Might as well get myself reviewed!

[kibskix]

I've never bothered to have anyone say what they think of my menu, so I figured It might be good to get someone elses opinion. Here's what I had/Am having today

BREAKFAST
Salad with 1-1.5 cup romaine lettuce, 3 pieces of chopped bacon, 1/4 a yellow squash, sliced and halved, and a drizzle of bacon drippings.
I also had 1.5 tablespoons of flax cereal w/ a tiny bit of cream.

SNACK
two slices of summer sausage

LUNCH
Salad, 1 cup iceberg lettuce, sliced onion, 1oz pepperjack cheese, and about 5 pieces of grilled fajita steak.

DINNER
1 grilled stuffed bell pepper (stuffing is a mix of hamburger/italian sausage, onion and more bell pepper) I may add a bit of steamed veggies to this too, since I've had about 2 cups of lettuce at this point, but i dont think the squash, onions, and pepper quite add up to three cups.

WATER
I've had about 100-120 oz of water so far, and I haven't actually eaten dinner yet, so thats another 16.9 oz I think.

So! Thoughts?

[liv]

I'll give it a shot. I am sure you will more advice and comments too.
Are you feeling good and taking your supplements too?

Congratulations on eating very clean - with no sweets and lost veggies. That is great and refreshing to see. So I thought it was a really good menu.

The yellow squash is a summer squash - a winter squash would be out.

I think you may have to measure your veggies. You are allowed 2 cups of salad veggies and one cup of other veggie. A whole bell pepper is probably around a cup by itself - and then if you have onions, squash added to that you are over one cup. So just think about that. I suggest start thinking about how many carbs you are eating so you will be ready for OWL. Have you tried fitday?

Flax is OK if you use for constipation but it is not really an induction food.

[kibskix]

Yep thats exactly what the flax is for lol

Since it was a stuffed pepper and only the outsides of it it didnt seem like it would be a cup, and I ended up only eating half of it, and the onion was probably not even an ounce, maybe half a thin slice chopped up. I do have a fitday account but i normally don't enter in my foods, I just use it to keep track of my weight. I went ahead and entered them all in just now (or as close as I could get, some of them are hard to find) and I only had like 1150 calories! eep! I add cream and bacon grease to things and my calories are still too low. Darnit all. My carbs were low too at about 16 (6 of that was fiber!!) so I think I need to eat more broccoli and green beans and such, then slather it in butter to get those numbers up!

It was probably low today because I had a salad for breakfast instead of something like eggs, but I was concerned about eating enough veggies lol. btw my numbers were 70/25/4. Just gotta tweak that a bit and i'll be perfect.

[Georgiana]

Originally Posted by kibskix

Since it was a stuffed pepper and only the outsides of it it didnt seem like it would be a cup, and I ended up only eating half of it, and the onion was probably not even an ounce, maybe half a thin slice chopped up. I do have a fitday account but i normally don't enter in my foods, I just use it to keep track of my weight. I went ahead and entered them all in just now (or as close as I could get, some of them are hard to find) and I only had like 1150 calories! eep! I add cream and bacon grease to things and my calories are still too low. Darnit all. My carbs were low too at about 16 (6 of that was fiber!!) so I think I need to eat more broccoli and green beans and such, then slather it in butter to get those numbers up!

It is good that you are eating your vegetables, but as Liv said, keep in mind that they are limited to 3 cups during Induction. Maximum 1 cup of these can come from the "Other Vegetables" list.

It is important to track your foods in Fitday. When you move to OWL Rung 1, you will have to add another 5 g net veg carbohydrate to the amount of veg carbohydrate you had during Induction, while your other carbs (eggs, cheese, spices, etc.) should stay more or less the same. So you need to know how many carbs you are eating and how many of these come from vegetables.