For people that want to record what they are eating (to help be strict!)

Ok, here's today:

Breakfast: coffee
Lunch: steamed rice mixed with a couple of TBSP of plain non-fat yogurt, strawberries
Snack: 2 Peek Freans Lifestyles (no sugar) cookies
Supper: caprese salad (a slice of fresh mozzarella, tomato and a bit of basil with balsamic vinegar drizzled on top) (I was making this for my kids and couldn't resist one slice), rice pasta with pesto and parmesan (mmmmmmmmm...so yummy. WHY oh WHY can't we eat garlic on this diet - it would be sooooo much easier if we could eat it!!!), low fat frozen yogurt and a few Nibs for dessert

Calories: 1502
Protein: 40g
Sodium: 922mg

Now I have to start weaning myself back onto the real diet or I'll get into the habit of cheating every day. I'll be 14dpo tomorrow and will be testing again. Wish me luck!

Mmmmmm, garlic, how I miss garlic!

I'm so excited to see more people over here :D :D :D

OoTB - I was unsure about taking Chitosan whilst breastfeeding at first but then I rationalised it by telling myself that I wouldn't think twice about eating shellfish in itself! Tbh, I'm not sure it does a great deal. I'm not BFing anymore either - DS3 would have carried on if I hadn't asked but I gave him the option and he ran to the fridge for a cup of milk! I would have stopped when pregnant anyway (ouch!) and it means I can take Saw Palmetto. Thanks for the feedback on 'zig zagging' (now I even have a name for it!). I'm hoping it will help me to keep on losing weight fast because I'm nervous about getting pregnant without losing enough first!

DM - I did exercise for the first week but I was really worried that I wasn't exercising often enough or hard enough and whilst I think I can do this diet longer term, there's no way I could have stuck with that, so I'm sat on my bum being lazy instead!! We're planning an August or September attempt too :D

This morning I took my youngest 2 to Costa and I had a really yummy latte made with sugar free vanilla syrup and skimmed milk. I also bought some mini muffins and brought home a white chocolate and raspberry one for me to have with my lunch :D I'd have brought 2 home if DS3 hadn't taken another!

Mochagirl - how did you make your spinach and ricotta cannelloni? It sounds so good!

I mixed some thawed frozen spinach with a container of low fat ricotta, 60g of parmesan (2 servings, but this was to make a whole pan for the family) and an egg white (you could leave this out if you're avoiding eggs - I eat them once in a blue moon). I stuffed some oven ready cannelloni shells with the mixture, then put them in a pan with some tomato sauce spread underneath and on top (I mixed low sodium tomato sauce with no sodium stuff and added a few extra spices for flavour), then sprinkled 60g of low fat mozzarella on top. My portion was 1/4 of the pan, and though I don't have the exact nutritional info on hand anymore, it fit in nicely with my daily limits.

Hi all! DH is out of town until Monday and I’ll be Oing in a few days…Glad I postponed my sway b/c we couldn’t have made it work anyway but it’s kind of sad to watch an O go by w/out attempting to get preg, especially having been on the diet for so long while I keep having to postpone TTC. Oh, well…my girl is coming on her own sched I guess.

Mocha, I :heart: portobello burgers! I actually ate them often before the sway so I’m so glad you posted about them to give us the idea. I totally agree w/you on the garlic! Everything I used to cook always had garlic in it…Thankfully we can have LEEKS!!! I think they're my BFF on the diet. That spinach and ricotta cannelloni sounds divine! I’ve been meaning to make zucchini lasagna which has similar ingredients. You use strips of zucchini in place of the pasta. I’ve got to figure it out in my head and then try it. I might try to make your cannelloni first though because it sounds really yummy!

YAY, Doula Mama! I’m focused on August too… I’ve wanted to incorporate exercise into my sway but just as you guys said, I’m afraid I won’t be able to keep it up enough to lower T and instead increase it. :worry: I’m skinny yet flabby now. All muscles are gone, baby, gone…Oh, well. That's what we want, right? I think T is my biggest issue to tackle but I I’ve come a long way since where I was conceiving our two boys. I just hope it’ll be enough…Off to drink more peppermint tea, lol!

