What did YOU eat today?

Don't list the calories, don't list the exercise, don't list portion sizes.

None of those pesky numbers, since we all are different.

One person can need 1400 a day, while another can need 2,500, and it can be really triggering to see someone ate a lower number than yourself.

Therefore, just list the food you ate. This will help us understand the value of eating healthy food (for the nutrients), while also indulging moderately in empty calories when we want. I don't know about you, but I'm aiming for 90% healthy foods - and 10% empty calories. ;)

Also, do not post here if you are starving yourself. I'm not interested in the details, it is only going to get others riled up, and it is triggering to those of us trying to recover from an eating disorder. Okay, thank-you.

Here's me for today:

Breakfast: slept far too late
Lunch: sandwich (100% whole wheat bread, garden burger veggie medley patty, soy dijon "mayo", pickle, lettuce), dried apricots, diet soda, tums, vitamin
Snack: apple, no salt added raw almond butter
Dinner: corn, bell peppers, sugar-snap peas, lettuce, firm tofu, soy dressing, tums
Snack: soy delicious peanut butter zig zag! yumm.

Breakfast - toast with flaxseeds

Lunch - leftover pork with yellow bell pepper and crackers

Snack - fruit loops and watermelon

Dinner - not sure yet...

breakfast: half cup nonfat yogurt mixed with half cup oatmeal: ten cherries

snack: two apples

lunch: a quarter cup quinoa with cinnamon, egg white omelette with guacamole and smoked salmon, asparagus

snack: greens with a half cup white, skinless chicken; activia yogurt with four slices pineapple

dinner: maybe a grilled salmon with zucchini...?

b-rice krispies with skimmed milk,bunch of grapes and coffee
l-maginum ice cream
d-two fish cakes with can of soup and low calorie hot chocolate

breakfast: mug of coffee w/ff creamer and equal, vanilla slimfast optima shake

lunch: reduced fat peanut butter on 2 slices of lite bread, orange, celery w/ reduced fat peanut butter

snack: 100 calories worth of low fat animal crackers, apple

dinner: planning on weight watchers entree, salad w/fat free dressing

snack: 1/2 cup orange sherbet

B- Bowlf of kashi go lean crunch and skim milk

snack- oatmeal

lunch- spring mix salad with beans, avocado, almonds, and baby carrots, and some cherries and strawberries

snack- peach

snack- kashi honey almond flax granola bar

dinner- pita pizza with tomato sauce, skim cheese and pineapple tomatoes and steamed veggies

snack vanilla yogurt and blueberries and maybe some rice cakes or something else sweet 

Before I registered, I read a forum where folks were disucssing the pros and cons of sweeteners.  Some discssed Splenda's pros, with the absence of Aspertame and Saccharin.  I personally develop headaches from Aspertame, so don't use it.  The cancer issue is still out on Saccharin, so I don't use that, either.  However, I'd like to recommend a sweetener I use called "Super Stevia Extract," a "sweet'n natural powder."  It comes in a 9.73 oz. (276g.) container that holds about 315 servings.  According to the label, SSE is an herbaceous plant (herb) that is grown in countries such as Brazil, Paraguay, Mexico and China.  Stevia has been used in these and many other countries for more than a millenium.  SSE contains Steviosides, the sweet glycosides, from the Stevia Leaf, which are 200-300 times stronger than sugar.  SSE is calorie free, Saccharin free and Aspertame free.  One-third level teaspon tastes like one level teaspoon of sugar.  It's a powder which you sprinkle on food or stir into beverages to suit your taste.  I have never experienced any after-taste and use it regularly in coffee and tea.  Just thought you'd like to know. 

i had a slice of chocolate cake from Costco =(
also had a lean cuisine for lunch & a large handful of TJ's flaxseed chips + pineapple salsa. i feel horrible!!

