Let's record what we're eating to help each other

[weeziewoozles]

Hi. As rather a veteran of the LE diet, or so it feels, I thought I'd start this thread. Previously I've found it really useful to record what I'm eating every day. It's helped me be strict but also get ideas from other people for what to eat. If you'd like to join in, please do!!

I'll start off: LE Day One (so gently easing into it)
No breakfast
Lunch - mini baguette with baked beans and veggie sausage, diet soda, two dark chocolate digestive biscuits and a few squares of mint chocolate
Dinner - Tesco vegetable quarter pounder with swede/rutabaga chips made with oil spray and steamed vegetables. If I'm really hungry I'll have some crappy white bread round the burger. I'll have a glass of something to get the total calories up.

Totals should end up 1500 cals, 30g fat, 40g protein

As I'm only just starting out again, I need to get the calories higher than that or I'll loose weight too fast.

[XXforhubby]

Welcome back!! Good to see you!!

You can add in full sugar soda for empty calories!


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[Sarah4girl]

I'm not on the LE anymore. But I can contribute :)

Breakfast: Two egg whites and a cup of coffee.

Lunch:
Two pieces of toast with cream cheese and jam. Or cheese on toast. Or pasta with cooked veggies and a bit of tomato sauce. Or brown rice with some veg and cream cheese. Or a vegetarian sandwich with salad contents.

Dinner: brown rice or pasta with stir fried veg and a little bit of cream cheese or tomato pasta sauce. I always had a bit of white chocolate in the evenings too.

I was working out almost daily so I always had a strawberry/ yoghurt/ milk smoothie post work out (usually in the afternoon)

I had 1-3 glasses of white wine in the evenings and another coffee at some point in the day. Plus a couple if diet cokes :)

I lost 7kg's (15.4lb) in 11 weeks while on the this diet and exercising.

[mommymachine]

The last few days I have been starting out my day with a cup of tea and 1/4 cup milk.
Yesterday I had a bagel and plain pasta with a bit of butter for lunch, plus a small piece of birthday cake.
Then because it was all so good I had the bagel and pasta again for dinner! Plus some corn chips.
I also went for a 2.5 mph walk yesterday for 34 minutes.

So for yesterday my fitness pal said I did
1670 cal
63% carbs
26% fat
11% protein

I also had a diet rootbeer yesterday. I feel like if I ever have a day when I have tons of calories left, a nice glass of chardonnay will do the trick!

[Frilly Lady]

Hi, I'd love to join this thread and get some ideas. I skip breakfast and for luch I either have 2 slices of toast with a very small amount of butter and low sugar jam or 6 corn crackers with low low cheese spread and a glass of water with a few veggie jelly sweets if I'm having a sweet craving. Then for dinner tonight I had a bowl of veg which was cauliflower, brocolli, leeks and sprouts with 2 cauli and truffle sausages from Waitrose. I don't eat meat so that's not been a problem. Then I had 6 vegi Percy's. I think I'm going to add some alcohol into my sway with dinner to reach my target!
Tomorrow for dinner I'm having gluton free pasta with half a jar of kids Tesco goodness pasta sauce and a sprinkle of tesco vegi Parmesan cheese.

[hopeful13]

So so grateful for this thread as most of the English food can be gotten here also. I'm on it now about 8 days and doing well. Completely gave up sugar in my coffee but missing little bits of meat. Kids had spag bol tonight and found that hard also carbonara. Fasting is fine as I'm not good at stopping to eat so fine till 12.

About 12
Today 3 slices of wholemeal bread with banana and a yougurt. I did have a coffee while getting kids to school. 5.30 I had pasta with som grated cheese (boring) and a yogurt after. Just now a ryvita and a yogurt. Find I'm really hungry in the evening. Need to get back with the exercise next

[weeziewoozles]

Thanks for joining ladies :-)

Lunch - leftover beans and veggie sausage from yesterday lunch with some French bread and a bag of Walkers Baked crisps (they're pretty good for this diet) and a coke (which I never ever drink normally)
Snack - if needed I'll have some sweets
Dinner - same as last night - veg burger in bread with a bit of low fat mayo, swede chips and veg, maybe with a beer or gin and tonic

Totals should end up - 1550 cals, 19g fat, 39g protein
So again I'll have to add in another soda or sweets

[eleena2014]

Just jumping in.found a scummy recipe yesterday. It's new potato and sun dried tomato salad. Just boil the new potatoes,set the to one side,fry some mushrooms and spring onions,add some creme fraishe,teaspoon of castor sugar and some sweet sauce like mirin or plum sauce. Peel potatoes and mix in with creme fraish add sundries tomatoes .it was yummy.

[eleena2014]

Yesterday I had a pop tart at around 10.30
1.30- w/w cheese and chive spread and w/w hula hoop.
5.00- coffee and a few biscuits (naughty I know)
8.00- home made spaghetti bolognaise made with qourn.

Didn't add up totals yesterday

[LacePrincess]

Just started trying to get back into the LE mindset. I've had a pretty 'pink' day today though. I'm doing the fertility version of the LE diet as I have IR and PCO tendencies and also finishing up an HT cycle. I'm also on Metformin which means no extremes or I feel sick.

So today I had:

Breakfast (2.5 hours after waking) - 1/2 cup cottage cheese with a smattering of blueberries and strawberries. I will leave out the blueberries tomorrow as they are a higher GI fruit than the strawberries. Large coffee with some non dairy powdered creamer.

70 min aerobic cardio workout

Lunch - hot and sour soup, some seaweed salad, a handful of green beans. Toasted english muffin with some low fat mayo (yay omega 6's, lol) and a bit of ham and cheese melted on top. Homemade raisin bar and a few cookies for dessert.

mid afternoon - diet gingerale with Metamucil

tonight for dinner - poutine (if you're not from Canada, that would be fries with cheese curds and gravy), homemade pizza (white flour crust, light cheese and sauce, low carb veggie topping), diet coke

dessert - probably a few cookies and pieces of candy

total is around 1400-1500 cals though I usually just guesstimate so I don't get too obsessed.

[momamia4]

I'm also doing the alternate version of LE. Yesterday I had:
~11am: Smoothie: 1 full fat yogurt, 1 can coconut water, 1 banana, 2 c strawberries
3pm: 4T hummus, 32 Hint of Salt Wheat Thins, 2 Chicken Nuggets, iceberg Lettuce Salad w/ 1T Italian dressing
7pm: 2 slices whole grain bread, 2oz turkey lunch meat, 1/8c nuts, iceberg lettuce salad w/ 1T Italian dressing

So far today:
1pm: Chicken burrito with brown rice, a little sour cream, black beans, and salsa with a Diet Cherry Coke.

I'll probably have 1c cottage cheese, 1c pineapple, 1/8c nuts and a graham cracker with peanut butter for dinner around 6pm or so.

I've only been on the diet since Jan 1st and I'm surprised at quickly I'm adapting to it. Don't get me wrong, I totally miss my breakfast!! I've found that taking the myo-inositol when I'd normally have breakfast has really helped to stave off hunger. It also helps to take another dose at night after dinner. Like LacePrincess, I don't track the calories or I'll become too obsessed. I just pick foods from the diet sheet and cross my fingers that I'm in the right ranges.

[weeziewoozles]

Thanks for reminding me about coconut water. I've not bought any yet. I know obsessing over details it isn't great but I seem to lose weight too fast unless I'm careful so I do track my calories using MFP.

Today is:
Lunch - low fat super noodles, white bread, salad, diet soda and a few squares of dark mint chocolate.
Dinner - roasted peppers and tomatoes on pasta

Totals should be: 1400cals, 23g fat, 35g protein

ARGH! Again I need to add calories!

[LacePrincess]

I wish I could dump weight fast! It is becoming clear to me that IR really is an issue with me. I struggle with dumping weight on the LE diet because of my IR, it's incredibly frustrating to have weight stick even with working out so much and eating not that much.

So now I'm contemplating going low sugar and gluten free, which makes me want to cry at the thought. :((

Ok so today's plan:

Breakfast - half cup coffee with non dairy low fat creamer, 1/2 cup cottage cheese with some strawberries and cinnamon, half a cheesestring

Lunch - rice, green beans, seaweed salad, eggwhites with cheese & veg, a few cookies/candy for dessert

Dinner - sweet potato pancakes, wilted spinach, 1/2 cup yogurt with blueberries

Dessert - rice pudding

Total around 1400-1500 calories. I also have a 1.5 hour ballet class tonight.

[momamia4]

Today:
12pm: Smoothie: 1 full fat yogurt, 1 can coconut water, 1 banana, 2 c strawberries
3pm: Bruschetta (Roma tomato, squirt basil paste, 1T oil, drizzle Balsamic) on 2 slices whole grain bread toasted with 2oz melted cheese and diet cherry coke
7pm: 2c stir fry veggies, 4 chick nug sized pieces of chicken, stir fry sauce (1/4c oj, 1T cornstarch, 1t soy sauce) cooked in 1T canola oil and served with 1c brown rice and more diet cherry coke

[Frilly Lady]

Lunch today I went a bit ott on the fat so went light on dinner!

Lunch 8 corn crackers half with low low cheese spread half with chocolate spread. Which was ok then I had a pack of mccoys crisps a fudge and a snack pack of cadburys shortcake!
Dinner roast yellow peppers in a homemade chilli tomato sauce and a small amount of rice. Then 3 digestive biscuits. Ran an extra 1K tonight because I don't usually eat that much rubbish!

I think my problem is I'm not eating filling food at lunch and I'm still hungry so I just eat what's easy which is rubbish foods! Need to make more of an effort tomorrow.

[weeziewoozles]

Rubbish food is pretty good for pink though FrillyLady. I normally eat wholefoods and cook from scratch, so one thing I change when TTC pink is to eat processed crap like super noodles, tinned potatoes, diet drinks and sweets! It takes a bit of getting used to!

[LacePrincess]

I had my baseline scan this morning for my FET, so I ended up skipping breakfast entirely. Which was good for pink I guess! Got a McD's cappucino on the way home and omg I was sooooo wired on caffeine on an empty stomach I was shaking, LMAO.

So today's plan is:

Brunch @ 11am - 1/2 cup cottage cheese with strawberries, cinnamon, and a dab of honey. English muffin with butter, green beans, and some rice pudding for dessert.

Workout - cardio step workout, around 70 min.

Metamucil in diet gingerale around 3pm

Dinner - fried rice with jasmine long grain rice, veggies and chicken breast.

Dessert - rice pudding or xmas cookies.

Total approx 1300-1400 cals.

[weeziewoozles]

Me again!

Lunch - pasta and sauce packet with salad and a few squares of dark chocolate
Snack - G&T and baked crisps
Dinner - veg stir fry on white rice with a few mini veg spring rolls and sweet chilli dipping sauce, and white wine

Totals - 1860cals, 33g fat, 36g protein

[momamia4]

Well, today got off to an early start because my DH was home this morning and hungry. So, I ended up having "breakfast" with him at 10am.
Today:
10am: Smoothie: 1 full fat yogurt, 1 can coconut water, 1 banana, 2 c strawberries
2pm: 2 slices whole grain bread, 2oz turkey lunch meat, 1/8c nuts, iceberg lettuce salad w/ 1T Italian dressing and a coke
7pm: 3 crunchy tacos with black beans, salsa, lettuce, and cheese and a coke

[Frilly Lady]

Lunch today was on the run so I had a decaf flat white and a packet of baked crisps.

Dinner was gluton free pasta with kids pasta sauce and a sprinkling of hard cheese. Kitkat and some Jaffa cakes afterwards.

[luvmyfam]

I love this thread! I started vegetarian this week until my sway in the fall. I won't start LE until June or July probably but I will definitely be stocking this for ideas!

[LacePrincess]

Whoohoo! Looks like my diet/exercise is slooooowly finally working......the weight is starting to gradually come down on the scale. My weight tends to fluctuate but it seems to finally be trending downwards.

Note that the pineapple/pomegranate juice isn't girl sway at all but I'm having it to help my lining for my FET.

Today's plan:

Breakfast - 1/2 cup plain yogurt with strawberries and cinnamon, string cheese. Decaf coffee with non dairy whitener.

Exercise - 70 min step cardio

Lunch - Two slices toast with butter, green beans, soft boiled egg. Fresh pineapple & pomegranate juice. Cookies/candy for dessert.

mid afternoon - diet gingerale with Metamucil.

Dinner - leftover fried rice with veg and chicken and some melted cheese on top.

Dessert - rice pudding

Total aiming for approx 1400-1500 cals.

[weeziewoozles]

Sometimes I wish we were going HT too. Just can't see it happening due to the costs!

Lunch - jacket potato and salad. Baked crisps, dark chocolate digestive biscuits
Snack - G&T and cassava crisps
Dinner - veg stir fry with rice and white wine

[weeziewoozles]

Weirdly, all I can think of tonight is why we're bothering to sway, we should just find a way to find the money! But then I remember how many people don't conceive on HT and I feel deflated again. Saturday night is normally date night for us and I can't stop thinking about it all!

[LacePrincess]

Weirdly, all I can think of tonight is why we're bothering to sway, we should just find a way to find the money! But then I remember how many people don't conceive on HT and I feel deflated again. Saturday night is normally date night for us and I can't stop thinking about it all!

Realistically you really need to be thinking of funding up to 3 full ivf cycles. Especially past 30 the odds of being a OHW (one hit wonder) is unlikely. We set a lifetime hard limit of $50K but honestly, the emotional stress was sooo much tougher than the cost. If my FET fails I'm honestly not sure I have the emotional reserves to do it all again.

