Just curious to what you guys eat now that you're on maintenance. Personally, I love this stage. I don't count carbs or calories at all anymore, but I also don't eat anything high in carbs so I know that my carbs are always relatively low.

My typical menu looks something this:

Breakfast:
1% Milkfat cottage cheese with 2 pkts splenda and some sliced almonds thrown

Lunch:
Big Salad from the salad bar including black olives, hard boiled egg, marianted mushrooms, artichoke hearts, chicken or turkey, sunflower seeds and either caesar dressing or a balsamic vinegarette.

Snack:
Quaker Q-Smart snack bar OR
peanuts OR
more cottage cheese

Dinner:
LC tortilla quesadilla ooozing with cheese
and some sort of veggie (brocolli and cheddar sauce, cauliflower and butter, or spinach and feta cheese are my favs)

Dessert:
Sugar-Free popsicle
or perhaps a small bowl of pumpkin cheesecake mouse (recipe in the sweet treats forum)


I estimate about 40 or 50 carbs in a given day and maybe 1300 cals.
C'mon now, how about YOU?

Somewhat similar.

Yesterday was:
breakfast: egg, tomato and cheese "breakfast burrito" (LC tortilla), coffee
lunch: salad with kohlrabi greens, romaine, avocado, and salsa-ranch dressing
dinner: roasted chicken leg, mashed cauliflower+kohlrabi, coffee
late evening: a couple of LC brewskis at the pub

Today:
breakfast: same breakfast burrito, coffee
lunch: bunless burger, leftover mashed cauli+kohlrabi
dinner: chicken and cauli-flied rice, coffee

I haven't been snacking much and won't be for a while, since I have braces and eating tends to be a chore. If I snack, it's usually just a cup of hot cocoa, maybe a protein drink; so I don't have to take my elastics off.

Hi ther, well my typical day goes like this:

Brk, most days, Oatmeal with cream cheese/1/4 banana, drop of hazelnut N/S Syrup. sometimes, boiled eggs/l.c. toast., or Toast peanut butter.The odd morning Soy pancakes, but they don't fill me up enough
But every morning regardless of what I have for breakfast, the first thing that I have is 1/2 orange or 1/2 grapefruit, with out fail!

Lunch
A loaded salad, with a can of tuna or
Healthy Choice Mushroom soup (1/2can) with a 1/2 can of tuna, and a veggie added. or
Cheese and tomato sandwich ( lc bread) or a stuff low carb Pita bread.
Homemade soups/leftovers.

Dinner are what ever I cook for my family, I just don't have potatoes and brown rice every night, just 3x's a week. I eat spegetti Squash or just more veggie. I eat all veggies.

I very rarely have any kind of dessert, but if I do it is a really small serving.
or N/S produsts, but even those I limit, just don't need them

Snacks
apple/cheese
fruit ( eat 3-4 servings a day)
No/sugar cookies, about 2 a day at coffee break
No/sugar chocolate bars, 1 a week
Yogurt ( balkin style)
Cottage cheese
Cold roast beef and a slice of cheddar.
Unsweetened Soy milk daily
Maybe one power bar every few weeks.

I have my daily wine, maybe a lc beer once a month, the odd gin and soda
I do not eat white flour product, white rice or sugar products.

Chees all Kathy

Some of my favorite choices:

Breakfast:
LC tortilla with natty peanut butter and Smucker's sf jelly
or hot flax cereal
or whey protein shake/smoothie
or greek, veggie, or bacon and cheese omelette
LC yogurt and cheese stick

Lunch:
LC tortilla with natty peanut butter and Smucker's sf jelly
or large garden salad or caesar with chicken or tuna
or deli meat and cheese roll-ups
or leftovers from dinner

Dinner:
roast chicken and veggies
or non-breaded chicken Cordon Bleu's with veggies
or spaghetti squash pasticcio
or grilled chicken breast topped with chicken and bacon and veggies
or large garden salad or caesar with chicken or tuna
or grilled steak and veggies
or chicken and steak fajitas in a restaurant w/ my LC tortillas
or pulled pork BBQ platter w/ veggies in a restaurant w/ my LC sauce
or LC pizza quiche or a quick LC pizza on a tortilla
or easy chicken enchiladas (recipe section) w/ Mexican side salad

Snacks:
LC ice cream
LC microwave cakes (chocolate, banana, or spice)
strawberry, blueberry, or rasberry whey fruit smoothies
pumpkin cheesecake with almond crust
LC homemade PB cups with coconut oil
celery with natty PB or salmon cream cheese

Favorite Veggies:
broccoli salad (recipe in recipe section)
steamed broccoli with cheese sauce
green beans with butter, garlic, and pine nuts or almonds
squash with butter
Waldorf coal slaw with pecans
cauliflower puree with garlic and cheese

I'd like to thank everyone for posting! I keep trying to think of different stuff to eat, I get bored so easily!

