Am i doing the diet all wrong??

[Poppy2222]

Hi
I think i am doing the diet all wrong. I had a small chicken curry with white rice for my lunch with a few biscuits. For dinner i will have a pitta or bagel with low fat cream cheese and a few biscuits. Is this all wrong? The curry was from a restaurant so nothing was counted. I eat out every lunch time with work so am finding it so difficult. I was just eating white bread salad sandwiches last week but was getting the shakes after it as i wasnt getting enough. I also had a slice of white toast at 10am as i was up at 5.30 and was so hungry. Feel like i am really failing at this and panicking i am doing it all wrong.
Please help!

[MyByC]

I would keep the rice with white bread for lunch..and maybe some pasta without any sauce or anything bht with little parmesan on top and 1 slice of bread.
If you eat bread, change the biscuits with jellies (?) or marshmallows(without sugar).


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[MyByC]

The pasta for dinner


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[maidentomother]

I do think it's best to go completely vegetarian if at all possible, and to avoid fatty sauces like curries. I personally would consider your lunch a cheat meal. Ok a couple times a month but definitely not daily.

You don't need to be as extreme as plain salad sandwiches every day, maybe some meals with cheese, legumes, or eggs . If you need to eat 3 meals some days or every day that is fine, it doesn't have to be 2 meals.

I would probably not eat out every day unless I knew the nutrient/calorie info. It's just way too easy to go over the limits when eating out otherwise.

[Poppy2222]

Ok thanks girls for your replies. I feel so bad now that I eat that. I'm struggling big time to not feel weak. I have a very fast metabolism so get the shakes so much. I will try and eat more plain foods. I eat eggs & cheese every single day normally and have 3 boys so I was trying to stay away from them. Finding this diet soo difficult.

[MyByC]

I would stay away from eggs, maybe 1 at 2 weeks...
I ate cheese 0.1% fat almost every day of my diet and I got my girl...so dont worry about that.


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[maidentomother]

I have a very fast metabolism also. You CAN do this, but you may need to ease into it more gradually. Give yourself a few weeks to get used the diet. You might try dropping a meal or going down in cals every 4 days. For now, I'd eat more for breakfast so you aren't as starving at lunch. You can always drop it later. Right now it sounds like you're bouncing between extremes a bit.

Eggs once or twice a week in moderation are fine, especially if you just eat the the whites. It's the yolks that really sway blue especially when combined with protein. But you NEED some protein especially to prevent the shakes. You personally might need protein at every meal, and that's okay.

If you're struggling with what to eat, maybe consider buying the meal plan? Also read through the threads where pink swayers post what they eat each day. It will help give you ideas.

[atomic sagebrush]

do you have totals for hte day???

[atomic sagebrush]

Ok thanks girls for your replies. I feel so bad now that I eat that. I'm struggling big time to not feel weak. I have a very fast metabolism so get the shakes so much. I will try and eat more plain foods. I eat eggs & cheese every single day normally and have 3 boys so I was trying to stay away from them. Finding this diet soo difficult.

It's not meant to be difficult so we need to find out what is going on.

I can assure you I ate cheese when I got my DD!! I normally eat eggs daily but did not when swaying.

[atomic sagebrush]

you NEED 30-60 g fat so the first thing I'd change would be not having lowfat cream cheese!

[essnce629]

I think you should keep track of your totals on MyFitnessPal for a week and see what your averages are. You may be surprised that you're not eating enough. When I kept track I actually was able to eat plenty and still be full.

[Poppy2222]

Hi everyone thanks for all the replies. I bought the 21 meal day plan but because I am from Ireland a lot of the food doesn't exist here. I can't get low salt tortillas or anything like that.
I downloaded fitness plan and was tracking everything. I would be having 45-50g of protein and about 25-30g of fat and 1500-1650 calories. I am one of these people that eats allll the time. I am constantly eating every 2-3 hours. I was eating a lot of eggs, cheese, chicken, pittas. All full fat and whole meal. Also whole grain rice and stir frys etc. I am doing 60 mins of exercise a day. I just found the area where the girls are putting up examples so I am going to go by that today. I was going to have tomato soup with a bagel and salad today and then a veg & rice stir fry for my dinner with low fat yogurt after and a peeled Apple. Does that seem okay? I am doing 2 fitness classss a week and then going on the treadmill walking or jogging for 60 mins. I know vegetarian is the best option but I felt I really needed to add in chicken as I was so still hungry this week. When I am ever pregnant I suffer with low blood sugar and low blood pressure and have to always have some food in my bag.