[Frilly Lady]

Lunch today light chilli noodles and a homemade low fat muffin.
Dinner veg quesadillas, another muffin, glass of larger, baked crisps.

60 mins on treadmill

Hope you feel better soon weezie I know how you're feeling. Good luck with your FET Lace. X

[LacePrincess]

Today's plan:

Breakfast - 1/2 cup cottage cheese with sliced strawberries, blueberries, and cinnamon. Decaf with non dairy powdered creamer. 200 cals

Cardio step workout, 70 min

Lunch - udon noodles in low sodium chicken broth with egg, shrimp and veggies. Fresh pineapple. 1/2 cup skim milk with cookies for dessert. 600 cals total.

Midafternoon - diet gingerale with Metamucil.

Dinner - pork chops, asparagus with hollandaise, rice. Pomegranate juice. 500 cals

Dessert - ice cream or other homemade goodies, 200 cals.

Total - around 1500 calories.

[weeziewoozles]

Hey ladies. I'm craving pizza so trying to make a cauliflower crust one tonight. Going to top it with as little mozzarella as possible and lots of veggies.

So lunch - salad, French bread and soup (carrot and squash) with Baked crisps
Snack - G&T again!
Dinner - hopefully delicious cauliflower based pizza with white wine

Totals should be about 1400cals, 40g fat, 44g protein depending on how much mozzarella I end up using

[eleena2014]

Yesterday
10.30am toast with low sugar jam and coffee
2.30pm dairylea sandwiches with cucumbers slices. Diet coke and packet of hooks hoops.
5.30 coffee and a few biscuits
8.00- pork belly mushrooms and onions in a sweet and sour sauce made with cider vinegar and maple syrup.side dish of rice and veg
Two glasses of red wine

Approx. 1450 cal 40g fat (Oops) 30g protein

[Frilly Lady]

Dinner 2 Yorkshire puddings and a bowl of veg with veg gravy, home made muffin.

Supper Corn tortilla with a small amount of coleslaw and cheese, tomatoes and cucumber. Glass of larger and a strip of Galaxy choc.

No excercise today, my day off!

[weeziewoozles]

My cauliflower pizza!23023

[weeziewoozles]

It was pretty good actually, although I'm burping cauliflower now!

[LacePrincess]

Drats bloated up a few lbs on the scale, not sure why since I had my workout yesterday and I KNOW I didn't eat 10k calories extra!! Ugh I'll blame the Lupron and estrogen shots.

Today is a rest day for exercise, so I skipped breakfast and just had some mint tea this morning.

LUNCH: 2 small slices homebaked sourdough bread with butter, 1/2 cup cottage cheese with strawberres/blueberries/cinnamon, raw green beans, 1/3 cup pomegranate juice diluted with water. For dessert had a truffle, a few pieces of licorice and a small shortbread cookie. 600 cals

Mid afternoon - Metamucil

DINNER - don't feel like meat, thinking stirfried veg and shrimp with toast. 400 cals.

DESSERT - apple crumble, 250 cals.

Total approx 1250 cals.

[weeziewoozles]

Hey ladies.

Lunch - French bread and Thai veg soup, with a few dark chocolate digestive biscuits
Snack - G&T and cassava crisps
Dinner - Tesco vegetable quarter pounder in white bread with swede chips and white wine. Then some chocolates

Totals - 1850 cals, 49g fat, 40g protein

[eleena2014]

10.30am- coffee and pop tart

2.00pm- cheese and sundried tomato sandwich,pepsi and packet of skips

5.00pm- coffee and w/w mini roll

8.00pm- cheese and pineapple pizza (1/2) and wedges ,pepsi and a few marshmellows

cals 1400
54g fat
45g protein

[LacePrincess]

All this pizza! Makes me want some but I'm bloating up on my FET meds and I can't! :((

TODAY:

10-11am- 1/2 cup cottage cheese with strawberries and cinnamon. Eggwhites with cheese, green beans, english muffin with butter. 410 cals

3pm - Yogurt with blueberries and cinnamon, 2 slices toast with butter, wilted spinach, fresh pineapple and 1/2 a banana. Metamucil. Choc chip cookie. 560 cals

2 hour ballet class in the evening

8:30pm - light snack and choc chip cookie with milk.

Total - aiming for around 1300-1400 cals.

[weeziewoozles]

Today's food is

Lunch - two Weight Watchers tortilla wraps filled with salad and a little low fat mayonnaise, Baked crisps, three shortbread biscuits and a few sweets.
Snack - low fat super noodles and white bread
Dinner - vegetable sausages, potato wedges and green beans and white wine

Totals should be about 1650cals, 22g fat, 33 g protein

[Frilly Lady]

Today lunch half a cheese sandwhich, baked crisps, 2 biscuits and a cup of coffee.
Dinner homemade low fat mushroom stroganoff.
Stressful day at work so I've pigged out a little this evening! Biscuits, crisps and milky coffee.
60 mins cycling

[weeziewoozles]

Add to mine some chocolate!

[LacePrincess]

Today's plan:

skipped breakfast! Wow I can't believe I actually did that. Had a large cup of coffee with a bit of powdered non dairy creamer to get me through though.

11am - brunch - 1/2 cup cottage cheese with blueberries, strawberries and cinnamon. English muffin with butter, green beans, fresh pineapple. 1/3 cup pomegranate juice diluted with water. 1/2 a choc chip cookie. 480 cals

60-70 min cardio step for exercise

3pm - Metamucil

Dinner - bluecheese/veg omelet with white rice, small piece homemade peanut brittle, 530 cals

Dessert - icecream and cookie with glass of milk

TOTAL - around 1300-1350 cals.

[Frilly Lady]

Sorry if this question has been answered somewhere but does having a cup of coffee at either morning or mid afternoon count as a meal because of the milk in it? What's the best milk to have cows, coconut or rice? Thanks

[Frilly Lady]

Lunch today, 2 home made low fat scones.

Dinner, home made veg lasagne.

Evening snack, baked crisps, ww lemon slice, 2 veg Colin caterpillar jellies.

60 mins cross country dog walk
60 mins cycling

1039 cals 28g fat 29g protein

[LacePrincess]

Sorry if this question has been answered somewhere but does having a cup of coffee at either morning or mid afternoon count as a meal because of the milk in it? What's the best milk to have cows, coconut or rice? Thanks

No doesn't count. The smidgen of milk is burned off too quickly to bother worrying about. Same goes for what kind of milk.

Do try not to obsess over tiny details like that or you're going to end up obsessive and ruin the sway! Also you really need to hit 1200 cals at bare minimum, and Atomic doesn't even like seeing that unless you are super tiny and completely sedentary. With all the exercise you're doing too, you MUST eat more than that for your own health and basic fertility. Dropping below 1200 can ruin your metabolism long term.

Seriously, please eat more, only 1000 calories is NOT enough for anyone!! Especially if you're doing 2 hours of exercise! You should be hitting 1500 minimum with that level of exercising.

[eleena2014]

10.30am- coffee and pop tart

1.30pm - banana sandwich,Pepsi and sweet chilli sunbites crisps
5.00pm- coffee and slice of ds birthday cake (large slice.lol)
8.00pm- pasta with a few ****s of Panchetta,mushrooms,tomato, sweetcorn and garlic and herb pour over sauce,pepsi
Approx 1350 cals
46g fat. 26g protein

[Frilly Lady]

Thanks Lace. I know I need to eat more atomic has told me too also. :whip:
I have a hiatus hernia and its playing me up at the moment. I'm guessing it's because I'm not eating my usual really healthy foods and its very stressful at work right now. It took me an hour to get a portion of lasagne down me! I'm going to eat more at lunch today so I hit my target.

[LacePrincess]

Thanks Lace. I know I need to eat more atomic has told me too also. :whip:
I have a hiatus hernia and its playing me up at the moment. I'm guessing it's because I'm not eating my usual really healthy foods and its very stressful at work right now. It took me an hour to get a portion of lasagne down me! I'm going to eat more at lunch today so I hit my target.

Ok I'm very relieved to hear that!! Even if you can't stomache 'real' food right now though, you need the calories. Even something yummy and high cal like a milkshake to make up the deficit.

[LacePrincess]

Today's plan:

Cup of half caff coffee with 2 tsp non dairy powdered creamer and a little tiny bit of sugar (made the coffee too strong, oops). 35 cals.


10:30-11am Brunch - 1/2 cup cottage cheese with strawberries and cinnamon. Green beans. English muffin sandwich with egg, delimeat, a little bit of cheese, mayo and ketchup. 1/2 choc chip cookie. 500 cals.


3pm - 1/2 cup yogurt with blueberries, cinnamon and Metamucil. Toast with cream cheese, wilted spinach, string cheese, fresh pineapple. 1/2 choc chip cookie. 485 cals

1.5 hour ballet class

8:30pm - half an egg sandwich, dessert - ice cream/cookie, 345 cals.

Total - 1365 cals, approx 40-50 gms protein

[weeziewoozles]

Lunch - crustless quiche from Morrisons and reduced fat chips with salad, plus two mini KitKats.
Snack - low fat super noodles and a gin and tonic
Dinner - Tesco courgette and squash bake with veggies and red wine

Totals should be about 1650cals, 39g fat, 41g protein

[Frilly Lady]

Lunch 2 slices of toast with low sugar jam, 2 home made scones, 4 cookies.

Dinner veg lasagne and dough balls.

Evening snack baked crisps, ww lemon slice

40 min dog walk 60 min treadmill

Cals 1393 fat 42g protein 27g

[eleena2014]

10.30 am - fried egg sandwich and coffee
2.00pm- w/w cheese puffs and a twice bar,diet coke
5.00pm- coffee and w/w mini roll
8.00pm- butter chicken curry with a small amount of chicken, rice and pershwari naan bread. Diet coke
Approx 1550 cals
50g protein
48g fat
Went a bit over today 😩

[hopeful13]

Frilly you are doing absolutely amazing and seem to really have got the hang of this X

[Frilly Lady]

Thanks hopeful, I feel as though I'm eating more than I normally do just less nutritious foods but I suppose I have to take into account I'm exercising more. I think about you often and hope you are doing ok. Will pm you soon. Xxx

[weeziewoozles]

Just had my first breakfast since starting LE. I was feeling so hungry and the boys were being difficult. There was one leftover sausage in the fridge so I chopped it up, added an egg, some spring onions and mushrooms (trying to pretend I was following LE principles) and put it in a WW wrap. Yummy with a black coffee! A bit like a breakfast burrito or something. Shame I did it today as we're out with friends tonight for Japanese food. But I'm planning on having veggie only and not eating as much as I normally would (I'm completely gluttonous). Plus I'll just have salad and a wrap for lunch, so I shouldn't go too far over. It'll be my first meal out on LE too. We'll on this time round anyway! I'll get through it! X

[LacePrincess]

weeziewoozles, one day off the plan doesn't matter! We all need a cheat day now and again, it's good for you. ;)


TODAY:

-skipped breakfast since I had my FET scan appt this morning, got a yummy After 8 skim milk decaf latte on the way home. I'll estimate around 150 cals to allow for the flavour shot and the milk.

LUNCH - 1/2 cup cottage cheese with strawberries & cinnamon, half english muffin with cream cheese, green beans, hard boiled egg. Half a granola bar for dessert. 340 cals

3pm - Metamucil with diet gingerale

Some sort of light workout this afternoon, feeling tired but will do something not to strenuous.

DINNER - homemade baked 'healthy' chicken nuggets, veggies, rice. 500 cals.

DESSERT - apple crumble, 250 cals.

Total - aiming for 1200-1300 cals.

[weeziewoozles]

I do agree Lace! I just managed six months of LE last year with hardly a cheat!

[eleena2014]

10.30am- coffee,toast and jam
2.00pm- Ham and cucumber sandwiche,diet Pepsi and small cake
5.00pm- coffee and a few biscuits
8.30pm- 2 potato waffles,fishcakes,beans and sweetcorn, diet coke
Cals Approx - 1338
49g- fat
47g -protein

[dkay1]

Hello ladies. I'm still new to all of this. I've been on the diet for a couple of weeks now. I have no idea how to count calories. I do know how to eat healthy and am a good cook. I'm seem to be eating really healthy food like loads of veg and salad. I've started eating a bit more as I was loosing weight fast, I don't have that much to loose. How do you work out calories?

[LacePrincess]

Hello ladies. I'm still new to all of this. I've been on the diet for a couple of weeks now. I have no idea how to count calories. I do know how to eat healthy and am a good cook. I'm seem to be eating really healthy food like loads of veg and salad. I've started eating a bit more as I was loosing weight fast, I don't have that much to loose. How do you work out calories?

Use a site like caloriecount.com or myfitnesspal.com, and buy a food scale. You really do have to weight EVERY ingredient and add it up when cooking from scratch to know for sure.

Don't forget to count condiments too, those often get overlooked. You don't have to even bother with non-starchy veg but do count fruit.

I've memorized the counts for most commonly used foods for me, but when I need to look something up I usually just punch it into google and it'll pull up the result right away. Really, the key is a good scale that goes down to the gram.

You don't really HAVE to count calories if you don't want to and you're getting the results you want. It's just my preferred way of losing/maintaining weight.

