What is a typical day's menu for you??

[nothing2lose]

I have been recording my daily food diary for around three weeks. Most days my cals hover around 1200 with my aim being 35gm fat, 115gm carbs, 100gm protein, 30gm fibre, 2000 sodium.

So my typical daily menu looks like this...

Breakfast

40gm oats (porridge) with 50gm blueberries, 1/3 cup milk and lots of cinnamon.
Alternatively 40gm all bran

Coffee with teaspoon of logicane sugar and 1/3 cup milk


Lunch

Burgen grainy bread with 100gm protein with spinach, rocket, skinny hummus


Dinner
200 gm lean protein
Small carb serve - potato, brown rice, beans, etc
Veggies or salad

Low fat dairy with low gi fruit for dessert.


I realise it's not perfect and I need to mix it up a bit.

I'm curious, what does everyone else eat on a typical "diet day"????

[Trillian]

Mine is very similar to yours, but I have an afternoon snack as well - there is no way known I can go from lunchtime to dinner time without eating. I might have nuts or a piece of fruit in the afternoon. Sometimes I will make jelly to snack on as well but I have to hide it from the kids so it doesn't happen that often I will also have a wrap instead of a sandwich for lunch, or I will have my main meal at lunch and then a lighter meal at night.

[nothing2lose]

I sometimes have a Jarrah chai or white choc drink for an afternoon snack.

[Trillian]

I have those too and they are a yummy alternative to tea or coffee.

[nothing2lose]

I know they are empty cals and not exactly natural, but they feel like a treat!

I also like pomegranate or rose hip tea.

[HotI]

Is that enough food for you? i would need to eat more, or more often. i'm not in diet mode but starting to think about it.

[Floweryfields]

That wouldn't be enough food for me either I don't think.....

What I am eating at the moment:
Breakfast
1large breadmaker size slice (so probably 2 slices) grain bread with real butter OR
3/4 cup all bran/sultana bran
Sometimes a banana as well

Mid morning
Bunch grapes or pear or other piece of fruit

Lunch
Protein of some sort and vegies/salad of some sort
Sometimes a ham and salad sandwich on multigrain
Sometimes leftovers - so stirfry or chicken/salad
Small piece of fruit

Afternoon snack
Rice crackers/fruit/muesli bar

Dinner
Protein and vege/salad/rice - varies depending on the mood and what I've had during the day - ie if I've had bread, I won't have rice/pasta at dinner

After dinner sometimes have youghurt or fruit or a fruit pillow biscuit or something

Plus lots of water throughout day.

[meow]

Breakfast:
3 fried eggs and 1 1/2 rashers of bacon with 1-2Tb avocado and 1/4 cup of sauerkraut

Mid morning:
1/3 banana, 1/2 cup of strawberries, blueberries and/or raspberries, 1-2 small honey sweetened chocolate patties

Lunch:
1 roasted whole chicken leg (thigh & drumstick)
1 cup of mushrooms & kale fried in butter

Mid-afternoon:
1 brownie (coconut flour, honey, eggs, butter) with berries and 1/4 cup of sour cream
peppermint tea

Dinner:
Meat with plenty of fat such as pork loin chops, full fat mince meatballs with about 4 cups of vegetables (roasted, stirfried and/or salad)
1 glass of wine

Dessert:
1-2 honey sweetened chocolate patties
peppermint tea

plus lots of water throughout the day

[Traveller]

I generally have 2 cups of tea with milk and one skinny latte with sugar for breakfast (unless I am not at uni, when I skip the latte)

I then snack on cripsbreads with hommous or cream cheese, chicken and often salad for morning tea/lunch plus fruit and home made fruit cake (small slice) if I have been baking.

For dinner I generally have whatever the kids are having minus the pasta/rice. So that might be creamy chicken curry with lots of veg, or a beef burrito with salad and salsa.

In the evening I will snack on more cripsbreads and, if I have been exercising, I might have a beer.

