January 2014- Let's record what we are eating!

[weeziewoozles]

Felt headachy this morning so had two slices of white toast with strawberry jam after approx 13.5hr fast.
Lunch will be low fat homemade veggie lasagne and Fanta
Dinner will be a veggie burger and chip shop chips as DH wants fish and chips tonight. Probably have some white bread round the veggie burger, lots oc ketchup and a beer
No snack as I'll have had my three meals

Aiming for 1750 cals 52g fat 38g protein (although I'm relying on MFP for the nutritional values for chip shop chips!)

[stephk]

Primal - hi hope you're well

Eleena - yum I love yo sushi I'm going there tonight!! Think you have underestimated your cals, you are probably closer to 1300 which is still a bit low hon

Weezie - hope you are now feeling better, your meals today look yum :)

I'm having sushi today, tomorrow and Saturday!! Yum

[eleena2014]

I def don't want to go over 1300 of I set myself that limit then I don't feel too guilty if I go over. I don't have much to loose but I find it so hard to loose weight for some reason.

[stephk]

Had a bit of a choccy binge this aft....and I skipped gym today oops

[MyByC]

My diet went bad again(except the fact I dont eat meet), I snack and eat breakfast and with all sweets I'm taking, I probably am out of 2000 kcal.
At least,now we will not sway in August anymore and I'm relaxed. Soon will leave to holiday so I will be back to strict things end of August like you girls told me to do.

[weeziewoozles]

Thanks Steph but unfortunately my knee is still pretty painful. People tell you to ice it every couple of hours and rest as much as possible. How I'm supposed to rest it with three little boys to manage I've no idea!

[eleena2014]

yesterday i was well under
11.00- coffee, pop tart

2.00- low fat cheese slice,branston pickle and a bag of velvets crisps,diet coke

5.00-coffee and a small cake

8.00-ramen noodle salad which was thinly sliced carrot,courgette and spring onions,with noodles and a mirin sauce which was mirin,honey,lemon and soy sauce,vodka and diet coke

cals- 1082 fat- 23g protein- 24g

[weeziewoozles]

Today:

Lunch - crustless mozzarella, tomato and basil quiche with salad, baked crisps and Fanta
Snack - G&T and cassava crisps
Dinner - vegetable stir fry with homemade sweet and sour sauce, egg noodles, mini vegetable spring rolls and wine

Should end up 1700cals 46g fat 34g protein

[stephk]

weezie i am sorry to hear that :( with one boy how could you rest lol but with 3!! wow!

For the past week I have been bad on the diet. As I said before since last thursday I was worried about lack of O so I ate a bit more and it must have worked as I am pretty sure I am 4-5dpo now. Problem is i have continued to be at least a little over. I am giving myself the weekend and then getting back to it on monday. The sushi and champers was delicious last night, I ate a lot as Yo sushi was doing £2.50 a plate hehe

today is a similarly naughty day, strawberries, yoghurt, chocolate and coffee for breakfast, a crayfish and prawn burger with chips for lunch and now I am opening a bottle of champers and waiting on my sushi takeaway, I am having unagi don (eel), soft shell crab roll, stir fried pak choi and mackerel nigri. Wanted to have everything different to last night for a bit of variety :)

I am guessing around 2500 cals, 85g fat, 70g protein

[weeziewoozles]

I LOVE Japanese food! We're going out tomorrow night in Brighton for Japanese as it's our wedding anniversary and we spent our honeymoon in Japan. Can't wait! I'm having a very low calorie lunch in preparation and am planning on avoiding the fried options on the menu as Japanese can be quite LE friendly if you're careful.

Today mostly went as planned except I forgot to cook the spring rolls so had four squares of DH's choc instead! :)

[stephk]

Happy anniversary - enjoy :)

[SamS_TTCPink]

Happy Anniversary weeziewoozles!! Enjoy your Japanese dinner.