[wannabowbaby]

Per my SparkPeople tracker- keep in mind I'm still nursing part time and this is my very first day even THINKING about LE

2005 calories
265 carbs
71 fat
76 protein
14 fiber

1247mg Potassium
4442mg Sodium
0 folic acid
14% RDA Zinc
36% RDA B12
1% RDA Vit E
124% RDA Calcium
78% RDA Magnesium - and this is WITH my supplement for muscle cramps and nursing aversion :/

Calorie breakdown 32% fat, 53% carbs, 15% protein. Spark says goal is 20% protein so not too bad there at reducing protein.
Overall I feel like I didn't do TOO bad for my very first day. But DAMN that sodium is HIGH. Apparently two of my wonderful homemade enchiladas alone throw me over the sodium goal. Not to mention the Cheez-its I ate for a late breakfast...

And I USUALLY have great potassium intake... No white potatoes today LOL

[LacePrincess]

Today's plan:

Skipping breakfast, just a cup of coffee with 2 tsp nondairy powdered creamer and a bit of flavoured creamer, 35 cals.

Going to try a workout with no food first, LOL, we'll see if I crash hard!

LUNCH - Club sandwich, green beans. Some kind of fruit, maybe strawberries or pineapple. 1/3 cup diluted pomegranate juice. Half granola bar and a few pieces of licorice for dessert. 495 cals.

3pm - Metamucil in diet gingerale

DINNER - Veg & blue cheese omelette, fries with sweet & sour sauce. Fresh pineapple. Choc mint tea with 2 tsp non dairy creamer. 535 cal.

DESSERT - Ice cream with toppings, half a choc chip cookie, bit of milk to dip in. 280 cals

Total - 1345 cals

[weeziewoozles]

Well last night I had a few cocktails and then a yummy Japanese feast (mostly veggie) and then spent the rest of the evening, night and today being sick! Nice! No idea if it was something I ate or just that on LE I shouldn't have had three drinks, which normally would be fine. So my cheat kind of negated itself as none of the food stayed down! I lost four pounds in a day though which isn't good as like a few of you I've not got much to lose. I was hoping to lose about a pound a week as we're wanting to do LE for three months before TTC. So I'm thinking if I feel hungry later we might get a big fatty Domino's Pizza! Put those four pounds back on :)

[eleena2014]

Haven't ate properly today at all (is that good for girl sway) had a coffee a a cake this morning before we took ds2 to footie match then we went food shopping. Had a small Ritz Choc thing,and a malteaser. Only thing I had in my bag. They were v small bars. Then had a coffee and nesquick milk bar .Tonight I'll be having a pizza and 2 glasses of wine. Haven't totted totals up yet

[Frilly Lady]

Lunch 2 large spring rolls and an malteser bunny
Dinner prawn curry plain white rice glass of wine
Evening snack baked crisps Galaxy ripple glass of wine.

I'm not counting calories anymore I get too obsessed with it!

[WantALittleBlue]

Hi ladies, I posted this on another thread about swaying and glucose levels so I thought I might add it here in case it helps. I have 2 dd's and with both of them I was dieting and not eating past 5 pm and breakfast was around 9:30 am, so I'm pretty sure my blood sugar levels were pretty low. I never snacked and my only big meal of the day was lunch. Just thought this might help because I noticed that a lot of you are eating at 8 pm or later.

[LacePrincess]

Hi ladies, I posted this on another thread about swaying and glucose levels so I thought I might add it here in case it helps. I have 2 dd's and with both of them I was dieting and not eating past 5 pm and breakfast was around 9:30 am, so I'm pretty sure my blood sugar levels were pretty low. I never snacked and my only big meal of the day was lunch. Just thought this might help because I noticed that a lot of you are eating at 8 pm or later.

Thanks for sharing your experience! :)

As Atomic says though, there is nothing magical about fasting in any part of the day, you gotta do what works for you. Not snacking is a big part of the sway and so is having a long prolonged stretch of time. It's easiest for most people to do their daily 'fast' overnight and skip breakfast. Most of us might be eating in the evening but then not having anything the next day until lunch.

You gotta do what fits in your lifestyle too, and eating late can still sway pink. My mom for example had all daughters - she would only have coffee/milk in the mornings, skip breakfast, eat lunch, have dinner at around 7pm, and then snack ALL evening long. She would even snack at midnight watching tv! And she had girls.

[dkay1]

I'm finding missing breakfast the hardest thing. Thanks for my tips on calories I think I may go go with commen sense. There is no way I would have time to weight everything. I find it hardest when we have relatives staying at our house, I end up cooking lots of nice things and then can't eat them!

[LacePrincess]

I'm finding missing breakfast the hardest thing. Thanks for my tips on calories I think I may go go with commen sense. There is no way I would have time to weight everything. I find it hardest when we have relatives staying at our house, I end up cooking lots of nice things and then can't eat them!

Definitely go with what works and doesn't stress you out! The only reason to count calories is for weight control, most of the time to lose weight for a pink sway, or maintain if you are already borderline underweight. Common sense is a good thing.

Just keep an eye on the scale and that's good enough. :) And treats are ok too as long as it's not all the time. It's the general trend of things that matter.

[LacePrincess]

I'm finding missing breakfast the hardest thing. Thanks for my tips on calories I think I may go go with commen sense. There is no way I would have time to weight everything. I find it hardest when we have relatives staying at our house, I end up cooking lots of nice things and then can't eat them!

Definitely go with what works and doesn't stress you out! The only reason to count calories is for weight control, most of the time to lose weight for a pink sway, or maintain if you are already borderline underweight. Common sense is a good thing.

Just keep an eye on the scale and that's good enough. :) And treats are ok too as long as it's not all the time. It's the general trend of things that matter.

As for breakfast, that took me MONTHS to skip it entirely. It was really hard for me too! First I reduced what I ate at breakfast and more at lunch. Then coffee only for breakfast on non workout days. It wasn't until a few days ago that I found I can manage without breakfast entirely even before a workout, but it took me AGES to get there. Small steps!

[LacePrincess]

TODAY:

No breakfast, decaf coffee with flavoured creamer, 35 cals.

70 min step cardio workout

Lunch - 1/2 cup cottage cheese with berries and cinnamon, english muffin with cream cheese, green beans. Piece of licorice. 320 cals.

3pm - Metamucil in diet gingerale

Dinner - my son's bday dinner, so it's a bit splurgey! Homemade hamburgers with blue cheese, veggies, yogurt & blueberries. Strawberry bday cake.

Total - 1300-1400 calories.

[wannabowbaby]

So yesterday's totals... Sodium still crazy high, but not as bad as day 1...
Day 2:

Breakfast: 1 hour after waking, 12 hours after late night snack
1 cup Tabouli, 1 cup coffee with 1/4 cup whole milk and 1 Tbsp sugar. Getting somewhat accustomed to the smaller dose of sugar in my coffee...

Lunch:
String cheese, Great Value Chewy Fiber Bar, 3/4 cup 1% milk

Dinner:
2 pieces of cornbread fortified with ground flax seed (1/2 Tbsp flax total), 1/2 cup sweet potatoes, 3/4 cup navy beans, 3/4 cup mixed greens, 3/4 cup 1% milk

Late night snack:
plain bagel, 2 Tbsp cream cheese spread, GV All Natural Strawberry Watermelon drink mix dissolved in bottled water.

Day 2 totals:
1770 calories
293 carbs
42 fat
56 protein
33 fiber

1964mg Potassium
3276mg Sodium
0 folic acid
15% RDA Zinc
37% RDA B12
18% RDA Vit E
119% RDA Calcium
81% RDA Magnesium - and this is WITH my supplement for muscle cramps and nursing aversion :/
19% folate total

Calorie breakdown 21% fat, 66% carbs, 13% protein. Still trying to figure out a good balance. Took a quiz in a magazine about "Are you fat sensitive or carb sensitive?" and it recommended a low fat diet for me... Add in the lower protein levels I'm aiming for for a pink sway, and it is naturally gonna put carbs higher. But 66% is a little higher than I would like.

Still trying to figure out the folate/folic acid thing. Debating taking 2 mag pills per day. Still need to up my water intake too. Potassium was just a hair under goal so feeling better about that.

[weeziewoozles]

Made a nice brunch today. I chopped up spring onions and mushrooms, sauted them in a pan then chucked in a few chopped cherry tomatoes. Then I got two Weight Watchers tortilla wraps and put one in a pan with oil spray to stop it sticking, topped it with the veggies, some fresh rocket/arugula and a tiny bit of grated mozzarella. Then put the other tortilla on top and made a kind LE quesadilla! :-) 23240

Planning on having a veggie soup later, then dinner will be veggie chili on white rice.

[Frilly Lady]

Sat eating my lunch clicked on this thread to find we are eating nearly exactly the same thing weezie!

I use corn wraps and added a little green pepper, mushroom, tomatoes and low fat mozzerella to make a quesadilla.

Dinner will be bowl of brocolli, cauliflower, leeks and sprouts with a vegi sausage. Ww lemon slice.

60 min cycling

[WantALittleBlue]

By no means did i mean to suggest that anyones swaying was wrong and i hope all you ladies hear pink some time soon. But if i could offer some personal unscientific advice, when it comes time to dtd make sure your starving i know i was both times !!! Lol ! Good luck to all of you


Thanks for sharing your experience! :)


As Atomic says though, there is nothing magical about fasting in any part of the day, you gotta do what works for you. Not snacking is a big part of the sway and so is having a long prolonged stretch of time. It's easiest for most people to do their daily 'fast' overnight and skip breakfast. Most of us might be eating in the evening but then not having anything the next day until lunch.

You gotta do what fits in your lifestyle too, and eating late can still sway pink. My mom for example had all daughters - she would only have coffee/milk in the mornings, skip breakfast, eat lunch, have dinner at around 7pm, and then snack ALL evening long. She would even snack at midnight watching tv! And she had girls.

[wannabowbaby]

We're not gonna talk much about yesterday. Pie happened damnit.
Also Fiesta Ranch Chicken and I have a problem.
At least I finally hit my potassium goal.
*sigh*

[weeziewoozles]

Ha ha! What's fiesta ranch chicken?!

[LacePrincess]

Today for me:

Skipper breakfast, decaf coffee with 2 tsp non dairy creamer and 1 tsp flavoured creamer - 35 cals

Lunch - 1/2 cup cottage cheese with berries and cinnamon, toast with a little bit of butter and light cream cheese, green beans, seaweed salad. Fresh pineapple. Half a choc chip cookie and 1 piece licorice. 490 cals

3pm - Metamucil

Dinner - shrimp and veggie stirfry with sweet & sour sauce, rice.

Dessert - maybe a tiny bit of bday cake

Total - 1200-1300 cals

[wannabowbaby]

Fiesta Ranch Chicken Strips Recipe | SparkRecipes (http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-detail.asp?recipe=2859666)

Super tasty but way high sodium & protein. I ate 3.

[weeziewoozles]

Ah, sounds naughty! :-)

[wannabowbaby]

And then I ate a 4th one for breakfast.

It's like KNOWING that I'm supposed to be reducing protein is making me crave it. Weirdly enough just chicken though.

[weeziewoozles]

I don't really miss meat or fish although normally I eat both regularly. The two things I miss the most when I do this are eggs and being free to eat whatever I like!

[Frilly Lady]

I was naughty too yesterday. That chocolate eclair was very nice though!!!

[wannabowbaby]

Day 4
Breakfast
1 hour after waking, 10.5 hours after late night snack
1 leftover Fiesta Ranch Chicken Strip. Coffee with standard 1/4 cup whole milk & 1 Tbsp sugar.

Lunch
Sandwich - 2 slices OM Italian Seasoned Turkey, 1 slice cheese, 1 Tbsp mayo, 2 slices whole grain bread. Plus 10 baby carrots & a Tbsp ranch dressing.

Dinner... Well... SiL brought over a pizza she got for free. Pepperoni. :P
So I ate the last Fiesta Ranch Chicken strip & the rest of that stupid pie.

Late night snack 1115pm
1 serving Chocolate Lucky Charms


1790 calories
187 carbs
83 fat
69 protein
27 fiber

1035mg Potassium
3195mg Sodium
0 folic acid
35% RDA Zinc
56% RDA B12
0% RDA Vit E
52% RDA Calcium - cut out a lot of milk to make up for the chicken protein
69% RDA Magnesium - and this is WITH my supplement for muscle cramps and nursing aversion :/
54% folate total

Calorie breakdown 42% fat, 42% carbs, 15% protein.

WAY better than yesterday, and fairly even with day before yesterday despite the pie. Actually came in my ranges for calories, carbs, & fiber. Fat, protein & sodium still too high. But thinking about it... If reducing nutrients is the goal, pie is one way to go I suppose LOL

[LacePrincess]

Today:

Skipping breakfast

10-11am Brunch - 1/2 cup cottage cheese with berries & cinnamon, hard boiled egg. English muffin with light cream cheese, green beans. 1/2 choc chip cookie. 410 cals


3pm pre class meal - Hard boiled egg, yogurt with berries & cinnamon. English muffin with light cream cheese. Fresh pineapple. Wilted spinach. 1/2 choc chip cookie. 440 cals

2 hour ballet class in the evening

8:30pm - small snack, dessert - probably small piece bday cake with a little bit of ice cream. 450 cals

Total - 1300 cals

[weeziewoozles]

Lunch - salad in a baguette with Baked crisps and two cookies
Snack - cassava crisps and a drink
Dinner - veggie burger, low fat chips and beer

Totals should be 1650cals, 47g fat, 30g protein

My sandwich at lunch was huge!23263

[wannabowbaby]

Day 5
Breakfast- 1.5 hour after waking, 12.5 hours after late night snack- Coffee with standard 1/4 cup whole milk & 1 Tbsp sugar. Great Value Chewy Fiber Bar

Lunch- 2 slices OM Italian Seasoned Turkey, 1 slice cheese, 1 Tbsp mayo, 2 slices whole grain bread. Plus 1 cup of mashed sweet potato with 2tsp butter

Dinner- 1 EC Hot Link, 1 slice bread, 1tsp mustard, 1 slice cheese, 2oz broccoli, half of a cucumber, 1Tbsp ranch.

