What Did You Eat Yesterday (or today)? - ThinnerTimes - Gastric Bypass Forum, Lap Band Forum, and Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy Forum

sherry7 · 02-14-2009, 02:01 PM

I'm starting this thread for those of us who want to post our daily food intake. I, for one, am more accountable when I write things down. Even though some days I completely suck, I still like the idea of keeping myself honest.

If you'd prefer to post what you ate today (instead of yesterday), you can do that too. Anything goes!

If you can remember, please also post how far out you are, unless you have it in your signature. Because of course, the eating difference between someone 1 month out, 6 months out, several years out, etc are significant.

So here we go, peeps...

Yesterday was a very untypical day for me. I took a vacation day off work, and slept in until almost noon.

So of course, I slept right through the breakfast hours. The hubby and I then left the house for the remainder of the day.

Before leaving home - 2 Fire Roasted Tomato & Olive Oil Triscuit crackers.

Late lunch/early dinner at TGI Friday's - I ordered the 12 oz Jack Daniels New York Strip steak. (Which, by the way, completely sucked. It was overdone, dry, and gristly.) I had about 1/3 of the steak (4 oz), 3 small onion rings, about 1/8 cup of cooked mushrooms, and about 1/2 cup of mashed potatoes.

After a bit of shopping, we stopped at Sam's Club. The sample people were out in full force, as typical for a weekend. I bypassed most of them, but did have an wedge of orange.

We then stopped at an Italian grocery store, where they have sample bowls of broken biscotti at the bakery. In my warped mind, broken biscotti does not have any calories, lol. I had a tiny piece, about 1" x 2".

Late dinner after arriving at home - 1/3 cup of antipasta (from the Italian grocer).

Late evening snack - 50 pistachios (I bought a 5 lb bag at the Italian grocer).
Even later evening snack - 2 SF creamsicles
Late, late evening snack - 8 jumbo olives, stuffed with aged cheese (damn the Italian grocer for selling this delicacy to me, lol).

Water/calorie free beverages: 48 oz.
Vitamins: Yes
Exercise: None, except chewing!

Overall, this was a pretty bad day for me. I didn't even come close to getting my protein in. I didn't drink enough, and I snacked entirely too much. I didn't eat breakfast either, but since I slept through it, I'm not counting that transgression.

edit: I'm 8 1/2 months post-op.

sherry7 · 02-14-2009, 02:05 PM

I'm 8 1/2 months post-op.

Today's intake (so far):

Breakfast - Baked Oatmeal (I posted this on the Recipe board recently)
1/4 cup walnuts

Lunch - 50 pistachios
2 SF creamsicles

Snack - 1/2 cup of canned pumpkin mixed with SF FF dry butterscotch pudding. (Recipe, use 1 can of canned pumpkin and add 1 small box of SF FF pudding, your choice of flavor.)
1/4 cup walnuts

Snack - 2 Edy's no sugar added fruit popsicle

Dinner - 1/2 Santa Fe Tortilla Company whole wheat tortilla, topped with 1/2 cup of ricotta cheese, FF marinara sauce, and 3 slices of turkey pepperoni. Baked in the oven, like a pizza.

Snack - Snyder's soy chips, 1 serving. (Ick, way too salty.)
1/4 cup walnuts

Snack - 1 orange

Water/calorie free/caffeine-free beverages: 64 oz.
Vitamins: I forgot my calcium today.

Exercise: None, except chewing! (I just got a new-to-me exercise bike yesterday. I really should get off the darned computer and go use it.)

note: Today isn't turning out very well either. I'm in a "snacky" mood, and I'm craving salt. I'm blaming Aunt Flo, who came to visit yesterday. She's a real bitch, and I stopped inviting her to visit, but you know how that goes.

Godsblessedme · 02-14-2009, 02:14 PM

i'm 14 months post op

yesterday

breakfast - 1 1/2 scoops of chocolate protein with 1/2 SF cocoa 1/3rd banana
1 SB doubleshot light

lunch 1 tacobell taco
1 serving of cheezit

late night dinner
3 bites of burger and 4 french fries ( i had a craving and sadly after eating those bites regreted that) lesson learned

Today:
2 SB doubleshot Lights
1packet weight control Cinnomon oatmeal with 1/2 banana

lunch -2 steak nuggets
shut up......1 triple venti skinny vanilla latte

dinner: 1 beef hotdog with baked beans

sherry7 · 02-14-2009, 02:22 PM

Thanks for posting Deb.

