500-1800 cals a day, 40-50 g protein and 30-60 g fat

[squigglepink]

Hi guys

Can anyone convert this into food for me please?

Perhaps examples of what you did to cover the 1500-1800 cals a day, 40-50 g protein, and 30-60 g fat principle?

Thanks

[familymatters]

I know these totals are low (I was very busy yesterday and eating on the run a lot), but this what I ate yesterday:

Breakfast - Coffee with creamer and milk: 49 cals, 3gm fat, 1.2gm protein

Lunch - Pasta with red sauce, low fat cheese and zucchini: 600 cals, 12gm fat, 26.3gm protein

Dinner - Mashed potato, roasted carrots, pumpkin soup: 323 cals, 11.4gm fat, 8.4gm protein

Drank two vodka sodas after dinner: 138 cals

Total: 1110 cals, 26.4gm fat, 35.9gm protein.

If you don't already have it, you should use my Fitness Pal to track and record all the food you eat.

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[essnce629]

Definitely try MyFitnessPal for a week or two. Definitely makes it easy to keep track of your totals.

[squigglepink]

Thanks familymatters and essnce - i got the app last night, will try with that for a bit. Im pretty useless at the counting calories bit

[maidentomother]

Sunday:

bowl of puffed rice and buckwheat-corn-flakes (not fortified) with 300ml raw whole milk, an apple, 3 dried figs, 3 dried pear halves
tomato soup from a packet with added herbs, 45g cheddar cheese, 2.5 seasalt & herbs de provence crackers (they're big, made of white wheat flour) & big bowl roasted cauliflower

Monday:

3 dried figs, 6 dried pear halves, 2 apples

Roasted veggie (carrot, parsnip, sweet potato) chips, lowfat apple strudel made with oil, vanilla ice cream (my AF monthly treat! Still fits in totals)

(Nothing else bc too crippled by cramps to eat)

Tuesday:

Same as Monday minus the ice cream plus one oreo cookie, & sesame bagel with chive cream cheese - knew I'd forgotten something!

Please don't consider Mon proper LE meals/day bc they aren't! But I will make up for it over the next few days. I've been on the diet for over 2 years with 2 x 3 month breaks (over each Summer) and I am underweight so the rules for me personally are a bit different. I don't worry too much about daily goals/limits, as long as everything averages out over multiple days. I have a great deal of experience counting cals so I don't need to do it any more, though I check randomly now and then to make sure. I've been maintaining my weight which is my top priority.

I'll be back to update later today or tomorrow. I like these threads!

[squigglepink]

Hi Maidentomother

A big bowl of roasted cauliflower sounds devine! Any tips on counting calories? I mean, im vegetarian so i dont eat any meat. I get my protein in other ways obviously however i need to start making sure its 40g-50g per day which im not doing currently. Im new to the diet and im on my 3rd day of no breakfast and no snacking. Im still eating how i used to eat for lunch and dinner as a vegetarian though.. so last night it was veggie quich and salad (no tomatoes). I have no idea what that equates to.. i installed the 'my fitness pal' app last night and im trying to use it... :rolleyes:

[maidentomother]

Cooking from scratch is the hardest! I use a food/diet scale and everything has to be measured and looked up except herbs/seasonings. So for a quiche you look up the cals, fat, and protein of each ingredient (remember you don't have to count low cal veggies). Divide or multiply as necessary if you can't find nutritional info for the exact amount used. I memorised most ingredients pretty quickly but you might consider making a chart of your most common ingredients/amounts. It is annoying at first but you'll get the hang of it soon. MFP is a great resource.

Btw you can have tomatoes!

[honeybee37]

Liking this thread!
Yesterday I had:
Homemade veg soup with one bread roll followed by 2 mini meringues and strawberries
Tortellini with a little bit of tomato and mascarpone sauce, 15g reduced fat cheddar, courgettes and mushrooms

Today:
Bagel and houmous, a baked apple with cinnamon and a bit of low fat squirty cream
For dinner I'll have a vegetable grill with veggies, a small piece of cheese and some fruit jellies after.

