January Pink Food Thread

[Mochagirl]

Hey ladies - time to start a new thread!

Today was such an epic fail as far as diet was concerned that I'm not even going to shame myself by listing it all. Tomorrow I'm back home, though, and back to my pasta and creme fraiche staple.

[xokatietatie]

I had a couple bites of leftover boneless chicken wings, two cinnamon rolls, and some rice... and nothing else. Not my best day! I'm not feeling so hot though, so we'll blame it on that.

[amari]

I had a couple bites of leftover boneless chicken wings, two cinnamon rolls, and some rice... and nothing else. Not my best day! I'm not feeling so hot though, so we'll blame it on that.

How are you not starving?!

[xokatietatie]

Normally, I would be... but I've just kind of felt very "blah" today.

[sallygal]

Well I need to be inspired! Have totally gone off the diet, feel so bad but needed it as was sooo over it. Thinking I may just get back on track once TWW over and if my PH is still high will skip next month attempt. Meanwhile will enjoy getting ideas from you all. :)

[suregena]

Today I am having a strict day... also going to the store to stock back up and friendly girl diet foods/dessert(s).

But the store I am going to is in a different town, so I'll be taking the train and walking (I don't have a car, so I walk everywhere, anyway) and have my nearly 30lb son in a front carrier... BEFORE I eat lunch. That's going to burn off some serious calories... hopefully erasing all the chocolate I've eaten the past week...

Well, I'll keep believing it will, anyway!

[ttcadaughter2012]

So I have had a cold the past couple days just been taking bites of things and drinking tons of water.
This morning I had a tiny bowl of potatoes and kilebasa. Can't wait to go grocery shopping I have nothing favoring for girl in my house. lol.

Quick question is it ok to drink soda? If so what kind?

[suregena]

Wow! Anyone in the UK... at Morrisons there are some "Meerkat Jellies" that are vegetarian... and for 1/2 the pack, it's 139 calories, trace protein, 0.1g fat, and trace sodium! YEAH!

So, I'm back home from my shopping trip... super wiped out and tired, though. I ended up eating two ryvitas with dairylea and iceburg before I left (about 1.30pm) because I knew hauling my son in the carrier and then groceries might turn dangerous if I didn't put some calories in before going. Good thing I did! It was a slightly lighter lunch than normal, so with all that hauling of bags plus my son on my front, I've probably already burned my lunch off. :x

I picked up some weight watchers toffee cookies and those gummies for my 'snacks'. I've had 1/2 of the gummies since I got home as I was feeling a little shakey, I've got some Dr Pepper in the fridge (not diet, though) so I'll have one when it gets cold... then will probably have dinner in a couple hours or so and end the night with some cookies.

This is what my preplanned numbers look like:

Calories: 1,217
Fat: 24
Protein: 34
Sodium: 477

I think that's quite possibly the best day I've had in this diet so far. I'm so excited for my faux macaroni and cheese dinner tonight (I'm going to cook down some dairylea cheese and hope it works out sort of like velveeta and only have 100g of pasta, and add mushrooms and cauliflower to it to beef it up)
I'm sooo happy I found those gummies! The other one at Tesco had more some minimal fat/protein in them but this has like none at all!

:)

[Out of the Blue]

Quick question is it ok to drink soda? If so what kind?

It is A-OK!...Either type of soda you chose is good for a sway (sugar or diet). If you have the cals to spare, sugar soda is great b/c it's empty cals and sugar makes your blood sugar plummit after a bit. If you want to save your cals, diet soda is great too b/c it usually has aspartame in it which is also great for a girl sway. Drinking something fizzy can also help stave off hunger so if it's a diet soda, you can have it between meals and feel somewhat satisfied w/o cals.. If you decide to drink sugar soda, try to have it w/a meal b/c you don't want to snack between meals on a girl sway. Hope this all makes sense.

[dramabird]

I'm excited to finally be able to join in on the food thread -- I've been planning my sway for half-past forever and am now at the start of my six weeks! :) I started the diet on Dec. 30, so here are my past three days:

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Dec. 30:
Morning: caffeine-free Diet Coke, folic acid, Trader Joe's Psyllium Husk (fiber) and Vitex.

Lunch: Activia Fiber yogurt, string cheese, 1 slice Wonder bread (105 mg. sodium) with a Tbsp. of jelly, two servings of Trader Joe's unsalted tortilla chips with 2 Tbsp. of Paul Newman's salsa (65 mg. sodium), 8 oz. skim milk with 2 Tbsp. Hershey's strawberry syrup (empty calories -- woo hoo! :)), peach applesauce, two chocolate-dipped shortbread cookies.

Mid-afternoon: CF Diet Coke

Dinner: three eggwhites cooked in 1 Tbsp. butter served with 1 Tbsp. mayo (65 mg. sodium) on 1 slice Wonder bread (this egg-on-bread combo is super yummy, savory and satisfying), 1 cup of rice milk with 2 Tbsp. Hershey's chocolate syrup with calcium, 1/2 cup no-salt-added green beans, 12 gummy worms.

Evening: peppermint tea (1 bag, 2 packets of Equal)

Dec. 30 totals:
calories: 1615
calories from fat: 455
fat grams: 53
sodium: 1020 mg.
protein grams: 48
calcium: 1380

So, a bit too much on the sodium and protein fronts -- I blame the string cheese. So it'll be a pretty rare thing for me to include again. I'll also reduce the egg whites to two instead of three.

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Dec. 31:
Morning: folic acid, Trader Joe's Psyllium Husk (fiber) and Vitex.

Lunch: 2 slices Wonder bread (105 mg. sodium each) with a Tbsp. of jelly and 1 Tbsp. of butter, slightly more than one servings of Trader Joe's unsalted tortilla chips with 2 Tbsp. of Paul Newman's salsa (65 mg. sodium), 8 oz. skim milk with 2 Tbsp. Hershey's chocolate syrup with calcium, 1/2 cup no-salt-added green beans, 1/4 cup Skittles

Mid-afternoon: CF Diet Coke and double peppermint tea (2 bags, 2 packets of Equal)

Dinner: cup of white mushrooms and one small/med. zucchini, stirfried in 1 Tbsp. butter with one cup of cooked white rice, 8 oz. skim milk with Hershey's strawberry syrup, Activia Fiber yogurt, 12 gummy worms.

Evening: CF Diet Coke with sugar-free Torani cherry syrup.

Dec. 31 totals:
calories: 1575
calories from fat: 305
fat grams: 37.5
sodium: 754 mg.
protein grams: 31
calcium: 1210

Quite a bit better on the values from the day before. Is it possible this diet is actually doable after all? Ignoring, of course, the fact that I wake up hungry, am hungry by mid-afternoon and am hungry by bedtime. Besides that. ;)

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Jan. 1
Morning: double peppermint tea (2 bags, 2 packets of Equal), folic acid, Trader Joe's Psyllium Husk (fiber) and Vitex.

Lunch: serving of the mushroom/zucchini/butter/rice serving identical to last night's dinner, 8 oz. skim milk with 2 Tbsp. Hershey's chocolate syrup with calcium, peach applesauce, 1/2 cup no-salt-added green beans, 1/8 cup Skittles.

Afternoon: double peppermint tea (2 bags, 2 packets of Equal)

Dinner: two eggwhites cooked in 1 Tbsp. butter served with 1 Tbsp. mayo (65 mg. sodium) on 1 slice Wonder bread, homemade strawberry smoothie (1 cup rice milk, 1 cup frozen sliced strawberries, 1/2 cup low-fat strawberry kefir, 2 Tbsp. Hershey's strawberry syrup), 1/2 cup no-salt-added green beans, 1 Rice Krispies treat*.

Evening: CF Diet Coke

Jan. 1 totals:
calories: 1708
calories from fat: 420
fat grams: 47
sodium: 726.5
protein grams: 36.5
calcium: 1130

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Okay, here's a recipe for those struggling with getting enough calories (and also still have some wiggle room with your fat, protein and sodium): "Double-goo" Rice Krispies treats -- this gets you the extra "empties" from marshmallows and butter, without going excessive on the amount of cereal (which has some vitamins and nutrients).

6 Tablespoons butter
80 large marshmallows
6 cups Rice Krispies

Melt butter and marshmallows in pot over low heat. When completely melted, stir into Rice Krispies and spread in a greased 9x13 pan. When it's cooled enough to slice, I sliced it into eight equal portions. If my math is correct, this portion (1/8 of the pan) gives you 403 calories (75 of which are from fat) 8 grams fat, 151 mg. sodium and 4 g. protein. If you have the willpower to slice the whole pan into 16 pieces, then of course, all those values can be halved.

In the eight-per-pan portion size, this is definitely a once-in-awhile treat (as in, I'd better only make a pan once a month and hope that DH and DSs eat most of them! :)) but it's a nice change-up from gummies and Skittles.


So far today (it's 1 p.m.), I've had a CF Diet Coke, a double peppermint tea and my pills (Vitex, folic acid, fiber), but nothing caloric to eat. Normally, I'm aiming to eat at noon (no earlier) and 6 p.m. (no earlier), but tonight I'm taking my kids over to my parents' house for a movie night and we'll probably be there from 5:30-7:30 or so. I don't want to eat before that because I'll be starving well before bedtime. So I'm planning on eating after the kids and I get home ... therefore, I'm trying to push myself on lunch as long as I can, so I'm not (yep, you guessed it) starving during the movie -- especially since I'm sure my dad will bring in popcorn, pop and Junior Mints. :)

Good luck, ladies!!!

[rainbowflower]

welcome, Drama! when are you TTC?


2nd Jan:
morning: nothing!
12pm: winter veg soup + 1 slice of toast with butter, choc cake that DH bought for me! 1 cupcake
6pm: Sainsbury's golden veg rice, some segments of choc orange

[dramabird]

Thank you, Rainbow. AF should be here tomorrow or thereabouts and I will not be TTC this cycle. So I should ovulate mid-January (not TTC) and then again mid-February (first TTC!!!).

Question for anyone: How much should we be concerned with eating the same things over and over again? For example, as I said, I really enjoy the butter-friend eggwhites and mayo on bread. So long as I'm keeping under my values (calories, protein, whatnot), is it a problem if I'm eating eggs (not yolks) everyday? Or should it still be more of a couple of times a week thing because of the general healthfulness of eggwhites?

[rainbowflower]

as long as you stay within the limits that's fine

someone had a theory that variety also sways blue because it means lots of food is available

[suregena]

I'm excited to finally be able to join in on the food thread -- I've been planning my sway for half-past forever and am now at the start of my six weeks! :) I started the diet on Dec. 30, so here are my past three days:

***************

Dec. 30:
Morning: caffeine-free Diet Coke, folic acid, Trader Joe's Psyllium Husk (fiber) and Vitex.

Lunch: Activia Fiber yogurt, string cheese, 1 slice Wonder bread (105 mg. sodium) with a Tbsp. of jelly, two servings of Trader Joe's unsalted tortilla chips with 2 Tbsp. of Paul Newman's salsa (65 mg. sodium), 8 oz. skim milk with 2 Tbsp. Hershey's strawberry syrup (empty calories -- woo hoo! :)), peach applesauce, two chocolate-dipped shortbread cookies.

Mid-afternoon: CF Diet Coke

Dinner: three eggwhites cooked in 1 Tbsp. butter served with 1 Tbsp. mayo (65 mg. sodium) on 1 slice Wonder bread (this egg-on-bread combo is super yummy, savory and satisfying), 1 cup of rice milk with 2 Tbsp. Hershey's chocolate syrup with calcium, 1/2 cup no-salt-added green beans, 12 gummy worms.

Evening: peppermint tea (1 bag, 2 packets of Equal)

Dec. 30 totals:
calories: 1615
calories from fat: 455
fat grams: 53
sodium: 1020 mg.
protein grams: 48
calcium: 1380

So, a bit too much on the sodium and protein fronts -- I blame the string cheese. So it'll be a pretty rare thing for me to include again. I'll also reduce the egg whites to two instead of three.

***************

Dec. 31:
Morning: folic acid, Trader Joe's Psyllium Husk (fiber) and Vitex.

Lunch: 2 slices Wonder bread (105 mg. sodium each) with a Tbsp. of jelly and 1 Tbsp. of butter, slightly more than one servings of Trader Joe's unsalted tortilla chips with 2 Tbsp. of Paul Newman's salsa (65 mg. sodium), 8 oz. skim milk with 2 Tbsp. Hershey's chocolate syrup with calcium, 1/2 cup no-salt-added green beans, 1/4 cup Skittles

Mid-afternoon: CF Diet Coke and double peppermint tea (2 bags, 2 packets of Equal)

Dinner: cup of white mushrooms and one small/med. zucchini, stirfried in 1 Tbsp. butter with one cup of cooked white rice, 8 oz. skim milk with Hershey's strawberry syrup, Activia Fiber yogurt, 12 gummy worms.

Evening: CF Diet Coke with sugar-free Torani cherry syrup.

Dec. 31 totals:
calories: 1575
calories from fat: 305
fat grams: 37.5
sodium: 754 mg.
protein grams: 31
calcium: 1210

Quite a bit better on the values from the day before. Is it possible this diet is actually doable after all? Ignoring, of course, the fact that I wake up hungry, am hungry by mid-afternoon and am hungry by bedtime. Besides that. ;)

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Jan. 1
Morning: double peppermint tea (2 bags, 2 packets of Equal), folic acid, Trader Joe's Psyllium Husk (fiber) and Vitex.

Lunch: serving of the mushroom/zucchini/butter/rice serving identical to last night's dinner, 8 oz. skim milk with 2 Tbsp. Hershey's chocolate syrup with calcium, peach applesauce, 1/2 cup no-salt-added green beans, 1/8 cup Skittles.

Afternoon: double peppermint tea (2 bags, 2 packets of Equal)

Dinner: two eggwhites cooked in 1 Tbsp. butter served with 1 Tbsp. mayo (65 mg. sodium) on 1 slice Wonder bread, homemade strawberry smoothie (1 cup rice milk, 1 cup frozen sliced strawberries, 1/2 cup low-fat strawberry kefir, 2 Tbsp. Hershey's strawberry syrup), 1/2 cup no-salt-added green beans, 1 Rice Krispies treat*.

Evening: CF Diet Coke

Jan. 1 totals:
calories: 1708
calories from fat: 420
fat grams: 47
sodium: 726.5
protein grams: 36.5
calcium: 1130

**************


Okay, here's a recipe for those struggling with getting enough calories (and also still have some wiggle room with your fat, protein and sodium): "Double-goo" Rice Krispies treats -- this gets you the extra "empties" from marshmallows and butter, without going excessive on the amount of cereal (which has some vitamins and nutrients).

6 Tablespoons butter
80 large marshmallows
6 cups Rice Krispies

Melt butter and marshmallows in pot over low heat. When completely melted, stir into Rice Krispies and spread in a greased 9x13 pan. When it's cooled enough to slice, I sliced it into eight equal portions. If my math is correct, this portion (1/8 of the pan) gives you 403 calories (75 of which are from fat) 8 grams fat, 151 mg. sodium and 4 g. protein. If you have the willpower to slice the whole pan into 16 pieces, then of course, all those values can be halved.

