I want to preplan everything i eat for a week so i dont over eat anything. Im going to take into factor everything i have to do that day etc... Has anyone has good results preplaning what they eat on a daily/weekly/ or even monthly basis?

I plan to buy a book today and keep it in my bag to pull it out everytime im wondering what to eat.

YES YES YES YES.

Pre-planning definitely works for me. I plan on a weekly basis. Every Sunday, I menu plan for the entire week - all meals/snacks. I look up recipes, make a grocery list and go to the grocery store on Sundays. Because produce goes bad so quickly, I go to the grocer store twice during the week - Sundays (for Mon-Fri lunch) and Friday (Friday dinner - Sunday).

I was just wondering about your goal weight - isn't 5'10" 125 very very thin? I am pretty small at 5'7 130 lbs.

Height: 5 feet, 10 inches
Weight: 125 pounds

Your BMI is 17.9, indicating your weight is in the underweight category for adults of your height.

wow thank you and looking at how much weight you loss, it looks like that works. DO you track the calories to or do you find that unnecessary?

I used a combination of whole foods + calorie counting to lose and maintain my weight loss. I ate around 1400-1600 calories while I was losing and now maintain on 1800-2000 calories a day. While I was losing weight, I used Fitday to calculate calories very carefully, now that I'm maintaining I no longer use Fitday, but I still estimate calories every day in my head and plan to for the rest of my life.

I would feel more comfortable writing it for some reason! weird right? im so computer savy so i find that weird of myself but i think i have control more if i can carry a small book around and look at it

Yeah I have what I'm going to eat for pretty much the next year planned, since I'm going to school and I'll be too busy to actually think about what to eat. This way I won't have to think about it I'll just cook it up and eat and get back to whatever I was doing. I'm actually planning right now because I have to go to work and if I don't bring anything with me I end up with a tummy full of biscottis, cookies, chocolate pretzels and nuts. It is horrible! And I'm going out to dinner tonight with my family so I planned to eat a light breakfast and lunch so I won't have to restrict myself AS much when I go out. But yeah, I'm actually 125 right now and I'm 4 inches shorter then you so you might want to reconsider your goal weight if you want to give your body enough nutrients.

Absolutely - planning is the key to successfully staying on plan

It was because I didn't plan that I reached my all time high of 206, I now plan every bite, takes me about 5 minutes to plan my menus for the following day, although I usually plan 3 or 4 days at a time, I usually stay with my plan , but can change it if necessary as long as I stay within my calorie range.
I wondered about your goal weight, too. healthy weight for 5'10" ranges between 138 and 173, you are going to be underweight at 125.

thanks for all the tips guys. dont worry, ive been 125 before and i dont look that much like a stick. just very slim. i can still be healthy at that weight. plus im a teen so that helps

yeah i think thats why im gaining too. i have no idea what i want to eat soi eat everything. you've loss A LOT so i believe that its a good system

wow the whole year?! thats great

Pre-planning does not work for me, but I have found that instead of going through a drive thru for any meal (diet soda ok), that parking at the grocery and running into the produce section to buy a few apples and a banana does the quick trick everytime! throw in a superfood drink... no hunger for hours! Good luck!

Oh yeah, it's worked for me. I could never, ever have lost my weight without planning. And now that I am in the maintenance stage - planning is just as critical. It is the absolute KEY for me. I NEED to know that I have yummy food just ahead of me and always at my fingertips. My meals are all mapped out ahead of time, as are my snacks. If one has a good plan - all planned out, well then there's no reason to go OFF plan.

I can't stress enough just how vital this is for me.

I also plan, but I don't have every meal mapped out for a week. Our schedule just changes too much.

Instead, I make sure I have plenty of healthy fruits and veg for the week (and I package them up into servings so I can grab and go during the week). I usually make one big "batch meal" on the weekend -- like chili -- and package it into individual servings for the week. If by chance it looks like we won't eat all of it, we can freeze some. We also usually try to make sure we cook up some kind of lean protein -- usually chicken or pork loin -- which we can have for meals or 'grab and go'. From this mishmosh of foods, I can eat healthy each day and keep the flexibility I like.

I'm like Heather - I preplan my meals and snacks, but not a whole week at a time. My schedule can and does change at the drop of a hat, so I need to be flexible.

When I'm at the supermarket, I'll have an idea of what meals I want and buy the ingredients to prepare them - it's definitely not a case of "if it's Monday, it must be stirfry" kind of thing, but just so I've got an idea of what I'm going to eat for the week. Each evening, I'll sit down and plan my meals/snacks for the next day and try and stick with that. I never plan more than a day at a time in that kind of detail, but as I said I have a rough idea of what I'm going to eat during the week when I'm writing my grocery list...

With me, it's not so much that I plan, but that I tend to get stuck in very comfortable ruts... which is okay by me, because I'm happy and the weight keeps coming off.

I tend to eat around the same thing everyday, but I can't plan because if I want a sandwich for lunch and not soup, I don't want to eat the soup just because that's what I had planned... ya know? So I have a basic set of meals that I keep around and pick and choose what I want.

For example, I might say that I allow myself either a sandwich, soup, or lean cuisine for an entree, and then I can have a piece of fruit or a nonfat yogurt with it, etc.