Low Carb Archive - Food Logs for 11/4 week

I think it would be a great idea for all us who are on some sort of plan to post what we have been eating. If its something particularly tastey, pls give us the recipe. We all need help with ideas and something different. I know I get tired of chicken all the time. Low carb snacks that are quick and easy are great too.

Here's mine for today.

Breakfast...2 scrambled eggs with mont/jack cheese

Lunch...left over taco salad from last night.

Supper...baked chicken with .5 cup of broccoli.

I wasnt hungry for supper, but thought I had better eat so I dont get the munchies later tonight.

According to fitday, my carb total for today is 17 with a total of 1722 calories for today.

I'll have an herbal tea in a few minutes. I dont count tea or coffee with my little bit of milk. Its too nitpicky for me.

Anyone else wish to share?
Robin

Hi Robin, I think I will join in.

Monday was:

coffee with cream
water - 20 oz
breakfast ~ Atkins bar
water - 32 oz
lunch ~ protein shake
water - 32 oz
beanless chili on sauted veggies
more water

5:30 am ~ one hour of cardio and weight training.
7:15 pm ~ 2 hours of volleyball

Monday:
Breakfast: roast beef with cream cheese and sprouts rolled up in 2 pcs. of lettuce
Snack: cheese crisp
Lunch: Middle Eastern lamb with salad and hot sauce and white sauce (I think the white sauce was made with yogurt - sigh).
Snack: leftover lamb and a little broccoli and spagetti squash casserole
Dinner: broccoli with butter, 1 oz. white American cheese.

Tuesday planned:
Breakfast: 2 eggs scrambled with 2 or 3 sausage links, one slice white American cheese
Lunch: sauteed chicken breast with broccoli and spag. squash casserole
Snack: hard boiled egg
Dinner: ?

These posts are great!!

So far here is whats planned

Breakfast, 2 scrambled eggs with 1/2 cup chopped spinach, 1 oz mont/jack cheese

Lunch, roasted chicken breast

Supper, 1 cup broccoli with butter and either chicken or hamburgers (have to check the freezer)

Snacks might be herbal tea and a slice of cheese or a hard boiled egg. But I find if I exercise in the afternoon, I dont want a snack. Im usually pretty full from lunch. I have also noticed that if I eat 2 eggs in the am, instead of one. I dont get the hungries all day.

Remember, there is a difference between a hungry stomach and a hollow stomach. Just because my stomach is empty doesnt mean Im hungry. That has gotten me thru many snack attacks.

All my water...all day and a 45 min walk, mid afternoon.

Have a good Tuesday everyone
Robin

Oh god, ok I ate a low carb bar. I did not want to do this this week because I feel they slow my weight loss. I think I am one of those people who when they have something sweet it's the same as having sugar. The problem is everything tastes so salty!! Argggh! Rant over...I'll just pick myself up. Anyway, that was my snack for this morning. Probably won't have the egg.

I love to do this, it really helps to see what I ate, and to get ideas from others-

yesterday(my perfect day)
b- breakfast muffins(mini quiches with breakfast sausage and cheese)
l-salami and swiss, salad
s-chili meat
d- broccoli, steak

ta-da!

Today(less perfect, but acceptable):

(up at 5am)
6:30- 2 fried eggs
8:30-1/2 c. cottage cheese
11:30- cheese and chicken legs
3:30- salad with mini mozzarella balls and olives(YUM)
7- hot dogs with cheese melted on top

had peanuts for a snack, and 2 diet sodas today.

I am still sort of hungry, hoping tomorrow with be easier.

d.

ended up having 1 cup broccoli with butter and 2 hamburgers with italian seasoning and feta cheese mixed in it....with a blob of sour cream on each patty!! mmmmmmmmmmmmmm very tastey!!

no snacks......ill have the rest of my water, pee another gallon and have a nice hot cup of wildberry zinger tea :)

Tilly.....those bars are just too good!!! I had one, mocha crunch and i was amazed. So Ive sworn off them. That will be my chocolate fix when I need it. I get that taste of sugar and im done!

Dottie..getting up that early mess up your schedule? It sure would me!