In the eight-per-pan portion size, this is definitely a once-in-awhile treat (as in, I'd better only make a pan once a month and hope that DH and DSs eat most of them! :)) but it's a nice change-up from gummies and Skittles.


So far today (it's 1 p.m.), I've had a CF Diet Coke, a double peppermint tea and my pills (Vitex, folic acid, fiber), but nothing caloric to eat. Normally, I'm aiming to eat at noon (no earlier) and 6 p.m. (no earlier), but tonight I'm taking my kids over to my parents' house for a movie night and we'll probably be there from 5:30-7:30 or so. I don't want to eat before that because I'll be starving well before bedtime. So I'm planning on eating after the kids and I get home ... therefore, I'm trying to push myself on lunch as long as I can, so I'm not (yep, you guessed it) starving during the movie -- especially since I'm sure my dad will bring in popcorn, pop and Junior Mints. :)

Good luck, ladies!!!



I miss marshmallows/rice krispie treats. Haven't been able to eat them since I became vegetarian almost 13 years ago...

[sosapop]

I also was wondering about marshmallows since I have a couple of bags left from holidays, I usually eat them by handfuls, so they are ok, right??
Like I've said in previous posts - can't drink milk, haven't in years!!! But if I must maybe chocolate would allow me to chug it down, one glass a day, maybe...

[suregena]

I think generally people have been using them to boost calories on this diet. However, I myself cannot as they are not vegetarian (I'm vegetarian and there is gelatin in them.)

[Mochagirl]

I think they're ok in small amounts, but I wouldn't eat a whole bag of them or anything since they do have gelatin in them, which sways boy....

[amari]

Oh, I've been eating rice krispie treats. I guess I'll stop when the box is gone!

[Mochagirl]

Ahhhh...it feels good to be home and finally in control of my meals again after a week and a half of being a guest in other people's houses!

7am: coffee
1pm: low sodium small roll dipped in balsamic vinegar, 2 Peek Freans Lifestyles cookies
5:30pm: 1.5 servings pasta with homemade primavera sauce (leeks, mushrooms, zucchini, and 'no salt added' canned tomatoes) + parmesan
8:30pm: green grapes, vanilla frozen yogurt with raspberries, Sour Patch Kids, 4 Pringles

Calories: 1383
Protein: 40g
Sodium: 511mg

[amari]

mocha-do you get your frozen yogurt from the grocery store or as soft serve from a frozen yogurt shop? It is one of my faves, and I was having it a lot and then I stopped, I think I am going to start it up again, I am trying to decide what my go to meals are going to be for the weeks ahead!

[purple sky]

So based on the little amount of food you all are eating my diet SUCKS big time. lol How do you do it?

This is me today-
8:30 cofffee w/ a tiny bit of creamer
11:15 - 2 small cookies and water
2:30 - bowl of Pasta w/ teaspoon of pesto, 1/2 cup lettuce w 1tbs dressing and CL
5:30 - small piece of williams Sonoma peppermint bark (bad i know but so YUM)
7:00 - Yoplait light yogurt, bowl of white rice with butter and a very tiny piece of chicken shredded in
9:15 - Spearmint tea w/ equal and a cookie

[purple sky]

I've seen people say they are eating gummies, is that like gummy worms? I thought they had gelatin?

[Mochagirl]

I sometimes get the frozen yogurt at a frozen yogurt shop as a treat - there's a place like that at the movie theatre I go to. However, most of the time I just have the basic, boring stuff you buy at the grocery store. I also have low fat ice cream, sherbet and gelato. My freezer's always full of frozen treats!

[littlemissnaughty7]

hi guys going to be starting my diet in a week, ive put my info of the foods ive planned to eat onto myfitness pal and im shocked as its alot easier than i thought, or am i doing something wronge please take a look Free Calorie Counter, Diet & Exercise Journal | MyFitnessPal.com (http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/ashone7?date=2011-12-31)

[littlemissnaughty7]

the only thing that is missing is on the dinner one that i plan to add some heinz baby pasta sauce which they dont have in there inventory, here is the info on that Cookies Detecting! (http://groceries.asda.com/asda-estore/catalog/sectionpagecontainer.jsp?departmentid=121492192369 2)

[Out of the Blue]

WOWZUHS…It’s awesome to see all the new people to this thread! :agree: I need to go back and catch up w/you guys! I’m doing things differently now and no longer skip breakfast but instead, skip dinner. I’m just testing this out right now to see if it works better for me but if not, I’ll go back to skipping breakfast instead. I also am incorporating more “healthy” veg nutrients into my sway b/c I’ve been feeling terrible lately. I’m hoping that keeping my blood sugar low as well as keeping cals/fat/protein/sodium down, it’ll still sway “girl” enough for me…

Yesterday:
• -1st Meal (07:00 a.m.)
• -green drink w/100% cran juice
• -fuji apple
• -tea w/rice milk

2nd Meal (2:30 p.m)
• -veggie wrap from Whole Foods
• -sautéed leeks, mushrooms and white basmati rice w/quark

Evening “Snack “ (6:30 p.m.)
• Calorie free Zevia Cream Soda

Beverages throughout the day:
• Water
• RRL tea (2 C.)
• Peppermint tea (4 C.)

[Mochagirl]

Wow, you didn't eat much yesterday, Jen! I worry that you're keeping your breakfast too light because you're hesitant about eating it, but then you're still only eating one other meal. Have you figured out how many calories you had?

[Out of the Blue]

Mocha, it's so hard to eat enough in the a.m. so it was all I could do to get that apple down. It's easy for me to not eat until 2:30 whether or not I skip breakfast. I'm still not sure if I'll keep this pattern or not. It's tough to get enough cals regardless of what I do. Yesterday, I was only able to get 1,148 cals in. I'm shooting for 1,400 but it's difficult. I may have to turn to candy again...I love it but I feel guilty eating it...:worry:

[amari]

I have major worries about my sway because I eat about triple what everyone else eats. I don't know what to do. If I eat less I will keep losing weight which I am told not to do b/c mine is low already, but if I eat the amount I eat then I don't know if it is as strong of a sway except it is low in terms of nutrients and I am not eating as often as I was. I am eating 3 times a day. I also am trying to eat the same(ish) things for less overall nutrients.

But for instance, so far for brekkie at 10:30 I already had, 1 1/2 mini bagels w/ whipped cream cheese and sugar free jelly, a slice of italian bread with light butter, two coco rice puffs, a handful of gorilla crunch cereal, two pretzels w/ melted rolo candies on them, 3 green grapes, coffee with sugar-free creamer, pep tea with equal.

I plan to have a yoplait yogurt and kettle corn later though I am sure that won't be enough for me for lunch so will have to add something else, maybe a fiber smoothie too?? and then pasta with leeks and parm or quark for dinner with a huge iceburg lettuce salad w/ cucumbers and mushrooms and also dessert most likely some candy and popsicles or popsicles and a rice krispie treat.

Any advise food wise for my sway?? Seems like a ton of food but I am a)hungry b) still 93 lbs. Thank you fabulous ladies! Amari

[Out of the Blue]

Amari, you're tiny already and you're not gaining weight and hopefully maintaining so don't worry one bit! You need those cals! As long as you're keeping protein/fat/sodium on the lower side than what you were doing before, I think you're doing ABSOLUTELY PERFECTLY! :agree:

[Out of the Blue]

hi guys going to be starting my diet in a week, ive put my info of the foods ive planned to eat onto myfitness pal and im shocked as its alot easier than i thought, or am i doing something wronge please take a look Free Calorie Counter, Diet & Exercise Journal | MyFitnessPal.com (http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/ashone7?date=2011-12-31)

When I click on the link, it says that I'm not permitted to see your food diary. Could you go into the settings and change it to make it public? I use MFP as well and I :awe: it!!!

[Out of the Blue]

I have to leave to pick up my son from school but I'll try to pop back on today to catch up w/the last 3 pages of this thread...still haven't been able to do so but I'm so excited that this thread is hoppin'! :bigsmile:

[Mochagirl]

I agree with Jen, amari. You don't have any weight to lose, so as long as you're not gaining, I think you need those extra calories!

[Mochagirl]

Jen - I'm soooo soryr you're having trouble adjusting the diet to make it easier for you. This is just my humble opinion, but if you're having trouble eating breakfast anyway maybe you should go back to dropping it. Instead you could eat an early lunch at 11 or so, an early dinner at 4-5 and you could still have a snack (give in to the CANDY!) in the evening. Whatever you do, take care of yourself and make sure you're getting enough calories. Let's keep your body in prime health so you can create your perfect little girl in a week or so :HH:.

[amari]

Jen, you're having trouble eating brekkie? I missed that? Is your new diet not working for you? That seems like a long stretch from 2:30 to 7:30 the next day? Are you still doing your fiber smoothies at all?

I haven't been able to try to log onto the diary yet, hope to try after I grab a shower if my little one is still napping....

So what i have looks ok to you all? This is just an example if today but actually I will probably end up w a few more desserts. I guess as it gets closer to o I can just drop them.

[dramabird]

Ladies, don't starve yourselves! Remember, Atomic has warned about dropping so quickly that then you feel the need to gain a few pounds back and before you know it, boom, you're in boy sway territory. Amari, as little as you are, your size is already swaying pink. I'd just focus on keeping that blood sugar low ... consume generous calories, just try to consolidate them into two, maybe three, sessions. Jen, if you're having a tough time having an appetite for breakfast, then you're going to back yourself in a corner of eating essentially only one meal a day. :( Forgive me if I missed it; is there a reason you're skipping dinner?

I feel like I'm gobbling down so much food compared to what I'm seeing others post here. I'm not as little as Amari, but on the small side (I'm starting my sway at 107 lbs. at 5'2.5", which is a BMI of 19.3), so I'm trying to start off making absolutely sure I'm hitting at least 1500 calories (and not feeling bad if I get closer to the 1800 end). I'm going to weigh myself once a week and if I'm not losing weight at all, I'll start trimming calories a 100 or so at a time; if the weight is coming off too quickly, I'll try to make it more gradual with additional empty calories. Since there's no way to know how long it will take to conceive, I don't want to leave myself nowhere to go weight-wise (plus it'll freak out my DH if I lose too much).

Stir-fry in butter! Add some mayo to a sandwich! Put flavored syrups in your drinks! So long as you're keeping your fat, protein and sodium levels below the maximum amounts, you don't have to utterly deprive yourselves. Who knows how long we'll be doing these diets, so let's do something we can maintain.

More from Ms. Sagebrush on the importance of 1500-1800 calories: http://genderdreaming.com/forum/ttc-girl/5239-1500-1800-calories.html

It's past noon, so I'm off to eat 800 calories of rice, veggies, yogurt, skim milk, cookies and Skittles! :) May the sway-force be with you!

[Mochagirl]

Good advice, dramabird. When I first started to sway last May I dropped the weight waaaayyy too quickly, and then I'd painted myself into a corner and was afraid to eat more calories lest I gain weight. This time I vowed to stick to a minimum of 1500 calories a day, and did that for the most part. It was the perfect amount to help me drop some of the extra pounds I'd gained in my brief pregnancy, but the weight loss stalled at 115lbs, which is a good weight for me, and still over 10 lbs lighter than my past conception weight. After sooooo many months on the LE diet, I think I have a pretty good grasp of what kinds of foods work for me, and I keep track of everything on FitDay to make sure I'm getting enough calories while not going over with anything else. I'm all about dessert and candy!

What went wrong for me this time was the week and a half I spent as a guest at other people's houses, where I couldn't make my own meals, so had to make do with side dishes while everyone else ate the meat main course. Somehow I dropped 10-15 pounds in that week and a half, so THANK GOODNESS I got my BFP today, because I'd be scared to lose anymore weight and I'd worry going back to my 1500 calories would cause me to gain weight. Please stick, little bean! :pray:

[amari]

Yes, little miss, it says it is private.

And, dramabird, I agree, I do stick to 1500 at least to, usually more. I always feel like I eat double what everyone else eats too. I guess we all have to do what is right for us.

Mocha, I am so excited for you bfp!!! And an added bonus is you get to eat!! Yay!

[dramabird]

THANK GOODNESS I got my BFP today, because I'd be scared to lose anymore weight and I'd worry going back to my 1500 calories would cause me to gain weight. Please stick, little bean! :pray:

Congratulations, Mocha! Sending you sticky pink dust!! :)

[suregena]

I thought I conquered the mighty little chocolates at work today... until literally 45 minutes before I was due to leave! GRRR! I had two little ones. :(

Morning:
at home - 1 cup peppermint tea
at work - 1 cup coffee with 1% soy milk

An hour before lunch (I wake up at 5.30am and lunch isn't until 1.30pm, so I was dying!)... half a pack of meerkat gummies.

Lunch: 3 ryvita crispbread originals, with dairylea cheese and iceberg lettuce.

Dinner: A strange concoction of sorts... and it tastes strangely... like chilli (YUM)... without... the beans, and so on... hmmm! Baby button mushrooms, basmati rice, some tinned tomatoes that are low in everything, some low fat creme fraiche, and a few dashes of chilli powder (unsure what the rules are on that one... but it was staring me in the face in the cupboard!). All washed down with about 300ml of pure apple juice (it's only made with apples, zero stuff added to it... no syrups/sugars/etcetera... it's just pressed apples.)

Probably going to have more of the gummies tonight after dinner... I like where my fat/protein numbers are... or else I'd have the weight watchers cookies!

Calories: 1390
Fat: 28
Protein: 26
Sodium: 313

Sometimes I get worried if I get a bit too varied with my meals? Think it matters?

[zanacal]

I don't think it matters if you vary so long as you're still low everything. I found I went in phases - I ate the same thing for a week or two then moved on to something else! Re the fruit juice - personally I'd avoid it. One apple is ok but there are probably several in just a small glass of juice which for me is too much nutrition.

[suregena]

My fear is my diet has overall been a bit too nutrition, considering the mushrooms and so on.

Just when I balance one thing, I fall off on another! :(

[Mochagirl]

Personally, I never worried about eating large amounts of things like mushrooms, zucchini and leeks. I tried to eat a little less of the super healthy veggies like sweet potato, red peppers, etc. - but I still included them in my diet once in a while. You can't live on carbs alone, and veggies help fill you up and keep your food from being too bland.

[zanacal]

Yeah I wouldn't worry about mushrooms - unless you're drinking mushroom juice?! I was just thinking it takes so many pieces of fruit to make a glass of juice but I wouldn't worry at all about eating fruit in sane amounts!

[suregena]

Mushroom juice... ha, how unappealing is that?

Yeah, I just needed to boost my calories so thought I'd have some.

[GeCon]

suregena, what do the Meerkats taste like and how much are they just out of interest?

[Mochagirl]

:rofl: mushroom juice mmmmmm

Atomic once told me juice was ok sometimes if you need to boost your cals, but to go for the unhealthy, sugar added juice (like cranberry cocktail) as opposed to 100% juice.

[dramabird]

Seems to me that if you need to "drink" your calories, as it were, it still might be best to turn to reg.soda (or if it's been a long day, vodka -- lol) rather than get all the nutrients that come with the calories in juice.

