Whatcha' eating today P3'ers?

[miamiloca]

Originally Posted by Wigglesmom

B: 2 scrambled eggs w/cheese, 3 slices center cut bacon, coffee w/hnh
S: almonds (I have to stop eating these)
L: Boar's head low salt ham rollups with cheddar, celery w/cream cheese, Dannon Carb Control yogurt
S: Hard boiled egg
D: Taco salad, homemade salsa, cheddar, sour cream, black olives, avocado
S: Microwaved apple w/splenda and cinnamon

I had two Hillshire Farms Cheddar Wursts last night for dinner with some roasted veggies. I think the salt did me in. I had a 2.2 gain overnight. Still only .4 over my LDW though. Plenty of water for me today.

Sounds yummy! And yeah--sausage gets me every time, too!

[julieboolie]

miami-your chicken sounds good!! I will add that to our repetoire. I used to make "chicken parm" all the time (w/o breading) and need to add that back in!

I did a low cal day yesterday, and worked out, and TOM arrived but I am still up +1 from my window . So, today I am eating:

coffee, hnh
L:small steak 8-10oz I think (grass fed, NY Strip), hand full of grape tomatoes
D: small steak (grass fed NY Strip), hand full of grape tomatoes.

Does that look right to you guys? I am trying my first steak day and really hope it works. The other CD's haven't been very successful for me (egg and chicken) and the only one that works well so far has been GY. I don't want to keep doing that one (I'm afraid it'll be less effective). So, I'm going for it today. I really would like to be down 2 lbs tomorrow so I am not constantly at the top or over my #$^& window!

[Cruzcrzy]

So far breakfast is:

1/2 cup full fat greek yogurt w/walnuts and sf vanilla syrup with cinnamon.

Lunch will be salad. I am attending a luncheon and it will be a buffet. I plan just to have salad and bring my own full fat blue cheese dressing. If there is chicken on the buffet, I may add chicken to the salad, with fruit on the side.

Dinner - I have some 93/7 ground beef that needs to be cooked. I am not sure yet what I am going to fix.

[Sleepy]

Originally Posted by julieboolie

coffee, hnh
L:small steak 8-10oz I think (grass fed, NY Strip), hand full of grape tomatoes
D: small steak (grass fed NY Strip), hand full of grape tomatoes.

i would like to know how this works for you

[Millenia98]

Originally Posted by Wigglesmom

B: 2 scrambled eggs w/cheese, 3 slices center cut bacon, coffee w/hnh
S: almonds (I have to stop eating these)
L: Boar's head low salt ham rollups with cheddar, celery w/cream cheese, Dannon Carb Control yogurt
S: Hard boiled egg
D: Taco salad, homemade salsa, cheddar, sour cream, black olives, avocado
S: Microwaved apple w/splenda and cinnamon

I had two Hillshire Farms Cheddar Wursts last night for dinner with some roasted veggies. I think the salt did me in. I had a 2.2 gain overnight. Still only .4 over my LDW though. Plenty of water for me today.

Hey Pattie!

About these ham rollups. Are they pre-made, or do you just make them yourself?

[Wigglesmom]

Originally Posted by Millenia98

Hey Pattie!

About these ham rollups. Are they pre-made, or do you just make them yourself?

Hi Millenia. No, I make them myself. I like the Boar's Head brand of lunch meat and I just roll them up myself. I also buy their brand of vermont cheddar at the deli counter. It's my go to lunch about 3-4 days a week.

[miamiloca]

Originally Posted by julieboolie

miami-your chicken sounds good!! I will add that to our repetoire. I used to make "chicken parm" all the time (w/o breading) and need to add that back in!

I did a low cal day yesterday, and worked out, and TOM arrived but I am still up +1 from my window . So, today I am eating:

coffee, hnh
L:small steak 8-10oz I think (grass fed, NY Strip), hand full of grape tomatoes
D: small steak (grass fed NY Strip), hand full of grape tomatoes.

Does that look right to you guys? I am trying my first steak day and really hope it works. The other CD's haven't been very successful for me (egg and chicken) and the only one that works well so far has been GY. I don't want to keep doing that one (I'm afraid it'll be less effective). So, I'm going for it today. I really would like to be down 2 lbs tomorrow so I am not constantly at the top or over my #$^& window!

Thanks! Sometimes we "bread" them with crushed pork rinds. It sounds disgusting but actually tastes pretty good!

