breakfast: 1/2 mock danish, 4 slices turkey w/ cream cheese (3)
lunch: 2c salad w/ ranch (3)
dinner: spinach lasagna (6.5)
snack: eggnog shake (5)
total: 17.5

Linsy, I noticed you don't appear to eat more than 800-1000 calories a day. Have you been successful? I have been on a very restrictive low carb diet (Ideal Protein) for the last 4 1/2 months. So I work very hard to get to 1200 calories a day, but my daily menu is much more than what you have. I burned 342 at the gym today. Should I eat under 1200 calories?

eggs, cheese, canadian bacon------------------------------breakfast
almonds------------------------------------------------------morning snack
lettuce, 2 oz avocado, 3 oz chix, yogurt blue cheese-----lunch
olives and 1/2 oz cheese-----------------------------------afternoon snack
flank steak and brussel sprouts (pat butter)--------------dinner
1/2 ounce almonds and 1/3 Atkins shake in green tea---bedtime snack

I use a website to calculate total everything:

Grams
Calories
1,221

Carbohydrate
28.8

Dietary Fiber
12.6

Net carbs: 16.2


Fat (54%) Carbs (9%)
Protein (38%) Alcohol (0%)

Dr. Atkins doesn't recommend counting calories, so don't worry about them. As long as you stay in your carb limit you should be fine. You may have to start tracking calories later in the plan though. I usually eat between 1200-1400 calories. This WOE keeps me full so I end up not eating much. Your menu looks fine so just keep doing what you're doing.

I just plugged my meal plan into FitDay, and I'm eating roughly 1300 calories today.

lunch: chicken nuggets w/ buffalo sauce, salad w/ ranch (8)
dinner: 2-egg salad in a lc wrap with 1c mixed greens (7)
snack: green tea w/ ginseng (1.5)
total: 16.5

My whole family is getting sick and I'm the last one to get it...I can feel it in my chest. It's the kind of flu where you can hardly even move so I'm prepared to be drinking lots of broth and water tomorrow and not much food. I'm going to try to finish off the batch of nuggets I made so they don't go to waste.

darbs, can you try to get more fat in there? We're supposed to aim for 65% of our calories coming from fat, 25-30% from protein, 5-10% from carbs. As your carb intake increases your ratios change a bit but your carbs are still in the Induction zone so you should try to keep your fat up.

Yesterday I had:
B: 2 eggs, tsp butter
L: hamburger patty on a portobello cap, served over 'hamburger salad' with pickle, a sprinkle of cheese, onion, avocado, lettuce. some mayo and mustard on top.
D: chicken, slice of bacon, 1/2 oz cheese, on top of 1c spinach; brussels sprouts, tbsp butter
S: 1 ounce cheese, 2T cream (whipped), 2 squares 85% dark chocolate

=36.2 total carbs; 24g net carbs; 1600 cals. 67%/25%/8%

thanks for the tip on how much fat...I was nervous it was too high. It is so hard after being on Ideal Protein and being so strict for the last 4 1/2 months. You are all so helpful here....I miss my IP girls, but I am feeling welcomed here. So when can I add the dark chocolate...yummy...sometimes just crave something chocolate and giving up the bars has made me miss the chocolate. So whip cream is okay? Thanks for your help.

54% fat
38% protein
7% carbs 13 net carbs

1256 calories

eggs, canadian bacon, cheese
almonds
salad with chicken italian dressing (hmde)
celery with cream cheese
chicken, brocolli butter
coffee with 1/2 atkins shake (2 coffees)


Trying to get that fat up

chicken soup (7)
green tea w/ ginseng (2)
cheese omelet w/ 2 strips bacon (2)
veggie stir-fry (8)
turkey rollups w/ cream cheese and pepperoncinis (1)
total: 20

Okay getting better fat and calories up today:

Calories 1542
Fat 62%
Protein 32%
Carbs 6%
Total carbs 23
Net carbs 13

Total calories1374, total carbs 24, net 16

fat 63%, protein 30%, carbs 7%

eggs, canadian bacon, cheese
almonds, olives, cream cheese, celery (snacks)
lettuce, 1/2 ounce feta and chicken with italian dressing
swai dipped in blue cheese with brocolli
coffee with 1/4 atkins shake

Darbs, your menus look great. Keep up the good work!
I've been working on adding more veggies...my next hurdle is eating breakfast. I hate waking up and having to clean butter and egg off of the pan.

breakfast: none
lunch: 2c stir-fry veggies with seasoning and 1T soy sauce, 1/2c broccoli cheese soup (13.5) pretty carby, but mostly from veggies.
dinner: 2c salad w/ seasoned ground beef, cheese, and sour cream (7)
total: 20.5

breakfast: none (I really need to work on this...)
lunch: 2c stir-fry veggies, seasoning, 1T soy sauce, 1/2c broccoli cheese soup (13.5)
dinner: chili w/ 1c salad and vinegar/oil dressing (6)
snack: deviled egg halves (1)
total: 20.5

Thanks Linsy and of course today I have a major lack of veggies and I gave in to an Atkins bar

Total calories 1414 carbs36, net 20
Fat 54%, Carbs 10%, protein 36%

eggs, feta, kelbasa
almonds, atkins shake, olives
salad with chicken
chicken with feta and pecans (burnt the collards..no veggie)

moment of weakness...just gave in to an Atkins bar (one left and then I won't buy them again)

It's okay, everyone has slip-ups--tonight after I already ate my chili I had some extra bites of everyone else's chili which had beans in it :eek:. I probably went over my carbs. Sometimes that stuff happens so I try not to stress out about it. I don't think eating that one Atkins bar will hurt as long as you don't make it an regular thing.

breakfast: none
lunch: 2c stir-fry veggies w/ soy sauce and seasoning (8)
snack: 4 deviled egg halves (1.5) orange water (1)
dinner: chicken and mushrooms in fettuccine sauce with 1c broccoli and butter (9)
snack: fried mozzarella w/ ranch (1)
total: 20.5