I hope we can get a bunch of us posting daily to this thread. It doesn't matter how far out you are, or even if you're still doing the pre-op diet. It's all about being accountable to yourself.

Corrine · 02-14-2009, 04:07 PM

Just a thought but it might be of help to list your calorie and nutritional breakdown if possible. It's not always about how much you eat but where those calories are coming from too.

Anyway - it's only just about 3.00 p.m. here so this is yesterday's:

Early: 1 cup ff milk + pure whey stack (1/2 before exercise, 1/2 afterwards).

B: 1/2 cup ff homemade yogurt (strained) + 1/4 cup TVP + 3oz fresh blueberries

S: 1 slice 16-grain bread toasted + 1/2 cup B&M no sugar added Baked Beans + small apple

L: small mixed green salad + 1/2 cup cherry toms + 4 large shrimp + 3 large olives

S: 1/2 cup grapes + medium peach

S: 1/2 cup ff homemade yogurt (strained) + small banana + 1tbs ground flax

D: 3oz Chinook smoked salmon (lox), 2 stalks celery, 1/2 cup sliced srawberries

S: 1oz unblanched almonds + 1 cup watermelon

S: 3 Sunsweet prunes

S: 1 cup ff milk + Davincci sf coffee syrup

1,721 calories

(30.3g fat - 16%)
(240.6g carbs - 50%)
(135.5g protein - 33%)

I limit the starchy carbs to 2 small servings a day (the bread and banana from that list). Carbs from ff milk and ff yogurt I don't worry about, nor those from fruit and vegetables.

sherry7 · 02-14-2009, 05:17 PM

The nutritional stats are a good idea Corrine. I don't currently use fitday.com (or whichever you use), so I don't have that info. Which one DO you use? I looked at a couple of the different options, but it seems awfully hard to find the different foods, and use the recipe builders.

I can see you're a snacker Corrine, but it seems like your calories, etc are very suitable for someone who is trying to maintain. I'm amazed at the amount of protein you manage to get in.

loki8481 · 02-14-2009, 05:31 PM

today:

breakfast -- 12 ounces of calorie counter milk + carnation instant breakfast
lunch -- 1 cup trader joe's canned chicken chili with beans + pinch of low-fat shredded cheese
dinner -- I just had a slice of roast beef + american cheese... going out with my friends in a bit but I don't know if dinner is part of the plan or not, so I had half of what I'd normally have for dinner and if we *do* go out, I'll just have something small and pick at it. if we don't, I'll have another ounce or two of roast beef when I get home.

moniram8 · 02-14-2009, 05:46 PM

hey i am liking this thread already.....yesterdays food is a blur to me

so i am gonna go with today so far.....but the food has been not typical
for me either today, i was out since early, and have been driving all day...actually i have been in 3 different states today lol

Breakfast...ordered a feta cheese/mushroom 2 egg omelet, ate 1/3 of it
wasnt really hungry....but a BOATLOAD of coffee already by this point lol

skipped lunch.....D R I V I N G !!! i do alot of driving and somehow get nowhere...lol my car is alittle over a year old and i have almost 30,000 miles on it.

snack....about 2 ounces of trail mix

Dinner was a treat....picked up my daughter from college for the weekend....she is in culinary school....and she brought me a personal sized spinach/sausage quiche that she made for me...it was prob about 6 ounces, ate ALL of it minus some crust(not much lol)

7:30pm here have had 48 ounces of water and 1,000 ounces of coffee so far lol
all vitamins done too
I am sure i will have something else to eat today.....finish my water...and down some more coffee

LizzieShell · 02-14-2009, 05:49 PM

Breakfast
.25 cp Egg substitute
1 sl 2% Cheese

Snack
1 - Dannon Lite & Fit Yogurt

Lunch
5 cp 1 % cottage cheese lowfat
.33 cp crushed Pineapple packed in juice

Snack
.5 oz pistachio nuts, dry roasted, with salt added

Dinner
1.5 sl Tomato & Artichoke Pizza thin crust w/ cheese (cut off the extra crust on the end)

Snack
1 scoop Syntrax Sweets Protein Chocolate

Cal 978
Fat 32.2
carbs 101.8
protein 74.8

Godsblessedme · 02-14-2009, 06:03 PM

wow you guys are really eating healthy! i'm impressed i must be the only "loser" not good "looser" in the bunch geesh Corrine your choices are so wonderful and Sherry you are the chef!