I was thinking about how much I used to eat compared to what I eat now and I'm floored by the amount of food I ate and never felt full.

I thought it would be somewhat fun to compare what we ate then. Also, I was on a diet 80% of the time and only eating like the below menu during my "I don't give a f**k" periods. (I had those quite often too)

So here's a sample of menu of what I used to be able to eat...

Breakfast - 2 breakfast burritos with super size diet coke / sometimes a latte with half & half (16 oz)

Snack - Piece of candy or pop-tart

lunch - Happy Meal from McDonalds with extra hamburger plus diet code... some times I'd have a different value meal like the big mac or chicken sandwich

dinner - pizza (at least 5 pieces) sometimes a piece or two of dessert pizza.

Snack - ice cream or Cookies before bed.

Wow! I'm just amazed that when some people make such drastic changes in their eating that they don't lose faster.

Our body's can be the devil sometimes with this metabolism stuff.

Cashley,

My pre-band menu was similiar:

Breakfast: Breakfast meal from a fast food place (chicken mini's, burritos)

Snack: chips, or peanuts or something

Lunch: Entree from a restaurant (ate it all, plus bread and salad)

Snack: more chips or kudos bar

Supper: Home cooked meal ( meat / Pasta, potato, veggie, roll )

Snack: Ice cream or brownie or something fattening.

Even though I have not had ANY results yet, at least I feel better about what I am eating now:

Breakfast: Protein shake

Snack: 2 string cheeses

Lunch: Lean Quisine or tuna or eggs

Snack: yogurt or Protein Bar

Supper: Small portion of what I cook for my kids.

Snack: cheese

I need more food ideas, obviously.:think

Isn't it amazing the difference in the pre-band and post-band menu. I can't even imagine the amount of calories that during those preband days since I refused to count calories during my "What the F**K" stages.

I know I did count calories during many diets and would average about 1400 and was always hungry and suprised when I didn't lose.

Now I know... even 1400 is too much for me I guess.

My menu now is about 800 - 1000 caloreis.

Breakfast - Approx 200 calories - Cereal with 1/2 skim milk or Protein shake

lunch - Approx 200 - 300 calories - Tuna on salad

dinner - Approx 200 - 300 calories - chicken on Salad

Snack - Approx 100 calories - 100 calorie snack pack or something close

This is a good thread. We should all be "blowing away" by now. Compared with what I used to eat and now.....MAN I SHOULD BE WAY SKINNY!!!

Breakfast: 1-2 large breakfast tacos (egg, bacon, and tortilla) or 2 large bowls of cereal

Lunch: A sandwich, 2 servings of chips, Cookies (man)

Dinner: 2 helpings of dinner, plus roll

Snack: What ever I felt like...cookies, candy, ice cream (2 cups), etc.

Whew! Shawn