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have a small snack every 3 hours or so. stick with high fiber and high protein. fruit can be a good filler too.
Some days I get hungry too if I have yogurt and oatmeal in the morning.
Something simple like toast with peanut butter and/or an apple can help tide me over until a more reasonable lunch time.
For breakfast I have been eating oatmeal or Special K Protein Plus or Protein Shakes. I usally eat around 7:45 and by 10:30 I'm hungry and need a snack. I usally have raw almonds, veggies and ranch dip, greek yogurt and honey or regular light yogurt for a snack. For lunch I have a smaller portion of leftover dinner from the night before. I will say though that I cook very healthy dinners every night. Then I'll have another snack from those listed above around 4pm. Then dinner around 6pm. I usually have a protein and veggies, keeping dinner more low carb. I try and eat my carbs earlier in the day to give me energy and break them down.
Don't be afraid to snack, but balance snacks and meals with a healthy fat (he fat helps keep you satiated longer plus its important for many fat soluble vitamins), protein and fiber.
Its really easy and helpful to make soups, baked chicken, casseroles, etc at the beginning of the week and then pack and eat them during the weak.
IE Snack list I have put together before
IE Lunch Ideas
salad with some chicken or beans and avocado and lots of other veggies. Use a light dressing.
Boca burger served on top defrosted and drained spinach mixed with salsa and a sprinkle of 2% shredded cheese
Veggie and bean soup
Check out Kalyns Kitchen, cookinglight.com, Clean Eating magazine etc for ideas.
Some other snack ideas
Has the sugar from the fruit hindered anyones weight loss at all?
@lefeymw: WOW thank you so much!!!! thats exactly what I need
I like fruit or veggies to munch on. I also keep a container of light peanut butter at work, so I put that on plain rice cakes for a mid-day snack. A few other things I have are yogurt and granola, Kashi granola bars, protein shakes (made with milk) or fruit smoothies.
Throw some fruit (blackberries, blueberries...yum!) and some sliced almonds into your greek yogurt.
I like yogurt but it only gets me so far. I need REAL food in the morning or I'm starving 2 hours later.
I used to work at a Ruby Tuesdays and I think watching people shovel french fries and cheeseburgers all day really turned me off from eating there when I was working!
Some good high fiber, high protein options are high fiber toast with peanut butter or peanut butter on an apple. For VERY high fiber, i like fiber one cereal. One bowl is 120 calories and 57% of your daily fiber. I actually like it, too!
I just snacked on homemade hummus (easy on the oil, no tahini) and sugar snap peas. f
You could also do turkey+laughing cow roll ups.
@HoneyBear: I dont eat too much fruit. I eat one serving per day at the max. Its almost always berries or apple, if any.
When I do I make sure its paired with protein so it doesnt spike my blood sugar. Balancing blood sugar will help keep you satiated. I find if I eat only an apple then I am really hungry a short time later. Same goes for simple carbohydrates (think white rice, bread etc)
A sugar spike in your blood increases your insulin which triggers your body to start storing fat (the insulin tells your body there is plenty of energy to use).
@HoneyBear: A greek yogurt probably isn't enough for breakfast. I usually add fruit and some cereal that is high in fiber to mine in the morning, plus a glass of fruit juice (100% fruit- not the concentrate/sugar stuff). My naturopathic doctor, who is pretty serious about the way your diet impacts your general well being, says the fruit/veggie guidelines should be considered your bare minimum. Try to have fruit and veggies at all your meals.
Lara bars are great for snacking & are high in fiber.
Make some trail mix up with nuts and dried fruit.
Sliced veggies with some hummus.
Try to eat whole foods, rather than high-processed foods. Be careful with foods that are marketed as "diet foods" because they are often high in sugar.
You can slice veggies at the beginning of the week and bag them up for yourself, along with small containers of hummus (measure it out based on how many calories you want- probably one or two tablespoons is good). The trail mix idea is great for snacking on, but be careful with nuts if you're trying to lose weight.
I love food - any kind of food, really. I have been pretty blessed to stay at the same weight regardless of what I eat, but I know that won't last forever, and if I don't eat healthy, I don't feel healthy.
I use a lot of recipes from the blog Oh She Glows - It is a mostly vegan blog, but I adapt the recipes for my lifestyle. I am not a vegan, but I LOVE fruits and vegetables.
My favorite recipe is a white bean soup - I add parmesan cheese though :-)
Soup works well for us - I cook large batches of it on the weekends, that way I can take to work and reheat.
Here are my meals for today:
Breakfast: Peanut butter on whole wheat toast, coffee, and a banana.
Snack: Mixed nuts
Lunch: Chilli and wheat crackers. Pepsi.
Snack: Apple and cottage cheese
Dinner: Whole wheat pasta with tomato sauce, green salad.
I drink water all day too.
When I'm in a hurry I eat an organic Amy's breakfast burrito for bfast and it usually keeps me satisfied until lunch time. Ideally I like to make an egg white veggie omlette but I almost never have time or ingredients for that. In an emergency I opt for a whole grain bagel with vegetable cream cheese, but don't make a habit of that every day.
Lunch is a turkey sandwhich with cheese and mayo on whole grain bread.. and when I'm really good I remember to bring in fruit for a snack.
Ok, I just have one more question... If yall plan out your meals for the week, do you go to the grocery store and buy everything you need for the week? Or do you just usually plan out day by day?
