I have had a request from a friend and family to put up some of the foods that I am eating, I thought I would oblidge because it frankly sounded like a fantastic idea and I had been planning to do that anyway.
I have only hit over 2000 calories once (2015) and that was the same day that I hit 20 carbs for the day. Most days I stay in under the goals with relative ease, what kills me is snacking (or trying to snack) and condiments. This is another topic for another day unfortunately.
So far, a whopping 4 days that is, I have pretty much eaten a variety of 7 or 8 different things. Mostly eggs, chicken, fish (I don't even usually like this), ham, cream cheese, cheese, broccoli and squash. I'm still kind of new at this diet thing, so I'm trying to figure out what other foods that are both low carb and lower calorie in nature. From what I've figured out, as long as everything is in moderation and pretty plain, most meats, cheeses and some vegetables fit the bill nicely. I'm currently trying to come up with more vegetables that I can eat I've come across a few, which is good.
The day I went over calories I ate the following: (for some reason they don't add up, but whatever)
Carbs Calories
4 sausage links - 3 250
3 Eggs (scrambled, no milk) - 0 300
6 Slice Ham - 0 350
2l5 oz Cream Cheese 5 175
1 cup Chicken 3 300
1 cup squash 8 100
1 tbs butter 0 100
30 Peperoni Slices 0 300
1 cheese stick 1 80
2 water flavor packets 0 20
2 Bottles of Water 0 0
1 Can Vanilla Coke Zero 0 0
I usually eat 2 or 3 small meals and 2 or 3 even smaller meals. You may notice a soda up there, which I have been unsuccessfully trying to cut out of my life for years. I figure one can a day won't kill me, especially if there is nothing but water and flavored water to drink.
If there is no soda or flavor packets for me to enjoy, I am forced to drink plain water. Which I don't really like. This is my fourth bottle today.
I've been trying to create and design meals that are a little more exciting and a little less plain. Today I started that off on the right foot, and had a salad for dinner.
The salad consists of a lot of things I would have put into it before, just less exciting. It's a less exciting version of a buffalo chicken salad!
Carbs Calories
2.5 cups Salad- 2 10
2 cheese sticks - 2 140
4 oz chicken - 4 100
4 tbs Blue Cheese dressing 4 600
1 tbs hot sauce 0 0
This meal was actually pretty light for a dinner, usually vegetables eat up most of my carbs, this was really spread out between things. The dressing was really a splurge, in both carbs and especially in calories. unfortunately, low calorie things are generally higher in carbs, so I am choosing the higher calorie count over the higher carb count.
Basicly, my philosophy is to eat everything as bland as possible, and to religiously read labels and make sure the food is relatively accurately measured. I always err on the side of caution when estimating the calories and carbs in my foods, that way I'm never drastically over what I have written. For things that don't have labels I look all over the internet, kinda just plug it into Google and give the best estimate based on the results.
Tomorrow's post should be interesting, I'm going out for lunch for the first time since I started the diet, same with Saturday night. It will be a challenge that's for sure since I'm going out for Mexican tomorrow and Italian on Saturday. I'll be sure to carefully document what I eat, and I hopefully won't go too crazy. I'm a little nervous. I wish this was later in the diet so I could take a cheat day, but this is back to back not even a day apart.
p.s. I'm aware the lists are messed up. I'll figure out how to work it out eventually I hope. If anyone has some tips let me know.
Happy Eating!
