What do you normally have... and how often?

Hey,

I think I did what most people do when first dieting, and... eat too little. Yesterday, I had around 800-900 calories. So I'm looking at balancing my eating so I get enough, but not too much.

What do you normally have for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and how often between do you snack, and what do you snack on?

Any help would be awesome ;)

- Michael

i'm still trying to get the hang of it, but i normally have cereal for breakfast like cheerios and fat free milk or slimfast. lunch is normally tuna with a tiny bit of mayo and mustard on bread or with trisciuts. and dinner is whatever my husband wants, but i will try to limit my portions because it usually isnt the healthiest food ever.  

Breakfast- Usually weetabix & ff milk or wheaten bread toasted

Lunch- Salad sandwich with chicken or tuna made with weightwatchers brown bread

Dinner- Fish or chicken with fresh veg (usually baby potatoes, broccolli, carrots etc) or a big bowl of home-made veg soup with a piece of granary bread

For snacks- Crispbread with cottage cheese and tomato, popcorn, low-fat chips (if I'm feeling naughty! LOL!) or ice lollies!

Hope that helps?

work out how many calories you want to eat in a day and then divide it up into meals and snacks. how often you eat is up to you, some people preffer to eat many small meals, others like fewer large meals. i personally like to divide my calories into 4 or 5 meals so i get to eat every 3 hours or so. 

so e.g. if i want to eat 1500 cals, that's 5 meals at 300 cal each. but i might have 200 for breakfast, and 400 for dinner or something. :)

Breakfast - 110 calorie Pria bar and coffee

Lunch - Something under 500 calories

Dinner - with hubby but smaller portion

I start every day with one cup of cereal (usually something high in fibre!), one cup of skim milk, fruit on the cereal (a banana, or blueberries, or strawberries), one cup of juice (usually with added fibre or probiotics or antitoxins, depending on my mood!), one container of Activia Fat Free/Added Fibre Yogurt and a cup of coffee with skim milk and one teaspoon of organic raw sugar.  (500-600 calories)

Lunch is a sandwhich with low cal bread, fat free lunch meat, fat free miracle whip or mustard, one cup of spring greens and one vegetarian cheese slice.  On the side, I'll have one cup of baby carrots, one container of Mott's Fruitopia Apple Sauce (no sugar added), a Kashi granola bar and an apple or pear.

Dinner is most often a chicken breast (topped with a melted veggie cheese slice and a quarter cup of salsa) or salmon fillet with lemon pepper, served on a bed of spring greens, and at least two cups of veggies - I try to get one dark green (brussel's sprouts or broccoli) and one lighter colour (carrots or yellow beans).  Sometimes I'll replace meat with balck beans and rice, or whole wheat pasta with half a cup of pasta sauce, a quarter cup of salsa and a cup of portabello mushrooms added!

I'm actually eating more food than I used to, am never hungry and have no problem at all keeping around 1,500 calories per day. 

breakfast- 2 slices of light wheat bread, 1/4 cup of egg whites,mushrooms,yellow squash, & broccoli with water

snack-rice cakes or medium carrot

lunch-big salad with tuna with water or light lemonade

snack-rice cakes or vegis or a couple of strawberries

dinner-chicken with vegetables ( sweet potatos,squash,turnip,brussel sprouts,cauliflower,broccoli) well not all of those in one dinner but those are ones i pick from

snack- either a cup of fiber one honey clusters cereal or 2 toasted slices of light wheat bread with better n peanut butter & fluff. or 2 rice cakes with fluff and strawberries

and i usually stay at above 1200 calories