For Those Over 6 Months Out..

[AngieG0410 52]

An you please post a sample day menu (including Snacks and amounts)? I am 1 week out and need some encouragement that I will indeed eat again. Lol.

[kayte819 95]

I am 12 wks out & I eat, although I eat very differently than I used to. A great too is myfitnesspal.com - you can send friend requests & view other people's food diaries. It's a great tool for tracking your daily calories & Protein, as well as getting ideas of what others eat. Feel free to send me a friend request. My user name is Kayte819 on there as well. Here's a sample of my typical day:

Breakfast: large iced coffee w/ a large amt of 2% milk & splenda. (I hate milk otherwise, but it's a good source of protein)

A.m. snack: RTD Muscle milk light vanilla latte flavor

Lunch: Ceasar salad w/ grilled chicken. Eat chicken first & a couple bites of salad

Dinner: seared ahi tuna & sauteed spinach

P.m. snack: chocolate Power Crunch bar

I drink lots of Water or unsweetened iced tea.

You will eat again! The 1st 5 weeks were really difficult for me, but hang in there....it gets better! And I've lost I've lost 51 lbs since 1/28/12,despite several long stalls & several poor food choices

[BlackBerryJuice 349]

19+ months out. I suppose this is not a "typical" day because I'm on call at the hospital from 7 AM to 10 PM, so it's an eat-whenever-you-can kind of deal and I brought everything from home.

Bfast: chicken caesar salad (random, I know)

Snack: 1 packet oatmeal with 1% milk, tbsp Peanut Butter, and 1/2 scoop chocolate PB Protein powder

Snack: 1 Oikos yogurt

Snack: banana

(Very) late lunch: 1 shrimp quesadilla with some guac and sour cream

Snack: grapefruit

Snack: another Oikos yogurt

Dinner: probably another bowl of oatmeal with PB/protein powder

[Bedhead 158]

I'm only 10 weeks out but here's a typical day for me:

Breakfast- 1/4 cup of egg whites and a slice of cheddar cheese (not the american cheese slices)

Snack- 4oz Breakstone Cottage cheese

Lunch- Spinach stuffed shell (stuffed with ricotta cheese, cottage cheese, diced spinach, and spices)

Dinner- 1/2 - 3/4 homemade hamburger patty with ketchup, french style green Beans, tiny bite of baked Beans

Evening snack- String cheese/Greek Yogurt with fresh fruit/Frozen yogurt/More egg whites