what do you eat for breakfast and lunch?

[surgtech1956]

What do you usually eat for breakfast and lunch? Do you commute with a brown bag lunch, do you eat out in restaurants often, do you eat fast food, what is your fav fast food? Do you eat breakfast on the run, drink your breakfast, energy or breakfast bars, or a big old healthy breakfast?

[lph]

I'm a huge creature of habit. This is basically it, every day:

Breakfast at 7: A glass of orange juice, 3 seal oil capsules, 2 calcium tablets. A huge cup of coffee. Two slices of wholegrain bread with something like sliced banana.

Once I get to work at 9, two wholegrain crackers, cup of green tea.

Lunch at 11: a large bowl of salad relying heavily on chick peas and beans.

2nd lunch at 2.30 : 2 double wholegrain sandwiches from home with something uncomplicated on. Cup of green tea.

That's usually enough for me to ride home on, then dinner around 6.

I used to eat a lot more bread even, but now I really crave that salad if I don't get it.

[Offthegrid]

Wow, a lot of questions!

Packing: I eat breakfast at work practically every day. And because there are virtually no gluten-free food choices at any restaurants within walking distance, I pack my lunch every day, too. Depending on my evening schedule, sometimes I even have to pack dinner. It can get complicated.

Breakfast: Cottage cheese and banana
or, gluten-free bagel with jelly

Snack: Piece of fruit or rice bar (about 100 calories here)

Lunch: This week it's meatloaf, sweet potato and green beans

Snack: Handful of nuts and raisins or another piece of fruit

Dinner: Varies. Typically is a chicken breast with rice or potato and broccoli

Fast food: Virtually no fast food is gluten-free. I struggled the most with this because I was a fast food junkie. Now that I haven't had it in a long time, I don't crave it anymore. And making a burger and potatoes myself tastes SOOOOOO much better (except I can't have a regular bun). Now if I get fast food, it's usually a treat like Wendy's Frosty.

Breakfasts: I wait to eat at work because I'm lazy or because I've gone swimming that morning before work. On the weekends, I make a nice, hot breakfast like GF pancakes or eggs. Sometimes frozen GF waffles.

[Thorn]

Another habit-formed creature...

Breakfast -- yogurt sprinkled with raw oatmeal mixed with walnuts, ground flax seed and raisens. On the weekends, the breakfast becomes a mixed-grain and rice porridge.

Mid-morning snack -- a breakfast bar (e.g., Luna, Lara, Alpsnack, etc.).

Lunch -- soup. I try to make a big pot of something on the weekend and then eat it for lunch during the week.

[spokewench]

Breakfast varies:

1.Whole wheat toast with butter, coffee, orange juice and a piece of fruit.
2. Oatmeal, lots of fruit on top, orange juice, coffee.
3. Whole wheat toast, one egg sandwich, oj, coffee.

Snack: fruit banana or something like that around 10:00 in morning at work.

Lunch:

1. Turkey, swiss, tomato sandwich on whole wheat.
2. Soup and grilled cheese sandwich
3. Soup with whole wheat bread
4. Pita wrap with grilled chicken, romaine lettuce, tomato, etc.
5. Salad with veges - with or without some kind of turkey/chicken. small piece of bread
6. Burrito (Bean cheese rice or chicken bean cheese rice)

[Jenn]

I'm doing the whole plan my dad has me on, and have lost 7 lbs in the the last week.
Meal 1 1/2 cup oatmeal,4 egg whites one whole
Meal 2 Protein shake
Meal3 1/2 cup brown rice, 6oz chicken, beef or fish, 2 cups veggies
Meal 4 Protein Shake
Meal 5 4oz chicken, fish or beef, 3 cups veggies
Meal 6 Protein shake or brownie out of it

I eat every 2.5 to 3 hours but it's just for 30 days until they start adding fruit in. So far I like it, but I'm craving sweets BAD!!! But, seeing the weight coming off and my clothes getting looser is paying off.

[limewave]

Breakfast:
fried egg sandwich
(1 egg + 1 egg white, whole wheat english muffin)
nonfat cappuccino

Snack:
banana or nutrigrain bar

Lunch:
Yoplain No Fat Yogurt w/ 1/4 cup grape nuts
String Cheese
1 cup pretzels

[RoadRaven]

Jenn and Shawnada...

Sounds like a great diet to shed weight, but I am interested to know how sustainable it is in terms of power output...

I can understand it for body-building, when the weight loss is importance for muscle definition...

But in an endurance sport like cycling, surely you are not feeding the muscles as you shed the fat?? Or am I interpreting this wrong?

I would love to shed weight that quickly, but I don't know if I could be a mum, have a FT job and bike on that fueling system.

What do you both think based on having lived with/on it?

[Zen]

Raven, those were my thoughts exactly.
This is a bodybuilders diet, it's not for endurance sport.

[surgtech1956]

JENN - I like your 'diet' to shed the weight. I'm a vegetarian - is there a vegetarian version? What kind of protein shake do you drink/make??? Thanks for your post.

[shawnada]

You are right regarding our diets. It is ideal for bodybuilding because your goal is to eliminate as much fat and sodium from your diet and body to show all definition and striation. Your carb intake is low, women loose their menstrual cycles because body fat is so low, your cranky and irritable and above all else exhausted and hungry. It is not a healthy sport but the reward is when you are on stage and you look dam good!!!! I am not competeing this year in bodybuilding because I have chosen to do duathlons this year in the northwest. The hardest thing for me in my training is to consume more carbs and calories. It messes with me mentally because it is opposite of my normal eating and calorie intake. I am a creature of habit. I eat the same things every day and a cheat on the weekend. I am learning to increase my portion sizes so I can have the energy for the amount of training I am doing. Low carb and low-cal should never be used in the same sentence when doing endurance events.

[RoadRaven]

Thanks for clarifying that shawdana. Good luck with increasing the carb/calorie intake. I know it can be tough when one style of eating has been a complete focus and a way of living.

Surgtech... be careful about opting for this diet... consider it well in combination with what you are asking from your body in terms of energy output/exercise.


EDIT:
Whoops These are your first two posts, Shawdana. Welcome to TE and great to have you joining in our discussions!