[weeziewoozles]

Thanks ladies. We did! Feel a bit tipsy :)

Lunch - potato salad with low fat mayonnaise and salad
Snack - fat free Batchelors super noodles and Weight Watchers chocolate roll plus half a chocolate cookie at DS1s school fair
Dinner - two sake/gin cocktails, shitaki mushroom maki rolls, 3 of DH's sift shell crab and avocado rolls, veggie rice dish inc shitaki mushrooms and a bit of tofu, a few vegetable tempura and half a bottle of white wine!

No idea really but other than the tempura and avocado there was very little fat so I think I did well x

[stephk]

Wow you had brilliant strength!!

[weeziewoozles]

You should definitely go there Steph! The food was excellent. (Oki Nami in Brighton) x

[stephk]

If I'm ever in Brighton again I will bear in mind. The past 3 nights I've had sushi and champagne - absolute heaven. I could do it every day!!!! Feeling a bit sickly with hangover this morning though! I remember getting the chocolates out for my friend last night and I was the one eating them all..... And I can't exercise this weekend as no one to look after DS.

Been bad for over a week now diet wise, I'll try to get back on it from tomorrow.

[weeziewoozles]

Ha ha I just remembered that I scoffed four chocolate digestives on the train on the way home! Damn that alcohol! :)

You'll get back to it. Don't worry x

[weeziewoozles]

Feeling so frustrated. We took the boys to Pizza Express for lunch as DS1 had had a Tai Kwon Do grading. So I choose a Classic (which is their small size) pomodoro pesto pizza. Also had a spoonful of the boys' raspberry sorbet and a lemonade. When I got home I tried to add this to MFP and I'm now totally confused. I've found values from 600ish to 1100ish with up to 60g protein and fat!!! How do I then know how much food I can eat? I'm starving right now and found myself sneaking spoonfuls of the boys' salmon and broccoli bake so I decided to have some baked crisps and a drink. Dinner is meant to be veggie stir fry and rice so I'm hoping it'll stay within the totals!

[atomic sagebrush]

some days you just have to accept that you aren't going to know. and that is ok.

[weeziewoozles]

some days you just have to accept that you aren't going to know. and that is ok.

Awww thanks for replying Atomic. I've been doing so well with the diet! After about 9 weeks I've hardly gone over at all so I think that's why it feels frustrating. Especially as I feel I made sensible choice from the menu! I've had a handful of peanuts and some Cava so feel more relaxed now :)

[stephk]

I was going to say - I'm pretty sure pizza express has nutritionals on their website. And you will have an instinct for what is correct. But you haven't had a day off the whole time and surely deserve one. I would guesstimate 700-800 cal, 30g protein and 30g fat for that pizza if it was me.

I have been grazing all day today I'm really enjoying it but this plus the fact I've been so naughty for about 11 days now....pretty worried if I'm not PG. Which I know I'm not. But I'm back on the wagon tomorrow and I've needed the time off.

[stephk]

http://www.pizzaexpress.com/uploads/documents/calorie.pdf

Well I was wrong - 400 cal, 18g protein, 17g fat. Didn't realise it was the one with a hole in the middle :) you did really well what are you worried about lol

[weeziewoozles]

You're lovely! I didn't have the low cal one with the hole as I was starving. I had the classic which is normal size one. On their nutrition page they have the larger one listed as 1165 or something! More than the American - the pepperoni one! Hey ho. What's interesting is how it made me feel. I thought I was following the guidelines so felt floored when I looked at their website. If I'd chosen to have their biggest meatiest pizza, I wouldn't have even checked its nutrition.

[stephk]

Oh no I wouldn't have posted it if I had known that!! I really don't think you have had a single day where you have strayed the whole time so I really think you are fine. If you were starving, you needed the food.

[SamS_TTCPink]

Remember cheats are encouraged weeziewoozles! Even though it wasn't intentional, don't stress! 💜😊

[Junie]

Also Weeziewoozles remember if you don't get enough calories your body will think you are starving and will desperately hold onto everything as it will be worried more is not coming. I think you are doing great!

