Congrats on the job offer, Susanje!
Sounds like we're all doing okay here. Today was my last workout day for this Challenge. Shoulders/abs/calves. I also have my riding lesson coming up later this morning. Woo-hoo!
Chynna, I usually buy the Safeway brand of egg beaters, called "Best of the Egg". You get about three times as much for the same price as the name-brand. I also use whole eggs by the way - you're right they are a lot cheaper! Most of the time they have a buy one get one free on the 18 count large eggs. On Sundays I just boil up a whole carton and take them to work with me. Actually I don't have a yolk phobia so I usually eat two or three whole eggs and count that as a protein portion. If I'm making scrambled eggs or Joe's Special, I'll mix the Egg Beaters and one whole egg together to make about 3/4 cup, but that's just me
Okay, I'm gonna play TJ and critique your menu the best I can!
Meal 1: egg (the whites and whole) with banana bread (a recipe I found on one of the many BFL sites) What ingredients are in the banana bread? Personally I stay away from breads for the most part except on Free Day. If you note in the book, Bill only authorizes whole-grain bread "Reluctantly". If you must have something bread-like two good recipes on L&S are Robb P's Pumpkin Muffins and Steve L's Yummy pancakes.
Meal 2: yogurt and cc (am I right taking a container of yogurt, taking out half and replacing it with cc...which I blend first 'cuz I can't stand the curds!) You need about a cup of cottage cheese to equal a protein portion (try to go for about 20g protein for stuff you can't 'palm' measure). I recommend a yogurt like Dannon Light & Fit or Yoplait Light - use the entire container (I mean the 6-8 oz, not the 32 oz!)
Meal 3: chicken and an apple Good - just add a veggie to it and this would be an awesome meal! How about a couple of carrots or a salad??
Meal 4: shake (EAS)...will be getting Myoplex soon <g> Make sure it's Myoplex Lite...not the regular Myoplex.
Meal 5: chicken and red potato I'd add a veggie here...remember, you should have veggies with at least two of your meals!
Meal 6: banana bread and ???? don't know about that protein I'd rethink the bread - if you MUST have a flour product, keep it down to once a day...and there are so many proteins out there. Fish is great - but I know a lot of people don't care for it. I love ahi tuna filets **YUM** and baby shrimp (a great BFL meal: baby shrimp in a big green salad with some chickpeas and a lemon-based light salad dressing!). How about lean beef? You don't just have to have chicken all the time...check the protein list, there are a lot of choices. One of my other fave BFL meals is Joe's Special. Carbs, protein and veggies all in one! I posted the recipe in the L&S Cooking Library last summer - check it out!
As far as your question as to whether you should wait between your protein and carbs in a meal...I wouldn't...to me a meal means whatever you eat in one sitting...but that's me.
Just as an example - here's a typical menu for me:
#1: Myo Lite with 1 tablespoon Udos added
#2: 2-3 eggs, apple
#3: Green salad with lots of veggies and some chicken or tuna mixed in; fruit (apple, berries, banana)
#4: Cottage cheese w/Equal and a fruit (love blackberries!)
#5: Chicken breast grilled on the Foreman and seasoned with lemon/lime juice and Meat Magic; onions, sliced mushrooms, cooked barley and baby spinach lightly sauteed together in a pan sprayed with Pam and a little chicken broth added
#6: Myo Lite w/1 tablespoon Udos.
Well, gotta jam as I have riding lessons soon. More later!
Congrats on the job offer! 
and the calories . Gee, eat more food (twist my arm) 
. After what I thought was an eye-poppin UBWO, I remembered I was supposed to sub in a tennis match two hours later. I was tired and my serves where kind of wimpy, but I got through the match ( and won!- good partner), came home, stuffed down some more cottage cheese and apple, took the hottest, longest shower that the hot water heater would allow, and was asleep by 9pm.