[squigglepink]

Liking this thread!
Yesterday I had:
Homemade veg soup with one bread roll followed by 2 mini meringues and strawberries
Tortellini with a little bit of tomato and mascarpone sauce, 15g reduced fat cheddar, courgettes and mushrooms

Today:
Bagel and houmous, a baked apple with cinnamon and a bit of low fat squirty cream
For dinner I'll have a vegetable grill with veggies, a small piece of cheese and some fruit jellies after.

Bagel... Mmmm, now there's a good idea!!

[squigglepink]

Cooking from scratch is the hardest! I use a food/diet scale and everything has to be measured and looked up except herbs/seasonings. So for a quiche you look up the cals, fat, and protein of each ingredient (remember you don't have to count low cal veggies). Divide or multiply as necessary if you can't find nutritional info for the exact amount used. I memorised most ingredients pretty quickly but you might consider making a chart of your most common ingredients/amounts. It is annoying at first but you'll get the hang of it soon. MFP is a great resource.

Btw you can have tomatoes!

Do you mean i missed out on tomatoes in my salad for nothing!!!!?? :omg:
So this is the list i have accumulated whilst reading up on here: (please correct me where i am wrong please)
Try avoid or eat little of following:
beans
meat
potatoes
bananas
Avo
Olives
honey
Full-fat dairy (whole milk, cheese, ice cream, yogurt)
Poultry (choose fattier varieties like dark meat and skin)
Meat (choose fattier, well-marbled cuts)
Animal-based cooking fats (lard, butter, ghee, bacon grease, schmaltz)
Eggs (eat at least 2 a day and 4-6 a day if you are a vegetarian)
Nuts (almonds, walnuts, cashews, peanuts)
Seeds (pumpkin seeds, sunflower, sesame seeds)
Olive oil and other plant-based oils like nut oils, palm oil, coconut oil
Fatty fish (salmon, sardines, tuna)
Gelatin (in Jello desserts, consomme, aspic, or taken as a supplement)
Orange and dark green fruits and vegetables (carrots, tomatoes, swiss chard, winter squash, apricots, V-8 juice)
Garlic
Oatmeal
Whole Wheat Bread

Tomatoes ok?
milk?

I read some are taking cranberry supps and others say it sways blue so slightly conflicting weather cranberry juice is ok on LE?

My dinners are usually salad or veg with something - like a quiche or a vegie pie with salad or any of the quorn meals (being vegetarian). We do Pizza Friday and we usually have vegi burgers on Saturday.. :rolleyes: two nights ago i had Camembert with side salad and some toasted french loaf.. I have not weighed anything yet - just smaller portions. Abs NO breakfast and NO snacking..
I need to work on my lunches though. They are very boring. I used to eat eggs on toast or i would have a rocket salad or i would just not eat lunch and in the late afternoon i would have a brioche with cheese.. LOVE cheese!! anyway im trying to get more lunch ideas that doesnt involve much preparation.
So, im going to invest in a scale i think. Or ask hubby to help with the weights etc.. worst part of this diet is this calorie business.

[honeybee37]

I love Camembert. In fact all cheeses! I am allowing myself a day 'off' a month - is not really off as I am still skipping breakfast and vegetarian but not making myself count fats and protein. This month was Sunday and we had veggie enchiladas with plenty of avocado and cheese. Delish!!

[maidentomother]

Do you mean i missed out on tomatoes in my salad for nothing!!!!?? :omg:

Sorry! You have obviously been reading outdated swaying info. It's quite different here. Tomatoes in any form are fine.

