Daily Menu
 

Hi Everyone
I'm starting IP tomorrow and was curious about what others have as their daily menu, especially their breakfasts and lunches.

Please share an example of your daily menu here.

On my first day tomorrow I was planning on this:
bfast - Cappuccino shake (made in the blender)
snack - cup of veggies and WF dip
lunch - one of the soups and salad
snacks - cup of veggies and WF dip
dinner - chicken stir fry cooked with two cups of allowable veggies & Salad

Do you think this would be OK?

Yup but you are missing one packet ....this is my daily schedule

Breakfast apple cinnamon puffs 2 cups of coffee
Lunch Chocolate drink and a cucumber
Dinner 8oz of meat 2 cups of veggies
Cappachino for my snack

This is pretty much what I have everyday except sometimes I have a bar for breakfast

My days are similar to Wuv's...in that I do the same thing nearly every day!

Breakfast - Chocolate or Peanut Butter Soy Puffs
Hot Tea
Lunch - Chocolate Shake warmed and 6 oz hazelnut creme coffee added and a cucumber
Snack - Blueberry Cran Granata drink
Dinner - fish or chicken with 2 C veggies

I sometimes switch lunch and dinner which is allowed on this plan...

I too have pretty much the same:

Breakfast: cheese omelet or cereal with two cups of coffee
Lunch: RTD chocolate and salad
Dinner: 8oz: meat, tuna or two hard boiled eggs and vegetables
Snack: chocolate pudding frozen with peppermint extract

My days look very similar as well:

Breakfast (8 AM): Vanilla RTD Shake, coffee with SF Torani Syrup
Lunch (12:30 PM): 2 cups veggies with IP bar or Chocolate RTD Shake
Dinner (6 PM): 2 cups veggies with 6 oz grilled salmon or 8 oz. protein
Snack (8 PM): Lemon Pudding

If I get up really early (5 or 6 AM), I'll eat 2 egg whites when I wake up, and save my breakfast until 9 AM. Just keeps me on track and I find I really need to stick to my schedule or I get cranky and tempted.

Here is my daily schedule:
6/6:30am breakfast warm chocolate drink
9:30/10am lunch 2 cups veggies and 1 ip packet (typically 2 c cauliflower mashed mixed with chicken soup or an ip drink and 2c celery)
1:30/2pm snack. Rasberry jello
5/6 pm dinner 5oz beef/chicken or 7oz fish, 2c veggies ( usually spinach salad w cucumber) and have a small lettuce salad while making dinner.
I do switch lunch and snack from time to time depending on how I feel.

thanks everyone, I notice most of you don't have a snack in between meals, do you not find you get hungry during that time? guess I'm use to having 5 meals a day (former Weight Watcher member) because I was always so hungry two hrs after breakfast and two hrs after lunch.

Anyhow today is my first day, I will let you know how it goes and how full I feel on the packets. Right now I'm having warm water with lemon (heard that it's good for constipation on this diet) and don't want to risk getting "tied" up lol

Once in ketosis you really won't be hungry anymore so that's why you will find most of don't snack between meals. Getting into ketosis usually takes about 3 to 4 days to happen.

Here is my schedule:
Breakfast: IP Bar with herbal tea
Lunch: RTD chocolate drink with a salad
Dinner: 8oz. protein (usually chicken) and a steamed vegetable
Snack: vanilla or chocolate pudding

Get past the first few days and you will love this diet. Best of luck to you.

thanks Dana, your stats are amazing by the way, you're doing really well on this diet.
I had my first chocolate shake this a.m. and I thought the taste was better than I had expected. Anxious to get over the next 3-4 days!!

Thank you so much. I do love this diet especially since I thought I would have a hard time loosing.

I find the food overall to be pretty good, and of course you will learn really quickly what you like and what you don't like. Of course I keep it all in perspective knowing this is diet food, but still it's not that bad. Hope your first day is going okay. Just drink lots of water and get those toxins out of you. Hang in there, day 3 or 4 will be here before you know it. :)

I'm starting tomorrow. Love reading the schedules and your incouraging words.

Lots of information floating around this site along with tons of support, jump in at anytime!

My first day was really good, I can't believe it. I enjoyed the shake this morning, the soup for lunch and had my caramel nut bar (it was sooo good), I had a slight headache between 2-4 so I had the bar around 3 and it went away almost immediately. Had stir fry veggies and chicken for supper and it was good, although I did miss the rice, I watched my boyfriend devour basmati rice and was kind of drooling:) lol

Hello everyone, I'm reading through all the vast amount of information on this site. It's AWESOME!!! Thanks! In this thread I have noticed a few of you are eating 8 oz of protein for dinner but phase I shows 7 or 5 oz. Please help me understand. Thanks in advance. Also, are the 2 cups of veggies measured before or after steaming or cooking? Thanks bunches!

Hello,

The new sheet of UP says 8 oz whereas the old one says 5 to 7 oz

The vegetables should be measured before cooking.

I do not use IP products but here is what I do...