I'm slowly getting back on the diet. Going to add exercise back this week, and start also doing more veggie filled options.

[weeziewoozles]

Funnily enough I only put on a pound yesterday even after the pizza and the row of cheeky caramel chocolate I had after dinner. So I guess the pizza was probably in the middle of those values.

I know treats are allowed (I don't call them cheats). And I know my response exudes Martha qualities! I like working treats into my day but I guess I like being in control of that! :) For instance I've had five chocolate digestive biscuits with my morning coffee (after a 13hr fast so not toooo early) :)

[bluebonnet22]

Hi ladies, I'm back for a bit while in my 2WW. I've lost freaking 6 lbs since AF, so I'm worried I'm not pg and don't have much weight left to lose. It's hard to be motivated to stay on the diet (especially since I'm going on vacation on Friday!!), but I'll be doing my best.

Weezie - has AF returned yet? The fact that you are so strict on the diet without even having AF is amazing. I can barely stay on the diet and I attempted Saturday so I should be super motivated!

[SamS_TTCPink]

I found it hard to stay on the diet after attempts too, but a few treats won't hurt things too much. Hopefully you'll get your BFP so it won't matter anyway. 😊

[weeziewoozles]

Hi again BlueBonnet. No, no AF yet. I have cut down on the BF though. I didn't want to rush DS3 off the boob but I felt that he wasn't really "eating" but playing more. So I've not been offering it and he's not requested it as much. So in the last two months I've gone from 3 or 4 feeds a day to mostly one before breakfast. If I can wean him off that with a promise of bigger bowls of porridge or more homemade spelt bread, then I should get a cycle soon I think.

Today was ok as I adjusted to allow for the yummy chocolate digestives I had.

Snack - lots of chocolate digestive biscuits
Lunch - French bread with a smear of pesto for flavour, topped with chopped baby tomatoes and a slice of mozzarella. Plus baked crisps and a row from a caramel choc bar
Snack - baked crisps
Dinner - pasta with griddled courgettes, mushrooms and yellow peppers, salad and wine

Totals 1810cals 50g fat 48g protein

[chloe_dreamofpink]

Hi girls! thanks for some more great ideas of what I can be eating. I was ttc earlier this year and have taken a break for the past few months. I lost too much weight and was not feeling too good so i needed to step away for a while. We have just restarted the diet and will be ttc again in the next few months. I am usually quite a healthy eater, so the LE diet is a big change for me. I don't think I can go as far as to incorporate artificial sweeteners in my sway. Does anyone know statistics on here from girls that did and didn't incorporate that into their sway? Is it a big factor? Thank you :wink:

[bluebonnet22]

chloe - I don't think artificial sweeteners matter at all. I don't think there are stats, but I've seen TONS of successful sways on this site that don't use them at all.

I'm going to start posting here again (at least until I go on vacation on Friday). I'm having major problems sticking to the diet now that I've had my attempt so maybe this will help. I was very naughty today, but I blame going WAY too far yesterday (I thought it was ovulation day so I didn't eat much all day and made myself sick). I woke up hungry and had a bad day.

Breakfast (put off eating until 10:00 AM, but felt so so sick so I had to cave!): 1 confetti cake poptart - normally I'd never EVER eat poptarts, but such is life on LE!

Lunch (1 PM) - 1/2 of a margherita flatbread

Snack (5 PM) - small non fat caramel frappucino, no whip cream

Dinner (8 PM) - 2 slices of mushroom/green pepper pizza from papa johns, 1/2 bottle of wine

1735 calories, 48 grams of fat (25%), 50 grams of protein

Must be better tomorrow!

