If you follow this blog, then you know that for the past couple of weeks I’ve really been trying to tweak my diet in order to make sure I’m eating a balanced diet after my lap band surgery.

I am not there yet, in fact I know I’m not getting anywhere near the variety I need, but with what I am eating right now is it good enough?

My typical daily diet includes:

Breakfast:

• 4oz Dannon Activia yogurt
• 1/2 cup Kashi Go Lean cereal
• 1/4 cup skim milk

• Calories: 202
• Fat: 3 g
• Protein: 13g
• sodium: 145mg
• Carbohydrates: 37g
• Fiber: 5g
• Sugars: 23g

Morning snack:

• 1 scoop 100% premium whey protein mix chocolate flavored
• 1 cup skim milk

Nutritional value

• Calories: 200
• Fat: 1.5 g
• Protein: 31g
• sodium: 182mg
• Carbohydrates: 14g
• Fiber: >1g
• Sugars: 1g

Lunch:

• Bumble Bee fat free tuna salad (yes I switched to fat free)

Nutritional value:

• Calories: 150
• Fat: 1.5
• Protein: 9 g
• sodium: 580 mg
• Carbohydrates: 23 g
• Fiber: 1.5 g
• Sugars: 5 g

Afternoon snack:

• Frigo natural string cheese

Nutritional value:

• Calories: 90
• Fat: 6 g
• Protein: 6 g
• sodium: 200 mg
• Carbohydrates: < 1 g
• Fiber: 0 g
• Sugars: 0 g

Dinner:

• Starkist light meat tuna fillets

Nutritional value:

• Calories: 120
• Fat: 1.5 g
• Protein: 26 g
• sodium: 430 mg
• Carbohydrates: 1 g
• Fiber: 0 g
• Sugars: 1g

Evening snack:

• 1/2 cup Kashi go lean cereal
• 4 oz Dannon Activia yogurt

Nutritional value:

• Calories: 180
• Fat: 3 g
• Protein: 11.5 g
• sodium: 113 mg
• Carbohydrates: 49 g
• Fiber: 5 g
• Sugars: 23 g

Drinks:

• Water
• Tropicana Fruit Squeeze (2) - Technically it is not 2, these are the larger bottles, and in most cases I water it down, so it’s 1 1/2, but I’m going to adjust on the higher side just to be safe.

Nutritional value:

• Calories: 100
• Fat: 0 g
• Protein: 0 g
• sodium: 120 mg
• Carbohydrates: 24 g
• Fiber: 0 g
• Sugars: 18 g

Total Nutritional Value:

Nutritional value:

• Calories: 1,142
• Fat: 16.5 g
• Protein: 86.5 g
• sodium: 1,770 mg
• Carbohydrates: 149 g
• Fiber: 11.5 g
• Sugars: 71 g

There you have it, my typical meal plan for the day. As you can see I do need to add more variety into my meal plan to include vegetables. But as you can see nothing too out of line, so I’ll tweak it a little bit at a time to include those vegetables.

As a creature of habit, it’s hard to not just get up and eat this every day, because so far it’s working as far as losing weight.

Can I continue this for the rest of my life? I doubt it, but that was the whole point of the lap band. It was to give me time so I could take a good hard look at my eating habits, and learn how I could make some really important changes to improve my overall health and well being.

The lap band helps me to control my hunger, just enough so I can focus on these things instead of food. Well actually, that’s not 100% true, but I’ll write another post about that later.

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