De-lurking! Please have a look at my menu…
Hi All!
I have been lurking on this board for awhile now and thought it was time for me to come out from hiding! I am a 31 year old F, married and have two kids, aged 11 and 9. I currently weigh 188lbs and I’m 5′7".
I have been doing atkins on and off for the past several years now and decided that I needed to be serious about this and make this a lifestyle and not just a diet to fit into something.
This is my typical daily menu – please have a look, I welcome any and all advice, comments and suggestions:
B: Egg drop soup (1 1/3 cup organic chicken broth, 2 eggs, 1 tbsp parm cheese, 1 tsp hot sauce) or
2 scrambled eggs w/ 1/2 avocado
S: cottage cheese (1/2 cup) and flax muffin or
coffee with 1 tbsp cream and 1 tbsp davicni syrup
L: Chicken salad (4 oz chicken breast with homemade mayo), coleslaw or green salad (2 cups) w/ 1-2 tbsp dressing or
spaghetti squash (1 cup) with diced chicken or meat with tomato sauce
with diet rite
S: 12 walnuts or
celery with organic peanut butter
D: Grilled chicken breast or steak with green beans (1cup) fried in butter or w/ green salad w 1 tbsp dressing
S: sugar-free jello or a handful of strawberries
I also drink about 2-3L water every day with lunch/dinner and in between. And I do tae-bo 5 times a week and yoga 2 times a week.
Is this too much/too little food for me? Am I missing anything? I’m currently following atkins OWL.
Thanks for your help!!
CJ
March 20th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Sounds pretty darn good for an OWL level WOE. Are you losing or maintaining? Are you being totally honest with your average menus, or are you letting any "carb creep" in there?
From what you’ve posted, if I were on that and wanted to cut back any, I’d probably do the following:
-Take a look at the cottage cheese. This is one of the few foods I’ve found where a lower fat (but not fat free) version isn’t packed with a lot more carbs and is just as good.
-How much flax is in the flax muffin, and how much "other" stuff? Wouldn’t be hard to make your own in batches of a dozen or so and put in more flax meal and less of the "other".
-Make sure your coleslaw isn’t a hidden source of sugar (you didn’t mention if it was homemade)
-See if there’s a slightly lower carb version of your tomato or spaghetti sauce. Every little bit counts.
-Double-check for "carb creep" – things you don’t think of as having carbs in small quantities that in fact do have some…
-Keep a log of every bite/sip that goes into your mouth for a week, and then use Fitday to get a good look at some exact numbers, and make your decisions from there.
And remember, since you’re in Canada, 1 gram of US carb is actually something like 1.28 grams Canadian… (sorry…couldn’t resist)
March 20th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
WELCOME ABOARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 20th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Welcome! Lots of great advice here. Good Luck!
March 20th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Thank you so much!!!
Wolfgang, I’m going to look at a lower fat cottage cheese next time I’m grocery shopping. My coleslaw is homemade (acv, salt and homemade mayo). The flax muffins have about 2 tbsp of flax per muffin and 2 tbsp of ground pecans.
I’m just starting out so not losing or maintaining yet – I’ll let you know in a couple weeks!
Thanks for your suggestions – it’s really appreciated!!