Planning for Tuesday

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  • I did well for my first day home all day--I actually didn't eat the oatmeal or yogurt I had planned for, but I did have a few licks of a fruit dip I was making to bring as a goodie to my old co-workers (cream cheese, marshmallow fluff, and crushed pineapple--a delicious way to make the fruit not so healthy ). I also had 2 liters of water, which is less than I would have had in the office, but more than I normally have when I'm home all day, so not bad overall. Moving on to tomorrow's plan:
    • smoothie (banana, pb, skim milk)
    • oatmeal
    • salad--Monday I did a chef's salad (lettuce, spinach, egg, beans, ham, croutons, avocado, cucumber, and ff thousand island), so maybe for Tuesday I'll do an Asian flare salad (spinach, shredded cabbage, beans, leftover stir-fry served cold, light sesame ginger dressing)
    • yogurt
    • ham steak w/pineapple and a rice or pasta side
  • That sounds good. I would kill for a smoothie right now. might have to go get one. lol. your menu sounds good to me! Good Luck!
  • B - oatmeal, dried blueberries

    S - horizons organic fat free plain yogurt, 6 oz raspberries

    L - big salad - spinach leaves, grape tomatoes, orange pepper strips, baby carrots, 1/4 cup dried cranberry, grilled chicken, dressing on the side

    S - 1.5 cups fresh cherries

    S - tall non fat sugar free latte

    S - cut up veggies (baby carrots, grape tomatoes, sugar snap peas, orange pepper strips)

    D - stir fry - bok choy, butternut squash, shitake mushrooms, carrots, yellow pepper strips, garlic, ginger, onion, tofu, stir fry sauce, cashews served over brown rice
  • Hmm, let me think.
    B-oatmeal
    S-plum (have to take ds to doctor)
    L-rosemary&parsley fritatta, salad
    S-popcorn
    D-have to go to other ds's Boy Scout court of honor so...hopefully veggie tray will be there? I'm going to take nuts and fruit in my purse
    S-depends on dinner
  • I haven't figured any of the calories or points, but this is the plan:

    b--couscous w/ splenda and dried cranberries
    l--homemade chef salad, lite vidalia onion dressing
    s--2 wasa crackers, 1 wedge laughing cow
    d--vegetable and chicken couscous
    s--sf jello

    I bought the Superfoods Rx book yesterday. I'm going to work on adding these foods into my diet. I have a lot of leftover processed diet foods that I can't just throw away. So, I'll add some in and use up the frozen dinners I have.
  • Hey guys!

    B - 1.5 cups skim milk + 3/4 Frosted Flakes
    1 banana if I'm still hungry

    S - Nature Valley Oats n' Honey granola bars (2/pack)

    L - 1/4 cup brown rice + roasted veggies
    1 8 oz Dannon nonfat plain yogurt

    D - salad wraps (2-3)

    Exercise - Le gym for 1 hour. Didn't go today (monday) because I was upset about work. Bah.
  • I love these kinds of posts, maybe cuz I love talking about food- I truly feel obsessed sometimes, but lately it's been an obsession on healthy foods. Everyones menus sound so good, I haven't really thought of mine yet, but here goes:

    B- english muffin w/ 1T PB
    s- small nectarine
    gym- 1 hour cardio
    L- big salad with grilled chicken leftovers, tomatoes, cukes, little bleu cheese and some pine nuts- light rasp vinaigrette
    no snack, gonna take a nap instead been working late at night so I need a nap.
    D- Homemade Cord on Bleus- baked chicken with one slice ham and fat free swiss. steamed spinach on the side.

    Have to work tomorrow night too, the hardest part is trying not to eat when I get home at 3:00 am. Just GO TO BED!
  • Tomorrow I'm trying a new salad for lunch! I get ridiculously excited about these things, I've been looking forward to it since last week.

    B - Flax Plus cereal, 4 oz soy milk, the last of my blueberries (about 300 calories)
    S - tea with a little soy milk and sugar, maybe some fruit
    L - Chicken salad with apricots, mango (supposed to avocado but they were way overripe so I'm sustituting mango), apricots, and slivered almonds (about 300 calories)
    S - nutrition bar (100 to 200 calories)
    S - fruit, nuts, or popcorn
    D - Chicken in vietnamese sauce, 1/2 ear of corn, green salad (about 400 calories)
    S - low calorie pudding, if I have enough calories left, otherwise sugar-free candy

    Exercise: about an hour of cardio, combo of elliptical and treadmill, maybe also stairs

    - Barbara
  • Tonight's dinner was - hamburger and then I made a side dish that was canned corn and mushrooms with some onion and butter and garlic seasoning and I cooked that all up - it was yummy!

    B- half a peanut butter sandwitch with some honey, banana
    S- coffee with vanilla toffee carmel cream
    L- left over corn/mushroom stuff from last night with some whole wheat pasta mixed in
    S- green grapes
    D- no idea

    6L of water and I might ride my bike - I am thinking about getting a ride in tonight as well but it is already 9.
  • I was just wondering... on a package on pasta if it says X number of calories in 1.25 cup / 85 gram - is that dry or cooked? Cooked takes up more room but weighs less (I would think)
  • I always measure it dry
  • Okay - that's what I did! thanks
  • My yesterday..D-2low fat hot dogs
    s-protien shake
    workout-40 mins core workout
    40 mins walking

    Today
    B-english muffin with peanut butter
    s-pairs
    L-SB chicken wrape, sugar free jello, mix fruit cup.
    s-100cal snack
    D-?

    Workout
    40 mins core<<working on a week of this
    40min walking
  • I overdid it on pizza last night, but didn't do too bad on calories.

    Br: Ham, cream cheese, tomato sandwhich, nectarine, yogurt
    Lu:Leftover Pizza (not the greatest, but that's all there was to bring and I'll stay within my calorie limit), FF chocolate pudding
    Din:Salad (lettuce, chicken, tomatoes, red and green peppers, avocado, italian dressing), mango

    ex: walking 4 miles
  • Quote: I was just wondering... on a package on pasta if it says X number of calories in 1.25 cup / 85 gram - is that dry or cooked? Cooked takes up more room but weighs less (I would think)
    hmm...I don't know about this one specifically. Most pasta boxes say to measure dry, but 1.25 cups dry is a LOT cooked--more than 1 serving, I would think. I would actually think cooked pasta is heavier also because it has absorbed so much water. The past in my cabinet says a servings is 3/4 cup dry (180 calories--and that's a whole-grain pasta).

    Typically, I would assume it means dry--it just sounds like a big serving size to me, so who knows

    Ooh, could you figure it out by the number of servings per container? If it says there are 3 servings per container but certainly not 3.75 cups of dry pasta, then it means cooked (and vice versa).