[chloe_dreamofpink]

Thank you bluebonnet22. I know how you feel. Hang in there. An off day here and there won't hurt. And the 2ww is tough. The support on here helps so much xo

[stephk]

Chloe - I never have and never would use artificial sweetener. It's a personal choice thing and I don't think this (or any one thing) would make or break a sway.

Yesterday:
500- coffee with whole milk
930- Nescafé cafe menu latte sachet, a banana, a graze honeycomb flapjack
1200- a jacket potato, mash direct cauliflower cheese, salad leaves and beetroot
400- can of pret sparkling ginger beer
800- stuffed peppers (recipe on the recipe thread) , ate a handful of pretzels and humous as I cooked. Glass of whole milk.

2000 cal, 63g fat, 50g protein

[weeziewoozles]

Last time I drank one diet drink a day, usually in the morning to keep me going. I found I had regular headaches and put it down to them. So this time I might drink a few in the days before DTD but no more than that. I normally eat REALLY healthily too so am finding the extra sugar and processed food very odd!

Plan for today:
Lunch - Tesco healthy living bean soup with some bread/bagel, a Fanta and a Weight Watchers chocolate roll
Snack - Baked crisps and a drink
Dinner - pasta with Weight Watchers Piri Piri sauce, and LE friendly veggies, with wine

[Junie]

Yesterday I had a coffee for breakfast. Take out Asian vegetable stir fry for lunch (was basically vegetables in oil with white rice), and some weight watcher cookies and marshmallows for dinner. I was just not hungry after working out in the evening. I have to admit that unlike some of you ladies I have no problems with sweets and super processed foods. I love them :D :D I just want to eat more of them then the LE diet allows LOL. I didn't calculate totals but since I basically only ate one meal I'm sure I'm fine. I'll have to make sure to eat better today though so that I don't start losing too quick.

[eleena2014]

yesterday-
10.30- fried egg sandwich (dont have many eggs in a week) coffee
2.00- wasnt that hungry so had weight watchers cheese puffs and a babybel,diet coke
5.30-coffee and weight watchers mini roll
8.30- jacket potato with butter, beans,coleslaw and strips of cucumber and crabsticks,diet coke,mini custard pot
cals- 1235 fat-53g protein- 35g

[bluebonnet22]

Today (another I'm in the 2WW and I've lost my resolve sort of day!):

Lunch: A sushi roll with crawfish and avocado
Dinner: 5 pieces of Amy's frozen bean and cheese mini burritos, 1 homemade quesadilla made with low fat cheese, all that dipped into 4 tbsp of low fat sour cream, 1/2 bottle of wine

1479 calories, 37 grams of fat (22.5%), 46 grams of protein

[weeziewoozles]

Trying hard here:

Lunch - French bread filled with salad, baked crisps and a fizzy orange
Snack - G&T and cassava crisps (plus the leftover spoonful of mashed potato the boys couldn't finish)
Dinner - DH wanted Fish and Chips so I had a small portion of the chips plus a vegetable burger, in some bread with lettuce, and a beer.

[weeziewoozles]

Just a thought. Do you think we should start a new thread with a more obvious title? I wondered whether newbie pink swayers may not spot this one and I think we've got tonnes of helpful and supportive stuff to share about LE.

[Dreamcloset]

Hi everyone! I'm new to this and I have started a new thread Dreamcloset's pink sway.
I'm also starting to ttc pink and menu for yest is as follows:
1230 - bowl of brown rice puffs with low fat milk, bowl of ice burg lettuce with
raspberry vinaigrette, 1 cup pep tea and 1 white toast with nutella.
630 - white rice with creamed leeks, clear veg soup with abit of seasoning and
small red chilli.
I amnit counting cals as I'm not sure how much is some of them.

[stephk]

Weezie - good idea. I'm not positing in here much as finding it a bit of a challenge plus I've been a bit loose on the diet recently.

