What do YOU eat on a given day?

[spaghetticat]

I have always been a little obsessive about my weight/eating. But I was always worried about calories and not really health.

For the past almost 2 years, I have been either pregnant or breastfeeding, so I've been sort of eating as much as I want. I cut things out when I was pregnant and I cut things out for the MSPI diet, but I'm still eating lactation cookies for breakfast.

My weight is steadily creeping back up and I need to get things under control. I want to be healthier, not just skinnier, though. So if you eat well, what is your day like?

Thanks!

ETA: I know that pretty soon V will be eating with me and I want to be healthier for her too, so we can eat the same things a lot.

[nannerl]

I don't know if I eat well, but here is a typical day for me...

Breakfast: Oatmeal with nuts and a banana or plain Cheerios or two hard boiled eggs with two small slices of wheat toast

Lunch: A small peanut butter and honey sandwich and fruit or whatever we had for dinner the night before

Dinner: Could be anything, but most of the time it is a recipe from WW or the South Beach Diet cookbook. We generally do red meat 2x a week with fish and chicken for the rest. Veggies with every dinner, and a whole wheat starch. I try to work a couple of veggie meals in, but H really likes meat of some sort with every dinner, so we have to compromise.

Snacks: Fruit, cottage cheese, peanut butter on things

I drink a lot of water and tea. Soda and alcohol maybe once a week. We almost never do takeout because it is so much cheaper to cook at home.

One of my quests for the new year is to avoid the added sugar in foods. If I put it in there that's one thing, but I'm talking about the stuff that the manufacturers sneak in...

[JuliaGulia]

I still can't manage to lose my last 15-20 baby pounds. It just doesn't want to come off and I haven't been that great about keeping up with a diet and exercise. I don't have a specific diet I am following but lately I have a yogurt for breakfast, fruit and a lettuce wrap for lunch, and then a normal dinner. I also cut out soda. I used to drink so much water and recently I had to force it down. I don't know what happened!

[dojo]

I'm doing ww, so portion control is more my thing, but this is a typical day

Breakfast, high fibre cereal with milk and a sliced banana
Morning snack - Usually some fruit + something else small like a little peanut butter, or yogurt
Lunch - sandwich and soup
Sometimes I have an afternoon snack - again, usually fruit plus something small
Dinner - meat, veg and starch combo

[kdrake8]

I eat badly and continue to blame it on breast feeding. I wanted to start dieting with some of the other ladies on Jan 3. I just get too scared about my supply dropping. I have enough frozen milk for about 30 days or so of daycare, but that's not enough to get me through until April, so ill have to be gross a bit longer.

I did start working out so at least I have that going on. I'll be going back on my Wedding Diet, which I emailed out to a bunch of people, so hopefully Ill be able to make that work as soon as we start to wean.

[laurack]

On my way to the train/on the train at about 7am I have either a banana, a kashi trail mix bar, or the last few days a homemade oat flax banana nut muffin (hoping it will help milk supply.)

At about 9 or 10am I have oatmeal with almond butter, possibly a cheese stick or two or sometimes a couple hardboiled eggs. Or greek yogurt. I try to have some protein.

At about 1pm I have lunch. If I bring it (rare.. blah) its a salad or else leftovers from dinner. If I buy it (mostly) either its a
boloco bowl
grilled chicken salad
club sandwich
or a soup/stew from downstairs cafe (cheapest option). I usually get the chicken stew, for $4 its a lot of food and they throw in a pita which I put almond butter all over and eat

In the afternoon if I'm peckish I might have fruit or a yogurt

For dinner, it could be anything. I try to cook from scratch but I do use purchased sauces and stuff more than I used to, maybe 4 nights a week it's meat based (chicken, beef, pork), 1 fish, 2 veggie/vegan dinners. Stews, casseroles, roast meats/veggies, soups, sandwiches, pizza, salads, stir fries etc.

I don't count calories or use low fat recipes. But I figure, cooking with whole foods and not eating processed crap, makes it easier to not overeat naturally. However, this works well for me (I am in the same weight range always it seems), but my husband overeats, even with healthy food.

