jazztap...thank you so much! Rachel....I don't know how prepared I was but it worked! LOL

This site has already helped me. I didn't realize that you could only have one serving of nuts so I was having the PNB with my celery for one of my daytime snacks, then having a serving of nuts for dessert after dinner. Oops! Oh well, now I know better, thanks to you all :)

So the lunch went well. I had the chicken caesar salad with diet coke. I didn't eat any of the croutons and surprisingly, I didn't really miss them. But here's the problem.....I'm hungry!! This is the first day since I started Monday that I've felt any real hunger. I already had my cheese for snack...I may have to give in and have my beans that I brought to work, but I'm going to wait and see if I'm still hungry in a while.

I blew dinner...I had my menu for dinner, but neglected to take the meat out of the freezer :( Sooo....while I might have been prepared for lunch, I'm not prepared for dinner! Drat.

Hope everyone is having a great OP day :)

Lore- I know you will find something ...if you have a microwave you can quick thaw your meat, I have to do that sometimes...good job on the salad, and I too have been hungry today and it is day 6 for me, so I went and made sf jello and coolwhip for later tonight, oh and turkey pepperonis are a must for me when I am snacky YUM!!!

Oh, good idea on the microwave thaw Christie! I didn't even think about that. Thanks :) I'm currently munching on a dill pickle to curve my craving. If that doesn't work, oh well I'll be going home soon and will just have to get dinner going. Thanks for the suggestion!

Good job Lore!

I don't think I would have ever been able to resist those croutons. I have to order without!

I was just thinking about how peanut butter and nuts both count towards the one serving a day rule. For some reason i was thinking that cheese didn't count towards my dairy intake, and I think I have been eating alot of it. Woops! I'll quit that tomorrow!

Also I have a question. I was looking at the Nutritional Info on my light hot chocolate, and I noticed it has 8g of sugar per serving. When I look at the ingredients though, there is no sugar. It says sweetened with Splenda right on there, so I assumed it was sugar free. Is this stuff phase one friendly?

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:dizzy: hi i started south beach today ive been on adkins but i just couldn't do that long i love cottage chesse so when i saw that on the menu i said ok lets do it im trying to lose about 30 pounds by june we have season passes to a water park and i want to look ok in a bathing suit so here is what ive ate today
b....1cup ff cottage ches
3 slices of ff smoked ham
coffe with sweet n low and ff carnation milk

s..1string ches stick

l..salid....ham,cherry tomatoes,brocli
1tsp moyo with garlic salt
half of a big dill pickle

s...1 string che stick

d...2 peaces if cube steack baked
turnups
devled eggs

s...sf jello with ff whip cream

so how did i do

hey Jazz butting in hope you don't mind- cheese doesn't count towards your dairy. There's no actual limit on cheese but you still don't want to get carried away. You really want to make sure your cheese choices are lower in fat and don't fill up on cheese in place of your 4.5 cups of daily veggies.

As for your cocoa, is there any other type of sugar listed- high fructose corn syrup or any other word ending in -ose? if so, you'd want to stay away. It also probably has modified corn starch=bad, maltodextrin?? eeek.

You could make your own that would have to be better for you-this was posted on the allrecipes.com board by Splenda-
8 (1 gram) packets SPLENDA® No Calorie Sweetener
3 tablespoons cocoa (preferably Dutch processed)
2 cups 2% reduced-fat milk

MIX together SPLENDA® No Calorie Sweetener and cocoa in a small saucepan. Gradually add milk, whisking until blended.
COOK over medium-low heat until thoroughly heated. Serve immediately

At least here you can recognize all the ingredients. Good luck

LINDY- Be sure to get in your dairy, like 2 glasses of ff skim milk otherwise your menu looks great :D

Well ladies TOM is quickly aproaching and I am having wicked cravings! So I went grocery shopping early and got A BUNCH of phase one foods and lots and lots of SF jello and cool whip, I am craving chips so the turkey pepperonis help that and as far as the chocolate....fudgesicles are my new BF :lol: Hope everyone is having a great night, and just remember...tommorow is another day closer to phase 2 ;)

