I'm just curious what everyone eats in a day here and what sorts of plans we're using. Maybe we can each get some ideas by looking at other peoples' stuff. A typical day for me (no particular diet plan, just portion control and lots of veggies) looks something like:

Breakfast: bran flakes with milk
Lunch: Triscuits with some cheddar or cottage cheese and some veggies
Snack: string cheese and a piece of fruit, or Greek yogurt and some fruit
Dinner: omelette with lots of veggies and a bit of cheese, or some kind of meat with small baked potato and lots of veggies
Dessert: lemon popsicle or a small piece of dark chocolate

What sort of plan are you using and what does a typical day look like for you?

i alternate pretty often but heres what it looks like

coffee +splenda + nf milk
oatmeal

snack: peice of fruit/ or a yogurt with fruit/ or some veg. coffee +splenda + 2% milk

lunch: salad with some protein, LF dressing

snack: crackers and a very lf cheese and a peice of fruit. coffee +splenda+2% milk

dinner: protein and grilled veg/ VERY lean protein with some veg and a bit of pasta

snack: tea + peice of fruit (or crackers if i haven't had crackers yet).


other snacks i rotate in: 100 cal packs of anything, 2 hard boiled eggs, 99% chocolate , or heck, any chocolate.

I'm not 20 something but here's my plan from yesterday:

Breakfast (452cals): 1/4 cup 1% Milk, 1 boiled egg, 1/2 cup fat free cottage cheese with 1/4 cup of Kashi Lean Crunch Cereal and 1/2 cup of sliced fresh strawberries, 1 slice of Healthy Living Whole Grain Probiotic Bread, 1 tsp of Becel ligh margarine, 1 cup of tea.

I eat a big breakfast cause I'm usually STARTVING and lasts me quite a long time

Lunch (440cals): 2 tbsp of Kraft Balsamic Vinaigrette, 1 cup of sliced mushrooms, 2.5 cups of Mixed leaf salad, 1/4 cup of shredded cheese, 1 can of Tomato and onion tuna, 30 pistacio nuts.

Dinner (514 cals) : 1/2 cup of carrots, 1/2 cup of Basmati Rice, 2 small chicken legs

Snack (114 cals): 1 medium stalk of celery with 1tbsp of peanut butter, cup of tea with 1% milk.

Total Calories: 1520 calories.

I usually go anywhere between 1500-1700 depending on my hunger that day and what workout I'm doing.

I like this question!

Breakfast: 2 eggs over easy and all of my vitamins hehe.
Lunch: my chili that I make a vat of every other Sunday or so. Or ground beef with taco seasonings and a little bit of cheese.
Dinner: A meat and a veggie. Some favorites are beef and broccoli stir fry, chicken marinated in some sort of dressing, spaghetti squash, mashed cauliflower.

If I want a snack I'll eat a strip or two of bacon or have a tablespoon of natural peanut butter. I don't snack often. The only time I want one is after dinner and I generally just go back for a small helping of seconds if I want more to eat.

Dinner is changed up every night. Last night was a thai beef skillet. I drink at least 3 liters of water a day along with 2 cups of plain black tea. I take a women's multi vitamin, a B-complex vitamin, and acidophilus.

Yesterday's meal consists of:
No more than 1500 calories.

6:00am 1/2 cup of cottage cheese & a coffee
9:00am 3 large boiled eggs and 2 mandirines
12:00 Tuna with mayo stuffed in 1/2 pocket pita
other half of the pita with humas
17:00 Wong chicken with a salad and dressing
Snack - Snapped peas.

My job starts at 6:00am so I need a snack to hold me over until my breakfast break at 9:00. My snack will pretty much be the same until I get sick of cottage cheese. Most of the time I have Cereal with 1% milk but sometimes I just get sick of it. Like today it'll be Cheerios with actually 1/4 cup of chocolate milk because my other milk expired and it's too damn cold to run to the store and buy some regular milk lastnight. lol.

My lunch today is Pasta with 1/4 cup of Alfredo sauce, I need some carbs for my workout after the gym.

Dinner is roughly the same with Chicken breast and salad

and another snack will be 1/2 pita with humas.

Yesterday was okay with calories, but not exactly a typical day.

Breakfast: Bagel thin with dijon mustard, spinach, 1oz turkey, 2% cheese and 10oz coffee
Snack: 145g blueberries, water
Lunch: 1 cup roasted broccoli soup
Snack: 1 cup baby carrots with 1.5oz hummus, water
Dinner: 1/2 cup rice, approx 3oz steamed chicken, approx 1 cup steamed broccoli, a drizzle of brown sauce (leftover Chinese takeout), 2 glasses of champagne
Snack: 56g jalapeno pretzels (not exactly the snack of the century, but it kind of fit into my calories and I wanted it, lol), water

Today is a little more indicative of my days:
Breakfast: Bagel thin with dijon mustard, spinach, 1oz turkey, 2% cheese, spinach and 10oz coffee
Snack: 1 med orange, water
Lunch: 1 cup curry lentil soup
Snack: 1 cup baby carrots with 1.5oz hummus, water
Dinner: 1.5 cups turkey meatball/tortellini soup with spinach
Snack: Individual bag of popcorn, water

Munchy, I do almost the exact same breakfast!