For a while I was eating a ton of crap, chocolate, cake every day etc. But in the new year I decided to try to eat more healthy foods and less crap. If I am hungry and someone offers me cake I will eat it. So I try to not get too hungry if that makes sense. If I've just eaten a snack of apples and peanut butter and someone offers me cake I might be able to say no.

Anyway not sure if this is helpful. I think a good step for health not just weight is to move towards cooking your own meals a lot, using plenty of fresh produce, smaller amounts of meat/cheese, and just keeping dessert to a minimum. Even home made dessert is not great IMO to be having every day, I only bake if we are having company or special occasions.

Fruits and veg are SO low calorie for the most part. Like, say one blueberry muffin is 500 calories. But if you tried to eat 500 calories of fruit and vegetables in one sitting you'd probably explode.

[devonpow]

I am a total creature of habit and tend to eat the same thing for breakfast and lunch every weekday.

For breakfast I have Greek yogurt with fruit pretty soon after I wake up, then after I get back from school drop off I have an egg white wrap on a low cab tortilla.

For lunch I make a big salad with spinach, a ton of chopped veggies (I use the trader joes "healthy 8"chopped veggie mix), feta cheese, chicken, and avocado.

Dinner is whatever. When I'm trying to lose weight I stick to low carb stuff for dinner like soups, stir fry, salads, etc.

Snacks (on a good day) are Greek yogurt, fruit, carrots and hummus. On a bad day I break into Henry's snack shelf and go crazy on cookies or goldfish.

[raynes]

My eating has been all over the place lately, but I'm working in reigning it in.

For health, look into Clean Eating. Basically eating things as close to the source as you can. I love Clean Eating magazine, they have lots of great recipes.

Now, I need to start practicing what I preach again!

Re: breakfast, I made up a big pot of steel cut oats yesterday, so that's breakfast for the next few days. You could top it with flax, and bam! The milk making benefits of lactation cookies without the cookie part.

[chasbride07]

For the most part I eat oatmeal in the morning, a big salad for lunch, and then for dinner we cook at home most of the time. Mainly fish and chicken, red meat maybe once or twice a week.

My downfall is snacks. I try hard to make sure there are always a lot of fruits and veggies around. So I try to have that for snacks as well as something like greek yogurt. I like to have some trail mix right after lunch but make sure I measure it out and don't go back for another handful.

I drink coffee in the morning and then after that water. I have a diet soda a couple times a week as well as a glass of two of wine.

[ruby412]

I vary from day to day. Currently I'm counting calories on My Fitness Pal. Yesterday I had....

B - Yogurt, berries, granola
S - Luna Protein Bar
L - Hummus and veggie wrap, BBQ Popchips
S - SF vanilla pudding
D - Ham, mushrooms, asparagus
S - Popcorn, Ice Cream

I probably didn't need 2 desserts - popcorn and ice cream, but I had the calories so I did it anyway.

[Regina Philange]

Ruby how many calories did they give you on Mfp?

[Regina Philange]

They gave me 1310 and I'm having a hard time.

[laurack]

1300 calories per day?!! OMG I would die. That seems really low?

[Regina Philange]

I think it's low too. I'm having a hard time staying in my calories.

[ruby412]

Jan 10, 2013 9:56:57 GMT -5 Regina Philange said:

Ruby how many calories did they give you on Mfp?

Yep, 1330 or so. But, I add an additional 300 for breastfeeding. It's really hard to stay under and occasionally I go over. Counting calories sucks! But I'm trying to keep my eye on the prize and stick to it. I really just want to eat pizza all day.

[orriskitten]

I'm still working on my lifestyle to help with my diabetes. I made a soup last week that I think is prefect for me! Its on all recipes and is something like "fat burning cabbage soup" which I found by searching for low fat soup. Its all veggies and you can really change it up so it doesn't get old. It makes a huge amount so I end up freezing half of it. I find it satisfying and have been having it for lunch. To process sugars better and maintain my sugar, I add some protein. Right now is mini turkey meatballs I made, but will be doing beans, ground turkey and things like that.

so that being said, this is my usual day:

Breakfast: special k protein plus cereal with almond milk

Lunch: soup with 3 mini meatballs

Dinner: some kind of meat, whole wheat pasta or bread with lots of veggies. I find if I make too much of the veggies, I can fill up on that since I like to pick at my food a lot.