Re: the vodka in all seriousness ... smirnoffs now makes a marshhmallow vodka that is so yummy it is practically sippable all by itself. And who deserves a bit of a buzz more than us swayers? :)

[Out of the Blue]

Hi guys! I've added % cran juice back into my diet begrudgingly b/c although it has soooo many nutrients, I am plagued w/UTIs and I reaaaallllllly want to avoid them b/c of the antibiotics :( Suregena, I have also had a few mini-freak-outs about too many nutrients b/c I tend to eat a lot of veggies. Like Mocha said, I try to stick to the less nutrient-packed kind (YAY for leeks!!!) and apples if I have any fruit. I've been really good about sticking to the LE and staying either vegan or vegetarian but my nutrients are probably higher than I'd like. I had to make peace w/that though as I find that I need those veggie nutrients otherwise I feel terrible.

Dramabird, I'm so excited you are joining us and TTC time is just about here for you! I know you've been around awhile studying up on all this and now it's time for you to put it all into action! :cheer: Originally, I was not eating until about 2:30 in the afternoon, mostly b/c I couldn't eat any earlier (unless it was breakfast) b/c my day is really hectic and I'm gone from 11:00 - 2:00ish most days. Although it was super easy to do this and I wasn't hungry at all, I was not functioning very well and my boys weren't getting the best Mom they deserve. I decided about a week ago that I'd start doing breakfast and then trying to make my last meal between 3-5 as this would still keep the low BS in the picture but just be in reverse. It’s much easier for my sched to have low BS in the afternoon/evening than in the a.m. Either way, I've been struggling to get the cals I want/need in. I am doing A LOT better b/c I can function w/life & the boys great but I still am struggling to get those cals in. I think today, I'll try 7/12/4:30 and try to make the last meal something really sugary to help make my BS plummet for that long stretch w/out food. I think I’ll have to eat 3 meals otherwise I won’t get enough cals in and I want to avoid a huge meal so I don’t increase BS too much. It's such a struggle to eat at 12 b/c as I said, I'm usually gone but I'll try to make it work.

Amari, I had switched back to eating breakkie b/c I was really grouchy and didn’t have the energy I needed to actually be there w/my boys and I started feeling really guilty. It’s so easy for me not to eat until the afternoon but it just wasn’t working out w/the boys. Since I’m not hungry until the afternoon (b/c I’ve been doing this now for awhile), getting breakkie down has been a struggle…I can get maybe 300 cals down but that’s it. I know I could get more down but it wouldn’t correspond w/the LE diet.

I guess I’ll give this breakfast thing a few more days but if I can’t get it together, I’ll have to figure out a way to eat at 11ish/5ish/?ish…Sorry for the rant, guys...I'll figure it out!

[Mochagirl]

I didn't realise you had such a schedule conflict - it makes a lot more sense to me now why you want to reintroduce breakfast. For me, I'm always out at playdates, running errands all morning, so it's easiest for me to skip breakfast, but it sounds like your schedule's opposite of mine. Good luck, sweetie - I hope you can make it work. I think it will sway just as strongly as the other way...just make sure you eat enough!

[Out of the Blue]

Dinner: A strange concoction of sorts... and it tastes strangely... like chilli (YUM)... without... the beans, and so on... hmmm! Baby button mushrooms, basmati rice, some tinned tomatoes that are low in everything, some low fat creme fraiche, and a few dashes of chilli powder (unsure what the rules are on that one... but it was staring me in the face in the cupboard!).

That sounds wonderful!!!

Regarding the chili powder, I think I've heard that spices like that were okay if you had them once or maybe twice a week but not to make it a daily habit (too many nutrients). I sometime put chipotle powder w/a wee bit of onion powder :oops: and I mix it w/plain, non-fat yogurt. It's divine, especially topping something else! It's even better w/garlic but I think that's worse than onions/onion powder for a girl sway so I've given it up.

I really think you're doing a great job! :agree:

[Out of the Blue]

Mocha, I saw your post over the weekend about curds and I just wanted to say I'm a total curd snob too, lol! We had this place where I lived when I was young called "The Cheese Factory". We would go there on school fieldtrips and watch them make cheese curds and then at the end, they'd give us fresh samples. When we'd buy some, I'd gobble it up before it would hit the fridge b/c after that, it doesn't taste nearly as good (warm, salty goodness :oops: ) and it loses it's squeek. The place was bought by a French company about 15 yrs ago and they closed the tours and stopped making cheese curds. :( I don't live there anymore anyway but when I visit, they're no longer there. I haven't had fresh curds in years! The only kind I'll buy now (and not now that I'm on the sway) is Yancey's Fancy Cheese Curds - Buffalo Wing Cheddar flavor! I heat them in the micowave and then burn my face off eating them b/c they're so spicy... Just thought I'd share! :bigsmile:

[Mochagirl]

Jen, as soon as you get your BFP, I am soooooo going to send you some fresh curd by overnight express (if they'll let me send it across the border). The curd here in my city isn't quite as wonderful as the stuff from my hometown, but it's still pretty darn good.

[littlemissnaughty7]

ok guys i hope ive made it viewable now, i can see i need to add some more cals in as im way low, what do you all think, im terrible at variety and will prob eat this every day is that a bad idea with the chicken and pasta ??? Free Calorie Counter, Diet & Exercise Journal | MyFitnessPal.com (http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/ashone7?date=2011-12-31)

[Out of the Blue]

ok guys i hope ive made it viewable now, i can see i need to add some more cals in as im way low, what do you all think, im terrible at variety and will prob eat this every day is that a bad idea with the chicken and pasta ??? Free Calorie Counter, Diet & Exercise Journal | MyFitnessPal.com (http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/ashone7?date=2011-12-31)

Still can't see it...I get this message: "This user is not allowing others to view his or her food diary."


Try this:

- Go to My Home
- Click on Settings (rar right)
- Diary Settings and then go to the bottom of the page where it says Diary Sharing and click on Public. Click on Save Changes when you're done.

Hope you can understand these directions...Let me know if you can't.

[Out of the Blue]

Still didn't get nearly enough cals in yesterday but I'm working on it...I wanted to get the last meal in earlier but didn't come home until 6:20 and knew I had to get something in...

Yesterday:

1st Meal (07:00 a.m.) – 293 cals/2g fat/13 g protein/18 g fiber/113 sodium
• green drink w/100% cran juice
• tea w/rice milk

2nd Meal (2:30 p.m) – 656 cals/18 g fat/20 g protein/14 g fiber/630 sodium
• Air-popped popcorn w/pecorino-romano
• Roasted seaweed snack
• Coconut water


Evening “Snack “ (6:30 p.m.) – 197 cals/4 g fat/4 g protein/29 g fiber/136 sodium
• Girlsway smoothie (rice milk, psyllium husks, frozen raspberries)

Beverages throughout the day:
• Water
• RRL tea (2 C.)
• Peppermint tea (4 C.)

[littlemissnaughty7]

ok hun ive done it now Ashone7's Food Diary | MyFitnessPal.com (http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/ashone7?date=2011-12-31)

[Out of the Blue]

ok hun ive done it now Ashone7's Food Diary | MyFitnessPal.com (http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/ashone7?date=2011-12-31)

It works! Thanks! Your 1st meal looks super! Are you planning to eat anything more for your 2nd and 3rd meals? If you can, try to get another 700 cals in there...You could drink some soda w/sugar, eat some sweets, etc. Something I do sometimes is to take low fat coolwhip (if you're in the U.S....???) and mix it w/some strawberry jam and then spread it on your rice cakes to get more cals. Coolwhip + jam tastes WONDERFUL and it's really pretty good for a girl sway!

[Out of the Blue]

Today!

1st Meal (07:00 a.m.) – 293 cals/2g fat/13 g protein/18 g fiber/113 sodium
• green drink w/100% cran juice & TONS of psyllium husks
• tea w/rice milk

2nd Meal (12:00 p.m) – 663 cals/22 g fat/19 g protein/5 g fiber/297 sodium
• Sautéed leeks, mushrooms and white basmati w/quark
• Hershey’s milk chocolate bar
• Coconut water


3rd Meal (5:30 p.m.) – 467 cals/5 g fat/4 g protein/34 g fiber/146 sodium
• Girl Sway Smoothie (rice milk, psyllium husks, frozen raspberries)
• Candy cane
• Willy Wonka Sweet Tart Chewy Minis
• Fuji apple

Beverages throughout the day:
• Water
• RRL tea (2 C.)
• Peppermint tea (4 C.)

Totals:
Cals – 1,423
Fat – 29
Protein – 36
Fiber – 57
Sodium – 556


If I can, I'll try to pull in that last meal so it's at 4:30ish...

[amari]

Makes sense, ootb. I am at a toss up between eating brekkie and waiting til noon. Either way I have to have 3 meals because I that's what my body needs, as opposed to the 8 meals I had before the LE diet. today I waited til 12:15 aside from the little bit of creamer I put in my decaf coffee.

12:15-two mini bagels w/quark cheese and sugar-free jelly, bag of lite kettle corn, 100 cal pack coffee cake, 1 coco rice cake, slice of lite swiss cheese amounts to about 500 calories 20 g protein.

plan on white rice with a bit of sour cream and iceburg lettuce w/mushrooms, cucumbers between 5-7 pm

then frozen yogurt w/strawberries for dessert around 8pm Should be about 1500-1700 total.

[Out of the Blue]

Amari, that's great!!! :agree: The stuff you're eating is all GIRL SWAY approved! Fro-yo sounds wonderful right now! Cold Stone Creamery had this one kind of fro-yo and I think it was called "Tart and Tangy" or something like that and it was pink. It was sooooo yummy and the largest size was only 340 cals if I can remember correctly. I'd only eat half and save the rest for the next day if I got that size. It was sugar-free and fat-free I think. I haven't seen it there in a long while so I'm not sure if they've discontinued it or if they're just always out of it. I'm totally craving it right now after seeing that you'll be having fro-yo tonight. :)

[suregena]

suregena, what do the Meerkats taste like and how much are they just out of interest?



They taste pretty good! You know, not too sweet... more chewy than gummy (probably because of the lack of gelatin in them)... and they're 3 packs for £1.

[suregena]

That sounds wonderful!!!

Regarding the chili powder, I think I've heard that spices like that were okay if you had them once or maybe twice a week but not to make it a daily habit (too many nutrients). I sometime put chipotle powder w/a wee bit of onion powder :oops: and I mix it w/plain, non-fat yogurt. It's divine, especially topping something else! It's even better w/garlic but I think that's worse than onions/onion powder for a girl sway so I've given it up.

I really think you're doing a great job! :agree:



Well, I guess I've hit the chilli powder end for the week... I've had it in my dinner two nights in a row now!

Tomorrow, um... er, no seasonings this time.

[littlemissnaughty7]

ooh that coolwhip and jam sounds lovely on rice cakes im in the UK so not sure what coolwhip is, is it like fresh cream in a squirty can ??

[Out of the Blue]

ooh that coolwhip and jam sounds lovely on rice cakes im in the UK so not sure what coolwhip is, is it like fresh cream in a squirty can ??

Yes! It's like that but it comes in a tub. We have the squirty stuff too but I've not tried it. It should work just fine for you! Sometimes, if I need a bit of extra cals/protein, I put some low fat cream cheese in there as well and it tastes even better.

[Out of the Blue]

Well, I guess I've hit the chilli powder end for the week... I've had it in my dinner two nights in a row now!

Tomorrow, um... er, no seasonings this time.

Maybe you could make it 3x a week...;)

[suregena]

Heeheh, don't tempt me!

9am: 1 1/2 cups coffee with soy milk. (One cup was like half a cup.)

Lunch: 3 ryvita crispbreads, dairylea cheese spread, iceberg lettuce, weight watchers cookie pack, and some meerkat jellies.

Dinner: Basmati rice with 2 tbsp reduced fat creme fraiche, 100g (weighed on a scale but it sure didn't look like much...) of cauliflower, some plain tinned tomatoes (about 100g), and chilli powder... and heated up two corn tortillas in a pan WITHOUT butter and just some water to moisten them, as I knew through preplanning that I was going to be low on calories, and had some of the rice stuff in them. Yum, yum!

'dessert' - 1 200ml glass vanilla rice milk, two rice cakes with about 15g or so of weight watchers reduced strawberry jam (which was ALL that was left, anyway! I had only used the stuff once. When I bought it, I got me that and I got my husband a different kind of strawberry jam. HE ATE ALL OF MY JAM!!!!! :( But the other jam jar is full. What is he, on a DIET or something?!? :P)

Calories: 1412
Fat: 24
Protein: 30
Sodium: 409

[amari]

Should you force yourself to do the calories? I am not at all hungry, made myself had the rice and salad and was really looking forward to froyo but now not hungry at all, (very unlike myself!). I know if I go get it I will eat it all, and I am supposed to go for a girls night and bring them some, but part of me feels like you should just listen to your body, and the other part says, you're messing with your body so much your body doesn't know what it needs, give it the minimum whether it wants it or not! Sorry, rambling...

[prayforprincess]

8am - Black coffee with equal
12pm- 1c. strawberries w/ equal, yopliat light yogurt & a rice krispy treat
Lunch 3:30- Plain pasta w/ 1/4c. non-fat ricotta cheese, 2tbsp. parm. cheese and some saute leeks w/ 1/2 tbsp. butter. (so yummy!)
Dinner 8pm- White rice w/ green bean & cauliflower. 1/3 cucumber with feta ranch dip. 1 sugar cookie.
And drank tons and tons of crystal light

Calories: 1225
Fat: 18 grams
Protein: 39
Sodium: 577

The feta ranch dip is sooooo good. Here is the recipe.
1 c. plain fat free yogurt
3 Tbsp. low fat sour cream
1/2 chopped leek
1/5 Tbsp. lemon juice
1/4 c. feta cheese
1 tsp. dried oregano
black pepper
Mr. Dash

Add it all together and yum yum. I use it as dressing for iceburg lettuce too, but mostly just dip cucumbers in it. If you eat 1/5 the recipe as a serving the nutritional facts are:
Calories 52
Fat 2
Protein 4
Sodium 117

[littlemissnaughty7]

hey all so excited to be starting my sway on tuesday eeeeek ! just a little confused on to how much pasta and chicken i can have in a week, and when i say chicken i mean wafer thin pieces that i put in my bagel, and with the pasta i swear i saw Atomic say you should only have it once in a while why is this again, i never seem to hit my cals nwhen i write out what i woulo eat and pasta is one of the things that help, anyone have any insight ???

[GeCon]

hey all so excited to be starting my sway on tuesday eeeeek ! just a little confused on to how much pasta and chicken i can have in a week, and when i say chicken i mean wafer thin pieces that i put in my bagel, and with the pasta i swear i saw Atomic say you should only have it once in a while why is this again, i never seem to hit my cals nwhen i write out what i woulo eat and pasta is one of the things that help, anyone have any insight ???

I think pasta is fine as long as you are within your calorie limits. I have pasta most days, although I have switched to gluten free as it has less protein and means I can have more without adding too much protein.