Zanacal – here’s a zig-zag calculator if you want…http://www.naturalphysiques.com/64 You’re doing great losing weight and you are swaying HARD! Keep it up…you inspire me!

Thanks for the welcome guys! Wow it sounds like you guys have this diet mastered! I'm excited to peruse this thread from start to finish:) It's cool that some of us are going to be trying around the same time. Question for you guys... I notice that a lot of you are skinny. I am not:( I'm probably 35 lbs over my ideal, comfortable weight. Do you think 6-8 weeks of weight loss and diet will do anything? I'll still be heavy when we ttc:( I'm feeling a bit down today. I conceived all 3 boys on a boyfriendly diet but I was still 20-30lbs overweight when I did. Ugh. I wish I had some willpower.

DM - I'm not skinny!! When I started the girl diet I was 190.5lb and after 5 weeks I'm 172lb. I think the lowest I've been pre-conception is around 155lb, but I'd hit my bottom weight and was putting on again (I'm a yo-yo dieter I'm afraid!). I lost weight before each of my pregnancies but each time I'm pretty sure I was on the way up again because I told myself it really didn't matter if I was going to get fat and pregnant anyway! I don't know whether we'll go for it in August as planned if I haven't lost enough weight because I really want to get to around 150lb, which would be a 40lb loss in total and the lowest I can remember weighing since my late teens. On the other hand, I plan to do a lot to sway pink and therefore lower my chances of even getting pregnant to begin with so perhaps we shouldn't wait until I get to where I ultimately want to be given that it might take us a few months. I'm hoping Atomic will have some helpful advice on this :D

Thanks so much for the information on calorie zig-zagging OoTB, it's really helpful. I think I've cut back way too much on calories for somebody of my weight so I'm going to double up on my pasta and get a bit more in and follow the zig-zagging concept too. It means I get a few more calories a couple of days a week :D

Here's my food today:

Breakfast - coffee with skimmed milk and sweetener
Mid-morning - Skinny latte with sugar free vanilla syrup
Lunch - 2 slices ww white bread with low fat spread and sugar free jam. Costa mini white chocolate and raspberry muffin. Peeled apple.
Snack - 2 custard cream biscuits
Dinner - Double portion of spaghetti with kids tomato and vegetable pasta sauce and 20g parmesan. 1 Fox's Glacier Fruit sweet!

Around 1200 cals, 40g protein and 550mg sodium.

Wow!!! So many new people on this thread:bigsmile:
Everyone sounds like they're doing fab with the diet and we can all keep each other motivated!! I'll write my food later as there were so many posts to read, I've run out of time to write!!!:bigsmile:

Hi Girls! I would like to join in too, if that's ok. I am about to O and my will power is sliding so I think posting my diet should help. I am nursing a 2 yr old. I started out at 157 and I am now 142. I concieved my last two at 145 and 150lbs.

Yesterday I had:

mid morning: glass skim milk, couple strawberries, pitcher cl
Lunch: 2 pieces of low salt bread with diet pb, glass skim milk
supper: 2 pieces of low salt bread with strawberry jam, glass skim milk, pitcher cl

Today so far I have had:
mid morning: glass skim milk, rice cake, pitcher cl
lunch: 1 no salt homemade waffle, glass skim milk

I am trying to really cut down because I will be Oing so soon. looking forward to getting some new ideas from you guys. I am stuck on toast and rice.

Welcome, tweedle! Tell me how you made your saltless waffle! I've been trying to find a way to make pancakes without salt but discovered that baking powder has almost as much sodium in it as salt does and can't find any recipes that don't include it. I know they made sodium free baking powder, but I can't find it anywhere!

