I sometimes feel like such an outsider when I read other folks' menus (not just here, but on other forums as well). It seems like so many people who are counting calories have skim milk, salad w/ fat free dressing, low fat cheese, fat-free yogurt, etc. I, on the other hand, don't have anything fat-free or even low-fat in my house. Yes, I eat veggies & fruits, but so much of the food I eat is just regular food that I ate before I started counting calories---just less of it. For example, here was my menu today:
B - Large slice of artisan Italian bread with real butter
Snack: Homemade hot cocoa (organic dark chocolate cocoa powder, tsp of sugar, 1/4 tsp vanilla, itsy bitsy pinch of salt, ginger, & cinnamon---all dissolved in organic whole milk)
L - 2/3 c. brown rice, 1/2 organic chorizo sausage, 1/2 oz. organic cheddar melted over both
D - Two oven-fried chicken wings & 1/4 oven-fried breast w/ roasted carrots & peas
Dessert: Slice of homemade apple pie (1/8 of pie)
Now, granted today's menu was a bit higher in calories than normal because I just didn't end up eating as many calories this week as I thought I would, so I had many calories to spare (I been eating homemade chicken soup all week, and it's VERY filling yet low in calories---and delicious if I don't say so myself ). In fact, at the end of the week, my calories averaged out to only about 1500 per day.
However, nothing on my menu looks like what one would eat on a "diet." Granted, my portions are definitely smaller than my pre-calorie counting days, but I'm still surprised at how well I can eat and still lose.
Does anyone else calorie count and mainly eat the same foods they ate prior to calorie counting (just cutting down on portions)? Just curious as to how many out there do this.