Avoid totally if possible:

red meat!!!!!!
fatty fish!!!!
poultry, pork
meat based fats EXCLUDING butter (ok in small amounts for flavour)
oatmeal, oats in any form!!!!
heavily fortified foods like breakfast cereals, energy drinks etc!!!!
fruit and veggie juices, V-8

Okay in very small amounts /kept in F, P, Cal totals:

ice cream, whipped cream, cream of any type
butter
olive oil
olives
coconut oil
unrefined palm oil
garlic

Okay in small amounts/kept in F, P, Cal totals:

whole milk, fullfat cheese, fullfat yogurt
eggs
nuts
seeds
canola/rapeseed, soybean, safflower, sunflower, grapeseed, cottonseed, corn oils
refined palm oil (in processed food like crackers)
eggs
gelatin

Just fine in moderation/kept in your fat, protein, and calorie totals:

beans
carb-rich, orange-red fruits and vegetables (carrots, tomatoes, winter squash, apricots)
lowfat and fat free dairy

Have as much as you like within total cals don't count fat or protein, just count carbs:

potatoes
bananas and all fruit
***carb-rich, orange-red fruits and vegetables (carrots, tomatoes, winter squash, apricots)
honey
whole wheat bread/whole grains (except no oats!)

As much as you like, don't count at all, not even cals:

mushrooms, zucchini, leeks, onions, green onions, broccoli, cauliflower, swiss chard/similar greens, brussel sprouts, asparagus, bell peppers etc

***I put these veggies/fruits in 2 categories bc the approach is variable. Some swayers prefer to avoid these veggies and eat less nutritious veggies from the 'don't count at all' category instead. Other swayers like myself still eat these but keep the quantities small, like myself.

NO CRANBERRY neither juice nor supps, it doesn't sway pink and can sway blue. The supps can be dangerous, too.

You MUST COUNT CALORIES, at least for the first couple of weeks. Most people vastly underestimate how much they eat, especially boy moms. The only possible alternative to counting cals is following the meal plan atomic sells.

Another way to approach the diet is to meet the minimums - so as your goal have 1500 cals, 30g fat, 40g protein (the cals for you specifically may be lower or higher). Try to match that but if you have anything left at your last meal add a little something to make sure you don't fall below in any category. Like some cheese if under in fat, or yogurt if under in protein, or a sugary drink if under in cals. You MUST NOT fall below these minimums.

[squigglepink]

Maidentomother, amazing, thank you.. I need the list of YES YOU CAN and NO YOU CANNOT - much easier for me to follow.. I managed to read somewhere on here tomatoes are a no-no! My husband was like, how you going to cope?!! LOL, anyway, thats the bets news today!! Woohoo.. yay for tomatoes!!

The list of AVOID is great - because i dont eat any of it. Another yay!!

Thanks for your thorough input here Maidentomother.
You would think with my controlling nature i would be typically counting and controlling what i eat.. all ive done is stop eating breakfast and stopped snacking. My dinners are the same vegetarian meals and my lunch is pretty boring.. I need to sort my calorie business out!

Its great to hear what everyone is eating on the LE - because im all for stealing your meal ideas.. especially lunches xx :cool:

[squigglepink]

I love Camembert. In fact all cheeses! I am allowing myself a day 'off' a month - is not really off as I am still skipping breakfast and vegetarian but not making myself count fats and protein. This month was Sunday and we had veggie enchiladas with plenty of avocado and cheese. Delish!!

Im addicted to cheese. Help! :)

[maidentomother]

Technically everything is allowed on the LE diet, but the way I broke it down is how 'most' pink swayers do it. Some are on the PCOS version so eat chicken, white fish, pork as well as more full fat dairy, eggs, etc. Some are more strict and peel the skin off fruit and veggies, don't eat the more nutritious fruit & veg, only eat refined grains etc. Do what you feel comfortable with and mind tolerable, within the limits of course!

[atomic sagebrush]

bump this, lots to cover and trying to finish up here

[squigglepink]

Oh yay, looking forward to some of your feedback Atomic. I need to know about oranges and mayo pretty please.

Many thanks

[maidentomother]

Have as many oranges as you like within cal limits. Mayo is fine in small amounts within fat & cal llimits.

