Anonymous wrote:I need more variety in my diet meals. I typically eat eggs, fruit, measured cereals, almond milk, celery sticks and peanut butter, sugar-free Jello and puddings, one ingredient banana ice cream and two ingredient oatmeal banana cookies. Dinner is a typical dinner with meat, starch and vegetable in small portions.

I tend towards fewer carbs that what you have listed here and more lean protein and lots and lots of greens.

Bell peppers and a bit of homemade hummus for a snack, or raw fennel/carrots with some light dip, or lightly steamed broccoli with some spice and salt seasoning. Salads with grilled fish (from last night's dinner) for lunch. Low fat cheese sticks and fat free plain yogurts for breakfast. I don't have much fruit if really dieting (esp. not bananas) and don't limit the amount of dinner veggies at all ... so we might have roast cauliflower and asparagus and a green salad with lean pork loin. But everyone is different ... some do better with no meat at all and high fiber grains.

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Anonymous wrote: IMO, a diet is just a bad idea. It implies temporary.

"Diet" more often (in today's vernacular) refers to food and drink regularly consumed. When I see my doctor and she asks "How's your diet?", that is to what she is referring.

Did you read the OP? This is not how she used the term diet. It can be used as an intransitive verb, ya know.

Anonymous wrote: IMO, a diet is just a bad idea. It implies temporary.

"Diet" more often (in today's vernacular) refers to food and drink regularly consumed. When I see my doctor and she asks "How's your diet?", that is to what she is referring.

Salads with homemade oil and vinegar dressing, all vegetables. Lots and lots of cooked vegetables of all kinds, mostly steamed or sauted in olive oil with onions. Lots of broiled or grilled fish. Brown rice. Hummus and whole wheat pita. Low fat yogurt. Oatmeal. apples.

Cobb salads, protein shakes

Well, I don't diet, but did make a pretty severe lifestyle change when I, went from 180-140 (5'9"). Today I had an omlette, tunasalad sandwich, and am eating mung bean sprouts (saute with soysauce and sesame oil), but this is only because I'm having ribs tonight for dinner.

All in all I try to stay away from unecessary carbs and try to limit the cheese. Staples?

-Lentils
-chicken sausage
-Avocado
-Raw nuts of all kinds (except peanuts and cashews)
-Yogurt
-Tuna Salad
-Cold Pork and bean salad
-Cold Salmon/Chickpea salad
-eggs, eggs, eggs and more eggs
-Beef Jerkey (home made so I know what is in it)
-StirFry
-Cold Quinoa/Superfood salad with Shrimp
-Green Kale Smoothies

Basially I would say the basis of most of my meals starts with a bean/legume of some sort and then I work out from there. I cannot avoid carbs, as I work out a lot and need the energy, but I do try to avoid junky carbs, such as chips, and keep my pasta consumption limited to heavy exercise days.

IMO, a diet is just a bad idea. It implies temporary.

Oatmeal- low sugar version. Very filling and satisfying!

All things in moderation.

I need more variety in my diet meals. I typically eat eggs, fruit, measured cereals, almond milk, celery sticks and peanut butter, sugar-free Jello and puddings, one ingredient banana ice cream and two ingredient oatmeal banana cookies. Dinner is a typical dinner with meat, starch and vegetable in small portions.