Welcome tweddle! Today was a little tricky as it was my sister's birthday and we had friends for lunch
No breakfast
Lunch 1 small piece of delicious onion quiche, salad and French bread with a little humous - all of it was delicious!!! And a cupcake with butter icing. At first I didn't think this was too bad but then my sister revealed she used double cream in the quiche - no wonder it was sooooo good! Never mind!
Dinner risotto with aubergine and mushrooms and Parmesan. A few White chocolate buttons and marshmallows. An apple.
I'm still really pleased that I'm getting through the day without snacking at all!!!
The last few days LOTS of people have commented on how thin I am. My sister even got out photos from a few months ago - oh dear!! Luckily today my sister stuck up for me telling friends I've always been thin and I'm eating normally!! I can't wait for the lies to stop!!

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Welcome, tweedle! Tell me how you made your saltless waffle! I've been trying to find a way to make pancakes without salt but discovered that baking powder has almost as much sodium in it as salt does and can't find any recipes that don't include it. I know they made sodium free baking powder, but I can't find it anywhere!

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I do use baking powder. Mine is 300mg in a tbsp, 1 tbsp in the recipe. My recipe made 14 waffles, I had one, so not too bad! I just skip the salt and use salt free butter in the batter.

Fingers crossed it'll all be worth it swish.

OK, I'm thinking your pancakes are different to the ones we make in the UK because the only ingredients are flour, eggs and milk - I don't add salt but I don't add salt to any recipes anyway. The eggs are a problem of course but ok for a treat, although I'd rather have mine poached on toast :D

Welcome tweedle - I'm thinking I may cut back around O time too. Keep going, you're doing great :D

Yum, poached eggs on granary bread with salt on top!!!!

Yes, swish - I think British pancakes might be more like crepe, right? In North America we like our pancakes big and fluffy :). Tweedle - you make a good point about the baking powder. If I can manage to eat chips once in a while and still stay under 1000mg of sodium, surely I could eat a few pancakes if the entire recipe only has 300mg in it.

Yup, just like crepes! I'm googling diet vegetarian recipes as we speak ...

1 cp of coffee w/aspartame and coffeemate
1 normal coke (out of diet but need caffine)
a small hand full of pita chips
dinner later will be 5oz of pork chops (rosemary, paprika, garlic, black pepper), 1/2 cp white rice, and 1cp of greenbeans
maybe an apple for latenight snack

I don't particularly like pork chops - but that sounds so goooood!

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I don't particularly like pork chops - but that sounds so goooood!

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I was never a fan of pork chops either but when I first met hubby and he was trying to impress me with the few things he can cook he made it with 1 inch chops and on one side he dusted it with rosemary, garlic, paprika, and pepper and cooked it on med/high heat for about 10-12 mins on each side in olive oil. It comes out so juicy and tasty.... now I am starving can't wait until dinner!

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The last few days LOTS of people have commented on how thin I am. My sister even got out photos from a few months ago - oh dear!! Luckily today my sister stuck up for me telling friends I've always been thin and I'm eating normally!! I can't wait for the lies to stop!!

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I'm starting to get comments too. At last weigh-in, I was 111lbs, down from 130lbs. It doesn't sound like much, but the difference when you look at me is striking - all of my clothes are falling off of me, and my normally tubby tummy is flat. I noticed a friend eyeballing me today because I was wearing a fitted tank top. I'm just worried people are going to think I have an eating disorder!

I tell people I am training for a Marathon... no one has to know the turth!

Ok kadies..today I have had:
Breakfast: nothing
Lunch: rasberries with equal and 2 slice low cal/low salt bread
Snack: no salt rice cake
Dinner: calcium pasta, green beans and lil parm
Drinks: normal tons of dasani water with CL, diet caffiene free pepsi

Lol, purple, my friends and family would never believe that of me!!!

That's great, Emmy, are you doing ig diet?

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Lol, purple, my friends and family would never believe that of me!!!

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Me neither! I have a long history of laziness and gluttony, so it's hard to find an excuse that people will believe!

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I'm starting to get comments too. At last weigh-in, I was 111lbs, down from 130lbs. It doesn't sound like much, but the difference when you look at me is striking - all of my clothes are falling off of me, and my normally tubby tummy is flat. I noticed a friend eyeballing me today because I was wearing a fitted tank top. I'm just worried people are going to think I have an eating disorder!