Yesterday I ate:

8 small garlic & herb rye crackers with 1.5 Tbsp herb cream cheese, 6 dried pear halves, an apple

large bowl of ground spelt flakes mixed with 400ml whole milk, sugar, spices, 2 Tbsp raisins

Today I had:

6 dried pear halves, an apple, small bowl lowfat vanilla pudding (homemade), half a handful soaked & dehydrated raw almonds

Medium bowl of white rice with veggies (bok choi, carrots, zucchini, green onion), 15g chicken breast, lowfat thai red curry paste with 1 Tbsp lowfat coconut milk, 2 oranges

I was strictly vegetarian for a long time but now I eat very small servings of chicken (1/6-1/4 of a chicken breast, for example) once every 4-6 weeks. It's good when I've had a frw days without enough protein.

[squigglepink]

You eat so well Maidentomother!

[maidentomother]

Today:

4 dried pear halves, half a handful almonds, cracked wheat salad with spinach, carrots, red onion, parsley, chickpeas and a little feta in a tomato sauce type dressing

unfortified honey flavoured corn cereal with 400ml whole milk

(3 scrambled eggs with 1 piece thin rye toast, mixed lettuce with balsamic vinaigrette? If I'm still hungry tonight)

Today I will go over on protein and cals if I eat another meal but that's okay...it makes up for other days when I have less. Or I might not be hungry and I'll end up eating that meal tomorrow. I do eat 3 meals sometimes. My hunger levels and cravings vary a lot so what I eat does too.

[squigglepink]

Love balsamic vinaigrette, ill be doing the scrambled egg vibe next week for lunch. Do you have omlettes for lunch Maidentomother? I think i need to up my game in the lunch department.

[maidentomother]

I actually don't eat eggs very often. Maybe once every 2 weeks at most. I don't like just egg whites but egg yolks are blue friendly so I just keep portions of whole eggs small & infrequent. I would not recommend daily omelets for pink by any means! I think it's ok to have egg whites more often if you like them, but it's easy to go over on protein eating them.

I work at home so I eat at all different times.

[squigglepink]

BUMP as per Atomic x

[Throwaway_panther]

Definitely try MyFitnessPal for a week or two. Definitely makes it easy to keep track of your totals.

^ This. I'd add WEIGH and/or at least measure your food. It's very easy to overeat without realizing it unless you're using a food scale.

I'd be concerned about 500 calories, though. That can potentially hinder fertility.

When I conceived my daughter, a typical day was:

Breakfast: Black coffee; occasionally black coffee with almond milk and a sugar free syrup (like Torani brand).

Lunch: Nothing usually.

Dinner: Most of my calories at once. Typically smoked salmon and white rice with any sort of veggie (literally any -- I ate any and all veggies), or some sort of chicken. Lots of bean-based protein dishes.


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I actually looked back at MFP (since I tracked very rigorously before conceiving), and the day I most likely conceived was the following:
Breakfast
Coffee - Brewed from grounds, 1 cup (8 fl oz)
Califa Farms - Unsweetened Pure Almond Milk, 2 oz
Torani - Sugar Free Salted Caramel Syrup, 1 tbsp (30mL/1 fl oz)
Sparkling Ice - Strawberry Lemonade, 8.5 oz
Dinner
Best Nest Wellness - Prenatal Vitamin, 1 Tablet
Fresh Basil - Basil Leaves, 5 leaves
Progrsso - Balsamic Vinegar, 16 g about 1 Tbsp
Trader Joe's - Artisan Breads French Baguette- Corrected, 4.3 oz slice
Tomatoes, red, ripe, raw, year round average, 47 g
Bel Giosio - Sliced Mozzarella, 2 oz.
German Potato Salad 9/17/2015, 284 serving(s) (homemade recipe)
Priano - Pesto, 1.5 Tbsp
Dessert/Snacks after dinner
Jello Dark Chocolate Sugar Free - Sugar Free Chocolate Pudding, 1 Snack
Jell-o (Jello) Light - Sugar Free Rice Pudding Creme Brulee, 1 snack (106g)
Krakelingen - Euroshopper, 1 gram
Graze - Raw Bar - Pumpkin, Sesame &, 0.25 bars
Chinese - Eggdrop Soup, 0.5 fluid ounce

