Induction Newbies: What did YOU eat today?

[mamakimberly]

I ate:

3 sausage links
and
3 eggs
in 1/2 T butter
with 1/2 oz cheddar
and 1 oz ham

6 lettuce wraps
with turkey
and swiss cheese (2 oz total)
and 4 pieces of bacon

1 cup broccoli
with 1.5 oz cream
and 1 oz cheddar

5 oz pork loin
with 1 cup snow peas
in 1 T sesame oil

1 string cheese

I had 4.5 oz of cheese, which is a tiny bit over the limit, but that's okay! I'll kick it to the curb tomorrow!

Total according to fit day:

136 g fat (63%)
19 g carb (5 g of which were fiber, so 14 g net carb) (4%)
150 g protein (33%)

Share your menu from today here!

Kimberly

[cleochatra]

Re: Induction Newbies: What did YOU eat today?

It looks good, girl! Don't the snow peas make you hungry? They totally kill me, along with carrots and broccoli!

Anyway, *hip bump* You have the cleochatra cha cha tiara of approval!

*crowns miss snazzypants*

[mamakimberly]

Re: Induction Newbies: What did YOU eat today?

You crack me up

I ate too many veggies too, didn't I? Whoops, I transposed in my head the 2 and 1 cups I'd prefer 2 cups of other veggies and 1 of salad

Snow peas and hungry? Nah, they were kinda raunchy actually. I love snow peas but apparently not the way I cooked them this time ha.

[Brook]

Re: Induction Newbies: What did YOU eat today?

Hey Kimberly

I'm not an induction newbie, but I'll tell ya what I had to eat today anyway. LOL

Breakfast: 2 egg omelette with cheddar jack, diced chicken, tomato, mushrooms and a bit of garlic salt.

Lunch: Left over chicken/broccoli alfredo

Dinner: Spicy montreal seasoned steak with spaghetti squash w/ butter & parm.


When I talked to the Atkins Center - back in the day when Dr. Atkins was still around and runnin' things LOL - I was told that the 3 cups were a "guideline" because people are forever measuring incorrectly, underestimating the amounts they're eating, didn't have access to carb counters (yet lol), or didn't have or wouldn't use food scales, etc - and 3 cups was a good way to make sure everyone stayed within their 20 gram limit.

I ditched the cups a long time ago and bough myself a digital food scale. Not only is it more accurate for translating carb counts, but I get to eat a *lot* more veggies

3 1/2 years on this WOE - and it hasn't failed me yet.

Just my $.02
~Brook

[Zarabelle]

Re: Induction Newbies: What did YOU eat today?

Hi, it is only noon here but I can tell you what I had yesterday:

B
2 x boiled eggs
2 rashers bacon

L
Lettuce, cheese, olives with olive oil and vinegar

D
Chicken breast with onion and mushroom in cream served with brocolli and a couple of green beans - yummmmmmmy!

Today I have had 2 boiled egss for breaky and will have a greek salad for lunch - not sure about dinner. Maybe Moules.

[Panic_A_Tax]

Re: Induction Newbies: What did YOU eat today?

Hi all !!
I started the "induction" on Aug. 20th. I was 140 lbs. ..... My goal is 125 lbs.
I'm 5'5"
It's Aug. 24th and I've lost 4 lbs so far.

Yesterday I ate:

1 Jimmy Dean 3 cheese Omelet (5 carbs)
1 Strip steak (0 carb)
5 quarts of H20
1 Atkins Advantage bar (2 net carbs)

I'm just not that hungry anymore. I forced myself to finish the steak. (No kidding)

This is a GREAT db!

[cleochatra]

Re: Induction Newbies: What did YOU eat today?

Today I've had a Tex-Mex omelet for breakfast and am drinking my first 32 ounces of water!

[not2late]

Re: Induction Newbies: What did YOU eat today?

I ditched the cups a long time ago and bough myself a digital food scale. Not only is it more accurate for translating carb counts, but I get to eat a *lot* more veggies

A couple of months ago, I ran into a group of students from the Culinary Institute of America. I asked them specifically about measuring versus weighing. They told me that weighing foods, like meat, grains, nuts, vegetables was much more accurate than tossing them into cup measures and in a professional kitchen--they weighed these items. For measuring liquids they use either fluid ounces or mililiters. That's reflected on the USDA's website, which gives you the cup measure and their equivalent weight in grams.

[Elsie150]

Re: Induction Newbies: What did YOU eat today?

Kimberly...I am coming to your house...that all sounds really GOOD!

