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Hi, I am new here and joined about a week ago. I considered my diet relatively healthy before TDC. I don’t eat burgers (or meat), or dine at fast food places. I love my fruit and veggies and can abstain from chocolate without too much trouble! I am very active, yet I still have managed to gain a couple of stone. Really into eating healthy and joined TDC to help me get an even healthier lifestyle and diet and lose the added weight. However, I am struggling with the food choices and my hectic routine! Why is it that so much of the food that is good for you is about as appetizing as cardboard! (organic rye bread….yugh!). My day starts at 5.30am, I usually get back into the house at 7.30am for a quick breakfast (no time to cook eggs so usually consists of a bowl of granola and greek yoghurt or instant porridge made with water and cinnamon). I then have to shower and change and be at work for 8.30am till 5.00pm. Then to the yard (horses) and my OH and I don’t usually get home to start cooking dinner till about 8.30pm, we like to be in bed for 10.00pm (as get up at 5.30am). I am really struggling with the food choices, does anyone have any good ideas what to take to work in my lunch box? I don’t have access to a fridge or cooker at work and don’t actually leave the office during lunch. I am also struggling to find many of the things listed and have spent a small fortune buying things to only find they taste awful and throw them out! I really want to succeed at this and am willing to make changes but there are some things that just taste too bad to eat! I really need some easy and tasty options for work, it is a long time from 7.30 am till 8.30pm and I need to not feel hungry during that time. Still trying to sort the evening meal too as after a long day stacking hay bales the last thing OH wants to see on his plate is a cup full of rice, an egg and a bit of cottage cheese! It would be nice to see more ‘meals’ for the dinners included. Thanks for your help in advance.
Hi I am also new to this program and also having the same problem you are with lunch.Only have 20 min. so cooking is out,what I need is a simple lunch that doesn’t have to cooked,microwaved,etc..Any ideas??
Hi, oddoneout. I just want to start by telling you that the awkwardness you’ve described above is temporary. Consider your current exploration of foods to be an investment.
Perhaps it would help to start from a different direction. You mentioned that you considered your pre-program diet to be healthy – perhaps build your menus from the foods to which you are used, and very gradually introduce new foods so you have time to try different recipes.
Be very sure to think through what you want to see at your meals – and only check those as you go through the Menu Planner lists. There is no reason you can’t have a dinner of steak, potatoes, and salad for dinner after a hard day. We designed the pattern to be like this to be friendly to people like you who work hard all day.
Regarding lunches, sandwiches are a very popular solution, as are rich shakes and/or hearty soups that you can take with you in a thermos. Here are some recipes: shakes – http://www.trimdownclub.com/?s=shake&post_type=recipe (to substitute for a small meal, I would recommend the ones with added dairy or seeds); soups – http://www.trimdownclub.com/recipe_type/soups/.Hi, roseired. Try sandwiches, “fortified” salads (throw in canned beans or salmon, for example), yogurts – even readymade organic soups are fine.
Some people who like hot meals for lunch prepare them in advance on the weekend and freeze individual portions for use later.oddoneout –
Your day sounds rather like mine – horses included. I found it tedious to get all the food organised, but my work day is pretty hectic so I actually appreciate that it’s all worked out and all I have to do is open my ready-meal 😉
For example, my breakfast today was toast (I’m using gluten free) whole grain, with a poached egg, and the amount of butter it calls for on my menu. Plus a cup of raspberries.
About 10 am I had my first snack – which was lowfat yogurt and yum, more raspberries.
Lunch – raw veggies and a tbsp. of hummus; lentils and artichoke hearts (tinned) and chicken.
Afternoon snack – an apple at 3pm
Dinner – soup/fortified salad (had to be a fast thing as I had just come home from the gym and was needing to be fed asap!)
How I manage it all – I have lots of little ice cream tubs (okay, the real reason I had gained weight to start with – those little tiny single serve Carte D’or. Those tiny tubs are exactly 1 cup measure. So I pack my yogurt in to that and another one for my raspberries. My veggies go in a larger Tupperware with the hummus in another tiny Tupperware inside. The lentil/chicken/artichoke mix in another Tupperware.
All of this stuff fits in to a cool bag that I bought from Tesco. I freeze the bag over night, then in the morning I fill all the containers and then stick in the fridge til the very last minute before I have to leave for work. It stays handy for me to grab the bits and pieces when required.
It works out pretty well if you just get creative 😉
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