Til tomorrow
night all
Robin

Oooooooohhhh, goodie! I'm glad we are doing this!

Monday:
B Smoothie

L Atkin's roll-sandwich, with turkey and cheddar and red onions

D Roast Beef, zucchini,onions,mushrooms medley and peas.

S sugar free pecan cluster

Tuesday:

B scrambled eggs with onions and cheese

L whole wheat bread with tuna salad

S broccoli/cauliflower and dip

D chicken alfredo, lima beans, steamed carrots.

S sugar free choc ice cream

I haven't made 100 ounces of water either day, but I have been able to about double what I was drinking last week, which wasn't at all enough!

Robin, are you sure you had 1722 calories? It doesn't look like it! The taco salad must have been a doozy. :p

PS, I know the limas and the carrots weren't the lowest carbs on the block, but there were only a few carrots, and I figured I needed the fiber from the limas.

Hi Jennifer
I went back and rechecked my fitday for the day I made the taco salad. It was actually the day I had the left overs for lunch. So that plus everything esle added up. But I managed to keep my carb count down. I dont eat alot of green leafy stuff. So I used broccoli instead. That added alot more calories than iceburg lettuce would. But I wouldnt trade that recipe for anything...lol I crave savoury tasting foods now instead of the ravioli and pastas. This is as good as it gets, and it was delicious!

Weigh in days I alot more calories and more carbs if I feel I want them......gives me the week to work them off :)

Todays totals were 13 carbs and 1270 calories.

Yum Robin, you are the second person this week to make me crave taco salad! I think I will have to make it this week. Gosh, my stomach is growling, I need to go to bed before I get the snackies!

Hi!

Tuesday was:

coffee with cream
water - 20 oz
breakfast ~ Atkins bar
water - 32 oz
lunch ~ protein shake
water - 32 oz
chicken salad
more water

5:30 am ~ one hour of cardio and weight training.

Jennifer, carrots are a great convenience, I have not eliminated them from my lo carb program. When I need a fast snack it is much better to grab a handful of carrot instead of a muffin!

I ended up eating ANOTHER low carb bar in the afternoon! I just cannot have them around. Dinner was egg salad on pork rinds with broccoli sprouts...mmmm.

Today:

Breakfast
roast beef with mayo and broccoli sprouts nestled in two lettuce leaves

Snack
Not sure - I don't really have anything on hand. Don't want to go the bar route again!!

Lunch
Egg salad on pork rinds with sprouts (can you tell I love this meal?), broccoli with butter

Dinner
Unsure. I am going out and I don't know where we will go - possibly middle eastern. I'll try to stick with the meat and salad in that case.

The good news is I lost 2 more lbs!! I'll be updating my signature, I'm now at 148!!!

Wednesday plan

Breakfast- 2 scrambled eggs with mont/jack cheese

Lunch- chicken breast

Supper- meatballs and broccoli
Todays totals 10carbs, 920 calories

no snacks planned....I'll post them later if I have any

going to bump my water intake and see if the itching subsides again.

Tilly...WAY TO GO!!

Have a good one!
Robin

I need to do this too. It's been SO , SO hard getting back on track. I haven't had a really good day and I'm supose to be on my second day of induction. It's those silly mid-day cravings that are getting me.

This is what I had today. Please dont cringe. It's not the best but, it's better then what it has been for the few weeks.

Breakfast~~ Sausage.
Lunch~~ 5 snack size candy bars. I know. this is where I made my mistake. After I ate that I knew that I would have more if I did'nt feed my cravings with protein so I made a BLT salad. I just browned 4 pieces of bacon and put it on 4 lettuce leaves with a little mayo and rolled it up. It's one of my favs.

Dinner~~ Maybe some burger with some salad. That sounds good to me.

Need to have some more water too.
Tomorrow will be better! ChrissyB

I'll jump in too.

Today, I had an Atkins shake for breakfast and lunch. I was just too busy to cook or think about eating. For supper, I had a filet mignon, mushrooms sauted in butter, salad (iceberg lettuce, spinach, cucumber, cheddar cheese and homemade french dressing).

