Menu 1: 2,300 Calories

I am starting out weighing 230 pounds, and so using the calculations here, I need to limit my calories to 2,300, which sounds like a lot to me. This week should be pretty easy, but that doesn't mean I want to fill up those calories with unhealthy foods, and if I happen to go under 2,300 calories, all the better. I just want a plan in place, so this is menu 1.
Roughly I am planning for @ 650 calories for lunch and 1,000 calories for dinner (including any dessert) which leaves about 650 calories for my snack(s).

With all meals, unless otherwise specified, unsweetened iced tea, hot tea, mineral water or water. 1 cup coffee per day.
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5 
Day 6
Day 7
Lunch
Whole wheat wrap with 3 slices ham, 2 sliced Muenster, lettuce and tomato,
1 1/2 cups grapes, 1/2 cups fruit yogurt with 2 Tab. Flax-seeds
Lunch:
1 whole
Mediterranean Portobello Burger (600), 1/3 recipe Chickpea, Kale and Fire Roasted Tomato Soup (350)
Lunch:
Turkey sandwich on whole grain bread with 3 slices turkey (60), 1 slice Provolone, 1 slice avocado, lettuce tomato and mustard,
4 celery sticks with 2 Tab. Peanut butter, 1 apple
Lunch:
Roasted Red Pepper Sub (221),
Quick and Simple Italian Soup (323), 1 pear (90)
Lunch 
Tuna and Cannellini Salad with Lemon (610)
Lunch:
1 1/2 cups Curried Red Lentil Soup, 1 Tab. Hummus, 8 baby Carrots
Lunch:
Portobello "Philly Cheese-steak" Sandwich (258), 1/2 recipe Chickpea Kale Salad (@325), 1 apple (50)
Dinner 
Dinner:
Dinner:
1 serving
Shrimp Scampi with Asparagus and Tomatoes (@500)
Dinner:
1 serving Dry Potato and Pea Sak, 1 1/4 cups Romaine lettuce salad with tomatoes, cucumber and 1/2 Tab. Olive oil and vinegar
Dinner:
1 1/2 cups Shrimp and Orzo Casserole, 1 cup green beans, 2 cups baby spinach salad with tomato and cucumber and 1 Tab. each olive oil and Balsamic vinegar
Dinner:
1 1/2 cups Slow Cooker Beef and Vegetable Stew, 1/2 slice Whole wheat bread, 1 1/4 cups Romaine lettuce salad with tomatoes, cucumber and 1/2 Tab. Olive oil and vinegar
Dinner:
1 eggplant or 2 servings of Why the cleric Fainted, 1 1/4 cups Romaine lettuce salad with tomatoes, cucumber and 1/2 Tab. Olive oil and vinegar 
Snack 
Protein Pack
2 Tab. Peanut butter (190),
1 hard-boiled egg (70),
Mini wheat Bagel or half reg. bagel (100),
1/2 cup Grapes (30),
1 Apple (50)
1/8 cup Almonds (100)
Snack:
Tex-Mex
9 Tortilla chips (140),
1/2 cup Fresh Salsa (25),
1/2 cup red pepper slices (20),
1 oz. Pepper Jack Cheese slices (110)
1/2 cup Mango slices (52),
1/2 cup Avocado chunks (120)
Snack:
West Coast
1/8 cup Almonds (100),
1/2 cup grapes (30),
1 Clementine (40),
1/4 cup Roasted Chickpeas (140), or 1 String cheese (80)
8 Pita chips (140), 1/2 cup Avocado chunks (120)
Snack:
All-American
8 wheat crackers (70),
4 oz. Sliced turkey (120),
1 oz. Cheddar slices (110),
1 cup carrot (27) and celery sticks (8),
2 Tab. Ranch dressing (140)
Snack:
Mediterranean
1/4 cup Hummus (150),
8 Pita chips (140),
1 cup Grapes (60)
10 Black (60) and 10 green olives (30),
1 cup Cucumber (14)
Snack:
Italian
5 Figs or Dates (110),
3 Mozzarella balls (60), 3
Marinated Artichoke Hearts (25),
10 Black (60) and 10 green olives (30),
2 tab. Cannellini Bean dip (55),
8 Pita chips (140),
Snack:
Snack Pack 
10 pretzels (55),
1/2 apple (25),
1 Ta. Peanut Butter (95),
1 oz. Swiss Cheese (90),

Dessert:
1 square dark chocolate and 1 cup Chai tea with 1 tea. sugar and half and half
















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