Protien Help Liquid Diet Help2.....

Ok please see the link listed below to see what I ate yesterday. Of course this is not just liquid stuff. But it was my day 1 and I'm just testing the waters right now. I could definately do away with the bananna bread in the morning and didn't have it today. But it seems that since I don't have a surgery date right now and am just trying this to shed some weight, I need to have something with the protien shakes, just something to fill me up.<br />
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BY the way, this protein powder mis is available at Target and it's like $20 for a big tub. I wanted to get a different mixture but at GNC it was like $65 per tub.<br />
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Please just let me know what you think of what I ate yesterday. I'd like to keep the cal under 1500 per day for this trial (1 week) to see how it helps, so instead of 8 scoops of protein powder(3 bfast, 3 lunch, 2 dinner) I'm hoping to do 2 scoops per meal today. That will bring my cal down from 960 to 720.<br />
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link:<br />
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg170/jackcallen4/fitday_day1.jpg<br />
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Let me know how you think Im doing, Thanks.<br />
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Oh yeah, Someone pointed me to this website fitday.com where you can sign up for free and track your intake online. You can also buy the software for $20 and I hear it's the best $20 you can spend. I haven't bought it though.

Fitday is very helpful to many. I still don’t understand where they are finding the calorie content in black coffee? Fighting to stay on track While not feeling like starving to death Has probably been faced by 99.999% of all pre-ops. If I had figured out how to beat that, I’d have never needed surgery. But, pre-op, I did have some dam successful runs at it. I never seemed to be able to completely Stop Eating Too Much, but, I was able to change one thing and manipulate the outcome by- WHAT I ate, Even at higher Volume. Well, helpful in dropping some weight or at least not gaining. Your list there sounds great, but for me it would be very “Un-filling.” I was most successful when I stayed on an Atkin’s Type, Low-Carb intake. Lots of food, Lots of tempting food, but no gains. By keeping Total Grams of Carbs below 25 per day, I did very well. 50 lb loss in 50 days once. Eggs, meat, cheese, mayo, salads, ….but that’s nearly it. No Bread, No sugar, few tomatoes, very few beans, etc…. I could always seem to do well for a month, and then one or two days of bread Or the occasional sweet, and my system would drop out of a state of Ketosis, And all those buttered omelets with ham, would suddenly be absorbed and turn to fat. Although it is harder, A high fiber, lower fat intake like a South Beach Diet (and like what you seem to be doing) Is easier and healthier for longer runs. The trick there is to “fill up” on really low calorie stuff like “rabbit food.” All of the following either Raw or steamed- Lettuce, Celery, Green & Red Peppers, Cabbage, Broccoli, Turnips, Cauliflower, fresh steamed Green Beans, Radishes, BokChoy, Cucumbers, (for that matter all pickles & SF Sweet Pickles) Onions, Apples, Mushrooms,etc… The top 25 low cal “goodies” include- 1. 1/2 grapefruit with Splenda or Equal - 37 calories 2. 1/2 cup of most any mellon - 30 calories 3. 1 lemon or 1 lime - about 10 calories each 4. 1/2 orange - about 30 calories 5. 1 peach - about 35 calories 6. 1 plum - about 35 calories 7. 1/2 cup strawberries - 22 calories 8. 2 scrambled egg whites prepared with non stick spray - about 30 calories 9. 1 stick of chewing gum - sugarfree OR regular contain the same 5 calories 10. 1/2 cup of cabbage - about 15 calories 11. 1 carrot - about 25 calories 12. 3 florets of cauliflower - 13 calories 13. 1/2 cup of celery - 10 calories 14. 1/2 large cucumber - 20 calories 15. 1/2 cup of eggplant - 13 calories 16. 1/2 cup of greens - 15 calories 17. 1 cup of butterhead lettuce - 5 calories 18. 1/2 cup of mushrooms - 20 calories 19. 1/2 cup of bell pepper - 15 calories 20. 1 cup of radishes - 20 calories 21. 1 medium tomato - 25 calories 22. 1/2 cup of turnips - 15 calories 23. 1/2 cup of watercress - 2 calories 24. (Even a Sweet!) 1 large marshmallow - 23 calories 25. Diet sodas, SF Popsicles, extracts, seasonings, spices, and hot sauce contain almost zero calories. The whole list yields 470 Calories for approx- 13 cups full of food. Add to it 2 small servings of some lean meat, and for under 1000 Calories, You can have enough food to keep you stuffed all day. 14 cups full of food is a lot, even by my personal pre-op standards. Yes?   When it worked for me, is when I added extra food FIRST. “I’ll have this Subway sandwich, only after I have polished off a cup of steamed broccoli, a half cup of fresh green beans, and a half cup of steamed mushrooms. While eating my sandwich, I will eat 2 medium sized pickles, and a few radishes. Totally Stuffed! Repeat that for 2 meals a day, and punctuate the day with sugar free popsicles…. LOTS of WATER. That worked for me for some fairly long (multi-month) runs of slow weight loss. You can get in some more protein with the ‘clear’ Protein like Isopure Zero-Carb, or NewWhey Shots. Here’s a post that may have some helpful suggestions…just as to ‘types of foods.’. http://quixoticwls.org/forums/showthread.php?t=90 Particularly the value of making the “food choice” decisions at the store rather than in your home. Perhaps an approach is forcing yourself to eat More. Just More of the Low-Cal-Higher-Fiber foods. Just my thoughts…. Hang in there! Keep up the Great work And you can avoid WLS altogether.  Best Wishes- Dx

 

 

Thanks for all of the info, I will read it several times.

Yeah eating lots of "rabbit food."

Feel hungary but not starving yet, although I could down a whole pizza if someone put one in front of me.

Im just trying this out for a week to see if my weight drops. Ive been walking about 3.5 miles each night too.

Drinking tons of water. Having some broth right now.

So we'll see what happens.

Thanks.

Jack