Total Calories: 1,093 (-100 from weight lifting) -- don't recommend! I was struggling with some ED issues :/
Total Carbs: 138g
Total Fat: 45g
Total Protein: 35g
Total Fiber: 8g
Total Sodium: 2008mg

[Beautifulrainbow]

a couple of days ago I relised I started dropping below calorie limits (by not eating anything after meals) so I added extra last night I ended up with so much and felt a bit sick once I finished I think my stomach has shrunk

Yesterday was

Breakfast
Coffee

Lunch
2 slices of brown toast, 2 clementines 3 Carmel rice cakes
Cup of coffee

Dinner
4oz portion of salmon ( I know you not ment to have it but I really wanted it)
Cheesy pasta with peas broccoli in it.
Extra peas and broccoli
Greek yoghurt
2 oranges
16 sweets
Totals
1622 cals, 64.1g protein, 52.9g fat

I had a bottle of beer too after but not sure how many calories are in that but don't think it was over the upper limits

[maidentomother]

squiggle, should I keep going? Or am I boring you? I ended up eating the eggs the next day btw!

[atomic sagebrush]

Maidentomother, amazing, thank you.. I need the list of YES YOU CAN and NO YOU CANNOT - much easier for me to follow.. I managed to read somewhere on here tomatoes are a no-no! My husband was like, how you going to cope?!! LOL, anyway, thats the bets news today!! Woohoo.. yay for tomatoes!!

The list of AVOID is great - because i dont eat any of it. Another yay!!

Thanks for your thorough input here Maidentomother.
You would think with my controlling nature i would be typically counting and controlling what i eat.. all ive done is stop eating breakfast and stopped snacking. My dinners are the same vegetarian meals and my lunch is pretty boring.. I need to sort my calorie business out!

Its great to hear what everyone is eating on the LE - because im all for stealing your meal ideas.. especially lunches xx :cool:

BUT I DON'T WANT YOU GUYS TO DO THAT. I DON'T WANT YOU TO DO EAT THIS, NOT THAT. That is why I have fought against this approach from the very beginning, it is because it makes it far too easy to then go on to miss the forest for the trees. The important thing is limits, limits, limits of diet and not "magic foods" because if a food swayed this way or that the whole human race would have died out a long time ago. Maiden has been doing this a while now and that part of it is second nature to her now, but if you are a new swayer and trying to find the magic pink foods to eat, you're setting yourself up to undermine your sway really bad. You have to at least spend some time tracking the limits till you get a feel for it instead of looking for the easy way where you eat the same foods every day without understanding what the point of the diet even IS.

Sometimes you're going to be in a situation where you HAVE GOT TO eat one of the "naughty" foods. People put way too much emphasis on the foods and get so freaked out and panicked over "bad foods" that they end up harming their sway in a Mary-Martha way because they went to their grandma's and had a roast beef sandwich. These things are ok now and then. It's really not that big of a deal overall to have red meat a couple times a month when you have to. It really, really isn't.

OR, when you decide to put a food on the forbidden list, it messes with your mind so much that it's all you can think about, and you start craving it. Then to satisfy yourself, you end up eating 500 rice cakes and drinking a gallon of Crystal Light and etc etc etc off the "approved" list till you end up going over on the totals anyway and then you end up saying "eh screw it" because you already blew the diet and you end up having what you wanted to eat in the first place, plus half a birthday cake and the crusts off your children's peanut butter sandwiches for good measure. IF you had just had the whatever-it-was in the first place you probably wouldn't even have exceeded limits, but when the focus is on foods and not limits, people lose sight of this.

Other people feel so complacent that they end up eating too many "good" foods that they think are pink friendly but go way over limits and end up inadvertently swaying blue without even realizing it. A quart of whole milk, 4 eggs a day, a chicken breast, pasta with butter, tahini and strawberry jam on homemade white bread, huge servings of yogurt, eating 3000 cals a day and then flabbergasted when they get boys.

