My [Meal] Plan of Attack!

I'm not yet cleared for exercise after having my baby girl in December, so I've been really trying to take control of my eating.  I talked with my sister-in-law who has done fantastically well on a weight loss program, losing over 50 pounds!  Her program requires eating eggs or oatmeal for breakfast, then nothing but salad for lunch and dinner.  I was thinking about trying to do that, but here's the problem for me:  

I can't live like that for the rest of my life!

If I can't maintain that way of eating, what happens when I add foods back in?!  What does that type of severe restriction diet teach me about eating better?  

So I started thinking about how I could adjust that to something that I could maintain. After thinking about it, it seemed to me that the carbs and protein (eggs and oatmeal) would make sense to start out the day.  The carbs would kick start your metabolism while the protein would last you longer and keep you feeling more satisfied.  Then for lunch and dinner, you'd want less carbs.  

So what I started doing is having oatmeal and a fruit in the morning along with my coffee (because come on, just carbs are not going to get me moving enough to be mentally functional!).  Then for lunch, I'll have a salad and maybe a veggie burger or hard boiled eggs or portabella mushrooms with spinach and cheese.  I'll also eat a string cheese or banana.  For dinner, I try to have a meat, a hot veggie, and another salad.  

Basically my goal is to decrease the amount of carbs I'm eating and focus the ones I do eat on the morning meal.  And a little bit in the afternoon.  At the same time, I'm increasing my veggie intake.  It is no secret to anyone who knows me that I hate vegetables!!  But, there are a few that I don't mind eating - asparagus, raw carrots, salad, yellow squash (grilled or sauted only), mushrooms (not sure if that technically counts as a veggie but I'm counting it!), beets, spinach, green beans, turnip...and that's about it.  So I'm trying to incorporate these in.