Breakfast: Cheese quesadilla, yogurt, plum

Snack: Multigrain wheat thins and hummus

Lunch: Pastrami sandwich on whole grain bread with avocado, onions, cheese, and a salad with french dressing, onions, avocado, cherry tomatoes

Snack: Pineapple

Dinner: Grilled cajun chicken and grilled squash

Green peas + half a chicken breast + a slice of chocolate cake (it's my dad's birthday) + a tbsp of vanilla icecream + 3 cups of milk, and of course tap water.  For dinner I'll have some chicken liver with onions and a tomato.

So far...

I took a grapple to work with me, and when I got home I made a quasi-grilled cheese in the toaster oven. Lite wheat bread, slice of cheese and a teeny bit of light margarine. I had a little vegetable juice and small bag of Smartfood popcorn with that.

I'm still hungry...

preworkout- yoplait light, strawberry

breakfast- oatmeal,almonds,strawberries

lunch-spaghetti squash with leftover chicken and broccoli florets

snack-golden spoon yogurt (so yummy)

snack-wasa crackers with jelly

snack-orange with strawberries

snack-some 100 cal popcorn

(i know a lot of snacks)

dinner-undecided...

Breakfast - Oatmeal, Milk, Banana, Coffee

Lunch - chicken fajita w/ veggies, no cheese/tortilla, apple slices, diet coke

Dinner - Picante chicken, baked butternut squash, raw veggies, apple & grape salad

Snack - 1 square Lindt Chocolate - got to have my chocolate fix or I will never make it on my diet.

Water intake - 7 glasses

11am: toast with eggs and salsa (yeah. i had 2 eggs and 2 more egg whites.)

430pm: HUGE salad with tuna, cucs, peppers, a lowfat string cheese, carrots and salsa.... 2 clemintines.

9pm:chicken breast with a bit of stuffing and a ton of BBQ sauce.


worked from noon-830 with JUST a lunch break. So grr.

Breakfast:  2 slices diet whole wheat bread, lettuce, tomato, 4 slices bacon, 1 TBSP Miracle Whip (a BLT sandwich)

Snack:  1 cup seedless grapes

Lunch:  another BLT (had a craving and it was only 350 calories)

Snack:  celery w/peanut butter

Dinner:  2-egg omelette with onion, green pepper, garlic, ham and cheese

Snack:  1 cup seedless grapes

ugh today was REALLY bad...

-oatmeal with homemade blueberry syrup and fresh blueberries
-salad with romain, cucumbers, carrots, tomatoes and homemade balsamic mustard dressing
-watermelon
-puffins peanut butter cereal
-saltines
-ikea dinner (haha): swedish meatballs, lingonberry, half a roll, a little salad with fat free raspberry vinegrette
-reese's ice cream and waffle cones
-cashews
-chips and guacamole
-a little dark chocolate

Breakfast: Fiber One bar, 1% milk
Lunch: Tofu and Veggie Stir-Fry with low sodium teryaki sauce, brown rice, Diet Coke
Snack: Multigrain bread with natural peanut butter
Dinner: Chili with meat and veggies, lettuce, reduced fat cheese, tomato
Water throughout the day

b-medium bowl rice krispies with skimmed milk,banana and coffee
l-tuna pasta salad,8 strawberries,packet of wine gums
s-muller corner yoghurt
d-healthy living frozen micowave meal with low calorie hot chocolate 
  anyone else aim to have 1200 calories?

I haven't had everything yet, but this is what I'm planning...

Breakfast
Low fat yogurt
A slice of whole wheat toast

Snack
Strawberries

Lunch
Egg white omelet with salsa
A small oatmeal cookie

Snack
Fiber One cereal
Skim milk

Dinner
Stir fry (veggies, egg white, etc.)
CORN!  (I love corn!)

Dessert
Popcorn with cinnamon and splenda (mm, tastes like cinnamon sugar toast!)

breakfast: toast with flaxseed

lunch: pork tenderloin with crackers

snack: coffee + 4 cookies (not so good)

dinner: chicken and potatoes

Breakfast - strawberries

snack - coffee

lunch - chicken and corn

dinner - no idea!