I'm sort of boring with these having the same breakfast every day of the week, but it keeps things easy and saves me time. Same thing with the lunches and dinners - lunches are usually the previous day's dinner. Well, I suppose my fridge is leftover free though and that's a good thing
Breakfast:
Red Quinoa with Pepitas and Almond Milk Topped with Raspberries
= 387
Lunch:
Skinless Roast Chicken Drumstick with Short Grain White Rice and Snow Peas
= 379
Dinner:
Skinless Roast Chicken Drumstick with Garlic Bread and Sauteed Swiss Chard
= 399
Hello everyone! paniania, I can relate to having the same breakfast/lunches etc. I tend to do the same thing for my food choices for a little while, then add something new in and eat that until I'm sick of it. It really does make things easier and takes out some of the work. It does get boring after awhile, but when you have sooo many other things going on, it's nice to just have "your basics"
Soo, the plan for tomorrow:
8AM:
-Light bagel = 110
-Laughing cow garlic and herbs wedge = 35
-Gum X 2 = 10
Breakfast (323): 1 Whole Wheat english muffin (140) with 1 tsp Earth Balance margarine (33) and 1 egg over hard (60). Coffee with vanilla almond milk (90).
Lunch (315): Cup of mixed greens with herbs and grape tomatoes (40) 1 T Feta (70) and 1 Boca fake ChickN patty (160) Raspberry Fruit Leather (45)
Snack (130): Large Apple (130)
Dinner (500): Tall Soy Latte from Starbucks (130) and a peanutbutter sandwich - 2 slices ww bread (220), 1 T natural peanutbutter (100), 1 T black cherry jam (50)
Total of 1268 Calories
Walking - 2 miles
Last edited by Wildflower; 09-22-2010 at 08:14 PM.
Reason: discovered the eggs I've been eating have 60 calories, not 80
Yumm tofu! I haven't had it in a little while!
Tomorrow is the stressful day of the week for me, and I don't always have time to eat. I really need to try and stick to the schedule so that I don't have problems later on at night.
Here's the plan:
6AM
-Oatmeal w/ cinnamon = 100
-2 splendas = 10
-Gum X 2 = 10
9AM:
-Bagel = 110
-Laughing cow herbs and garlic = 35
-Gum X 2 = 10
12PM:
-Cocoa roast almonds = 100
-Sm apple = 60
-Gum X 2 = 10
Breakfast: Oatmeal with a spoonful of peanut butter (215 calories)
Morning Snack: Unsalted peanuts (190 calories)
Lunch: Turkey Sandwich, SF Jello, and plum (170 calories)
Afternoon Snack: SF Vanilla Iced Coffee and plum (120 calories)
Dinner: Stuffed Shells and breadstick (700 calories)
After dinner snack: Mini Toblerone (200 calories)
RE: eating the same foods, I try to do that (within reason), usually same breakfast and lunch and rotate through a few different snacks with a "new" dinner every night. As a type 1 diabetic, my endo told me it's best to do that for keeping my blood sugars stable (no guesswork on how much insulin to take, for example).
Anyway, today:
B: Fiberone bar (140)
S: 2 Nature Valley granola thins (180)
L: roast beef on 35 cal bread with horseradish mustard, Chobani honey yogurt (285)
S: Nature Valley granola thin (90)
D: Salami and pepper jack stromboli, skinny cow ice cream sandwich (No idea how many cals, far too many, I'm sure. I'll guess 900.)
Today was a bit of a challenge to stay on my plan. I was absolutely starving and just wanted to cave in and eat everything in sight.
Breakfast (355): 1/2 a poppyseed bagel (175) with 1 T creamcheese (45), 2 slices smoked Tofurky (40) and a garlic dill pickle (5). coffee w/vanilla almond milk (90).
Lunch (505?): Salad of mixed greens with herbs (15), 10 grape tomatoes (20), 2 chopped up smoked Tokurky slices (40) and 1 T vinaigrette (30). 2 kimchi pancakes (400?).