[Out of the Blue]

The feta ranch dip is sooooo good. Here is the recipe.
1 c. plain fat free yogurt
3 Tbsp. low fat sour cream
1/2 chopped leek
1/5 Tbsp. lemon juice
1/4 c. feta cheese
1 tsp. dried oregano
black pepper
Mr. Dash

Add it all together and yum yum. I use it as dressing for iceburg lettuce too, but mostly just dip cucumbers in it. If you eat 1/5 the recipe as a serving the nutritional facts are:
Calories 52
Fat 2
Protein 4
Sodium 117


Nom, nom, nom...I'm hungry now! TFS, Princess! :agree:

[Out of the Blue]

Should you force yourself to do the calories? I am not at all hungry, made myself had the rice and salad and was really looking forward to froyo but now not hungry at all, (very unlike myself!). I know if I go get it I will eat it all, and I am supposed to go for a girls night and bring them some, but part of me feels like you should just listen to your body, and the other part says, you're messing with your body so much your body doesn't know what it needs, give it the minimum whether it wants it or not! Sorry, rambling...

As long as you're getting enough cals in, try not to force yourself to eat. I know you're already very small so just make sure you are able to maintain. If not, try to get a few extra cals in.

[Out of the Blue]

I think pasta is fine as long as you are within your calorie limits. I have pasta most days, although I have switched to gluten free as it has less protein and means I can have more without adding too much protein.

Ditto, LMN7...As long as you're in your guidelines for cals/protein/fat/sodium, you can eat it every day if you want! GL! :luck:

[littlemissnaughty7]

ooh ok hun thanks is that the same for wafer thin chicken slices ???

[littlemissnaughty7]

and get anyone give me the name of a cheese that is low in sodium and protein please, oh i live in the uk x

[HopeandDreamG]

yesterday:
12pm: dannon greek vanilla non fat yogurt, nutrigrain strawberry bar, 2 rice cakes
3pm: 4 egg whites, 1 slice low sodium cheese, 1 serving hint of salt wheat thins, strawberries
6pm: 1/3 cup pastina, 2 rice cakes
9pm: 3 rice cakes

AM I doing the diet right? Here are the totals:

sodium-777
potassium-653
protein-49g
fat-15g
calories-1100

[dramabird]

All righty, another three days under my belt! :) I'm only going to weigh myself each weekend so I can see my progress, or lack thereof, a week at a time, but even knowing that others have found themselves shedding weight quickly on the LE diet and even though I'm staying within the limits, I sure don't feel like I've lost anything. I may find I need to cut back more calories -- :( -- but we'll see! It seems like I'm listing so many more foods consumed each day than the rest of y'all ... do you think I'm messing up somewhere in here? Input is welcomed!!

Jan. 2

Morning:
folic acid, Trader Joe's Psyllium Husk (fiber) and Vitex.
double peppermint tea (2 teabags, 2 packets of Equal)
CF Diet Coke

Lunch:
2 slices Wonder bread with 1 Tbsp. jelly and 1 Tbsp. butter
8 oz. skim milk with 2 Tbsp. Hershey's chocolate syrup with calcium
1 oz. Trader Joe's salt-free tortilla chips with 2 Tbsp. Paul Newman's salsa
1/2 cup no-salt-added green beans

Afternoon:
Crystal Lite

Dinner:
Stirfry of red and yellow bell peppers, leeks, zucchini, summer squash and mushrooms sauted in butter, served with boiled rice
Smoothie of rice milk, strawberries, Hershey's strawberry syrup and low-fat strawberry kefir
One serving "double-goo" Rice Krispy treat

Evening:
double peppermint tea (2 teabags, 2 packets of Equal)

Totals:
Calories: 1712
Calories from fat: 396
Fat grams: 44
Sodium: 811
Protein: 30.5
Calcium: 1255

********************

Jan. 3

Morning:
folic acid, Trader Joe's Psyllium Husk (fiber) and Vitex.
double peppermint tea (2 teabags, 2 packets of Equal)

Lunch:
Leftover stirfry from Jan. 2
Activia Fiber yogurt
8 oz. skim milk with 2 Tbsp. Hershey's chocolate syrup with calcium
1/8 cup Skittles
2 chocolate-dipped shortbread cookies

Afternoon:
CF Diet Coke

Dinner:
Two eggwhites sauteed in 1/2 Tbsp. butter served with 1 Tbsp. mayo on 1 slice Wonder bread
Smoothie of rice milk, strawberries, Hershey's strawberry syrup and low-fat strawberry kefir
2 oz. marshmallow vodka (yeah, baby! :))

Evening:
double peppermint tea (2 teabags, 2 packets of Equal)

Totals:
Calories: 1519
Calories from fat: 363
Fat grams: 41.5
Sodium: 657.5
Protein: 40.5
Calcium: 1275

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Jan. 4
Morning:
folic acid, Trader Joe's Psyllium Husk (fiber) and Vitex.
double peppermint tea (2 teabags, 2 packets of Equal)

Lunch:
Leftover stirfry from Jan. 2
Activia Fiber yogurt
8 oz. skim milk with 2 Tbsp. Hershey's chocolate syrup with calcium
1/8 cup Skittles

Afternoon:
CF Diet Coke

Dinner:
1 slice Wonder bread with 1/2 Tbsp. jelly and 1/2 Tbsp. butter
1 slice Wonder bread with slice of Sargento's low-sodium cheese (I found this at Walmart)
Activia Fiber yogurt
1/2 cup no-salt-added green beans
3 oz. marshmallow vodka (if it ain't broke ... :))
choc./vanilla pudding cup
1/4 cup rice milk
8 "Hint of Salt" Wheat Thins
1/8 c. Skittles

Totals:
Calories: 1584
Calories from fat: 290.5
Fat grams: 35.5
Sodium: 885
Protein: 33
Calcium: 1350

[zanacal]

and get anyone give me the name of a cheese that is low in sodium and protein please, oh i live in the uk x

It doesn't really exist! I found the organic cheddars to be lower in protein and sodium sometimes - but you'll have to read all the packets. I had a Dairylea Slice in my sandwich for lunch each day, sometimes a little parmesan on my pasta (yum mixed with low fat creme fraiche) and went through a phase of having feta cheese mixed with some cucumber and balsamic vinegar in a wrap or pitta!

Any of these are ok so long as you include them in your daily allowances.

[zanacal]

You guys are all doing so well!

[prayforprincess]

I asked this on another thread but there was no response....can we eat the pasta in the purple box...Ronzoni smart pasta?? The one with added calcium and fiber or is that too nutritious? Should I just eat the plain no nutrient pasta? I also have the miracle noodles but I save those for when i need no calories added to my day.

[HopeandDreamG]

Saturday I am going to a first bday party at an Italian restaurant. What should I eat? I'm thinking salad, with balsamic, and pasta with butter? Maybe a preselected menu. Help!

[zanacal]

I asked this on another thread but there was no response....can we eat the pasta in the purple box...Ronzoni smart pasta?? The one with added calcium and fiber or is that too nutritious? Should I just eat the plain no nutrient pasta? I also have the miracle noodles but I save those for when i need no calories added to my day.

I'm pretty sure I just saw that Atomic had replied on your other thread!

[HopeandDreamG]

I'm pretty sure I just saw that Atomic had replied on your other thread!

Where's the other thread? would like to see the answer! Thanks ;)

[Mochagirl]

hey all so excited to be starting my sway on tuesday eeeeek ! just a little confused on to how much pasta and chicken i can have in a week, and when i say chicken i mean wafer thin pieces that i put in my bagel, and with the pasta i swear i saw Atomic say you should only have it once in a while why is this again, i never seem to hit my cals nwhen i write out what i woulo eat and pasta is one of the things that help, anyone have any insight ???

I ate pasta almost every single day while on the diet. I think the reason atomic cautions against it is just because it's very high in calories and protein and is easy to overeat. If you control your portions, you're fine. I found it easiest to buy a food scale and weigh out 1 or 1.5 servings to make sure I wasn't eating too much. A serving is usually 85g, but check your package - it's a LOT less pasta than you think, and it usually contains about 300 calories and 10g of protein. I know that once I saw what a serving of pasta really is I realised I probably eat 3-4 servings in a sitting when not on the diet!

[Mochagirl]

I haven't seen atomic's response to the smart pasta question, but I would think you're probably best to stick with regular pasta or rice pasta.

[littlemissnaughty7]

who on here drinks pepsi/coke in there sway and if you do is it diet and if you wont drink it why is that ???

[Out of the Blue]

who on here drinks pepsi/coke in there sway and if you do is it diet and if you wont drink it why is that ???

It's great for a sway! I don't drink it personally b/c I don't like the aspartame, sodium benzoate, etc. but that's just a personal choice. If you need extra cals, drink one w/sugar (as long as it's not in between meals b/c you don't want your blood sugar to rise unless you're eating at mealtime). If you need an extra pick-me-up in between meals, drink a diet one (it won't raise blood sugar while you're in between meals). I find that a fizzy drink in between meals helps me stave off hunger and keep me "fuller" longer. I drink Zevia soda pop sometimes and is sweetened w/Stevia which tends to sway boy...:oops: I figure it won't hurt, especially if I'm adhering to the LE diet pretty well and drinking it actually makes me stick to the diet better.

I forgot to answer your ? about chicken and I'm not sure if anyone else did or not...I think it's okay if you incorporate it as long as you're keeping your protein levels at 40g or lower each day while also trying to eat 1400 - 1600 cals. It's best to get your protein from a veg source but it's still swaying if you're 40g or lower, especially if you were eating a lot more meat before swaying.

[littlemissnaughty7]

so its best to drink your drinks with your meals then ?

[Out of the Blue]

Yes...if they have any cals in them, drink them w/your meals. If you skip breakkie in the a.m., you could just put a tiny bit of skim milk in your coffee/tea if you plan on drinking that. If it's a zero cal drink (i.e. diet soda) drink anytime.

[amari]

I drink diet coke. I also do decaf coffee in the am with sugar free creamer. It has some cals in it but I feel like it can't raise my blood sugar too much, and if it does, I feel like it will fall even lower by the time I eat again. I do pep tea and red raspberry leaf tea too!

[dramabird]

I am doing diet coke as well as double peppermint tea (I let two bags steep in 8 oz. of water) that is sweetened with two packets of equal. I usually do two cokes and one tea a day or viceversa.

[zanacal]

I have no idea where the pasta thread was! Mocha was right though, get the 'normal' one without the vitamins and make sure you're sticking with your daily allowances.

I drank LOADS of diet coke when I was swaying! Also 2 coffees with a little milk and sweetener in the mornings.

[ttcadaughter2012]

Ok so I have a question also about the soda. LoL.

I wanted to know if 1 a day is ok, like the regular one. It is the 90 calorie one enough to give me a bit of a kick. Would I eat this while eating a meal?

Also what do we want our sugars at??




Aside that tomorrow af is supposed to be completely gone! Can't wait to start. Yesterday was my first full day on the le diet and I did amazing with my sodium and protein and fat intake. I had sodium at 900, fat was I believe 25, and I think if I am correct my protein was 38.. and my cals were at 1,400

[suregena]

Morning/9am - 1 coffee with 1% soymilk

Lunch: Same ol' thing, 3 ryvita crispbreads with dairylea spread and iceberg lettuce, plus meerkat jellies and a Dr Pepper

A chocolate at work. :/

Dinner: Rice with chopped tinned plain tomatoes, button mushrooms, creme fraiche, and a little bit of chilli powder. :x

Snack at 10pm (I know, a bit late...): 3 rice cakes with 1 teaspoon strawberry jam on each (low/trace everything else but the cals/sugar...)
1 cup peppermint tea

Calories: 1324
Fat: 23
Protein: 28
Sodium: 222

[HopeandDreamG]

I see some ladies are drinking peppermint tea while taking vitex and saw palmetto. I thought you weren't supposed to do this- forget why but I know I read this. Can someone chime in....

[Mochagirl]

Both peppermint tea and Saw Palmetto lower testosterone, so I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to do both - at least not the 3 cups of peppermint tea a day recommended. Vitex and peppermint tea are ok, though.

[HopeandDreamG]

That's what I thought. How are you mocha? Has it sunk in u got your bfp? I knew this was your month!

[Mochagirl]

It's starting to become more real. I made my first midwife appt, which will be February 22nd, and it felt good to be able to write something on the calendar. They also said they could order me an u/s at 8 weeks if I want to check for a heartbeat, which is waaaay better than having to wait until my 11 week u/s.

[littlemissnaughty7]

so pleased you got a BFP mocha hun you really deserve it, ok so il be drinking diet coke/pepsi all day lol, which brand did you drink zan hun, now i think i remember someone saying that either DW or DH were not supposed to drink peppermint tea, which one is it does anyone know ?? il be on clomid, fibogel, folic acid, baby aspirin, acidophilus, DH will be on sudafed before attempt, cranberry, liq root, and acidophilus ? (is that right are men supposed to take this too) just wondered if anyone could shed some light on this please ???

[HopeandDreamG]

That's great Mocha. It would be so hard for me to wait- glad you get to go early! I'm spoiled here the minute you get a bfp you go to doc get sono and since I'm high risk bc of my crohns I'm there every 2 weeks!
Btw: what kind of low sodium bread did u use? I found one by peppridge farm but can't find where they sell it! Or low sodium pita?

[HopeandDreamG]

Oh and your due date is sept 15th right? That's my ds2's bday!! Great time of year ;)

[zanacal]

so pleased you got a BFP mocha hun you really deserve it, ok so il be drinking diet coke/pepsi all day lol, which brand did you drink zan hun, now i think i remember someone saying that either DW or DH were not supposed to drink peppermint tea, which one is it does anyone know ?? il be on clomid, fibogel, folic acid, baby aspirin, acidophilus, DH will be on sudafed before attempt, cranberry, liq root, and acidophilus ? (is that right are men supposed to take this too) just wondered if anyone could shed some light on this please ???

I drank whatever brand - Pepsi Max, Diet Pepsi, Diet Coke, Coke Zero ... why are there so many?!

Not sure about the peppermint tea but I know it's fine for DW (unless you're taking Saw Palmetto) so maybe it's not for DH or not if you're on Clomid? I don't think DH needs acidophilus.

[Mochagirl]

Hope - here in Canada, it's almost impossible to find low sodium bread. The lowest I could find was the Weight Watchers stuff, but even it had about 200mg per 2 slices, and the slices were TINY. Honestly, I very, very rarely ate bread for that reason. I'd rather save my sodium for yummier stuff like cheese! Sometimes I made my own low sodium bread with my breadmaker, and I discovered that several brands of middle eastern type pitas (you know - the very flat large ones) only have about 100mg of sodium each. They make a great pizza crust! I also found one brand of English muffins that had only 100mg per muffin, so I sometimes had that with cream cheese, and I also sometimes bought those thin bagels several brands make because they only have something like 150mg of sodium per bagel.