[Millenia98]

Originally Posted by julieboolie

miami-your chicken sounds good!! I will add that to our repetoire. I used to make "chicken parm" all the time (w/o breading) and need to add that back in!

I did a low cal day yesterday, and worked out, and TOM arrived but I am still up +1 from my window . So, today I am eating:

coffee, hnh
L:small steak 8-10oz I think (grass fed, NY Strip), hand full of grape tomatoes
D: small steak (grass fed NY Strip), hand full of grape tomatoes.

Does that look right to you guys? I am trying my first steak day and really hope it works. The other CD's haven't been very successful for me (egg and chicken) and the only one that works well so far has been GY. I don't want to keep doing that one (I'm afraid it'll be less effective). So, I'm going for it today. I really would like to be down 2 lbs tomorrow so I am not constantly at the top or over my #$^& window!

Yes, that looks perfect. What I usually do is have coffee all day long until about 5-6pm and then have a very large steak and then the tomato.

That's about the same thing. I'm sure it'll yield great results, but I've had 5lb losses on the method above Never tried splitting it up between lunch and dinner.

[Millenia98]

B: 2% Fage GY with 6 strawberries and coffee (h+h)
Snack: I don’t think I’ll have anything today
Lunch: 2 pieces of Linda’s low carb pizza
Snack: IF I’m hungry before the gym at 6, I’ll have a bunless burger
After gym snack: an apple and tea
Dinner: T-bone steak and maybe some cheese or cottage cheese

[msack3889]

Originally Posted by LilacBruze

Breakfast: hamburger patty with cheddar cheese and bacon (don't judge me lol), iced coffee with splenda and hwc

Lunch: the other half of the rotisserie chicken I bought yesterday, plus greek yogurt with sliced strawberries

Dinner: last portion leftover of chili cheese dog casserole, Pink Lady apple

Lilac, do you have a recipe for the chili cheese dog casserole, and if so, would you mind sharing it? I am gathering recipes for P3

[verbqueen]

Michelle, it's on Linda Sue's site. If you aren't familiar with it, you SHOULD be--most of her recipes are suitable for P3.

Linda's Low Carb Menus & Recipes - Recipes

[Wigglesmom]

Still holding steady in P3. Starting loading for R2 on Friday with my husband this time.

B: 1 cup cottage cheese, dole fruit cup
L: Taco salad w/lettuce, beef, cheese, sour cream, olives, salsa, guacamole
S: Dannon Carb Control yogurt
D: Pork chop in parmesan cream sauce (HWC, handful of parm cheese, squeeze of dijon mustard, sprig of fresh thyme), roasted veggies
S: maybe string cheese or hard boiled egg

[Millenia98]

Originally Posted by Wigglesmom

Still holding steady in P3. Starting loading for R2 on Friday with my husband this time.

B: 1 cup cottage cheese, dole fruit cup
L: Taco salad w/lettuce, beef, cheese, sour cream, olives, salsa, guacamole
S: Dannon Carb Control yogurt
D: Pork chop in parmesan cream sauce (HWC, handful of parm cheese, squeeze of dijon mustard, sprig of fresh thyme), roasted veggies
S: maybe string cheese or hard boiled egg

Nice!!

See, I'll stop posting my menu beforehand and will wait until the end of the day. I planned a perfect menu yesterday and it got VERY derailed when my office shut down and I had no access to my lunch. Caused me to gain.

So I will wait until tonight to post what I did eat Ugh!

[Wigglesmom]

Originally Posted by Millenia98

Nice!!

See, I'll stop posting my menu beforehand and will wait until the end of the day. I planned a perfect menu yesterday and it got VERY derailed when my office shut down and I had no access to my lunch. Caused me to gain.

So I will wait until tonight to post what I did eat Ugh!

I find that if I post it, I pretty much stick to it. But you had a reason to get a little derailed. I saw in another post what you ate and you being up is definitely from the salt. I had some sausage the other night and I was up 2.2 lbs. the next day. But then I drank a ton of water and was back to normal.

[Millenia98]

Originally Posted by Wigglesmom

I find that if I post it, I pretty much stick to it. But you had a reason to get a little derailed. I saw in another post what you ate and you being up is definitely from the salt. I had some sausage the other night and I was up 2.2 lbs. the next day. But then I drank a ton of water and was back to normal.

Ugh, ok. I'll have lots of water. I was going over everything I ate and even though it was sort of crappy and oily, it was still within P3 foods, so I wasn't sure why the gain.

