ok..I live alone (well..me and the three Bichons)

How many of you are cooking for one? Do you cook a meal for your family and then something different for you? (ie, lower cal, less carbs, low fat, high Protein etc).

Or...since we can eat such small amounts do you just eat what they eat in tiny portions?

and..for those of you that cook for one....how about sharing some ideas?

I find myself cooking something..and then eating it all week which leads to boredom and the craving to stop at a fast food joint and grab some variety.

Am I making any sense?

Dr. Oz says salt is one of the worst things you can put in your body, he did a little demonstration on his show and it really proved to me how salt is not my friend. My b/p is normal now after stopping frozen dinners, processed foods, and stopped adding salt to my foods. It forced me to start cooking for one, because I can control what is in my food. Use spices in place of salt. Eventually, you get used to it, and your b/p will improve.

Stoongal has a lot of good ideas, I have found useful too. Bistro MD is a great meal delivery plan if you can afford it. The Biggest Loser uses them too. You could get the 5 day plan, and split the meals in half and it could last 2 weeks that way, and I hear the food is delicious, like a personal chef!

Anyway, I feel ya. But, your only 9 lbs from goal!!! WHOO HOO!!:crying:

Donna, talk about unfair. My husband put himself on a diet with me and drops weight overnight. He's a steak and football potato with mounds of butter and feels that is normal portion. He can't believe what I eat (or drink) now. But we are both getting healthier and glad he is realizing what good eating habits this will hopefully bring about. I am still on the clears,thins so will be ready for the Jason deli's soups soon. I am saving all your recipe's for ideas,I'm a basic cook. Steph about the salt, I can say I am more addicted to salty things than sweet or anything else. Coming home in the airport we were continually looking for soups to eat and a lady next to us had a huge plate of everything nachos and I was drooling. I could eat the whole plate bf...no more. I am babying my sleeve. I feel better every day--life is good!

It's Time, Congrats on your sleeve!! It gets better and better every day, just stick to the plan. After my surgery, I had no cravings for food at all, the smell got to me. But, now, it is back to normal, so nothing causes problems for me. You will be just fine.

Last night I cooked a pot roast w/all kinds of veggies (no salt) and it had the greatest broth, so I made beef/veg soup out of 1/2 of it. Yum! And, talk about filling. The rest of the meat I will use the next couple days for chili, etc.

Enjoy your new life with the VG, it's the best thing I ever did.

Wow I am glad to know that popcorn may be eaten, eventually I guess when the desire comes back.

Hey Tracy,

This is just a thought... When I was in my second year of graduate school my husband got offered a great job in a neighboring state. I looked into transferring but found I would lose a lot of credits and all my internship hours so I decided that I would commute back and forth weekly. This was a SUPER hard decision for me because I had a two year old at the time and being away from her was going to be torture. Anyway, I would leave at 3 am on Monday mornings drive 5 hours go to internship and classes for four days and then Thursday nights drive back 5 hours. It was really really hard and somewhere in there I had to find time for homework, and doing all the mom things. To make things easier I decided to start a food coop. I put up some sign as the local cafe and on craigslist to find like minded folk and when there were four of us we got together and planned out a month worth of main dishes. On Sunday I would cook and deliver food to the three other families. They would keep that for their monday night dinner. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday the other families would deliver meals to my husband and daughter. This made his being a single parent a little easier while I was gone because even though he only got home aroudn 6:30 after getting the girl, they had a dinner ( usually still warm) waiting on the back steps. I loved the food coop and it worked really well for us. It may be something you might like to start for singles and cooking for one-ers. It would probably be a lot of fun as a single person. Now granted as a sleever you would probably still have too much but it wouldnt be that bad. When you are going to be out you just have to remember to bring it in and put it away. I found four days a week to be perfect.

Great ideas - I will bookmark these for menu planning.

I'm enjoying this site very much after finding it on LBT.

I am finding it very hard to read the posts when people don't put spaces or breaks in between paragraphs. When the entire post is one long paragraph, I lose my place and I can't read it.

Thats a good point! Thanks!