This is my being good diet though. Yesterdays diet involved take-away, lollies and chips and should not be publicly seen

[nothing2lose]

HotI, I am generally not hungry . I think your body adjusts very quickly. That said, there is definitely room for improvement!! I need to snack more and up my cals a little.

I also need to exercise much, much more. But that's a whole other thread!!

[meow]

Add more fat- full fat dairy, full fat hummus, fatty cuts of meat, cooking in lard and butter etc. Great way to up your calories and so good for you

[nothing2lose]

Meow, I tend to go full fat dairy. It's hard though when I am trying to stick to 35gm fat a day

I really need to lose relatively quickly (kg a week) because I need to lose to increase chances of pregnancy. I am 41 in a few months so I really don't have time to muck around.

[MrsFabuloso]

When I am focusing on eating properly and not just eating the kids crusts and left overs!....

Coffee with low fat milk, 1 sugar
Weetbix/porridge with low fat milk tbsp honey
or toast with banana and a tbsp honey or butter and vegemite/peanut butter

green tea
muesli bar or k-time bar (or similar)

protien and salad on a multigrain bread sandwich
or tuna pasta salad
or a baked potato with baked beans in it and salad

tea/coffee w low fat milk one sugar
yogurt(full fat) and fruit

Meat and steamed veg/salad and some sort of carbs (mashed potato/rice/pasta)
spag and salad
stir fry and noodles
(ect...)

sometimes I will have fruit or 2 gingernut or arrowroot biscuits with low fat milk after dinner

2-3ltrs of water

**there are lots of variations to my menu, in particular lunches and dinners! But this is the general gist of it. Plus I might have a wine or beer or two with /after dinner.

[meow]

Eating the way I do I lost 13 kilos in a few months- and that was "low weight" kilos which are supposed to be harder to lose? I went from a BMI of 24 to 19. I don't think eating a really healthy diet is mucking around and it would do awesome things for anyone's health and fertility.

3littlemonkeys- my diet varies a lot too and was just a sample menu

[MrsFabuloso]

I am also someone who prefers to use full fat normal sugar stuff like yogurt, sweet drinks and cheese. DH for some insane reason, insists on low fat milk, so I use that, but other than that I tend not to skimp on fats like avocado, butter or olive oil in cooking. You do need a healthy amount of fat in your diet and healthy fats are good for you. I also don't do 'diet' stuff like drinks. I also find low fat/diet stuff doesn't satisfy me like full fat products do, so I tend to eat less full fat cheese/yogurt/normal cordial (whatever it is!) than when I use low fat or fake sugared foods.

[HotI]

HotI, I am generally not hungry . I think your body adjusts very quickly. That said, there is definitely room for improvement!! I need to snack more and up my cals a little.

I guess i was thinking on a few levels, one hunger, one interest (boredom) and also if you go too low with food/calories/fat whatever then your body could go into starvation mode and actually hold onto weight more or stack it on when you eat more regularly.

[nothing2lose]

I mix it up.

For instance, lunch might be a mini pizza (100gm seafood/meat, 25gm cheese, tomato, mushroom, spinach, etc on a mini wholemeal pita). Other times a bacon and egg muffin. Occasionally who grain crisp bread with various toppings.

Dinner there is lots to work with. Salad, stirfry, roast, chilli, seafood, zucchini fritters with smoked salmon...

I know I should be eating around 1600 cals. That's why I need to up it. Some days I hit it (or get close) but not often.

I am def not hungry though.

[Traveller]

I always aim for 1200 calories when losing weight and even when I was at my biggest (over 80kg) I never went into starvation mode. However I would up my calories when I was doing a lot of exercise so it was 1200 excluding exercise iyswim.

Are you finding the weight is coming off? Because if it is, and if you are not feeling hungry or fatigued then I would stick with your diet as it is. The only diet addition I would make would be the occasional freddo which is only 90 calories but adds much needed chocolate/seratonin to your diet.