How do you get through your week? Food plans?

Hi all,

I thought I would start this thread-as I would like to hear more about how everyone deals with their workweek-this most CERTAINLY includes at home Mom work!! Don't I remember it well! LOL!

How do you plan your meals (or do you?!) during your workweek? How do you make sure you have enough time/space between them and also-how do you ensure you get your fluids in.

I am going to share mine. Mine is NOT a great way to go, and I am looking at reworking my schedule to be a bit more healthy for me.

I work from home on a different type of schedule. I work from 11am to 8pm. So-I often stay up very late and sleep later.

10 am Breakfast-coffee (not the best bet for breakfast).

Between 11am and noon-I will have a Chocolate Protein pudding with a banana. It has 20 grams of protein.

I will usually have some sort of fruit or low fat cheese stick for a snack in the afternoon

For Dinner-Again-usually I will have a protein pudding with banana. Sometimes I will do a sandwich on Weigh****chers bread-but they STUFF me. I figure if I like the protein pudding and it works-why not continue.

Tea: Usually a small chicken breast and salad with a small portion of potato or rice (whatever we make for starch/carb that night)

The WORST two things I am doing right now are:
NOT getting enough hydration
Eating snacks late at night--my snacks generally consist of a caramel type candy-and I will have about 5 of them through the evening. They have about 40 calories each-so not really that GREAT to have!

Here is what is bugging me. Even though my weight has generally stayed the same-with a slight bump up at Christmas time-I do NOT like that I am playing with the snack thing. I am not hungry. It's a hand to mouth nervous thing.

I am currently at about 160 lbs. I had maintained 155 for over a year and at Christmas had a few fluffy moments (LOL!) and so before I would have gone between 155-160. Now it's going between 160-165. It is a VERY small difference..but I think we all know ourselves enough to know what we need to do and what things are NOT good for us.

I see myself focusing on the snacks-as a comfort/reward. Time to stop. One of my biggest issues is finding ways to comfort and calm myself at night.

So-please share your meal plan and ideas!!

Thanks again for being here with us!!

T

If I could cut out the snack and have some sort of healthy snack at bedtime-

I don't!

Breakfast is aways a large skinny latte but after that there is no consisistency. I will prob have some fruit mid morning; probably a light lunch around 12-1; usually a substantial snack around 4 as I get hugnry then. Main meal whenever it fits in with what we are doing.

I am also about 160 and for me that is NOT good. But my size 12s still fit (UK sizes! That woudl be US 10s) apart from jeans which do NOT fit in UK size 12 now! Not getting bigger but need to get my head in gear and get smaller!!

Kate

Hi Kate,

That is the same for me!! The jeans I brought from the US are 8s and 10s (bahah-you KNOW how the US is!) and they still fit too-except for the really tiny 8's are a bit snug.

I say let's have a friendly little goal and see what we can achieve??

Want to? We could pick a goal date to get to a certain weight??

:)

Hi, T, sounds a good idea but I don't do goals with deadlines! I spent  most of my adult life feeling a failure and when i got banded I decided that that was not the way to go for me. Setting even mini-goals (for me) sets me up to fail and that is psychologiclly bad for me and makes my weight loss attempts harder not easier.

So I know I need to lose a bit and i will do it. But I won't set any time frame for it.

But I know it works better to set goals for many people - so the very best wishes for you and your goal!

Kate

Routine - I wish. for someone only 9 weeks out, I should be doing this perfectly. If I add up the nutritional values I'm fine, but I'm really not eating the way I wanted to. But hey, the kids go back to school on Monday, and I'm hoping to sort my sorry self out.

breakfast - tinned mackerel or scramble (yeuch, wi**** was lighter, but it has to be high protein or I can't get it all in)

snack/lunch - atkins day break bar, because I've usually been out with the kids somewhere and its just easier

dinner with kids - I count it as dinner 1 (!!!), but in reality its picking the protein off my daughters plate which she rarely eats. Its always been my worst and most shameful habit, but I'm finding it a major sticking point. Must work harder on those demons - not to mention respect myself enough to put a proper serving on a plate for myself.

dinner 2 - fresh salmon - had that most days this week, just because its easy and I can't be bothered to prepare myself anything.

Not getting enough water in - will sit down and work out a timetable next week, as I have to get it sorted out.

Taking flaming vitamins 6 times a day, getting them all in, but sometimes the schedule goes a bit awry.

I need a kick up the butt, but next week will see it improve - if I have anything to do about it.