a 'maintenance'..what do YOU eat?!

Does anyone know if there is a 'maintenance' What did YOU eat today? If so, can someone direct me there? If not...can there be one? I just want to get an idea of what 'maintaining' really means for many people. :)

I don't know if there is a forum already... but lets make this one for maintenance :)

I'm 5'4, 110 pounds and eat around 2000cal

For breakfast so far (It's 4am and I have work at 5:30am)

-cup of cooked steel cut oats (mixed in protein powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, flax seed, stevia)

-half a cup of frozen blueberries and about a half of a cup of frozen mangoes mixed with a forth cup of fiber one and a half a weetabix biscuit with some soy milk. (and a little stevia and protein powder)

-before I go to work I'm going to have about a half cup of fat free cottage cheese and about a teaspoon of peanut butter mixed together. :)

I definitely eat a lot in the morning otherwise I'd get too hungry at work!

i just started maintaining on sunday, but i plan on eating about the same.  i'll just add a few more calories now & then.  hopefully good calories.

i'm gonna slow down on the exercise now too.  :D  well, slow down on the walking & do more exercise instead.  i need to try to tone up now!

good luck!

Cool, I love reading "what did you eat" threads...

So far...

Protein shake(after workout@5am); 2nd breakfast; fage yogurt mixed with a nectarine, a banana and fiber one cereal.  Topped off with coffee.

I will be back after lunch!

1 Cup Life Cereal Plain

1 Cup Skim Milk

1 Apple

325 Calories

Hmm, good question, good post!  Today, starting from the AM:

• Coffee.
• Whey Protein Shake.
• MultiGrain English Muffin w. cream cheese and SF Jelly (trying to be low on the sugars.  I know "fake" sugar is just as bad, it's just my "mind" thing) w/ whole strawberries.
• Whole wheat wrap w/ ham, cheeze and brocolli slaw. Topped w/ dressing.
• Yogurt mixed w/ blueberries.
• Apple.
• Salad and Pizza w/ green peppers.
• Planning on rasberries w/ whiped cream.

So, I seem like a cow, grazing.  Was yummy eating day.  I look and beleive I have met all the food pyramid guidlines, oinking on the pizza : )

This is a follow up for the rest of the day...

lunch- spinach salad with heirloom tomato, cucumbers, onions, mozzarella cheese and french dressing.  Cottage cheese.

snack-rice krispies and sf pudding

dinner-spaghetti squash with tofu, mushrooms, onions, green peppers and fire roasted tomatoes.  Salad with tomato, cucumbers and peppers.

snack- vitabrownie, peanut butter and milk

 

here's what I ate yesterday (i think):

breakfast: cereal and semi-skimmed milk

lunch: a six-inch 'lite' sub and a diet coke

snack: coffee light frappucino?

dinner: pasta 'puttanesca' with side salad (no dressing), strawberries and a spoonful of greek yoghurt for dessert.

snack: options hot choc, apricot cereal bar

much later: milk and coffee

Original Post by kellygoff:

Cool, I love reading "what did you eat" threads...

So far...

Protein shake(after workout@5am); 2nd breakfast; fage yogurt mixed with a nectarine, a banana and fiber one cereal.  Topped off with coffee.

I will be back after lunch!

 I heart second breakfast!

Protein shake pre-workout (waited an hour then worked out)

Second brakfast - oatmeal with ripe dates, walnuts, ripe banana and cinnamon (my new favorite oatmeal combo) a couple of tablespoons of thawed strawberries (while I was waiting on the oatmeal) and unsweetened organic soy milk, green tea

Snack prunes and pumpkin seeds

Std lunch salad (which I made while my protein shake was digesting) - romaine, tomato, cuke, beets, radish, green olives, can o' tuna, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, green pepper

snack  - granny smith apple and handful cashews (like 8 or so), espresso

snack - working late :( - cup of cherries, 20 grams dark chocolate

Dinner was a little late, so I went smallish - broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, lentils/peas leftover dish from earlier this week

Last snack about a dozen longkong (like lychees)

Breakfast- A blueberry bagel with lowfat strawberry jam.

Lunch- Lowfat chicken noodle soup, whole grain roll.

Snack- An apple.

