I am getting such good feedback. I have been looking at the meals, and when I eat eggs I will do three instead of two. I will add 1/2 an orange to the cottage cheese, and figure out some sort of meat/soy product that tastes good to me. The guidelines for people with chronic kidney disease is .75g/kg. I weigh 145 kg, so that is 108g/day of protean. I am going with this number (still more protean than I was eating before reading this book), so I don't inhibit my kidney function. My disease is hereditary, and cannot be reversed. I want to get off sugar, but not at the expense of kidney function. I am now going to shoot for 35g of protean at every meal. I'm seeing now that I need to step up the protean on some of my "good" meals.
Thanks again for all the suggestions. I feel a new sense of motivation, and am going to up that protean! Also I am steaming carrots with my potatoes (I use fingerling), so that there is always an easy complex carb available. So I guess I am taking a big step back, re-learning breakfast, then I will work on lunch, then dinner. I feel great about this plan, and am very thankful for all the help!
Rachel

: Hi Rachel,

: Breakfast was my hard meal, so glad
: it is easy for you! And preparing
: meals beforehand is really
: helpful. I cook up chicken and
: beef for the week, freeze them,
: and then add things as I use them.

: You have a great start with your
: breakfast! Do you know how to
: calculate how much protein you
: need for breakfast? Just
: wondering, because the egg
: breakfast and oatmeal breakfast
: wouldn't be enough protein for me.
: and your cottage cheese breakfast
: sounds great, but I don't see any
: complex carb with that meal. Here
: are a few tips for breakfast:
: enough protein for your body
: weight, a complex carb, within the
: hour (and I do understand about
: your pain, and you're doing great
: working around that), and every
: day.

: Colette