[Poppy2222]

Oh and I also meant to say I am 5 foot 7 and weighed 112lbs starting off. I am now 108lbs and and on the le diet and exercise plan 10 days.

[Poppy2222]

Actually is tomato soup a bad idea?
I can stop that one

[honeybee37]

I would say you can have a bit more fat that 25-30 if you're eating 1,600 kcal. If should be between 20-30% of your daily kcal.

[Poppy2222]

Ok thank you honeybee. Will up the fat.

[Poppy2222]

Thank you atomic and all the girls. I will up my fat. I got some receipes from an old thread an Irish girl did and it is a life saver!

[atomic sagebrush]

The only reason I mention certain foods is because it was easy for me to get the nutrient data off them. It is ABSOLUTELY fine to sub in whatever foods you have available in your country and many people have used the diet books in Ireland and the UK.

Sodium, we have mostly given up on that. I keep it in the mix because it is possible to do and some want to, but most of us no longer do it. If you have low blood pressure I would hesitate to restrict it much (even tho it's only during pregnancy so far)

25 was the barest minimum of fat and it didn't seem to be enough so now I have increased that to 30 g. minimum for most people (exception those on 1200-1500 cals)

You realize if you're really still hungry then you still have at least up to 1800 cals to play with and many people go up as high as 1800-2000.

Chicken is NOT the best option if you're hungry. It's fine if you want to have it, the issue with chicken is that it's high in protein and low in cals so you quickly go over your protein limits and then are stuck trying to come up with a lot of calories and fat without any more protein. this devolves into a starvation diet where people are eating chicken, cucumber, and gummy worms and it just won't work in the long term. AGain, it's not forbidden, you can have it, but it's not the solution to feeling unsatisfied.

Also, just want to make sure you are NOT counting low carb veg in your totals. Those are free and unlimited, so you need to get your cals, protein, and fat into the proper range without them.

Your meals look good to me but without totals I can't totally sign off.

[atomic sagebrush]

Actually is tomato soup a bad idea?
I can stop that one

no why would it be??

[atomic sagebrush]

Oh and I also meant to say I am 5 foot 7 and weighed 112lbs starting off. I am now 108lbs and and on the le diet and exercise plan 10 days.

Increase cals to 1800 imediately. DO NOT lose another ounce. Even if you go up to 1800-2000 you cannot spare any more weight.

Please understand that I have to give a very vague, blanket set of instructions for everyone. That DOES NOT mean that the blanket instructions are going to be right for everyone. The average woman is 5-4 and has some weight to spare. You are taller and have NO weight to spare and you're exercising. The rules are different for you.

[maidentomother]

You must go up to 1800 cals! That's definitely one problem.

Don't bother restricting sodium. Just find similar items to those listed, forgetting about the salt content.

Tomato soup is great! I eat it often, with cheese and crackers.

[atomic sagebrush]

how are you going now poppy?

[Poppy2222]

Hi sorry for not coming back sooner. I am doing a lot better thanks so much atomic. Thanks to everyone for there help. I feel so much better now. I added on calories and feel great. Sticking with the exercise and cutting out chicken. I love the tomato soup so that's great it's allowed. I know all foods are allowed really but as I read the ingender diet before I found this site I get confused. Thought tomatoes weren't a good idea!
Just wondering is this meal ok for dinner: veggie fajitas made with mushrooms, peppers and onions, 2 small tortillas, small bit of light mayo and salsa?

[maidentomother]

That's a great meal for the LE!

You can eat potatoes too. :)

[Poppy2222]

That's great madientomother! It's getting so much easier now I'm getting used to it. ��

[atomic sagebrush]

Poppy since you're a Dream Member please read this thread with a full explanation of why tomatoes were ever said to sway. http://genderdreaming.com/forum/le-diet-info-general-posting-forum/47773-guide-potassium-le-diet.html

Short version - that is on one of the OTHER diets. NOT LE Diet. Tomatoes are allowed on LE Diet. There ARE NO magic foods that sway pink or blue, it is the overall nutrient content of the diet that matters.

Veggie fajitas are great!

[atomic sagebrush]

That's a great meal for the LE!

You can eat potatoes too. :)

:agree: My daughter is like 30% potato. I ate TONS of tomatoes and potatoes when I was TTC her after getting my 4th boy not eating them.

When I was swaying for my son (opposite) on IG there was a lady who ate tons and tons of pasta with marinara sauce and got a girl doing that (it was an oopsie and she agonized over all that tomato sauce for like a solid 14 weeks LOL), and it was one of those things that REALLY made me wonder if the stuff they were saying could even be true. And I'm here to tell ya, it isn't