything while at the store. and i'm substituting a fruit at night when i'm hungry one time and then having only one serving of pringles later, rather than "grazing" on them all night! :laugh:

2. practicing self-control when it comes to portion control & consicience eating
i had a bad habit of literally having no idea what a serving size was! i was shocked when i started paying attention to serving sizes! i was having 2-3 servings of some things. oh, that reminds me of another good point, i measure everything i eat! call it obsessive, but i thought that it was really important for me to get back to re-learning what proper portions are so i measure everything i eat. i also had a bad habit of sub-conscience (spelling?) eating and eating just because something was there. the aforementioned twix, c'mon, they're bite size! how convinient (sp?) to just pop one of those lil puppies in your mouth! but you could have over a 1/2 c of light and fit yogurt for the same cals though!

3. starting to excercise
sadly enough, i didn't do any excercise at all before starting mfp! it's amazing what getting off my butt will do!

4. drinking water
before mfp, i bet i didn't drink 8 oz of water a day! i would drink coffee in the morning, mt. dew after lunch the rest of the day at work. then at night at home, i would have milk with supper then do tea or juice or pop the rest of the night. it is important to force yourself gradually to make sure you're drinking as close to the 8 cups a day as you can. i'm at like 6 a day now, i know it should be more but i'm working on it. i'll get there

hope this helps! this is pry way more than what you wanted to know! but i just wanted to encourage and let you know i still eat lots of the same stuff. i just eat less of it when i do eat it. i also look at how i want to "spend" my cals for the day. sometimes i think it's worth the 440 cals for the double cheeseburger at mcdonalds and sometimes it's not worth it for me. good luck! :happy: