Healthy Eating (plus my Meal Plan)

I think last week I did a post on how I have been eating really healthy. I haven't been weighing myself lately because find that I get too caught up in the number on the scale. I also haven't been working out because my gym membership doesn't renew until tomorrow, so I have been staying between 1200-1400 calories. I weighed myself for the first time in 11 days & I am down 8.6 pounds! I am so excited & motivated!

I started at 163 pounds (the heaviest I have been in a LONG time) and today my scale hit 154.4 pounds. I have also been eating 8 servings of vegetables & 2 servings of fruit (only with breakfast), drinking a gallon of water a day & not eating after 10 pm. 

I have found that the more vegetables I eat, the less hungry I feel. My snacks consist of celery, carrots & campari tomatoes (my favorite!). I also gave myself a cheat meal today which was Panera Bread broccoli cheddar bread bowl but I ate healthy the rest of today & stayed under 1400 calories.

I feel like a cheat meal each week keeps me sane & I actually look forward to having something "bad". My husband & I also cook at home each night. A few days ago we did a beef roast in the oven with taco seasoning & made beef tacos. We have been trying not to waste anything, so we used the leftovers & made beef, brown rice & pinto bean bowls. I used 1/2 cup brown rice (made with vegetable broth), 1/2 cup pinto beans & 3 ounces of the roast, I loaded it with lettuce & tomatoes, threw about and 1/8 of a cup of reduced fat cheddar cheese, 2 tablespoons of light sour cream (I hate fat free) & a teaspoon of Cholula Hot Sauce. It was so delicious, easy & filling, in fact, I ate the rest of the rice & beans for lunch today.

I found a recipe for Skinny Cheesy Vegetable Chowder & decided I have to try it. You can find the original recipe here. It's full of veggies & it tastes delicious. So here's my run down for breakfast, lunch & dinner tomorrow:

Breakfast (I eat at 2pm because I am not a morning person!):

1 cup Multi Grain Cheerios

1/2 cup Lactaid 2% milk

100 grams of fresh strawberries

2 Cuties mandarin oranges

Lunch # 1 (I eat this at 5pm):

1/2 cup pinto beans

1/2 cup brown rice

1/4 cup reduced fat shredded, mild cheddar

2 tablespoons of light sour cream

1 teaspoon of Cholula Hot Sauce

1 cup of romaine lettuce

1/4 of a cucumber

Lunch #2 (I eat this at 7 pm):

1 cup Cheesy Vegetable Chowder

2 cups of romaine lettuce

5 campari tomatoes

2 tablespoons of light Hidden Valley Ranch dressing

3 oz of baby carrots

Dinner ( I eat this at 9 pm because I work 12-8 most days):

3 oz. of extra lean ground beef

1 whole wheat hamburger roll

1 teaspoon of Hellman's Mayo (I will only eat this kind!)

1 tablespoon of sugar free Heinz ketchup

1 cup of frozen green beans (5 sprays of I Can't Believe it's not Butter)

3 celery stalks

This is a little less clean than I usually eat, but I have been craving cereal SO bad. The total calorie intake for tomorrow is 1427, 3 servings of fruit & 10 servings or vegetables.

I hope this helps!
*Krystle