This is an awesome idea! I've seen a ton of great ideas to integrate into my diet. I feel like I'm always eating on the go between full-time work and full-time class load, but this is a typical day for me...

Breakfast - coffee w/ Splenda and skim, WW bagel with laughing cow cheese triangle spread stuff w/ turkey and either lettuce or spinach (whatever I have on hand)

Lunch - Salad or wrap with sun dried tomato tuna and lots of veggies, string cheese, sugar free pudding or jello, water

Dinner - Veggie stir fry with low sodium stir fry sauce and brown rice, or a medium baked potato with veggies and very light ranch dressing, or some fish and steamed veggies

Snacks - usually one or two of these a day, 100 cal packs, handful of almonds, water with sugar free flavor packet, mini-Babybel cheese wedges, 14 cal sugar-free Philly Swirl brand ice creac bars (seriously amazing), various fruits or veggies

mmm that sounds really good! I think I might make that for breakfast one day! or for a week!

Here is today's menu:

Breakfast: Omelette (1 egg, 4 egg whites, .5oz reduced fat cheddar) and pancakes (Homemade mixture) makes three decent-sized pancakes. This was 473 calories. I had reduced-sugar ketchup with my eggs and sugar-free syrup with my pancakes. This is my go-to breakfast atleast twice a week.

Lunch: Pizza with Trader Joe's pizza dough (2 servings of dough), 1.5oz reduced fat mozzarella, onion, green pepper, and mushroom with pizza sauce. This will be around 450 calories. I might add a side salad along with it for another 50.

Dinner: Tonight we are having turkey burgers and sweet potato fries. This will be around 500 calories.

I don't like snacking - I like having big, filling meals instead. On the off-chance I do get hungry for a snack, I will have cottage cheese, some chips and salsa, or frozen raspberries with Splenda on top.

My goal is to keep my calories between 1400 and 1500.

Breakfast: 1-2 eggs+mushrooms+onion+1sp olive oil on toast with cheese+coffee

Snack: Fruit (sometimes with cottage cheese)

Lunch: 1/4 cup rice+1/2 black beans+salad+1 serving meat (ususally beef)+fruit or 100 cal or less dessert (I eat at a university cafeteria so no much variation on weekdays!)

Snack: Pao de Queijo (it's Brazilian cheese bread)+fruit+coffee

Dinner: something homemade that always consists of veggies+meat+carb (so for instance, last night I made "fajitas" that had steak with green peppers and onions on top of a salad of a few crumbled chips, avocado, black beans, and tomatoes.

Dessert: 50-100 calorie dessert, varies (some days, basically only days we go to the grocery story because these things CANNOT be left in the house... we only buy one portion for both DH and myself at a time). Unlimited fruit

Also... if dinner or lunch were smaller than usual (like if we have soup or or something) I might make a quick sandwhich of 1 piece whole wheat toast+2 slices of delli meat+cheese (it's somewhere between 150-200 calories)

Breakfast: Special K cereal with soy milk or scrambled egg whites with broccoli and cheese
Snack: Either a yogurt, nutrigrain bar, or some nuts.
Lunch: Smoothie consisting of fruits, veggies, and greek yogurt.
Dinner: Any kind of meat/fish with veggies or whole grain pasta with veggies.
Dessert: sugar free jello or a 100 cal skinny cow pop. I now normally don't have dessert though. Only when craving. I would also go get some fat free/sugar free frozen yogurt if I'm hanging out with my friends.

Definately need tips on different foods

Right now my day looks like this

Breakfast: 1 Thomas English muffin light (whole grain) 1 tablespoon of strawberry jelly 2 cups of coffee with fat free french vanilla creamer
( I rotate between items like this and protein shakes with fat burner additives)

Lunch: 1 Can of Campbells Chicken and vegatables Light ( whole can 160 calories) 10 Zesta Whole grain crackers

Snack1 and 2: Fiber one Brownie / celery and other fresh veggies with A vitiam Water

Dinner: Tyson Grilled chicken breast with steamed brocolli and whole wheat rice

I drink at least 3-4 bottles of water a day

I just started doing a calorie counter and it is telling me I need to eat more food though. FRom what I have listed above I am running about 1200 calories a day

Here's yesterday which was a non exercise day

Brunch:whole wheat wrap with vegan garden burger, fat free nayonaise, 2 slices veggie cheese, 1/2 an avocado and lettuce and a cup of low sodium miso soup.

Snack: grande iced americano with light soy and splenda

Dinner: vegan boca pattie. 2 slices veggie cheese, 2 corn thins, avocado and cup of homemade lentil soup

Snack: whole wheat flakes with low fat soymilk and 4oz fresh orange juice

100+ oz of water also

Comes to near 1200 cal.

It's been my breakfast for the past week and a half. I never buy deli lunchmeat, but I have a co-worker who has asked me to help her lose weight by packing a lunch and snack daily for her for pay, and I thought it would be a great option for her wraps and sandwiches.

Now I'm loving it! I put it in the microwave for 20 seconds so the cheese melts just a little and the entire thing is warm.

Breakfast: Oatmeal with a teaspoon of crunchy peanut butter
Lunch: Big happy bowl of soup (we made a huge batch of Turkey Chili Taco Soup)
Dinner: Smart-Ones or Lean Cuisine
Dessert/Sweets: Weight Watchers popsicles or a cake pop recipe I found
Snack: banana, apple, or strawberries