I wondered how you decide what to eat each day

I decide the night before. I usually just look in the fridge, see what I have and then decide what I'd like. Yogurt, oatmeal, turkey bacon, eggs, fresh fruit, things like that. I usually have about a 300 calorie breakfast, but I'm never really all that hungry in the morning. Thing is, if you as long as you have a plan set for the whole day, you can have anything you want, just have to fit it all into your daily plan. It's easy once you get used to it! :drinker:

I hate breakfast too, but I need to eat something filling or I get cranky!

My favorite is a 100 calorie Mini-bagel (Thomas') and a slice or two of a low fat cheese sometimes I add a slice of turkey. I generaly lightly toast the bagel so that the cheese is a little melty. That really satisfies me.
Good Luck!

You had a second question, how to decide what a healthy meal plan is.

That is a herd decision to make. and everyones got their own answer, because in the end you do what works best for you, but the trick is to find what works best for you and it's not some 15 minute magic show either, its a hard thing. There are tons of diets out there and some make more sense on paper than they do in practice. and believe me I know, I've been down Diet Road so many times I know where every pot hole and speed bump is. Don't believe me? I should post a picture of my diet book collection. The thing about falling off the wagon so many times is that you learn SOMETHING each time you go through it. And not just the simple stuff like: Diet pills don't work, or Porkchops and Grapefruits for more than three days is disgusting, but real things that help you make good decisions when you grab your grocery cart.
Those diet books I've collected over the years all have really good advise in them, but they also have some really bad advice too and picking the gold nuggets out of the muck can be a hassle. I've done it the hard way and so what I'm about to tell you, take to heart.

If you feel you are lost and cannot make good choices or if you think you need someone to help you keep yourself in the right direction go talk to a nutritionalist or a weight loss center. They would be able to set you up with a meal plan that would get you started on the right path and it would give you a solid foundation to building your own personal meal plan off of.

Over the past week, I've discovered if I eat a breakfast with 500-700 calories (I'm starving in the morning!) consisting of either hot cereal and fruit and a boiled egg or two or an egg and cheese and deli meat breakfast sandwich, then I have a struggle getting in my 2,090 cal. for the day. Which is good. It keeps me from snacking and overeating at dinner. Whereas if I eat a bowl of cold cereal or a carnation shake or something like that, I'm hungry all day and usually end up going a few hundred cals over my daily plan. So for me, big breakfast = satisfaction and lots of energy for the day.

No pancakes or waffles for me, though :ohwell: or bacon or biscuits or grits..... I try to keep the fat down and the carbs and protein up. Butterball smoked turkey sausage is great... boil it, though, or it's awfully salty.

Good luck!