[eleena2014]

yesterday
11.00- coffee and 1 tesco waffle stack
2.00- shop brought wrap with bbbq chicken and american slaw,can of john smiths
5.00-coffee and 2 malted milk biscuits
8.00-2 aunt bessie boat shaped yorkshires,2 qourn sausages,3 honey glazed parsnips,brussel sprouts and brocolli,diet coke

cals- 1223 fat-38g protien- 42g

i know everything was in my total but does anyone think my last meal wasnt LE friendly?

[stephk]

sounds amazing!!!! nothing unfriendly about that meal dont worry about it :)

[eleena2014]

thankyou. can i just ask if anyone knows if chcolate or cakes are ok every few days? as surely its classed as junk food which sways boy?

[stephk]

junk food does not sway boy - chocolate cake is absolutely fine if it fits your totals

[eleena2014]

Are hot dogs with tinned hot dog sausages classed as a really bad cheat as there are hardly any protein in this sausages.

[weeziewoozles]

Just keep within your totals for the day and you can have anything! We had cauliflower cheese and chips tonight. Not a cheat in sight

[stephk]

Chips and cauliflower cheese = YUM

[Junie]

Chips and cauliflower cheese = YUM I agree!

[eleena2014]

But atomic says its best to go vegetarian. That's why I worry so much as I haven't cut all my meat out.😓

[stephk]

I still ate meat at the weekend if I wanted it. Yes it is best to be fully vegetarian but that's not achievable or everyone. All you can do is your best with the targets atomic recommends.

[eleena2014]

Ok are the quorn products ideal,they are vegetarian but they have a lot of protein in them.I have been eating those quorn sausages and chicken and mince.

[stephk]

I didn't eat quorn due to the protein, but that was personal choice, if I was going over in it I wanted to go over for the proper stuff :)

[eleena2014]

They are still in my limits when I eat them so I'm assuming they will be ok 😄

[stephk]

sounds fine and dandy to me :)

[weeziewoozles]

The cauliflower and broccoli cheese I made was pretty good, although not as yummy as DH's version. Mine was made more LE friendly. I cooked two portions with 20g butter, 40g flour, 400ml low fat almond milk and 40g low fat cheddar cheese, on top of half a head each of cauliflower and broccoli. The almond milk gave it all a greyish colour and I'd have liked it cheesier, but it was yummy served with reduced fat oven chips. Having the other half tonight! :).

[stephk]

I'm so lazy I just buy a pack of mash direct cauliflower cheese and will often have it with broccoli :)

Even though I'm pg I'm still going to have jacket potatoes/sweet potatoes with cauliflower cheese, it's yum!

[Junie]

I'm so lazy I just buy a pack of mash direct cauliflower cheese and will often have it with broccoli :)

Even though I'm pg I'm still going to have jacket potatoes/sweet potatoes with cauliflower cheese, it's yum!
You're pregnant? Oh my gosh congrats!!!!!

[stephk]

Thank you - yes I found out on Friday, it's still sinking in!

[Junie]

So fantastic!!!

[Mars]

Hey ladies. I have a question (again!) months ago when I started my LE diet I got in my head I need more calcium so I started eating ice cream each night after tea. Then I read something the other day and now I'm afraid I've added a food to my sway which isn't girl friendly so for those in the know.... Is ice cream ok??its keeping within my daily calorie intake and low fat.

[stephk]

If it's keeping u in totals you're fine - enjoy :)

[Shannshaff]

I just started the diet this week. Is it ok if I join you ladies?