@honeybear - I usually meal plan for the week and go once. That doesn't mean I don't forget things and have to go back though, LOL!
I buy most of what I need and kind of plan our my dinners and "foods for the fridge" I call them. These are foods I use for dinner, breakfast or lunch. I like leftover dinners for breakfast so often cook more than I need.
Use your freezer. If you make stuffed peppers or tomatoes, make an extra two and stick in the freezer. Make soup and freeze a portion so you can grab and go. Make veggie lasagna using eggplant or zuchinni instead of noodles and use lots of veggies in the low fat ricotta to make it really healthy.
Bake a lot of plain chicken and then season as you need it use through the week on a salad, in a corn tortilla for mexican dinner, tossed in soup, add some red hot and blue cheese and eat on a baked potato or on brown rice, turn into croquettes, toss in stir fry (can buy mixed veggies frozen to make it easy and quick), etc.
@Lindsay12.31.2010: Haha, yeah...thats what I'm worried about!
Thanks for all the help ladies I am gonna print out this post 
I have the same problem with breakfast-- if I have a yogurt, I'm starving by 10am. My solution is steel cut oats with blueberries or raspberries (frozen and defrosted) and a sprinkling of sliced almonds. Seriously, you will be full until noon.
@lefeymw: Oh my gosh, that veggie lasagna sounds so goooood
I also swear by oatmeal with some fruit for breakfast - half a cup of dry oats plus water really fills me up, usually until at 11 oe 12, and then I eat lunch. Some days I am hungrier so I will eat a banana before lunch.
In terms of meal planning, when I have been most successful, I have planned out the meals for the week, and gone shopping once (though usually I have to make a quick run at some point in the middle of the week for 1 or 2 forgotten items). I found I actually saved a lot of money doing it that way, because each ingredient has a purpose and almost nothing was wasted. Somehow recently, I have been major shopping for two weeks at a time, allowing for little supplemental stops once or twice. Meal planning is great!
Every morning I eat 1/2 cup of fat free greek yogurt, 1/2 cup berries (whatever kind of berries looked best at the grocery store), 1/2 a banana, and 1/2 cup of kashi go lean crunch. It is DELICIOUS (and 4PointsPlus for all the weight watching bees). I think it is my favorite edible part of my day....seriously.
Lunch I do lean cuisines, which are bad, I get it, I just don't have the time to figure out something else to do yet. Eventually I'd like to switch to soup/wrap for lunch.
Dinner I cook different weight watchers recipes. They're awesome. Fi loves them (though he doesn't eat weight watchers portions, lol). Last night (and tonight too, yay leftovers) was sauteed chicken thighs, steamed green beans, and italian style rice patties.
Snacks I'll have fruit, or some chocolate soy milk, or wheat thins and a laughing cow wedge of cheese.
When I give myself dessert, it's usually a weight watchers ice cream bar. I love them. They are amazing!
I usually pick up a bunch of stuff at the store and just wing it for my meals. I have enough veggies, fruits, and meats stocked up in general to make whatever I want.
I don't like planning out my meals too far in advance because I like to make what I'm in the mood for. If i REALLY want something on my way home, i'll pick it up. Last night I "planned" to have fish and vegetables for dinner tonight. I picked up the fish a couple weeks ago. I end up using all my ingredients at some point.
101cookbooks.com is a great resource for healthy meals -- Heidi Swanson runs the site and her cookbooks are great too. One trick I learned from her is to make a big batch of steel-cut oatmeal (enough for a few days) and keep it in the fridge. I just re-heat with different toppings (various fruits/nuts) each day for variety. This way I have a really hearty hot breakfast these cold mornings in not much more time than it would take to eat a bowl of cereal. When I do have cereal, I have Fiber One as someone else suggested -- be sure to get the original formula, the other versions have a bunch of junk in them. Trader Joes also makes a version I like that is a bit cheaper. On the weekends when I have more time, I like to make an egg-white omelet stuffed with veggies.
I also like low-fat string cheese or cottage cheese as a snack, or I smear a couple of spoons of Trader Joes spicy black bean dip (30 cal) on half of a whole wheat english muffin. Another thing that is a huge lifesaver is Imagine brand (available at Trader Joes, Whole Foods, etc) boxed soups (buy the low sodium versions). When I get home from work, I am usually ravenous, so I pour a small bowl, heat, and eat. I find that I am then able to think more sensibly about what else I want to eat for dinner rather than grabbing take-out. In a pinch, I also like the Trader Joes Reduced Guilt frozen entrees, there is a lot less crap in them than the usual frozen dinners. I usually saute some extra veggies with them to get full.
One more thing that has been really helpful in weight loss for me is writing down what I eat. When I first started doing this, I was shocked at how many careless calories I was consuming at work -- i.e. a few pieces of candy from the candy bowl in our reception area, flavored coffee drinks on a Starbucks run with colleagues, etc.
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I work at a restaurant so I am constantly surrounded by yummy, yummy food. I decided I need to start taking my breakfast and lunch to cut down on eating at the restaurant for every meal.
I have been taking greek yogurt for breakfast, which I will eat around 7AM, but I'm usually hungry by 9:30 or so! I really have been trying to eat cleaner and healthier but I need some help and ideas as to what I should be eating.
I want to try and plan out my meals for the week, but I dont know how to go about doing that.
Will all you healthy bees help me out?