New pink swayer - looking for advice please

Hello All

I have purchased the gold plan and I'm awaiting my personalised plan, and in the mean time I am looking for advice on the following please:

I am doing the LE diet and am wondering, if I skip breakfast and I have lunch at 11ish and then dinner 6ish should that be all I eat and therefore get all my calories in those 2 meals? so 500 + calories per meal? or would you advise dong breakfast at 11, lunch a bot later then dinner at diner time splitting out the calories?

For lunch I had a bagel (not mini) with cream cheese, a helping of iceberg lettuce and cucumber and red pepper. I then had 4 tablespoons of low fat natural yog with 1 kiwi,1 Satsuma and a cup of strawberries (and 3 squares of white choc). I reckon about 500 calories. does this look ok or is it no le/pink friendly?

For dinner was going to have some white rice with a load of green vegetables and an apple? sound ok? will this be enough/ within limits for the day?

Also, drinking peppermint and spearmint tea 3 x a day....can have this early in morning or will it interfere with the low blood sugar thing?

Can't stand to drink coffee...anything else you can suggest that sways similarly to coffee?

I am trying to do the cardio....have been doing an hour of power walking every day so far. not hugely strenuous but increased heart rate for an hour. will this be enough to sway or does it need to be more than just increased heart rate? if so, how about if I bought a cheap cycling machine or does cycling build up too much muscle?

my hubby is a keen jogger...he does at least 3, 3 mile jogs a week. does it sway pink for him to up this?

I saw the thing about alcohol swaying pink... does red wine every night sway pink or blue?

Sorry, I know there are a lot of questions...just find it all quite baffling but amazing!!!!!

Thanks in advance for your help x

You can have 2 or 3 meals, whatever works best for you. Some even go up to 4. the important thing is to not be munching all day long.

Please use whatever schedule and pattern of cal intake works best for you personally and don't be afraid to change it by the day if one day you're hungrier or whatever. The key to sticking with it in the long term is to make it a lifestyle and not this torturous thing.

I need you guys to add up the cals, protein, fat, yourselves. I can't tell anyone from here how much they've eaten because it's all about the portions. The type of foods is great, I just can't totally sign off wihtout knowing amounts.

you can have tea in the morning but I'll have to do your plan to know if it is a good idea for you or not. Not everyone does the tea so you should hold off till I get your plan back to you.

Nothing else sways like coffee. if you can't do it, don't. Tea is blue friendly so skip that

I think I answered these all in the other place you asked them - I do try to answer all questions to keep the forums chock full of info (many forums have dozens of unanswered questions, which I hate), it makes it easier on me if you ask q's just the one time so I don't have to leave questions unanswered or answer the same thing again and again. :)

Thanks so much for the info. Yes I appreciate how busy you are and only posted in 2 separate places as I hadn't worked out how to post in the private msg bit when I posted this. Thanks again, font know how you keep up as you always give such thorough replies!!!!

Thanks! Will get your plan to you as quick as I can.

FYI -- cycling won't necessarily build up muscle. The thing so, so many people miss is that you need calories to build muscle. Anyone dieting and "gaining muscle" is never gaining more than MAYBE 1 pound of muscle total due to something a lot of us in the fitness community call "newb gains" -- a phenomenon where the introduction of weight baring exercise, even when eating at a calorie deficit, can contribute some muscle gain... but it's really quite small. All the people thinking they gain muscle are just retaining existing muscle mass while shedding fat, which makes them look more toned ;)

So what I'm saying is -- cycling is really good cardio. And I was cycling a TON when I got my DD. If you keep your calories and protein lower, you're not going to be gaining muscle. Just don't undereat too much -- I did that, and got a girl, but it's not a healthy habit for sure.

DH jogging already is more girl friendly!

:agree: It is hard under ideal circumstances for women to add muscle. If you're losing even just a bit of weight, or even holding steady, eating lower cals and lower protein, there's just nothing for your body TO add.

Muscle gain is just a theory anyway. Whereas we KNOW that exercise sways pink. So I urge everyone to focus not on theories and speculation (even my own) and just DO WHAT WORKS! which is exercise