[eleena2014]

yes welcome.x

[weeziewoozles]

Welcome Shannshaff :) there's not many of us here now so we'll look forward to seeing your meal ideas x

[Junie]

Welcome!! I'm reading the posts but no longer tracking calories so not posting much. I did however find a great lunch which I have been doing often which I actually genuinely enjoy. I turn the oven grill/fan combo on, put big black and green olives, Padrón peppers (the short Spanish green peppers which aren't very spicy), and low fat 9% feta in a little baking dish and bake it under the broiler for a few minutes. Then I either eat it alone or add it to salad. So yummy! And very easy to fit with LE as it is mainly veggies. I've only been doing about 2 meals a day and feel like my totals are fine so no need to track anymore at this point. :)

[stephk]

Hey guys if you have any nice recipes and want to share we have a recipe thread here if you feel like posting:

http://genderdreaming.com/forum/trying-conceive-girl/43559-le-meal-ideas-recipes.html

I still have more to post but I've been too busy recently

[Mars]

So I'm sitting here eating my dinner (in Aust) and gosh its a boring meal but I've come to crave it now. It's Rice with chicken stock instead of water (bit of flavouring) with melted cheese on top. I have the same thing for lunch but in a tortilla wrap instead. I really like it so I hope to god its LE friendly!!

[stephk]

Sounds quite nice actually!! Def LE friendly. I would personally add some veggies to it :)

[Mars]

I am not a Veggie lover, lol I only eat a couple veggies so I figured it was better to not have any .... and any other night I would have but it was an quick dinner. Tomorrow night I will have Veggies and Chicken yay! I normally have a cheat night on Saturdays but seeing as I'm so close to O day I will skip my cheat day this week.

[weeziewoozles]

Had a lovely evening out with three friends last night in an Indian restaurant. Stuck to veggie completely but definitely ate more in terms of portions and fat than I should have done. The scales proved it this morning as I'd put on over two pounds! :) Ooops. It wasn't an intentional cheat as it's my Birthday tomorrow so there're lots of stuff on this weekend involving food! Having said that, I plan to be really hot on the LE and allow heaps of alcohol as the treat! :)

[stephk]

Happy birthday weezie! Have some booze for me :)

[weeziewoozles]

Happy birthday weezie! Have some booze for me :)

Aw thanks! How are you feeling? x

[stephk]

Sometimes fine, sometimes I have symptoms but it's still very early. I have only put on 1kg though!

[SamS_TTCPink]

Yum, I love Indian!! Happy Birthday. Have an awesome day and enjoy your weekend of yummy foods! 😊🎂🎉

[weeziewoozles]

Well today was my Bday BBQ and I've eaten two veggie burgers in buns, potato salad with low fat mayo, loads of raw veg and salad, and drunk lots of Pimms and fizz. Should be a good LE day! Yesterday we were at a Japanese Expo and had beer and a veggie Japanese curry and rice with some vegetable gyoza. Then a bottle of Prosecco with some bread for dinner. Feel proud of myself for sticking to LE at my Bday. Fingers crossed that we TTC soon!

[stephk]

Weezie you are an amazing LE role model. Sounds like a fab birthday weekend.

[weeziewoozles]

Yesterday was a good LE day as predicted. Lost half a pound! Unfortunately the Pimms and Prosecco were too much and my tummy is not happy with me this morning :(

[Junie]

I'm impressed weezie! sorry about the tummy ache though.

[stephk]

Nice one on the weight loss, hope you feel better tho

[weeziewoozles]

Feel better now thanks. Cheekily stuck the older two in front of the tv while DS3 had a nap so I could sleep on the sofa! Now stuffing my face with instant pasta and sauce with a coconut water. :)

[bluebonnet22]

Belated happy birthday to you weezie!! I do find I get worse hangovers on LE because I'm not eating enough calories so the alcohol is often on a relatively empty stomach. I'm excited to see you join the TTC in August thread when that gets started later this week.

[weeziewoozles]

Belated happy birthday to you weezie!! I do find I get worse hangovers on LE because I'm not eating enough calories so the alcohol is often on a relatively empty stomach. I'm excited to see you join the TTC in August thread when that gets started later this week.

Thanks BlueBonnet! I'm getting nervous now as I said to myself we'd start TTC when I'd done three months of LE, which I've now done! :nails:

[nuthinbutpink]

Guys, this thread is pretty big so I have started a new one and I am going to close this one!