I did find it easier to eat rice for lunch most of the time, though - that way I could save almost all my sodium for a yummy supper. It gave me something to look forward to all day :bigsmile:

[littlemissnaughty7]

hmmm maybe we will skip pep mint tea then, i swear i read on IG that DH was supposed to take acidophilus, ?? not sure now, ok well do you know the dosage for DW on that one hun, i had it here somewhere but cant find it now lol,

[littlemissnaughty7]

have some great options for low sodium bread in the UK if that helps Cookies Detecting! (http://groceries.asda.com/asda-estore/search/searchcontainer.jsp?trailSize=1&searchString=asda+free+from+bread&domainName=Products&headerVersion=v1&_requestid=23791)

[littlemissnaughty7]

oh poop ok well its on the Online Grocery Shopping, ASDA Direct, George and more at Asda.com (http://www.asda.co.uk) website and its called asda free from white sliced bread

[littlemissnaughty7]

sainsburys also do free from bagels

[Out of the Blue]

yesterday:
12pm: dannon greek vanilla non fat yogurt, nutrigrain strawberry bar, 2 rice cakes
3pm: 4 egg whites, 1 slice low sodium cheese, 1 serving hint of salt wheat thins, strawberries
6pm: 1/3 cup pastina, 2 rice cakes
9pm: 3 rice cakes

AM I doing the diet right? Here are the totals:

sodium-777
potassium-653
protein-49g
fat-15g
calories-1100

H&D, Looks like you’re doing pretty well! :agree: My only suggestions would be to get more Potassium (coconut water, banana, spaghetti squash, etc.) to get 2,500 – 3,500, maybe swap the egg whites for something that isn’t heavy in protein and get a few more cals. Hope this helps/makes sense…You’re doing great!
Saturday I am going to a first bday party at an Italian restaurant. What should I eat? I'm thinking salad, with balsamic, and pasta with butter? Maybe a preselected menu. Help!

ARG...just typed you up something and then lost it! I'll try again...When I go out, it's usually no fun but I can make it work by ordering off the side menu...steamed veggies w/out butter/salt, salad w/low-fat/fat-free dressing on the side, etc. The pasta is okay if you don't eat that much and try to get it plain like you were planning. Try to save up some of your cals/fat/protein/sodium during the day so you can have more in the evening. Also, look on the restaurant website for nutritional info so you can have a plan before you go. Some restaurants show this, others don't (beware of those that don't!). Also, go easy on the bread...it's not as innocent as it looks, even w/out the butter. If you happen to go over that day, not the end of the world...we've all been there and it's the overall trend that matters. Just my :twocents: GL!!

BTW – sorry I was late getting back to you on this and didn’t respond yesterday…these threads are BUSY!

[Out of the Blue]

DramaBird, that’s a great strategy to weigh yourself only once a week b/c the scale can be really fickle and misleading…1.5 yrs ago when I was losing weight, I would see so much fluctuation in the course of a week that was both + and – and it can really mess w/your mind. It all works out in the end and once a week should give you the progress you need w/out driving yourself crazy w/the annoying fluctuations.

YAY for skittles!!! I really want to try that marshmallow vodka! :agree:

[Out of the Blue]

Ok so I have a question also about the soda. LoL.

I wanted to know if 1 a day is ok, like the regular one. It is the 90 calorie one enough to give me a bit of a kick. Would I eat this while eating a meal?
Also what do we want our sugars at??
Aside that tomorrow af is supposed to be completely gone! Can't wait to start. Yesterday was my first full day on the le diet and I did amazing with my sodium and protein and fat intake. I had sodium at 900, fat was I believe 25, and I think if I am correct my protein was 38.. and my cals were at 1,400

Soda is great for the sway and as long as it’s not putting you over in cals, drink the sugar ones…It’s fine! Don’t worry about counting sugar on the girl diet…eat all you want as long as you’ve had no history w/diabetes. Sugar is a girl-swayers BFF b/c it’s tons of empty cals followed by plummeting blood sugar levels.

GREAT JOB on the 1st day of your diet! Looks good…YAY for the end of AF…O is coming soon for you! :cheer:

[Out of the Blue]

Yesterday...

1st Meal: Cal – 293/Fat - 2/Protein - 13/Fiber - 18/Sodium – 113
• Green Drink w/100% cran juice
• 1 C. black tea w/rice milk

2nd Meal: Cal – 713/Fat - 12/Protein - 24/Fiber - 12/Sodium – 262
• Sauteed leeks, mushrooms, & white basmati rice w/quark
• Air-popped popcorn

3rd Meal: Cal – 453/Fat - 7/Protein - 4/Fiber - 35/Sodium – 166
• “Girl Sway Smoothie” (rice milk/frozen raspberries/psyllium husks)
• Lite whipped topping + strawberry jam on popped corn cakes

Drinks throughout the day:
• 4 C. Peppermint tea
• 2 C. RRL tea
• water

Totals:
• Cal – 1,459
• Fat – 21
• Protein – 41
• Fiber – 65
• Sodium – 541

[Out of the Blue]

hmmm maybe we will skip pep mint tea then, i swear i read on IG that DH was supposed to take acidophilus, ?? not sure now, ok well do you know the dosage for DW on that one hun, i had it here somewhere but cant find it now lol,

I've not been on IG in quite a while but you and he both could take one capsule a day maybe?

[littlemissnaughty7]

people keep saying sodium is high in bread but it seems that its not on the bread im eating, am i looking at this wrong ??

[littlemissnaughty7]

on the sainsburys.co.uk website im gona be eating the free from bagels and they have hardly any in ??

[GeCon]

on the sainsburys.co.uk website im gona be eating the free from bagels and they have hardly any in ??

If we are looking at the same thing it states: 1 bagel cal 228, fat 7.9, sat fat 0.8g, salt 0.61g, total sugars 3.6g.

FYI: 1 gram of sodium per 100g = 2.5 grams salt

So 1 bagel contains 244mg sodium.

[GeCon]

If it is bagels you want, you might want to look at the Weight Watchers ones, which "only" have 170mg sodium per bagel compared to the Sainsburys ones.

[littlemissnaughty7]

its the same ones yes ok im lost it states on there per 100g of bagel = 0.35g sodium ?

[littlemissnaughty7]

and when i put it in myfitnesspal it states im not eating hardly any sodium, and that theres none in the bagels ?

[GeCon]

and when i put it in myfitnesspal it states im not eating hardly any sodium, and that theres none in the bagels ?

I found with sodium that a lot of entries on myfitnesspal are incorrect due to other members submitting the details and making mistakes when inputting the sodium. I had to change quite a few items due to this. Basically the packs list sodium in grams, i.e. 0.1g. Myfitnesspal, however, lists sodium in mg. So a lot of times people input the sodium content as 0.1, but don't realise that it is asking for mg not g, in which case it should be 100mg. Therefore in this example the item would show no sodium content when it has in fact 100mg, which is 1/10 of your daily allowance. Hope this makes sense.

Also some people only enter the information from the front of the pack and not the detailed nutritional information from the back of the packs, which doesn't list sodium, but only salt and salt isn't a possible entry on myfitnesspal.

[Out of the Blue]

and when i put it in myfitnesspal it states im not eating hardly any sodium, and that theres none in the bagels ?

I think the conversions in MFP are different b/c it's U.S. based and we go by mg so I think things get added in incorrectly...

Surgena are you around? I think you're on MFP too, right? Could you help LMN7 w/this? I'm in the U.S. and I'm not sure of U.K. conversions so I don't want to lead anyone astray...

[GeCon]

its the same ones yes ok im lost it states on there per 100g of bagel = 0.35g sodium ?

Yes, we are looking at the same ones. Per 100g they contain 0.35g sodium, which is 350mg. If you look in the third line of the description it tells you the values per bagel:

1 bagel cal 228, fat 7.9, sat fat 0.8g, salt 0.61g, total sugars 3.6g.

[Out of the Blue]

I found with sodium that a lot of entries on myfitnesspal are incorrect due to other members submitting the details and making mistakes when inputting the sodium. I had to change quite a few items due to this. Basically the packs list sodium in grams, i.e. 0.1g. Myfitnesspal, however, lists sodium in mg. So a lot of times people input the sodium content as 0.1, but don't realise that it is asking for mg not g, in which case it should be 100mg. Therefore in this example the item would show no sodium content when it has in fact 100mg, which is 1/10 of your daily allowance. Hope this makes sense.

Also some people only enter the information from the front of the pack and not the detailed nutritional information from the back of the packs, which doesn't list sodium, but only salt and salt isn't a possible entry on myfitnesspal.

Thx, GeCon...I think I was posting at the same time. This is exactly the info I was looking for to give LMN7 but wasn't sure how to explain it. :agree:

[littlemissnaughty7]

oh pooh ok thanks guys il bare this in mind now, so is that the whole website then it lists in mg, or is it just sodium thats in mg ?

[GeCon]

oh pooh ok thanks guys il bare this in mind now, so is that the whole website then it lists in mg, or is it just sodium thats in mg ?

Cholesterol, sodium and potassium only, all the others are in g. Although the potassium values are even more unreliable as companies do not have to declare them on the packs at all. :(

You can always update the info held on MFP for the items you use. That's what I do. I double-check if they are already on there and update them if required.

[littlemissnaughty7]

ohhhhhhhh im so stuck now i thought i had this all sorted, is there a website that lists sodium in g's not mg's ?

[littlemissnaughty7]

how do i do this gecon hun ?

[GeCon]

LMN, it's not that bad. ;) You will probably find that you will be using a lot of the items on a regular basis, so updating them once pays off because then you know they are correct.

In order to get the sodium content in mg rather than g as listed on the pack, all you need to do is multiply the g by 1000. So if you have 0.35g sodium per 100g, multiplying it by 1000 gives you 350mg per 100g.

Or you can just put "0.35g in mg" into google, which will do the work for you when you hit enter. ;)


how do i do this gecon hun ?

As for updating the details: You start by adding an item to your day. When all the results show up, click on the one you want and on the right side under the name, there is a link to the nutritional info. Click on it to confirm the details held. If you are not happy with them, click on No after "Is this data accurate?", which will then open the page for you to amend details. All you have to do then is save it. :)

[littlemissnaughty7]

ok hun thanks very much, what cheese has the lowest sodium in does anyone know ?

[littlemissnaughty7]

none of the foods i was going to eat seem to have the potassium listed, how do i find this out ? , sorry for all the questions,

[zanacal]

Sorry I don't know about acidophilis as I didn't take it.

[GeCon]

LMN, as for the potassium I am trying not to stress about this too much as firstly you need around 3000mg a day for your health and secondly it is just too difficult to keep track of. According to a few ladies on here potassium is in most things just not listed on the packs. So I try to avoid any high potassium foods (a quick google gives you an idea what they are) and anything else just goes towards my daily recommended amount. There are some foods that state that they are not suitable for those on a low potassium diet.

[Mochagirl]

ok hun thanks very much, what cheese has the lowest sodium in does anyone know ?

Swiss cheese is relatively low sodium, as are some types of goat cheese. Be aware, though, that ALL cheese has quite a bit of sodium AND protein in it, so you'll have to keep your portion size very small - 30g is considered one serving. I could never manage more than one serving of cheese a day without going over for protein and sodium.

[littlemissnaughty7]

ok hun thanks, do you know what range of potassium we have to stick to in our diets anyway ??

[amari]

i sometimes have a slice of lite jarlsburg. it has 50 cal, 7 g protein 100mg sodium and 2 or 2.5 g fat. That on 1 small corn tortilla from whole foods is a good 100 cal addition to a meal and yummy too!

[zanacal]

ok hun thanks, do you know what range of potassium we have to stick to in our diets anyway ??

There's a range if you're doing the IG diet (don't know what it is I'm afraid!) but not on the LE diet.

[suregena]

I think the conversions in MFP are different b/c it's U.S. based and we go by mg so I think things get added in incorrectly...

Surgena are you around? I think you're on MFP too, right? Could you help LMN7 w/this? I'm in the U.S. and I'm not sure of U.K. conversions so I don't want to lead anyone astray...


I'm a yankee doodle so it took me a while to get used to the different way of listing things here. :D

I actually haven't edited a lot of things I put in but I'm staying pretty consistant-samey-same in my meals now, so I very highly doubt they take me over.

But, anyway.

If something says it has 0.14g of sodium, that would be in mg as 140mg.
If something says it has 0.1g of sodium, that would be in mg as 100mg.
If something says it has 0.06g of sodium, that would be in mg as 60mg.
If it says 0.78g... that would be 780mg... RUN AWAY! ;)


I hope that makes sense!

So, like mentioned earlier, if inputing things on there, you should change it to the US mg for sodium.

I haven't done that yet. I probably really should... with work and child, I can't find the time to sit and input stuff! But you've reminded me I probably should.

[littlemissnaughty7]

can you change the settings on there then suregena hun ??

[littlemissnaughty7]

ok then zan hun im glad as i cant find it listed on any of my foods lol,

[suregena]

can you change the settings on there then suregena hun ??



I don't think so, unfortunately. You either should just input all your own meals so you know they are correct, or edit other people's entries to correct the sodium.

I went through my list (since I am not varying what I eat very much right now) and luckily only had to correct a couple things.

[suregena]

Yesterday:

Morning: 1 coffee with soy milk

Lunch: 3 ryvita crispbreads, dairylea cheese spread, iceburg lettuce, 7-Up free, meerkat gummies, weight watchers cookie pack

Dinner: Basmati rice, tinned plain chopped tomatoes, baby button mushrooms, creme fraiche.

Snack: 3 rice cakes with strawberry jam (1 tsp) each.

Calories: 1289
Fat: 28
Protein: 30
Sodium: 328

[littlemissnaughty7]

thats a good day hun, what jam do you use ?

[suregena]

Right now I just have regular, sugary jam... (it's got sugar but trace everything else.) My husband ate the weight watchers one because he only has part of his brain in the mornings and was grabbing at that jam like it was the normal one!

You can get jams made without sugar, though. But as far as I know, sugar isn't a big deal on this diet?

[suregena]

Are you in the UK?

There is SuperJam (though those may be packed with nutrients as they are made with "Super fruits" and St. Dalfour that have no sugar added. Yummy.

[littlemissnaughty7]

yeah hun im in the uk, west midlands, where are u x

[littlemissnaughty7]

hey the weightwatchers lemon slices have 0.01g sodium in yay !!!!

[zanacal]

St Dalfour is lovely, we always have that in our house!

[GeCon]

We love the St Dalfour too. It is so yummy.

Can I just share something with you, ladies? I asked the lovely atomic a few questions the other day and got the following reply from her:

"You can safely eat as little as 40g protein but I don't think anyone needs to go any lower than that.

Do not drop the sodium any lower (than the recommended 700-1000mg). That is the level of sodium that is required for your health and this is true on all three diets, IG, FGD, and LE."

[Mochagirl]

That's important info to share, GeCon! Thanks!

[rainbowflower]

VERY bad diet day today... but it is a sensitive anniversary for me as it's 2 years ago that I lost my precious first baby.

morning:
massive bar of chocolate (literally a 120-ish gram bar!)

lunch:
tuna pasta salad with mayo (two bowlfuls - it was delicious)

tea:
we'll be going to Toby Carvery, and I plan to have roast gammon and turkey with all the trimmings



then back to "normal" boring diet tomorrow until either my BFP next cycle or the associated AF

[Mochagirl]

rainbow, I'm glad you had your cheat day - you deserve it! Your angel baby is in my thoughts on this sad anniversary :HH:

[purple sky]

Rainbow :HH:

[suregena]

Weight Watchers carrot cake slice... Calories: 84, protein: 0.7g, fat: 0.2g, sodium: 0.01g (10mg)

I'm IN LOVE. Heeh. :D

[zanacal]

I'm eating them today Suregena!

