Question:
I believe I can each too much food to be 7 weeks out . . .

For instance, today for lunch I had the Chicken Bowl from Taco Bell with no beans and no rice. Basically, it was a cup or lettuce maybe 1/2 c. of chicken and a sprinkle of tomatoe and cheese. My typical daily diet is a protein shake for breakfast, a little bit of salad and chicken for lunch, some pork rinds for a snack and then a protein shake for dinner. What are you eating?    — PJ M. (posted on April 25, 2003)

April 25, 2003
I don't think you're eating *enough*. If the salad was mostly lettuce, you can eat more of that than other foods. I also think you should try to get in more real foods and less shakes and snacks. Try 5 small meals a day and concentrate on getting more solid protein. I do one shake a day and occasionally have a bar for one of my later meals but after breakfast I try to get all my protein from meat and fish. Shakes don't keep me satisfied enough to have for more than one meal.
   — susanje

April 25, 2003
I agree with Susan - 5 to 6 small meals a day with no more than 1-2 shakes as replacement for those meals. The shakes really don't do diddly in filling you up. The bars, yes, the shakes no...JR
   — John Rushton

April 25, 2003
When I was about 2 months out a typical day for me was: Breakfast - 2 or 3 ounces of moz cheese (sometimes 4 if I were particularly hungry). Midmorning snack - a ready made cup of jello (I think they are about 1/4 cup in size?) with cool whip. Lunch - chicken soup (basically dark meat chicken shredded into broth with mushy veggies and seasoning). Dinner 1 - 1/4 to 1/2 cup of cottage cheese. Dinner 2 - a <i>small</i> lettuce salad with dressing, piece of whatever meat appealed to me, and a spear of over-cooked broccoli with butter.
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