On Plan Thread 8/22-8/28
 

Another week of sharing our menus - a great place to get ideas!

Phase II
B. Green Monster - chard, strawberries, etc
L. ww Italian roll filled with tomatoes, onions, black olives and some feta, milk
D. stir-fried peppers, onions, beef over ww noodles, a nectarine

Phase 1.5
B:flax pancake with chard, veggie ham, salsa & rf cheese
L: kale salad, salmon (bought some single serving portions that are great for salad topping)
S: 100 calorie almonds
D: spiral zucchini with pesto, fresh edamame

exercise: hoop, weights

Phase II -

B. Strawberry/blueberry green monster
L. Edamame, cherry tomato, and avocado salad, orzo salad
S. Greek yogurt w/chia
D. vegetarian taco bake over romaine salad
S. SBD peanut butter cup dessert

Morning!

1: smoothie (coconut water, frozen berries, spinach, kale, lemon, ginger)
2: weekend glow salad with spinach instead of kale
3: almond milk yogurt
4: summer veggie soup over spinach

exercise: 2 miles on the treadmill, 60 min. zumba (teaching), 60 min. step class (teaching)

It's going to be a hard week. Kitchen is pretty much packed away!

B: Peach Green Smoothie (actually didn't like it at all - no more peach and spinach!)
S: peppers and hummus
L: kashi pizza

I ate the whole thing. So I didn't eat dinner and wasn't hungry to. Darn packing!

Good Morning!

E: C25KW4D1
V: 2 Alive!

B: Green monster(Kale, pineapple, peach, water)
S: grapefruit
L: Chili over arugula salad, roasted Corn cut off the cob
S: dry roasted wasabi edamame
D: carrots and celery sticks with ff hummus

Off with the kids last week, need to get back on schedule! Few days of Ph1 - 1.5 here
Scale is being nice, up a tad, but hoping that resolves quickly with being back on plan

B: Coffee with lt Cream & Splenda, 1.5 egg, asparagus, LC cheese casserole, 2 Morning star sausages
S: Green Monster - Spinach, almond milk, chia, flax, banana (not ph1)
BabyBel cheese round
L: Beef hot dog (no bun), three bean salad, carrots w/hummus, Jell-o
S: Iced Coffee w/SF caramel syrup - Turkey Pepperoni and lf cheese slice
D: Grilled Chicken Cesear Salad with tomatoes, parm curls, Cesear dressing
jell-o, grilled peach (not phase 1)

Lots of water!!

I'm just marking a spot....trying to get ideas. This is my last few days on Phase 1.
I find that I'm getting tired of the veggies. But sticking with it no matter what!
Going to check the recipes thread for a decent smoothie idea with all veggies. (Anyone here have one they like?)

hey missfit, as far as a smoothie with all veggies...i haven't tried one that I like, but what about preparing them a different way? there are a lot of us that eat the weekend glow kale salad from the Oh She Glows blog -- it has tons of veggies and is very yummy and filling. It's easy to make ahead too. If you've just been steaming your veggies, try them grilled or roasted.

The Spaghetti Squash and Chard Gratin from Kalyn's Kitchen blog is really, really good too :)

Thanks! I'll look at those. I was thinking of the smoothie idea for a quick breakfast. Mornings are hectic getting kids off to school, so something quick like that would be nice. Thinking about looking at an unflavored protein powder today when I'm out. But I don't want to waste my sugar free calories so early in the day either. I'll keep looking.

Also- I have a question, it may be answered somewhere else, but are lemon and lime juices off limits? I notice they are included in some of the recipes but I keep being afraid to add them to water or anything b/c I'm just not sure.

So far today:
B: 1 hard boiled egg, fat free skim milk, non fat milk with coffee
S:sliced whole tomato with 2 TBSP low fat cottage cheese
L: 1.5 cups black beans with tsp fat free sour cream,1 cup bell pepper slices

p1.5
1: toasted cheese and tomato on ww/flax seed/fiber sandwich thin, iced coffee w splenda and lt cream
2: choco-pb meal shake made w almond milk
3: chicken and chickpea tika masala, kale/tomato/red onion salad
4: yogurt w strawberries and homemade granola

No way! They are totally usable and ON PLAN! Add away!

I have gotten a ton of ideas from just reading these menus. I have been making smoothies with yogurt (usually w/ protein powder if it's regular yogurt, but not with Greek yogurt), something sweet (usually half a banana but for Phase 1 I add sugar free Torani syrup or stevia), something flavorful (berries or peaches usually but often cocoa powder in Phase 1) and something green (spinach, kale, and recently I have been adding my bolted lettuce from my garden - very stiff leaves. Also I have been loving cucumber recently). I haven't had one yet that I didn't like, though the one I had on Friday was a bit weird. Too much of that lettuce made it bitter and I had added chocolate milk (with sugar, boo, but it was all there was), with peaches. Kinda weird, very bitter lettuce-y. Also once I pretty much stuffed the blender full of spinach leaves and that one was a little too much spinach flavor. But in general it is hard to go wrong. (Surprisingly. I was very suspicious of spinach in my chocolate berry smoothie!!)

Today, using up random stuff in the fridge. Let's see what I can piece together.

Phase 2 - lotta fruit but no grains

B - coffee with lf milk. Smoothie with yogurt, 1/2 banana, nectarine, cucumber and lettuce.
L - pizza toppings on giant zucchini rounds, simple kale salad (with a cashew vinaigrette from Appetite for Reduction). Black tea.
S - carrots with spicy hummus, celery with Laughing Cow light, hard boiled egg.
S2 - the first of the pears from our tree, a handful of mixed nuts
D - grilled tuna with green beans, Grilled Zucchini Greek Salad, cauliflower "fried rice".
dessert - sugarfree white chocolate pudding with blackberries :D

I freeze my bananas, usually cut in half or thirds, depending their size. When adding them to smoothies they add great flavor and freezing them makes your smoothie cold and thick!
I also swear by DaVinci SF syrups. You can get them online in sooooo many flavors. The cookie dough one is amazing!