Breakfast: Today, Atkins Bakery lo-carb cinnamon raisin bagel (9g) with crunchy PB (2.9 g) and some pieces of fruit (2g)

Lunch: Yesterday I had a lemon pepper pork steak (1g) with bean and carrot medley (7g)

Dinner: Yesterday I went to Pickle Barrel and had the lo-carb menu Greek Burger with the biggest salad I have ever seen!!! (I think the menu said it was 16 g)

BTW this is a no holds barred kind of weekend, being Canadian Thanksgiving and all, so I will be eating stuffing and pumpkin pie. Then it's back on the bandwagon on Tuesday!

M

Welp, at 55-65 carbs I was still losing wieght, so I realy had to push up the carbs, I prbly in the 90-100 range now and wieght is finaly stable. So my meals are not going to line up with many of y'all's

Breakfast:
Some "healthy" Ceral like Berrie Burst Cherrio's + Carb Count down
Cold Brewed latte (homemade iced in summer, hot in winter)
(I eat breakfast at my desk at work, and this seems to work best)

Lunch
Lowish carb bread (8 per 2 slices, no transfats, etc) + varity of lunch meats, plus something like Egg salad pedning on whats on hand. OR Cheeseburgers+trimings OR Hotdogs OR left overs

Dinner
Normaly Some form of CHicken, Beef or Fish, + Salad or Veggies
OR LC Homemade Pizza (YUMMY!!!)
OR Some other meat heave LC meal form the recipe section here

Snacks:
Blue Bluny Carb Freedom Ice Cream produts
Chips - From the natural line only 15 carbs per serving
LC Cookies (Chips A Hoy makes them)
Peperonie
Fruit


Drinks:
Dite Rite Cola
Whole Milk+Divinccie Flavors
V8 Diet Spash fruit juice (cut in 1/2 with water)
Coffee in various forms
Crystal Clear Bottled water (shoot for 2 liters daily)

My wife eats more like 45-55 carbs so her menu has some chagnes in it, but along the sme lines.

This is interesting.

Breakfast Big bowl of oatmeal with 1/2 cup milk, tinned pears and peaches, sliced almonds and sunflower seeds. Boiled egg.

Snack tub of no-sugar added yogurt. Carrot sticks with peanut butter.

Lunch Salad sandwich made with 2 slices Burgen Whole Grain Bread, 1 grated carrot (rest as sticks), 1 tomato, baby spinach, cheese, tahini, and sliced meat. An apple or other fruit.

Afternoon (home from work) Either/Some combination of cottage cheese; avocado; wholegrain muffin with vegemite; rye crackers with butter and anchovies; tin of tuna on toast; tuna and baby spinach salad; cold boiled eggs

Dinner (around 8, post-exercise)
Meat and vegies.

Either some type of steak (usually pork steak) with green beans and caulflour with loads of butter
or a stir fry
or roast pork with roast vegies
or red fish with roast pepper salad
or white fish with salad
or Thai curry

Remember, I'm doing a BFL style plan so it tends to be a bit carby. Plus I hate veggies and not planning to change. I lost another pound this week so next week I'll up the calories here.

Breakfast: 3/4 cup oatmeal w/scoop whey protein powder
Mid-Morning: 3/4 cup Kashi GoLean w/3/4 cup cottage cheese, strawberries
Lunch: chicken breast with 2 oz whole wheat pasta, smart balance light and a bit of parmesan
Mid afternoon - peanut butter sandwich (SF jelly, Ezekiel bread and natural pb)
Dinner - Lean Cuisine OR Fish/Yams/Veggies OR Protein Pancake (Cottage cheese, oats, whey, egg whites, etc).
Post workout: : Protein MRP shake (100 DV on the vitamins, about 240 calories, 38 grams protein).
Other: 1/2 tablespoon of Udo oil.

Above is around 1900 calories with a 40 40 20 ratio.

Umm whats that?

My breakfasts and lunches are basically the same as during induction--bacon and eggs for breakfast, salad and meat for lunch. However, I'm eating more regular foods at dinner with my family and yesterday ate part of the bun with my hamburger. It still feels really daring to branch out though!

Udo's Choice is a supplemental oil made from flax, coconut, and other oils. It's a good essential fatty acid supplement. I take it straight from the bottle, because it tastes good!

It was developed by Udo Erasmus, a biochemist and low-carb supporter who recognized the importance of omega-3s back in the 80s, long before mainstream science acknowledged it. His website is extensive, and I haven't even made a dent in it.

Yep, that's the stuff. I haven't gotten used to it yet so I'm only up to half a serving . It's really pricey, but everyone says it's worth it -- and my fats run kinda low otherwise.

Thanks for the Udo's link, Kristine. Very interesting!