I wish there was a book that gave you examples of daily meal plans. If someone wrote one, im sure they would be rich because many people I know who have been banned as the same question......what is a good daily meal plan? How many calories should I be consuming? Im afraid Im not eating enough. I exercise 30 minutes a day and hardly eat! If peope who are losing 2+ lbs a week could share what their typical day consists of eating, I would be forever grateful!

Check out ~~> THIS THREAD <~~ in the Food & Nutrition Forum. In there we post what we eat on a daily basis, great place for ideas

Edited October 3, 200817 yr by BlooEyez

so funny you posted this.... I had been thinking about posting this question.... what do you eat during the liquid, next phase, and so on to give us "newbies" ideas.... I have surgery two weeks from today and am so excited yet nervous..... any tips out there?

so funny you posted this.... I had been thinking about posting this question.... what do you eat during the liquid, next phase, and so on to give us "newbies" ideas.... I have surgery two weeks from today and am so excited yet nervous..... any tips out there?

Check out ~~> THIS THREAD <~~ for ideas in each phase. Best of luck on your surgery and Lap Band journey!

Thank you so much this is exactly what i was looking for. If i have a chart that shows me kind of food to eat or how many servings of each group, im good to go! Thank you soooo much!!!

There is also a good website that my doctor recommended. It is bariatriceating.com. There are meal ideas and there is also a book that you can buy. Hope this helps a little.

I have two "bibles" that I keep on my reading table at all times. I bought them b/4 surgery, read them from front to back and still pick them up at least once daily for ideas and to recheck on lap band methods, etc.

Weight Loss Surgery for Dummies and Eating Well After Weight Loss Surgery.

I just ordered these off of Amazon.com.

Hi, this is what my daily meal plan looks like

7:00 am- scrambled better than eggs, with fatfree, or low fat cheese, with meat added such as turkey chicken etc.. abouty 1/2 cup

8:45 am- drinking 20 0z of Water between this time and 11:00

11:00- small snack such as tuna salad with fat free mayo

20 oz of water with crystal light in between

1:30- Meat such as chicken, turkey etc with small side of veggies, about 1/2 cup ( really good with gravy on it, i bought some gravy that has zero fat 30 cals and 0 carbs and protien :redface:

between 2:30 and usually 6:30, I have one more bottle of 20 oz water

6:30pm- meat such as chicken, turkey, turkey ground, with veggies and some sauce to moist the meat. about 1/2 cup

sometimes i sub veggies for mashed taters very rare tho. and i ensure to get most of my bites from my meat. IM at least getting 60 grams of protien a day which i think helps a lot. sometimes i also eat Beans such as refried black beans or reg beans with low fat low fal mild taco sauce and a tiny bit of cheese.

Hi, this is what my daily meal plan looks like

7:00 am- scrambled better than eggs, with fatfree, or low fat cheese, with meat added such as turkey chicken etc.. abouty 1/2 cup

8:45 am- drinking 20 0z of Water between this time and 11:00

11:00- small snack such as tuna salad with fat free mayo

20 oz of water with crystal light in between

1:30- Meat such as chicken, turkey etc with small side of veggies, about 1/2 cup ( really good with gravy on it, i bought some gravy that has zero fat 30 cals and 0 carbs and protien :tt1:

between 2:30 and usually 6:30, I have one more bottle of 20 oz water

6:30pm- meat such as chicken, turkey, turkey ground, with veggies and some sauce to moist the meat. about 1/2 cup

sometimes i sub veggies for mashed taters very rare tho. and i ensure to get most of my bites from my meat. IM at least getting 60 grams of protien a day which i think helps a lot. sometimes i also eat Beans such as refried black beans or reg beans with low fat low fal mild taco sauce and a tiny bit of cheese.

Chicamam1, can I ask how you are calculating your Protein total? I am having horrible trouble getting mine all in because I absolutely cannot stand the protein powders and drinks. I'm only one month post-op and haven't even had a fill yet, so I am scared that once I cannot even eat as much as I can now, I'm going to have even more trouble getting all my protein in.

Chicamam1, can I ask how you are calculating your Protein total? I am having horrible trouble getting mine all in because I absolutely cannot stand the protein powders and drinks. I'm only one month post-op and haven't even had a fill yet, so I am scared that once I cannot even eat as much as I can now, I'm going to have even more trouble getting all my protein in.

im calculating two ways. One, my surgeons gave me a protien list to see where a 3 0z serving of certain meat would be protien. I know chicken breast is about 20 grams per 3 oz, turkey around 22 g I read labels when I shop to ensure a serving that i eat will give me at least 15 grams of protien. Tuna has about 26 grams per serving. Then eat servings of low fat cheese I add in is around 6 grams of protien, etc etc. you can calculate per meal but watching how much protien is in the food your eating. I guess basically, I really just keep watch over the labels to ensure what im eating is going to at least give 15 grams each time. It is really easy when you are eating healthy meat because just the peice of meat will hit that 15 grams for you. some things high on my protien list are. chicken, turkey, beef, shrimp, oysters, lobster, clams, pork for me its all about meat meat meat and then a little veggies, or taters