Helping newbies! Sample daily menus.
Someone posted on a thread earlier saying that when she wanted to get an idea of how bandsters eat, everyone just quoted calories and/or carbs at her. When what she really wanted was to know how that looked on a plate.
I know we have a what -did-you-eat-today thread but that is warts and all - good and bad days. So I thought I would start a thread giving sample "good day" menus. Great if others join in as we all eat a bit differently.
All measurements are very approximate as I don't weigh etc.
B - enormous skinny latte (unsweetened) (can't eat solids in the morning)
Mid-morning - fruit / yoghourt / 15 almonds
Lunch - 1/2 small baked potato with about 1oz cheese or
4 crackers and cheese or
1/2 sandwich with healthy filling
Late -afternoon - very variable - If I am at home and hungry something substantial like 3 fish sticks.
otherwise nuts / yog / fruit / crackers w cheese
Dinner - about 3-4 oz chicken / fish / any other meat with about 1/2 cup of veggies
Mid evening - yoghourt / oatmeal.
Lots and lots of fluid - probably about 3 pints of hot no-sugar flavoured blcakcurrant juice, several mugs (large) of tea - unsweetened with f/f milk, Couple of large glasses water.
Hope this helps someone! Kate
Highest 290, Banded - 248 Lowest 139 (too thin!). Comfort zone 155-165.
Happily banded since May 2006. Regain of 28lbs 2013-14. ALL GONE!
But some has returned! Up to 175, argh! Off we go again,
L: 1/2 cup Kroger crab select (imitation crab)
3 oz carrot slices w/hummus
~OR~
3 oz rolled sliced turkey w/horseradish mustard
3 oz carrot slices w/laughing cow cheese wedge
S: string cheese ~or~
Knudsen's 100 calorie cottage cheese double w/pineapple
D: 3-4oz fish or dense protein
1/4 cup steamed veggies
S: SF Jell-O pudding ~or~
1oz almonds
My menu looks like this:
B/ 1 C decaf coffee w/ ff half&half
1 or 2 eggs
1/4C fruit
OR
1/2-3/4 C oatmeal w/ fruit
oatmeal made w/ skim milk no****er
L/ 1/3 C protein such as tuna w/ lf mayo or canned chicken
Sometimes it's meat leftover from last nights dinner
1/4 C veggie or fruit
D/ basically same as lunch protein varies between meats, fish, chicken
S/ greek yogurt w/ 1/4 C fruit
I also have 1-2 C skim milk a day
I know that some folks say they eat 3-4 oz of protein. I was told to measure by Volumn not by weight. If I weigh my 1/3 C of protein it is only about 1.5 oz on the scale. Big difference.
Our pouches take volumn not weight. That's what I am taught anyway.
I know that some folks say they eat 3-4 oz of protein. I was told to measure by Volumn not by weight. If I weigh my 1/3 C of protein it is only about 1.5 oz on the scale. Big difference.
Our pouches take volumn not weight. That's what I am taught anyway.
Interesting I never heard this before. I am going to experiment with this concept. I never thought of things that way but it does make sense. Hmmmm. You learn something new every day
I go by volume as well! I put down 3-4oz because that is the amount that usually works out as the volume that works for me! Does that make sense?
My instructions were a piece of dense protein about the size of a standard pack of playing cards! And by trial and error, i found that that is about 3-4oz of something like chicken breast. (Don't use "cups" in the UK!).
Kate
Highest 290, Banded - 248 Lowest 139 (too thin!). Comfort zone 155-165.
Happily banded since May 2006. Regain of 28lbs 2013-14. ALL GONE!
But some has returned! Up to 175, argh! Off we go again,
This is a sample I pretty much follow every day. My dinners vary but breakfast and dinner is pretty much the same. I don't care much for variety...hahaha
B- egg beaters, 2 turkey sausage
S- 3 apple slices
L- 3 slices of turkey, slice of low fat cheese, 6 wheat crackers (I make myself my own version of lunchables with the crackers), 1/4 cup cottage cheese
D- 2 chicken drumsticks (white meat doesn't agree with my band) 1 cup green beans
or bean, salsa, lettuce and steak tortilla or beef stew or turkey burger with carrot sticks.
S- carrot sticks
Yes it is too much sometimes. I eat the cottage cheese first then I start eating my "lunchables" I stop when I'm full. Sometimes I can eat all them sometimes I have 1 or 2 left.
B: 1 scrambled egg, 1/2 piece turkey bacon 1/3 banana
L: Tuna salad
D: 4 oz White chicken chili, 1/4 cup spinach leaves with balsamic
S; L/F String Cheese or pistachios