Revised menu!

[dpman]

How does this look?

Meal 1 - 2 hard boiled eggs with salt and pepper and 2 slices of bacon

Meal 2 - salad with 2 cups of lettuce, turkey and no carb ranch

Meal 3 - A Dill Pickle and 2 slices of cheddar cheese

Meal 4 - a cup of Broccoli and 8 oz chicken breast or fish

I also drink about 80 ounces of water.

[not2late]

Make sure your menu has enough fat.

You can open up a free account at fitday.com, enter your menu and see what the fat/protein/carb percentages are for your meals.

Also the dill pickle is a pickled cucumber, which is considered a "salad vegetable". So you need to subtract that amount from the amount of "salad" vegetables you can eat daily.

[ttdriver]

It looks good, but I also agree to use fitday.com to make sure your daily ratios are 65% fat, 30% protein, 5% carbs (from veggies!).

You have to also make sure you are eating enough ... so go to www.countcarbs.com and use their tools link to get your basal metabolic rate to find out the MINIMUM calories you need a day, then do your active metabolic rate, which factors in your exercise to get the MAXIMUM calories you need and stay below that amount and above the minimum.

Eating too few calories can make your body think you're trying to starve it and it will hold on to every single pound for dear life!

Hope you're exercising .. at least 30 minutes of heart rate raising cardiovascular exercise a day WITHOUT FAIL.

Great job so far!

Betty