Food, Food, & More Food

As I mentioned before, eating right is a huge part of this program. We have to eat small balanced meals every few hours. Everyone is going around work saying "Ugh, I have to eat again!." I'm a little bit more comfortable with this way of eating, because it is similar to the South Beach diet I did a few years ago. I'm used to carrying snacks with me and watching the clock so I eat on time. It worked really well for me before, so hopefully I'll get awesome results with all this exercise piled on top of the diet. Here's a sample day of what I'm eating so far:

Meal 1 (7am): egg sandwich (2 slices of Canadian bacon & 3 egg whites on 2 slices of wheat bread w/ hot sauce)

Meal 2 (9:45am): apple, 10 cashews

Meal 3 (1pm): small mixed salad w/ 1 tbsp. light Italian dressing, 3/4 c. homemade FF black bean soup w/ 1 oz. cheddar

Meal 4 (3:15pm): apple, 10 cashews

Meal 5 (6:30pm): spinach salad (baby spinach, 5 baby portobella mushrooms, 1 c. cottage cheese, crushed cherry peppers, salsa, hot sauce)

Meal 6-optional-I've been opting out of a 6th meal most nights and having some diet cherry coke as a sweet fix instead.

For now I've just been jotting down my meals in the journal they gave us, but I might plug some of this into SparkPeople.com to see what the actual calories look like if I have time.

Updates:
*I almost forgot to mention that I've had 10-11 glasses of water to drink each day since this started.
**I plugged it into Spark. This day I came in just under 1,200 calories with 84 grams of protein. I'm not aiming for a particular calorie range, just balanced meals, so that total is interesting. I'm particularly surprised that my dinner was under 300 calories. It was huge and I was stuffed afterwards.