No eating out, no cookies or ice cream, but plenty of good food! Mike's goal is to lose around 30lbs. and my goal is to tone up. While we will be limiting fats and sugars our main focus will be on aiming for 30-40 grams of fiber per day and not exceeding our daily calories. Exercise is a main part of the plan, but I'll spare you those details :)
Mike's daily calories are limited to 1,800 and mine to 1,500. The day is broken down into 3 meals and two snacks. Each menu is tailored to our individual tastes and eating habits.
Mike's 1,800 calorie Monday Menu
Breakfast
1 cup Honey Greek yogurt with 1/4 cup Grape-nuts cereal and 1/2 cup Fiber cereal.
1 banana
425 calories, 24 grams fiber
*He only ate half of his yogurt/cereal = 265 calories, 11 grams fiber
AM Snack
2 Hard boiled eggs
148 calories, 0 grams fiber
Lunch
Pesto Chicken Salad Wrap
1 apple
331 calories, 16 grams fiber
*saved the apple and ate it with dinner.
Afternoon Snack
1/2 cup dried fruit/nut mix
Fruit smoothie
480 calories, 5 grams fiber
*Traded 2 cups popcorn for the dried fruit = 260 calories, 6 grams fiber
Dinner
Tomato & Broccoli Mac n Cheese
371 calories, 4 grams fiber
*Realized I didn't have the tomato soup and made Quesadilla Casserole instead = 297 calories, not sure how much fiber, but at least the 4 grams.
Total = 1,755 calories, 49 grams fiber
Actual total = 1,301 <-- Oh, THAT'S why we were hungry... oops.
My 1,500 calorie menu plan
Breakfast
1/2 cup Kashi Go Lean cereal & 1/2 cup Original Fiber One cereal with 1/2 cup soy milk
1/3 cup dried cranberries
355 calories, 21 grams fiber
AM Snack
Banana
Hard boiled egg
179 calories, 3 grams fiber
Lunch
Pesto Chicken salad wrap
278 calories, 13 grams fiber
Afternoon Snack
Fruit/Veggie Smoothie
200 calories, 3 grams fiber
Dinner
Tomato & Broccoli Mac n Cheese
371 calories, 4 grams fiber
*Realized I didn't have the tomato soup and made Quesadilla Casserole instead = 297 calories, not sure how much fiber, but at least the 4 grams.
Total = 1,393 calories, 44 grams fiber
*actual = 1,319 calories
This is actually a ton of food, we did a test run day to make sure we weren't starving ourselves. Keeping the fiber level high helps keep us full. While putting the menu together and calculating all the numbers is kind of a pain I think the more detailed our plan the easier it will be to stick to. And by having a week or two's worth of meals that we can eat, we can always substitute if we feel like something else.
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