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That's AWESOME!!! When I lost the 20+ lbs. last summer, it came off so fast and b/c of that I was still thinking I was still that weight in my head until I would try to wear my old clothes. I agree w/Purple...make something up like that b/c no one has to know. It just sucks that most of us have to sneak around when we're w/family or friends. Hopefully that'll end soon b/c we'll all have our BFPs...

I sooo want to join the "No Breakfast Club" but I just can't get there yet. Ok...here's my day:

1st Meal:
- 100% cranberry juice & psyllium husks
- decaf coffee and a splash of rice milk

2nd Meal:
- white basmati w/leeks and zucchini
- rice cakes w/hummus

3rd Meal:
- frozen raspberry, strawberry, rice milk, psyllium husk smoothie
- fro-yo :wink:

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Question for you guys... I notice that a lot of you are skinny. I am not:( I'm probably 35 lbs over my ideal, comfortable weight. Do you think 6-8 weeks of weight loss and diet will do anything? I'll still be heavy when we ttc:( I'm feeling a bit down today. I conceived all 3 boys on a boyfriendly diet but I was still 20-30lbs overweight when I did. Ugh. I wish I had some willpower.

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DM - I'm not skinny!! When I started the girl diet I was 190.5lb and after 5 weeks I'm 172lb. I think the lowest I've been pre-conception is around 155lb, but I'd hit my bottom weight and was putting on again (I'm a yo-yo dieter I'm afraid!). I lost weight before each of my pregnancies but each time I'm pretty sure I was on the way up again because I told myself it really didn't matter if I was going to get fat and pregnant anyway! I don't know whether we'll go for it in August as planned if I haven't lost enough weight because I really want to get to around 150lb, which would be a 40lb loss in total and the lowest I can remember weighing since my late teens. On the other hand, I plan to do a lot to sway pink and therefore lower my chances of even getting pregnant to begin with so perhaps we shouldn't wait until I get to where I ultimately want to be given that it might take us a few months. I'm hoping Atomic will have some helpful advice on this :D

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Here's my take on things...YES, YES, YES your weightloss will sway...You're both doing great. I think what really matters is that you have the downward trend going on and you keep that trend while you conceive (and the 2ww) b/c your body is going to think you're continuing to go down and will be better off popping a girl out than a boy. It's going to think, "HOLY *$%&...when is this girl going to eat something!?! Doesn't appear to be anytime soon...better make a girl." I think it's really important that you hit it hard in the week or so before you O and keep it going but of course I think you guys are hitting it hard weeks (months in your case, Zanacal) in advance which is super. I'm sure Atomic would have very interesting things to say.

I agree with OotB...ANY weight loss sways!

I am doing a mixture of IG diet and low everything diet. I am trying to focus on lowering testostrone. I am doing what foods I can on IG without doing the chicken and milk so I am limiting my protein drastically. I dd straight IG diet on my last sway which go me a beautiful boy so I am changing it up a bit to fit more of Atomic's ideas. What I listed today and yesterday is pretty much what I am doing everyday I just change my fruit from either strawberries or rasberries. I am only really doing the fruit so I have something to lather equal on! lol

Here's today:

Breakfast: coffee
Lunch: low fat swiss cheese sandwich on low sodium bread (with about 1/2 tsp of low fat mayo), strawberries
Supper: rice pasta with zucchini, leeks and parmesan, rice milk, one of ds's fries (I was amazed by my restraint once I tasted one)
Snack: strawberries, raspberries, Skinny Cow Ice Cream sandwich

Calories: 1352
Protein: 41g
Sodium: 769mg

mocha, we´re having a barbeque tomorrow and I wanted to make your mushroom burger but I can´t find it anymore. Could you please tell me how you made it, I remember you marinated the mushrooms in balsamico, but what did you add to make it stick together? TIA

I just took a portobello mushroom, cut off the stem, marinated the whole thing in balsamic, then put it on the grill. I found it flared up a lot the first time, so the second time I covered the grill with foil first and it worked better. I think I grilled it for maybe 5 minutes per side, then I put a slice of low fat cheese on top (I used provolone), waited for it to melt and was done. I ate it on a low sodium bun with a touch of mayo and a slice of tomato. A slice of cucumber might work too. Enjoy!