My stomach knew it was crappy though b/c I just didn't feel clean. I guess it was the salt from fast food burger. I'll take care of that today and try to get it off - hope the weight doesn't stick.

[verbqueen]

I had to do a steak correction day yesterday, but I'm trying again with P3 foods today. So far what I have on tap is:

B: bacon and half a slice of cheddar cheese (this is my first cheese--hope I do ok with it)
L: hamburger patty over lettuce leaves with mayo, mustard, pickles, mustard and a tomato slice
D: some kind of chicken dish--maybe chicken chile stew

[Millenia98]

Originally Posted by verbqueen

I had to do a steak correction day yesterday, but I'm trying again with P3 foods today. So far what I have on tap is:

B: bacon and half a slice of cheddar cheese (this is my first cheese--hope I do ok with it)
L: hamburger patty over lettuce leaves with mayo, mustard, pickles, mustard and a tomato slice
D: some kind of chicken dish--maybe chicken chile stew

Yum! You will do great. Cheese and all

[julieboolie]

Originally Posted by Sleepy

i would like to know how this works for you

Well, I made it through my first steak day. I upped dinner's steak to 12oz and that helped a bit. I was down 2.5lbs today, back to LDW+0.6!! That made me happy!! I am doing a clean (at least to me it is) P3 day today, and I started out thinking I'd go light on the calories but reconsidered and tried to get up to closer to my goal cals of about 2000/day.

Today's menu has been:
coffee, hnh
cup of 4% cottage cheese - yum!
2 pieces of cheddar cheese - on the run
small bowl of tuscano soup (LS recipe - sausage/spinach soup)
2 servings GY (16 oz!)
D: will probably be leftover pork ribs I made the fam last night.
Coming in around 1800+ cals for today.
Lots of water too!

I sometimes have a 0.5lb bounce up the day after a CD. I hope tomorrow I'm still down where I was today, but I'm not counting on it. TOM is nearly through w. me, so maybe there'll be a little drop from that? I don't usually get that lucky!

We'll see. I'm prepared to do a GYCD tomorrow. I'm going away Sat-Sun w/ dh and would really like to at least be AT LDW so I can eat a bit more at dinner w/o sweating it! I'll keep you posted.

[Millenia98]

Yesterday, I had:

B: 2 eggs, cheese and turkey bacon with coffee
Snack: Strawberries and cream
Lunch: 2 slices of low carb pizza
Another snack: strawberries and 2% FAGE
After gym – intense spinning: decaf coffee, one small apple, some dried cherries and one small piece of atkins peanut butter cup
Dinner: A tiny piece of steak, 3 pieces of cheese (wasn’t too hungry)

This looks like a lot, but it wasn’t as many cals as I usually have (probably 2100). I usually have 2300-2400. I needed more protein yesterday.

Today is planned, so I’ll go ahead and post the menu:

B: 5 pieces of bacon and coffee
Lunch: 2 small slices of linda’s low carb pizza and FAGE 2%
Snack: Probably an apple, tuna and coffee (pizzas are not as filling at times)
Dinner: Steak and onion soup/salad (going out with coworkers)
Lots of water today!! And go away, TOM!

[verbqueen]

Yesterday I had:

B: bacon, half a slice of cheese
L: hamburger patty, lettuce
S: P2 chili, T. of sour cream
D: beef kabob at Disneyland, with cucumber salad

I was up .8 this morning, probably due to eating Disneyland food.

Today:

B: half a cup of sliced strawberries, bacon
L: P2 chili, 1 T. of sour cream, slice cukes in rice vinegar
D: steak, homemade SF coleslaw

[sweetbiella]

Yesterday
Brunch:
-Coconut mixed with almond flour pancake burger
- the meat I used was ground turkey and 2 pieces of turkey bacon
- used the pancakes instead of a bun

Dinner:
- Same thing

Cheats:? a couple sips of diet sprite. The reason is I ran out of bottled water...didn't want to drink tap water so I drank diet sprite

Dessert: chocolate delight..yum!! this time I used coconut butter for real..much more tasty. I used to use the saturated louana coconut oil it didn't smell like coconuts at all

Todays weigh in: I lost a few pointy pounds

****One more week till I'm done with P3...yay!!!****

[LaraSuzz]

yesterday I had...
iced vanilla hazlenut breve latte
pork green chile verde with cheddar made from scratch (I can give you the recipe its so good)
creamed spinach
garlic parmesan hot wings with blue cheese
rum and coke zero
oh and one sf chocolate covered almond cluster from see's candies
water

[verbqueen]

Yesterday I had:

half a slice of White Castle Pie, greek yogurt with a few slivered almonds
tri-tip steak with butter, homemade SF coleslaw
VERY LARGE burger patty with cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickles

AND MY WEIGHT STAYED THE SAME! I think my body is catching on, at last!!