I need to work on my snacking. I am slowly working in fruit, which I had cut out to keep my sugars lower. Its a process and I'm working on it.

Its a distance, not a sprint so I'm trying to think long term change. Portion size is so truly key, I find. I am also working on drinking more water. I drink a lot of unsweetened iced green tea which helps in glucose reduction fairly significantly.

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[pinkpeony6210]

Breakfast = bowl of cereal

Lunch = soup, or a sandwich, or a frozen meal. Accompanied by pretzels, cheese stick, or yogurt.

Snack = granola bar or cashews

I tend not to snack after dinner.

[carawestt]

Breakfast is usually toast with Greek yogurt and fruit.

Lunch is some kind of sandwich and a string cheese.

Snacks are things like veggies and hummus or some almonds.

[formerlyllizzyb]

I'm not the picture of perfect eating. Here's one day this week:

Breakfast: coffee with creamer, pumpkin bread
Lunch: leftover beef and vegetable stew, cornbread
Snack: apple, handful of goldfish
Dinner: homemade calzone with marinara sauce, baby carrots
Snack: scoop of ice cream

In the past, I found tracking to be really helpful because I am not very mindful of what I eat. I found that some days I would eat 1100-1300 calories, and other days were 2000 calories or up!

Right now I don't worry about it because BFing makes me have a crazy fast metabolism and I'm below pre-pg weight. We'll see what happens when I wean. :-|

[lolaburns]

Breakfast - coffee. Sometimes I'll have a banana or citrus fruit.

Lunch- sandwich on whole wheat and a piece of fruit

Dinner- I always make a protein, vegetable and either a whole grain or carb. No rolls, no sweets.

Sometimes I'll snack on cheese and crackers during the day but not every day.


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[kandrze1]

I go through phases where I am super strict with my diet and then for a few weeks I fall apart and eat terribly. While I was pregnant I had to be ridiculously strict with my diet so afterwards I started eating pretty poorly. I'm back to being strict with myself.
Breakfast: Special K and fresh fruit or an egg white breakfast sandwich
AM snack: yogurt
Lunch: soup, turkey or chicken salad sandwich, fresh fruit, small desert or snack
PM snack: KIND bar
Dinner: I let myself eat what I want I just adjust portions based on how fattening it is
Snack before bed: whatever the hell I want with portions in mind

I'm a little nuts with portion control when I eat like this. I measure everything. It drives DH insane, but it's works for me. I count calories when I'm dieting. I always count carbs because of insulin.

[juliamastro]

Breakfast: oatmeal w/ blueberries or scrambled eggs

Lunch: ham & cheese sandwich w/ raw veggies

Dinner: we love baked chicken w/ veggies but also eat a lot of pasta, bad I know!

[musiclover]

Breakfast: Usually a cup of Healthy, High fiber Cereal. When berries are on sale, I always add them. Otherwise a banana works well instead.

Lunch: Lots of Salads with fresh spinach leaves and assorted veggies. I also do things like hummus/veggie wraps or PBJ on wheat (that's a complete protein)

Snacks: Fresh Fruit, Roasted Almonds, pretzels, cheese sticks, I LOVE Vanilla yogurt with berries, rice cakes etc..

dinner: Lentil beans, Fresh fish, LOTS of Veggies, things like that.

A lot if truly does come down to portion control, drinking lots of water and healthy snacks. I am back on track and already lost 2lbs this past week

[Regina Philange]

Jan 10, 2013 10:14:40 GMT -5 ruby412 said:

Jan 10, 2013 9:56:57 GMT -5 Regina Philange said:

Ruby how many calories did they give you on Mfp?

Yep, 1330 or so. But, I add an additional 300 for breastfeeding. It's really hard to stay under and occasionally I go over. Counting calories sucks! But I'm trying to keep my eye on the prize and stick to it. I really just want to eat pizza all day.

Amen girlfriend.