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October 7th, 2019, 04:37 PM
Hi all,
We're about one year out from beginning our sway for a girl (we'll begin the LE diet/exercise in August or September of next year and will begin trying to conceive in November). In the meantime, I was reading through the caloric requirements for the LE diet, and realized that I have literally no idea the caloric/nutritional facts for various foods. I've never counted calories or dieted before, so this is all really new to me! I want to avoid actively counting calories while we're actually swaying (I think I could get too obsessive about it), so to get an idea of how different foods add up ahead of time, I downloaded a calorie/nutrition tracker and started entering my meals (without following a diet at all--just to see kind of where I fall).
I was surprised to see that I have a pretty low caloric intake (around 1200-1300). I'm petite (5'4" and 105 lbs) but I exercise a lot and am breastfeeding. I always eat until I'm full, so I expected it to be on the high end. I did notice that the amount of protein and fat I eat is much higher than the LE diet recommends. We also cook mostly at home, which could contribute to the foods being lower calorie.
So I suppose my question is--do I hold my caloric intake steady at 1200-1300 while on the LE diet, or should I up it to more like 1500-1800, because I'll be eating carbier foods, with less protein and fat? I don't want it to be too low, because I already have trouble keeping weight on, and adding in a whole hour of exercise daily may very well cause me to become too thin to conceive.
Thanks so much for any advice you have! P.S. Can you tell I totally have that boy-mom personality, thinking about these details a whole year in advance? :)
We're about one year out from beginning our sway for a girl (we'll begin the LE diet/exercise in August or September of next year and will begin trying to conceive in November). In the meantime, I was reading through the caloric requirements for the LE diet, and realized that I have literally no idea the caloric/nutritional facts for various foods. I've never counted calories or dieted before, so this is all really new to me! I want to avoid actively counting calories while we're actually swaying (I think I could get too obsessive about it), so to get an idea of how different foods add up ahead of time, I downloaded a calorie/nutrition tracker and started entering my meals (without following a diet at all--just to see kind of where I fall).
I was surprised to see that I have a pretty low caloric intake (around 1200-1300). I'm petite (5'4" and 105 lbs) but I exercise a lot and am breastfeeding. I always eat until I'm full, so I expected it to be on the high end. I did notice that the amount of protein and fat I eat is much higher than the LE diet recommends. We also cook mostly at home, which could contribute to the foods being lower calorie.
So I suppose my question is--do I hold my caloric intake steady at 1200-1300 while on the LE diet, or should I up it to more like 1500-1800, because I'll be eating carbier foods, with less protein and fat? I don't want it to be too low, because I already have trouble keeping weight on, and adding in a whole hour of exercise daily may very well cause me to become too thin to conceive.
Thanks so much for any advice you have! P.S. Can you tell I totally have that boy-mom personality, thinking about these details a whole year in advance? :)