Breakfast 9 am: Premier Protein shake and 2 16 ozs glasses of water
Lunch 12:30-100 ish: ProtiDiet soup or Pure Protein bar + 1 cup of veggies (somedays if I am still feeling hungry I will have up to 4 ozs of protein)
Snack 3 ish: 1 cup of veggies (usually cucumber)
Dinner: 8 oz. protein (or 4 ozs depending if I had some at lunch) and 2 cups roasted vegetables
Snack 8:30 pm: pudding, hot cocoa drink or oatmeal

Thank you sandralosingweight!! I just received my first on line, Togo, order and it must not be the updated info as it is showing the 5 or 7 oz of protein. Thanks again!!!

My breakfast is usually the cinnamon bar and coffee with Torani syrup--sometimes the omelet
Lunch is the chicken soup
Supper is 8 oz chicken and mashed cauliflower or the big mac bowl using a cup of spinach
I have 3 cups of celery cut up that I snack on through out the day when I get hungry.
My 3rd packet is a snack at night and is usually pudding or puffs -- if i had a bar for breakfast I have pudding as a snack packet, if I had the omelete I will have puffs as my snack packet

I have a rtd shake at 8:30
salad with 2 cups veggies and either soy puffs or chips at 12
premade pudding at 4
8oz protein + 2 cups veggies at 7/8

I'm never hungry after dinner.

During the week-end everything is later so i don't have my snack during the day and have it in the evening, i always make jello (which i freeze and its like sorbet) but i always have such a hard time to eat it cause i'm not hungry

Here is my schedule:
Breakfast - a shake (chocolate and cappacino are my favorites)

Lunch - large salad with 2 cups of veggies cut up on them. WF dressing or Braggs Liquid Aminos (soy sauce substitute) with some olive oil, salt, pepper and cilantro. Sometimes i will also have a IP soup or chili on my salad.

Snack - If i did not eat soup for lunch then i have my "lunch IP" as my snack. Usually something chocolate, puffs, bar etc. Watching my restricteds.

Dinner - 5-8 ounces of chicken, pork or fish, 2 cups steamed or roasted vegetables.

After dinner snack - pudding, bar or soy puffs. again watching my restriced.

The hunger pangs are much better once you get passed the first week. Hunger to me is more emotional, social (wanting to overeat when at a social event) or smells. If i smell certain foods, i get hungry right away. But i am learning to resist because I am truly not hungry - things are just stimulating my other senses.

Good luck.

Good idea getting a different perspective on what everyone is having.
Mine is totally screwed up compared to everyone else, so I don't even want to post it lol.
Just because it works for me doesn't mean it will work for everyone else and I wouldn't want people to confuse themselves or try what I am doing in case it backfires.

I am strictly IP with the additions I have been advised to do by my coach, but overall it is so different compared to the sheets.

Hi everyone

I normally have:

Breakfast: Choc drink mix made with cold coffee and a smidge of peppermint extract - made with the bullet

Lunch: tomatoe basil soup with dehydrated onion mixed in - again made in the bullet (love love the bullet). 2 cups of veggies - usually cuc and celery mixed with WF dressing

Dinner: some sort of protein with 2 c veggies

snack: ready made choc or van drink

My daily is like this:

Breakfast: 1 coffee with a chocolate drink packet
Lunch: salad with cumbers, onions, mushrooms and a drink packet or soup
Dinner: grilled chicken and 2 cup veggies
Snack: pudding or drink

I can't eat the same thing every day. Well, I guess, I do, because I drink the same shakes every day but I use different vegetables and different prep methods every day, and try to alternate my dinner meat as much as possible. I'm an alternatives-only gal (because of cost), so my day looks like this:

Breakfast (8 am): EAS AdvantEDGE Carb Control Shake (strawberry), hot herbal tea, try to finish my first 20 oz of water by 10 am. I try to have my next 20 down by lunch.

Lunch (1 pm): EAS shake (chocolate), 2 cups approved veggies, and romaine lettuce, start my next 20 oz water.

Snack (4 pm): Hot herbal tea, 20 oz water

Dinner (6 pm): 8 oz meat, 2 cups approved veggies, and romaine lettuce. Start my last 20 oz of water

Snack (10 pm): EAS shake (vanilla), hot herbal tea

The water really helps me with hunger, but sometimes I will go grab a dill pickle spear if I'm desperate for a snack.

I noticed that you are only having shakes, are your losses consistent and steady. When my mom did the alternatives she would have a pure protein bar for lunch, to get her protein in. Just a suggestion to have a bar if you are getting hungry instead of a shake for lunch :)

Thanks Wuv! I'll definitely keep that in mind. My mom is on IP (officially) and she only uses their shakes. She decided early on that she didn't like the other stuff. I was following her example and it seems to be working so far, but if my loss slows down, I'll try mixing it up a bit with a bar or something.