Late night snack 1115pm- half of a regular root beer


1660 calories :)
184 carbs :)
82 fat :(
41 protein :)
26 fiber :)

2341mg Potassium :)
3357mg Sodium :(
17% RDA Zinc
18% RDA B12
26% RDA Vit E
85% RDA Calcium - Meh
86% RDA Magnesium - and this is WITH my supplement for muscle cramps and nursing aversion :/
32% folate total :(

Calorie breakdown 45% fat, 45% carbs, 10% protein. Meh. Could be lower fat.



All in all a decent day. Still having trouble with fat and sodium. Damn convenience foods. Speaking of the hot link in particular. Hubby & kids ate while I was at the store & I didn't feel like cooking a full meal just for me. Tried to balance it out with a bunch of veggies LOL

As for the soda... I was coming in UNDER my carb goal. I opened a soda intending to drink it all and COULDN'T. It was too sweet! Measured out half and pawned it off on hubby. :) :) :)

I feel like a PURE CARB late night snack helps if the goal is low blood sugar right? Late night sugar crash before my 12 hour fast. Although not sure I'll make it 12 hours since I actually have to get up at a decent hour tomorrow and I have to have coffee within an hour or so of getting up or I get... Unpleasant LOL

[eleena2014]

Yesterday
11.30- fried egg sandwich and coffee
2.00- packet if skips and small custard pot diet coke
5.00- coffee and nesquick Choc bar
8.00- Linda McCartney mozerella burger and wedges,diet coke
Cals Approx -1187?? Doesn't seem right?
Fat-44g
Protein - 52g

[LacePrincess]

Today:

No breakfast, cup of coffee with 2 tsp non dairy creamer and a bit of flavoured creamer, 35 cals.

Workout - 70 min step aerobics

Lunch - 1/2 cup cottage cheese with berries & cinnamon, toast with bit of butter & light cream cheese, green beans, diluted pomegranate juice, hard boiled egg. 1/2 choc chip cookie. 480 cals

3pm - Metamucil in diet gingerale

Dinner - sweet potato pancakes with something for veg and protein (maybe yogurt or something else). 500 cals

Dessert - bday cake & ice cream, 325 cals

Totals- 1300-1400 cals

[weeziewoozles]

We're all doing brilliantly ladies! AF came today for me, so that's great as it seems like my cycles have come back.

Due to AF in had breakfast today - two slices of white bread and scrambled eggs. Then a coffee with a few dark chocolate digestive biscuits
Lunch - potato salad with low fat mayonnaise and salad, with Baked crisps
Dinner - veg risotto with some French bread

Totals should be 1750cals, 46g fat, 56g protein

But I might add in a little chocolate as AF is here!

[Frilly Lady]

Lunch 2 homemade low fat scones with low sugar jam.

Dinner vegetable enchiladas made with corn wraps roasted veg and low fat cheese. Ww lemon slice.

I've bought a frys Turkish delight and if I'm honest I don't think it will be here tomorrow so I will add that too!

Great news about your cycles weezie!

[weeziewoozles]

Thanks Frilly! :-D

[LacePrincess]

Yay Weezie! Funny how the witch is sometimes very welcome.

Also, CD1 is ALWAYS treat yourself cheat day for me. I bloat like crazy anyways, lol, perfect day to justify a binge.

[weeziewoozles]

:-) I did LE for six months last year and hardly cheated at all. It was really interesting. Mostly I didn't feel the need to and occasionally when I did, I'd just say to myself "I want a girl more than I want this chocolate" or pizza or whatever. It just worked. This time round I'm already having to stop myself cheating too much and I've only been doing it a few weeks! My aim is to do the best with it that I can do, to avoid any regrets if we have another boy. I'm having a treat on Saturday having a night in a spa hotel with my best friend :-) So I'll have to break the diet but I'll try to choose the most girl friendly options on the menu and not gorge on the breakfast in the morning (although the latter is going to be very tricky!) I've not started adding in diet drinks yet as I think they're yuck but I will when we get nearer TTC month.

[LacePrincess]

hey, remember that relaxing is a big part of the sway!! :)

Enjoy your spa day for sure. Diet drinks really aren't necessary, and I find it bloats me anyways so I have some if I feel like pop but it's not like a regular thing for me.

[wannabowbaby]

Day 6
Breakfast
2.25 hours after waking, 12.25 hours after late night snack :)
Coffee with standard 1/4 cup whole milk & 1 Tbsp sugar.
Great Value Chewy Fiber Bar

Lunch
Skipped

Dinner
Spaghetti Squash & sauce
3 slices of garlic toast

Late night snack 10pm
double bowl strawberry frosted mini wheats, plus 2 cups of milk & a candy cane.


1522 calories :)
249 carbs :)
46 fat :)
51 protein :)
29 fiber :)

1810mg Potassium - just a little shy...
1229mg Sodium - HOLY COW. a mere 29 above health goal!
88% RDA Calcium - Meh
119% RDA Magnesium - and this is WITH my supplement for muscle

cramps and nursing aversion :/
219% folate total HELLO breakfast cereal LOL. COnsidering my LOW intake all week, this is a good thing.

Calorie breakdown 26% fat, 62% carbs, 12% protein. :) :) :)


All in all a GREAT day.

Granted the cereal prob has more nutrients than I really need on the LE diet, buuuut it's a once in a while oh shit I need to make up some serious calories kinda thing. And the candy cane was because I needed a few empty calories.

[LacePrincess]

Today:

Skipping breakfast. Coffee with nondairy powdered creamer, 25 cals. (Trying to go caffeine free but man that's hard near the end of the week!)

Lunch - 3 ritz crackers with roasted garlic (fending off a cold!), green beans, two sweet potato pancakes with a bit of honey, 1/2 cup cottage cheese with berries & cinnamon, 1/2 choc chip cookie. 514 cals.


Preclass meal - english muffin with roasted garlic and light cream cheese, 1/2 cup yogurt with berries, cinnamon & metamucil, wilted spinach. Hard boiled egg, fresh pineapple, 1/2 choc chip cookie. 452 cals.


1.5 hour ballet class in the evening

Dessert - bday cake & ice cream.

Total - 1300 cals

[weeziewoozles]

Lunch - pasta N sauce with French bread, then tea and dark chocolate digestive biscuits
Dinner - veggie pasta

Totals should be 1700 cals, 33g fat, 50g protein

[Frilly Lady]

Lunch home made scones with jam, salt & vinegar crisps and 1 strip of chocy

Dinner rice with homemade sauce.

60 min treadmill

[HealthyGirl]

Can someone tell me if we need to keep our potassium low or high?

I know it's recommended to get 2500-3500 mg daily but is that keeping it low or high?

Atomic recommended doing coconut water but don't want to do that. Anyone taking supplements?


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[wannabowbaby]

Day 7
Breakfast
1.5 hours after waking, 13 hours after late night snack - getting better!
Coffee with standard 1/4 cup whole milk & 1 Tbsp sugar.
Great Value Chewy Fiber Bar

Lunch OHCRAPFASTFOOD
2 grilled onion cheddar burgers & half of a small fry & a diet coke

Dinner
Spaghetti Squash & sauce
2 slices of garlic toast
1 cup dry cereal

Late night snack - NONE


1638 calories :)
214 carbs :)
65 fat :(
59 protein :)
18 fiber :(

625mg Potassium - pretty sure I got more than that but can't find info for burgers
2649mg Sodium - :(
63% RDA Calcium - :(
86% RDA Magnesium - and this is WITH my supplement for muscle

cramps and nursing aversion :/
106% folate total HELLO breakfast cereal LOL. COnsidering my LOW

intake all week, this is a good thing.

Calorie breakdown 35% fat, 51% carbs, 14% protein.

Not bad considering the fast food LOL

[wannabowbaby]

Can someone tell me if we need to keep our potassium low or high?

I know it's recommended to get 2500-3500 mg daily but is that keeping it low or high?

Atomic recommended doing coconut water but don't want to do that. Anyone taking supplements?


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The LE diet doesn't really do the calciummagnesium for girl vs sodiumpotassium for boy thing... the 2500-3500 is AS's recommendation for safety as potassium deficiencies are all too common and very dangerous.

Now, I'm using SparkPeople to track what I'm eating, and their rec is 2000-2500 for safety. Since I am choosing to (lightly) incorporate the calmag/sodpot aspect in my sway, I went with the SP recommendation since it's slightly lower.

One of the easiest sources of potassium (I've found) is potatoes. Both white potatoes & sweet potatoes are pretty good sources.

[LacePrincess]

Today:

Yummy decaf After8 skim milk latte - I sure wish that delicious flavour shot wasn't so calorific!! 110 calories.

Brunch - sweet potato pancakes with a bit of honey, salmon with a bit of mayo. Green beans. 1/4 cup cottage cheese with cinnamon. 445 cals

Workout today is 60-70 min cardio step. New dvd's yay!!

3pm - Metamucil in diet gingerale

Dinner - Something with chicken, veg and fries.

Dessert - bday cake & ice cream

Total aiming for 1300-1400

[Frilly Lady]

That latte sounds lovely lace, they don't do that here thankfully!

Lunch 2 homemade scones with low low cheese spread pkt salt & vinegar crisps
Dinner mushroom and low fat mozzerella quesadilla. Rice milk rice pudding.

50 min cross country dog walk 60 min cycle

[eleena2014]

Posted on here yesterday and its disappeared. Im really struggling to get my grams of fat low. It averages to around 45-50g and I think that's too high as Im aiming for 1300 cals 😒

[LacePrincess]

Posted on here yesterday and its disappeared. Im really struggling to get my grams of fat low. It averages to around 45-50g and I think that's too high as Im aiming for 1300 cals ��

eleena, are you still managing to get within your calorie goals? If so then it's not too high.

I don't even bother counting my macros, I just eat balanced and stay within my calorie ranges. But then I'm PCO tendency and on Metformin so extremes don't work for me anyways.

[eleena2014]

Yes. Some days it's over and Im def not putting any weight on

[LacePrincess]

Yes. Some days it's over and Im def not putting any weight on

It's fine then! :) Weight tends to fluctuate even when you're trying hard to lose weight. And we need fat for fertility - it's not a bad thing.

[LacePrincess]

Today's plan:

Skipping breakfast, cup of decaf with non dairy creamer and flavoured creamer, 35 cals

70 min step cardio workout

Lunch - 1/2 cup cottage cheese with berries & cinnamon, green beans, english muffin with light cream cheese, soft boiled egg, pomegranate juice. 1/2 choc chip cookie.. 470 cals.

3pm - Metamucil in diet gingerale

Dinner - Turkey burger with blue cheese, homemade hummus & veggies. 500 cals.

Dessert - cookies & ice cream

Total: 1300-1350 cals.

[wannabowbaby]

Well my modem died. And we can't afford to replace it til we get our tax refund. And my mobile data plan is comically small. So I can't do my SP numbers or post here until then. *sigh*

It's been nice ladies... I'll see y'all again next month.

[LacePrincess]

Sorry to hear that, wannabowbaby! :(

Today:

Skipping breakfast, decaf coffee with nondairy powdered creamer and flavoured creamer, 35 cals

Rest day from exercise, body is all worn out today!

Lunch - 1/2 cup cottage cheese with berries & cinnamon, toasted english muffin with light cream cheese, green beans and hummus. 1/2 choc chip cookie. 400 cals

3pm - metamucil


Dinner - turkey burger with blue cheese, fries, veg. 500 cals.

Dessert - banana split sundae, 350 cals

Total 1300 cals

[eleena2014]

Yesterday
9.30-coffee and toast before we went to ds2 footie match.
3.00- light pineapple cheese spread sandwich with spring onions.Also had a snack a jax and diet coke
Can of Strongbow
8.30pm- stir fry with mushrooms,bean sprouts,egg noodles,small amount of chicken. Sauce I used for this was soy sauce,maple syrup and Ginger.
2 glasses of red wine and pop corn.
Thought I was doing well till I added the cals for Strongbow
Cals Approx -1481
30g fat
27g protein

[LacePrincess]

Well, I'm dropping weight unexpectedly again, so I should actually probably up my intake, don't really want to lose too much here. A good problem to have!

Today:

Coffee with non dairy powdered creamer, 30 cals.

Brunch at 11am - english muffin with cream cheese, green beans with hummus, hard boiled egg. 1/2 cup cottage cheese with berries & cinnamon. 1/2 choc chip cookie. 460 cals

Exercise - 60-70 min cardio step

Mid afternoon- metamucil

Dinner - sweet potato pancakes, bacon & eggs, veg. 550 cals

Dessert - cookies & ice cream, 360 cals

Total - 1400 cals

[HealthyGirl]

Can someone tell me if soy milk is ok to if swaying pink?
I occasionally have it in my mochas on the weekends.


