Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Breakfast - steel cut oats with peanut butter and soymilk, touch of brown sugar. - about 400 calories
pre-workout snack: orange - 100 calories?
lunch: lean cuisine, homemade vegetable soup (just veggies and broth) - 400 calories
snack: 1 cup of nonfat greek yogurt, small homemade granola square - 200 calories
dinner: rice and beans (indian style) with steamed spinach. -500 calories

So around 1600 calories, and a solid 1 hour workout. This is a typical day - though one or two days I hit 1900 calories. (I track what I eat, and measure my food) I work out four days per week. I am overweight - 6', 215 pounds.

So is this a maintenance diet for you or are you losing weight with this intake?

Losing, but very, very slowly - five pounds over the last three months.

I just wanted to post an update. I'm the slow-losing, 1600 calorie eating poster. Six weeks ago, I started using myfitnesspal, and saw the group "Eat More to Weigh Less". I thought it was crazy. I now average around 2000 calories a day, some days as high as 2300. I rarely go below 1900 (about once a week). I work out 5 days a week, burning off about 3600 calories per week (I use a HRM to calculate.) And the weight is dropping. I've lost a pound a week the last 6 weeks, as opposed to the snail's pace of weight loss I was at before.

I'm convinced that eating less just kills your metabolism, makes you sluggish and makes you burn even less. My workouts are better than ever, and I am in even better shape than before.

Yesterday:

1am: Greek yogurt plain 1/2 c

7 am: an apple. And half a chicken thigh

Noon: 2 tj chix sausage, broccoli and a piece of chocolate.

Dinner: 2pcs tilapia, bok choy, zucchini shreds with garlic and mushroom and Parmesan cheese and more chocolate.

Not fat. 5'5" and 135, 10 lbs to lose. And I walked 6 miles and worked all night---got off at 8 and had a stupid inservice almost til noon.

Baby Back Ribs flavored Herr's potato chips. 10 pounds overweight.

Today:

Breakfast: granola bar

Lunch: pasta salad (quinoa pasta with feta, Italian dressing, provolone, salami, ham, cucumbers, tomatoes)

Snacks:
Yogurt
Strawberries
Dark chocolate
Smart puffs

Dinner: parmesan veggies (broccoli and cauliflower) with breaded chicken and rice.

I either go for a walk or run almost everyday. Would like to lose about 10 pounds (have been losing weight since December, hoping to get close to my college weight). I honestly don't know how some people eat so little, I'd be on the floor.

Backed on track after a chocolate filled weekend.

Egg cup (bacon, kale, tomato)
Handful sunflower/pepita mix
Five macadamia nuts
Spinach salad with radishes, grilled salmon
sunshine sauce (google it, for real) with snap peas
Two bora bora fireballs (again, google)
Grilled chicken thighs with zucchini noodles in olive oil and garlic

A dark chocolate truffle

Lite english muffin w/ 1 pat butter
Banana

zumba

egg white omelette w/mushrooms, spinach, onion
1 bite of DD's french toast
1 choc chip cookie

1 ww bun
2 hamburgers
2 ears of corn w/ salt
cabbage salad

Bowl of fresh strawberries (plain)

Dark chocolate Godiva pearls

Cheeseburger

Tart fro-yo w/ kiwi/pineapple/blackberries

Soon I will have a handful of cherry tomatoes.

And before bed I will have a Pb bownie.

Walked 4 miles.

Today was fun....

Two chocolate truffles and a cup of coffee in bed (thanks dh)
A bacon egg and cheese sandwich at northside social
Grilled salmon, prosciutto wrapped asparagus, steak, salad
A slice of angel food cake, strawberries, and a scoop of rocky road ice cream

Happy mothers day!

Nice healthy omelette with spinach and mushrooms and a soy latte

Tjs tuna in green curry sauce

Way too much at a Brazilian churrascaria. Brie, my weight in meat, shrimp, espresso martinis....

Hot chocolate

Everything bagel w/ lite chive cream cheese

Lemon sorbet

Salad: romaine. Avocado. Red pepper. Cherry tomatoes. Carrots. Large white beans. Chick peas. Artichoke hearts. Salamis. Fresh parmesan.

Peanut butter chocolate brownie.

Walked 3 miles.

no, not fat.

bacon, egg and cheese on english muffin.
coffee with half-half, sugar.

leftover spaghetti and meatballs.

3-4 oreos.
apple.
strawberries

lots of water and ice tea.

coffee ice cream for dinner.

Ugh, yesterday sucked.

Egg cup, lara bar, bar association conference lunch (salad, some kind of hotel chicken with creamy sauce, roasted potatoes, sauteed cabbage and a mini custard), chicken sausage and roasted tomatoes for dinner, about ten black olives.

conferences always get me off track, wish I could cheat with GOOD food instead of hotel or airline catering.

Breakfast: Coffee and English Muffin with feta
Snack: 2 strawberries
Lunch: Chicken Souvlaki with Rice pilaf
Snack: Tortilla Chips with homemade salsa
Dinner: Salmon, Couscous, Broccoli
Dessert: Chocolate treat I picked up at Starbucks

5'4 and 128 lbs. Not fat...skinny overall but could lose a few lbs in my mid section.

Coffee

Handful of toffee covered peanuts

Leftover rotisserie chicken with ketchup (2drumstix and pretty much everything else but the breasts...oink)

Bites of dd's pbj and zucchini sticks

About 5 manderine oranges throughout the day

Dinner: 1 and 1/2 huge slices of pizza

2 glasses of red wine

Lollipop

...the night isn't over....

I'm 5'4" and normally about 105lb, but I'm 10 weeks pp and still bfing and about 123lb

cereal w/ banana and soy milk
vitamuffin
small salad and handful of nuts
carrots w/ hummus
popcorn
chicken & broccoli
poptart

a little overweight and very pregnant.