I believe I have been sabotaging myself with celery! I looked at the nutritional value on my celery today and was shocked to find it has 2 net carbs per every two stalk serving. I eat 3 cups of celery a day and I would guess that it takes 2 - 3 stalks per cup so I have been adding 6 carbs at a minimum but probably closer to 9! I never once thought to check carbs in celery. :dz::shrug:

Honestly, I wouldn't worry about it. Its part of your 4 cups of veggies so you are fine. I mostly eat cabbage and cucumbers, I have no clue as to the carb counts but its an allowed veggie so I don't worry about it.

I am one of the boring people who eats the exact same thing every day. For me the routine is easy with two toddlers running around and I enjoy knowing exactly what's coming next. Plus I have a wonderful (skinny as a rail) husband who doesn't mind eating sandwiches or pancakes for dinner on nights when I don't have something elaborate planned, so that I can stick with my IP dinner.

I also recently switched to alternative products from the actual IP products, but I found products almost identical to the IP ones that I had been using.

Breakfast (Between 6 and 7): Cappuccino drink (from Proti Thin) mixed with 1 cup coffee.

Lunch: Restricted (usually chocolate puffs or a bar of some kind), 2 cups peppers or cucumbers with salt

Mid Afternoon: I usually drink some hot tea, or chew gum while I'm fixing food for the family so I don't forget and taste their food as I'm cooking

Dinner: 2 Tilapia fillets (6-8oz depending on the size) and roasted cauliflower all cooked with salt, EVOO, and some kind of spice blend (check your spices carefully though, some have no no ingredients in them)

Snack: Cherry Gelatin from Pure Protein. Not quite as good as the IP Raspberry Jelly but it will get me through. This is my snack while hubby and I are playing a game or watching TV because he is an endless snacker and I missed that at night.

Hope this helps!!

I agree with Wuv, as long as it's on the approved list I don't worry to much about it. I figure that the people who started IP did enough research and worrying for me. Plus I'm sure that with all the fiber in celery there aren't a whole lot of net carbs left.

I've been doing this:
B: eas shake.
S: 1 cup veggie.
L: bar & 1 cup veggie.
S: 1 cup veggie.
D: 8oz protein.
S: shake & 1 cup veggie.

I must say that as a newb, it has helped me to try a new packet with my breakfast/lunch. There are also a ton of recipes on here to try too. Just make sure you don't cook any onions, weigh your meat when it is raw, eat your salads, and always have one restricted per day. Some people are good with routines, but I like variety. I'm trying everything I know I'll like, and making notes of what is good, okay, and gross. Plus, having something new to look forward to can help with resisting cheating. Which reminds me...whatever you do, do not cheat! It won't be worth it in the end.

At our clinic we are advised not to use the jello as a packet as it does not have absorbable protein in it...it is a "freebie"...what are others told?

Also, I almost never have the restricted items... I did ip last year and lost 25 pounds pretty easily...are others being instructed that they must have restricted items?

This is what I had today:

B: coffee, vanilla pudding (made into shake)
L: salad, dressing (with 1/2 tsp oil), 2 cups veggies, choc pudding (shake)
D: 8oz chicken, roasted zucchini with 1 1/2 tsp oil
S: bar or puffs

Yes the current research is showing that people who have the restricted each day have better results and stick with the program longer. There was a video on line somewhere that I saw several months ago and it was a nutritionist with IP and that's what he said.

I would switch my breakfast and snack, so that you have all day to burn your calories and protein from your bar/puffs all day. If you get hungry between B and L this would also help you out.

jello
 

I noticed that some people on this forum eat the jello. I tried to buy it at the clinic this week and was told they are sending it back because it contains aspartame which we are not allowed to have. Has anyone else been told this? Is there an alternative at the store that has Splenda? When I went to Walmart today all of them just had aspartame.

I think the jello would really be a good treat. Let me know if you have any other info on this. Thanks!
Tammy

3 cups, 303 g or a little over 2 large stalks of celery, has 9 carbs, 4.8 g fiber, and 5.5 g sugar. It's the latter that makes me reluctant to eat a lot. It also has 10% of the daily requirement of calcium and Ma, 17% K, and 19% sodium.

Not everyone is inclined to track what they eat (or has to :)) but if you want to check a food here's a really easy tool: Cronometer.com -- use the free version, of course.

I too have never had restricted item (13 weeks on program with 57lbs loss). Works for me and advised by coach that that was way to go with program in order to achieve greater losses.

Never heard jello is "freebie" but if is I would love to know that and treat it so.

I have a box for the IP Raspberry Jelly Mix and here are the ingredients:
Hydrolyzed collagen, beet powder color, citric acid, natural and artificial flavor, sucralose, tricalcium phosphate.

I don't see any aspartame in there at all. What was your clinic using? Some off-brand of jello? I know the jello in the stores has aspartame in it but the IP Jelly does not seem to contain any.

There is no difference in your losses I can promise you if you eat a restricted or not....I did that experiment for myself, I went 2 weeks without and 2 weeks with and my losses were almost EXACTLY the same. In fact I loss a little more the weeks I had the restricted. The program was designed to HAVE that restricted bar, it gives you the calories and protein you need in your daily intake to make it work properly!