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[weeziewoozles]

Hey there. I'm back after a lovely night away with my best friend. Back on the wagon today.

Lunch - Weight Watchers wraps with leftover refried beans and salad, Baked crisps and some dark mint.chocolate
Dinner - leek, mushroom and green bean risotto with French bread and some wine

Totals should be 1550cals, 20g fat, 40g protein

[Frilly Lady]

Glad you had a lovely time weezie!

Lunch half a corn quesadilla with mushroom, tomatoes and low fat cheese.

Dinner bowl of veggies with 2 vegi sausages and a glass of wine

60 mins treadmill

[LacePrincess]

Can someone tell me if soy milk is ok to if swaying pink?
I occasionally have it in my mochas on the weekends.


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A little bit of anything in moderation is just fine!

[LacePrincess]

Today -

Well it's the day before travel day so things are going to be a bit nuts around here. Slept like absolute CRAP too, nerves. :( Going to be a bit a cheat day since we're doing take out for dinner. Scale was nice to me again today!

Coffee this morning with a bit of nondairy powdered creamer, 30 cals.

Brunch, 10am - sweet potato pancakes with some honey. Green beans & hummus. Cottage cheese with berries & cinnamon. Half choc chip cookie. 480 cals

Exercise - 70 min cardio step

Dinner - something for takeout, probably shawarma

Dessert - cookies & ice cream.

[weeziewoozles]

GOOD LUCK!!

[weeziewoozles]

Yesterday's food was:
Lunch - two Weight Watchers tortilla wraps filled with salad, Baked crisps and a few Lotus caramel biscuits
Snack - G&T and peanuts
Dinner - veggie curry and white rice

Totals 1750cals, 31g fat, 39g protein

Today should be :
Lunch - salad, Baked crisps and some bread
Snack - G&T and cassava crisps
Dinner - Tesco mushroom crepes and low fat chips

[Frilly Lady]

Yesterday
Lunch home made rice pudding
Dinner M&S mushroom and butternut pappardelle, baked crisps and ww slice

60 mins treadmill

Today
Breakfast decaf coffee with low fat whitener
Lunch 3 slices of toast
Dinner tomato mushroom and low fat cheese quesadilla and rice pudding

60 mins cycling

[eleena2014]

Havent logged for a while as from last sun-tuesday i had a tummy bug so didnt eat much at all...which is good for girl sway?? Lol
10.00am coffee and pop tart
2.00pm- banana sandwich,diet Pepsi and small packet of cheese biscuits... Oh and a few galaxy minstrels
8.00pm- vegetarian beef Risotto and a glass of red wine
Approx 1400 cals
39g fat
39 g protein.

[eleena2014]

Today I had a fried egg sandwich...don't have these that often, for dinner I will have seafood cocktail sandwich filler and something for desert. Tea will be ramen noodle salad. Found Muller light skinny cappuccino yoghurt.they are lush.so will Prob have one of these today

[eleena2014]

how bad are hot dog sausages??? im pretty sure theres hardly any meat in them?

[Frilly Lady]

Hot dogs are usually mechanically recovered meat which is usually pork and chicken or pork trimmings, bulked up with starch then colours and flavours added. So I should think they are low in nutrients but not sure about fat content!

[weeziewoozles]

I agree. As long as you monitor your fat intake they're ok. Remember there are no banned foods. I think Atomic says you should try to have mostly vegetarian food but anything occasional isn't an issue.

My mum is seriously ill at the moment so while I'm trying to maintain my diet, I'm also not being too rigid. I've had to grab takeaway a couple of times on my way home from the hospital but I've gone for a veggie low fat option.

[Magical22]

Just started trying to get back into the LE mindset. I've had a pretty 'pink' day today though. I'm doing the fertility version of the LE diet as I have IR and PCO tendencies and also finishing up an HT cycle. I'm also on Metformin which means no extremes or I feel sick.

So today I had:

Breakfast (2.5 hours after waking) - 1/2 cup cottage cheese with a smattering of blueberries and strawberries. I will leave out the blueberries tomorrow as they are a higher GI fruit than the strawberries. Large coffee with some non dairy powdered creamer.

70 min aerobic cardio workout

Lunch - hot and sour soup, some seaweed salad, a handful of green beans. Toasted english muffin with some low fat mayo (yay omega 6's, lol) and a bit of ham and cheese melted on top. Homemade raisin bar and a few cookies for dessert.

mid afternoon - diet gingerale with Metamucil

tonight for dinner - poutine (if you're not from Canada, that would be fries with cheese curds and gravy), homemade pizza (white flour crust, light cheese and sauce, low carb veggie topping), diet coke

dessert - probably a few cookies and pieces of candy

total is around 1400-1500 cals though I usually just guesstimate so I don't get too obsessed.

Is there a reason you have diet gingerale? Is ginger good for girl sway


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[LacePrincess]

I'm not aware of gingerale being particularly helpful for a girl sway.....I just like it sometimes with my Metamucil since the Metamucil can taste pretty foul. You can have regular pop if you like, it just doesn't fit in my calorie goals and I'd rather eat than drink my calories!


Today:

Skipped breakfast, coffee with coffeemate, 30 cals.

Lunch - english muffin with a tiny bit of butter, cottage cheese with berries & cinnamon, green beans, chocolate pudding cup. 385 calories

Exercise was 1 hour dancey step cardio.

Metamucil and cup of tea with some coffeemate in the afternoon, 20 cals

Dinner - turkey and veg burger, fries, steamed broccoli. 500 cals.

Dessert - cookies & ice cream, 275 cals.

Total - 1200 cals, staying low to get these vacation pounds off!

[Frilly Lady]

I've mixed things up a bit on the advice of atomic, following more of the pcos diet and I feel so much better. No bloating or immune flares, so I'm sticking to it. If anyone has any great meal ideas I'd be greatful, or if I'm going wrong then feel free to advise.

Breakfast americano with skimmed milk

Today luch ryvita crackers with low low cheese spread and a full fat yogurt.

Dinner will be wholemeal linguini with chilli, tomatoes, rocket and prawns.

60 mins treadmill

[LacePrincess]

Today:

Skipped breakfast, decaf coffee with 2 tsp Coffeemate

Lunch - turkey burger with salsa, green beans, cottage cheese with berries & cinnamon, 1/2 choc chip cookie. 455 cals

Afternoon meal - toast very lightly buttered, hard boiled egg, wilted spinach. Yogurt with metamucil & blueberries. 450 cals

Foregoing ballet tonight, AF became extremely heavy so just staying home and resting, hoping to get in a workout.

Dessert - cookies & ice cream, 275 cals

Total - 1200 cals

[weeziewoozles]

Well DH was out tonight so I couldn't visit my mum in hospital, which felt weird. To comfort myself I ate an entire medium takeaway pizza. Oops. Feel bloated and full now. Cheat day confessed.

[Frilly Lady]

Well DH was out tonight so I couldn't visit my mum in hospital, which felt weird. To comfort myself I ate an entire medium takeaway pizza. Oops. Feel bloated and full now. Cheat day confessed.

Sounds like you deserve it weez. Hope it's nothing serious with your mum.

[weeziewoozles]

Thanks hon. Unfortunately she's got pneumonia but she's stable. In fact when my brother visited her tonight, he thought she seemed brighter :-)

[LacePrincess]

Sorry to hear about your mom, weez! :( Hope she makes a speedy recovery.

[weeziewoozles]

Thanks hon xxx

[LacePrincess]

Today:

skipped breakfast, coffee with Coffeemate, 30 cals

lunch - 2 rice cakes with butter, hard boiled egg, baby greens, 1/2 cup cottage cheese with berries & cinnamon, 1/2 choc chip cookie. 415 cals

workout is 60 min step aerobics

3pm - metamucil

Dinner - turkey burger and fries, 500 cals

Dessert - cookies & ice cream

Total 1200-1250 cals

[weeziewoozles]

Today I had an egg sandwich on my way up to visit my mum. Then had French bread and salad for lunch. Enjoying a G&T with a few nuts now, then having veggie stir fry with rice for dinner.

[eleena2014]

I had a fried egg sandwich too this morning weezie. I always feel guilty when eating them.lol.
Had that around 10.45 this morning with coffee and benefibre
2.00- wasn't that hungry so had w/w cheese puffs and milky way roll and diet coke.
For tea I will be having philly fritatta

[Frilly Lady]

Breakfast coffee with creamer

Lunch 2 ryveta with cheese spread 2 with hummus.

Dinner tomato and mushroom quesadilla. Then I had my cheat evening 1 pkt revels a few minstrels and a pkt baked crisps! Mmm

60 mins cross counrty dog walk 60 min treadmill

[smarston3]

Jumping in!

Breakfast-coffee with creamer-42 calories

Lunch-1 pop tart, English muffin with a spear of margarine, half a banana-415 calories

Dinner-should be two slices of pizza with pineapple-520 calories


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[LacePrincess]

Today -

slept in to almost 11am, holy cow, so definitely nothing to eat this morning!

Lunch- 2 rice cakes with butter, zucchini with ranch dip, cottage cheese with berries. 1/2 granola bar and 1/2 choc chip cookie. Metamucil. 462 cals.

Exercise is 60 min step aerobics.

Dinner - homemade chicken strips. Rice and veg. 500 cals.

Dessert - cookies & icecream.

Total - 1300 cals

[smarston3]

Yesterday

Breakfast-coffee with creamer

Lunch-one slice of leftover pizza and two cinnamon rolls that the family ate for breakfast-560 calories

Dinner-6 shrimp and a cup of white rice, glass of white wine-580 calories

And then I had a chocolate covered pretzel at our neighbors :(


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[LacePrincess]

Today:

Coffee with Coffeemate and flavoured creamer, 25 cals.

Brunch - two rice cakes with butter, green beans, 1/2 cup cottage cheese with fruit, leftover chicken strips. 1/2 choc chip cookie. 450 cals.

Exercise - 60 min step aerobics.

Dinner - fish sticks, rice, veg with homemade hummus. 500 cals

Dessert - cookies/ice cream.

Total - 1300 cals.

[weeziewoozles]

Friends over for a roast today so a bit tricky

Lunch - a few crisps and some white wine. Then an English roast dinner LE style, which was a tiny bit of chicken breast, some potatoes roasted in oil spray, broccoli, carrots, brussel sprouts, a little vegetarian stuffing and gravy. With wine. I then picked a little while clearing up, eating a little more chicken and another roast potato but I resisted pudding.

Dinner - not sure how many calories I'll have left so I'll probably have wine and veggies or something! Definitely the wine as my Mum isn't good today. She's got pneumonia and one of her lungs collapsed last night :-(

[LacePrincess]

weeizie, so sorry about your mom. :( Thoughts with you and her, hope she gets to feeling better soon.

[weeziewoozles]

Thank you. I can't imagine what is going to happen next!

[kitkat18]

Weezie just crashing to say I hope your mum is stable and thinking of you X

[weeziewoozles]

Weezie just crashing to say I hope your mum is stable and thinking of you X

Thanks KitKat. That's lovely of you x

[Pearl327]

Hi all, Can I join in too. Today is my 1st day of the diet and I would love to own up to what I am eating rather then just record it myself. (It will keep me on track - I am not usually one who sticks to diets)

Weezie, I hope your Mum is doing better. It must be very stressful to have a parent sick. We were due date buddies back in the summer 13. I really hope you get your DD this time around.

[Pearl327]

So day 1.

11.00am. Mug of strong tea with 1 sugar and a packet of belvita breakfast biscuits

C: 247. P: 3.6. F: 7.6


Lunch 13:10.
McCains baked potato , 60g light cottage cheese with about a tbsp of sirachi chilli sauce. A WW fat free orange & chocolate yogurt.
C: 312. P: 14.8. F: 2.3


Dinner tonight at approx 6:30-7 will be a portion of homemade pasta arribiatta.
C: 433. P 15. F: 5


Looking at this I will be way under for the day so I may add a drizzle of oil on top of my pasta. And finish with 2 scoops of Hagen daz.

C : 310 P: 5 F: 21.5


This will bring my days totals to
C: 1302. P: 38.4. F: 36.4


I need to work on bringing calories and fat up or I will be too thin by May [emoji15]

[LacePrincess]

Today:

Decaf coffee with Coffeemate, 20 cals

Rest day for exercise

Lunch - 2 rice cakes with butter, veg and homemade hummus, 1/2 cup cottage cheese with berries, cheese string. 1/2 choc chip cookie. 430 cals

Afternoon - Metamucil, 20 cals

Dinner - breakfast for dinner, probably scrambled eggs with veggies and blue cheese, sweet potato pancakes, 500 cals

Dessert - apple crumble with ice cream

Total - 1300 cals

[LacePrincess]

Today:

Brunch - 2 rice cakes with butter, green beans, chicken strips with sweet & sour sauce, 1/2 cup cottage cheese with berries. 1/2 choc chip cookie. 450 cals


Pre-class meal - sweet potato pancakes, yogurt with fruit & metamucil, string cheese, veg & hummus. 400 cals

2 hour ballet class

Dessert - cookies & ice cream

Total 1300 cals

[Pearl327]

I did a bit better yesterday.

I have the pretty much the same as on Monday but with a larger serving of pasta and 3 fondant filled quality street chocolates with a cup of tea when the kids went to bed.