Good morning girls!
I never plan my meals ahead of time like lots of people here do, so here is what I had yesterday:

B:Mushroom Omelette
S:Celery
L:1 cup yogurt, and 1 tbs peanut butter
S:Jello
D:Spinich salad with boiled egg and bacon bits
S:sf Hot chocolate and another tbs of peanut butter

Just on a side note- I looked at my hot chocolate ingrediants and didn't see anything sugary or ending with 'ose' other than sucralose (splenda).:?:So I'm pretty certain that all of the sugar on the label is from the dried milk products or the cocoa. Once this one is all used up though, I will start making my own to be safe! Thanks for the recipe bat! :coffee:

Christian I love the saying on your signature. "Nothing tastes as good as thin feels" I try to keep that in mind while I'm at work and everyone around me is eating chocolate bars and chips :nono:

:flow1:I Hope everyone has a good day!:flow1:

Good morning everyone!

Well, last night's dinner turned out pretty good. We would up going to IHOP. I had the herb roasted chicken (without the skin) and broccoli and cauliflower veggies. Also a salad. So it turned out ok. Don't want to do that every day...I need to plan this stuff out or I wind up blowing everything! So for me, planning works.

Today's menu

Bfast: 2 eggs w/tomato, cheese, onion and piece of low-fat moz cheese
snack: V8
Lunch: Burger patty, mixed veggies, small helping of chili and beans
snack: dill pickle
dinner: Panda Mandarin Chicken-no sauce, just the chicken. Broccoli. Glass of milk.

Well ladies for the first time since I started this plan I am up 1 1/2 pounds, it is my own fault though, as I gave in too about 20 tooo many turkey pepperonis and everything I ate yesterday was just chalked full of salt, so I am sure between the TOM and that , my weight will be back down by tommorow. So here is todays food intake :lol:

B- 2 eggs and 2 slices turkey bacon and glass of skim milk
s- 15 turkey pepperonis
L- HUGE salad with cheese and lowfat turkey and milk
s- sf fudgesicle
S- chili
snack- sf jello with cool whip and broccoli with dip

Well, I went to the store last night and got some 1% milk and some yogurt but didn't check my food list before I went and ended up buying flavored yogurt that has high fructose corn syrup :( So I guess I'm going back to the store again. Maybe my son will eat the yogurt I bought yesterday.

Here's what I ended up eating yesterday. I know my lunch is sad, I just couldn't force myself to eat tuna with lettuce and tomato again. I did buy some frozen SB dinners so I shouldn't have problems with lunch anymore.

B - 2 eggs, 2 slice turkey bacon
L - 2TB peanut butter mixed with 2TB light cool whip
D - Taco bake with lettuce and FF sour cream
S - Jello

veggies, veggies, veggies ladies!!

2 cups at lunch another 2 cups at dinner and another 1/2 c either at snack or breakfast. But they don't have to be lame or boring, go to the menu site for the alfredo sauce or make a chinese veggie stir fry, fajitas with no wraps, I just piled chicken salad high up on a moutnian of broccoli. delish

other than that I think you girls are doing great

Thanks battmom, I have upped my intake and am gonna have an extra broccoli snack tonight with my jello :D

Other than yesterday I've been doing pretty good with getting veggies in. I'm doing much better today. So far:

B - Breakfast cheesecake, 2 slices turkey bacon, cup of milk
L - (went out to eat at a buffet but did pretty good!) Salad with low carb ranch, LF cottage cheese, rotisserie chicken breast, green beans, SFjello with SF whipped cream

D - Planning on having leftover Taco Bake with lots of lettuce

:o can someone tell me if i ate to much today pleeeeeeeeses:^:

b....3 egss with onion and half a peace of string che
2 slice of ff ham

s...1 string chesse stick
ff jello with ff whip cream

l....salid with 10 cherry tomatoes 2 slice of ff ham brocli 1/2 cup of cottage che
1tbs of mayo with garlic salt

s..1 string chess stick

d....:o 2 hambers grill with 2 slices of ff ches
asperagus(sorry if i didnt spell it right)

des...1 ff fudge pop with ff cool whip

ok do i need my butt kicked i feel i ate to much today:(