Hi guys! I went to the doc last week and he says the pounds should just be falling off of me as a teen, and sent me to a nutrionist. The nutritionist was a bunch of boloney and tried to sell me EVERY diet supplement she had for like 50 buck a piece (its $6 at Target, I checked lol). But Ive been this route before with nutritionists, and its just a bunch of crap I didnt fall for it. She didnt say anything helpful, I wanted some daily food ideas and recipes and stuff to get me under 1000 calories a day, but all she did was try to sell me stuff and jabber on about her (at $75 an hour at that!) So MOMS TICKED! Anyways, what I want is some ideas of what I can under a 1000 cals a day. I drink SlimFast for Breakfast (which I like to keep) but I need some lunch ideas since I have to eat out everyday due to I live outta town and have to grab something in 15-25 minutes every day. I bought some low calorie lunchables for those days when my friends go eat something that I cant, but I cant get them down very well. Also I dont want to eat lunch on my own everyday, and if I bring a lunch thats what I would have to do. I cant bring foods into ANY restaurants in town because they will kick me out lol (been there, done that). I just need some help grabbing food (doesnt have to be McDonalds or anything, just normal restaurant food not pertaining to any certain one because we have alotta restaurants here that are locally owned, just some ideas)

Here are my limitations:

Absolutely NO WHITE CHICKEN MEAT

No corn

No rice

No bread

No snacks

Under 1000 calories per serving

No greasy foods

*also I need some good low cal recipes for my mom to use, so if you guys have any please submit, or if you know a good recipe site or book that has good stuff with calories listed please let me know, I really need to get on the right track pllllleaaaaaaaaassssssseeeeeeeee......................???????

Thanks you guys! I still need more suggestions, but this is helping! I can teat the chicken, I dunno why I try and try and end up in tears no matter how much I chew and chew and chew, it still hurts me sooooooo bad!

You are NOT alone. White meat chicken (and turkey) can be the source of a major plug for MANY banded people. Along with bread, breading, bread crumbs inside of foods (such as meatloaf, crab cakes and such), rice, Pasta, leafy things (as in salads) and potatoes. (One of the meds my never-obese husband now takes gives hime a dry throat. So now that I can eat white meat chicken again, HE can't.)

Depending on how you are with celery (and how much mayo you can handle) tuna sandwiches might work. Soups and stews (again, I'd eat around the potaotes), chili (like from Wendy's, but that might be part of a "soft food symdrome" behavior, so watch out), refried Beans (also known in some parts as Taco Bell's "Pintos and Cheese"), and the inside of many burritos.

Do you know Cobb Salads? I have ordered Cobb Salads (if they are NOT tossed and they usually are not) and asked them to put the lettuce on one plate (because lettuce was NOT easy for me with the band AND because it's important to have access to the protein) and the other stuff on another plate. That leaves you with the Cobb salad "innards," which includes: tiny, chopped tomatoes; small chopped eggs; crumbled bacon; some chicken or sometimes turkey (probably white meat, so you have to eat around it); maybe avocado and crumbled bleu cheese.

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Do you know Cobb Salads? I have ordered Cobb Salads (if they are NOT tossed and they usually are not) and asked them to put the lettuce on one plate (because lettuce was NOT easy for me with the band AND because it's important to have access to the protein) and the other stuff on another plate. That leaves you with the Cobb salad "innards," which includes: tiny, chopped tomatoes; small chopped eggs; crumbled bacon; some chicken or sometimes turkey (probably white meat, so you have to eat around it); maybe avocado and crumbled bleu cheese.

I tried this Cobb Salad one time before I was banded..........didnt turn out so hot. I dunno why, but it made me soooooooooooooooooooooo sick for like 3 days, I swore I had food poisoning lol! I dont eat them anymore because of that one experience, I just cant bring myself to, lol. Oh I dont eat Bacon (or much pork at that, I used to show hogs and now the meat just smells like a dirty hog and tastes like a meat locker to me) I dont eat the yolks out of eggs either, so anything that contains yolk I cant stomach it (i dunno I always think of baby chickens, and I HATE CHICKENS)lol I dont eat tomatoe because ewww ok I cant get past the slime to eat one. It feels bad on my tongue. Im not trying to picky or make excuses I just thought I would add a little anecdote.

I need some more small town suggestions, we DONT have Crackerbarrel or Red Lobster or Applebees or anything like that all we have is in my previous post. This information is useful when I go out of town on the weekends, but for everyday I know that I can eat fajita meat.....thats it.......I need to know what is healthy at a Chinese Restaurant like tofu and stuff, I want the caloric amount if anyone has it (tofu vegetable stir-fry). Everyday we either eat Tex-Mex or Chinese, or I starve because they go to get fried chicken (ewwwwww never was a fan, felt bad in my mouth). Okay and yes I admit im OCD about some stuff. But im trying to break the food OCD habits, I really am...............I have gotten to where I eat more seafood than I ever did (I just cant eat shrimp, doesnt go down easily and neither does catfish anymore) So I ate at Applebees the other night and order the Talapia without the rice pilaf, and it was marvalous. I wish they sold that stuff down here, we have catfish, crawfish, shrimp, and some crabs........unless you drive over an hour and get it.

I really live in the sticks, we have nothing here.......lol

Thanks all of you for the help keep um coming:biggrin1:

Have you and your friends ever planned a brown-bag lunch in the park rather than buying out every day? Would your friends agree to one or two days as "bring your food to work" days?

Well we would have to be cooped up in the college for an additional 45 minutes longer than usual and thats no fun at all ya know? Its a great idea except for that and we would get done so quickly there would be nothing to do for about 30 minutes or so.......We cant eat at the park because its usually just girls, and it is known in this town that young females do not goto the park without a male because of the location of the park (its in one of the worst, no the worst parts of my town) There was in fact (no lying or exaggerating) a madman hiding in the woods around the park last week, and the week before that a woman left her kid at the park alone, at dark, and went to a bar and when she went to pick her child up at 2 am, she found her daughter surrounded by cops and she was taken into custody. There are always assaults and stuff that happen there. Oh btw, I eat my salads without dressing (just lemon juice). I like the freshness of the vegies and I hate to weigh them down with dressing, but that is an excellent idea