hi! I was wondering if anyone would be willing to share what their daily menu looks like. I have started counting my cals. today. I am at my highest weight ever and need to lose about 60-70 pounds. I am interested in seeing what everyone is eating. Thanks so much!

Hi there,

I noticed you're from Ohio - howdy neighbor! I'm from Dayton. I'm a newbie too. This is what I'm having today:

Breakfast (241 calories):
Hot oat bran (1/3 cup bran to 1 cup water)
Topped with 1 cup strawberries and 1/2 cup blackberries
1 hard boiled egg

Snack:
Yoplait Light Boston Cream Pie yogurt (110 calories)

Lunch:
Stouffer's Vegetable Lasagna (390 calories)

Snack:
large apple (125 calories)

Dinner (approx 288 calories):
2 cups romaine lettuce w/
3 oz deli turkey, 2 slices tomato, 1 Tbsp Parmesan cheese and 2 Tbsp ranch dressing

Snack:
Chips Ahoy Thin Crisps (100 calories)

Total calories: approx. 1254

Here is a typical day for me. I use alot of websites to help me plan my dinners. I'm part of ediets and I use all recipes.com for alot of meals.

here are a couple of each:

B: 1) 2 egg whites 1 whole egg scrambled with canadian bacon, OJ
2) 1 cup whole grain cherrios, with 1 cup fat free milk, 1/2 cup of melon
3) (if on the run) 1 can of slimfast with an apple or banana

L: 1) 1 3oz can of tuna on 2 slices ww bread, with 1tbsp of fat free ranch dressing, sliced cumcumber and tomatoe (sometimes I wrap this in a ww tortilla) a piece of fruit

2) large salad with chicken breast or deli meat, lots of veggies and 2 tbsp of Kraft light done right dressing, a piece of fruit

D: there are so many options here.....grilled chicken, fish, lean pork, beef, veggies, rice or potato.....the internet has so many reciepes for low fat meals,

Snacks: string cheese, apple with little PB, deli turkey with a couple of ww crackers, yogurt, thin crisps

Here's what I'm eating/have eaten today:

Breakfast:
1 cup honeydew melon
8 oz nonfat light fruit-flavored yogurt
.5 cup frosted mini-wheat cereal

Mid-morning snack:
.125 cup pepitas (pumpkin/squash seeds)
1 nectarine

Lunch
3 oz deli turkey
2 whole-wheat fig newton-like cookies

Afternoon snack:
1 piece Wasa light rye crispbread
1 small can tuna, packed in water
10 baby carrots

After work:
1 16 oz nonfat latte

Dinner:
1 piece multigrain bread
1.5 cup lentil soup
1 tomato (diced, stirred into soup)
.3 cup lowfat yogurt (stirred into soup)
1 cup honeydew melon

Total: 1390 calories! I should eat about 50 more, but I haven't figured out what, yet. Maybe I'll get a larger latte.

I'll try ...
I've never been much of a breakfast person so that was the hardest thing for me to learn. I still don't always have my shake first thing. Sometimes I've been up for a little while first.
Shake- fruit, protein powder, crushed flax seed and water

about 9:30 or 10:00- fat free yogurt and some crunchy vegetables

Lunch- tuna, salad, Ilene's pancake, more yogurt, more crunchy vegetables

Midafternoon- some nibbles of fruit or vegetables, maybe some no fat cottage cheese

Supper- chicken breast, whatever vegetables I'm making for my family

Later- 1/2 cup allbran or specialK or rice krispies with either no fat soy milk or more yogurt

I also take a miltivitamin and a calcium/magnesium tab.

Depending on the protein for supper that comes to about 1250 or 1300 calories most days.
The recipe for Ilene's pancake should be in the recipe section. If not, just ask.