Here's a recent 1300-calorie day that I especially enjoyed:
- 2-egg omelet loaded with sauteed onions, spinach, and tomato, prepared with a tablespoon of grapeseed oil: 310
- salad of mixed greens with full-fat Italian dressing: 120
- Med. baked sweet potato with cinnamon and cardamom: 150
- Yoplait light yogurt, "red velvet" flavor: 110
- Homemade pizza (6 oz. crust from scratch and rolled thin, tomato, spinach, artichoke, 1 oz. regular mozzarella, 1 tbsp. grated parmesan, homemade sugar-free tomato sauce): 480
- More Yoplait, this time in triple berry: 110
I'm zig-zagging my calories, so some days I would eat something similar to this, but add in a glass of milk or some ham diced into the salad to bring my total up to 1500.
RED VELVET? As in like red velvet cake flavor?!?! That would be AMAZING!!!! lol
There IS a red velvet flavor! And it's red and velvety!
There's also a black forest cake flavor which I adore. The triple berry is also excellent. I have to kind of watch myself on 'em, though; they contain a mix of Splenda, sugar, and the dreaded HFCS, so they're definitely an "in moderation" item for me. However, because the taste and mouth-feel are so rich, I find that I can manage moderation and stick to enjoying one yogurt occasionally rather than snarfing down multiples (something I cop to having done often with 100-calorie packs of stuff).
If your plan allows a small amount of sugar and if you don't find it or HFCS a trigger, those Yoplait flavors are awesome.
Heres one of my days this week - I shoot for 1,700 so this is the one that came the closest. My days are pretty much the same with dinner & dessert being the variable that makes my calories higher or lower that day.
5:30 am, get up - 2 cups of coffee with 2 tbs vanilla coffeemate 70 cals
9am get to work - Oh Yeah 8 oz strawberry protein shake 130 cals
10-10:30am breakfast wheat english muffin with 1 tbs peanut butter 200 cals
12 - snack - baby carrots - 50 cals
2pm - lunch - lean cuisine 220 cals & dannon light & fit yogurt 80 cals
4pm - snack - atkins bar 140 cals
7pm - dinner - that day was baked boneless pork chops (230 cals) and a birds eye veggie mix with white beans, carrots, spinach and a light low fat sauce (180 cals).
8pm - dessert - Jello sugar free pudding with 2 tbs cool whip (95 cals)
3 cans minute maid light lemonade (15 cals)
Total 1,330
There IS a red velvet flavor! And it's red and velvety!
There's also a black forest cake flavor which I adore. The triple berry is also excellent. I have to kind of watch myself on 'em, though; they contain a mix of Splenda, sugar, and the dreaded HFCS, so they're definitely an "in moderation" item for me. However, because the taste and mouth-feel are so rich, I find that I can manage moderation and stick to enjoying one yogurt occasionally rather than snarfing down multiples (something I cop to having done often with 100-calorie packs of stuff).
If your plan allows a small amount of sugar and if you don't find it or HFCS a trigger, those Yoplait flavors are awesome.
I LOVE those - especially the key lime pie! But I could hoover 3 or 4 of them at once. I stick to the Dannon light & fit - for whatever reason it doesn't set me off. It has fructose, aspartame and sucralose but no HFCS. 80 calories and now they have these square containers that make it seem like you are getting so much more than 8oz. Its the same as a Yoplait container but seems like so much more. I LOVE the peach, lime and orange sherbet flavors.
The common thread of lean protein and plenty of veggies at dinner is something I am going to try to stick to. Coming home after work I am on a binge most days. I have to have something with protein in it. Tomorrow when I head to the commissary I will get some raw veggies for the fridge as a snack when I get home with some string cheese. I will also plan on the lean protein for dinners this week. I also think eating a shake when I get to work might be better than eating so early in the morning.
I make a home made vegetable soup. Chicken breast is the only meat and I add any veggie that suits me at the time. My stock is of course the chicken broth and tomato's. Lots of fresh garlic and other interesting herbs that are all still new to me. Almost no fat and very low cal. I never never never ate vegetables, but being healthy is as important to me as losing this weight as I am old now. lol. I added everything from spinach to okra to ****ake mushrooms. It's filling and healthy and I don't add it to my daily calorie intake of usually 1200.
Breakfast: Kashi Go Lean, vanilla soymilk, 1/2 oz dried cranberries. Chai tea with fat free H & H Work: Lots of coffee and espresso shots (I work at Starbucks) Snack: Kashi bar (one or two depending on my hours at work) Lunch: Turkey or peanut butter sandwich with either light mayo or sugar free jelly. Yogurt (hooked on the Greek!) with 1/4 oz sliced almonds Dinner: Lean meat, lots of veggies, and some sort of whole-wheat grain. Snack after dinner: Chai tea and 2 pieces of Dove dark chocolate.
I stay between 1200 and 1500 a day I have never hit 1500 except the one time I cheated and had a pieace of cake and got sick never again lol. Here is my favorites.
Breakfest- 3/4 cup cherrios, 1/2 cup skim milk, 1 banana-265
Lunch- Lean ham sandwich on honey wheat bread, 1/2 cup light cottage cheese, 1 apple - 382
Snack- fit n active fudge bar -100
Dinner- 1 chicken breast, 2 cups green squash, 1 cup of green beans- 372
That would be AMAZING!!!! lol
