Cheryl Forberg, RD. Biggest Loser Nutritionist

Tara  Typical Daily Intake Before the Show

Breakfast – sesame bagel  (4.5-inch)  with cream cheese (3 tablespoons) and tomato slices (3)  and 12 ounces of orange juice  

620 calories          breakfast; very high in simple carbs and very low in protein; no whole fruit

Morning Snack  - none

Lunch  cafeteria sandwich on a white roll  or panini bread with grilled chix, cheddar, red roasted peppers, sliced pickle and honey mustard   with small bag of potato chips (1 ounce bag)  and 16 ounce diet cola
990 calories

At lunch time, Tara purchased 3 or 4 cookies to eat as afternoon snacks; such as chocolate chip
600 calories

Snack

cookies with iced vanilla latte (600 + 75 = 675)

Dinner – 8pm   Tara orders take out -      
waffle fries with side of gravy,   550
hot wings with blue cheese dressing  (1/3 cup)           450 calories  with carrots and celery   and a 16 ounce diet cola
1000 calorie dinner

Snack before bed 4 or 5 cookies -  300 calories

Daily Total - Approx 3585 calories

Here is a photo of Tara after running the marathon last night

and this is what Tara's food journal looks like now!

Tara Typical Daily Intake Now 
Breakfast
5 egg white omelet with spinach, mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, peppers (nonfat spray for the pan)
1 bowl of multigrain cereal        1.5 cups  with  1 cup almond milk
 360 calories

Snack
Clementine (or tangerine)  with pre-packaged trail mix she makes herself with different raw unsalted nuts and a few carob chips for something sweet
140 calories
 
Lunch
3 Whole wheat tortillas
Grilled bell peppers, onions, with shrimp or chicken (4 oz. of chicken or 13 shrimp)
with nonfat Greek yogurt (1/2 cup)
Lettuce and diced tomatoes
Seasoned with no sodium spice blend
370 calories
 
Snack
salad with nonfat dressing and cut-up veggies like mushrooms, tomatoes, onions and hardboiled egg.
150 calories

Dinner
Salmon fillet or orange roughy or tilapia, 5 or 6 ounces
Steamed broccoli  1 cup
Steamed butternut squash, mashed  1 cup (buys it bagged) seasoned with salt and pepper                       

360 calories

Snack, if she wants something cool and sweet after dinner
Almond Breeze chocolate milk (45 calories per cup)
Ice cubes
Little bit of sugar free chocolate syrup
Whip it up in blender
45 calories
Drinks 3 liters of water a day.

Daily total of about 1420 calories

(her Biggest Loser calorie budget is about 1400 to 1500 calories per day)

To see before and after food journals for the other finalists, visit the The Biggest Loser Club online