b: shredded wheat, banana, milk
l: last of the leftover smothered chicken & barley, milk
s: pear
d: it's scrounge/leftovers night. Who knows!

Angela

Breakfast: Oatmeal made with skim and 1/2 cup homemade applesauce

Lunch: Eggbeater omelet with FF american cheese and ketchup

Snack: Chocolate cherry smoothie

Dinner: Mixed field greens salad, Core Lasagna, and fresh green beans

Snack: White Chocolate SF/FF Pudding

Here's the plan, hopefully I'll stick with it. Was down 2 more pounds this morning which is odd considering the steroids.

B: egg, 1 pc. of breakfast sausage
Sn: SF jello and FF Cool Whip
L: salad, 2 oz. grilled chicken
Sn: rotel dip and celery
D: pork chop, WW spaghetti with tomatoes and broccoli

I need a plan!

Breakfast: 1/2 c. ff cottage cheese mixed with SIL"s homemade applesauce
decaf w/light cream

Snack: 1 apple (had to go downstairs to buy an apple and banana as I FORGOT to bring fruit with me today!!)

Lunch: roast chicken, roasted potatoes, brocolli

Snack: 1 banana, 1 sf/ff blueberry yogurt

Dinner - now's here's a problem waiting to happen - nothing planned - there is probably more chicken left over but enuf is enuf! Maybe some matza ball soup if there's any left???

Frouf

I am just too ashamed to even post what I ate today. Let's just say it was completely non-Core and very bad....the sugar monster has now come after me! Help!!
How do you all eat so little??

I don't know about the rest of us, but I've kind of worked down to eating smaller amounts. In the beginning, I'd have 3 meals and 3 snacks. As I got smaller, my appetite (and stomach) did too, and now I only usually have 3 meals and an afternoon snack.

I guess that my body is smaller and more efficient now, so it needs less fuel? Don't worry so much about amounts and comparing though, because we're all different, especially our metabolisms. Just listen to your body - if you're hungry, eat. When you're full, stop.

And, I have to say, pre-TOM, all bets are off. I'm a raging eating beast!!

Angela

Angela, thanks for the info.
I think that a lot of my problem is just letting go of food's ability to control my day and schedule. But I guess that's a problem for most people starting to lose weight. I give too much power to food. Crazy, who would have ever thought it? Sometimes I think that it would have been easier to live way back when, when you ate what you had and there were no choices.

I sometimes wish I just didn't have to eat period! It would be so much easier...like an alcoholic giving up drinking - at least he or she does not have to learn to drink a little bit a few times a day - and decide what to drink - hopefullly there can be recovery w/no alcohol consumption.

With eating it is not as simple - you can't just give it up. I sometimes wish there was a pill or needle or something that we could just swallow to give us the nutrition we required without having to struggle with food choice, addictions, cravings, binges and bad decisions!

Okay rant over!

Frouf

I second that Frouf!!

Sometimes when I would feel like I dwelled on food too much, I would sit down and make a menu and eat the exact same thing every day. It took the pressure off, and the "what should I have" factor went away. I found that I would spend a lot of time trying to decide about breakfast, then between breakfast and lunch, all I thought about was what I wanted for lunch, then all afternoon tried to decide about dinner, etc. It seemed like I thought about food 100% of the time, which made me hungry all the time!

I did Optifast for 7 months back in the 80's after Oprah did it. I didn't eat a single morsel of food for all that time. It in some ways was easier than what we are doing now because I just didn't eat. My only decision was what flavor extract to put in my protein shake. I lost 75 pounds but it was the worst thing I have ever done to my metabolism and probably to my body.