IT IS NOT THE FOODS THAT MATTER. It's the limits. Some foods make it easier or harder to stick in the goals of the diet (and are avoided out of practicality) and other foods are easy to avoid so you may as well avoid them most of the time like red meat (and are avoided just because we may as well), but PLEASE do not do this yes you can, no you cannot approach, there is a reason I refuse to do it that way and it's rooted in 8 years of watching thousands of people sway in about every way you possibly can think of and it is because the diet limit approach is just better. I know it takes a minute to catch onto it, but it's BETTER. It's better for your health, your sway, and your sanity and that is why I do it that way even though it would have been very easy for me to make magic food lists 5 years ago and be done with it. :)

[atomic sagebrush]

Im addicted to cheese. Help! :)

As long as it fits in the limits of the day, you can have it.

What I did that made it easier for me, was that I switched to American cheese, Velveeta, and cream cheese primarily (still had mozzarella on pizza now and then) nd then when I was really dying for a hunk o' cheddar, I HAD ONE. I focused on what I really wanted in that moment and honestly I rarely miss cheese as a part of a meal (so I'd have burritos without cheese, etc) and then only had cheese when I was dying for a slab (which wasn't that often). I never deprived myself of anything, I just always allowed myself to focus on it when I did want it instead of eating it mindlessly, if that makes sense.

[squigglepink]

Thanks Atomic. I totally appreciate the limits of the diet. Im doing so well with skipping breakfast and no snacking. I have a cup of coffee in the morning and late afternoon. Im not really craving anything - i think i battle more with what i would naturally go for that i need to work on - for example cheddar cheese on toast/wrap/bread etc could be replaced with something else/another type of cheese or i would eat cheddar cheese every day.
I think the reason i liked the idea of a list of foods to avoid is purely because i used to eat what i want, when i want, how i want. Ive never forbidden, dieted, restricted, limited my food. It was more a guide im after rather than a 'do not touch this' approach.. Ive only been a vegetarian for a year and a bit and i dont want to touch meat, not even for variety. Perhaps the easiest way for me to approach the LE diet is to know what is better for me to eat over something else.(as per your cheese example) Im only on my second week but i feel better already. Its opened my eyes to how much i used to snack. How much cheese i eat. How many tea and biscuit breaks i had etc etc.. Im not over or under weight but i definitely think i can make much better choices at home and eating out. So next week im going to try track limits and see how i go.
Thanks again for the feedback. Always helpful x

[squigglepink]

squiggle, should I keep going? Or am I boring you? I ended up eating the eggs the next day btw!

Ha - no, not boring. Keep going if you have the time! Ive realised how dead boring my lunch is. So i need the inspiration! x

[atomic sagebrush]

After 2 weeks, you're not having cravings, but you WILL. Over time, it does happen and so please just take my recommendations to such an extent as they are useful to you. As I'm sure you understand I see a lot of people doing a lot of cray-cray things and so I operate under the assumption that forewarned is forearmed and better to mention than not. Many people have no prob keeping it all in perspecitve but I have to figure on worst case scenario and thus that is why I spell out why I think the way that I do about the diet.

The roast beef is just an example, the point is, when you focus too much on foods themselves, and then you're put in a situation where you have no option other than to eat them it's just not going to work out. If you are at a cocktail party and everyone is having cheese ****s and olives, it does no good to be in a state of panic over them being "forbidden foods" because you can easiy have those things now and then and still be in the limits for the diet anyway. :)

Most of us boy moms eat like Hobbits, first breakfast, second breakfast, elevensies, lunch, tea, dinner, supper, bedtime and midnight snack. So just by changing that one little thing you're already well on your way.

