Here is a 2200 calorie day. I started with what I wanted for breakfast. This turned out to be scrambled eggs with chorizo. Then I chose what I wanted for lunch, which was two hotdog sandwiches. Both breakfast and lunch were from dishes I have had in the past when losing weight. So thus far, I kept to dishes familiar to me that I had eaten on my “diet”. Then I chose my dinner given my calorie intake thus far in the day. This is where I am choosing spaghetti with meatballs. The meatballs from TJs are very good with their share of 240 calories for just two meatballs. Finding that I still have calories left in my daily goal, I then am chosing to eat ONE small slice of cheese cake. I’ll be careful like this for tomorrow’s menu. I will see if this approach will work out. Perhaps call this mindful eating?

Tomorrow, I think I will start off with pancakes, which will is a high calorie dish. So I have to be considering this before choosing the lunch and dinner dishes. Perhaps oatmeal for lunch? And then a simple soup and sandwich for dinner? No desserts!