Post your typical daily menu!

[garnet10]

Originally Posted by MM2011

My mother-in-law used to make something like this for my husband, with cucumbers and onions. She called it cucumber salad, I think.

I can't add the onions because that would be "mixing vegetables" although I probably add enough onion powder to count as another vegetable!
It's pretty good, and I never tried apple cider vinegar before this diet (I always used white vinegar for the cucumber salad), and now I really love it!

Good luck with the VLCD!

[Violet_Dream]

Originally Posted by CMac

wow 250 oz a day? You need to watch that diluting your blood is a no no.

I used to drink 256 ounces a day (two gallons exactly) when I was a stay-at-home mom and I almost got water intoxication a few times. I cut it back to a gallon - I was washing away all the vitamins I was taking and didn't feel good either. Not to mention practically living in the bathroom.

[2boys2girls]

I just started but I have had:

B- Coffee with Truvia
L-100g Chicken grilled, 13 spears of asparagus, apple
D-8 shrimp grilled on the George Foreman, 13 spears of asparagus, 10 med. strawberries

Hot tea all day long.

[dawnyama]

This is what I ate yesterday:

Menu:
L: chicken, 1/2 cucumber, apple
D: chicken, 1/2 can tomatoes (about 7 oz), 1/2 grapefruit
Drinks: 3 cups of coffee, 2 cups of Weightless tea, 4 32 oz of water

I am a protocol girl, myself.

[LilacBruze]

I just want to say for not trying the P2 chili sooner!

For lunch yesterday: P2 chili (100g 96/4 ground beef with 150g drained fire-roasted tomatoes with garlic, chili powder, and Frank's hot sauce)

For dinner: 100g shrimp tossed with lemon juice, cilantro, cracked pepper, and 150 diced seedless cucumber

[wmac]

I love the P2 chili!

[laballs]

I only started this yesterday and joined the forum today but I have planned the diet as well as I can but would appreciate comments from other users as I am worried I am eating too much!

B: Greek yogurt with blueberries/raspberries (unsweetened) w/ light cranberry juice
L: Prawn salad w/ cucumber, paprika and sesame seeds
A small snack of Edam cheese
2 diet cokes
D: 1/4 Smoked bacon joint, egg white cheese and spinach omelette
8-10 Strawberries
Green tea

Is that a reasonable amount? Will I lose weight on that? It feels less than my normal diet (i.e. I am hungry).

Does everyone measure their food meticulously? I thought the low-carb/Atkins diet meant measuring wasn't a necessity

Thanks for any comments!

[mymy3377]

Originally Posted by laballs

I only started this yesterday and joined the forum today but I have planned the diet as well as I can but would appreciate comments from other users as I am worried I am eating too much!

B: Greek yogurt with blueberries/raspberries (unsweetened) w/ light cranberry juice
L: Prawn salad w/ cucumber, paprika and sesame seeds
A small snack of Edam cheese
2 diet cokes
D: 1/4 Smoked bacon joint, egg white cheese and spinach omelette
8-10 Strawberries
Green tea

Is that a reasonable amount? Will I lose weight on that? It feels less than my normal diet (i.e. I am hungry).

Does everyone measure their food meticulously? I thought the low-carb/Atkins diet meant measuring wasn't a necessity

Thanks for any comments!

Are you on P2 or P3?

If you're on P2 and following protocol you should only be eating 500 calories a day from the approved food list in Pounds and Inches.

[laballs]

Originally Posted by mymy3377

Are you on P2 or P3?

If you're on P2 and following protocol you should only be eating 500 calories a day from the approved food list in Pounds and Inches.

Gosh - Clearly I haven't planned that well. I am just doing low-carb (under 20g approx per day) and trying to be healthy. I'm not measuring calories... Just 500 calories a day? I think that might be a little hardcore for me!

[mymy3377]

Originally Posted by laballs

Gosh - Clearly I haven't planned that well. I am just doing low-carb (under 20g approx per day) and trying to be healthy. I'm not measuring calories... Just 500 calories a day? I think that might be a little hardcore for me!

Are you doing HCG protocol or just general low carb? Nvm, I see you're doing more of an Atkins type thing, this diet, the HCG Protocol, is different from Atkins it's a little more "involved" I think you might have posted in the wrong forum.

Your menu looks good though although if you're hungry I would add some good fats to the dressing for your salad and use the whole egg instead of just the whites for your omelette and eat full fat Greek yogurt

[laballs]

Originally Posted by mymy3377

Are you doing HCG protocol or just general low carb? Nvm, I see you're doing more of an Atkins type thing, this diet, the HCG Protocol, is different from Atkins it's a little more "involved" I think you might have posted in the wrong forum

Sorry, my bad! Best of luck with the HCG protocol

[emel]

P2 rogue. I skip the melbas a lot. I mix veggies sometimes, and a time or two a week I might have a bourbon while staying under 500 cal. The bourbon slows me down, so don't do as I do.
P3/P4 I am a good monkey except for the bourbon.

P2:
66 oz fluids, as water, weak herbal tea, or sparkling mineral water.
3 mugs black coffee, 2 Tbl ACV or lemon juice in water w/sweetner.
L: chicken, romaine, either ACV-based dressing or walden farms, usually apple or orange but I like all the fruits. Sometimes I save part of my food to eat mid-afternoon.
D: I rotate chicken, fish, shrimp, crab, and rarely beef.
Asparagus or a mixed salad or raw tomato or sometimes medley of broccoli, chinese cabbage or bok choy or savoy, onion, and asparagus and cherry tomatoes (it's usually dabs of leftovers with a lot of a nifty cabbage)
Usually warmed frozen strawberries for dessert, sometimes with a melba crushed on them.

P3
cottage cheese for breakfast, fluids as above, 2 tsp flax oil, 1 oz walnuts.
salad and chicken for lunch
fruit and leftover meat if I want a snack, or cheese or avocado w/veg strips.
dinner is chicken thighs, beef, pork, or seafood with a cooked veg and a salad
dessert is cocoa crack or berries without whipped cream.

P4
same as P3 except I'll have half a sweet potato or some wild/brown rice or some ezekiel bread a few times a week. Plenty of legumes. I might drink a beer every couple weeks. White potatoes and white bread and sugar and I don't play well together, so those are very rarely used.