Eat the Michelina's Lean Gourmet? they are about 190 calories and i was starving and eat 2 i know usually 1 fills me up but today I was starving
also buy the end of lunch how many calories have you used on a normal day?

Thanks
Michelle

Getting back to what works Calorie counting and exercise

I eat the Michelina's Lean Gourmet meals sometimes - they're pretty tasty.

I aim for 1600 calories on most days, and by after lunch I've usually eaten 800 calories. That means by after lunch I've eaten half of my day's calories. Then I have a 200 calories snack at 3pm, then a 600 calorie dinner. Everyone's different, though!

I do a 400 cal breakfast 400 cal lunch 100 cal snack 400-500 cal dinner and if I only did a 400 dinner I get one more 100 snack (thats on a 1400 diet)

I average between 1400 and 1600 calories and usually my calories are around +/- 300 for breakfast, and 300-400 for lunch. I am usually around 600-700 by the end of lunch, most days I end up with a small snack in the afternoon 100-200 calories and then dinner and sometimes a small snack or treat in the evening. I am trying more natural and whole foods so none of the lean gourmet's for me but I had them last time I lost weight (a few years ago I was closer to 230) and they were good.

My breakfast is a little more skimpy. By the time i hit lunch, i've only eaten about 250 calories. Then lunch is usually around 300, then a snack of about 120, then snack after gym class is about 130, then dinner is around 250. So after dinner, i've used up about 1100 out of 1200. So, that leaves me 100 for a snack after dinner if i want.

My breakfast is between 300-350 calories (includes my vitamin and fish oil.) My mid morning snack is around 100 cals and lunch is between 250-350 calories. So after lunch I'm usually around 700-800 calories. Factor in another snack and and dinner and I'm usually between 1400-1500 for the day.

I remember those dinners and they are tasty, but we got rid of our microwave over a year ago, so I don't buy frozen dinners anymore.

thanks ladies im re-starting calorie counting and so it's just not coming all back to me so all your help is wonderful i was at 580 yeasterday after lunch and was panicing but i guess i was right on track i hit my 1200 yesterday and did my 10 laps in my pool and let me tell you i thought 10 would be a breeze by the time i was hitting 5 i was dyeing LOL but i did it

I'm finding that it's just easier to write down the calories as I go and not what I ate. I have a little pad that stays on the kitchen counter and I write down the calories for each day and then I average 2 weeks worth. I also write down my weight at the beginning of each 2 week session. The first couple of weeks, I was averaging about 1600 cals. a day but now I'm down to 1200 a day. It's not quite as hard now....maybe my stomach has shrunk. I'm trying to focus on how I'm going to maintain my loss this time. I don't want to gain all this back...guess I'm going to have to keep up with my calories from here on out. A small price to pay for sure!

Yeah gerorgia lady im in the same boat i had lostt 100+ lbs last time calorie counting and such now with 45 lbs back on its gonna be a life time commitment

Another question about the Salad Spritzers good bad any certain one flavor you guys prefer?? thanks for your help guys