Total for the day C: 1600 P: 46 F: 48

[LacePrincess]

Today-

Skipped breakfast, coffee with a little flavoured creamer + Coffeemate, 35 cals

Lunch @ 11am - leftover chicken strips with ketchup, sweet potato pancake with honey, rice cake with butter, green beans. 1/2 cup cottage cheese & berries. Chocolate truffle. 430 cals

Exercise - 60 min step aerobics

Afternoon - Metamucil

Dinner - turkey meatballs and fries, veg. 500 cals

Dessert - icecream & cookie

Total - 1300 cals

[Pearl327]

Today
11:15 Belvita breakfast biscuits & tea

1.15 2 small white pitta bread, 2 slices of low low cheese, 1/2 tbsp cheese free pesto, Velvet crunch salt & vinegar cassava snacks, WW fat free yogurt

6.30 2 potato waffles, 200g baked beans. mug of tea

8.30ish 100g haribo jellies

total for the day C:1510 P: 47 F: 35

[weeziewoozles]

Hey ladies. We're all doing brilliantly. I'm not being strict at the moment because I'm so stressed about my mum and we're not trying till March/April time.

Lunch - French bread and salad with Baked crisps, then tea and a few biscuits
Snack - red wine and pistachios
Dinner - DH was out and I'm feeling sorry for myself (mum due to have surgery tomorrow as her lung keeps collapsing) so I've had a Chinese takeaway - veggie curry, plain egg for yung, chicken satay skewers and white rice. Plus a little ice cream.

Totals approx 1900cals, 45g fat, 36g protein according to MFP but they sound a bit low to me

[Pearl327]

Best of luck to your mam tomorrow weezie.

[Frilly Lady]

Really sorry your mum is still poorly, best of luck to her for today. I've been poorly since last Friday so my eating and excercise has gone to pot. Back on it today though.

Lunch today will be low fat cottage cheese and ryveta

Dinner is rice with home made Spanish sauce and maybe a few prawns.

[Pearl327]

Today we are having an M&S meal for a pre valentines dinner as we will be with my parents helping out with the lambing on the farm on Sat. I am way over on fats but not too bad considering. Probably not the best day to have avocado for lunch though.

10am I had a headache and couldn't wait. Belvita biscuits

1:15 1 white pitta, 1/2 avocado, 1 tomato, 1/3 cucumber and 1 dessert spoon of salad cream. Yum followed by a WW fat free yogurt

7:30: M&S garlic mushrooms
M&S vegetarian moussaka with garlic bread. Belgian hot chocolate soufflé and 1/2 bottle merlot

Total for the day C: 2122. P: 41.4. F: 91g oops

[Pearl327]

I forgot to add I took 2 phylum husk capsules before lunch and will take another 2 before dinner to help absorb some of that fat

[LacePrincess]

today:

coffee with coffeemate, 30 cals

Lunch - turkey meatballs, 2 rice cakes with butter, veggies & hummus. 1/2 cup cottage cheese & berries. Homemade cookie. 530 cals

preclass meal - 2 rice cakes with butter, veggies & hummus. 1/2 cup yogurt with fruit and metamucil. String cheese. Banana. 430 cals.

1.5 hour ballet class

dessert - icecream & cookies

Total - 1300-1350 cals.

[LacePrincess]

today:

coffee with Coffeemate, 35 cals

brunch - 2 rice cakes with butter, green beans and hummus, cottage cheese with berries, hard boiled egg. Homemade shortbread cookie. 400 cals

Exercise - 60 min step aerobics

dinner - honey teriyaki chicken, veg, gnocchi. 600 cals

dessert - ice cream & cookies

total - 1350 cals

[weeziewoozles]

Lunch - M&S egg sandwich and Glorious Skinny soups
Snack - diet ginger beer and cassava crisps
Dinner - out to the cinema with DH so will try to stay LE!

[Princess Mom]

Hey ladies I'm new I need to lose 35 pounds before ttc in summer, last time when I lost 45 pounds after my DD I loved eating oatmeal and Special K bars are those okay? I have these left over pounds from my ds pregnancy last year. And I believe diet is the key for a girl. I'll also be working out a lot

[Pearl327]

Princess mom,

I think there is something in oats that raises testosterone. I know I are them every day as part of my boy sway. As for Special K are they not heavily fortified with vitamins and minerals. Most of us skip breakfast on the LE diet but every one in a while and within the limits they would be fine

[Pearl327]

8:30. 1slice of toast with a small amt of butter and a cup of coffee

1:00. Cheese & tomato toastie, velvet crunch

5:00 100g haribo & diet soda

8:30 2 pitta bread, 1/2 avo, 1 tomato, 1/3 cucumber, 1 dessert spoon salad cream

C: 1500 P: 40, F: 42

[LacePrincess]

Holy crap I keep losing weight. Avoiding gluten is certainly making the weight come off fast! It's a weird thing to complain about, but now I'm scared to lose my ovulation so I need to stop losing so much, but without gaining.

Splurge day today!

Coffee with coffeemate - 40 cals

Brunch - 2 rice cakes with butter, 1/2 cup cottage cheese & fruit, veg and hummus. Hard boiled egg. Homemade cookie. 450 cals

Workout is 60 min step aerobics

Afternoon - Metamucil

Dinner - Homemade gourmet burgers and poutine, YUM! 600-700 cals

Dessert - choc mug cake & ice cream

Total: 1500 cals

[smarston3]

Hey lace, I think I have a gluten issue. I've been dieting/exercising for at least a month and haven't lost anything. I'm trying to figure out how to be gluten free and still do LE. Also, what kind of cookies and ice cream do you eat?


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[LacePrincess]

Hey lace, I think I have a gluten issue. I've been dieting/exercising for at least a month and haven't lost anything. I'm trying to figure out how to be gluten free and still do LE. Also, what kind of cookies and ice cream do you eat?


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hi smarston!

I don't have a gluten sensitivity, Atomic just suggested it for me since with PCOS tendencies it's more an IR issue with gluten. It seems to be working though I still love breads!!

So I'm not really strict gluten free, I'm just avoiding bread and pasta as staples and I'm using rice products and potatoes instead. I don't bother worrying about the gluten in desserts or baked goodies like cakes. Just replaced my bread/english muffin with rice cakes, rice instead of pasta for dinner, that sort of thing. I'm just having regular icecream, nothing special.

[LacePrincess]

Today:

Coffee with Coffeemate, 30 cals.

Lunch- 2 rice cakes with butter, green beans, 1/2 cup cottage cheese with berries. String cheese. 400 cals

Workout - 60 min step aerobics

Dinner - Mexican tonight! Ground turkey tacos with homemade guacamole and salsa. Yum!

Dessert - low fat creme brulee! Double yum!

Total 1400 cals

[weeziewoozles]

Yesterday - mostly eating leftovers from our Valentines dinner

Lunch - veggies on rice with curry sauce.
Snacks - homemade no fat hummus and a Greek cauliflower and potato dip, with grilled pitta bread and crudités. Two Pisco sours and some pistachios
Dinner - veggie moussaka and greens with red wine. Plus some dark chocolate

[Pearl327]

I was at my parents house for the weekend so I stuck to the diet as much as I could, I didn't track calories but I am sure I was way over. I am making up for it today though with a bout of gastro. Just had the 1st bit to eat today of toast with a bit of butter.

If this agrees with me then I may have some plain pasta or the same again later

[LacePrincess]

Today:

Rest day from exercising, yay!

Decaf coffee with coffeemate, 30 cals

Lunch - My usual. 2 rice cakes with butter, green beans, 1/2 cup cottage cheese with berries, string cheese. Homemade cookies. 400 cals

Metamucil in the afternoon

Dinner - Tilapia or other white fish with light cream sauce, rice, veggies.

Dessert - icecream/cookies

Total: 1350 cals

[eleena2014]

10.30- coffee and toast with low sugar jam
1.30- tuna and sweetcorn sandwich filler and milky way roll.diet coke
7.30- stir fry with a small amount of diced pork with egg noodles and plum and hoisin sauce,Mr kipling cake
Approx cals 1300
46g fat 38g protein

[smarston3]

Having trouble calculating homemade stuff but I think I'm within limits

Breakfast-coffee with coffemate

Lunch 1pm-homemade cinnamon roll and half a slice of cheese pizza

Dinner 5:30-had two slices of eggplant sprinkled with shake and bake (made chicken for the boys) serving of rice a roni shells and cheddar. Green beans with a smear of margarine

Now-homemade cinnamon bun


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[LacePrincess]

Today:

Brunch - 2 rice cakes with butter, veggies, 1/2 cup cottage cheese with berries, string cheese, hard boiled egg. Homemade cookie. 500 cals.

pre class meal - 3 rice cakes with butter, veggies, yogurt with fruit and metamucil, hard boiled egg. 1/2 homemade cookie. 450 cals.

2 hour ballet class

Dessert - ice cream & cookies!

Total - 1300 cals.

[LacePrincess]

Today:

Coffee (sweet sweet caffeine.....) with coffeemate, 40 cals.

Lunch at 11am - 2 rice cakes with butter, veg, hard boiled egg. 1/2 cup cottage cheese with berries. Homemade cookie. 440 cals

Workout is 60 min step aerobics

Metamucil in afternoon

Dinner - Homemade chicken strips with sweet & sour sauce, fries, veg. 500 cals

Dessert - cookies & ice cream

Total 1300-1350 cals

[smarston3]

yesterday

breakfast-coffee with coffeemate

lunch 1pm-homemade cinnamon roll, english muffin with a smear of margarine, and 5 raspberries

dinner 6pm-(family dinner) two pancakes, small scoop of potato casserole and very small scoop of scrambled eggs...killed me not to eat the bacon

[LacePrincess]

Today:

Coffee with coffeemate, 30 cals

Brunch - 2 rice cakes with butter, veggies, 1/2 cup cottage cheese with berries, cheesestring. Homemade cookie. 430 cals.

Preclass meal - 2 rice cakes with butter, veggies, yogurt with berries and metamucil, leftover chicken with mayo. Granola bar. 520 cals.

1.5 hour ballet class

Dessert - ice cream & cookie

Total 1300-1350 cals

[eleena2014]

Today I have had a pop tart with coffee dinner had thin sliced roast chicken sandwich with cucumber and spring onion and a packet of hula hoops. Tea I will be having a mozzarella burger and maybe a sponge cake with custard after . Haven't been counting totals for about a week.thats how relaxed I am with the diet.lol. I know roughly that totals anyway.i know I Def haven't been eating anymore that 1400 a day

[smarston3]

Yesterday

Breakfast-coffee with coffemate

Lunch-half a pop tart, half a lowfat Greek yogurt, half a homemade cinnamon bun

Dinner-two rolls and half a bowl of tomato, basil soup


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[smarston3]

Today
Breakfast-coffee with coffemate

Lunch-I was expecting a luncheon at work and there wasn't one. Co worker offered me a scoop of her spaghettini o

When I got home I had half an cinnamon roll(needed to finish them and get them out of the house!)

Dinner-yellow rice and a chicken taco!! First time having chicken in a month!


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[LacePrincess]

Today:

Coffee with Coffeemate, 30 cals

Lunch at 11am - 2 rice cakes with butter, cheesestring, 1/2 cup cottage cheese with berries, green beans. Homemade choc chip cookie. 430 cals

Exercise is an hour of zumba

Afternoon - metamucil

Dinner - basa fillets with light creamy sauce, fries & gravy, veg. 500 cals

Dessert - ice cream & cookies

Total 1300 cals

[smarston3]

Yesterday

Breakfast-coffee with coffemate

Lunch-two pop tarts

Dinner-sushi! Which I think is a good cheat other then the fish?


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[LacePrincess]

Today:

Decaf with Coffeemate - 20 cals

Lunch - 2 rice cakes with butter, veg, 1/2 cup cottage cheese & berries, cheese string. Homemade cookie. 430 cals.

Workout is 60 min step aerobics

Dinner - beef stroganoff on rice, 500 cals

Dessert - ice cream & cookies

Total 1300 cals

[Pearl327]

Back to tracking today after gastro doing the rounds of everyone in the house.
9.00 mug of tea & belvita breakfast biscuits

11.30 walk to the beach with kids & DH.

1:30 white bagel, cheese & tomato with tea & mr Kipling bakewell

6:30. 1/2 pizza, aero chocolate mouse coke zero

8:30 large glass Sauvignon blanc

C. 1750. P: 51. F.74

[Magical22]

Sodium good or bad?


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[Pearl327]

Sodium good or bad?


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No need to go to crazy lengths to avoid it. Maybe just stop adding it to your meals. Most people get enough salt in their diet before they add any themselves

[smarston3]

Yesterday
Breakfast-coffee with coffemate

Lunch 12:30-large McDonald's fry (510 calories)

Dinner- homemade pizza and glass of white wine (425 calories)

Bad that I ate the French fries but I was still within my limits


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[LacePrincess]

Sodium good or bad?


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Salt doesn't sway, don't even worry about it. Though it does bloat so if you're trying to lose weight it can contribute to water retention, which is annoying on the scale but really doesn't affect your sway.


Today for me:

Coffee with Coffeemate, 20 cals.

Lunch - 2 rice cakes with butter, veg, cottage cheese with berries, soft boiled egg. Homemade cookie. 430 cals.

Workout today is 60 min step aerobics.

Dinner - sweet potato pancakes & veggie/cheese omelette, 500 cals.

Dessert - the usual ice cream/cookie/goodies.

Total - 1300'ish cals.

