What does your daily menu look like these days?

Hi December people: I was wondering if it would be helpful to see what people are eating. Are many of you still drinking protein shakes and bars or are you on regular foods now for the most part? How about posting a sample menu? I find that I am able to eat more now. Here's my menu for today: Breakfast: 2 rice cakes with 1 Tbsp peanut butter Decaf, nonfat latte with tsp sugar Snack: 1 banana Lunch: Turkey and cheese sandwich with diet mayo and lettuce. S: Apple Dinner: 1 or 2 chicken enchiladas (depends on how much I can eat) pinto beans (homemade) S: skinny cow ice cream sandwich (150 calories) or Healthy Choice Bar (90 calories) Water: about 10 cups daily (80 oz) Exercise: walk one mile in the evening (30 minute walk) Diana

This was yesterday: Breakfast: Low Carb instant oatmeal - banana bread flavor made with carb control milk. Half a banana Protein shake about 2 hours later. Lunch: slice of meatloaf, carb control yogurt, piece of sugar free chocolate. Dinner: Couple of crackers with cheese, small chicken breast stuffed with cheese and a little piece of prosciuttini. Couple of green beans, and sugar free chocolate pudding moose. Later -- two slices of colby cheese (I felt guilty about eating that cheese - I didn't really need it) Today so far: Breakfast: Low carb oatmeal - cinnamon flavor, half banana Protein shake Lunch: half cup of low fat egg salad spread on four small crackers 1/4 chocolate moose (low fat sugar free), piece of sugar free chocolate My breakfast usually consist of some sort of oatmeal or eggs with a small bit of meat and cheese. Lunch is leftover from previous dinners. My meals have no bread (although I have tried some pita bread), no noodles (although I have had a little tiny bit of lasagna a couple of times), no rice unless mixed in meat as in a stuffed pepper type of thing, salad is now acceptable to me, have had bad luck with mushrooms (which I loved) so I won't do those, most meats even the dense ones are usually good to me unless I eat too fast or don't take my time to chew, veggies of all types have been good. Moose recipe: Instant SF pudding mix (Jello brand only - Royal sucks) Hand whip with 1.5 cup of carb control milk for two min. mix in 1 cup of fat free/sugar free whipped topping Chill and serve Butterscotch, Lemon, and Chocolate are all good.

The first thing I do in the morning is take my Life Time liquid calcium, 1 chewable vitamin and then I start drinking my Syntrax protein nectar ( 23 GR in 8 oz water) After that B - 1 oz Low Fat Motzerella ( or sometimes 1 scrambled egg) and 4 reduced fat wheat thins snack- 8 oz Ocean Spray Light Ruby Juice or V8 Lunch- 2-3 oz Chicken, light miracle whip with chopped dill pickle, 4 mandarin orange slices or about 1" of a banana. snack- 3-4 oz soup or sugar free pudding or yogurt. Dinner- 2 oz chicken breast ( or lean ham) and 1-2 cooked oz brocoli or carrots Or 4 oz total- chicken, refried beans, salsa with 23 crumbled Plain tortilla chips crumbled in. Snack- sugar free popsicle, ( or fudgcicle if I didn't have pudding that day) Calcium, another vitamin and B12 sublingual at bedtime. DRINK CRYSTAL LIGHT THROUGHOUT THE DAY. I have trouble getting in enough liquids some days still but it is just the way it is for me I guess. Full time college is challenging...

Hi Diana, My doctor doesn't allow us to have protein shakes and bars now that we're this far out. I eat a lot of chicken, turkey and shrimp cooked all different ways. I eat string cheese and cottage cheese as snacks and also pickles... pickles have become a big-time snack even though they don't have protein... I also drink a lot of crystal light.

Thanks Becca. This helps. I often read and post on the January board, and they are all into shakes and protein bars...it makes me worry that I might be eating too much "normal" food. I am glad to see that you too are eating real foods only. I also enjoy salads,fruits,veggies and a few treats now and then. Diana

Hi Diana! I give you credit that you can consume all of that in a day! For me this is an average day: Breakfast: RTD 51 Protein Shake (51 grams) Snack: Protein bar (15 grams) Lunch: Lean meat and a green vegetable, if I can eat the veggie Snack: Protein bar or cheese stick Dinner: Lean meat and side veggie or Protein shake, depends how I feel Snack: Sugar free popsicle Water 50-72 oz a day Exercise 3-4 times a week 45 minute cardio - light weight lifting or 1 hr of dance.

My Dr. said I could have protein shakes forever! And I'm a glad girl. I like them. I had one for breakfast-for lunch-well, we went out to eat-and I had a little of this and a little of that...ie... 1/2 stuffed meatball, couple bites of baked beans, couple bites of taco-with meat and cheese, small ice cream-yum-and a 1/2 piece of sugar free bluberry pie. I also ate a french fry and a bite of chicken...when I do that--eat a lot more than I should at a meal-then the next meal I have another shake. I try and get at least 30 minutes of cardio-walking 3 mph-5 or 6 days per week..drink lots of water and drink lots of decaf coffee. Yesterday-for the first time since surgery I had a caffiene free diet coke. I'm gonna ask at my next appointment if that's ok-I don't really know for sure. My problem is the long time between dinner and breakfast-not snacking is hard for me-and although, I can't eat too much at a meal-I could snack all day if I permitted myself. I've been pretty much sticking to rice cakes and fat free chips-but it's hard sometimes.

Hi, Diana! I usually have a chocolate protein shake with skim milk for breakfast. For lunch I usually have 4 oz. of Dannon Carb Control Yogurt with about 2 tbsp. of freshly ground flax seed, one cheddar cheese stick (1 oz.) and one snack serving (4 oz.) of unsweetened apple sauce. For dinner, I usually have 2-3 oz. of fish or meat and 1-2 oz. each of one or two veggies, either cooked or raw. I have a late night snack, usually one more cheese stick and some SF popsicles. According to fitday.com, I take in between 800 and 1100 calories a day. Pat