So....af arrived today so I'm officially going to be on this diet at least another month. Not happy about that at all. Now I have to figure out what to do with my cottage visit right around O-time. We'll have my parents, my brother's family and our family packed into a 2.5 bedroom cottage, and there's nowhere I can steal away to with dh to dtd. I just looked at the calendar, and we're planning to be at the cottage from the 15th until the 19th, and I'm due to O on the 19th based on my usual cd12 ovulation, or the 21st if Vitex delays O 2 days again. For once I'm hoping O comes 2 days later because it would be easier. I could have dh release daily in the shower, then we could dtd on the 19th, 20th and 21st for our attempt (not as much bd as we did this time, but better than nothing). If O comes on time, I don't know what we'll do.:nails:

Oh, Mocha, so sorry to hear about AF. Hopefully this next month will be it for you!

I didn't do so well yesterday with diet. It was super hot here so I cheated a bit. Oh, well, hopefully it will all balance out. Down to 141 now. (5"8)

MidMorning: CL, glass skim milk
Lunch: 1 waffle, glass skim milk, Coke Zero
Supper: Wendy's frosty (small)
Snack: CL, small scoop of oreo ice cream

tweedle - I'm sure your nutrients were within limits, but it looks like you didn't eat any real food yesterday! There's nothing wrong with a little ice cream - I eat some frozen yogurt almost every night, but surely you can't survive on nothing but ice cream and CL. I would be soooo hungry by the end of the day if I ate that little. Would you consider yogurt instead of milk? At least you'd get more substance out of it. (BTW not meaning to lecture - just worried about you!)

Oh mochagirl, I'm so disappointed for you. I really thought this was your month. Are you ok?

I agree tweedle, you must have been so hungry by bedtime - what willpower!

Today I've had:

Breakfast: coffee
Lunch: 2 slices ww bread with low fat cheese slice. Packet potato loop crisps.
Dinner: 2 slices ww bread with low fat spread and 1/2 tin light baked beans. Pot low fat rice pudding with dollop of sugar free jam.
Snack: Strawberries with meringue nest and squirty cream. 1/2 big packet tutti fruttis.

Does anybody else get hungrier around O time? I got a positive OPK today (at cd12 - didn't ovulate until cd19 last month!) and a couple of days ago I knew it was coming, mainly because of the tummy tenderness, but also because I was starving! I'm really thinking we'll skip another cycle before our attempt if they're going to be shorter cycles because I think I probably need more than another 4 weeks on the diet.

zanacal - I think you've been a rock star as far as weight loss goes, and you could start your attempt as soon as you want and feel good about it!

I'm doing ok - thanks for asking. I've decided to take this lemon and make lemonade. You may have seen my post in 2WW, but April is a better month to have a baby anyway because March here in Canada is crappy weather-wise. I'm also going to try to enjoy this skinny body for another month, though it will mean I'll have to go shopping because I have NOTHING that fits me anymore (another positive - retail therapy!). Second month's always been the charm for me, so I'm hoping the same thing will happen this time. I'm on CD1 - it's a fresh start and I'm ready to go!

I am starving I am starving O yea I am starving... I heard the Amidais (?spelling) Song and now I am singing it but with different words :)

I had coffee today so far but later...
2 Diet soda and 1/2 gallon of crystal light through out the day
Buttered/aspartame toast for lunch (crappy bread) and an apple
Dinner will be 2-3oz of herbed crusted chicken and 1/2 cp mixed veggies
Latenight Snack :bigsmile: homemade banana cream pie because I dream about it and haven't had bananas in like forever and I have been extremely limiting potassium for months.