[LacePrincess]

Yesterday
Breakfast-coffee with coffemate

Lunch 12:30-large McDonald's fry (510 calories)

Dinner- homemade pizza and glass of white wine (425 calories)

Bad that I ate the French fries but I was still within my limits


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Smarston, are you eating at least 1200 cals?!? You really need to start with the 1500 range at a min and only drop if you're really petite like me. That's only about 1000 that you listed and that is WAY too low!! You cannot drop below 1200, it's going to hurt your fertility and sabotage your weight loss too, not to mention there's no way you're getting the nutrients you need with that.

[smarston3]

Smarston, are you eating at least 1200 cals?!? You really need to start with the 1500 range at a min and only drop if you're really petite like me. That's only about 1000 that you listed and that is WAY too low!! You cannot drop below 1200, it's going to hurt your fertility and sabotage your weight loss too, not to mention there's no way you're getting the nutrients you need with that.

Thanks for advice [emoji4]forgive me for this long reply.

1) I think I was eating 1500 calories a day before swaying. That's why I'm doing 1200 calories. (I'm 5'1" and 116lbs). I agree about the weight loss. I've only lost about two pounds on the diet/exercise and that was during the stomach flu.

2)I have a hard time meal planning for my family, let alone for myself. Dinner isn't that bad, I just eat what the family is eating minus the meat. But, lunch is hard. I'm already making two meals for the picky eaters. So, adding a third is so daunting

3) I spent yesterday afternoon reading through the meal ideas, recipes, pictures on the dream member section. So, I have a few more meal ideas now

4) I haven't been able to do a decent grocery shop in over two weeks..the whole family was stricken with the stomach bug and the snow

I will definitely be buying rice cakes at the store (thanks to you [emoji4]) amongst other things.


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[LacePrincess]

Thanks for advice [emoji4]forgive me for this long reply.

1) I think I was eating 1500 calories a day before swaying. That's why I'm doing 1200 calories. (I'm 5'1" and 116lbs). I agree about the weight loss. I've only lost about two pounds on the diet/exercise and that was during the stomach flu.

2)I have a hard time meal planning for my family, let alone for myself. Dinner isn't that bad, I just eat what the family is eating minus the meat. But, lunch is hard. I'm already making two meals for the picky eaters. So, adding a third is so daunting

3) I spent yesterday afternoon reading through the meal ideas, recipes, pictures on the dream member section. So, I have a few more meal ideas now

4) I haven't been able to do a decent grocery shop in over two weeks..the whole family was stricken with the stomach bug and the snow

I will definitely be buying rice cakes at the store (thanks to you [emoji4]) amongst other things.


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GL! You're similarly sized to me. I'm usually between 1300-1400 and it works for me. I do eat the same thing everyday at lunch because yeah, I don't like meal planning either. So I get my variety at dinner.

The white cheddar rice cakes are AWESOME. The butter popcorn Quaker ones suck though, too salty and very crumbly.

[smarston3]

Was thinking I could get the cinnamon and sugar ones for a sweet treat?


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[Pearl327]

Today:

10:00 coffee with skimmed milk and a banana peanut butter muffin.

1:30 tomato soup with a bread roll and a slice of cheese

8:30 2slices toast with a banana & almond butter and a mr Kipling lemon bakewell.

About 1500 P39 F 50

[LacePrincess]

Rest day from working out today!

Today:

-Coffee with Coffeemate, 30 cals

Lunch - leftover basa fillets on toasted english muffin with bit of tartar sauce, veggies, a rice cake (no butter), granola bar. 435 cals

3pm - Metamucil

Dinner - 2 rice cakes with butter, one sweet potato pancake with bit of honey, 1/2 cup cottage cheese with berries, veggies, soft boiled egg. 460 cals

Dessert - ice cream/cookies

Total - 1250 cals

[Pearl327]

Today:
Tea and peanut butter banana muffin
Lunch: homemade tomato soup, ciabatta roll and a muller light yogurt

Dinner: pasta with pesto and 1tbsp Parmesan. Tea with lemon bakewell

C: 1400 P: 44. F:46

[maidentomother]

2:30pm - spelt, amaranth, puffed quinoa & rice 'cereal' with banana, dates, raisins, almonds, cashews, cinnamon & whole milk - 550 cals

6:25pm - fiber (ground psyllium husks)

6:30pm - toasted whole wheat spelt croissant with light cream cheese (chives mixed in) - 350 cals
- half a sugarfree cookies and cream Quest protein bar - 90 cals
- light blood orange soda - 40 cals

7pm - fiber

1am - thai red curry with veggies, rice and a few bites chicken breast - 322 cals
- 2 clementines - 80 cals

Cals: 1532 P: 43g F: 41g

Technically I'm trying to alternate 1000 & 2000 cal days and didn't eat enough today, but I fell asleep in the evening and didn't want to eat a huge amount so late. But it's okay bc I'm trying to average 1500 a day.

[weeziewoozles]

Trying to get back on track so I'll start recording my food again and see if it helps me stay strict.
Felt faint this AM so had two slices of white toast and two scrambled eggs with a black coffee, at about 9:30.
Lunch - one Weight Watchers wrap filled with salad and some cassava crisps
Snack - redbush tea and some fruit pastilles
Dinner - out tonight for Indian with mummy friends so planning to have a garlic naan, veggie curry and some potato dish, with beer or wine

[LacePrincess]

Aaaargh I'm super retaining water weight for some inexplicable reason, so gonna buckle down the next few days to try to get rid of it. Also kind of stopped up again, sigh, so that sucks too!!

Well the not ovulating part is just extra insult, really.

Today:

Brunch - 2 rice cakes with butter, hard boiled egg, veggies. 1/2 cup cottage cheese with fruit and Metamucil. Choc chip cookie. 460 cals.

Preclass meal - same as brunch except with 3 rice cakes and no cookie. 450 cals.

2 hour ballet class

Dessert - ice cream/cookie.

Total 1200 cals.

[Ugee]

2:30pm - spelt, amaranth, puffed quinoa & rice 'cereal' with banana, dates, raisins, almonds, cashews, cinnamon & whole milk - 550 cals

6:25pm - fiber (ground psyllium

6:30pm - toasted whole wheat spelt croissant with light cream cheese (chives mixed in) - 350 cals
- half a sugarfree cookies and cream Quest protein bar - 90 cals
- light blood orange soda - 40 cals

7pm - fiber

1am - thai red curry with veggies, rice and a few bites chicken breast - 322 cals
- 2 clementines - 80 cals

Cals: 1532 P: 43g F: 41g

Technically I'm trying to alternate 1000 & 2000 cal days and didn't eat enough today, but I fell asleep in the evening and didn't want to eat a huge amount so late. But it's okay bc I'm trying to average 1500 a day.


Just want to crash this thread and say well done to all you ladies! Your doing fab and I remember how hard the change of diet was and no snacking! Also maiden I LOVE quest bars!!! They are so expensive over here in the uk so it's a treat if I ever have one! I love the strawberry cheesecake one. I'm now back to eating my very boy friendly diet which actually feels wrong to eat after so long on the LE diet.

[maidentomother]

I eat a lot of bars! But yes I love the Quest bars, the chewy texture is awesome. They cost about €27/box, shipped, here in Germany. I really miss Lara bars and some other US bars I can't get here. My fave are Raw Bite 'vanilla berries' flavour, made by a Danish company. I also eat Nakd bars which are made in the UK - Berry Blast is my fave flavour.

[Ugee]

Naked bars are great! Got all the flavours in the cupboard ;)

[weeziewoozles]

Lunch - two Weight Watchers wraps filled with salad and a little low fat mayonnaise, Baked crisps and some dark chocolate
Snack - white wine and some cashew nuts
Dinner - jacket potatoes with a tomato and pepper salsa-like sauce, more wine and some fruit pastilles

Totals should be 1630cals, 46g fat, 37g protein

[eleena2014]

I have ate so much today. Had a quick choc mini roll this morning then went to meet my bestie at the pub and had jacket potato with bbq pulled pork and coleslaw. About an hour ago I also had home made stir fry with a small amount of chicken

[Pearl327]

yesterday:

Pre Lunch Snack: Belvita & tea


Lunch: homemade tomato soup, Mini bread roll, Walkers cheese & onion crisps, Muller light yogurt

After work meet & greet with the global finance directors, I was good here, I had a plate of raw veg with 2 tbsp hummus, 3 mini fruit skewers and a mini custard and fruit tart with diet coke

When I got home I had 4 slices of a Rosemary & olive oil bread with a slice and a half of cheddar and sliced tomato with a cup of tea

C: 1620 P: 54 F:48

[weeziewoozles]

Lunch - one WW wrap, a small leftover jacket potato and salad, some cassava crisps and some dark chocolate digestive biscuits
Snack - G&T and super noodles
Dinner - veggie sausages, swede/rutabaga mash and vegetables with wine

Totals should be 1400 cals, 22g fat, 27 g protein so I'll add something

[Kitty0911]

I guess I'll add mine. I eat the same things everyday.

12pm: a smoothie with 4 bananas, 4 dates, a cup of frozen berries, a cup of h2o, and two fat free cherry yogurts.
700cals. 0fat 9gProtein

6pm: Mexican casserole with beans, rice, lowfat cheese, and corn
700cals. 15gFat 20gProtein

10pm: Two mini bags of popcorn and two low fat icecream sandwiches
400cals. 10gfat 12gProtein

Totals: 1800cals 25gFat 41gProtein

I know bananas and berries are not the best, I have some vitamin deficiencies so I decided to get my vitamins in a more natural way and there is far less vitamins in fruit than in the supplements I'd need to take :)

[LacePrincess]

Haven't updated in a few days. Been a bit sickly from my kid's tummy bug, so was just sort of eating what I could keep down, but averaging about 1200 cals or so a day.

Today:

Coffee with coffeemate, 20 cals.

Workout is an hour of zumba.

Lunch - half a sweet potato, homemade turkey chili with cilantro and low fat sour cream, veggies and dip. Granola bar or pudding cup. 425-435 cals.

Haven't decided on dinner yet, but it's usually around 450-500 cals.

Dessert - usual icecream with goodies.

Total: 1250-1300 cals.

[LacePrincess]

Today:

Coffee with coffeemate, 20 cals.

Lunch - half a sweet potato, 1/2 cup cottage cheese with berries, one rice cake with butter, veggies & tzatziki dip. Granola bar. 410 cals

Exercise is one hour step aerobics.

Dinner - turkey tacos with various toppings and a bit of homemade guacamole. 500 cals.

Dessert - ice cream and homemade chocolate wacky cake.

Total: 1300 cals.

[smarston3]

What do you think of gnocchi? Thinking it's better then pasta because it's potato based?


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[eleena2014]

I have gnocchi. It's v filling

[smarston3]

Lace, what's chocolate wacky cake?


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[LacePrincess]

Lace, what's chocolate wacky cake?


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Oh I love it, it's a Depression era recipe that is really really easy and very chocolatey for so few calories.

Wacky Cake VIII Recipe - Allrecipes.com (http://allrecipes.com/recipe/wacky-cake-viii/)

We make ours in a 9x9 pan in the toaster oven, and cut it into 8 portions. Without icing it's only 220 cals per serving!

[maidentomother]

Gnocchi & pasta are almost equally pink friendly. Pasta maybe a little more so as it is normally fat free and gnocchi isn't always.

I LOVE Wacky Cake. So easy and moist/tasty! It doesn't even need frosting.

[smarston3]

Thanks everyone!

Today
Breakfast-coffee with coffeemate (restrained eating the bacon)

Lunch- two pop tarts, celery with low fat cream cheese, matzo with low fat cream cheese, and strawberries with a Splenda packet

Dinner- 5 shrimp and gnocchi in tomato sauce


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[LacePrincess]

Gnocchi & pasta are almost equally pink friendly. Pasta maybe a little more so as it is normally fat free and gnocchi isn't always.

I LOVE Wacky Cake. So easy and moist/tasty! It doesn't even need frosting.

Oh I adore wacky cake, and we never frost it either. I love how easy and fast it is.

I usually just have it with a squirt of whipped cream and/or ice cream. YUM.

[smarston3]

Today
Breakfast-coffee with coffemate
Lunch-cheese bagel bites, two marshmallows, handful of chips, and a rice cake
Dinner-scoop of jasmine rice, scoop of peas, celery with cream cheese and a English muffin

Thinking i can have ice cream


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[weeziewoozles]

Yesterday's food was:
Lunch - French bread, salad and some Baked crisps. Then a few dark chocolate digestive biscuits
Snack - white wine and pistachios
Dinner - three bean chili with rice and more wine

Not sure of totals as I didn't enter it all.

[weeziewoozles]

Today's will be :
Breakfast as I'm starving! - two pop tarts
Lunch - jacket potato and salad
Dinner - out a a Lebanese restaurant so planning on choosing lowest cal veggie options

[Pearl327]

I took the weekend off as I now won't be TTC until the end of June. Yesterday I was working late but totals were approx 1700 I had belvita, baked potato, cottage cheese, chilli sauce and a yogurt. Dinner was oven chips and curry sauce

[Pearl327]

Today : belvita at 11:30
1:15 4 rice cakes spread with a small amt almond butter and sliced apple. Tea and a muller light yogurt.

7. Gnocchi and tomato chilli sauce and mozzerella cheese.

[Frilly Lady]

Yesterday
Lunch 4 corn thins with Philadelphia cheese small dark choc kitkat handful of skinny spicy corn triangles
Dinner White rice with stir fry veg and prawns pudding cottage cheese with raspberries

1hr treadmill

[Frilly Lady]

Today
breakfast yogurt and flat white coffee
Dinner vegi enchiladas small dark choc kitkat handful of skinny popcorn

1hr excercise bike

[LacePrincess]

Ballet day for me.