ETA: PLEASE share the chile verde recipe. I LOVE green chiles!

[shelbyla]

Originally Posted by verbqueen

Yesterday I had:

half a slice of White Castle Pie, greek yogurt with a few slivered almonds
tri-tip steak with butter, homemade SF coleslaw
VERY LARGE burger patty with cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickles

AND MY WEIGHT STAYED THE SAME! I think my body is catching on, at last!!

ETA: PLEASE share the chile verde recipe. I LOVE green chiles!

Yes, please--me too!

[julieboolie]

Yesterday I had:

B:Omlette bar at the restaurant
small piece of the MOST delicioius coffeecake/cinnamon roll
yogurt, berries
BACON
L:nothing - hiked in 115deg heat, water, water
D: Sweet Tomatoes- cream of chicken soup , greek salad, ceasar salad - always gain from that.

Today? Steak CD
coffee/hnh
8oz ribeye, handful of cherry tomatoes
D:? 9oz ribeye, buttter (forgot this at lunch) and hand full of cherry tomotoes.

I hope this works. 2 others did steak days yesterday and didnt' get much benefit from it. Hope it works as well as it did last week. This weekly CD thing is my version of maintenance, I guess. The calorie cycling diet plan would probably work too.

[Viola De Lesseps]

GY...and some berries. I've had 16 oz thus far and am HUNGRY!! I'm going to down some water and see if that helps

[verbqueen]

So far:

White Castle pie and coffee for breakfast
Carnitas with guacamole and sour cream, and some cheddar for lunch
Dinner will probably be a buttered tri-tip steak with some cole slaw
Later, some strawberries with cream

I am THRILLED that I can eat such lusciousness and stay the same weight. THANK YOU, Dr S.

[Millenia98]

Today, I had:

B: Coffee and full fat fage (blech, don't like)
Lunch: 2.5 chicken breasts with a few tablespoons of homemade marsala sauce (no flour), corn on the cob and a few porkrinds
Snack: Strawberries and fage yogurt
Dinner: serving of olive oil almonds and 2 cream cheese muffins.

I think I need something more though, but I won't have anything. This wasn't a well-rounded meal day.

[julieboolie]

Originally Posted by Millenia98

Today, I had:

B: Coffee and full fat fage (blech, don't like)
Lunch: 2.5 chicken breasts with a few tablespoons of homemade marsala sauce (no flour), corn on the cob and a few porkrinds
Snack: Strawberries and fage yogurt
Dinner: serving of olive oil almonds and 2 cream cheese muffins.

I think I need something more though, but I won't have anything. This wasn't a well-rounded meal day.

LOL! I don't like Fage either. Have you tried Voskos or Trader Joes yogurt? They're so creamy and delicious. I almost feel guilty on GYCD's b/c it's so good!!

I look forward to dabbling in some starches. I'm officially in P4, and once I'm back in my window I'm going to add some more starches and see what happens. I have been a LCer for 8 years + and maintain well on it. We'll have to see if the reset will really help me. Even if I can just add more fruit in w/o worry I'll be happy.

Made steak for the whole fam tonight. Why not all enjoy?

[Millenia98]

Originally Posted by julieboolie

LOL! I don't like Fage either. Have you tried Voskos or Trader Joes yogurt? They're so creamy and delicious. I almost feel guilty on GYCD's b/c it's so good!!

I look forward to dabbling in some starches. I'm officially in P4, and once I'm back in my window I'm going to add some more starches and see what happens. I have been a LCer for 8 years + and maintain well on it. We'll have to see if the reset will really help me. Even if I can just add more fruit in w/o worry I'll be happy.

Made steak for the whole fam tonight. Why not all enjoy?

I do love Fage though. Have you given the 0% and 2% a try? I love those, but they didn't have any left after the hurricane.

I’m officially in P4 too. Ugh, I don’t want to touch the starches. Wait, I just realized I had corn on the cob yesterday and it did me just fine! Woohoo! Love me some corn. I’m also a LCer for MANY years (almost 7) and it just agrees with my lifetime plan.

How'd you make your steak (cut, seasonings, etc)?