wakeup--water and vitamins
late breakfast/brunch--chicken noodle soup with 1 1/2 scoops Unjury chicken soup flavor
no snack!
lunch--Atkins Advantage chocolate coconut protein bar
no snack!!
dinner--taco salad with meat sauce and refried beans and veggies and cheese  YUMMO!!
evening snack (I will have this one due to low BS at night while sleeping)---either protein bar or nuts and raisins

I have had 3 cups of tea (32 ozs each) plus a 24 oz bottle of water. I'll have another bottle or part of one at bedtime when I take my evening vitamins...  With figuring in a protein bar as the evening snack, that brings me to 1300 calories and 112 grams of protein.  Carbs are a bit higher than I'd like at 80, but it was complex carbs and only 11 grams of sugar for the WHOLE day total!

After a horrendous day Tuesday of eating every two hours and it adding up to TWO thousand calories (UGH!), I did MUCH better on Wednesday!

breakfast--1/2 cup egg beaters, 1 oz shredded cheese
no snack
lunch--Atkins protein bar
snack--2 slices cheddar cheese and a couple of shoplifted grapes (would have bought the bag, but they were squishy...yuck! glad I tried a couple!)
dinner--beef stir fry made with soy sauce, not a heavy terryaki or stir fry sauce
snack--half a Payday protein bar and a few almonds

I drank 2 bottles of Propel, 2 bottles of water and 32 ozs iced tea. I also had two of those Citrical calcium chews. I was out and found them at my Rite aid and bought both boxes of the chocolate ones they had. I'm not really sure why everyone is so crazy about them as I think they are sort of nasty! LOL And, they are 35 calories each! So that is 70 extra calories a day. Now I will admit that my fish oil pills are 10 cals each (I take 4 to 6 per day) and my calcium supp is 10 cals per dose (2 to 3 doses per day) and I never EVER count or even consider those. Should I ignore the ones in the chews too? As long as you're not eating them like Hershey kisses that is??

With the Propels but not the Citrical chews, I ended up with 1047 calories, 56 net carbs and 84 protein. This is my first REALLY low day in a very long time.  I've been eating 1200 to 1400 cals on the average day.  I spent 6 hours mostly on my feet either pacing at the auto mechanic or shopping several different places... That was the extent of my "exercise" for the day.  I did wake up to a lower number on the scale though!  I haven't seen anything lower than 205 in a while.  Today, it read 202.6!  Now if it will just stay down there and not go back up tomorrow, I may just see ONEderland by Easter!
Lea

Someone asked me for my meatloaf recipe tonight, so here goes...  My meatloaf is truly nothing terribly special, but it agrees with DH.  It is not greasy and has no oatmeal in it, which he hates in meatloaf.  It started out as the meatloaf recipe on the Lipton onion-mushroom soup packet!  Now, it pretty much the following:
1 1/2 to 2 pounds ground beef (usually the 80/20 stuff)
1 packet onion or onion-mushroom soup mix
2 to 3 eggs (more beef = more eggs)
ketchup
3/4 to 1 cup italian bread crumbs (again, more beef = more bread crumbs)

Break the beef up in your bowl.
Pour in the soup mix packet and bread crumbs.  Break in the eggs.  Add about 1/3 cup ketchup and about 1/2 to 3/4 cup water.  Mix well with a fork OR your hands. Bake at about 350 degrees till just almost done.  Take the pan out and pour off any fat/grease (hence why it is not greasy!).  Then, top with a nice coating of ketchup and bake again till done in the middle.  A 1 1/2 to 2 pound meatloaf takes about an hour to bake completely.

Now I will also note that I sometimes add extra shredded/dried onion.  I have also added a bit of salsa when I didn't have ketchup on hand.  That makes for sort of a tex-mex meatloaf!  And, I've added shredded cheese before too...  Just things you can do to switch it up for a change. 

We LOVE meatloaf and there is rarely any left after a day or two.  We get dinner, lunch and the occasional snack out of it.  I sometimes make a really large meatloaf (I'm talking 3+ pounds of beef) and freeze some in smaller pieces so I can have it for lunch once in a while when I'm not planning a meatloaf for dinner any time soon...  You can also make it in a few of the little loaf pans or even in pot pie tins for smaller servings.  It helps to add a bit of ketchup or salsa when reheating in the microwave if you need a really moist food to go down well. 

I've never figured nutrition info on this recipe, so no help there!
Lea