Haven't posted much since mostly a mishmash of leftovers, but been skipping breakfast and keeping to around 1200-1300 cals.

VERY difficult right now in my luteal phase, the progesterone is making me CRAVE ALL THE JUNK FOOD omg it's killing me. I've been good but only because there's no junk in my house, but gosh all I want is pizza and fries and burgers and wings. It's terrible!

[eleena2014]

Today
10.30- coffee and choc twist
1.30- melted cheese and onion wrap .diet coke and a few crabs sticks
8.00- weight watchers sweet mango chicken and rice diet coke.

[Princess Mom]

Almond butter sounds yummy! What can I put that on? I'm going grocery shopping tomorrow morning

[Pearl327]

Princess mum, almond butter is yummy. I prefer it to the peanut variety, I am limiting it to once or twice a week due to its healthy fats

[weeziewoozles]

Hey there. Couldn't resist breakfast this morning. It's really hard to stay true to the diet when things in life aren't great. Mum's funeral on Wednesday is hanging over. I feel like I did well with LE in month one but last month was pretty hit and miss, making me unsure about trying in April now.
Breakfast - small piece of baguette with two scrambled eggs cooked in oil spray
Lunch - baguette filled with salad and some low fat mayonnaise, Baked crisps and two pieces of dark chocolate with hazelnuts.
Snack - gotta stop having a snack!
Dinner - baked stuffed mushrooms with swede/rutabaga and sweet potato mash, and some veg. With wine!

Totals should be 1450 cals, 32 g fat, 52 g protein

[Essie b]

Hi there. This info is fab thank-you. Ive been preparing ttc pink for 3 months&will start in 3 wks! I will b skipping breakfast until then&will try sum of ur ideas. Best wishes to u all 💗

[Essie b]

When do u ladies DTD? Shud i wait for the smily face on the ov tests? ��

[Essie b]

Is coconut water gud for swaying pink or is it just low cals? 😀

[weeziewoozles]

DTD once at a positive OPK.

Coconut water is high in potassium and while on the LE diet you have to be careful not to get low in this essential mineral

[smarston3]

Yesterday
Monday-coffee with coffemate
Lunch-pop tart, two rice cakes, grapes, and a low fat yogurt
Dinner-homemade cheese pizza and salad with balsamic vingerette dressing


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[weeziewoozles]

Hey ladies. Last night we had guests over for tapas so I made tonnes of food! I had a tiny bit of chorizo, bacon and a meatball, so filled up on Spanish omelette, roasted veggies, potatoes and bread. Definitely had too much food but as I cooked it all with oil spray etc and didn't have much meat, I think I did ok. We had chocolate mousse too but I only had one spoonful.

Today I have a temperature and have felt dizzy, so ate the leftovers from last night. So this week hasn't been very good LE

[weeziewoozles]

Still feeling rough. So hard to know whether to eat more to get rid of the bug or not

[Pbn3]

Hi all! Thought I was feeling confident in my levels lol am trying to increase calorie intake to 1500 - 1800 but stay within other ttc girl le diet guidelines but after reading some posts on here I feel like I'm eating really well. Can I have some advice on whether I've got this right? Will attach a few screen shots from myfitnespal hope they're not huge. I don't input every day as I double up alot. Lunch is a salad sandwich hence all the entries. I do have a treat here and there and go over some days but others I'm well under. TIAhttp://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15/03/17/3caf0a82b2e4f379a8c74121b4d9a12b.jpghttp://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15/03/17/ea1ec2e45a6685f5b04c3d9ad14ca23a.jpghttp://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15/03/17/149c0d40d390ecd6ba376bb29024ae41.jpg

[weeziewoozles]

Looks like you're doing well Pbn3. If you are just starting out then definitely aim for the 1500-1800 end for calories. Then after a few weeks you can see if you are losing or maintaining weight, and reduce calories if needed. I'm finding that about 1650 is enough to gradually lose a pound say across a week. If I go over with a cheat, then my weight stays still. If I underestimate calories in something then I could drop an pound or two in a day and I can't afford to lose weight that fast! To help keep your fat within range I'd try to have either cheese or pastry in a day but not both? That would take you over. Hope that's helpful! (and remember some ladies on here are on different levels due to PCOS)

[Pbn3]

Thanks weeziewoozles! I actually increased calorie intake as lost 12kg over last 6 months before starting le diet a week ago and want to slow down weight loss as still 3 months till I ttc and have about 6kg I would comfortably loose. Have a personised plan but it's so much help talking with others in the same situation! Will take your advice on cheese/pastry thing as they are pretty much a part of my everyday life lol. Do you take metamucil with a higher fat meal? I've been trying to but its just so gross I think I conveniently forget sometimes!

[weeziewoozles]

I take a couple of Chitosan tablets with lots of water before my main meal. My lunch tends to be loads of salad, a tiny bit of low fat mayo for flavour, some kind of low fat crisps, and then either baguette, wrap or potato to fill me up. I thought I'd miss having fish or chicken with my lunch as that's what I used to do, but I don't at all. Very occasionally I've had a mini pizza baguette and salad or a pack of instant pasta for lunch, but they take me much higher into my fat quotient so I have to adjust dinner.

For dinner (after my Chitosan) I have a whole variety of things but they revolve around white rice, pasta, reduced fat chips, swede/rutabaga to make chips or wedges, tonnes of vegetables, using cauliflower to make pizza bases or rice (super low in calories) and meat-free products like veggie burgers and sausages (but not the ones with soy protein in as they end up too high).

I find this keeps my protein and fat in the zones and leaves me under for my calories so then I add in wine, gone, beer, soda, sweets etc to get that up.

Hope that's helpful x

[Hitmebabyonemoretime]

I'm in. Ttc June. Going hard with this sway diet and exercise wise so I'd love the input and support.
I drink 2 small coffees every morning. I don't have sugar and I have either half and half or low fat coffee mate (creamer). I can't give up my coffee I hope that's not a deal breaker!!
Yesterday:
Lunch was:
3/4 if a toasted pB sandwich (toddler stole the other 1/4....)
1.5 c raisin bran with 2% milk - MFP recorded 732 cals... Is that too much for one meal?

Dinner was
3 falafel patties, steamed broccoli, and baked spaghetti a squash with mush,onions, peppers sautéed in Olive oil. All tossed together and topped with just a sprinkle of parm 585 cals
Totals were 1500 cals and the breakdown attached. I think too much fat? I have such a hard time cutting the fat!!
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[maidentomother]

Yep too much fat (TWICE as much as you should be eating!) AND nearly all of it is healthy blue fats (saturated + to a lesser extent monounsaturated fats). I also found reducing fat and switching to pink friendly fats to be the most difficult aspect. Pre-swaying I ate an extremely high fat diet almost completely consisting of blue friendly fats.

Pink adjustments: for breakfast drink coffee black if possible, otherwise with the smallest amount of lowest cal fat free creamer you can find, for lunch just have toast with jam/jelly (no or minimal PB) & glass of skim milk or almond milk, for dinner use canola oil to sautee the veggies and less of it, and if you still need cals add a full sugar can of soda or glass of wine to one meal (fat free candy/baked goods and fruit are also good add-on options if you need more cals but have used up fat/protein for the day)

Also, you should avoid fortified cereal like raisin bran. Too many vitamins which sway blue. Cereal like red meat is one of those big no nos.

I also take fiber before any meal with substantial fat content.

[Hitmebabyonemoretime]

Yep too much fat (TWICE as much as you should be eating!) AND nearly all of it is healthy blue fats (saturated + to a lesser extent monounsaturated fats). I also found reducing fat and switching to pink friendly fats to be the most difficult aspect. Pre-swaying I ate an extremely high fat diet almost completely consisting of blue friendly fats.

Pink adjustments: for breakfast drink coffee black if possible, otherwise with the smallest amount of lowest cal fat free creamer you can find, for lunch just have toast with jam/jelly (no or minimal PB) & glass of skim milk or almond milk, for dinner use canola oil to sautee the veggies and less of it, and if you still need cals add a full sugar can of soda or glass of wine to one meal (fat free candy/baked goods and fruit are also good add-on options if you need more cals but have used up fat/protein for the day)

Also, you should avoid fortified cereal like raisin bran. Too many vitamins which sway blue. Cereal like red meat is one of those big no nos.

I also take fiber before any meal with substantial fat content.

This is going to be torture. I cereal bc it's fast and meals are weird here. Same why eggs lol fast and easy. I'm having a hard time figuring out what to eat. I can't stand skim or almond milk, but I do like chocolate milk and it comes as 1%, maybe that's an option. Jam makes me gag unless it's on English muffins toasted with butter.
I think I can switch to black coffee and treat myself with creams occasionally (like drive through coffees)
Fat free baked goods sounds like something i could try to do; but having the 2 littles baking is tricky.
For fibre are we talking Metamucil? Or is there something much easier and less nasty out now?


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[djmommy]

I thought up to 60 g of fat was allowed?

[eleena2014]

It depends on how many calories you are having.

[maidentomother]

You can look for un-fortified cereal (organic/bio cereal isn't fortified here in Europe) or make your own hot cereal using rice, couscous, bulgur/cracked wheat, corn grits, cream of wheat (basically any grain except oats) & add milk, sweetener, and fruit.

Do you like rice or soy milk? Btw almond milk 15 years ago was gross and I'm still very picky about the brand, but I've found some more recent ones that are very tasty. In the US I loved Sylk brand almond milk.

How about margarine on toast, or reduced fat or fat free cream cheese (whatever you can stand)? Low fat cottage cheese?

In the US there are tons or packaged FF cookies/cakes, such as Snackwell's brand. Not sure about where you live. I am a huge baker but have never actually made FF baked goods lol. I do buy packaged ones for my sway. Less healthy, more pink.

Fibre includes Metamucil, yes (that's ground psyllium husks, right? I use that myself but not brand name) but there are other fibres if you don't like that one, maybe capsules would be a better option than mix with liquid types? I have actually grown to enjoy my psyllium husk drinks, oddly enough!

[atomic sagebrush]

It depends on how many calories you are having.

Fat calories are meant to be 20-30% of your day's calories, as a general rule. This ends up to be about 25-60 g of fat (keeping in mind that people eat anywhere from 1200-2000 calories on pink sways). BUT, some people need to lower % of cals from carbs and increase cals from fat - on the alternate diets this is what people do. So for some people, they will be eating more fat than another person. A person who is having fertility issues needs more fat than others.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ladies, I know this thread is helpful but you need to do what is right FOR YOU and not any other person. Some people NEED more fat than others. Do not compare your diets to other people's, it isn't a competition.

[smarston3]

This is going to be torture. I cereal bc it's fast and meals are weird here. Same why eggs lol fast and easy. I'm having a hard time figuring out what to eat. I can't stand skim or almond milk, but I do like chocolate milk and it comes as 1%, maybe that's an option. Jam makes me gag unless it's on English muffins toasted with butter.
I think I can switch to black coffee and treat myself with creams occasionally (like drive through coffees)
Fat free baked goods sounds like something i could try to do; but having the 2 littles baking is tricky.
For fibre are we talking Metamucil? Or is there something much easier and less nasty out now?


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This will be long...sorry!
I always have coffee with coffeemate. I didn't think this counted as a meal?? But if it is, I always drink it after a 12-13 hr fast anyway.

I miss cereal. but it is what it is. I eat some breakfast foods for lunch. Like today I had toaster strudels and a yogurt. Or I'll have an English muffin with margarine/butter and fruit.

Lunch-usually after 16hr fast(unless my coffee counts??) is a bunch of random stuff. I am addicted to flavored rice cakes right now...they have ones that are flavored sugar & cinnamon. Yum! Lunch is my hardest meal because I have two picky littles at home so I always end up making three different plates but I did that before LE.
Dinners-I make the family meat, starch, veggies. So, I eat the starch and veggie and I will heat up an extra veggie. Green giant has small ones in boxes that list weight watchers points on them(not that I do WW. Just explaining so you know what they look like)
As for fiber, I use the Walmart brand fiber therapy pills. I take them before lunch and dinner because (TMI) I have chronic constipation.

Also, I've tried some Amy's frozen food meals. Only one I really like are the pizzas. I don't eat them that often but they are great to have around when the family is eating a meal I can't pick around (like chili)

Hope this helps and someone please correct anything that I said wrong


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[atomic sagebrush]

Hitme, I am at a loss why you're getting that much fat?? Are you sure that's accurate?

Skim milk, less PB on PB sandwich, and less oil would help but I am not quite certain that info you have in your totals is right. Most people have the problem of too little fat, not too much.

[maidentomother]

Hitme, you can split your cals between meals however you like, so 1000 at one meal and 500 at another or even more/less is fine.

[Hitmebabyonemoretime]

Hitme, I am at a loss why you're getting that much fat?? Are you sure that's accurate?

Skim milk, less PB on PB sandwich, and less oil would help but I am not quite certain that info you have in your totals is right. Most people have the problem of too little fat, not too much.

Quite possible I aired on the side of caution and rounded up what I was eating (im not measuring Pb lol) and Ya I was for sure heavy on the olive oil that meal.


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[maidentomother]

I know if I prepared those meals the fat content would be that hight at least!