Jim
Can I be really nosey and ask what you would eat in a day.......Do you break it into 3 meals or 6small ones and what do you have........are you finding you are hungry at all or are you ok...........I am just curious as with the ss it takes the food out of the equation and I just wonder if I would cheat if it was added.............do you weigh your food or what??
S
Not nosey at all! On a typical day I will have:
Breakfast: CD Porridge, cup of coffee with skimmed milk
Water throughout the morning, about 100 cals of fruit e.g. a banana
Lunch: CD Soup plus a leafy salad with some fat-free dressing on it plus a cup of Earl Grey
Mid-afternoon: apple, about 50 cals
Dinner: something made up from step 3a such as chicken breast and e.g. cauliflower and another cuppa
, plus a few strawberries, should be about 460 cals
Mid-evening, I'll have a kids raisin/dried fruit snack, they're only 9 cals
When Mrs. Lunar gets in from work: cup of tea
I don't weigh the food, I just guess by the packet weight and go from there. It'll be inaccurate, like last night I had Quorn pieces for the first time on the diet. You can have 275g. I opened the 350g packet and thought 'that's loads, I'll never eat it!' so I just used half the packet and it was plenty. Tillyfloss will testify to that one
But yeah, I'll have been down on calories for that meal.
Not very scientific
As far as hunger goes... I work from home, and the fridge is just there! Probably one of the reasons I'm so fat! But it's helping me out now; because I'm not having my fruit immediately with my breakfast if I have a pang I'll just grab a strawberry or two from the fridge and a glass of water from the filter jug and that sorts me out. So I get to pick, but it's a healthy pick and the fruit is allowed on Step 3 so it's no problem.
In the afternoon the apple works wonders. Mrs. Lunar walks out of the door to work some nights as I'm finishing work, so I've got three young kids to myself to take my mind off things until they go to bed at around 7pm.
Then I have my meal, doesn't take long to cook, probably finished that by about 7:30pm so it's a little fruit snack and a cup of tea probably about 9ish if I'm feeling peckish. Mrs. Lunar gets home about 10:15pm and we have a cuppa and some quality time. Then it's off to sleep and up again at 7am to start again!