Do any of you use the Atkins shakes? I was watching another weight loss product on tv last night, Alan North's, I think it's called Weight Perfect, not sure. He was saying it was really balanced. When I compared his protein, carb and fat combo, Atkins was better. Plus he uses real sugar in his drink and Atkins uses splenda. I really like the Atkins shakes, but I'm wondering if they will slow down or stall weight loss.

I feel like I over ate, but that's the beauty of LC, right? You can get that "full" feeling from the protein and a little fat... love it!

7am- carrot and celery with ranch dressing(snacking in the car on the way to work
9am- 2 mini breakfast quiches
12-chicken breast, salad, eggplant rollatini(pharmaceutical company luncheon)
3-snacked on leftover pasta from the lunch, about 1/2 c.
6-out to Outback steakhouse- cesear salad, steamed veggies and a filet. ONE SCOTCH. It won't kill me.

Feel like the worst of the craving are behind me.

Welcome back, ChrissyB- those bacon roll-ups sound good!

dottie

Hey Peach, you're back! How was Mickey?
You and Chrissy, wow...this ought to be fun!

Today was not so good. I took a long nap and slept through lunch...baddie number one. You'll see number two below!

B 2 eggs, 3 pieces of bacon

S 1/2 cup of Fiber All cereal -- or something like that! 13 grams of fiber, net 7 carbs. Felt like I needed more , ahem, roughage.

D I was wayyyyyyyy starved from sleeping this afternoon, so just the Greek Salad at the restaurant wouldn't do it, I thought. There were no low carb appetizers, so the closest thing I could find was 2 black bean tamales. Corn meal, but at least no white flour. I think. The salad turned out to be huge, didn't need those damn tamales anyway!

Snackie maybe of some cheese later, or sugar free ice cream.
Might not need anything!

this is the WORST food day i've had since the surgery. and i DON"T mean in keeping it down. i mean in what i've eaten!!! can't go on this way...

so, have a laugh...

before walk with dog... 2 tbs chicken salad on 2 saltines because i had to take an antibiotic and can't do it on an empty stomach.

1 mile walk.

25 g protein shake

1 hour physical therapy

24 oz SF lemonade

deviled egg

1 inch of bagel with 1 tbs cream cheese

24 oz decaf cafe au lait

handful of soynuts

1/2 c chicken salad and 4 baby carrots and 2 ritz crackers with cream cheese

3 bites of raisin scone with butter

16 oz SF iced tea

tiny seckel pear

1 oz bleu cheese

2 flatbreads

2 rollups deli roast beef and american cheese and 1/2 oz jerky

1/2 oz cheese

16 oz SF iced tea

8 oz homemade chicken soup with 3 tbs high protein pasta [made from red lentil flour]

this has GOT to stop!!!!!!!!

oh well. tomorrow will be better. i have the soup all ready, and the roll ups. the egg is ready to be deviled. and i'll just be sure to have more liquid than food tomorrow.

by the way. can anyone figure out how much protein i've had??? i've lost track here!!!!!

Jiff your too funny! Try walking around with one of those golf clicker thingys (can you tell i dont golf) for keeping track of your protein, every time you have a spoonfull of something, you can just click it. lol, dont know, might work.

Ok, heres my planned day as I see it this morning.

Breakfast 2 eggs with mozza cheese

Lunch chicken breast

Supper - pulled pork (no sugar) with brussel sprouts

snacks, I'll bring with me to work, since its going to be a long day, 1 boiled egg, 2 -1oz slices of mozza cheese and maybe a few pork rinds.

eating as planned and including snacks...equals 15 carbs & 1081 calories.

Have a good day ladies, think good thoughts.
Robin

Robin, you are doing so great with your food choices!! I was not so good last night. I ate out and had beer battered chicken fingers and a caesar salad. The salad was not so bad, but I am wondering how many carbs were in the batter of the chicken. Anyone have any idea? It was flour based rather than bread crumb based.

Today:
Breakfast: hard boiled egg
Lunch: Steak-ums with 2 slices american cheese on top, 1 cup broccoli, 1 cup spagetti squash casserole
Dinner: not sure yet. I have to do a little shopping so I'll pick up some meat probably and maybe have a salad.