[suregena]

I'm REALLY low on everything tonight... so I had two. :x

[suregena]

Still was low after two, so I had some more meerkat jellies!

Late morning: Coffee with 1% soymilk

Lunch: 3 Ryvita crispbreads with dairylea cheese spread and iceberg lettuce and some 7up Free.

Met up with some friends a couple hours later, so had a 1 shot Americano with soymilk there... and a TEENSY bite of my husband's chocolate cake!

Just before dinner (on train home) Meerkat jellies
Dinner: White long grain rice, button mushrooms, lemon juice, balsamic vinegar, shredded iceberg lettuce, black pepper, cumin, with two corn tortillas. 2(!) weight watchers carrot cake slices.

Snack: one Morrison's Crispbread (it's a bit different from the Ryvita ones... more like melba toast) with jam and more meerkat jellies, and 1 cup of peppermint tea.


(Not counting the teensy bite of the chocolate cake... because I don't know, it's it was litteraly really, really tiny and I did a lot of walking today!)

Calories: 1,239
Fat: 14
Protein: 28
Sodium: 415

[HopeandDreamG]

OOTB and Mocha~ thanks for your great feedback as always...
Rainbowflower~ Glad you allowed yourself a cheat day. You deserve to eat anything today..So sorry about your losshad a

Today was the party:
I think the only thing I went over on is the sodium. I enjoyed (LOL) very small piece of grandma pizza as app, small side salad (was dressed lightly), small serving of pasta (it had alla vodka sauce), and small piece of cake. The party was at noon. Its almost 7pm and I didn't eat before or after. Maybe later I'll have a very small snack.

Used the fitnesspal app. This was as many calories (the one meal) as I have eaten every day...maybe thats why I'm not hungry and I only had the one meal today!! Boy was it GOOD.
I have to say I am most proud that I kept in control, going off a little because my typical way is All or Nothing....working on that!!

[Mochagirl]

I'm glad you enjoyed your meal, Hope, and it sounds like you did a GREAT job!

[HopeandDreamG]

Is there any tea you can drink if you take saw palmetto and vitex? I know peppermint is out. Just wanting an idea for when I'm wanting something warm during the day. I know some like tea without the bag..just doesn't do it for me. Is it that regular tea has too many antioxidants? Maybe a decaf coffee or decaf skim latte if I'm out?

[zanacal]

I drank the occasional tea (I'm in the UK and to me tea is just tea - I guess it's black tea or breakfast tea, anyone?!) but mostly stuck with coffee which I don't usually drink. I had a cup on waking and a cup part way through the morning and maybe a skinny latte if I was out.

[dramabird]

Okay, here are a few changes I've made in the past couple of days: I've added Saw Palmetto (160 mg. at noon and another 160 mg. before bed), so I've stopped drinking the peppermint tea. I've also added acidophilus (I've heard that yeast infections can be more common on the girl diet, so trying to ward those off). I also, as of yesterday, added one capsule of chitosan before my evening meal.

You may remember me saying that I'm going to weigh myself once a week, yes? Well, yesterday was my weekly weigh in. And I lost NOTHING!! lol One week ago the scale said 107 and yesterday the scale said 107 ... not even a fifth of a pound difference up or down. I always stayed within the 1500-1800 calorie limits (I think my average for the entire week was around 1650 each day). Soooo ... I guess I need to go down on the cals. Any recommendations as to what range I should try? I was thinking of scooting it down to 1300-1600 and see over the next week if that, plus the Chitosan, makes a difference. I want to lose weight slowly, but I do want to lose it. I figure if I can get to 104 by my first TTC attempt and then lose about one pound a month, that gives me quite a few months before I get to the point where I cannot safely lose any more.

I'm going to shave calories off my existing LE diet by switching from 1 Tbsp. of things like butter, jelly and mayo to 1/2 Tbsp. That shouldn't affect taste too much, but in the case of butter, it drops 50 calories in one go. I'm also going to bid farewell to the marshmallow vodka (sniff, sniff! :)) and I won't keep adding the chocolate and strawberry syrups to my milk. On any given day, those subtractions could take about 300 calories off my daily intake.

So my new week started with yesterday's (Jan. 7) intake. We'll see what the next seven days bring!


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Jan. 5

Lunch:
folic acid, Trader Joe's Psyllium Husk (fiber), Saw Palmetto and Vitex.
2 slices Wonder bread with 1 Tbsp. jelly and 1 Tbsp. butter
8 oz. skim milk
Activia Fiber yogurt

Dinner:
1 slice Wonder bread with slice of low-sodium cheese
4 oz. marshmallow vodka
Cup of iceburg lettuce with a few sliced mushrooms and 1 Tbsp. ranch dressing
16 "Hint of Salt" Wheat Thins
Blue Bunny Orange Dream ice cream bar
4 Keebler Coconut Dreams cookies (these are really similar to the Girl Scout Caramel Delites/Samoa cookies -- yum!)
1/4 cup rice milk
1/2 cup no-salt-added green beans

Before bed:
Saw Palmetto and Vitex

Totals:
Calories: 1575
Calories from fat: 450
Fat grams: 53
Sodium: 1029 (oops!)
Protein: 30
Calcium: 1315

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Jan. 6

Morning:
CF Diet Coke

Lunch:
folic acid, Trader Joe's Psyllium Husk (fiber), acidophilus, Saw Palmetto and Vitex
2 slices Wonder bread with 1 Tbsp. jelly and 1 Tbsp. butter
8 oz. skim milk with 2 Tbsp. Hershey's chocolate syrup with calcium
Activia Fiber yogurt
1/2 cup no-salt-added green beans
3 miniature Mint 3 Musketeers treats

Afternoon:
CF Diet Coke

Dinner:
1 serving of Atomic's "fake stroganoff" recipe: a lot of mushrooms sauted in butter with a little bit of chopped red bell pepper, mixed with sour

cream and served over noodles (I didn't use egg noodles).
Smoothie of rice milk, strawberries, Hershey's strawberry syrup and low-fat strawberry kefir
1/2 cup no-salt-added green beans
4 Snackwell's fat-free devil's food cookies
Blue Bunny Orange Dream ice cream bar

Evening:
CF Diet Coke with sugar-free vanilla syrup

Before bed:
Saw Palmetto and Vitex

Totals:
Calories: 1662
Calories from fat: 335
Fat grams: 38.5
Sodium: 925
Protein: 34.25
Calcium: 1410

************************

Jan. 7

Morning:
Weighed myself. A**hole scale says I've lost no weight whatsoever. :p

Lunch:
folic acid, Trader Joe's Psyllium Husk (fiber), acidophilus, Saw Palmetto and Vitex
1 slice Wonder bread with 1/2 Tbsp. jelly and 1/2 Tbsp. butter
1 slice Wondre bread with slice of low-sodium cheese
Activia Fiber yogurt
8 oz. skim milk
1/2 cup no-salt-added green beans

Afternoon:
CF Diet coke

Dinner:
1 capsule Chitosan
1 serving of "fake stroganoff" leftovers (this was actually tastier reheated than it was fresh off the stove)
Activia Fiber yogurt
1/4 cup rice milk
4 Snackwell's fat-free devil's food cookies
1/8 cup Skittles

Evening:
CF Diet Coke

Before bed:
Saw Palmetto and Vitex

Totals:
Calories: 1347
Calories from fat: 280
Fat grams: 33.5
Sodium: 890
Protein: 38.25
Calcium: 1315

[littlemissnaughty7]

hey peeps hope your all well, RF huni im sorry to hear of your loss 2 years ago, i had no idea, big hugs to you hun xx
quick question, does anyone have any food ideas for cals wise but low in protein ?

[rainbowflower]

drama - hope you lose a lb this week!

lmn7 - thank you. how about jammy dodgers? 83 cals and 1g protein each

[rainbowflower]

going to be really good on the diet now until OV, so here is day one:


cream crackers, cheese, apple: 381 calories, 14.1g protein, 14.4g fat, 220mg sodium (for 8 with cheddar)
4 marshmallows: 95 calories, 0.9g protein, trace fat, trace sodium
2 wW choc slic: 176 calories, 3.2g protein, 5g fat, 140mg sodium

lunch total: 652 calories, 18.1g protein, 19.4g fat, 360mg sodium


homemade tomato soup: 150cals-ish
2 slices of toast: 192 calories, 7g protein, 1.8g fat, 320mg sodium
4 jammy dodgers: 332 calories, 4g protein, 11.2g fat, trace sodium

total tea: 674 calories, 11g protein, 13g fat, 320mg sodium



total today: 1326 calories, 29.1g protein, 32.4g fat, 680mg sodium

[HopeandDreamG]

hey peeps hope your all well, RF huni im sorry to hear of your loss 2 years ago, i had no idea, big hugs to you hun xx
quick question, does anyone have any food ideas for cals wise but low in protein ?

check this out:
http://genderdreaming.com/forum/ttc-girl/6976-quick-fixes-diet-disasters.html

[littlemissnaughty7]

hey yeah thanks RF, now i dont know if im being silly but if i kept within the limits could you have pasta ad a jacket potatoe in one day, here is my link to my DH planned sway day is this all correct or have i calculated wrong Ashone7's Food Diary | MyFitnessPal.com (http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/ashone7?date=2012-01-01)

[littlemissnaughty7]

ooh thanks hun

[littlemissnaughty7]

oh im finding it real hard to find the potassium in all my food so i know im getting enough, ?

[amari]

Hooeanddream-can you have red raspberry leaf tea? That us supposed to be good for your lining too.

Drama-looks good!

[HopeandDreamG]

oh im finding it real hard to find the potassium in all my food so i know im getting enough, ?

most companies don't list it on the lables bc they are not required to. I'm kinda of assuming eating 1100-1500 cal I'm getting enough potassium.

[HopeandDreamG]

Hooeanddream-can you have red raspberry leaf tea? That us supposed to be good for your lining too.

Drama-looks good!

Is it OK with saw palmetto and vitex?

[zanacal]

dramabird - if I were you I would zig-zag your calories a bit. Your body gets used to the same amount of calories each day and learns to stabilise your weight at that intake. You might have 4 days of 1500 calories, 2 at 1700 and 1 at 1900 each week so you're still averaging the same calories per week but your body doesn't know what to expect iykwim?

[dramabird]

Thank you, zana -- def. worth a try. Today was a bad diet day. I just tallied everything and somehow, by eating about 300 fewer cals than I have been, I went way over on sodium and protein. How did I manage that ...?

I am thinking I will have to make smoothies out of just strawberries and rice milk and drop the kefir ... even without it, I think I can at least hit the min. calcium amounts (usually I am around 1200-1300 ... today was 1700+ ... weird-a** diet day!).

Grump, grump, grump ...

But you gals seem to be doing great on your values, so you will be my role models! :)

[rainbowflower]

Hooeanddream-can you have red raspberry leaf tea? That us supposed to be good for your lining too.

Drama-looks good!

I drink it every day for that reason (when AF has gone, anyway!), although it also does hormone balancing too

[amari]

Do you think Nutella is ok to eat or no b/c it has chocolate and hazelnut?But don't know if it is too nutritious or junky enough? I need to add a little fat in my diet today, weighed and down to 91.9 this morning.Don't want to add too much fat of course, b/c hopefully o'ing in next week, but don't want to keep dropping!Thanks!

[amari]

Never mind, I ate a mini cupcake instead! And bread with loads of butter...

[littlemissnaughty7]

thats a good question actually is nuttella alowed lol ?

[rainbowflower]

no, I would say it isn't a good choice. It contains nuts which are good at keeping blood glucose level and slow-release, not what you want for pink!

[Out of the Blue]

no, I would say it isn't a good choice. It contains nuts which are good at keeping blood glucose level and slow-release, not what you want for pink!

Also nuts are really good at increasing testosterone...:(

Think I'll add Nutella to my "Fav foods to eat when I get my BFP" list...:p

Editing to add, you can eat anything in moderation on the LE diet but Nutella is something you'd want to skip as it would not do a pink swayer any favors. Eating that cupcake was a much better choice :agree: Sorry keeping your weight on is such a chore!

[dramabird]

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear ... I still had it in my mind from IG that I should be getting a lot of calcium, while not going above any of the LE limits (I was getting it through diets, not any supps). But Atomic says we shouldn't probably exceed 800 calcium in a day. So are you gals drinking milk, eating yogurt, cheese, etc.? Which dairy products are you avoiding? Man, just when I think I have a handle on this ...

[littlemissnaughty7]

ok nutella goes in the bin lol, i know this may sound silly (or maybe not lol) can you drink tap water on the LE diet and if so how much and can you drink it in the mornings, or drink anything in the mornings ???

[suregena]

Ugh. I've been hit down with a horrible cold and I feel SO hungry today. :( I've eaten a lot more meerkat jellies to try to counteract the hunger. :/ Just not doing it...

Morning: 1 coffee with 1% soymilk

Lunch: 3 ryvita crispbreads, 3 dairylea LIGHT triangles, iceberg lettuce, Dr Pepper zero, weight watchers carrot cake slice

Dinner: Long grain rice, 2 tablespoons low fat creme fraiche, button mushrooms, some plain tinned tomatoes, 2 corn tortillas, 1 weight watchers carrot cake slice, meerkat jellies, Dr Pepper zero

little bit after, had 1 Ritz cracker (sooo hungry! Oops...) and some of my son's raisins!

More meerkat jellies just a little bit ago and peppermint tea.

Still hungry, though. :(

The calories mostly came from those meerkat jellies, though!

Calories: 1,461
Fat: 11
Protein: 29
Sodium: 759

[amari]

I don't count my calcium. I think I must get too much b/c I use sour cream, cream cheese, lite swiss, frozen yougurt etc everyday. That is probably the one nutrient dept I go over. If I didn't I would disappear into nothing. I need those calories to come from somewhere other than mike and ikes!

ootb-thanks for the pep talk! It is such a balancing act for me!

suregena-I am hungry too. I keep playing around with the times I eat. Today I had to have brekkie at 9.

[suregena]

Yeah, hungry. Don't know if it is because of AF or what. I hope work goes smoothly tomorrow.

I had some semi-dark chocolate chips just a little bit ago... :( Thankfully I'm low on fat today... but... oooof!

[HopeandDreamG]

Think I'm doing pretty good:
What do you think?

1pm: 4 egg whites, 1 slice low sodium cheese, 1 serving hint of salt wheat thins, 2 rice cakes
3pm: 6 hint of salt triscuits
Dinner: 2 matzah, 1/4 c.sauce, 1/4 mozzerella
Will have snack later after kids go to bed and I can relax and watch a show!

Totals:
Calories: 789 (I'll have some candy later)
Fat: 22 g
Socium:695
Protein:31g

Oh I didnt add when I was out I had a non fat latte!
I'm not keeping track of calcium. Am I supposed to be? I'm doing LE and watching my calories, sodium, protein intake. I cut out all meat.