Dinner- Fresco Crunchy Taco. =o

Dessert- Whole wheat English muffin.

breakfast:

1/2 cup of oatmeal, scoop of kashi vanilla protein powder, dash of light vanilla soymilk, 1/4 cup of kashi golean crunch (I mix it all together into the oatmeal and it's amazzzzzzing)

2 cups of coffee w/ ff French vanilla coffee mate

lunch:

sandwich

nectarine

 

snack:

smores luna bar

baby carrots

 

dinner:

dunno yet...

Yesterday:

1st Breakfast- protein shake

2nd Breakfast- Kashi cereal mixed with fiber one and soy milk

Lunch- Salad with green beans, tomatos, cukes, and onions.  Cottage cheese

Snack- cheese sandwich, baby carrots and mixed berries

Dinner- spicy bean salad with black beans, corn, grilled peppers and brown rice.

Dessert- sugar cookie, with peanut butter and soy milk

Yesterday:

morning: cereal w/semi-skimmed milk

lunch: (v. yummy) brown bread roll, deli ham, light philly cheese and lettuce!

snack: strawberry nutri grain

dinner: spaghetti w/ a little bolognese, lettuce

dessert: apple, small cookie, coffee

THEN I was a little bad :(...a few handfuls of crisps, a creme egg and diet coke while watching greys anatomy...

and at like, midnight i couldn't sleep and i got the muchies AGAIN so i ate a small piece of cheese

breakfast: two cups of coffee (I know... I know) vegan muffin, berry mix pack from whole foods

lunch: salad, sandwich, few bites of canned salmon (I'm a college kid... I know it's kinda gross but whatever) and and apple

dinner: probably something with the left over salmon

breakfast- coffee w/ soymilk, 1/3 cup oatmeal with 1 tsp brown sugar, sprinkled with crushed walnuts

lunch- 300g spaghetti+meat sauce

snack- large nectarine

snack- 1tbsp organic peanut butter

dinner- 1 hamburger with bun (topped with lettuce, tomato, onion, mayo, mustard, ketchup), 2 glasses red wine

desert- half a mango

Breakfast; Almond date cereal, organic lowfat 1% milk, half a banana.

Lunch; Skippy peanutbutter, 6 slices of a banana, wholewheat bread, 1 asian pear, wrist size of gluten-free pretzels, wrist size of honey combs.

Snack; Vita bluebran muffin.

Dinner; Organic frenchfries, Ketchup [Less sugar], Whole wheat bread, Organic mustard, Meatless Boca burger.

=]

Yesterdays menu

1st Breakfast- banana protein shake (after work out)

2nd Breakfast- fage yogurt with peaches and fiber one cereal

Lunch- omelet with swiss cheese tomatoes and spinach.  Salad with cucumbers, peppers and tomatoes

snack-big ol'bowl of watermelon

dinner- spaghetti squash with sauteed tomatoes, mushrooms and onions, topped with grilled tofu.  spinach salad with cucumber, tomatoes and peppers.

I know, the same side salad for lunch and dinner.  My garden started producing like crazy while I was out of town for a few days and I have an enormous amount of cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers! :)

yesterday- though i don't think i ate enough, because i swam four hours and probably only ate 2000-ish (not counting calories right now)

breakfast: peanut butter granola, banana, 2% milk

snack: powerbar pria

snack: baby carrots

snack: string cheese

lunch: peanut butter, honey, and apple sandwich on soy bread; plain yogurt mixed with rest of apple and cinnamon, collard greens

snack: handful of almonds/craisins

dinner: chicken breast, barley primavera, asparagus, broccoli, spinach

dessert: dark chocolate

snack: nectarine

breakfast: protein shake, kashi mixed with fiber one and soy milk

lunch: whole wheat pasta and brussel sprouts

snack: fage yogurt, peaches and granola

dinner: whole wheat pizza with olives and mushrooms and salad with garden salad

snack: peanut butter and graham crackers

snack: triscuits and cheddar cheese

Yummy day!

A more "normal" day for me:

B:  Protein skake

B2: Wheat toast buttered w/ preserves and scrambled eggs

S: Blueberies w/ dollop of cream

L: Hamburg w/ cheese on wheat bun (lettuce, tomatoes), handful of baked Lays

S: Yogurt and apple

D: Dinner Salad, summer squash mixed veggies and sirloin steak

Planned "dessert" a scoop of vanilla ice cream ... a good ol' fashioned Ice Cream Cone!

i try to eat 2400. though i usually end up around 2200-2300