O.K. it's my turn


Breakfast~~ Sausage.

Lunch~~ Bacon roll-ups

Dinner~~ Hot wings and a salad with ranch dressing


I will drink some water today. I dont measure I just drink.

I'm still in battle with the sugar monster. He sure does have a firm grip on me. I know if I get through today that I'll be able to kick his nasty little butt!!! :D So, off I go to load up on the protein for my mid day carb fight!! See ya all later!

ok lets see, take off the hard boiled egg and pork rinds, and add another oz of cheese. Im not going to do the math lol

But all in all it was a good day.

Here is the pulled pork recipe if anyone wants it (I love this stuff) and I dont like pork, :shrug: go figure.

5 lb shoulder pork roast
rub with salt and pepper
place in crock pot
pour in 14 oz beef broth
1/4 cup chiavette's (marinade) or your fav no sugar bbq sauce. If you dont want to use either, use 1/4 brewed coffee. Dont ask, it just tastes good

Put the crock on low for the entire day, come home, pull the pork apart discarding the fat and enjoy!

;) Robin

I made it another day. Ok, I had a little slip, but it was a controlled slip! I am very excited about it, more after the menu...

B Scrambled eggs with cream, bacon and cheese

L 7 tortilla chips, salsa, and cheese stuffed peppers

S Handful of nuts (my husband loves it when I say this, ha!)

D 6 sauteed shrimp, spinach casserole

S sugar free choc ice cream

I am sooooooo excited because the authentic mexican restaurant is my DOWNFALL. Last time I went there, we cleaned out the whole basket of chips and they brought us a second basket! I scarf them down with my eyeballs rolled back in my head. Well, not today. I hoped to find some low carb chips to sneak in, but didn't make it to the health food store yet. So, I told myself I would have a FEW and that would be mostly all my carbs for the day. It worked. :)

I feel like 140 pounds! (feels better than a million bucks!)

Updated food from yesterday:

Breakfast: hard boiled egg
Snack: mound of tuna salad and a couple of strips of fake crab
Lunch: Steak-ums with one slice of melted cheese on top, spagetti squash casserole
Snack: .5 bag barbeque pork rinds
Dinner: deli roast beef w/one slice of cheese melted on top; spagetti squash casserole (it's almost gone!!)

Today:
Breakfast: 2 hard boiled eggs w/ mayo, 2 lettuce leaves, broccoli sprouts
Snack: Atkins Advantage Praline's and Cream bar
Lunch: deli roast beef with 2 slices American cheese melted on top; .5 cup spagetti squash casserole, 1 cup broccoli

I am having people over for drinks and then we are going out to dinner. I am going to serve celery with boursin cheese in the middle, another kind of cheese (possibly brie), crackers for them, pork rinds for me, and olives. Dinner will be middle eastern food, for me meat and salad probably. I'm also going to have wine tonight (yippee!!)

Good Job Jennifer!!
Tilly have fun!

Today's plan

Breakfast-2 scrambled eggs with mozza cheese

Lunch- chicken breast, 1 cup bean salad

Supper- pulled pork, 1 cup broccoli

I'll add snacks later if I have any.

Have a good OP day everyone!
Love
Robin

So far this is what I've had for today. I'll have to come back and add dinner and any snack that I might have.

Breakfast~~ 1 piece of string cheese

Lunch~~ salad with bacon, lettuce and some shredded lettuce. YUMMY

Dinner~~ I'll say that Im going to have 2 burger patties with some mozz. cheese and a little raw onion. I'll cook it on my GF grill. Probably some asparagus with this.

just have to add 4 meatballs to my day lol :)

Ok, yesterday was:

B: Srambled eggs with cheese. Surprise.

L: Grilled chicken Caesar Salad

S: Handful of almonds

D: Lemon Pepper pork chop, cauliflower casserole.

S: 2 mini sugar free choc nibble things from Russell Stovers

Not enough water!

May I jump in on this thread which I just realized was here? :dizzy:
Saturday (so far)

1/4 cup egg beaters & low fat cheddar cheese omelette
2 slices fried ham

I will come back later and tell you what I had for lunch and dinner. I can't even think about it right now.