[Mochagirl]

I found that dairy products in general were too high in protein and/or sodium anyway, so I only included a little. I didn't drink any milk, but I did put parmesan cheese on my pasta. I also ate a bit of ice cream and once in a blue moon some yogurt. That was about it. I was definitely waaaaay blow the daily recommended allowance of calcium.

dramabird - I love your avatar, BTW. Labyrinth, right? :bigsmile:

[amari]

Think I'm doing pretty good:
What do you think?

1pm: 4 egg whites, 1 slice low sodium cheese, 1 serving hint of salt wheat thins, 2 rice cakes
3pm: 6 hint of salt triscuits
Dinner: 2 matzah, 1/4 c.sauce, 1/4 mozzerella
Will have snack later after kids go to bed and I can relax and watch a show!

Totals:
Calories: 789 (I'll have some candy later)
Fat: 22 g
Socium:695
Protein:31g

Oh I didnt add when I was out I had a non fat latte!
I'm not keeping track of calcium. Am I supposed to be? I'm doing LE and watching my calories, sodium, protein intake. I cut out all meat.

Your calories are so low! Why not add some more in there? :o

[dramabird]

dramabird - I love your avatar, BTW. Labyrinth, right? :bigsmile:

You got it, Mocha! I think Jareth was my first love. :HH:

[laughinglynxie]

Eek! What do you do about midnight munchies? I feel just RAVENOUS right now! :nails:

[rainbowflower]

yesterdays food (CD2):


cream crackers, cheese, apple Total: 315 calories, 12.5g protein, 13.2g fat, 220mg sodium (for 6 with cheddar)
2 wW choc slic: 176 calories, 3.2g protein, 5g fat, 140mg sodium
1 small slice sponge cake 176 calories, 2g protein, 7g fat, 0g sodium

total lunch: 667 calories, 17.7g protein, 25.2g fat, 360mg sodium



homemade tomato soup: 150cals-ish
2 slices of toast: 192 calories, 7g protein, 1.8g fat, 320mg sodium
2 jammy dodgers: 166 calories, 2g protein, 5.6g fat, trace sodium

total tea: 508 calories, 9g protein, 7.4g fat, 320mg sodium



total today: 1175 calories, 26.7g protein, 32.6g fat, 680mg sodium


I'm getting better at eating more calories this time around!

[Mochagirl]

You got it, Mocha! I think Jareth was my first love. :HH:

I've been a Bowie fanatic much of my life :HH:

[HopeandDreamG]

Rainbowflower/amari- so the raspberry leaf tea is good for the lining. Didn't understand if you said it was ok with saw palmetto and vitex!

[rainbowflower]

Rainbowflower/amari- so the raspberry leaf tea is good for the lining. Didn't understand if you said it was ok with saw palmetto and vitex!

I don't know much about SP (not taking it) but I do drink the RLT alongside the vitex and not had any issues

[Mochagirl]

I think RRL tea is ok with Saw Palmetto. I wasn't taking both at the same time, but I'm fairly sure lots of women do.

[littlemissnaughty7]

did anyone see my post about drinking tap water on this diet is it ok ??? and can you drink it in the mornings ??

[Out of the Blue]

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear ... I still had it in my mind from IG that I should be getting a lot of calcium, while not going above any of the LE limits (I was getting it through diets, not any supps). But Atomic says we shouldn't probably exceed 800 calcium in a day. So are you gals drinking milk, eating yogurt, cheese, etc.? Which dairy products are you avoiding? Man, just when I think I have a handle on this ...

D-bird, I don't take calcium supps right now and I don't make any concerted effort to get my daily dose of calcium in my food. I'm hoping the diet will be short-term but if it turns into several mos, I'll probably rethink things and add calcium into my diet via food while still skipping the supps. I can check my calcium intake when I log food on MyFitnessPal.com and it's usually in the 800 range w/out trying.

As far as adding dairy into my diet, I've taken the same approach as Mocha. Dairy is an afterthought for me and I use it sparingly to enhance the taste of food while using a small amount. I don't put cheese on a sandwich b/c I don't want to spend that much fat/protein/sodium in one small place but it's totally doable if you fit it into your daily intake. The dairy I include is usually quark, goat cheese, pecorino-romano and every now and then a bit of low-fat yogurt. Other than that, dairy doesn't really enter the picture. Instead of milk, I drink a splash of low-cal rice milk in my a.m. coffee/tea or smoothies.

[rainbowflower]

I didn't see you mention water, but I think that would be fine! I drink it, and certainly make my cups of tea using tapwater :)

also, don't worry about drinking any drinks in the morning. Even if you have a hot choc, it's still so low calories/nutrition it won't be enough to get your metabolism started for the day so it will still count as fasting

[Out of the Blue]

Think I'm doing pretty good:
What do you think?

1pm: 4 egg whites, 1 slice low sodium cheese, 1 serving hint of salt wheat thins, 2 rice cakes
3pm: 6 hint of salt triscuits
Dinner: 2 matzah, 1/4 c.sauce, 1/4 mozzerella
Will have snack later after kids go to bed and I can relax and watch a show!

Totals:
Calories: 789 (I'll have some candy later)
Fat: 22 g
Socium:695
Protein:31g

Oh I didnt add when I was out I had a non fat latte!
I'm not keeping track of calcium. Am I supposed to be? I'm doing LE and watching my calories, sodium, protein intake. I cut out all meat.

If you can up those cals a bit to around 1400 or more while still staying in the other LE ranges, that's great! I usually can get to 1200ish and then I get stuck so I add sugar. That's great that you cut out all meat...if you ate it often and now don't, your body will sure take notice, especially keeping protein under 40g.

[Out of the Blue]

Eek! What do you do about midnight munchies? I feel just RAVENOUS right now! :nails:

Drinking fizzy no-cal drinks or very warm water can help fill you up. Not as satisfying as actual food but it can help...Sorry! Hang in there!

[littlemissnaughty7]

ok RF thanks hun, another quickie........ question that is lol, am i right in thinking you can eat as much pasta as you want as long as you stay in your daily limits ???

[Out of the Blue]

Rainbowflower/amari- so the raspberry leaf tea is good for the lining. Didn't understand if you said it was ok with saw palmetto and vitex!

I think the others already answered this for the most part but wanted to say Vitex + RLT is okay together! Never took SP but sounds like Mocha's got you covered w/her answer there...

[Out of the Blue]

ok RF thanks hun, another quickie........ question that is lol, am i right in thinking you can eat as much pasta as you want as long as you stay in your daily limits ???

If you can make it fit that's okay but try to get rice pasta or something w/out a lot of vitamins. A lot of pastas out there have extra nutrients in there so you want to find the lower nutrient ones (usually rice pasta works but check on the box!).

[littlemissnaughty7]

00TB do you mean like carbs ive just looked at my pasta and it says 29.6g carbs per 100g pasta is that too much ???

[littlemissnaughty7]

it doesnt say anything about vitamins on the packet,

[Out of the Blue]

As of Saturday a.m., I went back to skipping breakkie but am trying to pull lunch in. I would like to eat my 1st meal at 12:00 but have to make it 11:00 b/c I’m in the car then. I got superstitious and was also struggling to put food in my tummy in the a.m. so I’ve reverted back. I also got really hungry at 7 when my last meal was 4ish. Hope this new plan will work out for me…

Yesterday:
A.M.
• 2 C. black tea w/splash of rice milk

11:00
• Green drink w/cran juice and loads of psyllium

3:00
• Sauteed leeks/mushrooms/shirataki noodles (the low cal ones w/basically nothing in them)/quark
• Whipped lite topping & strawberry jam on coco pops (those popped corn cakes which are 14 cals each)

6:45
• Froz raspberry/coconut water/psyllium husk smoothie
• Canned pumpkin/1/4 C. low fat plain yogurt/cinnamon/stevia/benefiber
• Trader Joe’s seaweed strips
• Ricemellow cream (vegan marshmallow crème)
• 1/3 C. Puffins cereal

Totals:
• Cals: 1,515
• Fat: 23
• Protein: 45
• Fiber: 77
• Sodium: 799

I also drink 4 C. Peppermint Tea and 2 C. RL tea along w/water throughout the day. I really struggled w/dinner as I kept trying to get enough cals in, hence the seaweed, ricemellow, cereal. I went a bit over on protein but I’m okay w/that…

[littlemissnaughty7]

the other things it states are fibre 1.7g, sodium trace, fat 0.7g, protein 4.6g, thats it,

[Out of the Blue]

I think someone was talking about Potassium in this thread (although it could have been in a different one...:oops:)...It's hard to really know how much we're actually getting as it's not included on labels usually but I'm pretty sure that eating the few cals I was in Dec., I was under my levels so I tried to drink coconut water to boost levels. I still try to do so from time to time (at 1400 - 1600 cals) b/c I want to make sure I have enough. Atomic doesn't believe it really sways and if it did, the levels would have to be off the charts to make a difference in swaying blue. 2500 - 3500 should be our target. Just wanted to add this in case someone was still questioning Potassium.

[Out of the Blue]

it doesnt say anything about vitamins on the packet,

I think a lot of them are "enriched" w/vitamins. If you see the word "enriched" I would tend to think it's got more vitamins in it. Mocha, isn't this what you've found?

[Mochagirl]

You know, honestly, I never was able to find regular pasta that didn't have all that added stuff. Last summer while swaying I only ate rice pasta, but this time around I was worried about my iron after the m/c so decided to eat regular pasta since it's fortified with iron. I figured there are far worse things I could be eating than fortified white pasta....

[littlemissnaughty7]

doesnt say enriched either i think i may stick to this pasta as the rice pasta i can find in a store in the uk states 80g carbs per 100g pasta !!!! and the one im using is 29.6g of carbs, big jump hey lol, mocha how many grams of pasta were you eating in one meal hun ???

[Mochagirl]

1 serving of the pasta I ate was 85g. I normally ate 1.5 servings, so about 130g, then 30g of parmesan. The only way I could do this was by making sure my lunch was under 10g of protein - an easy sacrifice, since I love my pasta and it felt good to have a full plate of food at supper time. When I ate rice pasta, I had 2 servings each meal because a serving size is smaller - 56g. I always thought rice pasta was soooooo much lower in protein than regular pasta, until I realised how much smaller a portion is. It's still lower, but not by as much.

[littlemissnaughty7]

i love pasta too lol, how much protein would you normally have eaten on the diet a day hun ?

[Mochagirl]

I kept to 40g max, though most days I was at more like 35g.

[amari]

i eat pasta a lot, just the white pasta I get from trader joes. It has some iron and a few nutrients in it, but not too much. It has 7g protein per serving, 1/2 c dry which is not much, and 200 cal. I eat 1 cup dry, so I am getting 400 cal and 14 g protein, I then add a little under 1 tbls low-fat butter (Balade) and some sprinkable parmesan. So that is about 500 cal, I eat this with a big iceburg lettuce salad that has cucumber and white mushrooms and raspberry vinegrette also from trader joes and that is dinner. It has about 550 cal.

[suregena]

You got it, Mocha! I think Jareth was my first love. :HH:

My nephew is called Jareth. :) Yes, from The Labyrinth!

[suregena]

Doh! There is "salt" listed in the ingredients of the chilli powder I've used sometimes (I don't use tons of it!) but I'm not sure how much... it doesn't taste very salty.

Well, that's out forever.... er, until I'm pregnant. My AF is down to pink/spotting today... luckily I tend to keep so low on sodium in general that whatever amount in it won't hurt me. :/ :(

[rainbowflower]

today (CD3) so far:
Lunch:
Sainsburys golden rice - 232 calories, 5.8g protein, 3g fat, trace sodium
2 WW jaffa mini rolls - 154 calories, 1.8g protein, 5.8g fat, 50mg sodium

Total: 386 calories, 7.6g protein, 8.8g fat, 50mg sodium


Tea:
Home made veggie lasagne - 144+150+270 calories, 1g+9.4g protein, 11.8+1.1g fat, 700mg sodium
2 garlic baguette slices - 194 calories, 5g protein, 7.2g fat, 240mg sodium
green beans - 50 calories

Total: 808 calories, 15.4g protein, 20.1g fat, 940mg sodium

Daily totals: 1194 calories, 23g protein, 28.9g fat, 990mg sodium

[Out of the Blue]

Doh! There is "salt" listed in the ingredients of the chilli powder I've used sometimes (I don't use tons of it!) but I'm not sure how much... it doesn't taste very salty.

Well, that's out forever.... er, until I'm pregnant. My AF is down to pink/spotting today... luckily I tend to keep so low on sodium in general that whatever amount in it won't hurt me. :/ :(

No worries....it doesn't sound like sodium really sways that much anyway...it's the other things like protein/fat/cals. You'll be preggo soon enough anyway! You are doing a fabulous job w/the diet, Suregena!

[littlemissnaughty7]

i just posted this on another thread so sorry if you read this twice, are your DH'S doing the LE diet with you, or are they supposed to do it at all, if not what are they doing if anything to help sway girl ??

[suregena]

I'm certainly trying! I think, so far on this diet (by a rough guess as I didn't weigh myself at the start of it) I've lost about at least 6-8 lbs. Hope that's good enough, but even so...

December 23rd I weighed 111.5 pounds (using my son's childminder's scale, sneakily... heeh. Asked her if I could "use her bathroom")

January 10th I weigh 107 pounds (same story as above, haha!)

I think at my lowest ever weight after I had my son (with breastfeeding when it was his main source of nutrition) was 109lbs.

Before I was pregnant with him, I was more 123ish.

So, regardless, I've never been 107lbs as far as I know, like... ever in my adult life. So, that's got to count for something! :p

For all I know, my body weight and the breastfeeding was already going to sway for me whether I found out about swaying or not!

Well, I can think that, anyway.

Food today:

Morning: 1 cup peppermint tea, half a cup coffee (felt headachey and sick this morning but didn't want to cave on ANY sort of food)
Morning (9am) at work: 1 cup of coffee
11am at work: another half a cup of coffee (I didn't finish it)

Lunch: 1 WHOLE pack of meerkat jellies (I was hungrrrrrrry!), 4 Ryvita crackerbreads (have started on them now as they are even lower in everything then the crispbreads and will be going to 3 of them tomorrow, was just extra hungry today!) with 2 light dairylea cheese triangle servings and iceberg lettuce, and 1 weight watchers carrot cake slice

On the way home from work: (seriously hungry, bah!) nearly 80g worth of jelly beans! Oy vey!

Dinner: 1 serving long grain rice, with 2 tablespoons low fat creme fraiche, button mushrooms, 1 serving cauliflower, with pepper and a little chili powder. 1 Dr Pepper zero.

later I'll have another weight watchers slice and another cup of peppermint tea.

Calories: 1,311
Fat: 9
Protein: 28
Sodium: 393


Is it bad to be higher in protein versus fat? I've been trying to aim for lower fat rather than protein, though I read atomic say protein may sway "harder" but then something about lower fat still being better.

?

So, do those numbers look okay?

I cannot believe my AF is down to spotting! :nails:

[suregena]

i just posted this on another thread so sorry if you read this twice, are your DH'S doing the LE diet with you, or are they supposed to do it at all, if not what are they doing if anything to help sway girl ??