***so I have no idea how to record the korean kimchi pancakes. The web shows counts anywhere from 75-350 for a small pancake. I decided to record them at 200x2 as they weren't exceptionally greasy or anything. But given how dang hungry I've been the rest of the day I wonder if this was way under? Advice?****
Snack (285): 8 1/2 tarragon crackers (65) and 10 grape tomatoes (20) with 1 1/2 T hummus (70). poached egg (60) on a 1/2 a ww english muffin (70).
Dinner(163 plus cheese), where I really wanted to eat everything in sight. Sigh.
1/2 a ww english muffin (70), 1 tsp Earth Balance (33), 2 slices smoked tofurky (40) and 5 all natural cheeto type things (20?) and then a few pieces of manchego, no idea on that as far as calories. thinking 100-200?
Total calories were hard to calculate today - about 1308 plus some cheese which would add 100-200 I suppose. Although the kimchi pancakes may have been way overestimated at 400 calories due to my hunger all afternoon/night.
Walking 1.2 miles
Last edited by Wildflower; 09-22-2010 at 09:08 PM.
Hi ladies! I hope everyone is having a good week! I planned a high calorie day for myself, hopefully it doesn't backfire. I am down about 4.5 lbs this week but I know some of that was water weight, so now is the hard part!
Wildflower, I know how it is to feel like you want to eat everything. Unfortunately, I am unfamiliar with kimchi, but I googled it and it looks pretty healthy. I found a kimchi pancake recipe that was pretty much just flour, egg and oil and I added up the ingredients and if you only make 2 (which is what the recipe said it made) it came out to a little over 300 a pancake, but since you said yours were small, I divided the recipe by 4 and got a little over 150 per pancake. I would say you were pretty close, but may have over estimated a little. I have no idea if that was helpful or not but it was pretty informative for me!
Today:
8am (105)
large coffee w/ 3 tbsp Coffee Mate cinnamon bun creamer- 105
11am (300, forgot my breakfast at home and had to scrounge something up at work)
1 pkt apples & cinnamon instant oatmeal made w/ water- 130
1 pkt cinnamon & spice instant oatmeal made w/ water- 170
H2O- 0
Ok, so that was a really unhealthy day and even though I planned to have a higher calorie day, I wish I would've planned my foods in advance! Oh well, live and learn right? Good night girls!
Last edited by fashinjunkie09; 09-22-2010 at 11:43 PM.
8am (105)
large coffee w/ 3 tbsp Coffee Mate cinnamon bun creamer- 105
10:30am (245)
light vanilla yogurt w/ 2 tbsp low fat apple cinnamon granola- 125
1 large banana- 120
H2O- 0
12:30pm (400, leftover Pizza Hut)
2 slices large original crust pepperoni, mushroom, and onion pizza w/ out crust- 400
H2O- 0
3:30pm (300)
1 small bag Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies- 280
1/2 hot honey vanilla chai tea w/ tub Coffee Mate French vanilla creamer- 20
6:30pm (475)
1 cup tuna helper- 260
1 cup steamed broccoli- 45
1 garlic breadstick- 170
H2O- 0
= apprx 1525 calories
My afternoon snack was originally supposed to be carrots w/ hummus and a string cheese but I had an afternoon meeting that ran way late so I had to make it work. Not ideal, but that's why I love calorie counting!
So tomorrow hubby and I are going to the drive in theater and I'm super excited. I'm bringing yummy stuff with me so that I can resist the delicious chocolate pistachio frozen yogurt that I love but don't want to have to fit into my day lol.
Here's the plan:
8AM
-Light bagel = 110
-Laughing cow garlic and herbs = 35
-Gum X 2 = 10
3PM:
-Blueberry Chobani = 140
-Sm apple = 50
-Gum X 2 = 10
6PM: (at the drive-in)
-Oven roasted chicken salad from Subway X 2 (yup 2! lol) = 300
-Popcorn (brought from home) = 210
-“Zero” calorie soda X 2 = 10
-Gum X 5 = 25