[squigglepink]

LOL, you make me laugh!! "Most of us boy moms eat like Hobbits, first breakfast, second breakfast, elevensies, lunch, tea, dinner, supper, bedtime and midnight snack"

[familymatters]

Bhahahahahahaha "most of us boy mums eat like Hobbits" - soooooo true!!!!! When I conceived my two boys I was always eating. Generally I'm one of those people that feels peckish all the time, and although I always snack on healthy foods (bananas, almonds, cheese, celery, dry biscuits) I was unintentionally doing a perfect boy sway for both of them. My DD was a complete accident, but she happened to coincide with this diet I was on at the time which was super strict and I didn't allow myself to snack at all. Although I still ate lots or red meat etc.

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[squigglepink]

Yes Familymatters - me tooo. Im forever (before LE) opening and closing cupboards in between meals! Constantly looking for that snack!! How strange though - the job i had prior to my first son, was so busy and intense i never had time nor made the time to eat breakfast and sometimes my first meal would be at about 3pm, i would have cups of coffee or tea throughout the day and i would have a piece of cheese when i got home from work and then wine and dinner!!! We wanted to start a family so i quit my job and took some time off before we started ttc 6 months later.. at which point i was at home, eating breakfast, snacks, tea, coffee, lunch, snacks, cheese, dinner, cheese, chocolate, wine, snacks, take away meals etc, did i mention snacks?!! Anyways.. we produced a wonderful boy! :happy:

[atomic sagebrush]

Bhahahahahahaha "most of us boy mums eat like Hobbits" - soooooo true!!!!! When I conceived my two boys I was always eating. Generally I'm one of those people that feels peckish all the time, and although I always snack on healthy foods (bananas, almonds, cheese, celery, dry biscuits) I was unintentionally doing a perfect boy sway for both of them. My DD was a complete accident, but she happened to coincide with this diet I was on at the time which was super strict and I didn't allow myself to snack at all. Although I still ate lots or red meat etc.

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:agree: the thing that is interesting as I look back over my life (and I'm sure many others are in the same boat as I) is that despite my overall Samwise-Gamgee-esque-eating habits, I have had times where I was very thin, exercising a lot, on weird diets, vegetarian, one time I even got a spotty O and super light periods from dieting and exercising too much (I looked so good though! AAA I wish I had that willpower now) It is just that I never got pregnant during those times, yk?? I suspect that mostly all of us could have gotten girls at various points in time, it's just that we didn't get preggo right then. It's nothing other than dumb luck!

[squigglepink]

Hi

Ok so i had halloumi salad for dinner last night.(my abs fav) Having another salad now for lunch? I had a salad yesterday for lunch.. is this ok or too healthy?!! :worry::think: lol...

AND.. my hubby wants to take me for breakfast on Sunday for mothers day.. and we are doing a roast with my mom late lunch.. Help!!! :nails::bigsmile::bigsmile:

[honeybee37]

Don't worry about it squiggle. I would say it's the overall stuff that matters. He's not going to be taking you for breakfast at like 7am, is he? So it'll be more like brunch. Maybe just have dinner a bit earlier on Saturday if poss? Although I am a total neurotic worrier so I get where you're coming from! Been freaking out about wheat fortification all day, lol!!

[squigglepink]

Lol!! Thanks for the reassurance!

Yeah, ill take my time on Sunday morning i think and hopefully only eat breakfast at 11am :bigsmile:

[atomic sagebrush]

I know of a couple people who used haloumi salad as a go-to pink meal and got girls doing that.

i'ts just one day (mother's day) Don't worry!!! Your body will prob. need a little nutrition at that point.

[squigglepink]

Ok so i had the breakfast just after 11am and then the late lunch (veggies-peas and corn, sweet potatoe's, nut roast with onion gravy, broccoli and cauliflower in cheese sauce omg so very yum) at 4pm.. I did have cake following my meal.. NO dinner.
Today's a new day though!!:fingers: and so far ive sipped on diet coke.. almost lunch time though. Yay!:eek:

[squigglepink]

Are smoothies ok as a meal?

[maidentomother]

Yes fine.

[atomic sagebrush]

yup as long as you don't add things like highly fortified protein powders and stuff like that to them

[squigglepink]

Great, thanks x