B: 2 eggs fried in olive oil
L: 1 cup salad with 4 oz hamburger and 1 T dressing
Snack 1 oz mozz cheese
And dinner I think will be
Emerald Isle soup
dijon chicken
salad and 1 T dressing.
Snack 2 oz mozz cheese.

That would bring my numbers to Fat 126g 66%, Carbs (21-6)15g 4% and protein 126g 30%

BROOK!!!! You taught me something new!! My first week I averaged 14 g carbs. But had my three cups. And this week I am still under the 20 with my three cups...I did not know that I could have added some more vegies!!!! Thanks...even though my induction is up tomorrow.

[cleochatra]

Re: Induction Newbies: What did YOU eat today?

lunch: 1 slice salami, 1 slice cheese, 1 stalk celery, 1 Tbsp ranch dressing

Dinner: 1 bratwurst, saurkraut, cheese, purple onion, mustard, lettuce, tomato

[mamakimberly]

Re: Induction Newbies: What did YOU eat today?

I bombed today. Not on carbs, but on cheese.

I went to the dentist, and dh needs ***$5,000*** in dental work. We just had (primarily me) $7,000 of work in July. So on a teacher's salary with NO dental insurance, this is ROCKIN'.

Anyway, I came home and my sister who was babysitting my kids had ordered pizza. I didn't TOUCH it. Well, I put it on my kiddos' plates, but waited until I came home.

By then, the dinner I'd planned sounded rotten to me, and I was in a foul mood over $ and ate some tomato/mozzarella.

I'm still under my daily carb limit, but I had **6** oz of cheese. Cheese freak much?

Anyway, am I gonna seriously get the Atkins F today?

Here's my menu:

3 eggs
2 oz ham
1/2 T butter
3 sausages

1/4 onion
1/4 green pepper
1 cup mushrooms
1 T butter

2 oz mozzarella
3 oz turkey
2 oz ham

round steak
1/2 T canola oil
3 strips bacon
2 oz cheddar

1/2 tomato
2 oz mozzarella (whole milk)

Fit day says:

64% fat, 3% carbs, 33% protein, with 17 grams of carbs (3 were fiber, so 14 net)

Lay it to me straight ladies!

[sadie147]

Re: Induction Newbies: What did YOU eat today?

I bombed today. Not on carbs, but on cheese.

I went to the dentist, and dh needs ***$5,000*** in dental work. We just had (primarily me) $7,000 of work in July. So on a teacher's salary with NO dental insurance, this is ROCKIN'.

Anyway, I came home and my sister who was babysitting my kids had ordered pizza. I didn't TOUCH it. Well, I put it on my kiddos' plates, but waited until I came home.

By then, the dinner I'd planned sounded rotten to me, and I was in a foul mood over $ and ate some tomato/mozzarella.

I'm still under my daily carb limit, but I had **6** oz of cheese. Cheese freak much?

Anyway, am I gonna seriously get the Atkins F today?

Here's my menu:

3 eggs
2 oz ham
1/2 T butter
3 sausages

1/4 onion
1/4 green pepper
1 cup mushrooms
1 T butter

2 oz mozzarella
3 oz turkey
2 oz ham

round steak
1/2 T canola oil
3 strips bacon
2 oz cheddar

1/2 tomato
2 oz mozzarella (whole milk)

Fit day says:

64% fat, 3% carbs, 33% protein, with 17 grams of carbs (3 were fiber, so 14 net)

Lay it to me straight ladies!

ohhhh cheese. it's such a tough thing to ration. Just keep your eye on your losses. cheese has been known to stall alot of people. ALOT of ppl.

your menu looks ok but where are your veggies? veggies are soo important in this woe. maybe you can substitute some of them for your cheese!


(trust me..i struggle with cheese myself...cheese and nuts in maintenance they're my downfall)

[mamakimberly]

Re: Induction Newbies: What did YOU eat today?

I had onion, green pepper, mushrooms, and tomato..... do I need more veggie? Cause trust me, I'll gladly eat more veggie! LOL

[sadie147]

Re: Induction Newbies: What did YOU eat today?

I had onion, green pepper, mushrooms, and tomato..... do I need more veggie? Cause trust me, I'll gladly eat more veggie! LOL

2 cups of salad veggies and 1 cup of 'other veggies' or 3 cups of salad veggies if you don't have any 'other veggies' i think is the rule?

[mamakimberly]

Re: Induction Newbies: What did YOU eat today?

yeah, I suck at remembering what is salad and what is "other" I know mushrooms are salad...

I just went and had some spinach salad and oil/vinegar with bacon

It was good, so hey, bonus