My husband is NOT doing the diet.
He is taking licorice root 3x a day, though.

But that's it.

However, I should mention my husband is vegetarian (so am I). We both have been for years.

Maybe your hubby could cut back on meat, if anything, diet wise?

I don't know if it matters, though, to be honest.

[littlemissnaughty7]

ok thanks suregena hun, meat seems to be the big no no doesnt it, is there any other food thats a big no no, ??
is anyone elses hubbys doing the diet i think i remember AS saying they dont need to but cant find the post ?

[rainbowflower]

i just posted this on another thread so sorry if you read this twice, are your DH'S doing the LE diet with you, or are they supposed to do it at all, if not what are they doing if anything to help sway girl ??
DH isn't, although if I cook a main meal he'll often eat it (i.e. veggie lasagne, veggie curry, pitta bread pizza, tomato pasta, etc). For men, being overweight actually helps sway pink by lowering T levels (and sperm count).

ok thanks suregena hun, meat seems to be the big no no doesnt it, is there any other food thats a big no no, ??
high-potassium foods, nutrient-rich foods, high sodium foods mainly! pretty much rules out most tasty food!

[Mochagirl]

My DH didn't do the diet at all or even take any supplements. He doesn't believe in swaying.

[littlemissnaughty7]

well my DH is 5ft 11" and weighs 11 & 1/2 stone, so not overweight by a long shot, so should i get him to stop the LE diet as will him losing weight sway blue RF, does it def not make any difference if he does the diet or not ??

[littlemissnaughty7]

ok i think ive overdosed on pasta.......... can someone help me out, i have eaten 150g of uncooked pasta, now should i have eaten 150g of cooked pasta i cant get my head around it lol,

[Mochagirl]

On my package, it says clearly that the serving size is for UNCOOKED pasta. You did the right thing ;).

[rainbowflower]

eek I ate two panna cotta's with my lunch... BEFORE checking the values on the pack. I thought "how bad can they be? they're only milky puddings.." EEEK

[littlemissnaughty7]

well im still not sure whats goin on with this pasta theory, my mom says i should of eaten 150g of cooked pasta as eating 150g of uncooked is like eating a horse, (even tho i only had baby pasta sauce with it) im confused still lol, where is AS when you need her lol,

[suregena]

I feel like I'm snacking again, too much... even if it's candy...

[rainbowflower]

LMN - I never weigh pasta (very rarely), I just tip it into my hand dry as I add it to the saucepan and add 1.5 handfuls per person. Personally I wouldn't stress about it unless you're not losing weight :)

I know Atomic considers one cup of COOKED pasta to be one portion, but says most will have two portions with a meal

[rainbowflower]

I feel like I'm snacking again, too much... even if it's candy...

:( I really miss snacking...

[dramabird]

ok i think ive overdosed on pasta.......... can someone help me out, i have eaten 150g of uncooked pasta, now should i have eaten 150g of cooked pasta i cant get my head around it lol,

I just checked a few packages of pasta I have in the cupboard. It indicates that a single serving is 2 oz. (about 56 grams) of DRY pasta. So you were correct in measuring dry ... but if you ate 150 grams, that would be three serving sizes. No problem so long as that was your intent and your daily values can afford them.

[dramabird]

I've had some weird days here. Given that I hadn't lost any weight the previous week, I decided I needed to drop calories. I managed that on Jan. 8, but some of my other values, like sodium and protein, went farther over the maximum limits than I've done since starting the LE diet. I also discussed the whole calcium thing with Atomic; I was still trying to do IG levels, but she thinks we really ought to go low-nutrient across the board, including calcium (and I haven't been calculating my magnesium anyway). So Jan. 8's calcium limits were crazy high but I'm going to try to keep them below 800 from now on. I won't mind dropping the rice milk ... no love lost there! And while I like the yogurt just fine, if I can swap those calories and whatnot for candy and cookies instead, and have it still be good for my sway, who am I to argue? ;)

Also, I really find myself seesawing on this diet! Compared to Jan. 8, on Jan. 9 I went really low on protein, calcium and sodium, but my calories were back up.

Then on Jan. 10, I went so low on everything, I was able to indulge in three big chocolate chip cookies fresh from the oven (drool!), while still logging in my lowest calorie day to date (along with low sodium, low protein, low calcium and fat levels that were within accepted limits).

Who knows what the next days will bring? :p

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Jan. 8

Morning:
CF Diet Coke

Lunch:
folic acid, Trader Joe's Psyllium Husk (fiber), Saw Palmetto, acidophilus and Vitex.
1 slice Wonder bread with 1/2 Tbsp. jelly and 1 teaspoon light margarine
1 slice Wonder bread with 1 slice low-sodium cheese
1/2 cup no-salt-added green beans
8 oz. skim milk
Activia Fiber yogurt

Afternoon:
CF Diet Coke

Dinner:
1 slice Wonder bread with 2 egg whites (cooked using cooking spray) and 1/2 Tbsp. mayo
Smoothie of 1 cup rice milk, 1 cup strawberries, 1/2 cup kefir
1/2 cup no-salt-added green beans
Activia Fiber yogurt
4 Keebler Coconut Dreams cookies
Blue Bunny Orange Dream ice cream bar

Evening:
CF Diet Coke

Before bed:
Saw Palmetto and Vitex

Totals:
Calories: 1330
Calories from fat: 350
Fat grams: 41.5
Sodium: 1147
Protein: 46.5
Calcium: 1720

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Jan. 9

Morning:
CF Diet Coke

Lunch:
folic acid, Trader Joe's Psyllium Husk (fiber), Saw Palmetto, acidophilus and Vitex.
1 slice Wonder bread with 1/2 Tbsp. jelly and 1 teaspoon light margarine
1/2 cup no-salt-added green beans
16 "Hint of Salt" Wheat Thins
2 Keebler Coconut Dreams cookies
Crystal Light
1/3 can of peaches

Afternoon:
CF Diet Coke

Dinner:
Stirfry with one serving consisting of 1 cup rice, 1/2 zucchini, 1/2 cup mushrooms, 1 leek, 1/4 bell pepper and 1 Tbsp. butter
8 oz. red wine
Whatchamacallit candy bar
1 chocolate/marshmallow cookie
5 Starburst candies

Before bed:
Saw Palmetto and Vitex

Totals:
Calories: 1560
Calories from fat: 410
Fat grams: 46
Sodium: 572
Protein: 16.5
Calcium: 270

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Jan. 10

Morning:
single peppermint tea (1 bag, 2 Equals) -- I'm not going to go excessive on the pep tea since I'm taking Saw Palmetto, but it seems to help me get through a workday morning of no calories whatsoever.

Lunch:
Half a serving of leftover stirfry. I intended to eat the whole thing, but it just wasn't that appetizing to me.
1/8 cup Skittles
CF Diet Coke

Dinner:
1 capsule Chitosan (I haven't gotten in the habit of taking this yet, so I had forgotten the past day or two)
1/2 cup Trader Joe's organic, low-sodium butternut squash soup
1 slice Wonder bread with 2 egg whites (cooked using cooking spray) and 1/2 Tbsp. mayo
1/2 cup no-salt-added green beans
1/3 can of peaches
Crystal Light
4 oz. red wine
Three chocolate chip cookies (OMG, so good -- high in just about everything, but my other values from the day were so low I could fit them in ... just these three cookies made up like a third of my day's calories! LOL)

Evening:
CF Diet Coke

Before bed:
Saw Palmetto and Vitex

Totals:
Calories: 1133
Calories from fat: 295
Fat grams: 33.5
Sodium: 635.5
Protein: 21.75
Calcium: 220

[dramabird]

:( I really miss snacking...

Amen, sister!

[Mochagirl]

well im still not sure whats goin on with this pasta theory, my mom says i should of eaten 150g of cooked pasta as eating 150g of uncooked is like eating a horse, (even tho i only had baby pasta sauce with it) im confused still lol, where is AS when you need her lol,

It really depends on what type of pasta you're eating. Just make sure to read the package and measure out a portion according to what they say. As I said, all my pasta says to measure it out dry. A serving works out to be about a cup once cooked, but I always ate 1.5 servings of regular pasta (which are 85g dry each), so about 130g. A serving of rice pasta is only 56g dry.

Don't worry about what your Mom says as long as you know the nutritional info for your particular brand of pasta and make sure you stay within your daily limits for calories and protein.

[littlemissnaughty7]

ok il try to stop fussing about the pasta lol, ok il move onto calories lol, does anyone have any other quick fixs for calories (more) but not high in carbs ??

[suregena]

I didn't think there was anything wrong with carbs?

[suregena]

Dinner is my favorite time of the day. I look forward to dinner ever day. All I think about is dinner during the day.

Is this what my life has become?

Who would ever, in their right mind, be anxious to hurry up and get home to have a bowl of rice... mushrooms... cauliflower... and creme fraiche?

But when you're starving, it's divine.

And... I'm always hungry.
:P

[rainbowflower]

CD4:

Lunch:
Savoury golden rice: 232 calories, 5.8g protein, 3g fat, trace sodium
2 raspberry panna cotta: 590 calories *cough*, 4.8g protein, 48.6g fat *cough, again*, 40mg sodium
Total: 822 calories, 10.6g protein, 51.6g fat, 40mg sodium

Tea:
Home made veggie lasagne - 144+150+270 calories, 1g+9.4g protein, 11.8+1.1g fat, 700mg sodium
green beans - 50 calories
Total: 614 calories, 10.4g protein, 12.9g fat, 700mg sodium

Daily Total: 1436 calories, 21g protein, 64.5g fat, 740mg sodium

[suregena]

CD4:

2 raspberry panna cotta: 590 calories *cough*, 4.8g protein, 48.6g fat *cough, again*, 40mg sodium


:eek: You were not kidding!
Oh, no! Oh well... it is just one day!

[Mochagirl]

Dinner is my favorite time of the day. I look forward to dinner ever day. All I think about is dinner during the day.

Is this what my life has become?

Who would ever, in their right mind, be anxious to hurry up and get home to have a bowl of rice... mushrooms... cauliflower... and creme fraiche?

But when you're starving, it's divine.

And... I'm always hungry.
:P

:rofl: That was my life EXACTLY while I was on the diet. I LIVED for dinner, even though it was the same, boring thing every night.

This too shall pass, my dear. Soon enough you'll be knocked up and off the diet.

[littlemissnaughty7]

ha ha love your day RF, well i have read many posts on the net that say low carbs may sway girl, so now im like what the hec am i supposed to eat lol,

[suregena]

Morning: Low everything hot chocolate sachet (found it at the store! It's actually lower than my usual morning coffee...)
A little later: cup of coffee with 1% soy milk

Leading up to lunch: jelly beans and jelly merrkats
Lunch: 4 ryvita crackerbreads, 2 dairylea light triangle servings, iceberg lettuce, Dr Pepper zero, 1 weight watchers carrot cake slice
1 strawberry (someone I work with offered!)

Dinner: long grain rice, mushrooms, cauliflower (with an extra serving... I was STARVING. I was rubber. I barely made it home without falling onto the floor in a pile of boneless skin. Seriously, that's how I felt. Don't know what's up with me today...) and creme fraiche... and a weight watchers toffee cookie packet.

And I am still hungry. Ugggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Calories: 1,314
Fat: 14
Protein: 29
Sodium: 503

AF definitely over... just spotting and very little. When should I start repHresh? I am SUPPOSED to O on the 18th, doesn't mean I will, though.

[suregena]

:rofl: That was my life EXACTLY while I was on the diet. I LIVED for dinner, even though it was the same, boring thing every night.

This too shall pass, my dear. Soon enough you'll be knocked up and off the diet.


I hope so!

What was your first "I'm PREGNANT!" dinner?

Heeh.

My husband and I actually have our first post baby date (2 years TOO LATE!) on Monday January 30th. I so hope I have a positive pregnancy test by then so I can eat while we're out. I probably still will regardless, because we haven't been out together since our son was born.

My husband's good friend is visiting us this weekend... for her birthday. This spells all sorts of doom to me. I bet she is going to want to go out to eat. :sigh:

[amari]

Dinner is my favorite time of the day. I look forward to dinner ever day. All I think about is dinner during the day.

Is this what my life has become?

Who would ever, in their right mind, be anxious to hurry up and get home to have a bowl of rice... mushrooms... cauliflower... and creme fraiche?

But when you're starving, it's divine.

And... I'm always hungry.
:P

This made me laugh out loud!!

[HopeandDreamG]

My attempt is about 6 weeks away, so I justified going to dinner with DH because we had a babysitter that promised to take our boys somewhere. I've been so strict I'm thinking this was probably good for my metabolism.....
So I ate way too much bread. We had a shrimp appetizer, I ate olives that were on the table, and I ordered a salad for dinner. It had lettuce, grape tomatoes, feta cheese, olives, and salty pita bread with a rasberry vinegrette. I stayed veggie except the shrimp! I could not bring myself to adding chicken or steak to the salad!! I'm feeling like I'm confessing... Oh and I had 2 glasses of wine (after eating nothing for sometime now it hit me)!! I justified this by thinking soon I'll be pregnant and not able to have any! AND for the finale.....A warm brownie with tons of icecream on top..... Back to the diet today!!!

[HopeandDreamG]

Are these ok? I really like them with a little hummus:
Wasa light rye crispbread:
serving: 2 slices
Calories: 60
Fat:0
Sodium: 70
Protein: 2
I don't think there's any vitamins in them. Guess I'm concerned because it says 17g of whole grain per serving. Too healthy?
Vitamin A:0%
VitaminC: 0%
Calcium:0%
Iron:2%
Ingredients: whole grain rye flour, water, salt.

[Out of the Blue]

Tuesday:

A.M.:
• Black tea w/splash of low-cal rice milk
1st Meal:
• Green Drink w/100% cran juice
2nd Meal:
• Sauteed leeks, mushrooms, & shirataki noodles w/quark
• Air-popped popcorn
• Apple
3rd Meal:
• “Girl Sway Smoothie” (coconut water/frozen raspberries/psyllium husks)
• Lite whipped topping + strawberry jam on popped corn cakes
Drinks throughout the day:
• 4 C. Peppermint tea
• 2 C. RRL tea
• water
Totals:
• Cal – 1,435
• Fat – 21
• Protein – 38
• Fiber – 68
• Sodium – 463

Wednesday:

A.M.:
• Black tea w/splash of low-cal rice milk
1st Meal:
• Green Drink w/100% cran juice
2nd Meal:
• Sauteed leeks, mushrooms, & shirataki noodles w/quark
• Lots of meringue cookies…YUM!
3rd Meal:
• “Girl Sway Smoothie” (coconut water/frozen raspberries/psyllium husks)
• Iceberg salad w/raspberry vinaigrette & chevrai
• Apple
• More meringue cookies…:oops:
Drinks throughout the day:
• 4 C. Peppermint tea
• 2 C. RRL tea
• water
Totals:
• Cal – 1,613
• Fat – 24
• Protein – 41
• Fiber – 51
• Sodium – 753

I was soooooo hungry yesterday!!!

[HopeandDreamG]

What are psyllium husks?