I want to hear what you think of my day yesterday.
B - Kashi vive & fiber one combination w/ soy milk 300 cal.
S - 2 serings of spinach, orange, tea 128 cal.
L - ww tortilla w/ P.B., Kiwi, 2 servings broccoli 357 cal.
S - Cut up orange peppers, carrots, sugar snap peas
w/ yogurt dip Tea 140 cal.
D - was suppose to be salmon, peas, watermelon I was too tired so
I had my same breakfast for dinner 300 cal.
S - Watermelon 48 cal.
Total 1323 cal.

I walked at a fast pace for 20 minutes, raked for 2 hours, drank plenty of water. What do you think? I will do weights today. Please tell me I am on track.

Hi Sharon,

I follow Southbeach, so my suggestions naturally come from the SB mindset. It seems like your plan contains a lot of variety, which is a great way to make sure you're getting a lot of nutrients in your diet. My recommendation would be to add more protein. I try to eat protein with every meal and snack. The scales do respond better for me when I do this. I hope your scales start responding to you also.

I'm a south beacher too... did you have good fats?

I think that your calories might be a bit low... I'm 240 pounds 5'3" age 47 and my BMR alone is over 1700... the way i was taught is

take your BMR 1700 and to lose one pound a week subtract 500 calories that makes 1200 but then you have to add back in for exercise so if you do 700 calories worth of exercise you should be eating 1900 calories per day to lose 1 pound a week...

seems crazy but it's working now for me....

Sharon, were you full and satisfied? Were you hungry at all? That is very important.

As far as the food goes I think you did very nicely, though I will say the salmon would have been a better dinner choice. But I think you are aware of that. Salmon is really easy to prepare and cook, I have it at least once a week and love the fact that it is so simple to prepare.

HI and Thank You. Girlygirl I did have protein with every meal just not meat protein. Soy milk, vive, fiber one, spinach, tortilla, peanut butter, broccoli all have protein. Thank you though. I did feel satisfied and I will try this for a couple weeks and see how it goes. Thank you all.